History of the Willis Family Of New England and New Jersey And Their Ancestors To Which Is Added A HISTORY OF THE Family of John Howard, Esq. 0f Richmond, Virginia AND THE Harris and Macleod Families of Georgia By Charles and Frances Willis Published 1916 352 pages, illustrated, indexed, searchable ********************************************************************************* EBook CD Requires Adobe Reader 5 or higher to View Autoboot Menu for Easy Access ********************************************************************************* $9.99 + $1.99 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/Willis-Family-New-England-and-New-Jersey-Genealogy-/130400598302?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e5c7b391e “. . . it is therefore with no spirit of boasting, but certainly with some ])ride, that we will show how our ancestors were among the founders of this great nation and had no small part in its settlement ; were men of large affairs and leaders from the very beginning of the colonies and helped to hew out of the vast wilderness, the present great States t>f Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. “ It is we believe no small thing- to have had two ancestors, Robert Treat and Obadiah Bruen, who were among the nineteen applicants for and the grantees of the Charter of Connecticut ; and that the former of these should have been Governor of Connecticut and the one who saved the Charter, and had it hidden in the ''Charter Oak," when Andros demanded its surrender. Our ancestors were in fact among the founders of Wethersfield, Conn., the first English settlement west of Massachusetts, in 1635; of New Haven, Milford, Guilford, Branford and New London in Connecticut; of Southampton on Long Island and Sandwich, Mass.; while of the sixty-four men who founded Newark, New Jersey, in 1666-67, thirteen were our direct ancestors. “With but one exception, all our male ancestors were here by the year 1645, and that exception, Richard Smith, was here bv 1690. Surelv we mav claim to be Americans if any one has a right to bear such a title.”