This work concentrates upon families with a strong connection to Virginia and Kentucky, most of which are traced forward from the eighteenth, if not the seventeenth, century. The compiler makes ample use of published sources some extent original records, and the recollections of the oldest living members of a number of the families covered. Finally. The essays reflect a balanced mixture of genealogy and biography, which makes for interesting reading and a substantial number of linkages between as many as six generations of family members.
Moses Granberry was born in about 1700. He married Elizabeth. They had eight children. He died in 1753 in Norfolk County, Virginia. Ancestors descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Virginia, Massachusetts and Georgia.
William Simpson (ca.1760-1816), of Scot lineage, emigrated from Ireland to Madison County, Alabama in 1802. Descendants and relatives lived in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Maryland, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois, California and elsewhere.
William French (b.1603) and his family emigrated from England in 1624 on the ship "Defence" to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the son of Thomas French of Halstead, County Essex, England. William and his wife Elizabeth were married in about 1623. William is a descendant of "Thomas French the elder, of Weathersfield, County Essex, England, [who] died [in] 1599".--P. 21. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry in England.
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Jonathan Waggaman (1679-ca. 1724)--son of Hendrick Gillissen Waggaman and Winnefred Schin of The Netherlands--was born in London, and married Margaret Elliott in 1707. They immigrated to Accomack County, Virginia, and later moved to Somerset County, Maryland. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., New York and elsewhere.