Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607-1625: A Biographical Dictionary, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD (http://www.genealogical.com), 833 pages, hardback, $49.95 Author: Martha W. McCartney, a Virginia native and award winning historian.

This annotated volume includes succinct biographies of more than 5,500 people who were among Virginia’s earliest settlers.  It is multicultural and provides information about the Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans who made significant contributions to the early success of the Virginia colony.  Most of the people included in this book are linked to the geographical setting in which they lived via a map that identifies the sites of Virginia’s earliest communities.  The first chapter also provides mini-histories of each community.

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