Zebulon Heston I (ca.1670-1720) immigrated in 1684 from England to Cape Code, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. He moved to Newtown, Long Island, New York, and by 1697 to Burlington, New Jersey. He married Dorothy Storr, a Quaker, in 1698. Descendants and relatives lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Michigan and elsewhere. Includes Heston and various other ancestral families in England.
John Brown and Elizabeth McCrary grew up in Laurens County, South Carolina. They married in 1807, then moved to Indiana. They later returned to the South, and settled in Lawrence County, Alabama. After Elizabeth's death, John Brown (who was an uncle of General Ambrose Burnside) moved to Warren County, Illinois, where he remarried, and spent the rest of his life. John and Elizabeth's descendants included doctors and lawyers, farmers and ranchers, soldiers, bankers, scientists, and engineers. Many bore other surnames-among them Dobbins, Cogdell, Wilson, Dandridge, Otwell, Davidson, and Glenn. They were a varied and mobile family, whose lives were intertwined with many major events of American history-the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the westward movement of the American population, and the nation's transformation from an agrarian and rural to a more industrialized and urban society. This book makes use of a variety of sources, including previously unpublished correspondence, to tell their story.
Zebulon Heston came from southeastern England. In 1684 he and his friend, Benjamin Wiggins, immigrate to America. He was sympathic to the cause of the Quakers and it is assumed that he became one after he arrived in the new world. He originally settled in New Jersey. Many of his descendants are included in this material.
The first Hutchins name recorded in America was that of Robert Hutchins of the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1628. Later on, he was known in the records as Robert Hutchinson. Includes the Pintard family. Surname is spelled Hutchins, Hutchings, Hutchens, Hutchin, Houchins and others.
