Andrews University Digital Commons @ Andrews University Faculty Publications Library Faculty January 2015 The t.S Clair Family Story in America: John Sinkler (c1630-1700) to Fairy St. Clair Gibson Lawrence W. Onsager Andrews University,
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[email protected]. THE ST. CLAIR FAMILY STORY IN AMERICA JOHN SINKLER (C1630-1700) TO FAIRY ST. CLAIR GIBSON BY LAWRENCE W. ONSAGER THE LEMONWEIR VALLEY PRESS Mauston, Wisconsin and Berrien Springs, Michigan 2015 St. Clair Family By Lawrence W. Onsager Introduction Fairy St. Clair Gibson is descended from the John Sinkler/Sinclair/St. Clair family of Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire and represents the 10th generation of her family in America. Various spellings and/or forms of the name have appeared in the early records dating back to the 1650s. Fairy’s branch of the family settled on the St. Clair form of the name in the early 1800s. The History of the Sinclair Family in Europe and America… by Leonard Allison Morrison, Boston, MA: Damrell & Upham, 1896 beginning on page 64 provides the basis for the St.