"This volume contains the family group sheets for 50 generations of the Harper and Robinson families of Bath County, KY. These two families reach back to almost 800 AD in ancient England and Wales ..."--Back cover

Fifty generations of Harper and Robinson families are represented in this volume. Travel back through time from the hills of Bath County, Kentucky to ancient England and Wales in 800 AD. Discover the names of your ancestors and learn about the time periods in which they lived. Scenes of mid-Wales where Druids ruled and ancient castles would have dotted the land and would have been familiar landscape for your ancestors. Enjoy the journey.

Fifty generations traces the Robinson family of Bath Co., Kentucky back to the hills where Druids roamed in ancient Wales and Londonium. Surnames such as Robinson, Walpole, Sexton, Hunt, Tincher, Lowe, Ishmael, White, McGlothin, Staton, Plank, and Burk dominate the landscape. Stonehenge (front cover photo) and the land of mid-Wales would have been familiar scenes for the ancestors of Christine Robinson.

Daniel England (b.1823) married twice, and moved from Hart County, Kentucky to Illinois or Missouri. Descendants lived in Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Colorado, Iowa and elsewhere.

James Harper and his wife, Jannett Lewis, had five children born in Ireland. The family immigrated to America in 1720, settled first at Casco Bay and then moved to Boston because of Indian troubles. Their son, John Harper (1705-1785) was born at Linnwady, Parish of Newton, County Derry, Ieland. He married Abigail Montgomery in 1728 at Hopkinton, Massachusetts. They had eleven children, 1729-1749. Their son, Capt. Alexander Harper (1744-1798) ,was born at Middletown, Connecticut. He migrated to Delaware County, New York in 1770 and founded the town of Harpersfield. He married Elizabeth Bartholmew (1749-1832) in 1771. They had eight children, 1772-1791. The family migrated to Ashtabula County, Ohio, in 1798 and founded Harpersfield Township. He died there that year. Descendants listed lived in Ohio and elsewhere.