Author: Christopher Challender Child
Published: January 2014

In 1638, Thomas Nelson traveled with Rev. Ezekiel Rogers and his company from Rowley, Yorkshire, England, to settle Rowley, Massachusetts. This gene­alogy treats several generations of Nelson descendants and provides new insight into Thomas’s possible ancestry at Drax, Yorkshire. An ahnentafel for Philip Stapleton, the maternal grandfather of Thomas.

Winner of the National Genealogical Society's 2015 award for "Excellence: Genealogy and Family History.”