Hatevil Nutter, born ca. 1603 in England, settled in Dover, New Hampshire about 1637. Descendants lived principally in New Hampshire and other parts of New England.

Volume 1 contains the first three generations of the Corson ancestry, including basic information on the fourth generation children and the names of their fifth generation children.

This is a family history journey that begins in the very first days of New Hampshire settlement by English colonists. The story follows the Williams families through the bloody Indian Wars of the late 17th Century and their movement west to Illinois. There, in the first half of the 19th Century, John G. Williams married Ursula Miller whose family also can be traced back to colonial New England and Long Island, New York.

Ancestors, descendants and relatives of John Parker Hanaford and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Neal Hanaford. John, son of Nathaniel Perkins and Zulema Webster Prescott Hanaford, was born 14 September 1853. On 1 January 1890 he married Mary Elisabeth Neal, daughter of Smith and Sarah Elisabeth Smith Neal. She was born 2 October 1853 in Merideth, New Hampshire. They were residents of Rockford, Illinois in 1915. John was a descendant of John Hanford, mariner of Boston who married Hannah Button (died 1653). Ancestors and descendants lived in Massachusetts, Illinois, New Hampshire, Idaho, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Arizona, Ohio, California, Colorado, Virginia, Florida, Texas, Tennessee, New Jersey, Maine, Vermont, Iowa, Nebraska, New York, Canada, and elsewhere.