Ancestors living in one of the original thirteen colonies prior to 1657 with participation in some form on the side of the colonists.

This Supplement, owned and copyrighted by the Ohio Society, recognizes that there has been substantial interest and growth in genealogical research during the past 20 years since publication of the Second Revised Edition. The book includes over 1,000 'new' Early Settlers not previously recognized as Founders of Early American Families, corrects and/or adds information to nearly 100 names, as well as deletes approximately 100 names as no longer being acceptable as 'Founders' due to current research or errors such as using the son rather than the father as the Founder in a Colonial family on Order applications.

George Hume (1698-1760), second son of Sir George Hume, immigrated in 1721 from Scotland to Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and married Elizabeth Proctor. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry and genealogical data in Scotland, England and elsewhere.

A highly original account of the evolution of the family unit Current debates about the future of the family are often based on serious misconceptions about its past. Arguing that there is no biologically mandated or universally functional family form, Stephanie Coontz traces the complexity and variety of family arrangements in American history, from Native American kin groups to the emergence of the dominant middle-class family ideal in the 1890s. Surveying and synthesizing a vast range of previous scholarship, as well as engaging more particular studies of family life from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, Coontz offers a highly original account of the shifting structure and function of American families. Her account challenges standard interpretations of the early hegemony of middle-class privacy and “affective individualism,” pointing to the rich tradition of alternative family behaviors among various ethnic and socioeconomic groups in America, and arguing that even middle-class families went through several transformations in the course of the nineteenth centure. The present dominant family form, grounded in close interpersonal relations and premised on domestic consumption of mass-produced household goods has arisen, Coontz argues, from a long and complex series of changing political and economic conjunctures, as well as from the destruction or incorporation of several alternative family systems. A clear conception of American capitalism’s combined and uneven development is therefore essential if we are to understand the history of the family as a key social and economic unit. Lucid and detailed, The Social Origins of Private Life is likely to become the standard history of its subject.