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.

William Boddy (1634/1635-1717) immigrated from England to Isle of Wight County, Virginia during or before 1661, and married three times (probably once in England). Other early Boddy immigrants are listed. William spelled his surname Boddy, but many records in early Virginia record the surname as Body, Bodye, Bodie, etc. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and elsewhere. Includes records of various ancestors in England, Scotland and elsewhere to the early 1400s.

This legendary work consists of alphabetically arranged genealogical tables of approximately 500 Rhode Island families, representing thousands of descendants of pre--1690 settlers, all carried to the third generation, and some--about 100 families-- carried to the fourth.

This book traces the history of immigrants from the British Isles who settled in New England and Virginia, and whose progeny were among the first settlers in Wisconsin.