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  2. First Families of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Most First Families remained in Virginia, where they flourished as tobacco planters, and from the sale of slaves to the cotton states to the south. Indeed, many younger sons of the First Families were relocated into the cotton belt to start their own plantations. With the emancipation of slaves during the Civil War and the consequential loss of ...

  3. List of Jamestown colonists - Wikipedia

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    Bernard Bailyn, The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 (Vintage, 2012) Warren M. Billings (Editor), The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007) James Horn, A Land as God Made It (Perseus Books, 2005)

  4. Colonial families of Maryland - Wikipedia

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    The colonial families of Maryland were the ... Managed a ferry, [41] Freeman, General Assembly of state Talbot County [42 ... (1745 – 1819) American ...

  5. Old Philadelphians - Wikipedia

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    These families were influential in the development and leadership of arts, culture, science, medicine, law, politics, industry and trade in the United States. [2] They were almost exclusively white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs), [ 3 ] and most belonged to the Episcopal church and Quakerism .

  6. Randolph family of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Randolph family of Virginia is a prominent political family, whose members contributed to the politics of Colonial Virginia and Virginia after statehood. They are descended from the Randolphs of Morton Morrell, Warwickshire, England. The first Randolph in America was Edward Fitz Randolph, who settled in Massachusetts in 1630. [1]

  7. American royalty - Wikipedia

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    Lee family, political family of Colonial Virginia and Maryland Roosevelt family , from the old stock Knickerbocker settlers [ 12 ] [ 15 ] Washington family , family of George Washington, commanding general of the Continental Army, first president of the United States, the man who would not be king [ 12 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ]

  8. List of slave owners - Wikipedia

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    This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...

  9. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the uniting of the Thirteen English Colonies and creation of the United States in 1776, during the Revolutionary War.