America the beautiful : a family history : the London, Phillips, Scott, and Mitchell families and their related connections in colonial America (1600s-1700s) : with lines in England to Alfred the Great (846 A.D.) and William the Conqueror (1027 A.D.) and in France to King Hugh Capet (938 A.D.)
Baltimore : Arlington, VA (1100 N. Glebe Rd., Arlington 22201)
Publisher
Gateway Press ; Book orders to J.P. London,
Date of Publication
1997.
Physical Description
li, 1000 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes chapters on the Burnett, Oliver, Vaughn, Pettus, Hopkins, Comegys, Brown, Hynson, Smith, Tilden, Blay, Pearce, Wallis, Bodien, and Palmer families of Maryland and Virginia.
Family files are created for Lancaster County families. They may contain correspondence about a family, short genealogies and charts, photocopies of inventories and accounts, letters, etc.
Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Mitchell families who came mainly from Scotland, Ireland and England. Some focus is on (but not limited to) John Mitchell, who was born ca.1708, and died in 1767, at Drumore Township, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His wife was Mary Argiff. Their son, George inherited his father's plantation "Plainfield," established in 1738 at Fawn Township (now Peach Bottom Township) in York County, Pennsylvania. Some families also migrated to Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, and to Scotch Ridge, in Belmont County, Ohio (now Weber Township), Wood County, Ohio). Later descendants also lived in Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Southh Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and elsewhere in the United States.
