Adventurers of Purse And Person Virginia 1607-1624/5 Vol 3 Genealogy

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Adventurers of Purse  And Person
Virginia 1607-1624/5
Fourth Edition
Volume Three
Families R-Z
Softbound    volume  totaling
1089
pages. Book  is in excellent condition. Just what you need  for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
This is the third and final      volume of the legendary
Adventurers of Purse and Person,
a monumental      compendium of genealogies of the founders of Virginia during the formative      period 1607-1625 and the culmination of more than twenty-five years of      research by the widely respected Virginia genealogist John Frederick Dorman.
It contains accounts of forty-six pre-1625 Virginia      settlers or members of the Virginia Company of London whose families later      came to the colony, with thirty-six of them traced to the sixth generation.      Individuals ranging from R-Z (Reynolds to Zouche) identified in the work      must have been resident in Virginia during the period 1607-1624/25 or      members of the Virginia Company of London in order to be designated      "adventurers," and it is their descendants alone who qualify for membership      in one of the most distinguished hereditary societies in America, the Order      of First Families of Virginia.
Adventurers of Purse and Person
is      their story, a collection of genealogies of all adventurers with proven      descents into the sixth generation.
Prepared under the auspices of the Order of First      Families of Virginia to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of      Jamestown, this new edition of
Adventurers of Purse and Person
extends the lines of descent of the founding families documented in previous      editions from four generations to six, bringing most families down to the      Revolutionary or early Federal periods. The purpose of the work is to      establish descents of the approximately 150 individuals who can be      identified as (1) Adventurers of Purse (i.e. stockholders in the Virginia      Company of London who either came to Virginia in the period 1607-1625 and      had descendants, or who did not come to Virginia during that period but      whose grandchildren were resident there); or (2) Adventurers of Person,      1607-1625 (i.e., immigrants to Virginia who left descendants).
The foundation of the work is the famous "Muster" of      1624-25--essentially a census taken by the Royal Commission which succeeded      the Virginia Company to determine the extent and composition of the      Jamestown settlements. In the Muster, which is reproduced in entirety in      Volume One, the name of each colonist appears with the location of his home      and the number in his family, together with information about his stock of      food, his supply of arms and ammunition, his boats, houses, and livestock.      In all, about 1,200 persons are named in the Muster, of whom approximately      150 are shown in this work to have left descendants to the sixth generation.
In addition to the Muster, this work builds on the      investigations of dozens of scholars, correcting, revising, and      supplementing the best genealogical scholarship of the past half century.      New discoveries, newly available information, and a further reevaluation of      evidence concerning previously accepted relationships have led, in some      instances, to wholesale changes in the accepted genealogies. In consequence,      this fourth edition brings together the results of all the most recent      scholarship on these families, expanding the limits of what is presently      known and opening up possibilities for research beyond the sixth generation.
In the Foreword to this volume, Carter Branham Snow      Furr, President of the Order of First Families of Virginia, writes: "Thanks      go to those earlier genealogists and researchers as well as to those who      assisted our current genealogist in his research. Mr. John Frederick Dorman      has labored continuously since the publication of the third edition of 1987      to compile lists of new genealogical lines as well as the massive histories      of all six generations, where available. It is he who deserves the ultimate      gratitude of our Order and the public for giving us this most complete and      comprehensive genealogy of our earliest Virginia ancestors."
FAMILIES (R-Z)
Reynolds
Robins
Rolfe
Rookings
Royall
St. Leger
Salter-Weld
Savage
Scarburgh
Sharp
Sharp-Baugh
Sheppey
Slaughter
Smith (Arthur)
Smith (Richard)
Smith (Roger)
Southey-Harmar-Littleton
Spencer
Stephens
Strachey
Swann
Tatum
Taylor-Cary
Thorowgood
Tooke
Townshend
Trussell
Utie
Utie-Bennett
Vassall
Waters
West
West (Anthony)
Whiting
Wilkins
Williams
Willoughby
Wood
Woodhouse
Woodliffe
Woodson
Woodward
Wroughton
Wyatt
Yeardley
Zouche
HIGHLIGHTS
Volume Three covers a total of 46 families that were        established either by settlers of Virginia prior to 1625 or members of the        Virginia Company of London whose descendants came to Virginia later.
Of these 46 families, 36 are traced to the sixth        generation.
Over 6,500 individual descendants resident in        Virginia (or subsequently in other states) are identified.
Family accounts are supported by nearly 10,000        footnote citations to manuscripts or published records.
The index contains 20,000 name, place, and subject        entries, many with multiple page citations.
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