Henry Watkins (b.ca. 1638), a Quaker and possibly emigrated from England as an indentured servant, was in Henrico County, Virginia during or before 1664. By about 1675, Henry and his family owned a small farm in Henrico County, where he died after 1715. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Kentucky and elsewhere.

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From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine.

William C. C. Claiborne, the first governor of Orleans Territory, was at the hub of officials who grappled with the political, diplomatic, and administrative challenges that arose following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Letters both to and from Claiborne during the critical months of 1804–1805, mysteriously excluded in 1917 from Dunbar Rowland’s Official Letter Books of W. C. C. Claiborne, 1801–1816, are now made widely accessible, over half of them published here for the first time. To enhance appreciation of the letters, Jared William Bradley has furnished biographical sketches of thirty-one heretofore little-known individuals crucial to Claiborne’s correspondence, delineating their personalities and their contributions to the development of law and the establishment of American government in the French Creole society. Bradley also treats in four essays the origins and growth of the “Municipal,” or the New Orleans city council; two organizations of businessmen that were ensnared in the so-called Burr Conspiracy in 1807; and the early history of Fort St. Philip, which guarded access to New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico. Bradley’s essays joined with 218 of Claiborne’s letters makes Interim Appointment of incalculable value. It provides fresh insights into the political, constitutional, and social histories of Louisiana and the United States.

Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of various English branches of the Hancock families who immigrated to America. Genealogical information begins with William Hancock who was born ca. 1580 in Devonshire, England and immigrated to America aboard the ship "Margaret of Bristol" 16 September 1619. He was the father of three known children who immigrated to America and settled with him in Virginia. His English ancestors (not identified in this text) produced descendants who settled in Massachusetts, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Indiana, California and elsewhere.

William Moseley was born in England about 1605. He came to Virginia where he married Susannah Burnet and they were the parents of two children. Susannah was married before and she had another daughter. Information on many of their descendants is given in these volumes. Descendants now live in New Jersey, Washington, Virginia, Indiana, and elsewhere in the United States.