Sunday, May 03, 2020

My Genealogical Roots -- Immigrating from Europe to the United States


I began this project--to find out what countries my ancestors came from--because: 1) I find history fascinating, 2) I enjoy honoring and connecting with those who came before me, and 3) I have always noticed a “lack” of ethnic (or national) diversity among our ancestors and I was curious to do a more complete investigation into the matter.  From the scarce knowledge that I had, it seemed like all of my ancestors were either British or Native American and not much else.  When I realized I could easily access a much broader genealogical database, I decided to make a complete survey of the known data to see “from whence I have come.” 

James S. Beams 1806-1876
I found a fairly complete data set on the website www.familysearch.org.  It is a free website maintained by the Mormon church.  It is a “crowd collaboration” website where anyone and everyone can add to and correct the public data, much like Wikipedia for genealogy.  I know my dad has a subscription to www.ancestry.com.  They may have something similar.  If you go to the FamilySearch website you can set up a free account.  Once you put in a few generations of your family, the website automatically populates your genealogical tree with all the data they have for each person going back centuries. 

Counting back 12 generations to the colonization of the U.S. (circa1600), I have over 4000 direct descendants! Thankfully, I didn't find that many records to search through though. Some families immigrated to the U.S. after the initial colonial period. This limits the number of family lines I have to research until I find immigrants. Also, many records are just missing from the archives. Familial overlap will also reduce the overall number of my ancestors.  I found three or four cases of overlap where spouses are cousins, which would mean they have the same grandparents.  Interestingly, I only found one overlap between the Beams (my father's family) and Simmons (my mother's family) genealogy, I believe it is in the 17th or 18th century—I forgot to write down the names.

Here are the number of immigrants and dead-ends that I found in each family line:

Beams Line – Surnames going back to immigration: 267
Beams Line – Dead Ends: 50

Simmons Line – Surnames going back to immigration: 84
Simmons Line – Dead Ends: 31

Each of these immigrant families is listed on a spreadsheet I will include at the bottom of the post. The Beams line has more immigrant surnames because I found more genealogical records for the Beams. Missing data in more recent genealogy greatly affects the number of surnames I can follow going deeper into the family history.  As I find data and add it to the database, the numbers will grow.  I know my father has quite a bit of information that is not on the FamilySearch website. 
Sometimes multiple generations from the same families immigrated together—two generations (including in-laws) are quite common. There are some three-generation and even four-generation migrations.  Wealthier families sometimes maintain ties to the “old country” for decades, often sending children back “home” to further their education or to get married.  For some, life in the new world just didn’t work out so they went back home.  Many immigrants died soon after arriving due to illness, starvation, Indian attacks, and war with other nations (Spanish, French, and English).  In the earliest colonies (1585 to 1630), up to 80% of immigrants died.  This is not reflected in our genealogy because we are descended from the families that were able to successfully procreate.  Most records do not mention “cause of death,” however, I did occasionally see reference to death from Indian attacks, war, hanging, etc. 

I only included names on the spreadsheet of “direct” descendants, i.e. grandparents, great-grandparents, etc.  There are no uncles, aunts, or cousins noted.  I am related to quite a few famous people “by blood” who are not necessarily direct descendants.  For example, I am related to George Washington, Daniel Boone, and Sam Houston indirectly.  There are still many famous and important historical figures in my direct line of descent.  I am amazed at how many of my ancestors on both sides go all the way back to the earliest days of colonial America.  I’ll try to point out a few of the more notable people, but honestly, there are too many to list!  I found out last night that we are direct descendants of a family on the Mayflower! In fact, my ancestor, Peregrine White, was one of only two babies actually born on the ship before the pilgrims landed in Plymouth in 1620. I honestly did not believe this could be real.  It thought it must be an unverifiable family legend (although never passed all the way down to us). I googled it, and it is real! Here is the lineage:

Daniel Beams [1964 - ] -- Mary Carol Simmons [1942 - ] (mom) – Nellie Kirkland [1917-1997] (grandmother) – Benjamin Kirkland [1885-1960] (g-grandfather) – Nancy Elizabeth Giles [1849-1888] (2g-grandmother) – William Giles [1822-1884] (3g-grandfather) – Robert Thomas Giles [1797-1848] (4g-grandfather) – Mary Mollie Dills [1768-1818] (5g-grandmother) – Thomas M. Dills [1744-1786] (6g-grandfather)  – Peter Dills [1720-1786] (7g-grandfather) – Jonathan Dill [1698-1769] (8g-grandfather) – Mary White [1685-1737] (9g-grandmother) – Jonathan Bassett White [1658-1737] (10g-grandfather) –Peregrine White [1620-1704] (11g-grandfather).

So, perhaps the next question should be: How many living descendants does Peregrine White have? Or how common is it to be descended from Peregrine White? That is difficult to estimate accurately. There are several online calculators to help answer this question, but it greatly depends on the average number of children each successive generation has.  In generations past, people had huge families, but many of the kids died young without having families of their own.  For the last 50 years, the average has been below 2 children per family. Calculating 12 generations in 400 years, and estimating 3 kids per family, Peregrine White would have almost 1,000,000 grandchildren.  I’m guessing 500,000 may be alive today (three living generations).  That sounds like a big number, but is actually only 0.15% of the current U.S. population.
 
I don’t have an ancestry chart for everyone on the spread sheet, but the direct relationship for each person can be pieced together through the genealogical tree.

Observations from the aggregate data:

Date of Immigration to the U.S.

Beams
Simmons
1600-1650
170 (63%)
50 (60%)
1651-1700
74 (28%)
25 (30%)
1701-1750
18 (7%)
9 (10%)
1751-1800
4 (1.5%)

1801-1850


1851-1900


1901-1950


1951-2000
1 (.3%)

2001-2020


Total
267
84


Country Immigrated From

Beams
Simmons
England
220
72
Wales
19
3
Ireland
8
4
Scotland
7
1
France
10
1
Germany
1
2
Netherlands
1

Switzerland

1
Peru
1

Total
267
84


State Immigrated To

Beams
Simmons
Virginia
120
16
Massachusetts
66
30
New Hampshire
7

Pennsylvania
20

Connecticut
20
10
New Jersey
1
2
Maryland
13
16
Delaware

3
North Carolina
11
3
South Carolina
2
4
Indiana
1

Kentucky
1

Alabama
1

Barbados
2

Canada
2

Total
267
84


Observations:

90% of my ancestors immigrated between 1600 and 1700.  That means that after the first wave of colonists, my ancestors almost exclusively married “Americans” (both colonists and native Americans) from that point on.  Except for Vanessa (my wife from Peru), no immigrant has married into my family since the year 1800! 

95% of immigrants came from the first wave of British colonists (England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales).  Almost no one came from later waves of immigrants (Germans, Italians, Spanish, etc.) and married into our family lines. As one would expect, the early colonists migrated to the original 13 colonies. 

Many of my ancestors were founders of the first colonies in Jamestown and Plymouth.  My immigrant ancestors were explorers, soldiers, Indian warriors and chiefs, investors, pilgrims, puritans, nobility, prisoners, indentured servants, politicians, preachers, doctors, lawyers, wealthy, poor, farmers, tradesmen, scholars, slave-owners, slave-traders, anti-slavery champions.  All of them took a huge risk immigrating to a new continent with unknown dangers (death from accidents at sea, illness, starvation, Indian attacks, etc.).  One of my great grandmothers, a widow, was hung in Salem, accused of being a witch.  Although he did not immigrate to the colonies, I am a direct descendant of John Milton (author of Paradise Lost).  I am also a direct descendant of Christopher Newport, a British Privateer (basically a pirate), who was a key figure (perhaps “the” key figure) in the successful founding of Jamestown.  I don’t think our family is especially blessed with “above average” connections to our nation’s history.  I’m sure most Americans can trace their lineage back to the founding fathers. 

I am somewhat surprised that we have not married into the more recent waves of immigrants to the U.S.  We are definitely “not” a culturally or ethnically diverse family!  It would be interesting to compare the Beams/Simmons genealogy with the genealogies of spouses families that have married in (Vanessa, Bobby, Tracy, and Stephanie) to see if they find similar trends. 

I hope you enjoy looking through the spreadsheet. I encourage you to dive into the fascinating history of the people you find! If you discover new data and/or details, please add them to the genealogy pages on www.familysearch.org.  Let me know if you find immigrants not on my list so I can add them. 


