We are All Immigrants

James Maguire left his parent’s home in Caven, Ireland in 1865 in search of a more prosperous future. Upon arrival in America, he found work in New Jersey and eventually earned enough to support his move to Minnesota where he purchased an initial tract of land and began to make his way as a farmer. As the years passed, he worked hard to improve his […]

This is a story of an immigrant family.  An immigrant family whose ancestors had lived in the United States for many generations, but chose to start a new life elsewhere in this country.  These immigrants, Edmund and Mary Ann, loaded up their small family and headed west in a wagon on their way to a better life in Oregon.  However, in Wyoming, their best ox died […]

About 1640, a ship wrecked off the coast of what is now New Jersey enroute to New Amsteram. As the ship wrecked and the weary passengers fled the vessel for the close-by land, Penelope Stout discovered that her husband was badly injured and could not continue their journey to the settlement where the immigrants were headed. So, Penelope stayed behind with him and awaited the help […]

William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Plantation noted his reasons for leaving England. The Separatists who are now called “Pilgrims” were “hunted and persecuted on every side…some were taken and clapped up in prison, others had their houses beset…and most were faint flee and leave their houses and habitations, and the means of their livelihood…Seeing themselves thus molested and that there was no hope of their […]

The three Richardson brothers, Ezekiel, Samuel and Thomas emigrated from England 1630-1636 as part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from Westmill, Hertsfordshire County to Boston, settling in Charlestown, now Woburn, Massachusetts. They left England because of religious persecution and for economic benefit. The small close of pasture in Westmill could not compete with the land available in America. The street they eventually settled on in […]