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I'm a Virginian, born and raised. So far, I have traced my roots back to 1595 in Charles City to my 10th GGM, who was a Pamunkey Indian and a midwife.
That'll be 1695
Interesting.
Are u married?
Originally, Virginia included what is now West Virginia and Virgineola (now the British territory Bermuda). During the early years, Bermuda was the most successful settlement and as the population there grew, many Bermudians settled in Virginia, the Carolinas and other new continental colonies (Alabama for example) as well as colonies in the Caribbean. This means the earliest New World records for many families in the region are to be found in the Bermuda archives.
Wow. If I had an ancestor from Bermuda 100 was this Virginia or British Bermuda?
There was a fleet of supply ships, the flagship being the Sea Venture. Some of the well known future movers and shakers were on that Ship. Some I can think about were Steven Hopkins who went back to England, and returned on the Mayflower. ??? Rolf who cultivated virginias first tobacco crop, and married Pocahontas. Captain Christopher ???? Well known ships captain, Francis West distant cousin, of Queen Elizabeth I, future governor of Virginia, and ???? Jordan, future husband of Cicely Bailey. They were caught in a storm and the Sea Venture ran a ground off shore in Bermuda, than known as Southworts or something like that Islands. The survivors took the remaing ship and spent about 10 months rebuilding two ships from the wreckage. The Wests were related to Lord Baltimore somehow. I'm like a 2nd cousin about 10 times removed from them, being a descendant of Mary Boleyn thru her son Henry. They made it to America and Rolf settled between Jordans Journey plantation and the Flowerdew 100 plantation. Temperance Flowerdew was probably the namesake of Cecily's oldest daughter Temperance Bailey. Temperance Flowerdew was married to one of the first governor's and later one of the Wests. I have some Pennel ancestors from Pennsylvania that married one of her great grand sons. I started reading a book by Bradley from the Mayflower that came in 1620 and he mentions they had a fear of Francis West, and one of the Infamous Lord Buckinghams, who were King Charles representatives, they kind of viewed them as royal pirate's.
One of the plantations northwest of Jordans Journey plantation was the Bermuda 100. A surviver of the massacre was from that plantation and sometime after Jordan died married Cicily Reynolds?? Bailey, Jordan, he helped her with the plantation.
those records don't compare to Virginias. Alabama became a part of the Union in 1820.
I'm a DAR member working on a long-term project. I'm transcribing the vital records out of the Virginia Free Press starting in 1832 on through (I just started 1855). This little paper was published out of Charles Town, VA/WV and did a really good job of noting marriages and deaths in Jefferson (WV), Berkeley (WV), Frederick, Loudoun, Fauquier...minorly from Hampshire (WV), Culpeper and Hardy (WV). Sitting where Charles Town is, they also have quite a good bit of reports from Washington and Allegany Co, MD and Washington, DC. Further...the paper kept track of those that went west to states like Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio and sometimes California. I clip the actual paper image and attach that plus the publication data to a findagrave profile if one exists. If it doesn't exist, I put it into a spreadsheet transcribing out names and dates so it is searchable. So far, 3000 line items of either a marriage or death with the parties involved. When I'm done, I'll probably send to local DAR chapters in that area. My own DAR patriots are from Rockingham Co.
Just started watching . CHURCH records are very valuable resource to Early VA .
I've recently discovered I'm related to William Gaston Lewis(Brigadier General CSA)and other Lewis' out of Edgecombe, NC, Southampton, VA, and back to Isle of Wight County, VA from my paternal grandmother's side. I'm so excited to continue learning more. I'm fairly new at this. I live in Chesterfield, Virginia.
I have a Lewis who was born in South Carolina and moved to Alabama in the 1800's. I would love to know more about where he came from.
This clip really inspired me. As soon as it was over, I began finding things I never thought I would.
Wow, that's fantastic to hear!!