Beams and Simmons Family Genealogy -- Every known immigrant to the British Colonies/United States
Name Date Immigrated "From" "To" or "Place of Death" Notes
I use the phrases " British Colonies" and "United States" interchangably
Beams Line  Many additional notes can be found on individual pages on familysearch.org
does not include family lines that are missing data before immigration date. These lines are noted at bottom.
John Folsom (1615-1681) 1638 Hingham, England Hingham, MA immigrated on the "Diligent" with the Gilman's (wife's family)
Mary (Gilman) Folsom (1615-1693) 1638 Hingham, England Hingham, MA immigrated on the "Diligent" with parents and husband
Edward Gilman (1587-1655) 1638 Hingham, England Hingham, MA Immigrated on the "Diligent" with wife, daugther (Mary (Gilman) Folsom)  and son-in-law (John Folsom)
Mary (Clark) Gilman (1595-1681) 1638 Hingham, England Hingham, MA "
Henry Robie (1618-1688) 1639 Leicestershire, England Exeter, NH immigrated  as a single man (with his 9 year old brother Samuel) for religious reasons
Ruth (Moore) Robie (1621-1673) 1638 Leicestershire, England Salem, MA assume she came to U.S. a single woman with her parents
William Moore (Ruth's father) (1599-1671) 1638 London, England Salem, MA not sure of date of immigration, was present in Salem in 1638
Frances (Moore) Burroughes (1603 -1660) 1638 Devon, England Salem, MA "
William fitzJohan Berry (1610 1654) 1631 Lancashire, England Rockingham, NH was one of the fifty odd men sent over by Capt John Mason to settle his grant land. These men were landed on the west side of the mouth of the Piscataqua River in 1631.
Jane (Locke HERMINS) Berry (1619-1687) ? Yorkshire, England Rockingham, NH first child born in NH in 1634 (age 15), her parents did not immigrate, so don't know how she got to U.S.
Mary Jane Carey (1602-1658) ? Lynn,Kings,Norfolk,England Essex, MA mother of Philip Lewis, no immigration details, no details of spouse
Philip Lewis (1623 -1701) 1640 Bures, Suffolk, , England Rockingham, NH no immigration details
Hannah (I Philbrick) Lewis (1625-1696) 1630 Bures St Mary, Suffolk, England Waterton, MA immigrated with Parents
Thomas Philbrick (1584-1667) 1630 Bures Saint Mary, Essex, England Waterton, MA Hannah Lewis' father, Thomas Philbrick, with his wife and six children, emigrated from Lincolnshire, Eng., in company with Governor Winthrop, Sir Richard Saltonstall and others. They arrived in Massachusetts Bay, June 12, 1630
Elizabeth Anne (Knapp) Philbrick (1593-1663) 1630 Bures Saint Mary, Essex, England Waterton, MA "
Governor Thomas Roberts (1600-1674) 1622 Woolaston, Gloucestershire, England Dover, NH came to U.S. as an apprentice to fishmonger Edward Hilton
Sara (?) Roberts (1602-1673) prior to 1628 Wearmouth, Durham, England Dover, NH parents unknown, married Thomas Roberts in U.S. in 1628
John Wilcockson (1667-1716) prior to 1686 Staffordshire, England Pennsylvania immigrated single and married Dorothy Hall in U.S. in 1686 (record says she was born and died in England, but is a 3rd generation american)
John Hall Sr. (1584-1673) 1633 Canterbury, Kent, England Cambridge, MA Came to New England in 1633 and settled at Cambridge, MA. Grandfather of Dorothy Hall
Deacon John Hall Jr (1610-1696) 1630 Coventry, Warwickshire, England Charleston, MA son of John Hall Sr (1584-1673) immigrated to U.S. before his father in fleet with Governor Winthrop
John Wilcox (1596-1651) 1635 St. Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk, England Hartford, Connecticut John Wilcox came to America with his 3 brothers, William, Daniel, and Edward in 1635
Mary (Wylsher) Wilcox (1597-1668) 1635 St Edmunds, Suffolk, England Hartford, Connecticut Came with husband, John Wilcox, from England
Philippa Thurgood (1565-1668) 1635? Terling, Essex, England Hartford, Connecticut husband died young in england, probably immigrated to U.S. with daughter Mary Wylsher (1597-1668), no details
Elizabeth Ann Wilcox (1616-1673) 1635 St Edmunds, Suffolk, England Hartford, Connecticut wife of Deacon John Hall Jr, came with parents to U.S. at age 19
John Henry Henrie Heinrich Bowch (1620-1678) ? Germany? Henrico, Isle of Wight, Virginia no immigration details
Roland Powell (?) prior to 1695 Wales? Pennsylvania no immigration details
Maud (Richards) Powell (1665-1708) 1693 Llanllwch, Carmarthenshire, Wales Haverford, Chester, Pennsylvania came as a single woman, married Roland Powell in U.S. in 1695
John Richards (1633-1697) 1693? Llanllwch, Carmarthenshire, Wales Haverford, Chester, Pennsylvania father of Maud Richards, probably immigrated together in 1693
Catherine Thomas Richards (1639-1700) 1693? Llanllwch, Carmarthenshire, Wales Haverford, Chester, Pennsylvania mother of Maud Richards, probably immigrated together in 1693
George Boone III (1666-1774) 1717 Stoke Canon, Devon, England Philadelphia, PA On August 17, 1717, George III and Mary, along with their children still at home, left Bradnich, Devonshire, England, which is a town 8 miles from Exeter and 177 miles from London and traveled to Bristol, England. From there they booked ship passage to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania arriving September 29, 1717. George and Mary had sent their other children, George, Sarah and Squire a few years earlier.
Mary (Milton Maugridge) Boone (1669-1740) 1717 Bradninch, Devon, England Philadelphia, PA grandmother of Daniel Boone, granddaughter of John Milton (1595-1674) famous poet in England
Squire Joseph Boone Sr. (1696-1765) 1713 Bradninch, Exeter, Devon, England died in rowan, NC Father of Daniel Boone. Along with a brother and sister, Squire came to U.S. several years prior to his father,
John Jarman (1654-1698) 1683 Llangurig, Montgomery, Wales Philidelphia, PA Immigrated to U.S. with wife and two daughters
Elizabeth Margaret (Goodwyn) Jarman (1658-1740) 1683 Llangurig, Montgomeryshire, Wales Philidelphia, PA Immigrated to U.S. with husband and two daughters
Elizabeth Margaret (Jarman) Morgan (1671-1731) 1683 Nantmel, Radnorshire, Wales Philidelphia, PA Daniel Boone's grandmother, Immigratd to colonies with parents at age 12
Edward Morgan (1670-1736) 1683 Wales  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Daniel Boone's grandfather, It has been stated that Edward Morgan and his wife Elizabeth, both free, arrived at Philadelphia on the same ship (Evening Star) from Liverpool in the 9th mo., 1683
Rev. Thomas Faulkner (1594-1680) 1622 Twineham, Sussex, England Elizabeth City, VA Thomas emigrated to the colonies in 1622 on the Mary Providence, which departed from London, England and arrived at Virginia. Thomas was 28 at the time of his crossing, which was sponsored by Robert Salford. After arriving in Elizabeth City, Thomas worked to satisfy his debt to Mr. Salford as an indentured servant to pay for his passage. 
Margaret (Underhill) Faulkner (1595-1650) 1622 Twineham, Sussex, England Elizabeth City, VA wife of Thomas Faulkner, see above
Nicholas Burkett (1600-1668) prior to 1622 England Rappahannock, Virginia father of Judith Burkett (born in colonies in 1622)
John Craig (1680-1704) ? Scotland Spotsylvania, Virginia no record of his birth, just a note saying he came from Scotland
Robert Taliaferro (1626-1670) 1647 Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England Gloucester, VA Robert Taliaferro arrived in Virginia 1647 on the ship "Honour" and became a wealthy planter in Gloucester and Old Rappahannock Counties. 
Katherine Grymes (Debnam) Taliaferro (1626-1672) 1647 Ightham, Kent, England Gloucester, VA see above
Lawrence Smith (1629-1700) btwn 1652 and 1657 Burnley, Lancashire, England Gloucester, VA no immigration details, first child born in England in 1652, 2nd child in U.S. in 1657
Mary (Debham) Smith (1639-1728) ? Totte, Dovinshire, England Gloucester, VA wife of Lawrence smith. born in England, but parents and grandparents were early immigrants
Sir Edmund Jennings (1585-1635) after 1617 England ippon Hall, York, VA no notes about when he moved to U.S., probably after wife's death in England in 1617
Katherine Frances (Jennings) Dedman (1604-1678) ? Ightham, Kent, England Gloucester, VA daugher of Sir Edmund Jennings, wife of William Dedman, no immigration details
William Dedman (1600-1657) btwn 1625 and 1637 England Gloucester, VA married in england in 1625
Elizabeth Margaret (Davis) Fludd (1570-1640) ? Thurston, Suffolk, England Surry, Virginia no immigration details, must have immigrated with daughter (Ann Fludd) after husband died in england
Colonel Henry Thomas Browne (1598-1662) prior to 1623 Southwark, London, England Surry, Virginia married Ann Fludd (4th wife) in England in 1644. 
Ann (Fludd) Browne (1602-1668) after 1644 Canterbury, Kent, England Surry, Virginia no immigration details, convoluted timeline
Mary Wilder (1638-?) East Hendred,Berkshire,England Charles Co, MD? married to William Browne (1623-1701), no records in U.S.
Robert Spencer (1629-1694) prior to 1659 Brington, Northampton, England Surry, Virginia married to Jane Browne (1640-1681), married in U.S. in 1659, title of nobility--1st Viscount of Teviot, committed suicide
John Henry Hawkins (1680-1726) 1705 Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England King William, Virginia from promenant family in england, wealthy land owner and slave trader
Mary (Lieux Long) Hawkins (1681-1742) prior to 1702 Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, England Williamsburg, James, Virginia married John Henry Hawkins in 1706 in Virginia
Sir John Butler (1568-1632) 1622 Barham, Kent, England New Kent, Virginia married in 1599.
Jane (Elliott) Butler (1576-1667) 1622 Newlandhall, Essex, England Cheesapeake Bay, New Kent, Virginia wife of John Butler, married 1599
Elizabeth Jane (Butler) Claiborne (1610-1688) 1622 Roxwell, Essex, England New Kent, Virginia immigrated with her parents at age 12, married William Claiborne in 1635 in Virginia, royal blood from England
William Claiborne (1600-1677) 1621 Crayford, Kent, England New Kent, Virginia immigrated to Jamestown in 1621, married Elizabeth Jane Butler in 1635, was secretary of state
Thomasine (Frost) Rice (? - 1654) prior to 1651  Ireland Dedham, MA mother of Edward Rice, probably immigrated with him
Edward Rice (1626-1660) prior to 1651  Dingle, Kerry, Ireland New Kent, Virginia married Mary Elizabeth Claiborne in U.S. in 1651
Edmond Plumb Jr (1627-?) prior to 1645 Castle Hedingham, Essex, England New Kent, Virginia married in 1645 in Worchester, MA. death not recorded
Ann (Martyn) Plumb (1620-1720) prior to 1645 England Newark, Essex, New Jersey married in 1645 in Worchester, mother of Jane Plune (born in U.S.)
Robert Marcy (1634-1665) prior to 1660 Leiston, Suffolk, England Virginia child was born in virginia in 1660, wife Jane Plune was born in U.S. Marcy was mother's maiden name
Robert Searcy (1692-1733) prior to 1700 Nottinghamshire, England Hanover, Virginia child was born in U.S. in 1700, so birth date must be prior to 1692, wife Sara Bell was born in U.S.
Thomas J. Crenshaw (1643-1703) btwn 1665 and 1668 Hartest, Suffolk, England St. Johns Parish, King William, Virginia married in england in 1665, child born in U.S. in 1668
Robert B Mitchell (1740-1825) prior to 1770 Scotland Washington, Indiana married in 1770 in Providence, RI to Elizabeth Anna Campbel (born in U.S.). Received land grant for service in revolutionary war.
John Campbell (1674-1741) 1706 and 1726 County Londonderry, Ireland Lancaster, PA married in Ireland in 1695.  John Campbell and Grace Hay Campbell came from Ireland with a family of ten or twelve children, leaving behind only one son and settled near Lancaster in Pennsylvania in the year 1726. The family remained in Pennsylvania a few years and then moved to the frontiers of Virginia in that part which afterwards formed the county of Augusta.
Grissele "Grace" (Hay) Campbell (1678-1741) 1706 and 1726 County Antrim, Ireland Lancaster, PA "
Patrick Campbell (1696-1767) 1726 Kilmachrenan, Donegal, Ireland Augusta, Virginia son of John Campbell, married to Delilah Thompson (born in U.S) in 1716
William Thompson (1661-1718) btwn 1696 and 1700 Scotland scotland married in scotland in 1685, lived in U.S. for many years, but died in Scotland
Mary Margaret (Milne) Thompson (1665-1752) btwn 1696 and 1700 Derry, County Cavan, Ireland Ellington, Tolland, Connecticut married in scotland in 1685, child born in scotland in 1696, child born in Lancaster, PA in 1700
Margaret (Campbell) Buchanan (1715-1800) prior to 1726 Tyrone, Ireland Augusta , Virginia married to John Buchanan (born in U.S), child bornin US in 1726
Eleonore de Sormiers (1560-1643) after 1636 Worcestershire, England Elizabeth City, Virginia husband died in europe in 1636, probably immigrated to U.S. with son Nicolas Martiau
Nicolas Martiau (1591-1657) 1620 Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France Yorktown, York, Virginia known as "father of Yorktown", important historical figure in Jamestown, first person in U.S. to grant slaves freedom upon his death.
Elizabeth Jane (Boyket) Martiau (1593-1640) 1621 Worcestershire, England Yorktown, York, Virginia Arrived in US on the "Seaflower" in Feb 1621/22, 2nd wife of Nicolas Martiau (her second marriage as well)
Robert L. Reade (1551-1627) prior to 1613 Hampshire, England Linkenholt, Hampshire, England Although Robert was born and died in England, his wife died in the colonies, and he had a daughter born in Virginia in 1613 (Mary Reade 1613-1630).  He was of nobility and must have traveled back and forth between colonies and England.  Mary Reade was one of the first white children to have been born in the colonies. Mildred was his 2nd wife, her birth date must be off because she would have been 10 at marriage.
Mildred (Windebank) Reade (1590-1656) prior to 1613 England Virginia "
George Reade (1608-1671) 1637 Linkenholt Manor, , Hampshire, England York, Virginia immigrated single in 1637, married in yorktown in 1641, son of Robert L. Reade, important leader in early colonies
Elizabeth (Martiau) Reade (1625-1687) after 1625 Elizabeth City, Hampton, , England York, Virginia her parents were in colonies before her birth, must have returned to England for her birth, married George Reade in 1640 (age 15)
Capt. Robert Kingwell Higginson (1598-1649) 1643 Berkswell, Warwickshire, England Gloucester, Virginia Was a prominent Indian fighter, who commanded at Middle Plantation, (later Williamsburg) in 1644-45, "One of the first valiant commanders who subdued the Colony of Virginia from the heathen."
Joanna (Tokesay) Higginson (1603-1675) 1643 Berkswell, Warwickshire, England Gloucester, Virginia married Robert Higginson in 1625 in England
Lucy (Higginson) Bernard (1626-1675) 1643 Berkswell, Warwickshire, England Gloucester, Virginia moved to colonies with parents at age 17, married young, 2nd marriage to William Bernard in 1660
William Bernard (1608-1665) 1625 or 1635 Northamptonshire, England Suffolk, Nansemond, Virginia wealthy aristocrat, 2nd marriage to Lucy Higginson in 1660, died soon afterwards
Hugh Gwynn (1608-1654) btwn 1627-1634 Wales, Yorkshire, England Gwynn Island, Mathews, Virginia married Ann Joyce Burnham (1610-1640) in 1626, Ann was born in colonies
Joyce Ann (Burnham) Gwynn (1610-1650) btwn 1627-1634 Wales (maybe Virginia) Virginia if born in U.S., one of first colonists born in U.S., no record of father or mother, but I found a record of a Samuell Burnham from 1609 Virginia charter., I doubt she was born in U.S. because her son was born in Wales in 1626.
Rev. John Gwynn (1627-1723) btwn 1627-1634 Wales Ware Neck, Gloucester, Virginia came to colonies as a baby with parents, married Margaret Keeble (born in colonies)
Mary (Whitby) Keeble (1610-1678) prior to 1628 Yorkshire, England Middlesex, Virginia husband, George Agustus Keeble, was born in colonies, no record of parents
Melissa (Collins) Rootes (1674-1745) 1693 Middlesex, England Virginia married in Endland in 1693 to Capt. John Rootes (1670-1748), first child born in virginia in 1693, husband was born in colonies
Leonard Rootes (1642-1727) btwn 1668 and 1670 Hampshire, England Virginia? no record of immigration date or death place, married in England in 1668, child was born in colonies in 1670
Trista (Keaton) Rootes (1646-1722) btwn 1668 and 1670 Hampshire, England virginia? "
Edward Hudgins (1676-1724) 1702 England Cumberland, Virginia child born in colonies in 1702
Mary (Bellingham) Hudgins (1676-1720) 1702 England Cumberland, Virginia "
Robert Hudgens (1705-1778) 1705 Liverpool, Lancashire, England Cumberland, Virginia his parents came in 1702, so not sure why he was born in England in 1705, they most have gone back for his birth. Looks like he was in revolutionary war, I wonder if he died in the war?
John Flood ? prior to 1730 England ? child born in colonies in 1730, no details
