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House, Daniel (c. 1784-) and his wife Elizabeth came from New York to Upper Canada by 1824 and settled in Houghton Township, Norfolk County. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk and Elgin Counties, and in Michigan. Also includes other families of unknown relationship with this surname. George W. House (c. 1792-) and his wife Charlotte lived in Houghton Township. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk County, and in Michigan and Nebraska and elsewhere. Harmon House (c. 1797-1870) came from Clinton Township, Lincoln County to Houghton Township and married Nancy Cline. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk County and in Michigan. William House (c. 1805-) married Alice Hazen and settled in Windham Township south of the village of Scotland. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk County. David W. House (c. 1827-) and his wife Elizabeth lived in Windham Township. Includes children and grandchildren in Brant County. Descendant surnames included: Rowe, Weekly. 

Houser, Jacob (1759-1846) was born in Bedminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania to John Johannes Houser and his wife Mary E. George. He married Susanna Kolb, daughter of Isaac Van Sintern and Geertrauta (Ziegler) Kolb, born in Lower Salford or Gwynedd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, c. 1756, died in Clinton Township, Lincoln County, Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1809.Jacob Houser’s birthplace in Bedminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania is bordered by Lake Nockamixon in the north and runs along Route 611 between Easton in the north and Doylestown in the south. Following their marriage, Jacob and Susannah Houser lived in Hilltown Township, Bucks County. This borders Bedminster Township in the south and runs along Route 309 in the west. Jacob Houser and his family moved to Upper Canada in 1800. Rev. A. J. Fretz wrote of the migration in his genealogy book Moyer Family History (News Printing House, Harleysville, PA: 1896) p. 327:

“During the … year (1800), a second party of Pennsylvanians betook themselves to the Canada Settlement. Among them were the following persons and their families. Samuel Meyer, David Meyer, Abraham Hunsberger, Christian Hunsberger, Jacob Housser and Daniel Hoch. Their train, too, consisted of four-horse teams. Samuel Meyer had two of these. At night they build fires around their camp to keep off the wild beasts and also did their washing and baking to be ready for travel in the early morning.

Jacob and Susannah Houser settled in Clinton Township, Lincoln County. The exact location of their farm has not been learned but many of their family lived in the area of the hamlet of Campden on Fly Road.

Includes five generations of descendants throughout southwestern Ontario including Lincoln, Welland, Norfolk, Elgin and Kent Counties. Others lived in Western Canada and in New York and Michigan and elsewhere in the United States.

Descendant surnames included: Sumner, Moyer, Williams, Honsberger, Parsons, Macdonald, Herr, Heffner, Lockwood, Sauder, McDowell, Kratz, Knatggs, Flanagan, Elmer, Buchanan, Rittenhouse, Campbell, Neil, Wilson, Johnston, Robins, Gifford, Foreman, Fleming, VanNatter, May, Bemet, Reitz, Galliher, Bull, Keast, Kirkpatrick, Harris, Sayers, Crabbe, Shepherd, Bedford, Prebble, Taylor, Laur, Knott, Bearse, High, Fry, Smith, Snider, Kratz, Huntsman, Vanderburg, Fisher, Hansel, Neelin, Scholfield, Grobb, Whitehead, Morton, Wright, Fralick, Honsberger, Funk, Wallace, Swent, Albright, Blain, Haynes, Dougherty, Reavley, Piper, Varcoe Nash, Senn, Fry, Whitchurch, Winsor, Schweitzer, Laschinger, Kress, Dilts, Thrasher, Colvin, Deull, Cummings, Strohm, Hallett, Hostetler, Krampien, McIntyre, Thomas, Hutchings, Jeffery. 

Howey, Robert (c. 1755-) served in the New Jersey Volunteers during the American Revolution. Following the war, he and his wife Jane brought their family to Gainsborough Township, Lincoln County. Among his children: Daniel Howey (1786-1857) and his wife Anna Buchner lived in Crowland Township, Welland County then settled in Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County about 1817. Samuel Howey (c. 1793-1883) and his wife Rebecca Buchner settled in Bayham Township, Elgin County near the village of Eden. Stephen Howey (c. 1794-) and his wife Elizabeth Hart lived in Blenheim Township, Oxford County. Isaac J. Howey (1800-1876) and his wife Nancy Singer settled in Wainfleet Township, Welland County then in Charlotteville Township in the village of Glenshee. Includes four generations of descendants in Norfolk and Elgin Counties, in Michigan and Minnesota and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Vanderlip, Swayze, Clarke, Sanderson, White, Pauling, Stewart, Decker, Bunyan, Atkins, Gee

Howick, George (1797-1838) with his wife Mary Ann Hewett and his brother William Howick (c. 1798-1882) with his wife Jemima Southerton emigrated from Sussex County, England in 1835 and settled in Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County east of the town of Simcoe. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk County. Descendant surnames included: Sterns, Moore Hoy, Joshua (1765-1804) and Phoebe Burdick lived in West Oxford Township, Oxford County, Upper Canada until Joshua’s untimely death. Phoebe then married Samuel Brown and took her children to the Brown farm in Walsingham Township. Includes a one page biography and children. The continuation is all daughters who married into other Norfolk pioneer families. 

