John Pleasants (1644/1645-1698), a Quaker convert, immigrated from England to Henrico County, Virginia during or before 1670. George Pleasant (d.1697) immigrated from England to York County, Virginia during or before 1669. There is no evidence of direct family relationship between the two. Descendants lived in most of the United States.

This work concentrates upon families with a strong connection to Virginia and Kentucky, most of which are traced forward from the eighteenth, if not the seventeenth, century. The compiler makes ample use of published sources some extent original records, and the recollections of the oldest living members of a number of the families covered. Finally. The essays reflect a balanced mixture of genealogy and biography, which makes for interesting reading and a substantial number of linkages between as many as six generations of family members.

Chiefly a record of some of the descendants of John Lewis. He was born in Donegal County, Ireland 1678 to Andrew Lewis and Mary Calhoun. He married Margaret Lynn. He died in Virginia 1 Feb 1762. They were the parents of seven children.

John Powers (d.1824) lived in Virginia before 1787, and married Nancy Hunter in 1801 in Ohio County, Kentucky, Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas, California, Washington and elsewhere.