These various families intermarried extensively and migrated in groups of relatives throughout the United States.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Spiker families of German and Swiss ancestry, with focus on descendants and relatives of William Raphael (W.R.) Spiker and Margaret Ann Groves Spiker. William was born in 1839 in Shenandoah County, Virginia to Jacob Spiker (Speicher) and Elizabeth Hinkins. In 1864, William joined the Union Army's 73rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company H at Logansport, Cass County,...

This work is " ... a genealogy of the descendants of Donald McCall ... --P. 8. Donald McCall, of Scottish descent, " ... was born on the Isle of Mull"--P. 18 in 1735. "In the year 1756, Donald and his companion enlisted with the Forty-Second Highlanders, under the command of Colonel Wolfe and were with General Amherst's army at Louisburg, C. B.in 1758."--P. 33. He went to America where he served against the French and also the Indians in the Great...

John Winton was born in Scotland/Pennsylvania in 1700/1720. His wife Mary was born ca. and died after 1768 possibly in Pennsylvania. John died 1766/7 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Arkansas, Texas, Tennessee, Missouri, California, Ohio, Alabama, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Arizona and elsewhere.

Richard Merrifield was born in about 1746 in Winchester, Frederick, Virginia. He married Phoebe Tucker in about 1773 in Monongalia County, Virginia. They had five children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana and Missouri.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Ashleys (and variant spellings) who came from England and Ireland. Some focus is on (but not limited to) five family lines. These are: (1) the Old Colony Ashleys descended from the brothers Abraham and Joseph Ashley of Rochester, Massachusetts, ca. 1700; (2) the Pioneer Valley Ashleys descended from Robert Ashley of Springfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1638; (3) the Southern Ashleys...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Blauvelt families who came mainly from England and Holland. Some focus is on (but not limited to) descendants of Gerret (Gerritt), the son of Hendrick Gerryts of Deventer, Holland. Gerret sailed from Texal in 1637, and settled in Rensselaerwick and then later at Schenectady in New Amsterdam or New York. Gerret married Marretje Moll, and later was known as Garret Hendrickszen...

"Jno. Mackey, the first of the name in the country, was a Quaker of Irish or Scotch-Irish descent. He came between the Yrs. 1740/45, & after several yrs. spent in the southern part of the Co. in the vicinity of Cape May C.H. he located upon what is known as the Mackey Place in Petersburg [New Jersey]. ... Col. Mackey's w[ife] died of heart disease sometime prior to 1784. The Col. d[ied] in Sept. of that y[ear]. Both he & his w[ife] were buried...

Heinrich Reubert (1860-1933), son of Friederich Reubert (1820-1869) and Anna Dorothea Calenberg, was born in Spangenburg, Germany. He married Helen Marion Hanson (1861-1948), daughter of George Franklin Hanson (1827-1872) and Helen M. Chisholm, in 1885 in Manhattan, New York. They had five children. He died in 1933 in New York City.

"Thomas Donnell, born June 11, 1765, at Carlisle, Pa,., was the oldest child of James and Catherine Donnell."--P. 22. He married Nancy Barr, the daughter of James Barr, on 16 June 1789 . "In the fall, the young couple voyaged down, to Maysville in a flaltboat, reaching Hinkson [a small stream about 12 miles from Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky] in December, 1789, and settling on a farm near the mouth of Taylor' Creek in February following. There...