Who were the Jamestown Colonists and are you Related to Them?
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- The subject of the Jamestown colony’s first few years is not an understudied topic, but who were the first American parents of today’s Jamestown descendants. As we’ll see today, it’s perhaps easier to determine who among the first group of colonists did not leave a genetic imprint on today’s population than it is to tell you who your ancestor was. Here’s something to keep in mind: a person around my age (or born in the early 1960s) would have had at most 8,192 ancestors alive in 1610, so one’s Jamestown DNA inheritance would be .012%. If, however, you have two Jamestown ancestors you would have 0.024414065% of their genes. That’s assuming you inherited an equal measure of DNA in each generation. By the way, those Jamestown ancestors would be your 11th great Grandparents. If you were born in the 1980s, they would be your 12th great grandparents. While incredibly small, it is a part of who we are. If you like early American history with an eye toward its relevance to us on a familial level, stick around. It promises to be a good show, so I hope you’ll join me.
The Jamestowne Society offers documented descendants of Colonists an opportunity to join. Here's a link to their membership page: www.jamestowne...
Any history you provide will be greatly appreciated. I have loved history my entire life. Thank You!
Thank you, Sue!
An ancestor of mine arrived in Jamestown in 1620 at the age of 14 as an indentured servant. He was originally from York before being picked up off the streets in London. Lord Yeardley was responsible for his arrival to Jamestown.
That sounds consistent with what I have read. Thanks for sharing your information!
My ancestor arrived by himself Jamestown 1622 age 16 on a ship called Furtherance. He initially lived with Mayor Sandys and later with someone named Purfoy. As I understand, when he was on the ship coming over, they passed the ship carrying the news of the Jamestown massacre back to England. Had that news arrived a bit earlier, he might not have come over and I wouldn’t be typing this comment.
My 10th Great Grandmother, Cecily (Maiden name and parents unknown) came to Jamestown at the age of around 10 years old, on a ship called "The Swan", in 1610. She was one of 14 woman that qualified as an ancient planter according to the Virginia Company's Great Charter and in in 1620 she patented her 100 acres. Combining that with her 1st husband, Samual Jordan's patent, their combination of 450 acres became known as Jordan's Journey plantation. Her husband passed away after she became pregnant with their 2nd child and later, she married my 10 Great Grandfather William Farrar I. who came over in 1618 aboard the Neptune. In 1631, he established Farrar's Island off of the James River. I find all of this stuff fascinating and thank you for sharing some history with us.
It's a small world, cousin! I, too, descend from the Farrar family. Thanks for sharing your information!
@@BarryVann Nice to meet another cousin. My branch eventually ended up in Putnam County, Georgia, during the Civil War and they had a plantation there that was visited by General Sherman, on his "March to the Sea". The most that I was ever able to piece together was that the troops shot their dogs, burned the barns and killed most of the livestock, I never found out anything out about the actual house though.
After the Civil War, my 2nd Great Grandfather William Green Farrar and his wife Lucy Ann got married and started a family. By 1878, they had worked their way to Louisiana, and by1898, most of their children were in Texas. My grandmother Annie Denise Farrar/Smith/Stewart was the last of the Farrar family in my branch, but her eight siblings do have living children and grandchildren scattered around Texas. I have spent many years tracking down living cousins from my grandmother's siblings over the years and have met a few of them. Mostly to share the stories with them, and the old family photos that I have been so fortunate to have.
Her name was Cicely Reynolds. My 11th gr- grandmother. 😁
@@grcleve7053 Another cousin has arrived. lol Thanks for the info! I am familiar with her being referred to as "Cicely Reynolds", but I have always been under the impression that her maiden name was never actually documented.
@@CarySmith1968 Her first husband was a Bailey. (numerous spelling options on that one🥴) Makes for an adventure trying locate information.
I love the history and the mystery...
I appreciate the list of names you've covered and am fairly certain I didn't see a few that I'd love to hear about...
