Methods and Sources

The lineages I have posted here contain everything in my working files. If I am in doubt about a particular fact or connection, I usually note it in the Notes for that person. Please don't believe anything you see here; check it against primary sources before accepting it. In many cases, I have no idea what evidence the source I got information from based it on. When I have primary source information, it is included in the Notes for the individual.

I began putting together these lineages from a number of secondary sources:

History of the Henry McWhorter Family by Minnie S. McWhorter, Charleston Printing Company, Charleston, West Virginia, 1948

The Harshman-Hashman-Hershman-Hersman Family: A History and Genealogy, a Revised and greatly Amplified Edition of The Harshman Family Published in 1932 by The late Rev. Charles W. Harshman, S.T.B, Ph.D. by Col. C.C. Harshman in collaboration with Mavourneen (Harsman) Harsman, published by the authors, Berkeley, California, 1976.

The Forebears and Descendants of William Taylor and Mahala Cromwell by Carrie Cathern Cart, McClain Printing Company, Parsons, West Virginia, 1980

Unpublished research of Elizabeth deGruyter Turner of Glenville, West Virginia.

If there is no source noted, the information will have come from one of these books or from personal knowledge.

I have added information from Internet sources, mainly

Don Norman's West Virginia Family Histories

GENDEX

FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service

Ancestry World Tree

Other Internet sources are noted in the entries for individuals.

Some of the other books I have consulted (particularly useful ones are starred):

A colonial history of Rowan county, North Carolina. / Ervin, Sam J. (Sam James), 1896-1985. / Chapel Hill / 1917

A history of Seventh Day Baptists in West Virginia : including the Woodbridgetown and Salemville churches in Pennsylvania and the Shrews / Randolph, Corliss Fitz, 1863-1954 / Plainfield, N.J. / 1905

A supplement to the 1810 census of Virginia; tax lists of the counties for which the census is missing. / Schreiner-Yantis, Netti, 1930- / (Springfield, Va. / 1971

Absentee landowning and exploitation in West Virginia, 1760-1920. / Rasmussen, Barbara, 1947- / Lexington, Ky. / 1994

Abstracts form (|) the County court minute book of Culpeper county, Virginia, 1763-1764. / Culpeper county, Va. County court. / Dayton, Va. / 1930

Annals of Augusta County, Virginia : with reminiscences illustrative of the vicissitudes of its pioneer settlers ; biographical sketches / Waddell, Joseph Addison. / Richmond / 1886

Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871. / Waddell, Joseph Addison, 1825-1914. / 2d ed., 1902. / Bridgewater, Va. / 1958,c1901

Camps and firesides west of the Alleghenies. / Charleston / 1941

Carolina cradle; settlement of the northwest Carolina frontier, 1747-1762. / Ramsey, Robert Wayne / Chapel Hill / 1964

Conduff-Gilmer lineage and connections. / Gilmer, Ellen Conduff, 1910-1985.› / Baltimore (1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore 21202) / 1987

Culpeper County, Virginia, will book A, 1749-1770. / Dorman, John Frederick. / Washington / 1956

Documents, chiefly unpublished, relating to the Huguenot emigration to Virginia and to the settlement at Manakin-Town, with an appendix / Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914. / Richmond, Va. / 1886

Early history of western Pennsylvania. / Rupp, I. Daniel (Israel Daniel), 1803-1878 / Laughlintown, Pa. / 1989(1847)

* Early records, Hampshire county, Virginia, now West Virginia, including at the start most of known Va. aside from Augusta district. / Sage, Clara McCormack / Delavan, Wis. / 1939

Early Virginia families along the James River : their deep roots and tangled branches. / Foley, Louise Pledge Heath / Richmond / 1974-

Edgefield County, S.C. records. / Revill, Janie. / Easley, S.C. / 1984

Edgefield County, South Carolina, minutes of the County Court, 1785-1795. / South Carolina. County Court (Edgefield Co.) / Easley, S.C. / 1979

Edgefield marriage records, Edgefield, South Carolina, from the late 18th century up through 1870. / McClendon, Carlee T. / (Edgefield? S.C. / 1970

Eighteenth century emigrants from German-speaking lands to North America. / Burgert, Annette K. / Breinigsville, Pa. / 1983-

Eighteenth century emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America. / Burgert, Annette K. / Camden, Me. / 1992

Encyclopedia of German-American genealogical research. / Smith, Clifford Neal. / New York / 1976

Frederick County, Virginia, marriages, 1771-1825. / Davis, Eliza Timberlake. / (Smithfield, Virginia) / 1941

Genealogical and historical notes on Culpeper County, Virginia : embracing a revised and enlarged edition of Dr. Philip Slaughter's Hist / Baltimore / 1978(1900)

Hanging rock rebel : Lt. John Blue's war in West Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. / Blue, John, 1834-1903 / Shippensburg, PA / 1994

