"So Obscure a Person" is a family history and genealogy of ALEXANDER STINSON Senior of Buckingham County, Virginia and his Virginia descendants. His life spanned almost the entire eighteenth century of Virginia. He is the progenitor of the STINSON family of Buckingham County, including those who went further South after the Revolutionary War. This book 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 the...

SECOND EDITION - Updated & Revised The PEYTON Book is a well documented genealogy that covers the history and heritage of the PEYTON/PAYTON family of Virginia's Northern Neck. It spans three generations of the English forebears and eight generations of the descendants of Henry PEYTON of Aquia, Virginia. Henry and his brothers were English Cavaliers of the Virginia Colony. After the Restoration of King Charles II, some of the brothers returned to England. Gentleman Henry PEYTON stayed and settled along Aquia Creek, in what is now Stafford County. He became the progenitor of today's Virginia...