My mother's family came over on the Mayflower and my grandmother joined the Mayflower Compact Society when she was doing the geneaology research. That family settled parts of western Massachusetts.
My father's family came in the 1650s time frame and settled in what became New Hampshire. There is an entire town, East Swanzey, settled mostly by my dad's family - Whitcomb. In his family, there were like 5 brothers who all fought in the Revolutionary War and one became a general. My niece had to do family history as a project so she and sister just drove to east Swanzey and Swanzey for the research and talked to many relatives of ours.
My dad's father started"The Whitcomb Lobster Trap Company." It was sold by my aunt, dad's oldest sister.
Family name for female children is Hepsebah but can't remember which side of the family.
I am eligible for the DAR and the Mayflower Compact Society. We were probably rum runners back in the days of rum running from New England.