Ancestor Bibliography Register

Index |  Related Sites    |   NSCDA   |   Contact Us

WIGG, Thomas  (? - 1759)  SC

"Historical Notes." South Carolina Historical and Genealogical
Magazine. Vol.11, no. 3 (July 1910), p. 189.

Holcomb, Brent. South Carolina Marriages, 1688-1799. Baltimore:
Genealogical Pub. Co., 1980, 2006. P. 269.

"Justices in the Commission of the Peace, 1756." South Carolina
Historical and Genealogical Magazine. Vol.20, no. 1 (Jan.,
1919), p. 74.

Lewis, Bessie M. "The Wiggs of South Carolina." The South Carolina
Historical Magazine. Vol. 74, no. 2 (Apr., 1973), p. 80-97.

Moore, Caroline T., ed. Abstracts of the Wills of the State of South
Carolina. Columbia, SC: The R. L. Bryan Co., 1964. Vol. 1
(1670-1740, p. 122, 123; vol. 2 (1740-1760), p. 255.

"St. Helena's Parish Register (cont.)" South Carolina Historical and
Genealogical Magazine. Vol.23, no. 4 (Oct., 1922), p. 193.

Salley, A. S. Minutes of the Vestry of St. Helena's Parish, South
Carolina, 1762-1812. Columbia, SC: Printed for the Historical
Commission of South Carolina by the State Company, 1919. Return to index

WIGHTMAN, Rev. James  (1710-1791)  RI

Anthony, A. Craig. The Tefft Family and the Narragansett Controversy:
 a Window to the Creation of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations. [Rhode Island]: A.C. Anthony, 1998.

Anthony, Craig. King's Province: Samuel Tefft's Narrative of the
Narragansett Colony. Wyoming, RI: Finca Pub., 2005. Historical novel.

Sypher, F. J. "Joshua Tefft, an English Indian: Documents from King Philip's
War." New England Ancestors, vol. 6 (Spring 2005), p. 25-29.

Whitman, Mary Ross. George Wightman of Quidnessett, Rhode Island
(1632-1721/2) and Descendants; Waitman, Weightman, Whiteman,
Whitman, Whytman, Wightman, and Wyghtman.
(http://persi.heritagequestonline.com)  Return to index

WILKINSON,  Christopher  (c.1670-c.1733)  SC

The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, XXVII.
                    Baltimore, MD:  South Carolina Historical Society, Williams and
                    Wilkins Co. printers, 1926.

Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina, Vol 80.  
                    Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Co., 1975.

            Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina, Vol 81.  
                    Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Co., 1976.   Return to index

WILLIAMS,  Isaac  (1638-1708)  MA

            Williams, Harrison.  Historical Collections Relating to the Town of
                    Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut.  New Haven: The Salisbury
                    Association, Inc., 1913.

            Harrison, Williams, L. L. B.  The Life, Ancestors and Descendants of Robert
                    Williams of Roxbury...,1607-1693....  Washington, DC: W.F.
                    Roberts Co., 1934.   Return to index

WILLIAMS, Colonel James  (1740-1780)  SC

Monie, Helen W.  Newberry County South Carolina Cemeteries, Vol. II.
Newberry, SC:  Newberry Publishing Company, 1985. 

             Moss, Bobby Gilmer.  Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American
                    Revolution.  Baltimore:  Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1983. 
Return to index

WILLIAMS, Roger  (c.1599-1683)  RI

Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants
to New England, 1620-1663. Boston: New England Historic
Genealogical Society, 1995-.  Vol. 3. (2009).

Arnold, James N. Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. Providence,
RI: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1891-1912.  Vol. 2 (Providence),
p. 257.

Austin, John Osborne. Ancestry of Thirty-Three Rhode Islanders (Born
in the Eighteenth Century): also Twenty Seven Chards of Roger
Williams' Descendants to the Fifth Generation... Albany, NY: J.
Munsell's Sons, 1889.  (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com)

__________________ The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island;
Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690,
with Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation. Albany: J.
Munsell's Sons, 1887; Baltimore:  Genealogical Pub. Co., 1969.  P. 140.

Brockunier, Samuel.  The Irrepressible Democrat, Roger Williams.
                    New York: The Ronald Press Co., 1940.

            Ernst, James Emanuel.  Roger Williams, New England Firebrand.  New
                    York:  Macmillan Co., 1932.

Genealogies of Rhode Island Families: from Rhode Island Periodicals.
Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983. Vol. 2, p. 342.

Holman, Winifred Lovering. "Roger Williams." The American Genealogist.
Vol. 28, no. 4 (Oct. 1952), p. 197-20.

Jacobus, Donald L. and Edgar Waterman.  The Waterman Family. 
                    Hartford, CT Historical Society, 1954.

