Snyder-Harbour Ancestry

516 pages. With the additional families of Almot, Amis, Ashton, Ballow, Banister, Bellew, Belson, Binford, Brasseur, Bromley, Burkhart, Cary, Chappell, Clenche, Creeting, Crew, Dameron, Davis, Ellyson, Ferris, Foulshurst, Gatley, Gerard, Hobson, Hough, Jordan, Martz, Milner, Mosby, Nave, Packwood, Parker, Pleasants, Putrasse, Ripley, Savage, Smith, Snider, Snowe, Spence, Stanley, Taylor, Thomas, Trafford, Wagner, and Woodson. This fully referenced 8-1/2" by 11" work traces descents and near-descents from many interesting characters, including a woman from a family massacred by Indians; a Quaker imprisoned in Williamsburg; a Burgess in the New World's first legislative assembly; a doctor of an English manorial family; a purchaser of some of the first slaves in North America; a William and Mary College founder; a colonial Williamsburg builder; a suspected conspirator in a plot to blow up Parliament; and two alchemists granted a patent by King Henry VI.