Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-11
LITTLE SIGNIFICANCE,
IN OLD LEGEND NOW
Many Went Out Into WiIds of Vest and Others Helped
Build Up Golden States During Stir
ring DAYS of 40.

These Historical rascanrs. festivals
and commandments have started the
pertlnen, query, What has become
of the original L. L. VS." tina,
great string % pioneers starting IN
1907. Who riskcd much IN facing the
raging seas and who took their lives
in their bands In confronting the
savage rcd man did no, dror into
oblivion e is quite certain. Those
har6y Coloni-ts who started the
path - empire toward the West.
mus, have left some mark and some
shinu= star directing tn" future gen
erations toward tho beacon of civill-
ZatiuE ana freedom.
Those old FIRST Families of Vir-
riuin PLANTED some sort ~ heritage
FOR tn" youucs .crs OF tho later years
The IeGersous. tho WashinEtonS. the
Marshulls the Lees. the lienryS the
Masous. tire PA vfaNcS were not
among tho earlier Immigrants that
landed with the fearless sets The
young shr-ps kju-totcrs or today are
looking into tho dusty old tones
searching for tho names OF their
forcfathorS
The result shows that thousands
Of the average citizens OF today hold
high rauk in That old list, and that
many OF the deeds Of daring and
the achievements Of the earliest Of
tho early ones have hccn forgotten.
while tho activities OF tho colonis,s
az ;hc eighteenth century have been
exploited 20 a great extent TO the
discontinue OF the sturdy bunch that
hlazcd the trail In the early years
Of the seventeenth century.
Population Of I2O2 IN 1922
The census or 1925 shows poruia-
ton OF l.202. bu; three years later
/; had grown TO 5000, Hut what
has becomes OF tho descendants Of
that heroic crowd? immigration In
creased so Tap!dly. however. AT that
time that, by 1873. the population
had grown To 10000.
In his deHrhtful little book "Thc
Social Life NJ Virginia in the Seven
teenth Century" .PhilrN Alexander
Bruce cndcavors To present the names
Of the prominent settlers. beginning
with tho early birds" This in
cludes Tho .Armisteads. Ranistcrs.
Bsssetts. Blands. Bollings. Beverlys.
Burwells. Byrds, Carys. Corbins. Car
t-rs, Clnibornes. Custises. Eatums.
Fauntlcroys. Fitzhurhs. lIarrisons.
Lees, Lightfoots. I.udwclls. Masons.
Pages. pcytons. Rnndolphs. Robin
sons. ScnrborouChs, Spenccr>s,
Thorourhroods, Truckers. Washing
tons, womeloys. rut most II these
came in the later years 81 the con
fury. Tho Crca; majority OF these
We're from tho landed estates and
the Professions ot tho Mother Coun-
try. while n number were from the
gentry and a fow from royalty and
tho pu,INcpl strata.
Among those who set forth In 1906
were the Anchors. Sandys. Wathrops
Throckmortons. Rr"wstcrs, Browns.
PcnniuEious. WinrnclGs. Walters.
Wottens Covers and Friths Many
II these names appear In the III
recturies oi the pr-scn; day. Some
al the names represent people who
have been successful in many fields.
while others have not arisen abov"
the level ot the average CITIZEN.
The second CONSIGNMENT" had among
is membership men bearing the Well
known English names OF Feather
stone, Abbot Mou!neaux. Perkins
Bentley. Worlcy. K!uinrbcck Bay
icy and Harper. While SIM latar
come Francis West, Russell. Codrinc-
tea phupo, Leigh Harrison. Holt.
Norton, Warrington. Phelps and Pratt
Came over in 1872.
Some at those who came over in
1912 were captain William Tucker.
whose descendants arc scattered All
over Virginia, aud John Jackson kim
smau of The Risnor II London These
pioneers With Thomas. J,nwlctt. John
Pory. car,ain France. WsS' Lieu