Anne (Puymoret) Flood ? prior  to 1730 France ? "
William Eyre (1618-1679) prior to 1638 Essex, England Henrico, Virginia birth of child and marriage in colonies in 1638
Ann (Danvers) Eyre (1618-1671) Baynton, Wiltshire, England Henrico, Virginia "
William Humphreys (1610-1687) prior to 1628 London, England Henrico, Virginia child born in colonies in 1628
Mary (Maxey) Humphreys (1618-1687) prior to 1640 England Henrico, Virginia marrage and first child born in 1640, 2nd marriage for William Humphreys
John Sampson (1615-1703) prior to 1681 London, Middlesex, , England Antigua, West Indies or Barbados moved from France to Barbados late in life
Elizabeth (Humphrey) Sampson (1658-1703) prior to 1681 Rotherfield, Sussex, England Barbados much younger than husband
Francois Samson (1679-1744) prior to 1681 Pays de la Loire, France St James Parish, Goochland, Virginia son of John and Elizabeth Sampson, came to colonies as a baby
Bridget (Beaslet) Sampson (1674-1757) prior to 1693 Puy-de-Dome, Auvergne, France Goochland County, Virginia wife of Francois Sampson, child born in 1693 in colonies, parents migrated to Canada
Francoise Beaslet (1646-1694) prior to 1660 St. Agricole, ville d'Avignon, France Montreal, Montreal, Canada, New France married in canada in 1660, parents of Bridget (Beaslet) Sampson (1674-1757)
Laurent (Cambin dit Larividère) Beaslet (1646-1726) prior to 1660 Guillaume, Rouen, Normandie, France Quebec, Canada "
Jean Francois Fouquet (1600-1698) 1685? Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France  Henrico, Virginia birth of child in New York in 1693 (age 93?) with 2nd wife, part of Huguenots leaving france
Perrine (LeGagneu) Fouquet (1621-1695) 1685? Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France Virginia married in france in 1640 and 1645, 2nd marriage, divorced but moved to colonies with children who were born in France, part of Huguenots leaving France
Guillaume Fouquet (1667-1698) 1685 Pyrenees-Atlantiques, Aquitaine, France Lunenburg, Virginia son of Jean and Perrine, married Jane Eyre (born in colonies) in 1685 in Virginia
Henry Pierpont (1607-1681) prior to 1632 Benington, Hertfordshire, England Maryland City, Anne Arundel, Maryland child was born in colonies in 1632, married to Elizabeth Larkin (1645-1719) born in colonies, 38 year age difference
James Davis (1575-1623) 1607 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England Jamestown, James City, Virginia When he was 27 years old and set sail on 1st June 1607 from Plymouth, England to Virginia. Captain James Davis has been mentioned as Gentleman, Captain, Captain of Fort Sagadahoc, Maine, Colony Governor; original settler of Jamestown, Virginia, and Ancient Planter--Important first settler--see wikipedia article
Rachel (Keyes) David (1590-1633) prior to 1610 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England Warrosquyoake, Virginia married in england in 1607 to James Davis, child born in colonies in 1610
Rebecca Elizabeth (Christian) Davis (1617-1668) prior to 1635 Clerkenwell St James, Middlesex, England Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay in 1635 married to Thomas Davis (1613-1683) who was son of James Davis and born in colonies
Capt. Samuel Jordan (1578-1623) 1609 Wiltshire, England Charles Cittie, Virginia On June 2 1609 The Sea Venture set sail from Plymouth, England on her maiden voyage bound for Jamestown, Virginia, the flagship of a 7 ship fleet, Samuel Jordan was aboard.
Thomas Jordan (1600-1644) 1623 Wiltshire, England Isle of Wight, Virginia son of Samuel Jordan. Sailed from England on the ship "Diana" and embarked at James City [Jamestown] (January 1624 ship's muster names him as Thomas Jordan) in 1623/24 where he was a soldier in the Governor's guard
William Corker (1584-1677) 1649 Wiltshire, England Surry, Virginia immigrated to colonies as an older man in 1649
Lucy (Corker) Jordan (1604-1709) prior to 1622 Wiltshire, England Surry, Virginia daughter of William Corker, child born in colonies in 1622, married Thomas Jordan in 1628 in colonies, looks to have lived to 105 years old
Edward Larkin Sr (1603-1652) prior to 1639 Kent, England Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay married 2nd wife, Joanna Hale (1620-1685) in colonies in 1639, Joanna was born in colonies
Henry Hale (1596-?) prior to 1620 England? Suffolk, Massachusetts married Nancy Hawley in england in 1615, first child born in colonies in 1620 (Joanna Hale)
Thomas Hammond Sr. (1612-1666) prior to 1636 Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England Anne Arundel, Maryland married in colonies in 1636
Matthew Howard (1609-1652) 1635 England virginia first child born in colonies in 1639
Ann (Hall) Howard (1615-1651) 1635 England virginia "
John Baldwin (1603-1676) prior to 1625 Little Missenden, Buckingham, England ? child born in colonies in 1625
Hannah (Bruen) Baldwin (1604-1695) prior to 1625 England ? "
Jacob Lusby (1575-1673) prior to 1673 England Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland died in colonies, must have followed children in old age
Anna (Jones) Lusby (1580-?? prior to 1673 Llansadwrn, Carmarthenshire, Wales Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland "
Robert L Lusby (1601-1663) after 1630 Lancashire, England Anne Arundel, Maryland son of Jacob and Anna Lusby, child born in england in 1630, wife died in colonies sometime later
Elizabeth (Edwards) Lusby (1607-after 1630) after 1630 England Anne Arundel, Maryland wife of Robert Lusby, "
Dorothy (Landgrave) Lusby (1634-1680) prior to 1650 Lancanshire England Anne Arundel, Maryland married to Robert T Lusby (born in colonies), child born in colonies in 1650
John Thomas Larkin (1585-1629) 1629 Surrey, England died on Board Ship From England to Virginia
Anne Mehitable (Atkinson) Larkin (1586-1629) 1629 Reading, Berkshire, England virginia must have died right after reaching colonies
John Larkin (1614-1702) prior t o 1650 England Davidsonville, Anne Arundel, Maryland does not look like immigrated with parents in 1629, marriage in england in 1649, birth of child in colonies in 1650. Wife (Kathrine Holland) was born in colonies.  
Edward Dorsey Sr. (1619-1659) prior to 1643 Ireland Anne Arundel, Maryland married in virginia in 1643
Ann C (Howard) Dorsey (1625-1658) prior to 1643 England Anne Arundel, Maryland "
Nathaniel Bragg (1550-before 1660) prior to 1660 Lancashire, England Jamestown, James City, Virginia 3 sons were prominent jamestown settlers. He must have followed them over to colonies in old age.
Captain Christopher Newport (1560-1617) 1607 Boynton, Yorkshire, England Banten, Jawa, Indonesia made 5 trips to Jamestown as ship capitan, leading figure in British maritime history and colonization of U.S.
Thomas Bragg (1580-1660) 1607 All Saints, Yorkshire, England Jamestown, James City, Virginia hired as hand on Newports first voyage to Jamestown in 1607, not sure when he settled permanently in Jamestown, married Newport's daughter.  Two other brothers of Thomas also came to Jamestown in 1607.
Mary "Molly" (Newport) Bragg (1580-1662) 1610 Stepney, Middlesex, England Jamestown, James City, Virginia daugher of Christopher Newport, married Thomas Bragg in 1615
Francis P Settle (1622-1707) prior to 1654  Potterton, Yorkshire, England Totusky Creek, Richmond, Virginia married in colonies in 1654 to GW Elizabeth Bruce (1622-1707) who was born in colonies
Thomas George Bruce (1615-1672) prior to 1630 England Virginia married in colonies in 1630 to Mary Jane Rice
Mary Jane (Rice) Bruce (1610? - 1646) prior to 1630 England ? virginia " to Thomas George Bruce
Thomas Henry Rice Rhys (1555-1621) prior to 1621 London, Middlesex, England Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay father of Mary Jane Rice, unclear when immigrated to colonies, died in colonies
Hugh McKay (1640-1719) prior to 1680 Scotland ? death is not confirmed in colonies, but had children born in colonies
Anna Jane (Dunbar) McKay (1640-1700) prior to 1680 Sidera, Caithness, Scotland Sidera, Caithness, , Scotland children born in colonies
James Browne (1656-1716) 1677 Northamptonshire, England Nottingham, Chester, Pennsylvania Quaker, arrived on the first Quaker ship to America, the Kent, in 1677. Two years later Jame married Honour Clayton "in the primitive meeting house made of a sail taken from the Kent, it being the first marriage recorded in the state of New Jersey." He was a weaver, farmer and minister.
Honour (Clayton) Browne (1663-1737) 1677 Sussex, England Nottingham, Chester, Pennsylvania immigrated with parents in 1677 at age 14, married James Browne in 1679 at age 16
William Clayton II (1632-1689) 1677 england Chester, Pennsylvania In 1677, Clayton set sail for America, arriving in New York after being selected by Penn to serve as a commissioner. He oversaw the clearance of Indian land titles acquired by Penn in present-day western New Jersey near Burlington.
Prudence (Lanckford) Clayton (1638-1689) 1677 england Chichester, Chester, Pennsylvania wife of william clayton
George Fickling I (1680-1776) 1705 Norfolk, England Wadmalaw, Charleston, South Carolina immigrated to Bermuda in 1707 and then South Carolina in 1707
Charity (?) Fickling (1682-1737) 1705 Norfolk County, England Charleston, South Carolina "
Joshua Campbell Pharaoh (1735-1776) prior to 1752 Killin, Perthshire, Scotland Currituck, North Carolina married in colonies in 1752
John Baggett (1613-1683) prior to 1683 Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England virginia shows he died in Virginia in 1683, no other records
Martha (Matthew) Baggett (1606-1700) prior to 1683 England Virginia shows no records other than death in colonies
Nicholas Alan Baggett Sr. (1642-1689) prior to 1675 Westminster, Middlesex, England Virginia son of John and Martha Baggett, child born in colonies in 1675
Jennifer Anne (Abbey) Baggett (1645-1755) prior to 1675 Limburg, Netherlands Bertie, North Carolina died at 110 years old?, child born in colonies in 1675
John Parker III (1588-1640) prior to 1612 Basildon District, Essex, England Essex, England married in MA in 1612, wife died in 1624, moved back to England
Joane (Maverick) Parker (1590-1624) prior to 1612 Essex, England Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut married in MA in 1612
Col James H Parker (1620-1700) 1640 England  Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Elizabeth (Long) Parker (1621-1691) 1640 Saint Albans, Hertfordshire, England Woburn, Middlesex, Mass immigrated with husbnad
Robert Long (1590-1664) 1635 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay immigrated in 1635, father of Elizabeth Long Parker (her mother died before immigrating)
John Noble Worthington Hardy (1638-1697) 1665 Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales New Bern, Craven, North Carolina married in North Carolina in 1665
Mary Emily (Parker) Hardy (1640-1700) 1665 Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales New Bern, Craven, North Carolina " , daughter of above Parkers
Gabriell O'Dyher (1630-1672) prior to 1655 Cornwall, England Westmoreland, Virginia child born in colonies in 1655
Mary Bicknell O'Dyher (1632-1669) prior to 1655 Cornwall, England Westmoreland, Virginia "
Capt John Chapman Hardy (1665-1719) prior to 1685 Dorset, England Chowan, North Carolina child born in colonies in 1685, four generations of this family is going back and forth between colonies and england
Charity (O'Dyer) Hardy (1669-1719) prior to 1685 Cornwall, England Chowan, North Carolina child born in colonies in 1685, four generations of family going back and forth
John O'Dwyer (1580-1649) prior to 1639  Cornwall, England ? spouse dies in colonies, he probably does too
Mary (Lumford) O'Dwyer (1580-1639) prior to 1639 Gloucestershire, England Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Bay dies in colonies
James Blount (1620-1686) prior to 1646 Astley, Worcestershire, England Chowan, Colony of North Carolina marriage in colonies in 1646
Ann (Willix) Blount (1620-1683) prior to 1646 Sodington, Worcestershire, England Albemarle, Buncombe, North Carolina "
Elizabeth (Davis) Blount (1721-1790) prior to 1739 EARDISLEY,HEREFORD,ENGLAND Robeson, North Carolina child in born in colonies in 1739, married to John Blount (1718-1790)
Margaret (Brough) Pharaoh (1782-1847) prior to 1802 England Montgomery, Alabama married to Francis Asbury Pharaoh (1781-1848) in 1802
Richard Beach (1612? - ?) 1637 England New Haven, Connecticut Richard Beach and his wife Katherine were Puritans from England who traveled to America to escape religious persecution and to worship in a land of religious freedom. They were married in 1641, in the newly established settlement of New Haven. Richard Beach was among the names of persons who accompanied John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton to Connecticut (via Boston). He immigrated to America in 1637 to the Boston Harbor.
Catherine (?) Beach (1612 - ?) 1637 England New Haven, Connecticut "
William Ives (1607-1648) 1635 England  New Haven, Connecticut William arrived in the Boston area by himself in 1635 at age 28, on ship Truelove two years before Davenport and the main party of New Haven settlers came to Boston on the Hector.
Hannah (?) Ives (? - 1665) prior to 1642 ? New Haven, Connecticut wife of William Ives
Nathaniel Foote (1592-1644) 1630 Shalford, Essex, England Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut part of the contingent of Governor Winthrop's 1500 people coming at that time, Nathaniel with his wife and children: Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Mary, Robert, Frances and Sarah on the brig "Ann" with Sir Richard Saltonstall and settling at Watertown, Massachusett
Elizabeth (Deming Foote) (1595-1683) 1630 Colchester, Essex, England Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut "
Nathaniel Foote Jr (1619-1655) 1630 Ipswich, Suffolk, England Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, "
Elizabeth (Smith) Foote (1627-1711) 1634 Hadleigh, Suffolk, England Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay immigrated with parents when a child, married Nathaniel Foote Jr
Samuel Smith (1601-1681) 1634 Burstall, Suffolk, England Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts Ba Lieut. Samuel Smith, "the Fellmonger", Rep. to Gen. Ct. at Htfd., 1637-1656; built and part owner of the "Tryal", the first ship built in the Conn. Colony.
Elizabeth (?) Smith (1602-1686) 1634 Whatfield, Suffolk, England South Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay "
Deacon Samuel Chapin (1598-1675) 1635 Paignton, Torbay, Devon, England Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts Bay "The Puritan" - a bronze statue in Merrick Park next to the Public Library in Springfield, Mass. honors one of the town's founders, the Deacon Samuel Chapin.
Cicely (Penny) Chapin (1601-1682) 1635 Paignton, Devon, England Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts Bay "
David Chapin (1624-1672) 1635 Paignton, Devon, England Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay immigrated with parents at age 11
Lydia (Crump) Chapin (1635-1708) prior to 1654  Paignton, Torbay, Devon, England Boston, MA married David chapin in 1654, no record of parents, had 11 children
Henry Burt (1599-1662) 1638 Harberton, Devon, England Springfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay immigrated to MA with family
Eulalia (Marche) Burt (1600-1690) 1638 Sherford, Devon, England Springfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay "
David Burt (1629-1690) 1638 Harberton, Devon, England Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay " , wife Mary Holden Burt was born in colonies in 1636
William Holton (? - 1691) 1634 Ipswich, Suffolk Co. England Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts In 1634 came to Mass. from Ipswich, Suffolk Co. England. in 1636 was one of the first settlers in Hartford, CT. and 1656 of Northampton, MA where he died 12 Aug. 1691. His wife Mary also died 1691.
Mary (?) Holton (? - 1691) 1634 England Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay "
Mary (Merwin) Tinker (1575-1648) btwn 1634 and 1649 Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England British Colonial America married Robert Tinker (1565-1624) in 1601, he died in England, 
John H. D. Taylor (1603-1645) 1630 Saint Albans, Hertfordshire, England Barnstable, Massachusetts John Taylor came over form England with Governor Winthrop in 1630 on the ship Arbella, and was the first Taylor that came to New England
Rhoda (Tinker Taylor) (1611-1694) prior to 1640 New Windsor, Berkshire, England Deerfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Daughter of Mary Merwin Tinker, wife of John H.D. Taylor, had 3 husbands with overlapping kids?
