Author: Nettie Belle Wright Adams

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Published: 1966

Total Pages: 360

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" ... The purpose of this book is to show the line of descent of the Messenger families that settled in Portage and Geauga Counties in Ohio, from those who settled in the Colony of Connecticut ..."--Pref. "Andrew Messenger was born in England about 1588, and married Sarah --. They immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, from probably Yorkshire, England in 1637. ... [Their son] Edward Messenger [was] born in England in 1615, lived in Windsor in 1650, [and] in Wintonbury (now Bloomfield), Connecticut."--Page 1. Descendants "Ebenezer Orange and Nathan Harvey Messenger were pioneer settlers in Windham, Ohio."--Page 22. They were part of the Beckert Land Company that were sent ahead of the main party and arrived in Windham on 16 March 1811. Descendants and relatives lived in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Michigan, Iowa, California, Wisconsin, Colorado, Kansas, Oregon, Washington, Indiana, Texas, Florida, Illinois and elsewhere.