Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary - Softcover

McCartney, Martha W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806317744 ISBN 13: 9780806317748

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2010

Synopsis

This book brings together a variety of primary sources that inform the reader about Virginia's earliest European inhabitants and the sparsely populated and fragile communities in which they lived, resulting in the most comprehensive collection of annotated biographical sketches yet published. Ms. McCartney conveys the basics about many of these original colonists: their origins, the names of the ships they sailed on, the names of the "hundreds" and "plantations" they inhabited, the names of their spouses and children, their occupations and their position in the colony, their relationships with fellow colonists and Indian neighbors, their living conditions as far as can be ascertained from documentary sources, their ownership of land, the dates and circumstances of their death, and a host of fascinating, sometimes incidental details about their personal lives, all gathered together in the handy format of a biographical dictionary.

Maps provided here identify the sites at which Virginia's earliest plantations were located and enable genealogists and students of colonial history to link most of the more than 5,500 people included in this volume to the cultural landscape. An introductory chapter, moreover, includes an overview of local and regional settlement and provides succinct histories of the various plantations established in Tidewater Virginia by 1635.

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From Booklist

Even the queen has been caught up in the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Jamestown. This exhaustively researched volume lists the original colonists as well as several thousand planters, merchants, glassmakers, haberdashers, laborers, mariners, maidservants, transported vagrants, and others who came after them, along with some of the Indians they encountered. For many there is little surviving documentation, and these are given just a line or two. For others there are more detailed histories. Also here are descriptions of various surrounding settlements and plantations. A useful glossary explains the meaning of recurring terms, like ancient planter. Indispensible for collections in the region and all comprehensive history collections. Quinn, Mary Ellen

Edition details

• Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0806317744
• ISBN 13: 9780806317748
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 834