This is a genealogical history of a Quaker family of Cheshire, England who settled along with William Penn in the New World. John and Hannah (?Rossell) Hough from Wilmslow, Macclesfield Hundred, England, traveled to Bucks Co., PA in 1683. Two sons and one grandson moved on to the Carolina colonies and their descendants, in part, expanded the territories of the American Northwest and Southwest. The HOUGH heritage has been researched before. This edition focuses on who they were and explains how their different pathways created America cultures. The nature and nurture of their existence, their choices, permeated our own lives and appear in the climate of America today.

Needham Hough (ca. 1779-1852) was born in Chesterfield County, South Carolina and died in Chambers County, Alabama. He married Rebecca Blake (ca. 1789-1867) in Chambers County, Alabama. They lived in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and then Chambers County, Alabama. Descendants lived in Louisiana, Alabama, and elsewhere.