John Maxson (ca. 1638-1720), son of English immigrant Richard Maxson, was born in Rhode Island, and married Mary Mosher about 1665. Mary was a daughter of English immigrant Hugh Mosher. In 1661, John and others formed a company at Newport to purchase lands from the Indians which later became Westerly, Charlestown, and Hopkinton, Rhode Island. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Florida and elsewhere.

Contains checklist of recent additions to the genealogical collections of the Michigan Unit.

This legendary work consists of alphabetically arranged genealogical tables of approximately 500 Rhode Island families, representing thousands of descendants of pre--1690 settlers, all carried to the third generation, and some--about 100 families-- carried to the fourth.