William Longfellow, son of William Langfellow, was born in 1650 in Horsforth near Leeds, Yorkshire, England. He emigrated in about 1673 and settled in Newbury, Massachusetts. He married Anne Sewall 10 November 1678. They had five children. William died while on an expedition to Quebec with Sir William Phipps in 1790. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

John Bridge (d.1665), a widower with two sons, emigrated in 1631 from England to Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1658 he married widow Eliza- beth Saunders, widow of Martin Saunders and earlier widow of Roger Bancroft; they had no children, and she married again after John's death. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry and relatives in England.