Reprints. Lists originally published in the Magazine of Virginia genealogy, February 1984-August 1986; Interpreting headrights in Colonial-Virginia patents: uses and abuses originally published September 1987 in National Genealogical Society quarterly.

This is a collection of genealogical data from important name lists for Colonial Surry, which once encompassed almost the entire southern part of the state of Virginia (i.e., fourteen present-day Virginia counties). Noteworthy lists include Surry land grants, 1624-1740, and various Surry and Sussex censuses and marriage bonds.

Anthony Evans (b.ca. 1620) immigrated from Wales to Surry County, Virginia before 1657, and married widow Dorothy (Sheppard) Meadows Bartley in 1669, and died after 1671. Descendants lived in Virginia and elsewhere.