This was very helpful. I have the challenge of searching for family with very common names - Lewis and Harris. Trying to make sure I have the correct James Lewis and the correct John Harris is enough to make your eyes cross.
So glad it was helpful, thanks!
What about my name... Stansall in England, and Stancil in Virginia/North Carolina.. yes you could scream!
Kind of like Saltinstall. I think I remember a Sir Richard Saltinstall who was a shirt tail relative who may have brought some of my ancestors as indentuted servants.
My earliest colonial ancestor arrived in the 1670s in Virginia via the headright system and William Byrd . He was an indentured servent or laborer
I wish we could find where/what plantation they worked out their indentures!
European Slavs were the slaves even well into the 1700s. I can probably find the plantation if anyone is looking
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Land Patent records will contain a list of passenger names of those brought over through the headright system.
I found my ancestors name on microfilm from Henrico co land Patent book 6
Long time researcher for Virginia records, particularly Frederick County and Hampshire County (the latter county now being in West Virginia). FamilySearch has tremendous land and court records and I highly recommend browsing through counties that apply to your research and check them out! Many of the old land and court records aren't indexed, so you'll need to take time browsing through the films. Well worth the time though. Some years ago I found a land record for a Virginia ancestor who received land from the Commonwealth of Virginia when it was selling land to private owners in the 1780's. Essentially, my ancestor was the first "owner" of that tract of land.
Thanks!
I’m going through Augusta County Court records now from the 1750’s searching for my ancestors surname. A tedious job , but i have found some things had i not gon through each page. Some clerks write terribly, some not so bad !
I'm going to have to dig out one of my old notebooks to get the names, but reading old wills on ancestry or wikitree I found three brothers came to Maryland during King Charles II reign or shortly after. They were fugitaves that left England after Charles I was executed. They went to France with Charles II and returned to England and found their homes destroyed. They became landowners in Ann Arundel county and there was a Mary Yates, that married a Plummer. I think there was a Doctor Harris also. In the will the man left large acers of land to the sons and the daughter got nothing since she had a husband, but she would get a cow if she would go back to England and claim it in a year. I don't think he loved his daughter.
Very useful to be reminded of the importance of land! That is probably why many of them came over here anyway. Thank you so much! From a southerner going back to the 1600's
Thank you!
My wife is a genealogist, I'm a Virginian with roots from the early 1600's. I have one correction: Virginia is pronounced "Vajenya" (wink).
That spelling is spot on. As a fellow Virginian I stand with you.
I’m a direct descendant of Elizabeth Nansemond and John Basse. We even had Bass relatives as late as the late 1800’s. It’s amazing how much is available now. Another tidbit is to go back to the European country of origin and search the names of your ancestors who came here for a bigger picture. We found out John Basse’s parents weren’t even from London originally as we were told all of our lives. The father Nathaniel Basse was French in origin and his wife was from Italian ancestry. What’s interesting is we found out her birth mother was of moorish descent from Sicily. It makes a lot of sense.
We are related to some degree I have John Basse/Bass in my tree.
I'm trying to track a Henry Bass who was born in South Carolina. There are a lot of Henrys!
My maternal grandmother was a Clay. I've traced the Clay's back to 1613 when John Clay(e) arrived in Jamestown. Also a direct decendant of William Randolph and Mary Isham Randolph, referred to the Adam and Eve of Virginia. Been doing genelogy for the past 18 yeas.
My grandfather is a helmick. At least Three generations born and raised in Jamestown.
I have a Clay ancestor-- Elizabeth who married a Belcher. Have the entire Belcher lineage.
Wow
My father's side of the family started settling Virginia before the U.S. Revolutionary War and knew and may have been related to George Washington. Shadrack Turner's log cabin is a National Landmark in Virginia.
Hi. Shadrack and Judith Burnett were my 3rd great grandparents.