Giles, Riggs, Spangler and Norman are a few I know of but have limited info.
I look forward to your videos and am trying to catch up on past ones... thanks for helping keep history alive 😎👍
@KathysTube Thanks, Kathy! Do you have a channel? Are you referring to the list at the end of the Jamestown video or the Surname Catalog that I mentioned in the ancestry videos?
@BarryVann Sorry... I was referring to the PDF of surnames you've already covered...☺️
@@BarryVann not a channel where I post content...
Thank you for these type of videos ,and for all the videos you make!
@@rhondaturner3277 Thanks, Rhonda!
Thank you ! Another great presentation!
Thank you!
Thanks for the history lesson on Jamestown!
It's a captivating story.
My 3rd GGM was Jincy Bowles..Jincy was the daughter of Ephriam Bowles.. They were tidewater indians of the combined Old Cherew-Notoway group..It is said that they converted to Quakerism and took English sirnames early..It is said that Ephriam fought on the American side during the Revolution and was imprisoned for a year at Savanna... BTW, there is a village in southern WV called Matoka..and it is said that the Big Sandy River which separates KY from WV once bore the name Matoka.. I always so enjoy your work..Paul in So Point, OH..
Thanks, Paul. I hope you're staying warm up yonder!
There are other towns in West Virginia with names related to Jamestown. Pocahontas is one, and Powhatan another. We have a Randolph County. I’m sure there are other names , but these are the ones that come to mind.
This is fascinating. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
You're welcome!
Great presentation.
Thank you kindly!
I am a 15th generation descendant of Robert Ellyson who is on the list of the Jamestown Historical Society. His father John arrived from Scotland in 1623 aboard the ship Prosperous. His mother Ellen Hamilton arrived the next year aboard the ship Charity. Robert was about 8 years old when he arrived with one of them, but not sure which one
Having the same last name suggests you are carrying his Y chromosome. That's pretty cool!
@BarryVann I never would have been able to trace my lineage back that far if not for my father's first cousin Carl Grayson Ellison of SC, who was a genealogist who did all of the research and put all of the info in a book that he wrote called Allison Ellison Scottish Cousins, which can be found on Google.
It’s great look forward to your videos
@@danielleosentoski520 Thanks, Daniel!
I enjoyed your lesson on Jamestown. However just to let you know, in Virginia, Pocahontas’s father is pronounced “Pow-uh-tan”. There is also a county just West of Richmond named for the chief.
@@MYJ61 Thanks for correcting my East Tennessee accent. I have a terrible habit of pronouncing words the way they are written.
@ perfectly ok. I appreciate your hard work making your content.
And Powhite is Pow-white ... lol. I have at least one ancestor who married someone from the Powhatan ... plus on my mom's side we came over on the second Mayflower sailing and one of THOSE ancestors married a woman from the Iriquois Confederacy PLUS Alexander Ramsey (first territorial governor of MN) had a son who went into Dakota territory and came home with a wife and children who I am descended from. AND my son is part Cherokee through his dad's side.
According to my Uncle, the family historian, our first American ancestor was born in Jamestown in 1625.
Thanks! I don't have access to passenger lists after 1611. I can't confirm or refute that claim. Thanks for sharing!
Another great video! Thank you!
@AnitaSalyer Thanks Anita!
Great video and info. The earliest settler I’ve found in my tree is William Head, or De Heade as it was in England. He was killed with Capt Nathaniel Powell at Powell Brooke plantation after only arriving a short time prior. Records from England state he was seeking a “gentleman’s adventure”. Amazingly, his wife and children still decided to come to this strange, new place. Wild.
@wigbangtheory As a De Head, he must have been a Norman, so he was a Viking by blood.
@ yes sir, and on this line unfortunately some of us also have one or two of the “Viking diseases”, Alpha-1 Antitrypsin deficiency and hemochromatosis. (Only the Z allele in Alpha-1 has been definitively traced to Vikings, and there are many deficient alleles, but we have Z).
