Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers: A Biographical Dictionary, 1607-1635
by Martha W. McCartney
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Author: Martha W. McCartneyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-04-30
ISBN: 0806317744
Number of pages: 833
Publisher: Genealogical Pub Co
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Summary: 5 Stars
Arrived on time as agreed. Once you get the hang of the way this is written, it becomes a very useful genealogical tool. While the book is aimed at the genealogist, there are gems of information contained inside well worth the reading by the general public. An example would be the woman who died aboard ship on the way to Jamestowne and what became of her possessions.
Summary of Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers: A Biographical Dictionary, 1607-1635
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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