Historical register of Virginians in the Revolution : soldiers, sailors, marines, 1775-1783. / Gwathmey, John Hastings, 1886-1956. / Richmond, Va. / 1938

History of Augusta County, Virginia. / Peyton, J. Lewis (John Lewis), 1824-1896. / 2d ed. / Bridgewater, Va. / 1953

HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT / MAXWELL, HU. / 1897

History of Louisa County, Virginia. / Harris, Malcolm Hart, 1896- / Richmond, Va. / 1936

History of southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870. / Summers, Lewis Preston, 1868-1943 / Baltimore / 1966

Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750 : with their early history in Ireland. / Myers, Albert Cook, 1874-1960. / Swarthmore, Pa. / 1902

Index to printed Virginia genealogies, including key and bibliography. / Stewart, Robert Armistead, 1877-1950 / Richmond, Va. / 1930

Index to the names of 30,000 immigrants--German, Swiss, Dutch and French--into Pennsylvania, 1727-1776, supplementing the I. Daniel Rupp / Koger, Marvin Vastine. / (Pennington Gap, Va. / 1935

Indexes to the county wills of South Carolina. / South Carolina. University. Library. / Baltimore / 1964

* Kegley's Virginia frontier; the beginning of the Southwest; the Roanoke of colonial days, 1740-1783. / Kegley, F. B. (Frederick Bittle), 1877-1968. / Roanoke, Va. / 1938

Learned, Marion Dexter, 1857-1917 / The American ethnographical survey; Conestoga expedition, 1902. / New York / 1911

Life under four flags in North River Basin of Virginia. / May, C. E. (Clarence Edward), 1903- / Verona, Va. / 1976

MARRIAGES OF ORANGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1747-1810 / Knorr, Catherine Lindsay. / 1959

Marriages of Orange County, Virginia, 1747-1810. / Knorr, Catherine Lindsay. / (Pine Bluff, Ark. / 1959

Old churches, ministers and families of Virginia. / Meade, William, 1789-1862 / Philadelphia / 1857

Orange County (Va.) families and their marriages; a supplement to and including Virginia wills and abstracts; a genealogy of colonial Vi / Brockman, William Everett, 1891- / Minneapolis / 1949-1959

Over the mountain men; their early court records in southwest Virginia. / Worrell, Anne Lowry. / Baltimore / 1962

Shenandoah valley pioneers and their descendants. A history of Frederick County, Virginia (illustrated) from its formation in 1738 to 19 / Cartmell, T. K. (Thomas Kemp), 1838-1920. / (Winchester, Va. / 1909

Some prominent Virginia families. / Pecquet du Bellet, Louise, 1853- / (Lynchburg, Va. / 1907

The Allegheny frontier: West Virginia beginnings, 1730-1830. / Rice, Otis K. / Lexington / 1970

The Antebellum Kanawha salt business and western markets. / Stealey, John E., 1941- / Lexington / 1993

The conquest of the old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740- / Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963 / New York / 1920

The Crabtrees of southwest Virginia; abstracts of historical information, census and service records, genealogies (and) legends. / Fritz, Arah Miller. / Pecos, Tex. / 1965

The Fairfax line; Thomas Lewis's journal of 1746. In the following pages is reproduced with literal accuracy the journal kept by Thomas / Lewis, Thomas, 1718-1790 / New Market, Va. / 1925

The first census of Hampshire County. / Romney / 1937

The first Germans in North America and the German element of New Netherland. / Lohr, Otto 1872- / New York / 1912

The history and government of West Virginia. / Fast, Richard Ellsworth, d 1904. / Morgantown, W.Va. / 1906

The Lees of Virginia : seven generations of an American family. / Nagel, Paul C. / New York / 1990

The papers of William Penn. / Penn, William, 1644-1718 / Philadelphia, PA / 1981-

The peopling of Virginia. / Bean, Robert Bennett, 1874-1944. / Boston / 1938

The Rowan story, 1753-1953; a narrative history of Rowan County, North Carolina. / Brawley, James S., 1918- / Salisbury / 1953

The Tinkling Spring, headwater of freedom; a study of the church and her people, 1732-1952. / Wilson, Howard McKnight. / Fishersville, Va. / 1954

The World of William Penn. / Philadelphia / 1986

Trabue, Daniel, 1760-1840. / Westward into Kentucky : the narrative of Daniel Trabue. / Lexington, Ky. / 1981

Twelve Virginia counties, where the western migration began. / Gwathmey, John Hastings, 1886-1956. / Richmond, Va. / 1937

Virginia genealogies and family histories : a bibliography of books about Virginia families. / Virdin, Donald Odell. / Bowie, MD / 1990

Virginia local history, a bibliography. / Virginia State Library. / Richmond / 1971

Virginia's Colonial soldiers. / Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt.› / Baltimore / 1988

* West Virginia estate settlements, 1753-1850. / Johnston, Ross B. / Fort Worth, Texas / 1969