@@BarryVann I would love more info on my Camp/Starling/Tarpley lines if you haven’t covered them before. I’m still catching up on your videos!
Very enjoyable! Thank you ❤
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Thomas Blacklock was an indentured servant from Cumberland who came to Accomac in 1623. So we’ve been here for 402 years.
Nice job! Thanks for commenting!
Appreciate the history stories you share. Thank you.
Thanks for the feedback!
Barry, thank you so much for the genealogy and history lesson ❤love your videos , my only claim to fame is I have roots that come from Scotland 😉
@BellesDreams Good morning. Thank you for your kind message!
Great roots!
Thank you for the info. I'll keep digging for a genealogical connection.
You're welcome! Best wishes!
Thanks Doc
You're welcome, Boomer!
I connect directly to Richard Pace through my mother, who was a Pace.
@@carlstrickland7960 Awesome! Thanks, Carl!
I also connect to Ricard Pace through mother but we have some gaps in line. DNA links me to Bertie County, NC, and other Paces with unbroken lines. Would love some Genetic genealogy help on this. I help adoptees but this is beyond my amateur skills.
Great video! I see there was a George Flower. But I descend from Captain John Flower. These folks were incredibly courageous!!
@suzanneflowers2230 i have a grat aunt who married Alvin Flowers in Cherokee County, North Carolina. Are you related to people from that part of the Carolinas?
My ancestors were John Graye and Allis/Alice Proctor. . John Proctor was on the ship with John Rolfe that got swept to Bermuda in the storm. I had a few ancestors on the Mayflower
Hi cousin! I descend from the Proctor colonists as well!
@@BarryVann Hello again. I have a question. Did you find A relationship between this Procter to the Proctor who was hung in the Salem witch trials? By the way I did get a certificate from the Jamestown Society. That was very nice.
Stephan Hopkins was an English “adventurer”, and our family’s ancestor, who sailed on the “Sea Venture” in 1609 bound for Jamestown, but was shipwrecked on Bermuda by a storm (hurricane?) as mentioned in the video. William Strachey’s account of the Sea Venture being stranded and the carousing, mutinous actions of. Stephan Hopkins has been speculated as the inspiration for Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” whose character “Stephano” was supposedly modeled after Stephan Hopkins. Hopkins later returned to England. In 1620 he and his family were passengers on the Mayflower where his wife gave birth during the voyage to a son “Oceanus”, who later died. Hopkins was a signer of the Mayflower compact, and was instrumental in establishing contacts with the native peoples, and in establishing the Plimoth (Plymouth) colony.
@RGF19651 That's a fascinating retelling of the arrival of an American family on the shores. Thanks!
As family lore goes my paternal line in the US started with Thomas Farmer who came to Jamestown in 1616 on the ship Tryall. I would be interested in finding out more about him and his line if someone has any ideas. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
@@robertfarmer8372 I endorse your request for information on Thomas Farmer. Best wishes!
I been reading a book called the history of Thomas and Ann Billopp farmar best of luck family
@robertfarmer Try Farmer of Northampton went to Virginia 1600's, some interesting family trees on my heritage name of Farmer,,
He is probably a progenitor of the Farmers in Henrico County who intermarried with my Farley and Womack ancestors.
@@robertfarmer8372 I'm reading a book right now called A history of Thomas and Ann Billopp Farmar and some of their descendants in America it's online it's a old book
Christopher Reynolds my 10th great grandfather immigrated to Jamestown circa 1622. He went back to England and brought women back on a bride ship. He used the proceeds of this endeavor to buy land for tobacco planting.
@@kevinreynolds7068 That makes historical sense! Thanks!
Thank you Professor for another great history lesson. (Hate to say it again, but the Gosnolds, Wingfields, De Vere, and Nauntons are in my line as well as many others you cover.) 😮😮😮
That really doesn't surprise me. There are alot of us out there, but most don't see how they are connected or they simply don't care about history or their families. I am glad that you do!
