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  2. First Families of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Families often used surnames as given names, as in the "Johns" of Johns Hopkins University, or where a surname might die out because the last holder only had daughters, Cole Digges was the grandson of William Cole. A mother's maiden name might also be used as a middle name, to document that part of the person's ancestry; or even middle and ...

  3. Webb (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Webb is an English and Scottish surname meaning weaver of cloth. ... William Webb (disambiguation), ... a page for people with the given name "Webb"

  4. List of Jamestown colonists - Wikipedia

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    Painting of John Smith and colonists landing in Jamestown. On 4 May [O.S. 14 May] 1607, 105 to 108 English men and boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of the James River.

  5. List of slave owners - Wikipedia

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    This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...

  6. List of cities and counties in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    A city and county that share a name may be completely unrelated in geography. For example, Richmond County is nowhere near the City of Richmond, and Franklin County is even farther from the City of Franklin. More Virginia counties are named for women than in any other state. [4] Virginia's postal abbreviation is VA and its FIPS state code is 51.

  7. Vanderbilt family - Wikipedia

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    James Watson Webb II (1884–1960) Lila Vanderbilt Webb (1913–1961) John Currie Wilmerding Jr. (1938-2024) James Watson Webb III (1916–2000) William Seward Webb Jr. (1887–1956) Vanderbilt Seward Webb (1891–1956) George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914) Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900–1976) George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (1925 ...

  8. William Tucker (Virginia colony) - Wikipedia

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    William Tucker was born near Jamestown of the Colony of Virginia c. 1624, [4] and appears on the Virginia Muster of 1624/5, the first comprehensive census made in North America. [5] His parents were Isabell and Anthony, African indentured servants. [2] [4] When he was born, there were 22 Africans in the colony, most of whom arrived in 1619. [2]

  9. List of plantations in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.