@@davidb9230 I am also a Shadrack and George Turner descendant. George Washington Turner from Virginia was my 5th greatgrandfather on my father's side and my mother's family were from the Czech Republic and Poland and Germany and Balkans and Ukraine and I still have cousins in Prague and was last there in May 1992 when I was 16 during the Siege of Sarajevo. Shadrack Turner and Ann Pollard Hill were direct ancestors 9 generations back for me.
I have ancestors in America going back to Jamestown as well as several who were on the mayflower
I found lots of valuable information in the MILITARY records. There were black ancestors in my family. It was noted in parentheses ( very light skin), in other words he didn’t look black! I also hit a roadblock when I got to my great grandmothers father and mother. Turns out
Her father was also her grandfather! This all went back to early 1700’s. After the shock I stopped digging😂. So I did a DNA test, I am a large % subsaharan, which explains many things❤all VIRGINIA AND NC RECORDS
Thank you. Most of my ancestors came into Virginia and Maryland.
I too am a Virginian. I thought most of my ancestors were around Henrico, 1600s, Chesterfield, Petersburg, Amelia, area. Since I moved to the Northern Neck I found I have ancestors from Lancaster and Richmond counties. The only reason that happened was Jonathan Lyell of Farnham bought 4509 acres in Dinwiddie County and his daughter Winifred met and married Mark Andrews , 1740s of Dinwiddie, who was my grandmothers ancestors. Weird how that even happened! I love family history!
My Father's Family settled in Tangier Island VA...we are Crocketts!! I am going there soon to find my family...recently found out about this info..im excited 😊
There were Crockett(s) in Southwest Virginia. One of them, Walter Crockett, was the Captain of a militia in the Battle of Point Pleasant (1774). My 7th gg father was in his militia and died in that battle.
I adore Tangier Island. I am a proponent of efforts to save this resource.
My 12th great grandfather is Raleigh Croshaw, he immigrated to the Virginia colony on the Second Supply (September 1608) he survived the starving time.
I have also found records of people filing for pensions as Veterans of War. I even had an ancestor who had to sue for her pension as a Veteran of the Revolutionary War. They tried to give her less as a woman
I keep hitting the "County burned" brick wall in VA, SC, NC, TN, KY. One county courthouse burned 3 times. There is zero info other than census from 1840-1933. My SC ancestors got hit with burned Rev. War and Civil war fires. Not to mention floods and over zealous court clerks cleaning out files. In one county, the DAR registrar just happened to visit the court house one day and found all the marriages from 1796-1970 in the trash. She retrieved them. Imagine the lost info if she hadn't been there. And more recently, a county clerk was taking old records home and burning them to make room for new records. In one county, a researcher took home (stole) 20 years of marriage records - this was before microfilming and other forms of preserving info.
The VA state library requires a library card. They do not allow access to their online files unless you have a VA address. If you live outside of VA, you have the physically appear to obtain a card. Very, very difficult for someone living in any of the other 49 states.
What I find confusing is in the early 1600’s so many people died and remarried the survivors. It’s hard to keep the spouses and children straight. Also some of them returned to England and died there. I always question if that is accurate. They do have records of who sailed on which ship. Yes, some of those counties and colonies changed names and boundaries
Godfrey Ragsdale family
My hubby's roots are deep Coastal Plains CAROLINA, VA and I finally learned where the FURMAN line tracks before Maryland (thanks to genetic genealogy Ymarker 67 and greater). I recall very well when I began this work the work started in Harnett CO. It was the MOST burned county in NC. What I learned was connecting to people who worked on family history projects in the 50s and 60s and even into the early 70s brought records that were lost because of fires. Also helped unearth copies of missing records from the State Archives too. So paying attention and asking who has been working on various lines, checking the vertical files at research repositories can be a HUGE HELP. I found where one of the early JOHNSTON CO COMMISSIONERS took home a ledger that the family submitted to the Smithfield Heritage Center. I wholeheartedly agree to LEARN the COUNTY - tracking the pastors, sheriff's line might help find a grave (or a surprise bend in a pedigree due to an adoption by someone in the church who took in a child after one or more parent died).