@ That’s very kind of you. A few of us out here do care, so keep up the good work. 😀
Hello! I am a direct male descendant of Captain Henry Isham, who also was an ancestor of Thomas Jefferson, through his mother. Captain Isham was the person who ferried English settlers from England and let them off at his Bermuda Hundred plantation.
@@RobertIsham-hk4ly Awesome, Robert! Thanks for the message.
I have many ancestors from Jamestown/James City. I just added another this morning. Temperance Dewflower, who married George Yeardly. This is through my paternal Strange lineage. Crowshaw and Graves are already in my tree.
@@kellyfarris7465 I hope you found the video helpful in some way.
@ thank you so much for this video. I am always so amazed at the records, documentation and knowledge of pre-American families. I already have quite a few ancestors who were brave, adventurous and intellectually literate people who came here.
I also go through my DNA matches, to look for surnames. Occasionally there will be a male line from the early colonization of the country.
Once again, Thank you very much! I will be looking forward to watching more of your videos in the future.
Kelly Roper (Raper) Farris
@ my paternal haplogroup is G-P15. I understand that I’m not a male…but I found my father’s 1st cousin and he was tested before passing away. Very interesting. I might have to test for my m-TDNA haplogroup. Thanks
I also have croshaw ancestors from jamestown. Pretty sure yeardly is also in my family tree.
Elias Legarde, a Sephardic Joos, arrived at Jamestown, Virginia on HMS Abigail in 1621, indicating that there were indeed Sephardic Joos among the Jamestown colonists. Legarde was from Languedoc, France, and was hired to go to the colony to teach people how to grow grapes for wine.
Thanks for the information!
@BarryVann most of the merchants were serphadic or crypto joos coming to and from america as well.
That would be YES, and YES. The name is Hucks, the year 1632 at the colony.
@@michaelcerkez3895 Awesome! Thanks!
Colonel John West and pamunkey tribe queen were my 13 th great grandparents. They had a son captain John West in the 1650's.
@@harolddenton6031 Awesome! Thanks for sharing your connection.
I also descend from John Rolfe and Pocahontas through their son Thomas. His daughter married Robert Bowling. I descend from these Bowlings.
I'm related to Pocahontas 3 different ways.
I'm also double 6th cousins with my kids through the Bowlings and Sizemore's.
@betsyroy6269 That's awesome, Betsy! Thanks for sharing your connection to the folks.
I am related to a couple of families from Jamestown.
@@lisaquigley-moon9583 Excellent! Thanks!
Has there been any dna testing for Roanoke settler descendants?
@@ladyluna-steph7371 The only case with which I am familiar failed.
Yes, I am related to John Chew. Also Charlemagne, who must have millions of descendants by now.
@TheFirstManticore Yes. Most modern Europeans would likewise be a descendant of Charles the Great. By 1200 AD, we would have millions of ancestors.
Interesting! We have to have intermarriages among family lines because by 1200 AD, a person my age would have more ancestors in that year than the total population of the world. Charlamagne lived 400 years earlier than that.
Here a new name for you Keltner , they settled in Kentucky Adair, Metcalfe , Cumberland County, thank you for the name list
More names Fudge my great grandmother Obedience Fudge from her ancestry I obtained my DAR membership, also on my father’s side many England’s and Jesse.
It sounds like you already know a lot. I can tell you that the name probably came from southern England, but it came into the isles with the Normans in 1066.
I added it to my list to research, which already has 900 plus names on it.
@@BarryVann in my research in Kentucky names I am always surprised by the German influence pre 1800. Fudge is Anglicized.
@@BarryVannOh my,that's a long,long,long list 📃 😉 Thank you 😊
Just looked up your Wiki bio. Was wondering if you had connection to James Vann, a name I ran across many times in my genealogy searching. If my memory serves me correctly he had association with one of my directs...AA Coody Sr.
@@grcleve7053 Yes. I am a descendant of James’s brother. According to Worth S Ray in his seminal book Tennessee Cousins, we are related to the Coody family. Thanks for writing!
