Joseph Killgore, son of John Kilgour and Helen Litster, was born 6 July 1701 in Markinch, Fife, Scotland. He married Penelope Treworgy (Trueworthy) (b. 1694) 17 January 1720/21 in Kittery, Maine. They had eight children. He died 2 May 1764 in York, Maine. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Maine.

"Deacon Thomas Hanchett, the ancestor of all the American Family, was born in England, probably not earlier than 1620. When he emigrated to this country is not known, although if, as is supposed, he was the brother of John Hanchett, of Boston, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, it is probable that he came here with the latter, who is first reported in this country in 1634...Deacon Thomas Hanchett died in Suffield, Ct., 11 June 1686..."--P. [1]. Thomas...

Friedrich Heinrich Dissmeyer (1834-1907) married Melosine T.B. Schlüter (1830-1903) in 1860 in Hannover, Germany. In 1864 they immigrated to the U.S. with two children. They farmed near Bremen, Kansas, and later Gage County, Nebraska. Descendants and relatives lived in Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arizona, California, Ohio, Washington, Illinois and elsewhere.

Samuel Garrison (1788-1849)--son of James Garrison and Hester Ann Roberts--married Martha Conley in 1815 in Barren County, Kentucky, moved to Wayne County, Illinois. Descendants and relatives lived in Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Arizona, California, Montana and elsewhere.

Ancestry of Burt Barnes (1871-1947), son of John Waite Barnes, who was born in Michigan, became an artist through study in Chicago, New York, and Europe--and settled in New York City and then Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His ancestry is listed alphabetically by surname (and chronologically within each surname). Ancestors lived in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, England and elsewhere.

Henry Goding was master of the British ship "Abigail" which visited Massachusetts Bay in 1628. His son, William Goding, was an apprentice in 1640, to Comfort Starr, of Cambridge and Duxbury, Massachusetts, but later returned to Middlesex County where he died. Descendants lived in Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota and elsewhere.

John Berndhissell was born in 1712 and immigrated to Philadelphia in 1732 and settled in Virginia. He died possibly before 1783 in Culpepper County. He had at least four sons, John, Leonard, Thomas, and William. Descendants lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Indiana, Michigan, Arkansas, New Mexico, California, Washington, Kansas and elsewhere. Descendants use the Barnhysel/Barnhisel and Hisle/Hysell/Hisel...

Micum McIntire is said to have come to America as a Scottish prisoner aboard the ship Unity which set sail from England on 11 November 1650. "He was taken to Dover, N. H., where he served his seven years and was taxed as "Micome, the Scotchman." He received on Dec. ll, 1662, a grant in the Newichawannock, River region and found employment in the mill at Salmon Falls, then part of Kittery. A few years later he moved to York [Maine] ..."--P. 14. He...

Theodore Ira Eddy was born 1 April 1844 in Waverly New York. His parents were Ira Eddy and Mary Chamberlain. He married Martha A. Jacobia (1848-1943) in 1866 in America City, Kansas. They had twelve children. Traces their descendants and relatives through the family of their grandson, Galen Coates Eddy, who was born in 1906. Descendants and relatives lived in Kansas, Iowa, Arkansas, California and elsewhere.

"Nearly all persons by the name of Brackett who reside in the states of Maine and New Hampshire, and persons residing elsewhere whose forefathers of that name lived in either of those states descend from the immigrant Anthony Brackett."--P. 47. Anthony Brackett immigrated from England to Portsmouth, New Hampshire before 1640. " ... [He] was married about 1635; he was the head of a family in 1640."--P. 50. " ... [On] Tuesday, September 28, 1691...