My ancestors on my grandma side is Ragsdale family. Thank God for Godfrey. I took a My Heritage DNA test and I got English 53% Iberian Azores Islands Portugal 26.4 % Irish Scottish Welsh 8.9 % Scandinavian 7.6 % East European 4.1 %
Thanks! Some excellent info on Early American research - great pointers from your knowledgeable guest
Our pleasure, thanks!!
My paternal grandmother was a Washington from VA, she was a dark complected woman. She came to RI and married an Arnold. They eventually settled and bought the house known as the Washington-Arnold house historically.
My ancestor, Joseph S. Cobb arrived in Jamestown in 1613. I would love to hear from any cousins out there.
My great great Grandpa... Charles warfeild was a English ship captain from London in the 1670s settled in the British colonie of now Maryland met a woman and had a family there and now I'm here with all the other warfeilds most didn't move west of the Mississippi today
I myself like many others have started this endeavor of going through the rabbit hole of genealogy. I have family who were in Nansemond,VA around the 1700's.
Me too! I found my ancestor listed in the 1704 Nansemond County, VA Quitrent as owning 500A.. but 5 years later in 1709 he's in Chowan County, NC. My stomach sank when I found out nansemond co. was a burn county
Philippe Delano, who arrived on the Fortune in 1621, was my 10th Great Grandfather. My 5th great grandfather, Lawson Parker, was George Washington's neighbor. Washington referenced him in his daily diary, along with his wife Dorcas, who acted as mid-wife to Washington's slaves. Family Search was incredibly useful as I began my journey into the past.
I live in California and cannot travel to Virginia and my family goes back to quite a few years before 1750. I'm surprised that your expert did not mention Virginia Chronicles and the University of Virginia. Also Chancery or old court records and family Bibles which can be found at Virginia Chronicles. These have been great resources. Also the cursive writing is a challenge but also because of the unusual way they abbreviated words, not just the archaic meaning. I was hoping to get a few hints of places I'd not explored if your guest was a true expert. If she is then she's not giving away maybe her secrets. One thing for sure, family trees in my family are often wrong on Ancestry or Family search. Those are helpful but even Miles files have a lot of incorrect records. I know because I've been at this for nearly 30 years and painstakingly successfully placed some 20,000 people in my paternal tree from Virginia. Additionally plat maps are also helpful, not always but sometimes very much so. I feel there is much left out from your expert. I am a professional genealogist which to me is how I prefer to use as "expert" implies more knowledge than I' m hearing here.
I have a number of 5-8 th cousins, through Ancestry, who have the Savage name in common in very early Virginia and Connecticut. Apparently the Savage name is the longest continuing family in America. My great-grandmother was a Savage in England.
Some "VA" families track back to Maryland Colony's expulsions too Genetic genealogy is so key to COLONIAL lines . We have a research window that is closing to help establish, anchor, and confirm direct lines. So many have assumed their lines track to VA and Jamestown. But the reality is there were people in the Carolinas before anyone landed in VA. So the work may whip back to the Carolinas, Florida, or even the Delta. There was a migration from the Delta in the mid 1600s that moved people to the Carolinas and a few made it all the way to VA. Those records are in QUEBEC because until the agreement was signed for the French to surrender their hold to the British, what I call the greater MISSISSIPPI was FRENCH controlled and the govt was in QUEBEC.
Trying to find the "lincolnLee's" from exeter/oley who traveled with the Lincolns & Boones.
Directly related to Seaton/Seetin family that were inhabitants in Stafford County in 1609.
While trying to research, I went to Stafford Courthouse, and all land records were destroyed by Sherman's March to Richmond during the Civil War.
According to my grandfather, certain "families" in Stafford had stolen our land after the war.
I lived in Stafford years ago, and yes, there are several families that owned huge farms and parcels of land.....they know who they are.
Also, the direct descendant of Edward Doty, who was a passenger on the Mayflower.
