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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. 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.

  4. 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"

  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. 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 ...

  7. List of U.S. county name etymologies (S–Z) - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of the word is unknown but it may mean "big tree" or "place of big trees" in a Siouan language. Yakima County: Washington: Named after the Yakama people. Yakutat City and Borough: Alaska: From the Tlingit name Yaakwdáat, meaning "the place where canoes rest", although it may originally derive from an Eyak name which has been lost ...