Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- "Who Was Your First Ancestor Born In ..."

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

It's Saturday Night again -

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is our assignment this week from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings:

1)  Lorine McGinnis Schulze, in her blog post "Who Was Your First Canadian or American Born Ancestor?" asked that question.

2)  Let's broaden it a bit to "Who was your first ancestor born in your chosen county, state, province, or country?" based on your known ancestry.

3)  Put it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link in a comment to this post.

Here is mine:

My mother’s side:
Her seventh great-grandfather, John Selman, was born in 1680 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He married Martha Groce there in 4 December 1707. His parents were John Sellman, born in England, and Elizabeth Brashear, birthplace unknown. I have not personally researched this line. Many online trees cover this line, as well as the book, Over the Mountain by Martha Crabb. I entered them into my genealogy program when I was first starting out as a genealogist. Someday I would like to document the line.

My father’s side are recent immigrants:
The first born in the United States was my great-grandmother, Julia Ann Sievert, who was born in Joliet, Will County, Illinois to immigrants, Vincent Sievert & Susanna Raduntz. My father’s first Canadian-born ancestors were his great-grandparents, John Gleeson, born perhaps on 25 Feb 1835 in Carleton County, Upper Canada and his wife, Margaret Gleeson, born 24 April 1835 in the same place. John’s birthdate has not been confirmed and no baptismal record found. Both John and Margaret’s parents were born in Ireland.

On my husband’s maternal side:
The first born in the United States were his grandparents, Nils Arthur Nilsen, born 15 March 1894 in Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio and his wife, Agnes Hilma Carolina Lundquist, 16 July 1894 in Stanton, Montgomery County, Iowa. Both of their parents came from Sweden.

My husband’s paternal side:
He has several ancestors who were born during colonial times. These lines also came from a book and have not yet been researched in detail. His 2x-great-grandfather, David Shotts, was born 1760 perhaps in Virginia. His wife, Mary Wagoner, was born 29 March 1766 in Pennsylvania. His 3x-great-grandfather, Henry (Heinrich Bischof) Bishop, was born 5 Aug 1743 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His wife, Catherine Schreyer, was born 7 Oct 1746 in York County, Pennsylvania. The parents of these four came from German states.

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