Gideon Thomas Lease (1825-1893)--son of Daniel (d.1840) and grandson and great-grandson of William Jr. and William Sr.--married Elizabeth Jane Sponseller in 1848, and lived in Frederick County, Maryland. Descendants lived in Maryland, Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, California and elsewhere.

This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.

William Capell (b.1610), son of Sir Arthur Capell, immigrated in 1635 from England to St. Mary's County, Maryland. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Caples) lived in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Kansas and elsewhere. Includes other Caples immigrants and some descendants, without tracing relationship to William. Includes ancestors in England, Ireland, France and elsewhere to 1030 A.D.

Andreas (Andrew) Zimmerman married Anna Elisabeth Frëyburger (widow of Andreas Frëyburger) in 1703, and they had at least nine children. They immigrated in 1727 from Germany (via Rotterdam and England) to Philadelphia, and settled at Goshenhoppen in what is now Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Their seventh child was Johann Georg Zimmerman (1714-1795), who anglicized his name to George Zimmerman. He married Anna Catharina Seidel in 1742, and assisted with the Revolutionary War. They moved to Frederick County, Maryland. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Washington, D.C., Virginia, West Virginia and elsewhere.

In 1636, Roger Williams, recently banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of his religious beliefs, established a settlement at the head of Narragansett Bay that he named “Providence.” This small colony soon became a sanctuary for those seeking to escape religious persecution. Within a few years, a royal land patent and charter resulted in the formation of the “Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,” which incorporated Williams’ original settlement and espoused his tenets of freedom of religion and separation of church and state. During the ensuing decades, thousands of Baptists, Quakers, Jews, and Huguenots relocated to Rhode Island from other New England colonies, the British Islands, and Europe in search of religious freedom. One such individual, John Thomas, an immigrant from Wales, made significant contributions to early settlements at Jamestown on Conanicut Island and at Wickford on the nearby mainland of Rhode Island. He was the first town constable of Jamestown in 1679, and later owned hundreds of acres of land in the towns of North and South Kingstown. This fully indexed work traces and sketches the lives of his descendants, many of whom were at the forefront of the great American westward migration, and represents the most comprehensive compilation of them to date. It is the result of twenty years of extensive research and includes detailed information from military pension archives, will and estate records, agricultural data, county histories, and migration patterns that far exceeds the standard for genealogical works of this scope and magnitude. It is important for us to remember those who helped shape our nation. This work provides valuable information for those who are interested in this family and its evolution in America.

Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and Court of Appeals of New York; May/July 1891-Mar./Apr. 1936, Appellate Court of Indiana; Dec. 1926/Feb. 1927-Mar./Apr. 1936, Courts of Appeals of Ohio.