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Information was transcribed or abstracted from many counties in Virginia. Some information is included for North Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.
The Irish experience of Christianity has never been simple or uncomplicated. Here, Crawford Gribben describes the ancient emergence, long dominance, sudden division, and recent decline of Ireland's most important religion, as a way of telling the history of the island and its peoples, from earliest times to the present day.
The Establishment of English colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century opened new opportunities for trade. Conspicuous among the families who used these opportunities to gain mercantile and social importance was the Perry family of Devon, who created Perry and Lane, by the end of the century the most important London firm trading to the Chesapeake and other parts of North America. Jacob Price traces the family from Devon to Spain, Ireland, Scotland, the Chesapeake, New England, and London. He describes their relationships with Chesapeake society, from the Byrds and Carters to humble planters. In London, the firm's patronage gave the family high standing among f...
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Covers the period of colonial history from the beginning of European colonization in the Western Hemisphere up to the time of the American Revolution.
Edmond Nichols Sr. lived in Montgomery County, North Carolina, and had five sons between 1750 and 1767. Includes genealogical data about probable ancestry living in Virginia, Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, Texas and elsewhere.