My family has a long history in early British Colonial America. I don’t have any that I have found, arriving in America through Ellis Island or Castle Garden. They were all very early Americans.
Most of my Mom’s ancestors settled in the northeast colonies.
William Moseley Jr was born around 1599 in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, England. He immigrated to British Colonial America in 1649 and settled in Chesapeake, Virginia, United States, for about two years before passing away on March 26, 1665, in Virginia, United States. He was 67 years old at the time of his death and was laid to rest in Chesapeake, Virginia, United States.
The Kauffman family hailed from Switzerland. In 1717, Reverend Isaac and his wife Anna Marie, who were Swiss Mennonites, migrated to Southeast Pennsylvania. They settled in Manor, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where they raised their sizeable family. This particular family branch opted to remain in Lancaster County, and it continued to flourish.
Daughter Katherine Kauffman married Peter Stiffler Sr - she also settled in Southeast Pennsylvania and served in the Revolutionary War - He died in 1810.
William Comstock was born in England in 1595 and arrived in the Connecticut colony of New London in 1635. He came to America with his second wife, Elizabeth,
Ludovic Grant, a Jacobite soldier, was born in Scotland in 1696. After being captured during the Siege of Preston on May 7, 1716, he was transported as a prisoner from Liverpool to South Carolina. He came here as a prisoner.
William Crosse arrived in Maryland in 1663 after immigrating from England.
James McCartney, a Dublin native, arrived in Pennsylvania in 1764 where he fought in the American Revolution. After receiving a pension, he settled in Ohio where he is buried.
Grace Riley was born in 1661 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Not yet known when her parents arrive - the settlement was started in 1634.
Derck Classon and wife Geertje Hoijkes were married in 1742 in the Netherlands. Shortly after, they both arrived in New Jersey settlement.
Edward Shipman - born in Yorkshire, England 1625 -He arrived in Saybrook, Connecticut in 1650 - was given 3000 acres of land, 'within sight of Hartford” in will of Indian Sachem Uncas in 1676.
As we get more into my blog, I will also show more of my dad's side and the family stories of the first Americans.
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How awesome to have ancestors from the earliest America days! It's wonderful how much you've come to learn about your family history.
ReplyDeleteMy ancestors were the early colonist too. Interesting enough, the people who settle the Southeast usually migrated from New England. My mother was descended through one of her grandfathers from the Mennonites. Their last name was Sryock which has a lot of differnt spellings.
ReplyDeleteYour first paragraph sounds so much like my family history! My brother has done quite a bit of work on our family's genealogy, and he has decided our ancestors came over on rowboats, because there has been no record yet of anyone coming through the usual channels!
ReplyDeleteLots of early ancestors. I have some American colonial forebears too but their descendants went back to England.
ReplyDeleteThat's so cool that your family has been here for so long. My mom emigrated from Germany in 1956. My dad was born in Northern Ontario but his patents came from Germany( now Poland) and Poland in the 1800's. My dad was born in 1913..he started a family late..I was born in 1964 when he was 51.
ReplyDeleteInteresting to read your early family came first to CT. I live here but orig from Georgia.
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