This Casewrap Hardcover Edition of "So Obscure a Person" follows the life of ALEXANDER STINSON Senior of Williamsburg and Buckingham County, Virginia. He lived through most of the eighteenth century of Virginia and he is the progenitor of the Virginia STINSON family, including those who went further South after the Revolutionary War. This book, which includes five generations of his descendants, is the result of years of research at courthouses and libraries in Virginia and elsewhere. It is extensively documented with both embedded sources and footnotes, and is fully indexed. There is an excursus on the HOOPER family which includes his English maternal forebears, and his CABELL and MAYO cousins.
