Jacob (Baerg) Berg was born in 1777 possibly in Holland. He married twice and had 17 children. Eventually the family ended up in Russia before several children moved to the United States and Canada. Information on many of the descendants who live in Canada and through out the United States is given in this volume.

The immigrant ancestor, Dave (David) Good (1747?-1841), the son of James Good and Barbara Berry, was born in Ferry Port on Craig, Fife, Scotland. He married 1781 on Long Island, New York, Jane? They were parents of nine children. Oldest child, Elizabeth, was born in New York, N.Y. As loyalist refugees family moved from Long Island to Saint John, New Brunswick in 1783. The rest of their children were born in Kingsclear, N.B. The patriarch of this family was Thomas Guid of Balmerino, Fife, Scotland. He was born ca. 1605/1610. His wife was Euphan Goslen. Their children changed the surname Guid into Good. Descendants live in New Brunswick, British Columbia, Ontario and elsewhere in Canada and also in Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, Florida and elsewhere.

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