OK, chronology is out the window. Virginia was settled 13 years before Plymouth. Back in sequence tomorrow.
Virginia was settled with the Jamestown Colony in 1607. By 1619, indentured servants were being brought over from the British Isles and Africa.
Thomas Keeling arrived in 1628, as an indentured servant of Adam Thorowgood. He returned to England after his indenture, married Thorowgood's niece and returned to Virginia in 1634. It became common practice to serve an indenture, and then acquire 50 acres of land for each person that you had transported to Virginia.
Francis Land arrived in 1630. He married a Keeling. The Bonneys and Moore would arrive during the 1630s as well. Other families would come later - the Barlows during the early 1700s and the Sumter and Gulley families about 1750.
Families like the Faucetts would serve as buffers between the Tidewater families of Virginia and the Indians of the Ohio Valley, before calling western Pennsylvania and the northern neck of Virginia home in the 1770s.
A Quaker migration during the late 1730s brought families named Rogers, Evans, Pugh, Ballinger and Wright to the Shenandoah Valley. They were joined by Swiss Lutherans like the Rinkers. German families, like the Ullery/Wolary clan would arrive by 1790.
The earlier families [Land, Gulley] would leave for Kentucky after the Revolutionary War and the Wolarys would head for Ohio during the early 1800s.
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