With direct line established back to the original Virginia outpost at Jamestown, These English families were the first to settle the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. After two centuries they went by wagon to Illinois, and intermarried with Scots-Irish and Irish immigrants. Their descendants continued to farm on the prairie, in the neighborhood of Abraham Lincoln, who tried cases in the local court. Full genealogy, sources annotated, every-name index.

Hardcover: 1,564 pages

Year: 2012