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This record is a list of names extracted from various sources for "people who were involved in any capacity with the settlement and development of Virginia from 1607 through the end of 1660" | This record is a list of names extracted from various sources for "people who were involved in any capacity with the settlement and development of Virginia from 1607 through the end of 1660" | ||
''Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography'' by Lyon Gardiner Tyler {{FSC|68071|item|disp=FS | ''Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography'' by Lyon Gardiner Tyler {{FSC|68071|item|disp=FS Catalog book 975.5 D3tL, 5 vols.}} (New York: Lewis Historical Pub., 1915). Includes multi-generation family histories. The first three volumes contain a small paragraph of some of the founders, colonial presidents and governors, colonial councilors of state, and burgesses, those elected to political positions and other prominent persons and their involvement in the political climate of Virginia. Contained in some of | ||
Since slavery was well established in Virginia pre Civil War, the use of compiled information regarding these people may be very useful in doing Virginia research. ''Weevils in the Wheat; Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves,'' edited by Charles L. Perdue, Jr., Thomas E. Barden, and Robert K. Phillips, is an interesting book. It is a compilation of interviews of ex-slaves from the state of Virginia. | Since slavery was well established in Virginia pre Civil War, the use of compiled information regarding these people may be very useful in doing Virginia research. ''Weevils in the Wheat; Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves,'' edited by Charles L. Perdue, Jr., Thomas E. Barden, and Robert K. Phillips, is an interesting book. It is a compilation of interviews of ex-slaves from the state of Virginia. | ||
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