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Listing of Robert Partin Family from ‘Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary’ by Martha W. McCartney Pages 536-537 ROBERT PARTIN I Robert Partin I, an ancient planter, came to Virginia in June 1609 on the Blessing. Although nothing is known about his first years in the colony, on July 15, 1620, he was…
The Wall Street Journal, Saturday, October 23, 2010 Her life has been celebrated in song, story and a Disney cartoon, but no one knew where Pocahontas tied the knot with a tobacco farmer—until now. Archaeologist Bill Kelso and his team were digging this summer in a previously unexplored section of the fort at Jamestown, Va., the…
By the early half of the eighteenth century, the extent of the British colonies in America was but a mere fringe of population along the Atlantic Coast, spreading gradually inland and finding in the Alleghany and Blue Ridge Mountains a very serious barrier. Among the oldest of these settlements was the colony of Virginia, the…