Author: Edward Lloyd Lomax
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Genealogy of the Virginia Family of Lomax
Author: Edward Lloyd Lomax
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Pages : 96
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History and Genealogy of the Descendants of Clement Corbin of Muddy River (Brookline), Mass. and Woodstock, Conn
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Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Pages : 528
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Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892
Author: Edmund Jennings Lee
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Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Pages : 384
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Colonial Families of the Southern States of America
Author: Stella Pickett Hardy
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Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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A "topping People"
Author: Emory G. Evans
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813927900
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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A "Topping People" is the first comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. Evans studies twenty-one leading families from their rise to power in the late 1600s to their downfall over one hundred years later. These families represented the upper echelons of power, serving in the upper and lower houses of the General Assembly, often as speaker of the House of Burgesses. Their names--Randolph, Robinson, Byrd, Carter, Corbin, Custis, Nelson, and Page, to note but a few--are still familiar in the Old Dominion some three hundred years later. Their decline was due to a variety of factors--economic, social, and demographic. The third generations showed an inability to adapt their business philosophies to the changing economic climate. Their inclination was to mirror the English landed gentry, living off the income of their landed estates. Economic diversification was the norm early on, but it became less effective after 1730. Scots traders, for example, introduced chain stores, making it more difficult to continue family-run stores. And land speculation was no substitute for diversification. An increase in population resulted in the creation of new counties, which weakened the influence of the Tidewater region. These leading families began to spend more than they earned and became heavily indebted to British mercantile firms. The Revolution only served to make matters worse, and by 1790 these families had lost their political and economic status, although their social status remained. A "Topping People" is a thorough and engrossing study of the way families came to gain and, eventually, lose great power in this turbulent and progressive period in American history.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813927900
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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A "Topping People" is the first comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. Evans studies twenty-one leading families from their rise to power in the late 1600s to their downfall over one hundred years later. These families represented the upper echelons of power, serving in the upper and lower houses of the General Assembly, often as speaker of the House of Burgesses. Their names--Randolph, Robinson, Byrd, Carter, Corbin, Custis, Nelson, and Page, to note but a few--are still familiar in the Old Dominion some three hundred years later. Their decline was due to a variety of factors--economic, social, and demographic. The third generations showed an inability to adapt their business philosophies to the changing economic climate. Their inclination was to mirror the English landed gentry, living off the income of their landed estates. Economic diversification was the norm early on, but it became less effective after 1730. Scots traders, for example, introduced chain stores, making it more difficult to continue family-run stores. And land speculation was no substitute for diversification. An increase in population resulted in the creation of new counties, which weakened the influence of the Tidewater region. These leading families began to spend more than they earned and became heavily indebted to British mercantile firms. The Revolution only served to make matters worse, and by 1790 these families had lost their political and economic status, although their social status remained. A "Topping People" is a thorough and engrossing study of the way families came to gain and, eventually, lose great power in this turbulent and progressive period in American history.
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Author: Philip Alexander Bruce
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Allied Families of Read, Corbin, Luttrell, Bywaters
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia
Author: Richard Channing Moore Page
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Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Pages : 300
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Old New Kent County [Virginia]
Author: Malcolm H Harris
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806352930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Dr. Malcolm Harris' two-volume history and genealogy of "Old" New Kent County (the three present-day counties in the aggregate) is one of the great achievements of Virginia local history of the last century. Clearfield Company is honored to have been selected by the Harris family to produce this hardcover edition of "Old New Kent County." Privately published and out of print for many years, this work takes on even greater importance in light of the loss of county records in New Kent and in King & Queen counties and the survival of mere fragments for King William County prior to 1865.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806352930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Dr. Malcolm Harris' two-volume history and genealogy of "Old" New Kent County (the three present-day counties in the aggregate) is one of the great achievements of Virginia local history of the last century. Clearfield Company is honored to have been selected by the Harris family to produce this hardcover edition of "Old New Kent County." Privately published and out of print for many years, this work takes on even greater importance in light of the loss of county records in New Kent and in King & Queen counties and the survival of mere fragments for King William County prior to 1865.
Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia
Author: William Meade
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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