Huffman, Daniel (c. 1816- ) and his wife Sarah King lived in East Flamborough Township, Wentworth County, then about 1842 moved to Townsend Township, near the village of Villa Nova. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk County. Descendant surnames included: Winkworth, Pearson, Slaght. Unrelated, Huffman, Jacob (c. 1837-) lived in Pelham Township, Welland County then in Round Plains, Townsend Township where he married Elizabeth Jane Dean. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk County. Descendant surname included: Shaw.

Nicholas Huffman (c. 1730-  ). The first record of residency for Nicholas and Abigail Hoffman was a statement on a document by their son Michael that he was born in “Virginie”, that being about 1761. Sometime following Michael’s birth, the family then moved to Claverack, Columbia County New York where Nicholas Hoffman appeared as a sponsor in baptismal records and where his daughter Mary married to Henrich Neher. Claverack is located southeast of the town of Hudson and the Hudson River.

During the American Revolution, his sons Nicholas and Jacob were loyal to the Crown. Nicholas joined Butler’s Rangers at Fort Niagara and his son Jacob joined Colonel Jessup’s Rangers in Quebec.

In 1786, Nicholas Hoffman with his wife Abigail and younger son Michael came to Upper Canada and joined their older sons and daughter Mary Near in Bertie Township, Welland County. Nicholas Hoffman settled on a 200 acre land grant in Lot 4 Concessions 10 and 11 from the Niagara River, Bertie Township. This was located between Ridge Road in the east and Stevensville Road in the west. Winger Road runs between the two lots. This is located between the villages of Ridgeway and Stevensville.

The genealogy includes biographies and four generations in Welland, Norfolk and Elgin Counties in Ontario, and coast to coast in the United States, Descendant surnames mentioned: Near/Near, Buck, Beach, Hayward, Lamb, Adams, Vanvelzer, Pitkin, Muller, House, Anger, Moon, Berry, Richards, Payne, Ferris, Eldriege, Wiseman, Rhead, Haslem, Blodquist, Densley, Bagnell, Eastman, Runchey, Benner, Jansen, Baxter, Leeson, Ewings, Robins, Wintermute, Rose, Teal, Bleiler, Mowings and many more.

Hunter, James (c. 1750-1847) and his wife Sarah emigrated from Scotland to North Carolina in 1776. During the American Revolution he served in the British Army under General Cornwallis. In 1794, the family moved to Barton Township, Wentworth County. His son David Hunter (1777-1854) and his wife Cynthia Miller lived in Barton Township then settled in Windham Township, Norfolk County east of the village of Lynnville. Includes four generations of descendants in Wentworth and Norfolk Counties, and in Michigan.

Husted, Peter (1795-1874), a stone mason, married first Elizabeth Varndell and lived at Hambledon, Hampshire, England. With his second wife Sarah Searles and the children of both marriages, Peter Husted moved to Canada in 1835 and lived in Drummondville (Niagara Falls), Welland County. Late in life Peter and Sarah moved to Tuscola County, Michigan with some of their family. The oldest son George Husted (1819- ) married Priscilla Jane Mabee and worked as a blacksmith in Port Dover, Norfolk County. His sister Caroline Husted (1821-1910) married Silas Jennings and lived at Port Dover until moving to Michigan. A younger brother Peter Husted (1828- ) married Helen Murch and also lived in Port Dover. Includes ancestry and four generations of descendants in Wentworth, Lincoln and Norfolk Counties, and in Michigan and Iowa and elsewhere. Surnames included: Thompson, Duckett, Gilbert, Fralick, Jennings, Penfold, Sarles, Clark, Wiley, Markham, McCartney, Teeple, Tipp. 

Hutchison/Hutchinson, John (1806-1886) and his wife Mary Ann Jamieson emigrated from Antrim County, Ireland to the United States then about 1850 settled in Walsingham Township, Norfolk County near the village of Langton. Later in life they lived in Kent County, Ontario and then in Kent County, Michigan. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk and Kent Counties, and in Michigan. Descendant surnames included: North, Thompson, Smith. 

Hutchison, William (c. 1745-1826) lived in Knowlton, Sussex County, New Jersey during colonial times. During the American Revolution William joined the New Jersey Volunteers and served as a Captain. Following the war, in 1783 William and his first wife Eleanor Butler went in the Loyalist exodus from New York to New Brunswick, settling in Kennebecasis. In 1802 William and his second wife Catharine Lewis moved to Walsingham Township, Norfolk County northwest of the village of Port Rowan. Includes five generations of descendants in Norfolk and Elgin Counties, and in Michigan and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Miller, Riddle, Morton, Starr, Matthews, Breadon, Lewis, Bridgeman, Turrill, Coburn, Soper, Hodgins, Morrow, Graham, Misner, Constable. 

Hyde, Sherman (1784-1825) and his wife Anna Lodor lived in Sandytown, New Jersey then came to Upper Canada about 1810 and settled in Windham Township, Norfolk County near Round Plains then afterwards in Burford Township in Oxford County, Oakland Township in Brant County and finally in Townsend Township in Norfolk County, and in South Carolina and elsewhere. Includes parents, children and grandchildren in Norfolk County. Descendant surnames included: Milburn, Anderson. 

Hyland/Highland, John (c. 1792-1871) and his wife Ann emigrated from England to Canada during the 1840’s and settled east of Bloomsburg, Townsend Township, Norfolk County. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk County. Descendant surnames included: Perren, Kitchen.