Captain John Taylor (1627-1704) 1650 Hadleigh, Suffolk, England Wicomico parish, Northampton, Virginia married in colonies in 1650 to Thankful Woodward (born in colonies). Captain John was a grantee of Northfield, MA in 1681 but apparently, never settled there, instead settling at Northampton, then called Pascommuck, where he is listed on the population and representation rolls of Northampton as a freeman in 1683. killed by indians
Henry Dorchester Woodward (1601-1683) 1635 Woolton, Lancashire, England Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Came to United States on Ship James in the summer of 1635, died in a gristmill wheel accident
Elizabeth (?) Woodward (1617-1690) prior to 1639 Ware, Hertfordshire, England Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay married in colonies in 1639
William Goodwin (1591-1673) 1632 Bocking, Essex, England Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut William Goodwin migrated to America in 1632 on the ship Lyon; he originated from Braintree, Essex, England. He first lived in Cambridge, then moved to Hartford in 1636, and Hadley by 1659, and then to Farmington by 1670.
Elizabeth (White) Goodwin (1592-1676) 1632 Shalford, Essex, England Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut married William Goodwin in England in 1616, migrated with husband
Elizabeth (Goodwin) Crow (1620-1686) 1632 Shalford, Essex, England Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut immigrated with parents as a child
John Crow (1606-1685) 1639 England Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut married Elizabeth Goodwin in 1640
Sgt Thomas Skinner (1617-1703) prior to 1671 Chichester, Sussex, England Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay death of wife in colonies in 1671
Mary (?) Skinner (1621-1671) prior to 1671 Chichester, West Sussex, England Malden, Massachusetts Bay death in colonies in 1671
Thomas Skinner (1645-1722) prior to 1665 Chichester, West Sussex, England Colchester, New London, Connecticut marriage in colonies in 1665 to Mary Pratt (1643-1704) who was born in colonies
Richard Pratt (1615-1691) prior to 1642 Malden, Essex, England Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay married in colonies in 1642
Mary (Rice) Pratt (1615-1698) prior to 1642 Stanstead, Suffolk, England Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay "
Nathaniel Dickinson (1601-1676) 1636 Billingborough, Lincolnshire, England Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay he and his family likely emigrated between 1636, at which point they still appear in the parish register at Billingborough, and 1638, when they appear in the records in Wethersfield, Connecticut
Anna (Bincks) Dickinson (1604-1679) 1636 Scalford, Leicestershire, England Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay "
Thomas Dickinson (1632-1713) 1636 Billingborough, Lincolnshire, England Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut immigrated with parents as a boy, married Hannah Crow (1649-1722) who was born in colonies
Elder John Strong (1610-1699) 1630 or 1635 Chard, Somerset, England Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay arrived in Dorchester, MA on "Hopewell"
Abigail (Ford) Strong (1619-1688) prior to 1635 Bridport, Dorset, England Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay married John Strong in colonies in 1635
Thomas Bascom (1606-1682) prior to 1640 Fordington, Dorset, England Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut child born in colonies in 1640
Avis (?) Bascom (? - 1676) prior to 1640 England Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay "
John Ingersoll (1626-1681) prior to 1651  Derby, Derbyshire, England Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay married Abigal Bascom in 1657 (1640-1688) she was born in colonies
John Stiles (1595-1662) 1635 Millbrook, Bedfordshire, England Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut arrived in Boston aboard the ship "Christian"
Rachell (Beadells) Stiles (1606-1674) 1635 Millbrook, Bedfordshire, England Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut "
Robert Stiles (1634-1690) 1635 Yorkshire, England Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts Bay immigrated with parents as baby
Elizabeth (Frye) Stiles (1637-1680) 1638 Basing, Hampshire, England Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Ba immigrated with parents as baby
John Frye (1601-1693) 1638 Basing, England Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay immigrated in 1638 with wife and children on ship "Bevis", from South Hampton, England to Boston
Anne (?) Frye (1613-1680) 1638 Basing, Hampshire, England Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay "
Joane (French) Bridgewater (1576-1648) prior to 1648 Assington, Suffolk, England Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay immigrated to colonies before death in 1648
Edmund Bridges (1612-1685) 1635 England Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Immigrated on the "James" in 1635
Elizabeth (Mainwaring) Bridges (1612-1664) 1635 England Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Immigrated on the "James" in 1635
Thomas Greenslade (before 1622-1677) 1642 England Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay immigratd to Maine in 1642
Ann (Pudeator) Greenslade (1621-1692) 1642 England Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Ann (Pudeator) Gleenslade was a well-to-do septuagenarian widow who was accused of and convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts. She was executed by hanging.
George Veale Fort (1594-1660) prior to 1625 Lezant, Cornwall, England Isle of Wight, Virginia child was born in colonies in 1625
Mary (Vincent) Fort (1602-1630) prior to 1625 Cornwall, England Isle of Wight, Virginia "
Edward Champion Sr. (1602-1688) prior to 1635 Helston, Cornwall, England Isle of Wight, Virginia child was born in colonies in 1635
Elizabeth (Atkens) Champion (? - after 1700) prior to 1635 England Isle of Wight, Virginia "
John Battle (1634-1690) 1654 Yorkshire, England Pasquotank, North Carolina John and his second wife, Elizabeth, along with his brother Mathew immigrated to America in 1654
Elizabeth (Reynolds) Battle (1635-1699) 1654 England Virginia "
Ann (?) Page (1665 - after 1708) prior to 1708 Wavendon, Bucks., Eng. ? wife of William Byrd Page, child born in colonies in 1708
Col. John Page (1628-1692) 1650 Harrow, London, Middlesex, England Williamsburg, York, Virginia He immigrated to America about 1650 at about 23 years of ag
John Jenkins (1716-1793) prior to 1745 Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales Georges Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania child born in colonies in1745
Elizabeth (Phillips) Jenkins (1713-1797) prior to 1745 Llangibby, Monmouthshire, Wales George, Fayette, Pennyslvania "
John Franklin Jenkins (1685-1772) prior to 1772 Wales Loudoun County, Virginia immigrated to colonies before death in 1772
Iszabella (Barbage) Farmer (1611-1686) 1671 Great Packington, Warwickshire, England Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts She emigrated to Massachusetts with her sons Edward and Thomas and daughter Isabel in 1671
William Pollard (1638-1700) prior to 1659 Coventry, Warwickshire, England Coventry, Warwickshire, England married and had children in colonies
Marye (Farmer) Pollard (1640-1695) prior to 1659 Ansley, Warwickshire, England Coventry, Warwickshire, England married William Pollard in colonies in 1659
Joseph Stephen Pollard (1665-1767) prior to 1684 Coventry, Warwickshire, England Goochland, Virginia birth of child in colonies in 1684, married to Anne Hughes (born in colonies)
John Rice Hughes (1620-1700) 1634 Rector, Beaumaris, Isle of Anglesey, Wales Henrico, Virginia went to barbados at 14 (presumibly with parents), no record of parents, had child in maryland in 1640, no record of spouse, many children
Edward Phelps (1586-1636) prior t o 1616 Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England married in colonies in 1616
Sarah (Holt) Phelps (1600 - ?) prior to 1616 England ? married in colonies in 1616
Thomas Phelps (1624-1674) prior to 1648 Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Birdsville, Anne Arundel, Maryland child born in colonies in 1648, married Elinor Howard (born in colonies)
Anne (Lovelace) Gorsuch (1611-1652) 1652 Bethersden, Kent, England Virginia immigrated just before death
Richard Gorsuch Sr. (1637-1694) prior to 1662 Walkern, Hertfordshire, England Talbot, Maryland child born in colonies in 1662, married Elizabeth Roe (born in colonies)
John Edward Rowe (1611-1653) prior to 1630 Tyne and Wear, Durham, England Wicomico, Northumberland, Virginia child born in colonies in 1630
Anne (Inglis) Rowe (1604-?) prior to 1630 Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Wicomico, Northumberland, Virginia "
William Talbert III (1615-1698) prior to 1663 Crewkerne, Somerset, England Farnum Magisterial District, Richmond, Virginia child born in colonies in1663
Mary (Sharp) Talbert (1623-1691) prior to 1663 Sutton, Cambridgeshire, England Rappahannock, Virginia "
William Talbott IV (1660-1713) prior to 1663 Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England Sittenbourne, Richmond, Virginia immigrated with parents as child, married to Katherine Lewis (born in colonies)
James Perkins (1589-1673) prior to 1673 Wales Hopewell, Virginia immigrated before death in 1673
John Lewis (1611-1663) prior to 1662 Shropshire, England virginia immigrated before death in 1663
Margaret (Perkins) Lewis (1610-1710) prior to 1662 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England New Kent, New Kent County, Virginia probably immigrated before husbands death in colonies in 1663
William Lewis (1643-1734) prior to 1662 Monmouthshire, Wales Rappahannock, Virginia child born in colonies in 1662 
Ralfe Gibson (1574-1621) prior to 1620 Northamptonshire, England Jamestown, James City, Virginia immigrated prior to death in 1621 in Jamestown, no details
Joanne (Reynolds) Gibson (1577-1620) prior to 1620 Woodford, Wiltshire, England Hanover, Virginia immigrated prior to death in 1620 in Hanover, no details
Thomas Gibson Sr (1599-1642) prior to 1620 Pocklington, York, Yorkshire, England Chesquack Parrish, York, Virginia immigrated with parents
Elizabeth (Foreman) Gibson (1597-1648) prior to 1625 Woodford, Wiltshire, England York, Virginia married in england in 1625, had a child in colonies in 1625
Thomas Gibson Jr (1614-1652) btwn 1635-1639 England York, Virginia married in england in 1635, child born in colonies in 1639, killed by Indians in 1652
Elizabeth (South) Gibson (1620?-1652) btwn 1635-1639 Downham, Cambridgeshire, England York, Virginia ", also killed by Indians on same day as husband
Robert South (1600-1689) prior to 1621 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Northumberland, Colony of Virginia child born in colonies in 1621
Marrian (Woodruffe) South (1607-1666) prior to 1621 Downham, Cambridgeshire, England Northumberland, Virginia "
William Sawyer (1613-1702) 1636 England Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay came to Salem MA in 1636 as single man, married soon after arrival
Ruth (Bitfield) Sawyer (1620-1699) prior to 1644 England Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay married in William Sawyer 1644
John Allen (1569-1629) prior to 1620 Droitwich, Worcestershire, England Isle of Wight Cunty, Virginia? not real record of him immigrating, but his 16 year old son married in colonies in 1620, I don't imagine he traveled alone, his wife, Margaret Woodhouse, died and is buried in England in 1626
John Allen (1604-1690) prior to 1620 Droitwich, Worcestershire, England Virginia married in colonies in 1620 (at age 16!)
Catherine (Mayor) Allen (1605-1630) prior to 1620 Saint Andrews, Plymouth, Devon, England Henrico, Virginia ", married at 15, died at 25
Vanessa (Lezama) Beams (1974 - ) 1998 Cajamarca, Peru Kentucky married husband, Daniel Beams in Peru 1997, moved to U.S. 1998
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Samuel Harwell (1635-?) prior to 1661 England? Virginia? child born in colonies in 1661, child born in Surry, England in 1662
Robert Bull (1678-1716) prior to 1699 Wiltshire, England North Carolina married in New Jersey in 1699 to Jane Ball (Crane) Bull (1686-1741), born in colonies
Jasper Crane (1602-1680) prior to 1635 Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England Newark, Essex, New Jersey Jasper Crane came to Massachusetts Bay in the ship "Arabella," with Governor Winthrop. His name heads the list of the first 23 colonists from Branford, Conn., emigrated from England and is named as one of the New Haven Colony, June 4th, 1639
Alice (Leave) Crane (1608-1675) prior to 1635 Bath, Somerset, England Newark, Essex, New Jersey married Jasper crane in england in 1634, child born in colonies in 1635
Richard Treat Sr. (1584-1669) 1637 Trendle, Somerset, England Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Richard and his wife Alice with their nine surviving children migrated to Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony from Pitminster in 1637
Alice (Gaylord) Treat (1594-1669) 1637 Taunton Deane Borough, Somerset, England Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut "
Governor Robert Treat (1624-1710) 1637 Pitminster, Somerset, England Milford, New Haven, Colony of Connecticut immigrated with parents, important historical colonial person
Jane (Tapp) Treat (1627-1703) 1636 Benington, Hertfordshire, England Milford, New Haven, Connecticut immigrated with parents, married in colonies in 1647
Edmund Tapp Jr. (1578-1653) 1636 Benington, Hertfordshire, England New Haven, Connecticut immigrated in 1637
Anne (Charde) Tapp (1583-1673) 1636 Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, England Milford, New Haven, Connecticut married in England, immigrated with husband
Margaret (?) Tapp (1550-1636) 1636 East Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, England Milford, New Haven, Connecticut immigrated with son and family at age 86, died upon arrival to colonies
Sybil (Pratt) Kirkland (1730-?) prior to 1755 Switzerland ? both parents born and died in Switzerland, child was born in U.S. 
Jonas Bastian (1726-?) prior to 1752 Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany North Carolina? marriage in colonies in 1752, children born in PA and NC, no record of where died
Margaretha (Becker) Bastian (1727-1797) prior to 1752 Germany North Carolina "
Edmund Bayse (1645-1724) prior to 1664 Essex, England Wicomico, Northumberland, Virginia birth of child in colonies in 1664, married Elizabeth Taylor (born in colonies)
Capt. Thomas Pitman (1614-1688) prior to 1634 Monmouthshire, Wales Surry, Virginia child born in colonies in 1634, important historical figure
Frances (Coffield) Pitman (1615-1666) prior to 1634 Canterbury, England Surry, Virginia "
Josias Gambling (1575-1636) prior to 1628 Spalding, , Lincolnshire, England Hewlett, Hanover, Virginia wife died in colonies in 1628
Dorothy (Dameron) Gambling (1580-1628) prior to 1628 Spalding, Lincolnshire, England Hewlett, Hanover, Virginia died in colonies in 1628
Sarah Elizabeth (Gambling) Gascoigne (1601-1665) prior to 1665 Aberford, Yorkshire, England Hewletts Point, Northumberland, Virginia immigrated with parents?, all children born in England
Thomas Gascoigne (1601-1665) prior to 1665 Aberford, West Yorkshire, England Wicomico, Northumberland, Virginia married Sarah Gambling in 1624 in England, not sure when came to colonies, but died there
William Hyde (1565-1640) 1633 Manchester, Lancashire, England Norwich, New London, Connecticut William immigrated to 1633.  He was a follower of the Rev. Hooker, andfollowed Hooker to Connecticut
Alicia M (Crompton) Hyde (1602-1689) btwn 1682 and 1689 East Crompton, Lancashire, England Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts wife of Robert Hyde (1604-1682), immigrated to colonies to be with son after husband died
Jonathan Simon Hyde Sr (1626-1711) 1639 Denton, Kent, England Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Came from England with two older brothers, to Cambridge, Mass., 1639, soldier in King Philip's War.
Mary (French) Hyde (1633-1672) 1635 England  Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts immigrated with parents, married in 1650 in colonies to Jonathan Simon Hyde
William French (1606-1681) 1635 Halstead, England Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay the the manifest for the "Defence"
Elizabeth (?) French (1605-1688) 1635 England Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay "
Robert Parke (1580-1665) 1630 Poslingford, Suffolk, England Stonington, New London, Connecticut Came on the Arbella. (Gov. Winthrop's Fleet) with wife Martha and son Thomas plus three other children
