Virginia Genealogy - Lawrence Smith Family History PDF

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Colonel Lawrence Smith married Mary Hitchen in England in 1651, then emigrated from his native home in Tottne, Devonshire, England to Virginia, where he settled in Gloucester County and Yorktown. He was the owner of the "Moore House," where later the terms of the surrender of the American Revolution were drawn up during the residency of his great-great grandaughter, Mrs Lucy Smith Moore. He served as Justice and was a Burgessm dying in Yorktown in 1700, leaving both a will and issue.

Of the 938 surnames included, other than Smith those appearing ten or more times: Anderson, Ball, Bankhead, Barnett, Battaile, Bell, Breckenridge, Brooke, Brydon, Buckner, Cabell, Catlett, Christian, Cobbs, Cochran, Cocke, Coleman, Dabney, Daingerfield, Davis, Floyd, Forbes, Fox, Fry, Gaines, Garnett, Gillespie, Gilmer, Glenn, Grattan,Gray, Green, Harrison, Higginbothan, Hight, Hotchkiss, Hull, Hunter, Hutchison, Irwin, Jackson, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Lee, Lewis, Lightfoot, Marks, Maury, McDowell, Meason, Meriwether, Mills, Milner, Minor, Mitchell, Moncure, Nelson, Page, Patton, Peyton, Pleasants, Preston, Randolph, Richardson, Rives, Robb, Robinson, Rootes, Scott, Smith, Sowers, Spiller, Strother, Stuart, Taliaferro, Taylor, Thomas, Thompson, Thornton, Trigg, Truscott, Valentine, Venable, Walker, Washington, Watkins, Weir, White, Whitner, Williams, Wilson, Winston, and Woodward.

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