Yes! My ancestors are from Virginia!
I think the Colonial Tithe records are probably found in church records. I enjoy reading wills; hopefully, the person’s spouse and children (and their families) will be listed.
My 6th great gf was Christopher Robinson (d.1693), "Hewick" Plantation, Urbanna, VA., House of Burgess member, and a foundingTrustee at the College of William and Mary. Christopher's brother was the Rt Rev John Robinson, Lord Bishop of London in St Paul's Cathedral (1713-23). I am 9 Robinson generations down from Virginia to Georgia by his second wife, Katherine Hone Beverley Robinson, daughter of Maj Theophilus Hone, Jamestown 1607, my maternal 7th gr grandfather.
This is very helpful, thanks for your hard work and insights.
Our family owned Richneck Plantation. Miles Cary owned it.
iam trying to prove a marriage in Culpeper County. I was informed by the historical society that the marriage records were burnt by the soldiers for warmth. heartbreaking
Yes it’s heart breaking. Been searching for 25 years and nothing in Culpepper Co. Va. I can’t go to the courthouse or library in Virginia
When?
Thank you for the information. As an American who can trace 99% of her ancestry back to the 1600s (from 1630, that I know), it is great to have this info. Ancestry only has family info (as far as communities) from 1700. Most of the info abut formation of counties, etc., I have learned when I first started. What I find confusing is when an ancestor has records for the the county in VA and also for a county in North Carolina. I also like the online resources for Virginia and the Library of Virginia. Thanks again.
In my ancestor's case, Stancil sailed to Virginia from England in 1683 on a 4 year indenture. I found him listed in the 1704 Nansemond Co Quitrent. Then the next time I find him(1709) he's evidently moved downward about 20 miles into Chowan county, nc. >_
Fun fact. A very high number of African American people have roots in Virginia. in 1800 Virginia had the largest black population in the States, and became the main supplier of the Domestic Slave Trade from 1810-1860. Upwards of 800K people were sold from Virginia and Maryland to the new Gulf Coast States.
Im a descendant of Nicholas Casey Sr. Who settled in the Isle of Wight ☺️
My father's side was in Virginia long enough to have participated in the Revolutionary War. Their name was Pinn/Penn
We left Bristol England and came into Plymouth Mass. We went to Virginia in the early 1600’s.
my eldest traceable mimas going back was born in 1768 before her area was a part of Virginia, she was born on Cherokee land, before there was a county…her first daughter was born in her home and then they went to N.C. to visit her father relatives in Surry co, N.C.
I am descended from the Crush family. (Jacobs side) they settled in this area in the 1700s.
Botetourt county. Tobacco farmers.
What I have found that a number of the children of my Brackett and Crocker 1630s Mass Bay ancestors went South to Virginia / Carolinas during King Philips war 1675-1699...
Also note that "the New England historical and genealogical register" vast 40+ volume records can be found in several libraries across the country... San Diego library main branch has a copy which has been very helpful to me :) There is also a huge many volume register of German immigrants here as well...
John Bristow (1649-1716) is my 7th great-grandfather and is buried in Christchurch.
I like this video and it is helpful although I do have a complaint . Many of your viewers are older including me and have hearing problems. You have a huge microphone yet I have my sound wide open and still have to strain to hear you. can you please on any future videos turn up the sound if its too loud I can turn you down. However I can not turn you any higher so please turn yours up. Thank you
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I seriously pity the current and future generations of genealogists, they are no longer being taught to read or write cursive, so they likely won’t be able to read old documents unless they have been transcribed digitally which only a very small portion of them have
I had some relatives - including my 7th great grandfather Christopher Robinson (1681-1727) from Virginia
Have you found a Martha Robinson who married a Jonny McDowell and then John Joel Claytor.
How about VA records back to the mid 1600's. My own family trace back to 1650 in VA, 1624, New Amsterdam, Conn. 1636, Long Island 1640-s.
