Although the author has been unable to determine the original immigrant, the Knotts family first settled in the United States on the eastern shore of Maryland. The author traces her ancestry back nine generations to a John Knott born in 1679 in Queen Anne County, Maryland. This includes generations of the Knotts family in Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The appendix includes abstracts of census, land, probate, cemetery, marriage and tax records of the Knotts family.

Although the author has been unable to determine the original immigrant, the Knotts family first settled in the United States on the eastern shore of Maryland. The author traces her ancestry back nine generations to a John Knott born in 1679 in Queen Anne County, Maryland. This includes generations of the Knotts family in Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The appendix includes abstracts of census, land, probate, cemetery, marriage and tax records of the Knotts family.

A genealogy of some families who settled mainly in St. Mary's, Prince George's, Anne Arundel, Calvert and Charles Counties in the 17th century with some lines followed to around 1800. Included are Catholic, Protestant and Quaker records of births, deaths and marriages; abstracts of wills; land records, deeds of gift, and other court records establishing family relationships. Please see our website for the families covered in each volume.