Modeled on our other popular Genealogist’s Handbooks, this is the first essential guide to finding your ancestors from mainland Portugal, the Azores, and Madeira.

The immigrant ancestors of the Hawkins and Lawshe lines covered in this book arrived in America within twenty years of each other in the early 1700s. Their backgrounds differed vastly: Philemon Hawkins descended from a family of merchants and seamen in England, while Johannes Jacob van Laaschet left Prussia for America with other members of the Brethren congregation.

John Stephen Rando Jr.’s ancestry stretches back into many corners of the world, including Italy and Scotland. Nowhere is his family’s story more intriguing, however, than in its success in the United States, where they were part of stunning and significant historical events. His eighth great-grandfather, Francis Cooke, arrived on Mayflower in 1620 and became a respected leader in his community. Cooke’s family was one of the first to prosper in their new home. Three family members witnessed America’s dramatic bid for independence from Great Britain.

Originally published in two volumes in 1925, New England Captives Carried to Canada represents decades of research conducted by Coleman and C.Alice Baker (author of True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada, 1897).

Between 1875 and 1879, Edwin Purple contributed several articles to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record on the first three or four generations of some of the ancient families of New York. Those articles, collected in this volume, feature the surnames Van Schaick, Siecken, Tymens, Brevoort, Varleth, Gouverneur, and those of other ancient and allied families. This volume also includes Purple’s instructive list of Dutch aliases and variant surname spellings.

By Edwin R. Purple

Foreword by Richard H. Benson

Published: September 2013