THESE LAST NAMES ARRIVED AT JAMESTOWN BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER — IS YOURS ONE OF THEM?
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@keithshamradioworld2793 · 2 months ago
My 10x great grandfather, Lawrence Peele, arrived in Jamestown in 1620. He survived the attack in 1622.
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@Logophile4 · 2 months ago
My ancestors include Woodson, Yeardley, Powell, Sandys, Rolfe and many who were here before 1619. They are qualified ancestors.
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@Robert-n4p1g · 2 months ago
My ancestors landed there in 1636 two brothers I guess they wanted to see the new world I am so glad they made that trip
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@longracing25 · 2 months ago
My 12th Great Grandfather was Sir Hugh Crowder who arrived on the Bona Nova also. He brought my Great Grandmother, and their son Hugh Crowder II (my 11th Great Grandfather) and four Indentured servants. They were given 50 acres per person in your party. They had about 300 acres right across the river from the fort. Yes, they had a large tobacco plantation. He was part of the 1st General Assembly as the tobacco growers representative. Several of my Grandparents prior to him were also Knighted, and in the late 1400's they were in the "Tudors" period of England. The earliest i've studied goes back to the Clan MacGregor of Scotland when the name was "Crowther" and previously MacCrother".
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@waffles1ca · 2 months ago
Quebec City was just behind you in Jamestown (1608)<br>The Sanders name was in Virginia in 1613
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@mgl-s4m · 2 months ago
Thomas David and Margaret Jordan are my 10th great-grandparents. One name you didn’t mention was Clay. John Thomas Clay was my 11th great grandfather who arrived in Jamestown in 1613. He later married Anne Nichols and was the ancestor of Henry Clay, known as ‘The Great Compromiser.’ My 6th great-granduncle was Mitchell Clay and his wife was Phoebe Belcher Clay. They lost some of their children to an attack by Shawnee Warriors in 1783 on their land, now known as the abandoned Lake Shawnee Amusement Park in Southern West Virginia.
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@julielandry2661 · 2 months ago
Five of these names are in my genealogy. Over all, I have over two dozen in the 1624 muster.
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@MYJ61 · 2 months ago (edited)
The Powhatan Indians had Chief Powhatan, and is pronounced Pow-uh-tan.
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@Laurie-e9o · 2 months ago
My mother is a Hampton..how exciting 👏🏼
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@bettykambetsis896 · 2 months ago
My great great grandmother was Agnes Gaskins, direct descendant of the first Thomas Gasgoyne who built Gascony on the Northern Neck. Burned to the ground in the Civil War. Every first son was named Thomas, second sons were named Richard. According to family records the family geneaology dating back to the French ancestors, when they were stlll called Gasgoyne, was lost in the fire during the CIvil War. My great grandmother, Agnes's daughter, gave one of her daughters the name Gasgoyne as a middle name. Congressman Paul Trible's family now owns the Gascony property. The Gaskins served honorably in the Revolution and the Civil War.
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@MTPockets-l8f · 2 months ago
Mother's name is Powell. Slade is my father's name. Father arrived from Honduras in Virginia
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@sherylarnold2564 · 2 months ago
Yes Arnold family our Smith family came in Jamestown VA before the Mayflower in 1607
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