The Monroe Book

The History of the Munro Clan from its Origins in Scotland to Settlement in New England and Migration to the West 1652-1850 and Beyond

• Author: Joan S Guilford PhD
• Price: $49.50 (includes postage) (US Funds)
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894 pages, 6 x 9", hardcover, acid free paper, illustrated, indexed.

As Allen Alger, Genealogist for the Clan Monro U.S.A., says in his foreword: "Dr Guilford has processed an astonishing mass of data from a large number of sources in an attempt to find every Monroe who lived in the United States from earliest colonial times down to the year 1850, with the exception of families who originally settled in the southern states. In producing this volume, Dr. Guilford has performed a great service to the descendants of the ancient Clan Munro."

Beginning with PART ONE: THE MUNROS OF SCOTLAND, the author provides the most authentic delineation of the ancient ancestry of William Munroe of Lexington, Massachusetts and John Munroe of Bristol, Rhode Island that is available today.

PART TWO consists of a revision of the 1986 edition of History and Genealogy of the Lexington, Massachusetts Munroes in which corrections and additions are made to that genealogy and in which appear a number of new lines of descendants of William of Lexington. There are 236 main families through the fifth generation, most of their children also being given spouses and children.

PART THREE is devoted to the descendants of John Monroe of Bristol, Rhode Island, generally through the eighth generation, but in some cases to the ninth. There are 291 main families in this section, carrying many lines down to the 1900s.

PART FOUR treats other lines of New England Monroes: Alexander of Bridgewater, Massachusetts; Andrew of Branford, Connecticut; David of Norwalk, Connecticut; Black Monroes who were primarily descendants of freed slaves in Rhode Island. Also included are six generations of descendants of Hezekiah Meroth of Dorchester, Massachusetts, all of whose grandchildren adopted the surname Monroe and kept it through succeeding generations.

PART FIVE is devoted to foreign-born Monroes, most of whose descendants appeared in America by 1850. These are primarily Canadian, Scottish, Irish, and English immigrants.

PART SIX presents all those Monroes (by any spelling) who appeared in America by the time of the 1850 census and left records in New England or in states such as New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa or Michigan, but who have not yet been linked to the descendants of early immigrants. Some, however are descendants of foreign-born Monroes and the reader is referred to the ancestor.

PART SEVEN is an exposition of the author's ancestor, Joel Monroe of Croyden, New Hampshire, born in 1777 in Massachusetts, for whom no parents have as yet been found. All of his known descendants are included.

Altogether there are more than 8,500 Monroes and more than 1900 surnames of persons who married Monroes. All members of this family, whether Munro, Munroe, Monro, Monroe, Manrow, etc. are indexed as "Monroe" to save the reader from checking more than one index.