First Families of Virginia
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The First Families of Virginia most likely did not settle at Jamestown in 1607. They came some 20 odd years later. The first families of Virginia are basically the most prominent names that we see in Colonial Virginia. They were considered part of the Aristocracy of England that claimed land in the New World- namely in the Southern colonies during the Colonial period in American History. The First Families of Virginia come from primogeniture- the third or second sons of English nobility who inherited land grants or land in the New World. This formed part of the Southern Aristocracy in America. The first families of Virginia would not be part of the Jamestown settlement- because those settlers were mostly convicts and poor people and prostitutes. The royalists and wealthy land owners came to Virginia a few years later.
In shorthand, families or people in them can be called FFV.
Some family names include:
- Ackiss
- Allerton
- Armistead
- Bailey
- Ballard
- Bassett
- Beale
- Bell--Sir Robert Bell
- Berkeley
- Beverley
- Blair
- Bland
- Branch -- although Christopher Branch did not arrive until 1620
- Bray
- Bridger
- Browne of "Four Mile Tree"
- Browning
- Burwell
- Byrd
- Carter
- Cary
- Chandler
- Churchill
- Claiborne
- Corbin
- Custis
- Cole
- Dawson
- Digges
- Eppes
- Farrar
- Fitzhugh
- Fairfax
- Gooch
- Gilbert
- Grymes
- Harrison
- Jenings of Ripon Hall
- Kemp
- Lewis
- Littleton
- Ludwell
- Lee
- Lightfoot
- Mathews
- Morris
- Nelson
- Page
- Perry
- Parke
- Randolph
- Robinson
- Rolfe
- Scarborough
- Smith, of Gloucester Co.
- Spotswood
- Tayloe
- Thorowgood
- Thornton
- Warner
- West
- Whiting
- Willoughby
- Willis
- Wood
- Wormeley
- Yardley
- Young
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