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Samuel Gordon Smyth

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Description:FOREWORDThis work now before you is a genealogy and history of the related families of John Van Meter, Thomas Shepherd and John Duke: settlers between 1730 and 1750 of the Northern Neck in the Valley of Virginia; conspicuous figures in the formative period, as their descendants have been in later developments,— of Frederick and Berkeley counties in what is now western Virginia. The annals of those earlier days are of the hardships and adventures of border-life in the pioneer-period and concerns, too, the welding of diverse racial elements into an American body-politic.In the adventures and the work, as the annals graphically evidence, these fathers were conspicuous and foremost, and the story of their respective descendants who were related in so remarkable and unusual degree, is the story of the establishment of a community upon which the character of the fathers is indelibly stamped and which has exercised an appreciable and progressive influence in every part of the Union. It is the outgrowth of conditions in a period that has no parallel in the history of any other country at any time, and out of which, and from such as these, has been evolved this wonderful American nation.It is not without a sense of his own personal limitations and the responsibilities of such an undertaking, that the compiler has essayed the role of a family biographer and genealogist. It is the fruit of many years of patient investigation and study; and of a determination to preserve, in some tangible form, the results attained. It grew out of circumstances where, in at least two instances, the work of others along the same lines was left unfinished and became subsequently lost.The compiler has made extensive and painstaking research in state and county civil records, military rosters, church and Bible registers and in private documents and correspondence. He has industriously consulted and collated all reputable authorities, and with patience and thoroughness, has traced and compared family histories and local traditions, verifying or correcting these essentials of trustworthy genealogy.The work is a tentative genealogy, meaning that the factor of error and omission, if not altogether eliminated, has been minimized and reduced to a negligible quantity. It is given to the reader without further apology, as the compiler's best effort to approximate the truth in the family's history.This opportunity is taken to express the compiler's grateful appreciation of the valuable assistance and counsel given him in the preparation of this work by Mrs. C. C. Foster of Indianapolis,---PART IJOHN VAN METREIN THE NEW WORLDLong years before the English people had obtained a foothold in the present State of New York, the Dutch, one of the then world-powers, had carefully explored, took possession of and was rapidly planting her sons upon a vast province which extended from the Connecticut River on the east and passed over the Delaware to the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay ere the other maritime nations were aware of the significance and extent of the Dutch dominion in the New World. Upon this magnificent territory was bestowed the nam.e of New Netherlands. From the day, in 1609, when Henry Hudson rode the waters of the North River in the famous " Half Moon" till the present—the impress of the Dutch is ineradicably stamped upon the land and its inhabitants. The exploring expedition of Captain Hudson which ascended the river that bears his name had for its object one more attempt to find the fabled and long-sought passage to the western sea and though it failed to achieve that purpose, yet it marked one of the earliest epochs in the romance of western colonization and in this historic event one of its most interesting features is tWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family Vol.1 , from civil, military, church and family records and documents. To get started finding A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family Vol.1 , from civil, military, church and family records and documents, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: FOREWORDThis work now before you is a genealogy and history of the related families of John Van Meter, Thomas Shepherd and John Duke: settlers between 1730 and 1750 of the Northern Neck in the Valley of Virginia; conspicuous figures in the formative period, as their descendants have been in later developments,— of Frederick and Berkeley counties in what is now western Virginia. The annals of those earlier days are of the hardships and adventures of border-life in the pioneer-period and concerns, too, the welding of diverse racial elements into an American body-politic.In the adventures and the work, as the annals graphically evidence, these fathers were conspicuous and foremost, and the story of their respective descendants who were related in so remarkable and unusual degree, is the story of the establishment of a community upon which the character of the fathers is indelibly stamped and which has exercised an appreciable and progressive influence in every part of the Union. It is the outgrowth of conditions in a period that has no parallel in the history of any other country at any time, and out of which, and from such as these, has been evolved this wonderful American nation.It is not without a sense of his own personal limitations and the responsibilities of such an undertaking, that the compiler has essayed the role of a family biographer and genealogist. It is the fruit of many years of patient investigation and study; and of a determination to preserve, in some tangible form, the results attained. It grew out of circumstances where, in at least two instances, the work of others along the same lines was left unfinished and became subsequently lost.The compiler has made extensive and painstaking research in state and county civil records, military rosters, church and Bible registers and in private documents and correspondence. He has industriously consulted and collated all reputable authorities, and with patience and thoroughness, has traced and compared family histories and local traditions, verifying or correcting these essentials of trustworthy genealogy.The work is a tentative genealogy, meaning that the factor of error and omission, if not altogether eliminated, has been minimized and reduced to a negligible quantity. It is given to the reader without further apology, as the compiler's best effort to approximate the truth in the family's history.This opportunity is taken to express the compiler's grateful appreciation of the valuable assistance and counsel given him in the preparation of this work by Mrs. C. C. Foster of Indianapolis,---PART IJOHN VAN METREIN THE NEW WORLDLong years before the English people had obtained a foothold in the present State of New York, the Dutch, one of the then world-powers, had carefully explored, took possession of and was rapidly planting her sons upon a vast province which extended from the Connecticut River on the east and passed over the Delaware to the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay ere the other maritime nations were aware of the significance and extent of the Dutch dominion in the New World. Upon this magnificent territory was bestowed the nam.e of New Netherlands. From the day, in 1609, when Henry Hudson rode the waters of the North River in the famous " Half Moon" till the present—the impress of the Dutch is ineradicably stamped upon the land and its inhabitants. The exploring expedition of Captain Hudson which ascended the river that bears his name had for its object one more attempt to find the fabled and long-sought passage to the western sea and though it failed to achieve that purpose, yet it marked one of the earliest epochs in the romance of western colonization and in this historic event one of its most interesting features is tWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family Vol.1 , from civil, military, church and family records and documents. To get started finding A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family Vol.1 , from civil, military, church and family records and documents, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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