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Death date (YYYY-MM-DD) [note 1] Notes Henry Adling: Gentleman Adding, H. Jerome Alicock: Gentleman Alikok Ancient, Jeremy 1607–08–04 Slain by natives [10] Gabriel Archer: Captain and Gentleman Archer, Gabriell 1609 or 1610 winter Secretary to the Council (lawyer) [11] John Asbie: 1607–08–06 First death of the colony (dysentery) [10 ...
These elite families generally married within their social class for many generations and, as a result, most surnames of First Families date to the colonial period. The American Revolution cut ties with Britain but not with its social traditions. While some First Family members were loyal to Britain, others were Whigs who supported and often ...
Members of the family include Thomas Lee (1690–1750), a founder of the Ohio Company and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses; Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734–1797) and Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794), signers of the American Declaration of Independence, with Richard Lee also serving as one of Virginia's inaugural U.S. Senators; Henry ...
Oliver Seymour Phelps and his son-in-law, Andrew T. Servin, published The Phelps Family in America in 1899. They mistakenly concluded that William Phelps was the brother of George Phelps, who apparently arrived in Windsor, Connecticut in 1635 aboard the Recovery of London, and that both emigrated from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [1]
The colonial families of Maryland were the leading families in the ... (1745 – 1819) American planter ... deeds and church records. Kohn & Pollock. 1905. ...
The following people lived in Rhode Island prior to Colonial settlement: [1] Wampanoag people lived throughout Plymouth Colony and around Mount Hope Bay in Bristol, Rhode Island. Massasoit, tribal leader, met the Pilgrims at Plymouth; Wamsutta, son of Massasoit, renamed Alexander; became tribal leader upon father's death but died shortly after
He was a judge, a colonel in the colonial militia, and sided with the revolutionary cause against his cousin. Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (1737–1820), a grandson of Lieutenant Governor John Wentworth through his son Mark, nephew of Benning Wentworth, and loyalist colonial Governor of New Hampshire during the American Revolution.
The Washington family is an American family of English origins that was part of both the British landed gentry and the American gentry.It was prominent in colonial America and rose to great economic and political eminence especially in the Colony of Virginia as part of the planter class, owning several highly valued plantations, mostly making their money in tobacco farming.