In the Authors words, speaking of the genealogical portion of the book "this…has been constructed with great care…from an almost infinite number of isolated records in wills, deeds, family Bibles, church and town records…tomb-stones and from whatever source afforded with certainty a name and a date".  The author found that many living, family members could help identify their ancestors two or three generations back but had very little reliable information before that time. Therefore, he had to collate and compare individual statements to pin down the facts. He states that family group information would have been fuller if letters of inquiry had been answered. Even so pages 201-466 are packed with valuable genealogical facts, names, dates and places.

Contents:

• Chapter 1. Early Discoveries
• Chapter 2. Accounts of Early Settlers
• Chapter 3. The Settlement and the Settlers
• Chapter 4. Character of the Settlers
• Chapter 5. Civil Relations
• Chapter 6. Revolutionary War
• Chapter 7. Civil Laws
• Chapter 8. The Early Church
• Chapter 9. The Settlers
• Chapter 10. The Indians
• Chapter 11. Early Customs
• Chapter 12. Births, Marriages and Deaths.
• Chapter 13. Genealogies
• Supplement
• Short Notices
• Celebrations of the 225th Anniversary of Southampton
• Appendix
• Corrections
• Index of Names and Subjects

Sample Genealogy: (a portion of the Burnett Genealogy)

Page 208

28 Ephraim³ b. 1693, d. Feb. 1761, of E. H. a cordwainer, had w. ______, and ch. 58 Sibyl⁴ w. of [Abraham?] Cook and 59 Stephen⁴ bap. Jan 29, 1726-7.

59 Stephen⁴ of E. H. m. Hannah Merry Oct. 9, 1745, and had ch. 60 Stephen⁵ bap. Jan., 1753, 61 Hannah⁵ b. 1764, 62 Stephen⁵ again, bap. Nov. 1776, and 63 Benjamin H. ⁵ b. May 1778.

[Note. There is nothing in the E. H. church rec. to show whether 62 Stephen was the son of 59 Stephen or 60 Stephen, except the age as before given, and this may be the relationship.]

Surnames for which there are genealogies:

Barnes, Bishop, Bowden, Burnett, Butler, Chatfield, Clark, Cooks, Cooper, Corwith, Culver, Dayton, Deming, Dimon, Edwards, Ellsworth, Fanning, Fithian, Fordham, Foster, Fournier, Fowler, Gelston, Goodall, Green, Halsey, Hand, Harris, Haynes or Haines, Hedges, Herrick, Hildreth, Howell, Huntting, Jagger, Jennings, Jessup, Johnes, Jones, Ludlow, Lupton, McCorkell, Mackie, Marshall, Mitchell, Parker, Parsons, Pelletreau, Pierson, Post, Proud, Raynor, Reeves, Reeve, Rhodes, Rogers, James Rogers, Rose, Sanford, Sayre, Capt. Isaac Sayre, Scott, Seymour, Squires, Stanbrough, Stephens, Talmage, Tarbell, Topping, Whitaker, John White, Ebenezer White, Wick, Willman, Woodruff, Woolley, Wright.

Surnames in the Short Notices:

Anning, Bacon, Bancroft, Barbur, Barker, Barrett, Barrows, Bartholomew, Baxter, Beswick, Bigelow, Blyeth, Bond, Bostwick, Bower, Boyer, Breed, Briggs, Brown, Browne, Bryan, Budd, Bush, Butler, Bampbell, Cory, Davis, Earle, Eason, Ellis, Else, Farrington, Field, Flint, Gibbons, Gilbord, Gibbs, Goldsmith, Goodwin, Goring, Gosmer, Gould, Greenvill, Griffing, Hakelton, Hampton, Hanke, Harker, Havens, Heathcote, Hilyard, Holdsworth, Howe, Hubby, Hughes, Jacobs, Jacques, Kallum or Kellam, Kelly, Kempton, Kirtland, Larrison or Lawrison, Laughton, Lawrence, Leamikng, lum or Loom, Maltby, Mapham or Mappem, Marvin or Merwin, Mason, Meacham, Meiggs, melvine, Mendall, Miller, Mills, Milner, Minthorn, Moore or More, Morehouse, Mowbray, Needham, Newell or Newhall, Newton, Nicoll, Norris, Odell, Ogden, Oldfields, Osman, Owen, Paine, Painter, Parker, Parvine, Patton, Peirce, Penny, Perkins, Petty, Phillips, Pope, Redfield, Reed, Robinson, Rolt, Rounsifull, Rugg, Rusco, Russell, Sale, Sanders, Searing, Scott, Shaw, Sheperd, Silvester, Simpkins, Smith, Standley, Stanton, Stolking,Stratton, Strickland, Sturney, Swinfield, Symonds, Tainte, Tennison, Terry, Thorpe, Tomson, Travally, Vail or Vayle or Veale, Vonck, Wade, Walton, Ware, Warren, Waters, Weeks,Welbee, Wells,Wheeler, Whitehead, Wickham, Wilkeson, Willman, Willmot, Winthrop, Wood.

More names are mentioned in this history.

About this CD:

This book, now on CD, was originally microfilmed and put on microfiche. The images have been digitized and organized using the Adobe Acrobat 7.0 software. This allowed the text to be recognized which makes this CD electronically searchable. Many bookmarks have also been added for easy navigation through the pages. There are 474 pages of which about half are family genealogies. It includes a human generation general index to the history. Published 2006 on CD by Ancestor Publishers.

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