            Miller, Perry.  Roger Williams: His Contribution to the American
Tradition.  Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1953.

            Moore, Kay Kirlin and Dorothy Higson White. Descendants of Roger
                    Williams.  Baltimore:  Gateway, 1991- .

Moriarty, G. Andrews. "Bernard of Epworth, Co. Lincoln." The New
England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: New
England Historic Genealogical Society. Vol. 113 (1959), p. 189.
Wife's birth and marriage)

Papenfuse, Edward C., et al...  A Biographical Dictionary of the
                    Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789.  Baltimore: John Hopkins
                    University Press,  c1985.

Savage, James, Dexter, O.P. and John Farmer. A Genealogical
Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing
Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692,
on the Basis of the Farmer's Register. Boston: Little Brown,
and Co., 1860; Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1965.
Vol. 4, p. 605. (www.archive.org;
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ABE2564;
http://persi.heritagequestonline.com)

            Snow, Edwin H.  Alphabetical Index of Births, Marriages, and Deaths
                    Recorded in Providence, 1630-1850.  Providence, RI: n.p., 1879.

            Tower, Charlemagne.  Tower Genealogy: An Account of the
                    Descendants  of John Tower of Hingham, Mass.  Cambridge:
                    John Wilson & Son University Press, 1891.

Williams, Roger. The Correspondence of Roger Williams; ed. by Glenn W.
LaFantasie, et al.; revised from an unpublished manuscript edited by
Bradford F. Swan. Providence, RI: Published for the Rhode Island
Historical Society by Brown University Press/University Press of
New England, 1988.

            Winslow, Ola Elizabeth.  Master Roger Williams, A Biography.  New York: Macmillan Co., 1957.  Return to index

WILLIAMSON,John  (1730-1757)  PA

            Bell, Raymond Martin, and Edna Marian Miller. The Williamson Family of
                     Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Washington County, Pennsylvania,
                     Ohio County, West Virginia. Washington, PA: R.M. Bell, 1986.

Hain, H. H. History of Perry County, Pennsylvania; Including Descriptions
                     of Indians and Pioneer Life from the Time of Earliest Settlement,
                     Sketches of Its Noted Men and Women and Many Professional Men.
                     Harrisburg, PA: Hain-Moore Co., 1922.

Nelson, William. New Jersey Marriage Records 1665-1800. Baltimore:
Genealogical Pub. Co., 1967. (Documents Relating to the Colonial
History of the State of New Jersey; or, New Jersey Archives. 1^st Series,
vol. 22)

Norcross, George, and Talbot V. Chambers. The Centennial Memorial of the
Presbytery of Carlisle: a Series of Papers, Historical and Biographical,
Relating to the Origin and Growth of Presbyterianism in the Central and
Eastern Part of Southern Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Meyers Print. and Pub.
House, 1889; Salem, MA: Higginson Book Co., 2006.

Pennsylvania Archives, 2^nd ser. Harrisburg, PA: B.F. Meyers. Vol. 2., p. 507.

30 Perry County, Pennsylvania, Cemetery Records: Complete Tombstone
Inscriptions. [S.l.]: Closson Press, 1982.

Wright, F. Edward. Abstracts of Cumberland County Wills, 1750-1785.
Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1992.   Return to index

WILLIAMSON,  Thomas  (1736-1813)  SC

Stivers, Emmons; and Nelson W. Evans.  A History of Adams County, Ohio,
                    from its earliest settlement to the present time, including character
                    sketches of the prominent persons identified with the first century of
                    the country's growth...  West Union, OH:  E.B. Stivers, 1900.
                           [Reprinted, Evansville, IN: Sycamore Chapter, DAR, s.d., 1990.]
Return to index

WILLIS, Henry  (1690-1740)  VA

            Willis, Byrd Charles.  A Sketch of the Willis Family, Fredericksburg 
Branch.  Richmond, VA: Printed by Whittet & Shepperson, 1909.
                          (Copy located in University of Virginia Library.) 

WILTSEE, Hendrick Martensen (1623-1701)

Brodhead, John Romeyn. History of the State of New York. New York:
       Harper & Brothers, 1853-71.

Evjen, John O. Scandinavian Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674.
Minneapolis: K.C. Holter Pub. Co., 1916; Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co.,
1972. P. 249-251.  (Listed with last name of Martensen)

Reynolds, Cuyler. Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: a Record
of Achievements of the People of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys in New
York State, Included Within the Present Counties of Albany, Rensselaer,
Washington, Saratoga, Montgomery, Fulton, Schenectady, Columbia and
Greene. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1911; Baltimore:
Genealogical Pub. Co., 2003. Vol. 4, p. 1655-56.