@BarryVann Here is a cool one for ya...I have a tea cart which is believed to have been made by Archie.😁
My several (lol) great grandfather was Dr. John Woodson, a British Dr. Arriving in Jamestown, Virginia,1619 on the British ship George.
Wow, that is awesome! I think we are more common than most realize. I have at least four ancestors from Jamestown who were alive and well before the massacres of 1622.
@@BarryVann I'm curious, do you remember of all the research you have done, if you have ever come across surnames of Skinner?
I descend from William and Martha Sizemore.
Martha came to Jamestown in 1609 with Reverend Alexander Whitaker and Sir Thomas Dale. She was the Reverend's housekeeper. She took care of Pocahontas while Pocahontas lived at the Reverend's house after she was kidnapped.
William Sizemore arrived no later than 1616. He received 100 acres in the First Great Land Divide. He was an ancient planter. He grew tobacco for England.
William and Martha survived the 1622 massacre. They had to escape by crossing either the James River or the Appomatox River. I think they ended up at West & Sherlow Hundred.
I think I have pinpointed where their tobacco plantation was. I need to go in person and find it.
Thanks for the information! It might help some folks.
@@BarryVannI was just thinking how your channel and wealth of information you give here is helping alot of folks tracing there ancestors and your viewers are in turn helping one another,how wounderfull is that 😊 thank you again for all your hard work,I'm realy enjoying even if I have yet to see my Daddys Kentucky Sir name JUDE but hopeful it will pop up,if I haven't missed it mentioned in a past video 😊 Good day to ya 😊
I decend from Newport, Farrar, John Rolfe and his wife Pocahontas. Strangely I also decend from 12 of 51 Mayflower passengers as well. I also decend from 12 of the 25 signers of the Declaration of Arbroath and over 10 of the Scottish Nobles killed in battle at Flodden Field. Hard to wrap my mind around it sometimes. My ancestors have been slowly moving west for centuries. Some think for 2747 years since 722 BC.
You know more about your ancestors than anyone I know. Impressive!
So cool. I also descendants from John Rolfe, but from his third wife, Jane. Some Mayflower individuals (William Bradford. & Alice C. Southworth Bradford) are my husband’s ancestors. Our ancestors sound very similar which isn’t surprising considering how early they came to this country. They all came as second sons, or for political or religious freedoms.
I am descended from Jeremiah Clements who went to Jamestown as a child in 1611.
Thanks for the information!
I have two ancestors from Jamestown Virginia. John and Alice Proctor.
Hi cousin! I descend from the, too!
I recently found out that my ancestors (surname Goddard) immigrated to Canada in 1751 from Germany. They sailed in on The Murdoch which landed in Nova Scotia. There were 12 or 13 ships in total, a colonization tactic of the British which I would agree worked out well. 😉
Can you imagine how congested the isles would be without colonial ventures? There would be no room to grow crops.
My ancestor Philip Conner left London, England where they (wife included but not listed) on January the Second 1634 on the Ship, The Bonaventure captained by James Ricoff. Upon arrival in Jamestown he (family) was indentured to William Burbage for 8 years before moving into Accomack County, VA. on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. A few years later they moved to settle in Somerset County, Maryland where the Philip and his family has a land grant in the Pocomoke Sound. The majority of the Conner family has lived in the same area within a 5 mile radius. Today my son will be the last of the male Philip Conner line. He does not want children.
@@musketbal I bet our ancestors in Accomack County knew each other. Thanks for sharing!
Lots of men don't want children, but sometimes the Lord thinks otherwise lol...
@@suzanneflowers2230I was thinking that 😊 🙏
I am 70 plus, and my Jamestown ancestor is my 12th great grandfather not 11th.
It was an estimate, friend. That just means that you have half the genes from them with respect to the example I gave.
my family is a Jamestown colony, the family was the man of Jamestown was Dr,. John Woodson, who came in the ship George, and his wife was Sarah. Yes, Got Native in me. that was there as well.
