Oliver Nye was born in about 1798 in Whitingham, Windham, Vermont. His parents were Oliver Nye (1762-1825) and Lucinda Houghton. He married Esther Wheeler (1804-1886) 5 March 1826 in Homer, Cortland, New York. They had six children. He died 4 May 1883 in Dryden, New York. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Vermont and New York. Includes Beebe, Durand, Jameson, Logan, Roberts, Schofield and related families.

Benjamin Nye (b.1620), son of Thomas and Agnes Nye, immigrated in 1635 from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, moved to Sandwich, Massachusetts in 1637, and married Katherine Tupper in 1640. Descendants and relatives lived throughout the United States. Some descendants became Mormons and lived in Utah and elsewhere. Includes ancestry in England and many of their descendants (some of these descendants immigrated to Nova Scotia, Ontario and elsewhere in Canada).

Descendants of Samuel, Edmund, John, Stephen, Ralph and Nathaniel Freeman, all early immigrants to New England,.