Smith, Philip H. General History of Duchess County, from 1609 to 1876, Inclusive.
 Pawling, NY: The author, 1877.  Return to index

WINCHESTER, John, Jr.  (1644-1718)  MA

            Hotchkiss, Fanny (Winchester).  Winchester Notes.  New Haven, CT:
                    Printed by the Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1912.
                           (Good genealogies for many New England Winchesters,
                           some for Maryland Winchesters.)  Return to index

WINGFIELD, Lieutenant Charles  (1720-1803)  VA

            Abercrombie, Janice L. and Richard Slatten.  Virginia Publick Claims:
                    Albemarle County.  Athens, GA: Iberian Publishing Co., 1992-.

            Herndon, John G.  "Thomas Wingfield (1670-1720) of York River,
                    Virginia."  Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol 60,
                    1952.

            "Justices of the Peace of Colonial Virginia, 1757-1775."  Richmond:
Virginia State Library Bulletin, Vol XIV, 1922.

Wingfield, Linwood Davis.  History of the Wingfields of Virginia.
                    Richmond: Wingfield, 1952.  Return to index

WINSOR, Joshua  (?- 1679)  RI

Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island;
Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690,
with Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation. Albany: J.
Munsell's Sons, 1887; Baltimore:  Genealogical Pub. Co., 1969.  P. 434.

Bartlett, John Russell. Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantation in New England. Providence: A.C. Green, 1856-1865.
Vol. 1 (1636-1663), p.12-16, 22-31, 209-99.

White, Dorothy Higson, and Kay Kirlin Moore. Descendants of Roger Williams.
Combined rev. ed. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1991.

Williams, Roger. The Correspondence of Roger Williams; ed. by Glenn W.
LaFantasie, et al.; revised from an unpublished manuscript edited by Bradford F.
Swan. Providence, RI: Published for the Rhode Island Historical Society by Brown
University Press/University Press of New England, 1988. P. 425. Return to index

WITHERSPOON,  John  (1726-1778)  NC

            Draper, Lyman Copeland.  King's Mountain and its Heroes: history of the
                    battle of King's Mountain, October 7th, 1780, and the events which
                    led to it.  New York City:  Dauber & Pine Bookshops, Inc., 1929.

Hickerson, Thomas Felix.  Happy Valley, History and Genealogy.  Chapel
                    Hill, NC:  The author, 1940.

            Witherspoon, Joseph Bailey.  The History and Genealogy of the Witherspoon
                    Family (1400-1972).  Fort Worth, TX:  Miran Publishers, 1973.
Return to index

WITHERSPOON, Robert  (1728-1788)  SC

Boddie, William Willis. History of Williamsburg: Something About the People
of Williamsburg County, South Carolina, from the First Settlement by
Europeans about 1705 Until 1923. Columbia, SC: State Co, 1923;
Baltimore: Clearfield Co.: Genealogical Pub Co., 1995. P. 125.
(http://persi.heritagequestonline.com)

McCrady, Edward. The History of South Carolina Under the Royal Government,
1719-1776. New York: Macmillan Co., 1899, 1968; Russell& Russell, 1969.
P. 133-5. .  (http://catalog.hathitrust.org) 

Moss, Bobby Gilmer. Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution.
Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983, 1994. P. 1008.

Wardlaw, Jos, G. Genealogy of the Wardlaw Family, with Some Account of
Other Families With Which It Is Connected. [York, SC: J. G. Wardlaw,
1929]; Salem, MA: Higginson Book Co., 2011. 
(http://persi.heritagequestonline.com)

_____________. Genealogy of the Witherspoon Family, with Some Account
of Other Families With Which It Is Connected. Yorkville, SC: Printed at the
Enquirer Office, 1910; Richburg, SC: Chester County Genealogical Society,
1980-1985? P. 21-22. (http://catalog.hathitrust.org)

Year Book, Charleston, S.C., 1893.  Charleston, SC: News and Courier Book
Presses, 1880-1952.Return to index

WITHINGTON,  Henry  (1590-1667)  MA

Withington, Henry Restarick (ed).  The Withington Story: a history of
                    the ancestors and of the six sons of David Little Withington,
                    1589 to 1975 (with epilogue and appendices).  Phoenix, AZ
                    (4308 North 36th St., Phoenix 85018):  H.R. Withington, 1989.
Return to index

WITTER,James  (c1660-1730)  SC

            Carleton, Henry Newell. Livingston and Carlton: Who Are We?  New York:
                    Carlton, 1966.  P. 88-90, 96-112, 116-117, 179.

Salley, A. S. “Abstracts from the Records of the Court of Ordinary of the Province of South Carolina, 1692-1700 (Continued)”. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine. Vol. 11, no. 1 (Jan. 1910), p. 50. (http://www.archive.org)

Return to index

Last updated:  11/20/2013