Thanks, Mechell! It's hard to be from the South and not have some Native ancestry.
I descend from the John Bass of the Nansemond tribe. Elizabeth bass who was American Indian baptized Elizabeth married John Bass from England was my 9th great grandmother and Pocahontas my great grand aunt.
It's good to hear from you! Thanks for reaching out!
My ancestors Thomas Farley and "Lady Jane Sefton" (Jane Mollineux) arrived at Jamestown Colony in 1623 aboard the ship Anne.
@@Greywolfgrafix Thanks, Graywolf!
I'm a descendent of ship Captain Robert South of Robert's Boneventure who arrived in 1620.
Awesome! Thanks for the message!
Annye Cantrell, well I will return one day to find out. Good luck
@@TerriAnnNiemeier-dy3no To find out what?
My maiden name is Peters and I started finding out that I have quite a bit of American history within my family ancestry as well.
@lauramarielenius83 That's one of the reasons why I like doing these videos. We are products of history, not isolated from it.
Thank you for your wonderful cultural channel dr Barry . I gathered main information about topic you mentioned briefly here it’s Jamestown setters were English citizens who were followers of the sect of Christianity who did not believe in the Church of England. In order to escape persecution and live a life they wanted , the pilgrims eventually settled in Jamestown, were they were able to successfully develop small working community. Jamestown is famous for establishment of the colony of Virginia . On 4 may ( 0. 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 Jame river . It became the first long - term English settlement in North America. Some of the lesser - known facts about Jamestown colony . The original settlers were all men . Mail - order brides populate ( as save ) Jamestown. Climate change threatened the survival of Jamestown. The birth of America democracy began in Jamestown. The colony four main hardships. It’s poor location, uneasy native relations, the inept labor abilities of the colonists , incredibly high death tolls . The mistake Jamestown settlers made the poor leadership nearly led to the colony starvation. The colonists were not prepared to work hard enough to grow crops successfully in the climate of Jamestown . The sale able tobacco soon after helped secure the colony economy, political power expanded into James river valley. The founder of Jamestown is captain John smith to strat his colony . In 1676 , Jamestown was burned during bacon rebellion, though it was rebuilt. In 1699 the colonial capital was moved to present day William burg - Virginia. John smith is famous for establishment of the colony of Virginia. He was an adventurer , explorer , author . He considered as man who dominate force in the eventual success of Jamestown and , establishment of it legacy as the first permanent English settlement in North America . I hope you like my research. Best wishes for you your dearest ones .
That was a great summary, thank you for sharing!
Great uncle Matthew Scrivener drowned in the James river in 1609. Does that count?
@richardlindquist5936 It really only matters to you. Who cares what others think? There are millions of living relatives of Jamestown colonists if their genes were passed down.
My 12th great uncle harassed New Amsterdam and took over Fort Orange for a couple weeks back in the 1600s trading beaver pelts
@@ScratchOffFeverOBE Fascinating!
I've traced my family, Beadle, to the first settlers of Jamestown and much farther back to early English.
@@PapaD1969 That's awesome! Thanks for the message!
my lane and flood ancestors were early in jamestown. thomas flood was an interpreter to the natives.
My wife is a Lane, too. I descend from interpreters, too! That was a dangerous gig!
My ancestor was Alexander Whitaker, the first Pastor at Jamestown, who baptized Pocahontas. He was a great …………uncle.
Thanks for sharing your connection to the first folks!
Is there a list if all the people who moved to Jamestown? You are also ignoring that the "Y Chromosome" ( the male gene) is passed from Father to Son, Unmodified. That is aside from random mutations half of a son is exactly as his father, grandfather, great grandfather etc etc
@cromBumny At the end of the video, I provide links. You also claim that I don't understand Y chromosome DNA and how it's passed down the male line. You make the assumption that we know the DNA of the colonists to compare to people today. If you can explain how that would be possible, I would welcome your wisdom. You could become rich.