Martha (Chaplin) Parke (1583-1644) 1630 Semer, Suffolk, England ? "
William Parke (1607-1685) 1630 Semer, Suffolk, England Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay immigrated with parents in 1630
Martha (Holgrave) Parke (1617-1708) prior to 1631 London, England Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts married in 1631 in colonies
John Holgrave (1585-1666) 1630 Hadleigh, Suffolk, England Salem, Essex, Massachusetts marriage in colonies in 1630
Elizabeth (Bright) Holgrave (1595-1666) 1630 Woodbridge, Suffolk, England MA ? "
Robert Williams (1608-1693) 1638 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay birth of child in colonies in 1638
Elizabeth (Stratton) Williams (1594-1674) 1638 Norwich, Norfolk, England Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay "
Richard Taylor (1579-1678) 1624 Flowerdew, Hundred, England Tappahannock, Rappahannock, VA note says living in Virginia in 1624
Lieutenant Griffin Craft (1600-1689) prior to 1627 Croft Castle, Hereford, Yorkshire, England Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts child born in colonies in 1627
Alice (Taylor) Craft (1607-1673) prior to 1627 England Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts "
Nathaniel Wilson SR (1621-1692) 1644 Warley, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay immigration in 1644, wife Hannah Craft (1627-1692) born in colonies
Captain George Dille (1619-1655) 1639 Riverstown, Sligo, Ireland Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay He first came to America in 1639, where he had a land grant in Salem, Massachusetts, married Abigal Hand in 1644 (born in colonies)
John Hands (1597-1625) prior to 1623 England Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay child born in colonies in 1623, died in 1625
Elizabeth Alice (Runyon) Hands (1601-1645) prior to 1623 England Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts child born in colonies in 1623
Ralph Shepard (1603-1693) 1635 England Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay With Captain and Master, Robert Hackwell, Ralph and his wife, Thankslord and daughter Sarah, they took passage on ship "Abigail" to New England, 1 June 1635
Thankslord (Perkins) Shepard (1612-?) 1635 England MA ? "
William White (1591-1620) 1620 Sturton le Steeple, Nottinghamshire, England Plymouth MA on board Mayflower (Sept - Nov 9, 1620), died right after got to Plymouth
Susana (?) White (? - ?) 1620 England MA ? gave birth to child in Netherlands in 1615, gave birth to child on Mayflower (Peregrine White) during voyage, no date for death
Peregrine White (1620-1704) 1620 born on Mayflower Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay "
William Bassett (1600-1677) 1621 Stepney, London, Middlesex, England Plymouth, Massachusetts arrived on the "Fortune" in 1621
Elizabeth (?) Bassett (1603-1651) 1621 Tenterden, Kent, England Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay arrived in 1621, married in 1623
William Nickerson (1604-1690) 1637 Norwich, Norfolk, England Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony On 6 Apr 1637 a party was examined who "expressing a desire to go to Boston in New England and set sail for the great adventure on the ship 'John and Dorothy' of Ipswich, William Andrews, master."
Anne (Busby) Nickerson (1608-1686) 1637 Norwich, Norfolk, England Chatham, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony "
Nicholas Nickerson (1628-1682) 1637 Norwich, Norfolk, England Yarmouth, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony immigrated with parents, married Esther Bassett (born in colonies)
Joseph Bassett (1601-?) prior to 1622 England? MA ? child born in colonies in 1622
Lawrence Dills (1669-1723) prior to 1690 England south carolina child born in colonies in 1690 and 1720
John Croskeys (1650-1718) 1670 Bermuda South Carolina immigrated in 1670
Elizabeth (Plowman) Croskeys (1660-1756) prior to 1700 Jamaica South Carolina birth of a child in colonies in 1700, wife of John Croskeys
John Loftis (1700-1775) prior to 1735 Ireland Murderkill Hundreds, Kent, Delaware child born in delaware in 1735
Sarah Ann (Scully) Loftis (1718-1787) prior to 1719 Ireland Murderkill, Kent, Delaware came with parents
John Burton Skulley (1695-1771) prior to1719 County Donegal, Ireland Kent, Delaware birth of a child in delaware, married to Sarah Linscott (born in U.S.)
John Linscott (1670-1711) prior to 1690 England York, York, Massachusetts Bay birth of a child in 1690, married to Lydia Milbury (born in colonies)
Henry Milbury (1625-1695) prior to 1648 Stoke-in-Teignhead, Devon, England York, Province of Maine, Massachusetts Bay married in colonies in 1648, married Elizabeth (?) Milbury, don't know maiden name or parents
Robert Goodlet (1720-1804) prior to 1740 Lanarkshire, Scotland Spartanburg, South Carolina child born in colonies in 1740, married to Nancy Ann Middleton (1722-1818) born in the colonies
Robert Midleton (1627-1655) prior to 1651 Durham, England virginia  spouse died in colonies in 1651
Magdalen (Sawer) Midleton (1621-1651) prior to 1651 England Virginia died in colonies in 1651
Robert Luckener Middleton (1651-1708) 1651 Somerset, England Prince George's, Maryland immigrated with parents as a baby, married Mary Wheeler (born in colonies)
Ann (Lindsey) Wheeler (1604-1679) prior to 1625 England Isle of Wright, Virginia married in colonies in 1625
Major John Wheeler (1630-1694) 1651 Marlborough, Wiltshire, England Charles, Maryland immigrated to Maryland in 1651, looks like his mom was already here
Mary (Causine) Wheeler (1629-1693) prior to 1635 England Charles, Maryland immigrated with parents prior to 1635, married in colonies in 1652
Nicholas Causine (1608-1654) prior to 1635 France Charles, Maryland married in colonies in 1642
Jane Dorcas (Hicks) Causine (1612-1662) prior to 1635 Southwark, London, England Charles County, Maryland child born in colonies
Richard BECKERDIKE (1633-1719) prior to 1719 London, England Anne Arundel, Maryland immigrated prior to death
Mary (Beckerdike) Hatton (1653-1731) prior to 1675 London, England Prince George's, Maryland married in colonies in 1675
William Hatton (1619-1712) prior to 1675 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England Prince George's, Colony of Maryland "
Eleanor (Nelson) Bayne (1601 - 1701) prior to 1701 England Charles, Maryland immigrated sometime before death, mother of Walter Bayne
Walter Bayne (1616-1670) prior to 1652 St Thomas Parish, Southwark, Surrey, England Charles, Maryland birth of a child in colonies in 1652
Eleanor (Weston) Bayne (1630-1701) prior to 1652 England Charles, Maryland "
William Marshall (1607-1673) prior to 1656 Farmington, Gloucestershire, England Charles, Maryland married in colonies in 1656
Catherine (Payne) Marshall (1626-1673 prior to 1656 England St. Mary's Co. Maryland "
Henry Hawkins Sr (1596-1698) prior to 1698 St Margaret's, Herefordshire, England Jamaica, Charles, Maryland immmigrated before death
Henry Hawkins (1627-1699) prior to 1664 Westminster, St Margaret, Hereford, England Port Tobacco, Charles, Colony of Maryland birth of child in colonies in 1664 
Eleanor (Wamsley) Hawkins (1649-1681) prior to 1664 Surrey, England Charles, Maryland "
William Holcombe II (1640-1722) prior to 1678 Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, Wales Pembrokeshire, Wales child born in colonies in 1678
Hannah (Green) Holcombe (1655-1712) prior to 1678 Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales King William, King William, Virginia "
William Neville (1651-1708) prior to 1682 Brighton, Sussex, England Brighton, Sussex, England child born in colonies in 1682
Susanah (Ayers) Neville (1653-?) prior to 1682 Brighton, Sussex, England ? "
Geneological Dead End
Beams Line
James S Beams (1806-1876) Mississippi Bryan, Oklahoma Trail of tears 1832, Husband of Amy Folsum
Yokaliti (?) Folsom (1765-1810) Mississippi Mississippi Choctaw wife of Edmund Folsom
Mary (Chambers) Folsom (1733-1776) New Jersey Saint Stephens, Washington, Mississippi wife of Israel Nathaniel Folsom (1724-1785)
Keziah Shute (1721-1778) Prince William, Virginia ? wife of Israel  Folsom Jr (1724-1772)
Nancy Hilderbrand (1854-1903) ? ? wife of Charlie C Beams (1848-1885)
Albert Millis Harris ? ? father of Clifford Elsie Harris (1892-1966)
Nora (Barrett) Harris (1875 - ?) Texas ? mother of Clifford Elsie Harris (1892-1966)
William N Estes (1798-1863) South Carolina Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama killed in civil war, no record of parents
Elizabeth (Holland) Estes (1798-1873) South Carolina ? wife of William N Estes, no record of parents
Henry Newton I (1654-1713) Virginia Virginia no record of parents
Elizabeth (Stokes) Newton (1660-1718) Virginia Virginia no record of parents
Sara (Bell) Searcy (1690-1735) hanover, VA hanover, VA no record of parents, married to Robert Searcy, immigrant from England
Ann (Watson McGeehee) Rice (172-1784) VA VA married to Matthew Rice, no record of parents
Ellen (Green Anderson) Crenshaw (1645-?) Louisa Court House, Louisa, Virginia ? born in U.S., married to Thomas Crenshaw who came from England, no record of parents
Sarah Elizabeth (McAllister) Crensahw (1668-1765) Hanover, Virginia Lunenburg, Virginia born in U.S., married to Joseph Crenshaw (1668-1758), no record of parents
Thomas Bates (1675 - ?) Amelia, Virginia ? no record of parents
Sarah Bates (? - 1755) ? ? wife of Thomas Bates, no record of maiden name or parents
Johan Buchanan (1699-1769) Northampton, Pennsylvania Augusta, Virginia born in U.S., parents unknown
George Augustus Keeble (1615? - 1666) Virginia Virginia born in colonies, parents unknown, first child born in colonies in 1628
Martha Mary (Parker) Hudgens (1705-1777 Virginia Virginia born in colonies, parents unknown.
Captain Thomas Smith (1762-1832) Charlotte, Virginia Green, Kentucky born in colonies, parents unknown, married to Mary Margaretn Fuqua (1770-1832)
Captain William Phillips (1758-1831) Somerset, Montgomery, Maryland Green, Kentucky born in colonies, parents unknown, looks like he may have had 21 children with 3 wives
Sophia (Herritt) Phillips (1760-1803) Williamsburg, Armstrong, Pennsylvania Williamsburg, Blair, Pennsylvania born in colonies, parents unknown
Ann (Hall) Hammond (1616-1643) Anne Arundel, Maryland Isle of Wight, Colony of Virginia born in colonies, parents unknown
Katherine (Holland) Larkin (1625-1685) All Hallows, Anne Arundel, Maryland Anne Arundel, Maryland born in colonies, parents unknown, wife of John Larkin (1614-1702
Mary (Staples) Bragg (1624 - ?) Northampton, Virginia Virginia born in colonies, parents unknown, wife of William A. Bragg (1624-1679)
Alice (Sheffield) Bragg (1647-1707) Old Rappahannock, Virginia Colony Old Rappahannock, Virginia Colony born in colonies, parents unknown, wife of Joseph Bragg (1647-1688)
Mary Tapp (after 1660-1731) Rappahannock, Virginia Richmond, Virginia born in colonies, have parents names, but no details, wife of Joseph Bragg (1670-1747)
Elizabeth Edwards (Moore) Settle (1670-1770) Rappahannock, Virginia Rappahannock, Virginia born in colonies, parents unknown, wife of Thomas Settle (1664-1748)
Elizabeth (Moore) Bragg (1750-1833) ? Virginia born in colonies, parents unknown, wife of Joseph Bragg (1753-1833)
Nancy (Johnston) Bragg (1795-1870) Tennessee Hill, TX born in U.S, parents unknown, wife of Joseph Jessie Bragg (1787-1850)
John James Hamilton (1781-1840) Tennessee Poinsett, Arkansas born in U.S., no complete records of scotish parents
Elizabeth (Blount) Hamilton (1785-1857) Pennsylvania Navarro, Texas born in U.S., wife of john james hamilton, no record of parents
William Allen (1680-1749) Wadmalaw Island, Colleton, South Carolina ? born in colonies, parents unknown
Mary (Finn) Allen (1689 - ?) South Carolina ? born in colonies, parents unknown
Patrick Breanon (1704-1761) Wadmalaw Island, Colleton, South Carolina Wadmalaw Island, Colleton, South Carolina born in colonies, parents unknown
Patrick Bridgett (1745 - ?) South Carolina ? born in colonies, parents unknown
Jane (Campbell) Fickling (1707-1767) Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina South Carolina born in colonies, parents unknown, married to George Fickling (1707-1767)
Elizabeth (?) Pharaoh (1735 - ?) .North Carolina ? born in colonies, maiden name and parents unknown, married to Joshua Campbell Pharaoh (1735-1776)
Jeremiah Perry (1630-1694) Perquimans, North Carolina Albemarle, Carolina born in colonies, parents unknown
Temporance (Boddie) Perry (1641-1663) North Carolina Albemarle, Carolina "
William C Pollard (1810-1844) South Carolina Crenshaw, Alabama born in U.S., parents unknown
William Goodson (1710 - ?) South Carolina ? born in colonies, parents unknown
Ellen Ann (Hackley) Pollard (1700-1744) Amelia, Virginia Virginia ? born in colonies, parents unknown, married to Georg T. Pollard (1696-1765)
Elinor (?) Phelps (1626-1672) Norfolk, Virginia, British Colonial America Anne Arundel, Maryland wife of Thomas Phelps (1624-1674), no record of parents
Mary Jane (Page) Allen (1630-1694) Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight, Virginia Rappahannock, Virginia born in colonies, parents unknown, married to Valentine Allen (1630-1712) who was born in colonies
Simmons Line
Henry F Simmons (1881-1930) alabama Texas born in U.S., parents unknown
Rebecca (?) Harwell (1806-1870) north carolina ? born in U.S, maiden name and parents unknown
Margaret Melinda (Moore) Miller (1826-1900) Tennessee Conway, Arkansas born in U.S., parents unknown
Margaret (Brown) Harwell (1738- ?) N. Carolina ? born in colonies, parents unknown
Ambrose Jackson Sr (1690-1745) ? Brunswick, Virginia appears to have been born in colonies, no records of birth or of parents
Ann (?) Jackson (1690-1751) Virginia Brunswick, Virginia wife of Ambrose Jackson, no maiden name
Susanna (Harwell) Bull (1704-1763) Brunswick, North Carolina Halifax, Halifax, North Carolina born in colonies, parents unknown
John C Miller (1805-1858) Tennessee Lawrence, Tennessee born in U.S., parents unknown
Dorcas (Holloway) Miller (1799-1867) Virginia Tennesses? born in U.S., parents unknown, married to John C Miller
Lily Berry (Faw) Kirkland (1758-1851) Polk, Tennessee Polk, Tennessee married to Nathan Kirkland, native american, born in U.S. some speculation this person does not exist
Donahee Kirkland (1730-?) north carolina ? born in colonies, parents unknown
Elizabeth (Williams) Pitman (1671-1718) Lancaster, Va Lancaster, Va born in colonies, parents unknown, married to Thomas John Pittman
Mary Martha (Gwualtney) Pittman (1657-1688) ? Virginia don’t know where born, died in colonies, married to Thomas Pittman
Hannah (Fielding) Pittman (1712-1754) Northumberland, Virginia Northumberland, Virginia born in colonies, parents unknownl, married to Thomas Pittman (1712-1755)
George Kirkland (1800-?) north carolina north carolina born in U.S., parents unknown
Polly (Walker) Kirkland (1800-1889) north carolina north carolina born in U.S., parents unknown
Nancy Ann (Lee) Giles (1800-1840) South Carolina Monroe, Tennessee born in U.S., parents unknown, married to Robert Thomas Giles 
Jeremiah Giles (1760-1835) Rutherford, North Carolina Rutherford, North Carolina born in U.S., parents unknown, married to Mary Molly Dills
Peter Cuzzine (1728-1748) Rutherford, North Carolina Rutherford, North Carolina born in U.S., parents unknown, spouse unknown, father of Elizabeth Cuzzine
John Thomas (1672-?) Colonies colonies born in colonies, parents unknown
Ann (?) Thomas (1672-?) Colonies Colonies born in colonies, parents unknown, madien name unknown
William Duggan (1793-1864) Tennessee Monroe, Tennessee born in U.S., parents unknown
Sarah (Harless) Duggan (1795 - ?) Tennessee ? Tennessee ? child born in Tennessee, parents unknown, wife of William Dugan
Loretta Alice (Hall) Loftis (1862-1938) Tenessessee FREDERICK,,OKLAHOMA born in U.S., no record of parents, married to Laban N. Loftis
Aaron Bean (1770-1840) Virginia Jackson, Tennessee born in U.S., no record of parents 
Mary Barbara (Nigh) Bean (1775-1840) ? Jackson, Tennessee born in U.S., no record of parents, married to Aaron Bean
Elizabeth (?) Milbury (1626-1666) York, Province of Maine, Massachusetts Bay York, Province of Maine, Massachusetts Bay born in colonies, no record of maiden name or parents, married to Henry Milbury (1625-1695)
Notley Warren (1640 - ?) Virginia Virginia born in colonies, no record of parents
Walter Littleberry (1720-1743) Virginia Virginia born in colonies, no record of parents, 
Sarah (Page) Holcombe (1719-1790) King William, Virginia Laurens, South Carolina born in colonies, no record of parents
Benjamin A Smith (1813-1898) Virginia kentucky born in U.S., no record of parents
Mary A (Shockley) Smith (1813-1875) Kentucky Kentucky born in U.S., no record of parents

