Altizer-Altauser Family

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Epke Jacobse (b.ca.1619), son of Jacob Epkesz and Reytske Sickedr, married Sitske Dircksda about 1650, and in 1659 the family emigrated from The Netherlands to Vlissingen (later Flushing), Long Island, New York. Descendants (most used the surname Banta after the late 1600s) lived in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Kentucky (a few of the Kentucky Banta family became members of the two Shaker colonies in Kentucky), Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Oregon, Washington, California, Minnesota, Wyoming, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arizona and elsewhere.

Descendants of Roman Fyler of Cornwall, England, who had three children and a grandson come to New England in 1630 on the ship "Mary and John". 1. Walter (1630-1683) and his wife, Jane Irving (d. 1690), settled first in Dorchester, Massachusetts. In 1634 they removed to Windsor, Connecticut. 2. George, brother of Walter, and his son, George (d. 1681), also came in 1630. 3. Sister of Walter and George, Ann (d. 1662), married John Hoskins (d. 1648), who came to Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1630. Descendants live in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Kansas, Tennessee and elsewhere.