Monthly Archives: June 2023

The following notes were compiled with a substantial input from B.T. Shannon, who has also kindly edited them. “The answer is in the soil”, as a historian of note once said, when explaining that adjoining landholders in medieval times were … Continue reading →

English settlement of early Virginia is a deep-rooted subject, which cannot be understood by simply observing, as a forrest, the visible branches of ‘genealogical trees’. It is necessary to delve into the vast and interconnected kinship network that lays beneath … Continue reading →