A comprehensive summary of all known early Lehman families, including their European origins, by all spellings, with known descendants to at or about the advent of the 20th Century, authenticated by DNA tests.

Peter Bachman was born in about 1630. He married Anna M. Eschmann. They had seven children and lived in Finstersee, Zug, Switzerland. Hans Jacob Bachmann was born in 1629 in Richterswil, Zurich, Switzerland. He married Regula Strickler in 1653. They had thirteen children. John Baughman was born in about 1880 in Boyle County, Kentucky. He married Caroline Debaun. They had two sons. Ancestors, descendants and relatives of these and other Baughman and Bachman(n) families lived mainly in Switzerland, Kentucky, South Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and California.

The town of Little Compton, Rhode Island was founded by a band of explorers from Plymouth Colony. From its inception Little Compton has been a bastion of Mayflower ancestry, including that of the Wilbour family of compiler Benjamin Franklin Wilbour. Mr. Wilbour devoted much of his life to compiling genealogies of his own and other families of Little Compton. Based upon extensive research in primary sources and featuring numerous illustrations, Little Compton Families is Benjamin Franklin Wilbour's legacy to the descendants of some 200 families, many of whom are traced back to the middle of the 17th century.

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