Genealogies (histories)

A history of the Bush family back to John Bush, who traveled to Virginia in 1618.

Copies of the will of Sarah Buskey of Lynnhaven Parish in Princess Anne County dated 1774.

Pedigree and family tree charts, correspondence pertaining to genealogy research, and copies of various research documents, book excerpts, and legal records (such as indentures, passenger and immigration lists, marriage records compiled and published by Elizabeth Baum Wingo, Deed indexes, unrecorded wills and will abstracts, prisoner lists, land patents and grants, and petition filed by Benjamin Bustin dated 1790. Connections to Barbados are also documented.

Copies of legal records of complaint about monies owed, dated 1754.

History and research of the Calthorpe family of England and Virginia.

Pedigree charts, reports, photocopies of legal documents, vital records (such as wills and estate records), and histories, correspondence regarding the Calvert Family Bible, and newspaper clippings. Associated family names include Whittle, Read, Cooke, Maxwell, Saunders, Walke, McClintock, Williamson, Custer, Taylor, O'Grady, and King. Connections to Liverpool, England, North Carolina, and Bermuda are also documented.

Pedigree charts, research notes, copies of deeds and wills, and an original land patent dated 1874for 20 acres of land in Princess Anne County near Back Bay to James G. Braithwaite, Hubbard Capps, and Jepe Davis. Associated family names include Couper and Whitehurst.

Pedigree charts and copies of indentures and the sale of land pertaining to the Carraway family of Princess Anne County, Virginia and North Carolina.

Excerpts spanning pages 211 to 217 from Genealogies of Barbados Families, compiled by James C. Brandow (Baltimore, 1983), originally in appearance in Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, v. 36 (1980), pp. 129-135, describing the Carrington family and marriage laws in Barbados in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Handwritten family tree and research pertaining to the Carter family originating in New York with connections to the Eastern Shore; York County, Virginia; Creedmore, North Carolina; and, Raleigh, North Carolina.