Her Book

The Mayflower Connection

Jane Ayers, who married Barton Stone Harlan, was the daughter of Alfred Ayers and Sardis (Ashley) Ayers;
Sardis was daughter of Capt. William Ashley and Phoebe (Howe) Ashley;
Phoebe, daughter of Nehemiah Howe and Beulah (Wheeler) Howe;
Beulah, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah Wheeler;
Benjamin, son of Obadiah and Elizabeth (White) Wheeler;
Elizabeth White is daughter of Resolved and Judith White;

Resolved White came to America on the Mayflower as a young boy with his parents, William and Susanna (Fuller) White. Susanna White delivered another child, named Peregrine (which means "little pilgrim") shortly after their arrival to America. William White died that first winter. Susanna married again several months later. She was the first to give birth and the first to marry of the people who were on the Mayflower.

The Mayflower Connection was through ancestors of Jane Ayers' grandmother, Phoebe (Howe) Ashley.

The connection to the extended ancestry charts which lead back to the year 217 AD and King Bewar of Norway is through Jane Ayers' grandfather, Capt. William Ashley. Both connections are from Janes' mother, Sardis (Ashley) Howe. (William Ashley was b. 1758 in Rochester, Mass., d. 1828 in Sparta, OH. so I don't know just where the title of Captain comes in, and in which conflict he may have served).

The legal-sized ancestry charts (pedigree charts, as some call them) are from the work of one Leigh Amos, granddaughter of Hannah Harlan, who married Judson Cady. Leigh is a genealogist expert and is very conscious of verification, so if she accepts the computer printouts as fact, then I am not going to question. She lives in the Portland, OR area.

Among the computer charts going back to 217 AD, there are such well-known names as:

Charlemagne (Chart #70256),
Lady Godiva (Chart # 70223, No. 13);
Louis, King of France (Chart # 69913, No. 4);
William the Conqueror (Chart #69927);
Alfred the Great (Chart #70299, No. 2);
King John of England (Chart #69912, No. 4);
King Henry IV of the Roman Empire (Chart # 70138, No. 1);
Henry II of England and his son, Richard I, (the Lion Hearted).

This information was taken from a stack of computer print-out sheets about four inches thick. If anyone is interested in seeing them, I have them in my possession, (or some member of my family will have them). There weren't very many copies made.