I have been a high school social studies teacher since 1988.

I am unaware of any ancestor who arrived in America later than 1794, that being Charles Rogers, born in 1774, who arrived as a 20 year old from Londonderry, Northern Ireland, according to his tombstone at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wallback, West Virginia. Charles Rogers was my 5XGreat-Grandfather. All of my other immigrant ancestors seem to have arrived in America at an earlier date.

A few brief notes:

The research/documentation on my Wayne gamily history is rock solid back to Tunice Mucklewain and Catherine Propst, my 4X Great-Grandparents. Documentation of his parents is more sketchy as of 7/25/2019. However, if the most probable research is correct, Tunice Mucklewain was the Great-Grandson of Andrew Alexander McElwain, Jr, who arrived from Northern Ireland to Cool Spring, Delaware in 1719. The McElwains immigrants were Scots-Irish, that is, Ulster-Scots, aka Scots who had lived a generation or two in Northern Ireland (Ulster) before migrating to America.

It appears that my first immigrant ancestors to America might have arrived at Jamestowne in 1619. Dr. John Woodson and his wife Sarah arrived with Sir George Yeardley not long before the first Africans were brought to Point Comfort, Virginia. There are connections to Fluer de/Flowerdew Hundred, to Curles Plantation, and others. Pertaining to the Indian uprising of 1644, I am a "Potato Hole Woodson."

Benjamin Scott and his wife Margaret Stephenson Scott arrived in Massachusetts sometime in the 1600s. Margaret Stephenson Scott, by then a poor begging widow, was hanged at the Salem Witch Trials in 1692.

Rev. Guy Smith arrived in Virginia about 1701.

It is likely that I am descended from the Richter and Fishbach families that were part of the first German settlement in Virginia in 1714. The Germanna Colony was established by colonial Governor Alexander Spotswood, who gained fame for leading the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe in 1716.

About that same time Rev. Anthony Jacob Henckel arrived in Pennsylvania. He might have been the first Lutheran minister in America, establishing churches at New Hanover and Germantown, PA. He died in 1728, resulting from being kicked by a horse.

Certain Palatine immigrant ships of my ancestors can be identified, the families listed below:

PROPST

WEYBRECHT/WAYBRIGHT

HENCKEL

BUSCH/BUSH

William Almy arrived in America in 1638, in New England. His descendants connected to Judge John Chamberlain of Boston and Lewis Chamberlain of New Jersey, and to the Holdens there.

My interest in history and genealogy is heavily influenced by the Civil War. I am descended from at LEAST the following:

Jacob M Wayne (11th WV Infantry, later 10th WV Infantry)

William Ebenezer Brooks (10th VA Cavalry)

Shedick Truman, Sr. (19th VA Cavalry)

William Henry Haverty, Sr. (14th VA Cavalry)

Jacob Hudkins (Union Home Guard)

Samuel E. Rollyson (Union Home Guard)

Other Civil War connections include but are not limited to:

Leroy Wayne

Henry Wain. 19th Virginia Cavalry, died at Camp Chase 1864

Ballard S. Rogers. 17th Virginia Cavalry

Robert Waybright. time at Point Lookout, MD

Joel E. Brooks 1809-1864 Co. G, 1st Ark Cavalry (Crawford's), CSA;
Captured 22 Aug 1864 at Jefferson Co., AR;
Died 07 December 1864 at Alton, IL

John Meador Brooks Co K, 10th Virginia Cavalry

Peter Henry Brooks. Co K, 10th Virginia Cavalry

Robertson Lee Brooks. Co K, 10th Virginia Cavalry

David Staples Keen Brooks. Co K, 10th Virginia Cavalry

Andrew J Brooks. Co K, 10th Virginia Cavalry

William Anthony "Bill" Holland Co K, 10th Virginia Cavalry

Jesse B Mason. Co D, 24th Virginia Infantry
Died April 14, 1862 Staunton, VA

Lewis P. McElwain. 19th Virginia Cavalry, (time at Camp Chase)

My children are also directly descended from:

Louis Metzger

William N. Wilson, 63d Ohio Veteran Vol Infantry

My second wife is descended from :
John W. Boyd (35th Tennessee Infantry, CSA) died Tullahoma, Tennessee

WAR OF 1812

I am descended from at LEAST the following veterans of the War of 1812:
John Chamberlain Holden
Thomas Truman
Maj. John Meador Holland

REVOLUTIONARY WAR
James English
Claudius Boatman
John Skidmore
Tunis Mucklewain (?)-Received a pension
Thomas Mucklewain--drummer

DUNMORE's WAR
Captain John Skidmore
Jost Henckel

FRENCH & INDIAN WAR
Frederick Propst

KING PHILLIP'S WAR

My (second) wife is associated with the following names: BOYD, RHODES, RICHARDSON, SHENEFIELD. STANLEY, BOSO, CARMICHEAL, FERGUSON, ACUFF, GOLDEN, HUGHES, TANNER. The Boyds and Acuffs were Tennessee pioneers, the Shenefields migrated from MHagarstown, MD to Ohio in 1804, and the rest were mostly from antebellum Virginia.

My first wife was descended seemingly from later immigrants to America as well as early pioneers: SEAMAN, DEAN, METZGER, SERIG, TAYLOR, WILSON, MARSHALL, McMULLEN. Her heritage is centered near Wheeling, West Virginia and southwest Pennsylvania.

