Nehemiah Pearce (b.ca.1640/1642) and his family probably immigrated from England to Albany, New York in 1674. Descendants lived in New York, New England, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, Texas, California and elsewhere. Includes some ancestors in England.

In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to the Union. This question was most fractious in the border states of Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. In Mi

John Clark was born in about 1612 in England. He emigrated from Ipswich, Suffolk in 1634, when he was twenty-two, and settled in Boston. He married Mary before 1639, when he moved to New Haven, Connecticut. They had four children. He died in 1648. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Connecticut, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, California and Oregon.