Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of th Wiley families whose ancestors came mainly from Ireland and Scotland. Some descendants settled in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and elsewhere in the United States.

Chiefly notes on the location of information about members of the Holland and connected families of Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, England, and elsewhere; and a brief summary of the information found. Includes the Price, Wiley, Caldwell, Cunningham, Fowler, Gorsuch Hart, Hollins, Markley, Thrailkill/Threldeld, and other connected families.

Biography of Samuel Thomas Wiley (1850-1905), who was a local author and historian. He was almost self-educated, because his health would not allow the anticipated attendance at Yale University. He was raised by his grandparents in Smithfield, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He wrote much of the historical part for the biographical encyclopedias published by Gresham Company for Pennsylvania, New York and Indiana.

Chiefly a record of some of the descendants of Robert Pond. He was born in 1592 in England. He married Mary. They immigrated from England to America, and settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He died in 1637 in Dorchester. Mary remarried to Edward Shepherd (Shepard) of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Robert and Mary were the parents of five children. Their son Daniel married Abigail Shepard the daughter of Edward Shepherd. Descendants lived in Connecticut,...

Oscar Shelby Wiley lived near Lawndes County, Alabama. He served in the Civil War. He married Margaret McCall and they settled in Grosbeck, Texas. They had six children. Margaret died in 1895 and Oscar married Addie Hannon and they had three children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Texas.

Biography of Samuel Thomas Wiley (1850-1905), together with many quotations from his writings and diaries, written by his daughter and others. He was born in Smithfield, Pennsylvania, and became a published historian, and also an lecturer in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. He married Ella Wirsing in 1880. Includes some family history.

Matthew Wiley was the fourth child of David Wiley (d. 1783/1784) of Chester County, Maryland. Matthew served in the Revolutionary War, and married Rebekah Nelson in 1782, settling in Hartford County.

William and Mary Marietta Barnes were the parents of nine sons and a daughter, born 1763-1788. They, with most of their children, migrated from Georges Creek, Maryland, to western Virginia (now Marion County, West Virginia) sometime before 1782. Some of the children later migrated further west. Descendants of the children who remained in West Virginia lived in West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois and elsewhere. Includes the Vincent, Robinson, Wiley and...