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Out There with the Beams -- #GivingTuesday


Dear Friends and Family,

Here we are, right between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and quickly approaching the end of the year.  Did you know today is #GivingTuesday?  Uniquely juxtaposed to the crassly commercial celebrations of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season of year-end giving.  I’m sure you personally know of many great causes that you can give toward this year.  I encourage you to make a real difference this year. 

As you are aware, Vanessa and I have been living and working in Bolivia for almost 15 years.  Thank you so much for so many years of faithful support of our ministries.  Vanessa continues to work with women who are experiencing domestic violence and abuse in Santa Cruz.  Her program, CAFA (Centro de Atención Familiar El Alfarero), is deeply impacting the spiritual and emotional lives of the women she and her team serve.  I, Danny, continue to focus on bringing clean water to rural communities throughout Bolivia with my project Agua Yaku.  My team and I drill water wells and distribute water filters in dozens of communities each year.  Most recently, we have been working in isolated indigenous communities in the Amazon river basin near Riberalta, way up in the northern part of Bolivia. 

Everything we do, we do in the name of Jesus Christ, spreading his love in both word and deed.  Better health and a better family life are extremely important, but true change and hope for a better future only comes through a personal relationship with our creator.  Our hope and prayer are that everyone we touch will come to know Christ in a personal way. 

Opportunities to share Christ abound.  Seeing God at work in the lives of people we meet encourages us to faithfully continue with our ministries. We pray that you to will join us in the coming year.  Please come down for a visit, either with a team or just with your family.  Also, we need your prayer and financial support.  As you consider what you want to do for #GivingTuesday, I encourage you to join us as part of our ministry team here in Bolivia.  We still need a dozen or so new monthly partners to pledge $25, $50, or $100 a month in support of our salary budget.  Or if you would prefer to give a one-time yearly gift, that would also be appreciated.  Additionally, Vanessa needs to raise $10,000 a year for her CAFA ministry, and I need to raise $100,000 for Agua Yaku.  You can sponsor drilling a water well for $1000 or give a water filter to a family for $40.  I would love to drill another 50 water wells and distribute 1000 water filters in 2019.  Can you help us reach that goal?

Yes, ministry is a sacrifice of both time and money.  Help us be God’s “hands and feet” here in Bolivia in 2019!  Go ahead and click on the donate button and follow the links. 

Blessings,
Danny and Vanessa

P.S. Be watching for the announcement that our AQUASIV Kickstarter fundraising campaign is live.  We are only waiting for final approval by Kickstarter.  Check out the preview link here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1227445921/642225928?ref=367480&token=52393996


Sunday, October 28, 2018

Out There with the Beams -- October 2018


Dear Friends and Family,

When do you hear God speak to you?  I’ll admit that I don’t always hear a definitive voice guiding me toward a specific action, but I do quite often see him acting through so-called happenstances or chance meetings that are just too serendipitous to be random.  I love witnessing such an obvious God moment that makes it impossible to deny his existence and his love for humanity.  A friend just sent me this picture of Pablo and I talking to a woman named Rosemery, who I at first thought was just a humble flower seller in Aiquile, Bolivia.  This photo captures the precise moment that God put three people together to make sure 18 schools and whole bunch of families would have clean water to drink in Aiquile.

It turns out that Rosemery was also a teacher in an elementary school in Aiquile.  We were in Aiquile on the last day of an Agua Yaku motorcycle trip distributing water filters in rural villages along our route.  We had just planned on stopping for the night in Aiquile before heading back to Santa Cruz early the next morning.  Honestly, I knew Aiquile needed clean water, but Aiquile is a good-sized regional town and I thought it was too big of a project to tack onto the end of a long week.  Rosemery also knew they needed clean water in the schools of Aiquile.  She inquisitively asked what we were doing in Aiquile. When she heard about the filter project she immediately went into action, making some phone calls and organizing a meeting with all 18 school directors in front of our hotel within an hour.  It just “so happened” that the teachers were on strike that day. Classes had already been cancelled and the school directors were all gathered together several blocks away to organize a march.  After hearing about the water filters, they quickly gathered in the street in front of hotel and where we trained them on how to use the water filters in their schools.  We ended up distributing over
40 filters in Aiquile—sending them to schools, boarding houses, the hospital, and many local families.  The teachers disbursed quickly after the training, only to march back through the plaza a few minutes later beating on the water filter buckets like drums as they chanted in unison for higher pay and better government support for the local schools.  It is hard to deny that God was working overtime to make sure we did not pass by Aiquile without leaving behind almost all the water filters had left in our trailer.

We have another volunteer team from Crossroads Church arriving in Santa Cruz tomorrow morning.  Sixteen of us are headed out on Sunday afternoon to Buena Vista where we will be working with a local partnering NGO, called Etta Projects, to distribute water filters in several rural communities along the eastern most edge of the Andes mountains near Amboró National Park.  Please support us in prayer as we bring clean water and demonstrate God’s love in these communities.

Here are a couple of pictures of our latest prototype for the new AQUASIV water filter.  I can’t wait to show everyone how versatile it will be for use in all kinds of outdoor activities and for clean water needs all around the world. It is not in production yet, but we will be testing improvements on our trip to Buena Vista and we will soon be launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for our first production run.















We are also continuing to drill water wells in Riberalta, near Bolivia’s northern border with Brazil.  It is a full two days drive from Santa Cruz up to these communities.  We have drilled 23 successful wells in the last couple of months. So many recipient families have expressed their deep-felt appreciation for the clean water that these wells have already provided. We will continue to work there until the rains become too heavy in November to continue drilling.  We have promised our local church and mission partners in Riberalta that we will drill at least 65 wells in 13 designated communities.  It costs us about $500 to drill each well.  Thank you to those of you who have already stepped up to help with this project. We are working on faith, praying that the remaining funds will come in on time.  I know there are huge needs all over the world and that our personal resources are limited, but God is not limited.  If you feel called to sponsor a well or two in Riberalta, we will drill them!  If you feel God calling you to do more—we still need $25,000 to complete the financial end of our commitment!

Personal Financial Support

Thank you so much to so many of you for your faithful and continued support of our ministry here in Bolivia.  If you have visited us in Bolivia on a team or if you have been receiving our newsletter and would like to become a regular monthly supporter of our work, please click on the donate button and follow the instructions.  It would be especially helpful if you could become a monthly supporter for our personal support account.  In focusing on the ministry, we have neglected to keep a close eye on our salary account and unfortunately it is no longer at a level that allows us to receive our full salary.   We need another couple dozen friends to step up and become monthly supporters.  $25, $50 or $100 a month would help us get back up to full support quickly.  If you set up an automatic monthly contribution you will not even have to remember each month, just don’t forget to pray for us too!

Blessings,
Danny and Vanessa
 

Monday, August 27, 2018

Out There with the Beams -- August 2018


Dear Friends and Family,

We had a great tour of the U.S. this summer visiting friends, family, and supporting churches across quite a few states.  Thank you so much for hosting us so graciously as we traveled around the country.  It was great seeing old friends, meeting new ones, and sharing how God is working in Bolivia. If you are new to our monthly newsletter, then bien venidos!  We are now busy setting up mission teams for trips to Bolivia this fall and next year.  We hope you will join us on this journey and help us share God’s love by becoming a valuable partner in this ministry. 

Agua Yaku Update
While we were traveling this summer, my Agua Yaku crew began a new well drilling partnership/project with two local mission organizations, the Baptist Convention of Bolivia and the Swiss Evangelical Mission.  Marcos and his crew packed up the well drilling equipment and headed up to the town of Riberalta, located about as far north at you can go in Bolivia, right up next to Peru and Brazil—two full days drive from Santa Cruz.  The Baptist and the Swiss mission have been working in this area for years, planting churches and discipling new believers in the rural indigenous communities around Riberalta. 

Access to clean water has always been a top priority and a huge need in this area.  Local pastors and community leaders asked the missionaries for help drilling water wells in these remote communities.  After contacting Agua Yaku about the need, we began discussing the possibility of starting a drilling project in the area this year.  We needed to act fast because it is only possible to get the drilling equipment into these communities during the dry season months of July through October. 
This is where you come in! We need your financial help to complete this project.  We made the commitment knowing that God would provide the means to get this done.  We committed to drilling 65 household wells (with manual handpumps installed) in 13 rural communities where these two mission organizations are working.  Fortunately, groundwater is relatively shallow in this region and if we do not hit too much rock, we should be able to find good water at a depth of 50 to 100 feet.  If everything goes smoothly, we should be drilling three to five wells a week.

Water well recipient families have agreed to help with labor, to provide a meal or two, and to pay about Bs. 500 ($72.50 USD) to help cover the costs of materials, but after we pay the full cost of materials, fuel, travel expenses, salaries, mission admin fees, etc., the actual cost of each well will be closer to $600 USD.  We need donations help cover the remaining $527.50 cost of each well we drill, or $34,287 USD to cover the cost of all 65 wells.

We will drill as many wells as we can, but we cannot drill wells for every single family.  Many residents will continue to collect contaminated water from surface sources such as rain water, shallow hand-dug wells, rivers and streams, and even stagnant livestock ponds.  We want to ensure that each person has access to clean water regardless of whether they have their own water well.  Habitual use of water filters helps ensure that each cup of water a child (or adult) drinks is clean regardless of the original water source, and that it will not contribute to the endemic problem of gastrointestinal disease that is so common throughout this region. So, along with drilling water wells, Agua Yaku will also distribute water filters and implement a WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) training program. Agua Yaku will donate water filters to schools, health posts, and churches in each of these communities.  We will also offer filters for sale to families at a nominal subsidized price.  The cost for each filter distributed is approximately $42.00 USD.  We would like to distribute at least 300 filters during this project in Riberalta.  To reach this goal we need to raise additional counterpart funding of $12,600 USD. 

Combining the cost of water wells and filters, we need to raise a total of $46,887 USD to cover our commitment to this project.  Please consider being a part of the solution. Help us share clean water and the love of Christ through word and deed with these humble families.  We have already drilled over 20 wells in Riberalta in July and August, but we need your help to take the project forward. 
Stay tuned for an exciting update on our new AQUASIV water filter in the coming weeks. 
Blessings,
Danny

Friday, April 27, 2018

Out There with the Beams -- April 2018


Dear Friends and family,

Greetings from Bolivia.  This is Danny writing this month. We are just finishing up a busy season of spring teams and a productive visit with our EFCCM mission director from Canada.  I can’t believe that in just one month’s time we will be heading back to the U.S. for a two-month whirlwind tour through the towns of our supporting churches and mission partners.  If you would like us to host us on our journey or would like us to share about our ministry in your church or small group, please write and or give us a call.   We would love to see you in person and share how God is blessings so many people in Bolivia. 

Do you sometimes actually SEE and FEEL how God is partnering with you in ministry?  It doesn’t happen to me all the time, but it is so encouraging when it does.  I want to share two little vignettes of how God has recently “shown up” in the middle of our Agua Yaku activities.   I’m the first to admit that I don’t always plan with the greatest care to detail, and sometimes the lack of careful planning might even reflect negatively in my ministry results.  Several weeks ago, I took a team of 12 guys from Crossroads Church on a five-day motorcycle adventure through the Andes mountains.  We had six motorcycles, two follow vehicles, and a trailer full buckets, water filters, and Clean Water Stations. We had a great time visiting schools along the route where we installed water filters and trained the students and teachers in the health benefits of drinking clean filtered water, hand washing, and proper sanitation habits.  The plan was to give free filters to all the schools and to sell additional filters to as many families as we could at a deeply subsidized cost.  We will even accept handmade crafts from families who do not have any cash. Despite a few minor motorcycle mishaps and route-finding issues, we were on target to visit all the schools we had planned out for the week. 
On our fourth day out, we stopped for the night in a town called Aiquile.  Even though Aiquile is a good size regional town that I knew has huge water problems, I also knew we would be exhausted at the end of a rough week and I had decided earlier not to tackle the water problems of Aiquile on this trip.  Besides, Friday was going to be our longest day in the saddle.  Our plan was to get up early Friday morning and make a quick stop at one small school along our route back to Santa Cruz.    I thought it would be too large of a task to try and take on the whole of Aiquile’s water problem.  Well, I should have known that God loves everyone in Aiquile and He wants them all to have clean water.  As we were prepping the bikes, getting ready to leave on Friday morning, I walked across the plaza to take a few pictures of the modern Catholic church sitting catty-corner to our hotel.  The church doors were open for early morning mass.  Two ladies were on the sidewalk, ready to sell flowers to parishioners as soon as mass was over.  One of ladies, Rosemery, was watching me taking pictures and curiously asked what our crew was doing in Aiquile.  I told her about the motorcycle route and about the water filters.  She immediately said the water quality in Aiquile was terrible, that many people get sick from the water, and she wanted to know if she could buy one of the filters?  I said of course she could buy one.  Then she asked if I had free filters for the schools.  “Yes,” I said.  Rosemery said she was a teacher as well as a flower seller.  She said Aiquile has 12 schools in town and many more in the rural villages nearby.  I explained that we would be getting on the road right after breakfast, but that if she could call her friends I would give a filter to any school who had a representative in front of the hotel within an hour.  She excitedly packed up her flowers and disappeared into the back streets of Aiquile. 

It turned out that there was a national teacher’s strike called for on that Friday.  Normally, all the school directors would have been busy at work in their respective schools on a Friday morning, but because they were preparing for a march through town later that day.  All 12 school directors had the morning off.  Word of the water filters spread quickly through town and by the time we got back from breakfast in the market, there was a small crowd of people milling around on the street in front of our hotel.  We ended up doing a training session and a bit of evangelism right on the street.  In the end, we gave filters to the directors of 18 different schools, to the director of the local hospital, and we sold an additional 30 or so filters to individuals.  God knew Aiquile needed water filters and He wasn’t going to let us leave town without giving them away.  After our impromptu training and filter sales convention, the directors joined the parade of teachers marching around the plaza shouting for better salaries. 

