Genealogies of Connecticut Families


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Genealogy, Rising Families of America, 1635-1981


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James Rising (1617-1688) immigrated from England to the Bermudas in 1635; then in 1637, he married Elizabeth Hinsdell/Hinsdale in Salem, Massachusetts. They had four children. In 1673, he married Widow Martha Bartlett. Descendants have scattered throughout the United States and into Canada.




Rising Genealogy


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Richard Sikes and His Descendants


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Richard Sikes (ca. 1618-1687) was born in Stafford County, England. His father was James Sykes. He immigrated to America before September 1639 and settled first at Dorchester, Massachusetts. He was living at Cambridge, Massachusetts, by May 1640. He and his wife, Phoebe Green, had five children, 1640-1651, born at Roxbury and Springfield, Massachusetts. He died at Springfield. Descendants of the first seven generations lived in chiefly in Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Vermont. Descendants spelled their surname Sikes and Sykes.