By: Benjamine F. VanMeter, Pub. 1901, reprinted 2023, 186 pages, Index soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-151-7. This book is a series of biographical sketches of families from 17th and 18th century Virginia and Kentucky. The author compiled these sketches from published sources, original records and interviews with the oldest living members of a number of the families. These sketches are a balanced mixture of genealogy and biography, which makes for interesting reading while covering as many as six generations of family members. Surnames of these pioneers are: Allan, Bigelow, Bruce, Campbell, Clay, Cunningham, Field, Garrard, Hall, Hamilton, Hanna, Harness, Harrison, Hockaday, Holloway, Hull, Johnson, Johnston, Kleiser, Lewis, McNeill, Moore, Nicholas, Payne, Petit, Prewitt, Rodes, Smith, Stonestreet, Swoope, Van Meter, West, Wetherill, Williams, Willis, Wright, and Yerkes.

Excerpt from Genealogies and Sketches of Some Old Families: Who Have Taken Prominent Part in the Development of Virginia and Kentucky Especially, and Later of Many Other States of This Union While genealogies and biographical sketches are the principal aim of this book, I have not hesitated to add historical sketches when of sufficient importance to justify recording; and by way of adding interest and entertainment. Amusing incidents and anecdotes have not been rejected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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