Okay, I have to tell one more story about how tuned-in God is to the needs around us.  Some of you may remember when Agua Yaku distributed about 700 water filters during a huge flood in the spring of 2014.  Many of you reading this contributed to this impactful effort.  Well, the floods are back in 2018.  While not as severe as they were in 2014, they have still displaced thousands of families in the eastern lowlands in the departments of Beni and Pando.   Not to my credit, I have not reached out to flood victims with water filters this year like I should.  Instead, I have stuck to my own plans and program, drilling water wells and coordinating volunteer teams.  God still knows the needs of these flooded out families.  If I won’t take the filters to them, then He will bring them to me. 
Last week while I was working in the shop behind my office, I heard someone rattling the fence and shouting, wanting me to come to the gate.  I almost ignored the interruption, thinking it was just a salesman I didn’t want to talk to, but they were persistent and didn’t go away so I finally put down my work and trudged up to the front of the house to see what was going on.  There where six or eight young men out on the street asking neighbors for old shoes, clothes, food—any donations they could take away with them.  The two young men at my gate, Gabriel and Juan, were in their late teens or early twenties.  Gabriel explained that they were from a flooded community near San Borja in the department of Beni.  He said they were part of 25 families who had lost their homes, crops, and livestock and that they were all living together under a single “tinglado,” a covered roof located on the only high spot in their community.  Even though the flooding began in February, Gabriel explained that the water was just now finally beginning to recede. He said they had lost everything in the flood waters and they hadn’t yet received any government help.  Desperate, the families decided to send the boys out on a mission to Santa Cruz (at least 20 hours away by boat and bus), to see if they could bring back some help. 

I told Gabriel about our water filters.  He said they were in desperate need of clean water but that he didn’t even know that such water filters existed.  I quickly set up a water filter bucket in the back yard and trained Gabriel and Juan how to use it.  I sent the boys on their way with five filters, and with the promise for more if they needed them.  So, let’s summarize what God did. What appeared to have been random door-to-door begging was nothing of the sort.  Over two million people live in thousands of neighborhoods across Santa Cruz.  These boys, who desperately needed to find water filters for their community (and who didn’t even know water filters existed), knocked on the only door in Santa Cruz with water filters.  No, not so random after all. 

Pray that these 25 families from San Borja, and the 1000s more flood victims, can quickly recover from the flooding.  Pray, as well, that Christ’s love will shine brightly upon them and that they will come to know His saving grace through these tragic circumstances.  If you would like to designate a special gift for flood victims in Bolivia this year, please let me know.  $50 will provide a filter for a family in need, $500—ten families, $5000—100 families. 

Blessings,
Danny

Thursday, March 22, 2018

World Water Day 2018


Good morning friends,

I want to remind you that today, March 22, 2018, is officially designated as World Water Day.  This is a great day to reflect on the importance of clean water in our own lives and in the lives of everyone living on this planet.  Most of you receiving this email do not have to think about clean water, it simply arrives to your home or business with a twist of the tap.  For many millions of people around the world this is far from their daily reality.  After traveling and working in Bolivia for over a decade, drilling water wells and distributing water filters, I have seen first hand the daily struggle that so many families go through to get water to their homes.  Some carry heavy jugs of water for hours each day back and forth from distant water sources. Many drink directly from the same water sources that their livestock defecate in.  Even communities with municipal water systems do not have safe water to drink.  I do not remember seeing a single rural community water system that disinfects or filters water before distributing it to homes.  Most systems simply collect water from some open water source and pipe it to the faucets.  A recent newspaper article reported that in Bolivia alone more than 40 children a day die from water related diseases.  I do not have solid statistics, but based on my experience I would estimate that at least 90% of rural Bolivians do not have access to safe clean drinking water. 

This is not just a problem in Bolivia, but a global problem.  A 2018 Newsweek video stated that 2.1 billon people currently lack access to clean safe drinking water, and over 1000 children die each day due to unsafe water and sanitation-related diseases. 


In 2015, the U.N. agreed to a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved by 2030 that will improve the world in which we live. Number six commits countries to ensuring access to water and sanitation for all. “Clean, accessible water for all is an essential part of the world we want to live in,” it says. While many governments and large international agencies are striving to make this a reality around the globe, it will also take the efforts of many small actors and change agents, like you and I, to make it happen quickly.  Just think about the two-year-old baby up in the Andes mountains of Bolivia who will not die of a dysentery disease next month if we can get a water filter to his family in time. 
How can I help you ask?  My project, Agua Yaku, has been drilling water wells and distributing water filters in rural communities throughout Bolivia for over ten years now.  We have helped bring clean water to thousands of families, but we still have so much more to do.  It costs us about $1500 to drill a community water well, and about $50 to provide a family with a water filter that will ensure clean safe drinking water (no matter what the water source) for up to ten years.  Many of you on this mailing list have traveled to Bolivia and worked with us first hand to bring clean water to Bolivia.  You spent 1000s of dollars to come to Bolivia to befriend the beautiful people, to enjoy the fantastic food and culture, and to serve.  Thank you for coming. Even more of you have been supporting this ministry for years in prayer.  Your visit and prayers are a blessing. I know you left a piece of your heart here as well.  Now let’s keep the love flowing!
What did Jesus say?  Truly I tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly not lose their reward.”  Mark 9:41

Let’s use World Water Day 2018 to show Bolivia how much we love them and care for them by helping fund Agua Yaku for another year’s service.  Our annual budget is about $100,000.  I would love to raise at least $50,000 (half of our annual budget) in recognition and celebration of World Water Day.  I thought about starting a fund-raising campaign on GoFundMe or some other site, but that would take too large of a financial bite out of your donation.  Please go to our Agua Yaku website, check out what we are doing in Bolivia, click over to the Donate page to make a one-time donation or set up a monthly donation.  If you just gave up a couple of premium coffees at Starbucks each month you easily afford to pledge $25 a month! There are tax-deductible donation options for U.S. and Canadian residents, or you can donate directly to us in Bolivia if you do not need a donation receipt.  I will be excitedly letting you know how close we are to reaching our goal over the coming weeks!
Thank you,
Danny

Friday, December 22, 2017

Out There with the Beams -- December 2017


Dear Friends and Family,

Merry Christmas to all our friends, family, and ministry supporters around the world.  We hope you are enjoying the holidays with your loved ones.  We made a quick trip to Texas to celebrate Luciana’s graduation from Dallas Baptist University and to spend Christmas with our stateside family.  We will be back in Bolivia shortly after the 1st of January to begin a new year in ministry.  We are excited about the teams that are preparing to join us in ministry in 2018 and we are excited to see how God will expand our work to reach even more people with His love and compassion.  Thank you so much to all our faithful supporters who have partnered with us over the years. On December 7th, Vanessa and I celebrated our 20th anniversary!  And we have been serving in Bolivia for almost 14 years! 

As you finish up 2017 and are thinking about where to invest your year-end charitable donations, please consider supporting our ministry with either a one-time gift or by setting up an automatic monthly donation.  We have fallen behind in pledges and currently need an additional $2000 a month in support.  Donations are tax deductible for U.S. citizens when they are channeled through the Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA).  Canadian citizens can make tax-deductible donation through the Evangelical Free Church of Canada (EFCCM).  Please click on the links above to begin the online process, or click on the DONATE button to the right.  Of course, we also need monthly financial support for Agua Yaku, our clean water ministry, and CAFA, Vanessa’s urban ministry for women and families—but honestly our priority right now is to bring our personal support budget up to 100%.  Thank you so much for prayerfully considering becoming a partner with us in this work. 
If you would like to come down to Bolivia and work with us first-hand in 2018, either as a family, or with a church or civic group, please let us know as soon as possible so we can make sure we have room on our calendar. 

Prayer Requests:

Family – Pray for Luciana and Nat as they are making their own lives in the U.S.  Nat continues to live and work in Fort Collins, Colorado, and in January Luciana will be starting an MBA degree at Dallas Baptist.  Isaiah is in the middle of 10th grade at the Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center.  Please pray for Tom Combs, a dear friend and fellow missionary who is battling cancer. 

CAFA – Pray that in 2018 God will touch the hearts of women who are suffering abuse and need to hear the positive gospel message of love, hope, and healing that Vanessa and her team share with women and families in need. 

Agua Yaku – Pray that in 2018 we can successfully bring our AquaSiv water filter into production at an affordable price that will make clean water, and better health, a reality for 1000s of families in Bolivia and other countries around the world.  Pray that we can use “clean water” as a method reach many families who would not otherwise hear about or be receptive to embracing the love and hope that we have in Jesus Christ. 

May you celebrate joyously this Christmas season,
Danny and Vanessa

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Out There with the Beams -- November 2017


Dear Friends and Family,
Greetings from the Beams in Bolivia.  We hope that you are finishing up 2017 with a flourish.  Oh, and happy #GivingTuesday! (I bet you know where this is going).  As most of you know, we are self-supported missionaries who have been working in Bolivia for more than 13 years.  We love living here and serving through our local church and our ministries to families in need, but as you can imagine we cannot continue to serve without the financial support of friends and churches back home.  If you are already faithfully supporting our work, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.  If you have yet to begin supporting our work, we hope that you will celebrate #GivingTuesday by coming along side us in our ministry and supporting us financially.  As happens, we have recently had some supporters who, for many good reasons, will not be continuing to support our ministry.  This is a blessing in disguise!  This leaves so much more room for new supporters. 

We have had the privilege of hosting dozens of volunteer teams over the years.  It has been a blessing getting to know so many people who have come down to share with us and support our ministries through hard work.  If you were blessed during your visit and can see God at work through us and our team of ministry partners, please consider becoming a regular monthly supporter.  Most of our partners contribute $25, $50, or $100 a month.  Some even more. 

To be completely honest, we need an additional $2000 a month in personal support to meet our monthly salary and travel expenses budget.  It would be such an honor to count you as one of our supporters. 
If we haven’t scared you off yet, below you will find current updates on our ministry activities. 

CAFA update and prayer requests (from Vanessa):
Beloved and dearly missed friends and family, it is a joy to be able to share with you details from our life and work here in Santa Cruz Bolivia.  It is an even greater joy to later hear from you!  It’s humbling and reassuring to know how many people pray for us daily and lift us, and those we work with, to the Father.  Your prayers do make a difference, both in our personal family life and in our work.

At CAFA (Alfarero Family Care Center) we are finishing our second year of caring for women, children, and men who are trapped in abusive situations.  Here are some stories to summarize the year:
I’ve learned that a lot people (some whom I see almost every day) walk around carrying an enormous amount of shame and pain.
One of our girls confessed she ran away from home with her boyfriend, only to find out he was very different to her in private. She became pregnant at 17 and as result of fear, violence, and loneliness she had an abortion.  Most of the time, I can stay calm and listen, but then, she told me “I count every year”.  My tears started to fall. What I can I say? What can I do? Only God can talk to her.

I was sitting at the Alfarero Café one day and a lady sat with me who I barely know.  She began telling me how hard her life had been, how she was fighting to be a good mom despite all her scars—scars from abuse, violence, and trauma.  How tired she was.  I just prayed and hugged her, knowing that whatever I had to say, it was nothing compared to the well of life Christ has for her.

One of my dear friends, someone I work with and admire, also talked to me at the café and told me how his life had been the product of a rape. From the way he talks about both of his parents, I would never have imagined.
In one of our volunteer training sessions, participants were learning to teach clients how to survive the next aggression.  Several of our volunteers raised their hands with personal questions like: “In my case…” “But if I had tried this…”

When we think of domestic violence, we usually think of an abusive husband; but, I have seen, abusive grandmas, abusive moms, abusive dads, abusive older siblings, abusive grandpas, and yes abusive husbands.  Many of our volunteers have said they have realized during our training that they too have been abusive.  I too have been abusive with my words.
So what now? True repentance. I come before God holding my shame and hatred, knowing I was once a victim and now I have been a victimizer.  Accept the fact that I can’t do life alone.  I was made to walk by the hand of Jesus.

One of our last sessions is on Identity and Brokenness.  When we yield to the Presence of God in our most painful stories, we break away from the enemy and we stop torturing ourselves trying to understand.
How many women did Jesus heal in the Bible? Giving them new identity, an identity tied to Him. I pray our 8 newest clients and our 9 newest volunteers and myself and my team (there are 5 of us) will continue today and tomorrow and the next day by the hand of Christ, respecting ourselves, believing who we are in Him, believing who He is.
On my last trip to Peru, I had to face my abuser.  I hadn’t seen him in years, and for a long time I was terrified of this encounter.  That day, somehow, my eyes fixed on him, I spoke clearly and didn’t run away or start screaming and kicking like I thought I would.  I declared forgiveness in the name of Jesus Christ and at the same time protected myself.  No hatred.  I am sure, forgiveness is given in different ways according to situations and people.  In my case this time, it meant: “I belong to God.” “You no longer have power to upset me.” “I am a strong daughter of the King.” “Your mistakes are yours to deal with.”

I thank my Father, who adopted me to make me again.  I thank Him that His hope was not stolen from me, neither was the joy of life or my eyes to see His beauty.

I hope today too, you my dear friend will be able to clearly see how God has protected you, guarded you, gifted you and cherished you. Amen.

Agua Yaku Update (from Danny):
It is hard to follow Vanessa’s emotional and moving testimony, but I will try!  We continue to drill wells and distribute water filters throughout many rural communities in Bolivia.  It is such a privilege and a joy to see the smiling faces of families when they witness clean water gushing out of the ground for the first time, or when they see how a water filter can change muddy brown water into crystal clear clean drinking water in a matter of seconds. The production of our own AquaSiv water filters is coming along slower than expected, but we are still progressing and hope to launch a Kickstarter fund raising campaign soon.  Our goal is to get the price for a filter down to a level that every family can afford.

We just finished a five-day water filter trip to 14 Guarani villages in the department of Chuquisaca with First Baptist Benbrook, distributing close to 100 water filters and Bibles to schools, health posts, churches and families.  At least half the villages we visited did not have any sort of evangelical presence.  We traveled with two local Guarani pastors, Felix and Placido, who were able to share the gospel and in the people’s own language.  It was a true joy to be able to also help distribute a brand-new translation of the New Testament in the local Guarani dialect.  Check our Agua Yaku Facebook soon for a new team trip video.

If you feel called to support our work, please follow the links in this email.  You can set up online giving or you can mail a check the old-fashioned way.  Monthly support or a one-time gift will be greatly appreciated and well spent.

