David Clark Draper (known as Clark Draper( (1791-1841) was born in Watervliet, Albany, New York or Rome Twp., Herkimer (now Oneida), New York. He was a son of Thomas Draper, Sr. and Lydia Rogers. He married Jane German (b. 1795), daughter of John German and Mary Ryckman ca. 1812 in Richmond Twp., Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada. In 1799 or early 1800 David Clark Draper migrated to Upper Canada (Ontario) with his parents and family. They settled...

A survey document dated 11 March 1747 of land leased to Johannes Jurrie Wagar by Henry Bateman was found in the library of the New York Historical Society in New York City. The same survey document listed the adjoining pieces of last leased to Robert Huestis by Henry Bateman. Howard Carlyle Wagar made auto trips in 1987 and 1988 to the Chestnut Ridge area of Dutchess County, New York in order to locate these adjoining pieces of property leased in...

Rev. George Ross, born 1680 in Scotland came to New Castle, Delaware. Ulrich Reichert (later changed to Reigart)(1695-1766) immigrated to Pennsylvania from Schwegenheim, Germany in 1738. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kansas, Colorado, Virginia, Montana, and elsewhere.

Johann Leonhard Waeger (b.1705) emigrated from Württemberg, Germany to Dutchess Co., New York in 1738. He died after 1775.

Isaac Vandercook (1682-1750) married Zilpha Vandercook about 1705, and immigrated from The Netherlands to Essex County, New Jersey. Descendants and relatives lived in New Jersey, New York and elsewhere. Includes much ancestry and genealogical data in various lineages in The Netherlands to about 1500 A.D. Includes Ackerman, Bogardus, Doremus, Vanness, Wager (Wagar) and related families.

Johan Haner, a native of Birsen, Commune of Osterback, Germany, and Catharina Mustirr/Mussier, daughter of Johna Jacob Mustirr of Stienfor, Commune of Crichgan, Germany, were married at West Camp, New York, in 1710. They had thirteen children. The family lived on Livingston Manor, New York. Descendants listed lived in New York and elsewhere. Descendants spelled their surname Haner, Hayner, Hanor, Heiner, Hainer, Hiner and other variant spellings.

Henry Sands and his wife, Sylvia, had five children born in England. The family immigrated to America in 1638. They settled at Boston, moved to Rawley, Massachusetts, then returned to Boston. Three more children were born in America. He died at Boston in 1651. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, New York,. Stephen Sands was born in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, in June 1658, son of Richard and Hester Aucher Sands. He immigrated to America in 1682...

Nicholaus Laux/Lauck married Anna Elisabetha Reiffenberger, and they immigrated in 1709 (probably from Germany) to Germantown (now Columbia County), New York. George Loucks (b.ca.1770), a direct descendant in the fourth generation, was a United Empire Loyalist who immigrated to Fredericksburgh, Ontario. There he married Sarah (Sally) Lyons in 1792, and settled on land near Camden, Lennox & Addington County, Ontario. Descendants and relatives lived...