This "Dictionary" comprises genealogical records of nearly 3,000 emigrants, giving their English homes, names of ships in which they sailed, towns in which they settled in New England, and references to the printed or manuscript sources from which the information derived. In collecting data for this work, Col. Banks made seven visits to England, searching the records of nearly 2,000 ...
Colonial Families of Martha's Vineyard is Clearfield's adaptation of Charles Bank's three-volume history of that historic Massachusetts island settlement. In the compiler's estimation the work consists of the "complete genealogies of every family resident of Martha's Vineyard (Duke's County) from 1641 through the beginning of the 19th century, transient and permanent residents inclusive." In ...