@@BarryVannMy last name is Childers. I’m part of the Childers/Childress projects which have a presence on Ancestory, FB and other sites. Through records and DNA testing of the full Y chromosome we all trace back to the same Childers who arrived in Jamestown probably around 20 years or more after its founding. One theory about our emigration to America was the English Civil War. We were Royalists. Anyway all the males in the project share the Y chromosome of a “Viking” who settle in the vicinity of Yorktown in the early 9th century. Probably part of the Great Heathen Army or follow ons.
Christopher Newport 11th G Grandfather 😎.
Possibly a descendant of John Martin of Jamestown, but I haven’t been able to verify that.
Did Newport's descendants move to America. He didn't. He died in Java in Indonesia in 1617.
@ if my ancestry is correct his daughter Marion (1611 Eng-1646) came to VA prior to 1646 and married Wm Hatcher (1613 Eng-1680 VA)
I am a 16th generation American. Decedent of John Irish.
@@MyButtercup Awesome!
I am a DNA descendent of the Isaac Hill who died in 1710 and whose will was probated in NC. He may be the son of a John Hill and is linked to the Jamestown Hills. Our Y- DNA shows us from the T Haplogroup which is somewhat rare. There is another line of Hills not descended from Isaac whio share this Y-DNA which coud mean they were from isaac's brother. I would like to know if you have found any other T Haplogroup Y -DNA. I know Thomas Jefferson shares the haplogroup but is not otherwise related. We are in Group 4 of the Hill DNA project. Kathy Hill Chapman
@@mskathychapman You are correct. That haplogroup is rare. R1b is very common.
Thomas Gray was my grandfather X I'm not sure.
@@jackdarren9210 If you're connected yo John Proctor and Alice Gray, we'd be distant cousins.
Howdy cuz! Greetings from Alabama.
My ancestors were Quaker. Quaker Meeting Rolls are better than Mormon geneology because nobody bsptises you Quaker after you leave this Earth. Both confirm my family arrived in 1608 and I am descended from the FIRST baby born in Jamestowne who lived to produce descendents.
I am also descended from the second Mayflower arrival. My late husband was a great-nephew of George Buchanan. I also have Powhatan, Iriquois Confederacy, Dakota and my late hubby gifted our son with Cherokee heritage.
@@CatBuchanan You certainly check all of the boxes!
John Rolfe 10th gr- grandfather 2x. Plus gr-grand uncle by marriage. 😏
@@grcleve7053 Thanks!
I’m the direct descendant of Captain Hubbard Farrell of Bacons Rebellion
@@michealferrell1677 Awesome!
Im looking for history of the Billups, Billopp family of Kingston parish aka Mathews county Virginia, Gloucester Virginia early 1600s to mid they are still living on Gwen's Island to this day
I have added Billops, but there are many names in front of it.
@BarryVann is there a certain video I can search for I believe one of the men sir Hawkins put on land is a descendant but I may be wrong
The Billips house still stands today in Mathews Co. and is the oldest housde still standing.
@@hes-v1y so are the Billopp an Billups the same or 2 different families ? Why is this family history so hard to find when I feel they should be found in fathers
i have a few of the same t-shirt. the ''land of the free'' is never in the middle 😉
Thanks for the message!
I've been able to find my 7X Great Grandfather was Captain John Adams Files of the SC Militia. I'm still working on the rest.
Edit:He was in the Revolutionary War and killed by the Tories and Indians.
@@rjay7019 Awesome! Good work!
@BarryVann I had a lot of help from other family Historians.
Yes, proudly Sir John Rolfe and Pocahontas and through the marriage into the Bolling family marrying into the Banister family.
@tammanyfields3583 The title of Sir was given to a person knighted by a monarch. I have never found evidence that Rolfe was knighted. Can you point me to it?
