These abstracts embody virtually every shred of evidence available in the local and general archives of Virginia pertaining to thirty-four families–Allen, Bacon, Ballard, Batchelder, Blouet, Brassieur, (Brashear), Cary, Crenshaw, Dabney, Exum, Ferris, Fontaine, Gray, Hardy, Isham, Jordan, Langston, Lyddall, Mann, Mosby, Palmer, Pasteur, Pleasants, Povall, Randolph, Satterwhite, Scott, Smith, Valentine, Waddy, Watts, Winston, Womack, and Woodson. There are, for example, abstracts founded on land and probate records, marriage bonds and ministers’ returns, order books, wills, deeds, parish registers, newspapers (e.g., the Virginia Gazette), private letters and diaries, and much more. Most of the records pertain to the 17th and 18th centuries. Supplementing the records themselves are genealogical tables and a bibliography of sources.
The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers
[Abstracts of 17th- and 18th-Century Virginia Records Relating to 34 Families]. Four Volumes
Publication Date: 1927
Reprint Date: 1979
Pages: 2,768 pp.
ISBN: 9780806308425
$318.75
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