A family history in four sections: 1) summary charts that illustrate a family line, with available birth and death dates, as far back as it is known; 2) detail charts which portray, in most cases, four generations and include vital data and comments; 3) a section that cites, by family group, sources of information; and 4) an appendix that contains short articles about some of the more interesting Witter ancestors and the circumstances of their times. George...

Rev. James Allen emigrated from England to Boston, Massachusetts in 1662. He died in 1710. Includes Bass, Fuller and related families.

David French, the son of Samuel and Mary Beardlee French, acquired land in Hopkinton and Potsdam, New York, in 1803, after living in Vermont and Connecticut. He married Sally Tupper in 1804 and settled in South Potsdam with her in March 1805. Several generations of descendants have lived on the French family farm.

"As Floyd Romaine Crary traveled around the country beginning 6 December 1853, looking for the best paying job opportunities, he wrote letters to his family in Rockford, Illinois. He described people, places and events of the day. To mother, Mary Maria Holbrook Crary Jones, he talked about politics both local and national unfolding around him. To younger sister, Aurelia, he also sent humor, word plays, and samples from property of the [...] famous...

Wilson Cross (1777-1840) married Mary Bagley, and in 1831 the family immigrated from England to Rochester, New York, moving to White Pigeon Prairie, Wisconsin in 1832, and to Racine County, Wisconsin in 1836. Descendants and relatives between the early 1600s and 1982 lived in New England, New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota and elsewhere.

Ancestors and descendants of William Clitus Witter (b.1842), as well as his autobiographical sketch. Most of these lived in the United States, but some Witter (Wither) ancestors lived in England.

Alfred Davis Hawkins (1869-1961) was the second child of Thomas Hawkins (1829-1903) and his third wife, Sarah Davis. Thomas Sunderland Hawkins was a Mormon convert, an immigrant from England, and a direct descendant in the seventh generation of Thomas Hawkins (b.ca.1670) and his wife, Elizabeth, married in 1695. After the 1880 census, Thomas and his families moved to Taylor, Arizona, and in 1885 were called to help establish Colonial Juarez, one of...

William Witter (ca.1584-1659) immigrated from England to Swampscott, Massachusetts during or before 1639. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Nova Scotia and progeny lived in Nova Scotia, Ontario, British Columbia and elsewhere in Canada. Includes Babcock, Burdick, Crandall, Green, Loveland, Reynolds and related families.

Thomas Birch (d.1657) immigrated from England to Simon, Massachusetts in 1734, and moved to Dorchester, Massachusetts. Nathan Burch (1781- 1858), a direct descendant in the sixth generation, moved from Connecticut to Rhode Island, married Demaris Babcock in 1803, and moved to Brookfield, New York in 1805/1806. Descendants lived in New England, New York and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Alberta, British Columbia and elsewhere in Canada....