Blessings,
Danny and Vanessa

Monday, November 27, 2017

Contact Us

Email:beamsclan@gmail.com

Bolivian Telephone:Home: 011-591-7768-1840

Home U.S. Mailing Address:Daniel Beams
8902 Bellechase Rd.   
Granbury, TX 76049


U.S. Telephone:682-205-1013

EFCCM web site:
http://www.efcc.ca/index.cfm?pageID=4

Our Websites:
www.beamsclan.blogspot.com
www.aguayaku.org

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

About our Ministry

We live in Santa Cruz, Bolivia where we work as missionaries with the EFCCM (Evangelical Free Church of Canada Mission), based near Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

We originally came to Santa Cruz in 2004 to work with World Concern, a Christian relief and development agency working in many places around the world. Our contract with World Concern was completed, but we still felt called to continue working in Santa Cruz, so in 2006 we began working the the EFCCM.

Danny, who has a PhD in applied development anthropology, works with local community groups and churches in projects focused on relieving poverty through a clean water project called Agua Yaku. We focus on drilling water wells and distributing point-of-use water filters.

Vanessa directs a ministry called CAFA (Centro de Atención Familiar El Alfarero).  This ministry counsels women and families on how to get out of the cycle of domestic violence.  An integral part of every project is sharing our Christian faith.

While poverty alleviation, material progress, and social justice are central to our purpose, we believe the best way to achieve material transformation is through spiritual transformation. The most important element of any person’s life is his or her relationship with God. If this is on the right track, everything else in life tends to fall into perspective.

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and the greatest commandment. And the second is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Matthew 22:37-39

“So how can we help?” you may be asking yourself at this point. We are glad you asked. First, we need your prayer support. We know that with a strong prayer team behind us, God will use us in this ministry to reach many people for Him. Secondly, we are seeking ministry partners who can support us financially.

The EFCCM provides the structure of a church family, prayer, and spiritual and financial accountability, but they ask that we raise our own financial support to pay for living expenses, travel, ministry expenses, etc. Please pray for our ministry and prayerfully consider your financial investment in this ministry.

We need to raise approximately $5,000 a month to cover our living and ministry expenses. We currently receive about $3000 a month in support, so there is plenty of room for additional partners. Approximately 14% of what we receive is used for EFCCM administrative costs, 86% is used in Bolivia. If you would like to designate your gift for a specific project, please include a special note stating such when you make a contribution. If you know of anyone else (a church or individual) who might be interested in this ministry, please share with them what we are doing and have them contact us.

Click on the following link to become a supporting financial partner:

                                                              Donate Here


Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Out There with the Beams -- June 2017


Beloved friends and family,
This is Vanessa writing this one.  I am sorry I haven’t been able to write in a long time.  I first prayed this morning so the Lord would help me in communicated what He thinks should be communicated.  If it was up to me I would spill my guts and give you every detail about everything, good and bad.

I will start with news about our family this time.  Danny, Isaiah and I still are in Santa Cruz.  Isaiah just turned 15 this past May.  He is extremely smart, tall and handsome and as for now wants to be a magician (please, please pray about this!)  I try not to freak out and smile, but the Lord has been soothing my heart.  Isaiah went to help at a church plant-children center of our local church called San Isidro, and performed his magic for the kids there, he also played his guitar and helped with food and moving furniture around.  So, praise Him! He went to serve.  Of course we do not make a big deal out of it, because, I don’t know if you know this or not, but in the mind of a 15 year old, anything that comes out of the mouth of parents is a bad idea.  Isaiah asks very difficult questions about God, life and the Bible.  We try to answer the ones we can, we pray about the ones we cannot.  Please helps us pray that Isaiah (Ishi) will see the Lord revealed in his own life, and will embrace His love. 
Separation from our two oldest kids is still very difficult for me.  They are both living, working and studying back in the US.  I really miss the days when all five of us would pile up in our old truck and go places.  Please pray I will learn how to relate to adult children and still be a mother who speaks with wisdom when needed.  I miss Luciana and Nat a ton! And I miss Luciana, Nat and Isaiah being little children.  I’ve spent so much time and effort learning and trying to be a good mom and now they are leaving! What now?

Luciana just visited us a little while ago! It feels like such a huge gift to be able to hold her hand, or kiss her cheek.  To actually watch her as she talks to me.  I am very thankful to the Lord and to her for her visit.  I think Penny our dog is also very glad she came.  Lucy will graduate this December, please pray for what is next for her, may the Lord continue to hold her hand and guide her. 

Here in Santa Cruz, I am still part of a wonderful team of women working with women at CAFA and Chance and Ruth and Noemi.  Ruth and Noemi will again open its doors at the end of July and we will start a new training for volunteers in July and new users support group at the beginning of August. 

For health reasons, I will not be in the front line this time, meaning doing counseling or mentoring.  But I will continue to support the team, making sure they have all the resources they need to do the job and also making sure they get rest and fun.  Fun? Yes, indeed.  It’s a prescription extremely necessary for teams to bond and re charge.
We have several women on a waiting list to start the program in August and also have been containing two cases of inner family violence.  One them is a girl that will probably have to come stay at Ruth and Noemi for a while with her three children.  Remember, Ruth and Noemi is now reserved for cases of vital risk only.  So when I tell you this family might be coming soon, that means, please, please pray for their protection and ours. Pray that the aggressor will see the Lord! Will receive forgiveness, will feel loved and valued.  Pray the aggressor will seek help.  Pray the children and mom will not receive any blows at their bodies or their hearts.

My friend Monica and I went to visit the main local police station.  Met with sergeant Mamani Condori, and he was very polite and kind.  When I asked if we could call him directly when/if we had a case he said: “I might not be here anymore, I have been here two years already.   It is very difficult to see people’s pain day in and day out”.  That brought be back to the harsh reality in this country.  Where women are the most vulnerable group.  But it also gave me hope, to hear vulnerability from a man, from a police man.

Here in South America, most of us have been touched by violence one way or another.  Most of us when we were children, learning inappropriate ways to “solve” problems.  These ways have entangled us in despair, bringing pain and confusion with our loved ones and our Father. Yet, our Redeemer will come! He loves us! There is no shame! So, as for now, I make a pact to stay with the Lord, to live, to serve and wait for my healing, and enjoy life being surrounded by His grace and beauty, with the full conviction that it is not in my strength or energy that good things will happen.  But in Jesus.

Sunday, May 28, 2017

Out There with the Beams -- May 2017


Dear Friends and family,
Hello again from the jungle metropolis of Santa Cruz, Bolivia! We have had a busy spring with teams and volunteers visiting and plenty of activity here in Santa Cruz.  Our family will be staying in Bolivia this summer, hosting several teams that will be focused both on ministry here in the city and in our rural Agua Yaku water projects.

Our latest team came from C. I. Thornburg, a water utilities supply company based in Kentucky and West Virginia.  A group of seven employees came to help us drill two wells in Pailon, a small town just east of Santa Cruz.  You can check out a video of there week of work and fun at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkFwkksM-VA&t=4s. 

In June, Crossroads, our home church from Kentucky, will be sending a family team to work with Compassion International and with a home for children called Judah Quy, where we will be painting and helping make improvements to the home.  In July, we will be hosting a team from the ABLE ministry that will help us distribute water filters in rural Guarani communities in the department of Tarija, which is south of Santa Cruz.  We will be working jointly with another mission organization that recently finished translating the New Testament into the local Guarani dialect.  We will visit communities where we will share both clean "physical" water and "living water" -- the hope of the Gospel message that is promised through Jesus Christ. 

We are continuing to develop our own brand of water filter, called "AquaSiv," which will replace the Sawyer filter that we are currently using.  The manufacturing in China is slower than anticipated, but it is still on course to be released this year.  We recently completed a video, which you can find at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJxlXVcD18A&t=12s on YouTube.  This video describes our work both drilling water wells and distributing filters and the importance of clean water, and proper hygiene and sanitation for the improvement of health in developing countries such as Bolivia. 

CAFA update:  Vanessa continues to work in the El Alfarero ministries and specifically in the administration of CAFA, the family counseling ministry that helps families break the cycle of domestic violence so prevalent in Latin America.  Please pray for both the counselors and the participants in these programs.  The counseling sessions can be quite emotionally intense as the deal with difficult past and current family situations, and the hard work of true forgiveness and hearing God's voice in the middle of crisis. 

We will soon be enjoying several weeks with our daughter, Luciana, as she has a chance to visit Bolivia several weeks in June. She will be graduating from Dallas Baptist University in December!  Please remember to pray for all our kids: Nat in Colorado, Luciana in Dallas, and Isaiah who will be a high school sophomore here in Santa Cruz in the fall.

Financial needs:  I don't like to focus too much on our financial need as missionaries here in Bolivia, but several key partners have not been able to continue supporting us this year.   We operate under the guidance and supervision of the EFCCM (Evangelical Free Church of Canada), but we are completely responsible for raising the funds for our own family support and for the operating budget for Agua Yaku and CAFA.  We are about $1500 a month short of what we need for our personal support for the year.  Thank you to everyone who has, or is faithfully supporting our work, we could not have been serving here 13 years without your prayers and support.  If you are not already on our team, please prayerfully consider becoming regular monthly supporters of our ministry.  Just follow the links on this email.  It is easy to set up a monthly donation, or a one-time gift, through the EFCA (Evangelical Free Church of America)—for U.S. citizens, or through the EFCCM for Canadians.  If you have any specific questions about our ministry or about how to become a partner please do not hesitate to write or call. 

We hope you have a great summer surrounded by loving family and friends.

Blessings,
Danny and Vanessa

Thursday, May 04, 2017

Contribute

Our sending organization, the Evangelical Free Church of Canada Mission (EFCCM), provides us with a ministry family and financial accountability, but they require us to raise all of our own financial support through financial partners. We need to raise approximately $6,000 a month to cover our salary, insurance, retirement, and travel expenses (we currently receive about $4,000 a month in support, so there is plenty of room for additional partners). We also need to raise an additional $5000 a month for the Agua Yaku water project and $2000 a month for El Alfarero women's ministries.  Just so you are aware, 14% of all donations are designated by the EFCCM for administrative expenses in Canada. Please pray for our ministry and prayerfully consider becoming one of our valued financial partners.

For U.S. Residents:
Because the EFCCM is a Canadian organization, donations made directly to the EFCCM by U.S. residents are not tax deductible in the U.S. However, U.S. residents may make tax deductible contributions to this ministry through the EFCA—the Evangelical Free Church of America. Contributions received by the EFCA will go directly to the EFCCM for the Beams support and designated projects. A year-end tax receipt will be sent to the address you provide certifying the donations.

You may donate online using a credit card, or set up an automatic monthly contribution by visiting the EFCA website at the following link. Be sure to designate the gift for Daniel and Vanessa Beams, specifying one of following accounts:  Beams Support (#001-0116),  Agua Yaku (#001-0083), or El Alfarero Women's Ministries (#001-0141).





If you prefer to mail a check, please click on the link below to download and print a mail-in form.




For Canadian Residents:
Please donate directly through the EFCCM website.  You will receive the appropriate year-end tax donation letter. Be sure to and use the pull-down menu to designate the donation for the “Beams, Danny and Vanessa,” or select "other" and specify either: Agua Yaku--acct. #2-5035, or the Ruth and Noemi Transition House--acct. #2-5033.  To make your contribution a recurring monthly contribution, please follow the instructions on the donation page and email the home office with your request.







Use the following link to print a mail-in form to send in with your check to the EFCCM.





For more information write to us at: beamsclan@gmail.com or visit our ministry blogs at: www.beamsclan.blogspot.com, and www.aguayaku.org.

Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Out There with the Beams -- March 2017


I hope spring comes quickly for all of you.  We have great weather year-round here in Santa Cruz, but I miss the changing seasons back in the U.S.  We have had a great start to 2017, already hosting two teams in January and February, and preparing for more in March and on through the summer.  It is so exciting to see the enthusiasm for ministry of so many friends and supporters to come down and join us in our work in Bolivia. 

In January, we hosted a team of eight Bolivian youth from a mission training organization called CIMA, who worked with Agua Yaku to distribute water filters in several rural Guarani communities south of Santa Cruz, down around Charagua.  We had a great week, providing clean water as well as sharing the gospel through drama and film.  Please be praying for Alcides, a local missionary from Machipo who works as a pastor and an agricultural consultant for farmers in this area. During the last month, Charagua has been invaded by locusts and most farmers will be losing their crops, and all their income, for the season.

In February we hosted a team from the Wellspring prayer ministry based in Lexington, Kentucky.  This is the second year they have come to bless people and give them hope through prayer.  It was so exciting to translate for this team and see how God so intimately loves and cares for everyone we encountered. 

In February we also had two young men from Oregon come volunteer for a month with Agua Yaku.  They worked right alongside our Bolivian staff who continue to drill water wells week-in and week-out.  We are preparing for more teams during March and April that will help in both our city ministries and in the Agua Yaku water ministries.

We are still on target to bring to market, and to our ministry, a new water filter called AquaSiv.  Manufactured by my partner in China, the AquaSiv filter will work similarly to the Sawyer filter that we have been using for several years now.  It will remove 100% of bacteria, parasites, and other disease causing pathogens that cause the epidemic problems with diarrhea and gastrointestinal diseases.  We are manufacturing our own filter to bring the cost down and to improve ease-of-use so that even the poorest and least educated families can gain access to clean water and improved health. 

Many people ask me why we focus on clean water.  Did you know that around the world, over 1,000,000 children under the age of 5 die each year from diarrheal diseases that are directly related to drinking contaminated water?

Just the other day I read in a local paper that in Bolivia alone, 40 children a day die from lack of access to safe drinking water.  The real tragedy is that most these deaths are easily preventable by simply improving water quality, hygiene, and sanitation. 

Studies collected by the World Health Organization show that access to clean drinking water can reduce diarrhea by 19%, simple hand-washing with soap can reduce diarrhea by 47%, and proper sanitation (which means using outhouses or toilets rather than defecating out in the open) can reduce diarrhea by 36%.  These three interventions combined can reduce the incidence of diarrheal disease by up to 90%.  

So, access to clean water is obviously important, but we also want to emphasize the importance of good hygiene (through hand washing) and sanitation.  But even simple tasks like washing your hands after you go to the bathroom or before you eat is difficult to teach and practice in households that do not have running water. 

To this end, we have designed the "Clean Water Station," a simple steel tripod stand that provides a place for water filtration and hand-washing with a device commonly known as a "tippy-tap." 

The tippy-tap is a foot-operated hands-free hand-washing station.  With this simple solution and bit of training and encouragement families will see dramatic improvements in their health and well-being.

For about $75 you can give a "Clean Water Station" (which includes both a water filter and a tippy-tap hand washing jug) to a family in Bolivia.  Please join us in our efforts to provide clean water, and bring renewed health and hope, to families in need.

If you would like to donate to our ministry, please click on the donate button and follow the instructions in the link.  We love working here in Bolivia and certainly feel God's guidance in all we do, but we cannot do it without partners like you backing us up with prayers and financial support.  Thank you to everyone who is already supporting us!  We look forward to see who else will soon be joining us in supporting God's work here in Bolivia.

Blessings,
Danny and Vanessa