Traces the maternal line of the author beginning with Thomas Ward who emigrated to Virginia from his native England around 1630. He settled in Norfolk County. The Ward family married into the Fentress, Godfrey, Guilford, Davis and other families. Descendants live in Virginia and North Carolina. The bulk of the information specifically concerns the immediate ancestors of the author.

Ancestor charts and corresponding family group sheets (bound together with library binding) for the author's maternal (Langill) and paternal (Glendenning) families.

Excerpt from The Discovery of a Grandmother: Glimpses Into the Homes and Lives of Eight Generations of an Ipswich-Paine Family Gathered Together She came into the world in 1787. She came into my life in 1917. IN the summer of 1917 the old home of seventy years, in Bangor, Maine, was broken up and the furnishings sent to diverging points. Many of the books, manuscripts, and pictures were sent to the Bangor public library, which had recently lost its all by fire. In the course of a few weeks one of these was returned to our family, a small book written over in faint ink. We read and reread, with almost exciting interest, the pages written in bygone days, by the Grandmother, Abiel Ware Paine. While my father had said, My mother was one of the saints of the earth, and my mother, Your father's mother was a remark able woman, we never knew her except as to name, and that only as to the Paine and Ware. Now she is one of my most cherished possessions. It soon became my wish that my children and their children should own her, too, and I conceived the scheme of putting into permanent form these jottings of hers. 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.

The author's maternal history - 400-2014, in four parts including ancient Franks royalty, British royalty, American colonists, and American Revolutionary War patriots.

"A solid, thought-provoking study of a far more complex world than historians of seventeenth-century Virginia have yet offered."--"Journal of Southern History"