OUR MAYFLOWER CONNECTIONS
Note: This chapter is specifically written for my descendants and includes ancestors of both my wife Nancy and I. Smith ancestors are specifically identified in Pedigree Chart #26 and should...
Note: This chapter is specifically written for my descendants and includes ancestors of both my wife Nancy and I. Smith ancestors are specifically identified in Pedigree Chart #26 and should...
Pedigree Chart 21 spans two centuries. To the right on this chart we have James Montgomery and to the far left, the incomparable Matilda (b 1806). We have met the...
Captain James Montgomery (1695-1756) and Anne Thomson James Montgomery, my father’s 5x great grandfather, was titled ‘Gentleman’ and was a member of a prominent Scottish clan in Northern Ireland. He...
The Davis family provided a wealth of information and constitutes one of the largest and deepest branches of our family tree. A second and even more prodigious allied family emerges...
The Swofford Lineage Jane Stilley was my grandfather Leb’s mother. We met her father’s illustrious Stille family. Jane’s mother was Nancy Swofford. Nancy was the daughter of Sarah Jane Fixes...
The Descendants of James and Rachell Keyes Davis From the south side of the James River in 1623 to the pocosin swampland of the Pungo River in Hyde County in...
Where to go Next in This Collection of Stories? Days later I returned to my desk. I shuffled through the papers looking for a cigar I had smuggled in from...
Do Ancestors Rise from the Dead? There are times when it seems my ancestors are tugging at me. Or: Am I tugging at them, as if they were a security...
The Welsh Explorers and Immigrants: 1575-1803 An exploration of the Smith family name led to the family of Peter Smith of Westmoreland VA and the latter half of the 17th Century....
A Preface to our Dutch Ancestors Shortly after the Dutch took possession of Manhattan Island in 1625, the corporate authorities (West India Company) created 9 bowerijs (farms); three along the...