The compilers' motivations for publishing many years of research is to provide family and researchers a collection of material with which to confront both early scholarship and family legend, and to begin their own discovery.

For more than 30 years, records and information were gathered and organized by brothers Stephen Dayton and James Dayton, both of whom possess professional backgrounds in analysis.

The product is a 476 page compilation of all known records, documenting the descent of the authors' Long Island line, six generations, from Ralph Dayton through Samuel,...