My 6th great grandma and many more of my family were the accomac peoples. Hatney turlington Ashby gore kellam surnames of my ancestors
My ancestor, Richard Foote, settled around Stafford Virginia in 1685 or so
I traced my wife's Virginia family and its history back to the mid-1600's which her family didn't like very much. Can you say "Southern Gothic"?
Most of my family in Virginia were farmers
What county(ies)?
I can trace my lineage in Virginia back to Pocahontas
My earliest Virginian ancestor was a Chickahominey man, who may have had a child with a Welsh woman. I can't find her name. My oldest male immigrant ancestor was a Thomas Ellmond of Wales. in 1620.
I found a land petition in Ontario, Canada dated 1805 and it states that Michel Hofman was born in the State of Virginny in 1763. Is there a way to find out what counties had Hofman/Huffman families? By 1772 they were in Schoharie, NY and then to Upper Canada in 1786. Looking to pick up Michael's parents Nicholas and Abigail (Appolonia).
I traced my family back to my 10th Great Grandfather, a Settler named in the Farrar's Island patent in 1625.
My father was a Farrar from Nelson co.
Ahhh here it is!
My name is Robert Cook. I am the 9th generation here in Surry County North Carolina. Robert Cook and his grandson James received the first land grants from Lord Granville to the what is now Westfield Township. this was sometime around 1750-1760? Robert was born in 1708 died 1780 and I have a copy of his last will and testament plus an inventory of everything he owned. Looking on wiki tree Robert was the son of William Cook from Surrey county Va. William Cooks grandfather or great grandfather came to Virginia in 1630 and his wife gave birth on the ride here from Bristol England. But I don’t have any proof that this is where Robert Cook came from. Do you all have anything on this? Can you help me?
My ancestors have quite a few records on Family Search. ...actually, depending on which track I take, I get into European royalty...a LONG way back. Can I take those records to be fact when I connect my ancestors to a branch just a few generations back? ... On another track, I got into a Native American branch... how cool would that be!!?!?!? But, can I take that as fact?
I’m of Melungeon descent and most of my ancestors came to Kentucky from Louisa County and Russell. I have 5 lines of Gibson and I’m really struggling with finding information. My 3rd ggf William Gibson Collins was born in Scott County between 1845-1853. His mother is Catherine Kate Gibson. She had 3 sons out of wedlock, William Gibson Collins, Samuel Gibson and John Gibson Ramey. She married JB (Elbe) Collins around 1850 in Hancock Tennessee. I can’t find any record of his birth or where he was in 1860-1870. He wasn’t in the home with his mother, none of them were. Do you have any advice on where i could search?
Do you have anything on South Carolina? I have 2 ancestors on 2 legs of the same brick wall side of my tree, who were born in South Carolina, and I only have info from once they were adults in the 1800's after they migrated into Gulf Coast states.
We haven't covered South Carolina specifically.
I have a male Thompson line gooing back to Revolutionary War records, but the women they married are never mentioned.
THOMapSON. I mean. Come ooooon. Oh, there’s a Smith in there. Super helpful. Ha.
@Early Virginia Genealogy, can you tell me what kind of Taxes were levied in Virginia circa 1800-1825? Were there any Occupational Taxes? How often? I have an Ancestor who was in Berkley/Jefferson County (West) Virginia between 1800-1825. I cannot find his Death/Probate Records, so I am looking to find the last time he was assessed Taxes in the Area.
My ancestors were the Germana people in the 1700s
Mine too… Guten tag
My family is the Remy one of the oldest families in VA
Reamy is an other way of spelling my last name
My ancestor John Stansall/Stancil sailed to Virginia from England in Nov 1683, on a 4-year indenture. I don't know where he worked out these years. He is later listed in the 1704 Nansemond County Quitrent. Then I find this is a burn county :-(
I’m confused, do we research in the county they lived in or the present day county ?
Start looking for records in the county they lived in at the time.
