Wrights & Blakemores in America: With Buck, Calmes, Mauzey/Mauzy, Neville, Surkey, Williams, and Related Families - Paperback

by Constance Cantrell (Author)

A history of related families who came to America seeking civil and religious liberty. They include landless English dreamers and dispossessed French Huguenots in the 17th century, Scots Irish in the 18th century, and German dissenters in the 19th century. There is also a brief history of the settlement of Virginia and information on the allied families of Buck, Calmes, Mauzey/Mauzy, Neville, Surkey/Sirkey, and Williams. Timeline; maps; photos; bibliography; index.

Author Biography

Constance Cantrell is the author of three volumes of family history. A specialist in the history of colonial America and westward migration, she holds a master's degree from Pepperdine University and has extensive research experience at the National Archives and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. as well as in courthouses and archives throughout the United States. Ms. Cantrell lives in Alexandria, Virginia.