Into the frontier ten miles from the nearest settlement, James Jacob Rogers and Mary McPhedren Rogers from Londonderry, Ireland relocated their family of ten children in the Merrimack River Valley, near what would be called Dunbarton, New Hampshire. &nbsp

King James II appeared before the walls of Derry, Ireland.  The town was asked to surrender and they refused.  The siege began when storming the walls failed and they resorted to starving Derry out.  My sixth great grandfather John Barnett

I think my 8th great grandmother Elizabeth Watkins Stockley Stratton, 1633-to after 1697, liked to say, "I'm not finished yet and it's not yours till I am!"  Through the court cases at Accomack County, Virginia her tale is told of evading the sheriff

My 8th great grandfather John Stockley was a tobacco planter.  This is the story of Colonial Virginia, where he acquired the plantation at Assawoman, Accomac County, Virginia.  John used the "headright" and became a wealthy man with servants and

I hope you enjoy listening to the court cases of my Aunt Joane Hall Stockley Custis, married to Francis Stockley brother to my 8th grandfather John Stockley 1621-1673. These stories give a glimpse of life in the early Virginian colonies.

John and Elizabeth Watkins Stockley were my eighth maternal grandparents.  Church attendance was compulsory and fines were issued.  I can just picture John and his brother, Francis, who got fined inattentive, bored and sleeping, whispering, star

Crossing the Atlantic Ocean by 1621 Elizabeth was married and living near Jamestown, Virginia in British Colonial America.  She was only 7 miles away from the Powhatan Uprising of 1622.  Her children prospered by transporting people to the colon

Alexander Young had a pretty young daughter, only 17.  This is a love story turned tragic, in a time when the circuit courts travelled to the people.  It is a love story of caring for an insane wife.  And a family who took in a child of ten

These were the words my second great grandfather Hiram, 59 said to his wife Mary Elizabeth Smith Gibbs 53.  For $10 homesteading fee, they could own 160 acres, after they "proved up" in three years.  The entire family agreed to this new venture

Looking for opportunity and land, my 2nd great grandparents Hiram Gibbs and Mary Elizabeth Smith would hear the call of manifest destiny and head west, after the devastating Thumb Fires of 1871 and 1881 at Port Hope, Michigan.  Fruit growers in the b