Histories

Bracken and Mason counties in Kentucky figure in family history at several points. The Hamilton, Mannen, Pollock, and Savage families on this tree moved from various Pennsylvania and Virginia counties to farm near Germantown and Maysville, on the Ohio River. Relatives in the Dye family, from another part of the tree, also lived there in the nineteenth century.

• William Currens
• Stephen Hieatt
• John Mannen, Jr.
• Mary Phillips
• James P. Savage

The Louisiana branches (most, but not all, from New Orleans) have not historically been as well researched as families on this website from Maryland and New England. Asahel McLellan, whose family moved from the northeast to New Orleans, has a fairly well documented family. Research on the other families on the site—the Pitards, Gamards, Courets, Maupays, DeGranges, and the rest—has required some rewarding research.

• Carl “Charles” Henry Brossmann
• Jean Bernard Couret
• Jean Louis Couret
• Marie Octavie Couret
• Charles Fields

These essays describe family branches which lived in New Orleans and Louisiana during the nineteenth century.

• Alphonse Gamard, Jr.
• George Alfred Gamard, Sr.
• William Luce
• Alden Miller McLellan
• Asahel Walker McLellan

• Source: Atlas of Fifteen Miles around Washington, Including the County of Montgomery, Maryland
• Source: Atlas of Fifteen Miles around Washington, Including the County of Montgomery, Maryland
• Source: Atlas of Fifteen Miles around Washington, Including the County of Montgomery, Maryland
• Fardinando Battee, Sr.
• Caleb Bentley

These mysteries have preoccupied researchers with much more experience than I have.

• John Bucey
• Elizabeth Covey
• Eleanor Crabb
• Daniel Donovan, Jr.
• Seth Hyatt

These parts of the family lived mostly in southern Maine, and include the McLellan and Levensaler families and wider relations.

• Source: Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society
• Source: Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society
• Source: Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society
• Capt. Stephen Clough
• Capt. Alexander McLellan

The areas that are now northern Delaware and south-eastern Pennsylvania were not distinguished from each other in the 1682 land grant to William Penn. Maps at the time show one geographical area divided by the Susquehanna, Schuykill, and Delaware rivers (with the Potomac farther west, and the Hudson farther east). Separate sets of representatives for the states began to meet in 1704, in Philadelphia and New Castle, though one Governor remained for both, and pre-Revolutionary Delaware remained under the political sway of its more powerful and populous northern neighbor.

• Ann
• Elizabeth
• Martha Bayley
• Ann Bolton
• Everard Bolton

The most important Friends community in Maryland to donate members to this site was the West River Meeting, which was consolidated if not founded by George Fox himself, the founder of the Society of Friends, when he visited the colonies on a trip in 1672. Friends had been in Maryland before this, however; Elizabeth Harris, a very early Quaker missionary, had arrived in Anne Arundel County in 1656 to preach.

• Elizabeth
• Mary
• Richard Arnold
• Col. William Burgess
• Elizabeth Cheyney

Tennessee is key for the Strain family, who migrated from Augusta and Rockbridge counties in Virginia down the Shenandoah Valley to Blount Co., Tennessee. Information on this family comes almost exclusively from their family Bible, which while wonderful provides little context. The history of this family provides one of the more difficult puzzles to access.

• Jennet Bogle
• Michael Higgins
• Eliza Wimberly Strain
• James Strain

Texas was the home state for Metta Tomlinson Lansdale, whose ancestry provides one of the core trees for this site. Her family includes (among others) Simpsons, Tomlinsons, and von Rosenbergs who moved to Texas (from abroad or elsewhere in the United States) around the middle of the nineteenth century.

• Source: The Von Rosenberg Family Record
• Source: The Von Rosenberg Family of Texas
• Source: Ancestral Voices: The Letters of the Von Rosenberg and Meerscheidt Families (1844-1897)
• Source: The Von Rosenberg Family of Texas
• Judge Francis "Frank" Goodall McDonald

This includes people on the site from Kentucky and Indiana who fought in Civil War units, both Union and Confederate.

• Benjamin Demoss
• Robert Parker Dimmitt, Jr.
• Rev. William Currens Dimmitt
• Oscar H. Gregg
• Dr. Vincent H. Gregg

This page includes family members on this site from Louisiana and relations from Mississippi and South Carolina who fought in the war, virtually all for the Confederacy.

• Antoine Amy
• Barsilla Bemiss
• Cyrus Talbot Bemiss
• John Edwin Bozant
• Helen Pauline "Weenie" Degrange

This page includes family members on this site from Maryland and Washington, D.C.

• Henry Brune Bowie
• Capt. Walter "Wat" Bowie
• Brig. Gen. John Marshall Brown
• Brig. Gen. Samuel Sprigg Carroll
• Theophilus Norman Deale

People on this page came from Maine and Massachusetts.

• Brig. Gen. John Marshall Brown
• Alida Carroll
• Albert Marshall Edwards
• Bryce McLellan Edwards
• Brig. Gen. Clark Swett Edwards

This page lists family members from New York who served in the War.

• Rear Adm. Stephen Bleecker Luce
• William Luce

This page includes family members who were living in Tennessee before the war.

• James Strain

This page includes people on the family tree from Texas.

• Carl “Charles” Henry Brossmann
• Col. William Oscar Hutchison
• John Coleman Roberts
• Capt. Ferdinand Arthur Rogers
• Friench Simpson

This page includes people on the family tree from Virginia.

• Capt. James Kendall Ball, Jr.
• James Franklin Gulick
• John Hickey
• Felix Grundy Hixson
• George Washington Hixson

This page collects people on this site who served in the Revolutionary War. Some are militia; some served in the Line troops. It includes both loyalists and patriots. There may well be others on the tree who should be included. Some could use more secure evidence: genealogical histories often say that someone "fought in the Revolution," but this can be family legend rather than fact.

Sources are cited under each person's page. War and Pension records can be found on line at the National Archives. Genealogies can be ordered from the DAR and the SAR, but their lists only include those whom people have used to join, not all veterans.

• Lieut. Joseph Coombs
• Oliver Cromwell
• James Davidson
• William Abraham Decker
• Andrew Demoss

Branches of these families later migrated to Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas.

• Sarah "Sally" Foster
• Benjamin Hixson, Sr.
• Rut Johnson, Jr.
• Rutger Johnson, Sr.
• Susannah King

A good part of this page is speculation. I just thought I'd warn you first.

• Bon Pitard
• Louis François Pitard
• Pierre Pitard