@@BarryVann My bad I didn't mean to say he was knighted just called him Sir out of respect. If you can can find Pocahontas And Her Descendants, it is wonderful. I have the family's book passed down to me from the very early 1900s and I just cherish it.
Massachusetts didn't exist in 1607 when Jamestown was founded so why use it as a reference?
Well, that's a good question, and the answer lies in your question. I'm speaking to an audience living today. It's a time and geographic reference point. Not everyone is as knowledgeable as you, my friend.
@BarryVann no, it was stupid that you used Massachusetts as a reference to the founding colony of America. Why not use Alaska instead, if your logic made sense?
my grandfather name was Thompson from Hoacker Va. please
Debbie, how can I help you?
"Calling the Plymouth Colony, 'the First in America', is just Yankee propaganda...."-My 4th grade teacher in Memphis.
I think it's because the Pilgrims had a governing document called the Mayflower Compact.
Jamestown Settlers
I fixed your marxist error for you 😁
@@salty-tomato I don't know what you are talking about. Sounds kind of salty, mate.
@ 😂😂 coming from an early American family I have an interest in our history and I have noticed through the years a shift from being settlers to colonizers.
The latter terminology connotes a negativity that should’ve exist imho
I trace its roots back to marxist academia 🤷♀️
@@salty-tomatoI'm lost 😂😅😊
Great history lesson. Just think if the United States had never existed Adlof Hitler, Joseph Stalin or chairman Mao may have become a ruler of the entire world!!! A truly horrifing thought.
Yes. Imagine England with 2k people per square kilometer.
Sorry imean settlers I wrote in hurry. I spent long time reading and research.
No worries, Khatoon!
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Hi Villie!
Thanks, Neighbor and I'm sure glad to make peace with the natives of Cherokee County as far as I could. I can also attest that a dose of malaria is no fun. Hope yall are warm and dry in the Valley. We have a local gas supplier instead of the old one that did nothing but hire their ones to do all their talking in India. So global yearly cooling has us in it's grip but will not last forever. I wasn't at Jamestown but some of my kin were red bearded and fractous. God Bless Yall and Thanks!
@lewiemcneely9143 Thanks, Lewie. There was a whole lot more I wanted to say about the horrors that the folks endured, but I chose a more gracious route. It put me in a somber mood. Stay warm, brother!
@@BarryVann Yall too and somber wins out!
Per the Chandler Family Association (CFA) Y-chromosome DNA Project I am 100% (Big Y level to date) Group 7A which is what they designate for the documented direct male line descendants of John Chandler the Emigrant who came in the ship "Hercules" along with the Blessing and De La Warr (carrying the first Governor of the colony, Thomas West, Lord De La Warr) but I [and my father at 37 markers the same in Group 7A] have that unfortunate NPE in our background and document wise am stuck at my great great grandfather, James Silas Jernigan (Guntersville, Marshall Co, AL > Jefferson Co, AL). Without any documented proof we remain in limbo.
Possible third great grandfather is Ignatius Marion Chandler but no proof of that. His probate [died intestate] was administered by his Bishop nephews. No mention of any children or other family. I have several good books for early colonial VA history including Hotten, Coldham and the first 3 volumes of Cavaliers and Pioneers land patents. Interesting to compare some of the names from the first lists of the Living and the Dead with the later records.
@@whychromosomesmusic5766 Wow! Have you joined the Jamestowne Society? It sounds like you'd be a welcomed member.
@@BarryVann I have not joined them. Thanks for the suggestion.
Some Sephardic Jos may have a lighter complexion, similar to that of Southern Europeans, while others may have a darker complexion, similar to that of North Africans or Middle Easterners.
@@thomgri Thanks for the information, but out of curiosity, what does that have to do with this video?
@BarryVann just alil sub background of the colonists there to do ancestral research.
Peter Monique came to Jameston on the ship Charles in 1621. He was my 10th great grandfather
I don't see a Peter Monique on that ship, but could you be referring to Peter Montecue?
@@BarryVannI probably spelled his name wrong