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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)
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 ...
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.
First Families of Virginia (FFV) were those families in Colonial Virginia who were European, socially prominent and wealthy, but not necessarily the earliest settlers. They descended from English colonists who primarily settled at Jamestown , Williamsburg , and along the James River and other navigable waters in Virginia during the 17th century.
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]
The colonial families of Maryland were the leading families in the Province of Maryland. ... (1745 – 1819) American planter, patriot, ... Statistics; Cookie ...
The changing American family: Sociological and demographic perspectives (Routledge, 2019). Vinovskis, Maris A. "Family and schooling in colonial and nineteenth-century America." Journal of Family History 12.1-3 (1987): 19-37. online; Vinovskis, Maris A. "Historical perspectives on the development of the family and parent-child interactions."
Members of these families are generally known for being fiscally conservative, socially liberal, and well educated. These families often have deeply established traditions in the Quaker and Episcopal faiths. [6] Many Old Philadelphia families intermarried and their descendants summer in Northeast Harbor, Desert Island, Maine. [2]