I have been a high school social studies teacher since 1988.

I am unaware of any ancestor who arrived in America later than 1794, that being Charles Rogers, born in 1774, who arrived as a 20 year old from Londonderry, Northern Ireland, according to his tombstone at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wallback, West Virginia. Charles Rogers was my 5XGreat-Grandfather. All of my other immigrant ancestors seem to have arrived in America at an earlier date.

A few brief notes:

The research/documentation on my Wayne gamily history is rock solid back to Tunice Mucklewain and Catherine Propst, my 4X Great-Grandparents. Documentation of his parents is more sketchy as of 7/25/2019. However, if the most probable research is correct, Tunice Mucklewain was the Great-Grandson of Andrew Alexander McElwain, Jr, who arrived from Northern Ireland to Cool Spring, Delaware in 1719. The McElwains immigrants were Scots-Irish, that is, Ulster-Scots, aka Scots who had lived a generation or two in Northern Ireland (Ulster) before migrating to America.

It appears that my first immigrant ancestors to America might have arrived at Jamestowne in 1619. Dr. John Woodson and his wife Sarah arrived with Sir George Yeardley not long before the first Africans were brought to Point Comfort, Virginia. There are connections to Fluer de/Flowerdew Hundred, to Curles Plantation, and others. Pertaining to the Indian uprising of 1644, I am a "Potato Hole Woodson."

Benjamin Scott and his wife Margaret Stephenson Scott arrived in Massachusetts sometime in the 1600s. Margaret Stephenson Scott, by then a poor begging widow, was hanged at the Salem Witch Trials in 1692.

Rev. Guy Smith arrived in Virginia about 1701.

It is likely that I am descended from the Richter and Fishbach families that were part of the first German settlement in Virginia in 1714. The Germanna Colony was established by colonial Governor Alexander Spotswood, who gained fame for leading the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe in 1716.

About that same time Rev. Anthony Jacob Henckel arrived in Pennsylvania. He might have been the first Lutheran minister in America, establishing churches at New Hanover and Germantown, PA. He died in 1728, resulting from being kicked by a horse.

Certain Palatine immigrant ships of my ancestors can be identified, the families listed below:

PROPST

WEYBRECHT/WAYBRIGHT

HENCKEL

BUSCH/BUSH

William Almy arrived in America in 1638, in New England. His descendants connected to Judge John Chamberlain of Boston and Lewis Chamberlain of New Jersey, and to the Holdens there.

My interest in history and genealogy is heavily influenced by the Civil War. I am descended from at LEAST the following:

Jacob M Wayne (11th WV Infantry, later 10th WV Infantry)

William Ebenezer Brooks (10th VA Cavalry)

Shedick Truman, Sr. (19th VA Cavalry)

William Henry Haverty, Sr. (14th VA Cavalry)

Jacob Hudkins (Union Home Guard)

Samuel E. Rollyson (Union Home Guard)

Other Civil War connections include but are not limited to:

Leroy Wayne

Henry Wain. 19th Virginia Cavalry, died at Camp Chase 1864

Ballard S. Rogers. 17th Virginia Cavalry

Robert Waybright. time at Point Lookout, MD

Joel E. Brooks 1809-1864 Co. G, 1st Ark Cavalry (Crawford's), CSA;
Captured 22 Aug 1864 at Jefferson Co., AR;
Died 07 December 1864 at Alton, IL

John Meador Brooks Co K, 10th Virginia Cavalry

Peter Henry Brooks. Co K, 10th Virginia Cavalry

Robertson Lee Brooks. Co K, 10th Virginia Cavalry

David Staples Keen Brooks. Co K, 10th Virginia Cavalry

Andrew J Brooks. Co K, 10th Virginia Cavalry

William Anthony "Bill" Holland Co K, 10th Virginia Cavalry

Jesse B Mason. Co D, 24th Virginia Infantry
Died April 14, 1862 Staunton, VA

Lewis P. McElwain. 19th Virginia Cavalry, (time at Camp Chase)

My children are also directly descended from:

Louis Metzger

William N. Wilson, 63d Ohio Veteran Vol Infantry

My second wife is descended from :
John W. Boyd (35th Tennessee Infantry, CSA) died Tullahoma, Tennessee

WAR OF 1812

I am descended from at LEAST the following veterans of the War of 1812:
John Chamberlain Holden
Thomas Truman
Maj. John Meador Holland

REVOLUTIONARY WAR
James English
Claudius Boatman
John Skidmore
Tunis Mucklewain (?)-Received a pension
Thomas Mucklewain--drummer

DUNMORE's WAR
Captain John Skidmore
Jost Henckel

FRENCH & INDIAN WAR
Frederick Propst

KING PHILLIP'S WAR

My (second) wife is associated with the following names: BOYD, RHODES, RICHARDSON, SHENEFIELD. STANLEY, BOSO, CARMICHEAL, FERGUSON, ACUFF, GOLDEN, HUGHES, TANNER. The Boyds and Acuffs were Tennessee pioneers, the Shenefields migrated from MHagarstown, MD to Ohio in 1804, and the rest were mostly from antebellum Virginia.

My first wife was descended seemingly from later immigrants to America as well as early pioneers: SEAMAN, DEAN, METZGER, SERIG, TAYLOR, WILSON, MARSHALL, McMULLEN. Her heritage is centered near Wheeling, West Virginia and southwest Pennsylvania.