The Early Settlers of the Bahamas and Colonists of North America

Description

Persons searching for Bahamian ancestors will want to study the various lists of names which appear throughout this work, including the census of inhabitants for New Providence in 1671, a mid-17th-century list of the first settlers of Eleuthra, a list of some 800 Loyalists who fled to the Bahamas from East Florida in 1784, a 1791 census of lot owners on Harbour Island, and various lists of Bahamian officials. Also includes biographical sketches of descent of more than 200 contemporary Bahamians of distinction.