First!

More genealogy, this time a list of the first of my ancestors to come to the New World.   This post is a work in progress and I expect to add to it from time to time.

1. Rev. William Mease, believed to have landed in Virginia about 1610 and to have founded a church at a community a short distance from Jamestown.   He did not stay and died in England.  Much about Rev. William is not certain, so take this one with a grain of salt.

2. Hugh Bullock and son, William Bullock.   Hugh probably first landed in Virginia as a merchant shipmaster/owner in the 1620s, and William was a Virginia resident from about 1624, writing a tract about Virginia that was printed in London.    Hugh was a member of the House of Burgesses in 1631.   Hugh did not stay in Virginia, but maintained permanent residence in England;  William stayed except for one or more voyages back to England.

3.   Puritans William Towne and Joanna Blessing Towne and their children, came to Salem, Massachusetts, from Great Yarmouth, Norfolkshire, England in 1637.   Two of the daughters who arrived with them would later be hanged for witchcraft.

4. Stephen Gates (1599-1662) and Ann Veare (or Vere), from Hingham, Norfolkshire, England, to Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1638.

5. Quakers Richard Borden (1596-1688) and Joane Fowle Borden of Kent, England, settled in Rhode Island 1635-38.

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7. Frederick Staring a/k/a Frederick Starnes, Sr., (1700-1774), came to New York in 1710 along with his father and some 3000 other Palatine Germans on British ships, his mother possibly being among the 12% who died en route to the new world.     His future wife, Ann  Goldman, was another child on the ships.  Frederick was Ensign of the Albany County militia in 1731  In 1741, Frederick left New York for Pennsylvania, then settled in Augusta County, Virginia, by the mid-1740s.  In Virginia he was wounded by Indians while working his fields during the French & Indian War.  In 1756, Frederick was county commissioner, and with his extended family moved to lands on the Holston River by the late 1760s.  

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