Six Generations In Otsego

"As migrants began moving west from New England after the Revolutionary War, Samuel and Nabby Colman, newly married, packed their wagon and came over the Berkshire Hills from Shelburne, Massachusetts to start a new life near the northern end of Otsego Lake. Two Colman brothers and two Colman sisters were also part of what must have seemed like a grand adventure for the young pioneers"--from back cover.

Elder William Wentworth was living at Exeter, New Hampshire, by 1639, and at Wells, Maine, from 1642-1649. In 1649, he moved to Dover, New Hampshire, where he lived most of the rest of his life. He was the father of at least eleven children. He died at Dover ca. 1696/7. Descendants lived in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusettes, New York, Vermont, Illinois, and elsewhere.

Sears Genealogical Catalogue, Descendants of Richard Sears of Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony, circa 1639, Generations 1-6 comprising over 5,000 of Richard's grandchildren.

Georg Dachstätter (b.ca.1679) and his family immigrated from the Palatinate of Germany (via England) to Manor Livingston along the Hudson River in New York in 1709/1710, and moved to Stone Arabia, New York about 1737. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Dockstader) lived in New York, Illinois and elsewhere.