John Price was about twenty-seven years of age when he emigrated from Wales to Virginia in 1610/11. He and his wife, Mary, had two sons and a daughter. He died ca. 1628/30. Descendants lived in Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and elsewhere.

John Lewis Benson, born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, was an 8th generation descendant of John Benson, who arrived in America at Plymouth Colony on 11 April 1638 on the ship "Confidence." After being reared in Chautauqua County, New York, John Lewis Benson's father, William, took him to Rock Island County, Illinois, following his daughters who had already made the migration. Shortly after reaching his majority, John Lewis Benson went to "Bleeding Kansas" as part of the wave of Abolitionists who sought to "keep Kansas free," which action reflected the devout Puritan Calvinism of his Benson forebears. He enlisted in the 5th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry two months after the first canon was fired on Fort Sumter, and served until the end of the War of Rebellion, being mustered out on 22 June 1865. He then returned to Kansas where he prospered, married, and fathered 5 children. He lost all his worldly possessions due to drought and the economic collapse following The Panic of 1873, and then moved about Kansas seeking a new start. During this difficult period, his wife died, leaving him a widower with 4 children ages 6 to 11. He soon married a divorcee who brought her 3 children, ages 1 to 3, to the marriage. In his second marriage, John Lewis fathered three more children. After the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma Territory were opened for settlement in 1899, John Lewis and his blended family moved there and share-cropped 40 acres southeast of Guthrie, Oklahoma, which he eventually bought. He died on this farm on 23 March 1906. This book by one of his great-grandsons tells the story of his life, the lives of his five sisters and one brother, and their ancestry back to 16th century Oxfordshire, England.

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Edward Watson (d.1660), son of Walter Watson (who was the son of an immigrant), married Grace Walker (widow of John Walker) in 1652 at New Haven, Connecticut. John Watson (1694-1756), a grandson of Edward, married Hannah Goodwin between 1737 and 1745, and lived in Hartford, Connecticut. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa and elsewhere. Includes diary of Jason L. Watson, while serving with Illinois troops in 1863 along the Mississippi River (he died in May 1863 during the siege at Vicksburg).