John George Ruth, His Descendents & Allied Families


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Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of John George Ruth who was born ca. 1715 in Germany. He married Anna Maria (surname unknown) sometime prior to the year 1738 in Germany. They immigrated to America aboard the ship "Marlborough" and landed in Philadelphia 23 September 1741. John and Anna lived in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania and were the parents of three known children. Descendants lived primarily in Pennsylvania.







Short History of Descendants and Allied Families of Robert Woods of Ireland


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Robert Woods (d.1811) and two brothers immigrated ca. 1730 from Ireland to Charlotte County, Virginia, married Elizabeth Middleton, and moved to Bedford (later Franklin) County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri and elsewhere.













Key and Allied Families


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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.







One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families


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This work is an exhaustive study of 160 families. For each family covered, a skeletal genealogy is given, showing births, marriages, and deaths in successive generations of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. This is then followed by a narrative detailing the known facts about each person and family according to existing records. The narratives commence with the first member of the family to come to New England, identifying his place of origin and occupation, the date and place of his arrival in New England, and his residence--all information that was accumulated from the author's extensive research in wills, inventories, deeds, land records, and church records. The narratives then turn to the children of the original settler, treating them in like manner, and to their children, and so on until the genealogy is fully developed.




Harrison, Waples and Allied Families


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Thomas Harrison, Jr. (1741-1815) was a son of Thomas Harrison and Hannah Benson of Thurstonfield, Cumberland County, England; all were Quakers. Thomas, Jr. immigrated in 1763 to Philadelphia, where he married Sarah Richards of Chester County at the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. Both Thomas, Jr. and his wife were active speakers and leaders against slavery, to aid the sick and homeless, and Thomas Jr. was on the city's "orphan committee." Both traveled in these benevolent activities, and Sarah was granted a special audience by George III while on a trip to England. George Leib Harrison (1811- 1885), a grandson of Thomas Jr. and Sarah, married Sarah Ann Waples (d.1850) in 1841, and in 1856 married Letitia Henry Mitchell. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia and elsewhere. Includes genealogical data about various lines of ancestors in England, some to the mid-1300s; many of these ancestral lines were part of the English nobility.