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The best royal descents, i.e. from the most recent king, of over 600 immigrants to the American colonies or the United States who were themselves notable or left descendants who were notable in American history. Once again Gary Boyd Roberts has revised all recent royal descent research, some yet unpublished, and produced an authoritative, up-to-date compendium. In the 2006 edition he added eighteen new immigrants to his previous 650. In this edition, he adds twenty-eight more, so that with a few disproofs (Curwens/Corwins of Massachusetts and New York, Byes of Pennsylvania, and Edwardses, one Evans and Hugh Jones of Pennsylvania), this total is now 688. New immigrants in the 2008 edition include Jane Greene Poole (wife of the earlier treated William) and Margaret Estouteville Shepard (ancestor of the two presidents Adams and FDR), both of Massachusetts; Audrey Barlow Almy of Rhode Island (ancestor of presidents Harding, Nixon, and Carter);Henrietta Constantia Worsam Meade and Charles Willing of Pennsylvania; and various Virginia immigrants. New Virginians include Mrs. Elizabeth Wood Barcroft, an ancestor of Jimmy Carter; John Baskerville; Benjamin Harrison, immigrant ancestor of the two presidents Harrison; Mrs. Dorothy Walker Jones; Philip Ludwell, ancestor of the Stratford Lees and the first husband of Martha Washington; and Stephens Thompson, ancestor of the Masons of Gunston Hall. Also newly included: two new North Carolinians—John Alston (a third cousin of John Alston of South Carolina) and Mrs. Ann Coddington Fenner, an ancestor of Senator John McCain. Appendix VIII contains new descriptions of recently revised, likely but unproved, royal descents for the five Winslow brothers, John Whitney, and John Whitcomb. 2008. 985 pp. Hardbound. Price:
$ 75.00 By: Gary Boyd Roberts
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