I'm trying to trace parents of Samuel Billington who came over from England in 1756. Here's the info we have on our family: http://www.thebillingtons.org/history.htm Our first direct ancestor was Samuel Billington, who came over from England in 1756 and settled in upstate New York around Oriskany. During the Revolution, he served on the local Committee of Safety and died in the Battle of Oriskany. Samuel's grandson, James H. Billington I (left), grew up in the Oriskany area. He married Lovina Perkins there and then moved to Philadelphia in the 1840s to sell blue jeans. He had earlier become involved in politics and had coined the slogan "Free soil, free labor, free minds, and free men," which the Republicans adopted in 1856. He helped bankroll the abolitionist press in Pennsylvania and served on the Philadelphia city council during the Civil War. Thanks, John john@thebillingtons.org