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I'm a direct descendent of Capt Robert Adams ( ship captain and came to Jamestown on the Bona Nova in 1620) who was also Burgess for 1623-1624. There's conflicting information about any relation with the Adams of Massachusetts. A cousin and I feel like there was some fanciful writing in the late 1800s and early 1900s making the relationship claim. I've also been researching a great grandmother Mourning Lewis who married another Capt Robert Adams of Henrico Co. I've only found one mention of her parents listing a Col. William Lewis as her father. I have read the wills of both the second Capt Robert Adams and Mourning Lewis Adams so I have a general idea of where their land was located. We moved to Georgia after the revolutionary war so finding reliable information about our Virginia ancestors has been touch and go.
I’m a direct descendant of captain John Radcliffe of the discovery and later governor of Jamestown.
@@kdugg I believe I've read of some interactions between them. I'll have to look back through my notes
The older census records don't list everyone anyone just the head of house 💁🏻♀️
Ever hear of Pittsylvania?
I have a brick wall there and am interested in available resources that anyone has used for the mid to late 1700s.
One of my earliest VA ancestors was Cicely unknown Reynolds, Bailey, Jordan, amongst other last names. There's a lot of speculation on her origins, but nothing that is proven. I am descended from her oldest daughter Temperance Bailey and the Brown surname. She supposedly came at the age of ten in 1611 aboard the Swan, but no record of her guardians.
Interesting. I might be able to help if your Bailey's, Jordan's brown's were from Surry County, VA, the second county of Virginia formed independently out of James City County, VA in 1652. The Jordan's, Bailey's and Browne's including that of the Flood's heavily intermarried in Surry County through the 1600-1700's....
We are cousins James. I am direct descendant of Cicely Bailey Jordan Ferrer, Ancient Planter 1622 massacre survivor, and her daughter Temperance Bailey Cocke and Col Richard Cocke….through 5 generations of Cockes who settled Henrico, VA. My DAR confirmed genealogy takes Cecily back to about 1610 Jamestown and Flowerdew plantation. She married Jordan’s Journey plantation owner Samuel Jordan, heavily pregnant with their 2nd child when the massacre onset began. My Cocke line daughtered out when she married Robert Cheek 6 generations later. Then Cheek, Cates, Durham,Durham, Windham, Galloway.
My descendants from Temperance Bailey were thru her children Cocke and then some browns and Plummerr relatives that kind of get hard to untangle.
I think I forgot some Hoskins or Haskins as well.
Does anyone know where the ships carrying British indentured servants come in to Virginia around the 1680s? a particular county on the coast?
Some went to Baltimore
Was early Maryland ever part of early Virginia?
No
No, but similar settlers arrived in Maryland as in Virginia.
@@dr.strangelove9815 It was slightly different . Virginia had Tidewater gentry and mostly Anglo settlers and Scotch Irish . Maryland was more Catholic and got more German settlers .
Way hard with native American heritage from Jamestown. Is it true, one governer had all records destroyed?
have Puryear relatives.
Anybody related to a Sally Culliford?
Virginia is not part of New England though, I googled. I think it ought to be.
And- 🤷🏻♀️ what do you upper crust want from us?
You need to go back a hundred years before that...back to the 1630's!!!
colonizer genealogy 😂
Everything in history was colonized. Get over it .
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic said like a colonizer lol
My name is Robert Cook. I am the 9th generation here in Surry County North Carolina. Robert Cook and his grandson James received the first land grants from Lord Granville to the what is now Westfield Township. this was sometime around 1750-1760? Robert was born in 1708 died 1780 and I have a copy of his last will and testament plus an inventory of everything he owned. Looking on wiki tree Robert was the son of William Cook from Surrey county Va. William Cooks grandfather or great grandfather came to Virginia in 1630 and his wife gave birth on the ride here from Bristol England. But I don’t have any proof that this is where Robert Cook came from. Do you all have anything on this? Can you help me?