Kegley's Virginia Frontier Huge Virginia Genealogy

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Kegley's Virginia Frontier
The Beginning of The Southwest
The Roanoke of Colonial Days
F.B. Kegley
Volume totaling
882
pages. Book is in excellent  condition. Per  the publisher.
"With its vast territorial rights and claims, Virginia at one time had  the most extensive frontier of any of the original thirteen states and colonies.  Moreover, Virginia served as a gateway for the various migrations to the west,  northwest, and southwest by early colonists, including the intrepid  Scotch-Irish. By far the most authoritative and comprehensive account of the  advance of the Virginia frontier in colonial times is Kegley's Virginia  Frontier--a mammoth work detailing the social, religious, and family life in  Southwest Virginia from 1730 to 1790.
The importance of this extraordinary work to genealogists cannot be  overstated. Kegley culled through a multitude of original records to ensure that  his work would be the most reliable sourcebook available on this subject. To  help the reader understand the migration into this new area, Kegley focuses  particularly on the settlers themselves. He identifies each newcomer with his  place of settlement, and then examines the pioneer's experiences and subsequent  movements, using nearly three dozen maps to show more definitively the location  of settlements and important homesteads. More than sixty additional  illustrations further enhance and clarify the text.
The narrative is divided into five parts: Part I covers the Virginia  frontier from the beginning of the colony to 1740; Part II covers the period  from 1740 to 1760; Part III tells the story of the Virginia frontier in the  French and Indian War; Part IV covers the closing years of the war and the  settlements from 1760 to the organization of Botetourt County in 1770; and Part  V details the organization and development of Botetourt County from 1770 to  1783. Throughout each of these parts--in section after section--there are  biographical sketches and countless lists of land grants and deeds of conveyance  identifying thousands upon thousands of settlers and their family members. This  documentary history is without a doubt the premier source of information on the  pioneers of the Virginia frontier."
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