Lewis Pugh and his children lived through an adventurous time in Colonial Virginia. Public records and personal accounts specifically about this family are not as abundant as we might hope. Piecing together surviving documents gives us a picture of the life and times in which our ancestors lived. Personal accounts, diaries, and public records for individuals who lived in the geographic location of our ancestors during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries become very interesting to read. We can imagine that some of the events involving people who lived in the same towns as our ancestors affected our ancestors' lives as well.
Live along the Rappahannock River, where Lewis Pugh lived his adult life, comes alive after reading surviving court, tax, voting, military, and land records. Learning about the laws, customs, political, and social events in the Northern Neck of Virginia, create a backdrop for the lives of the Pugh family.
Original records created at the time of an event often reveal who was kin to whom, their relationship to neighbors, what were people' occupations, and what was their specific place in society. Records about custody of minor children, dower rights, and court records about minor offenses such as swearing in public, not attending church, and fines for disapproved conduct give us a picture of what may have been heard on a daily basis and about the religious and moral values of the time.
What people left to others in their wills, i.e., iron pots and pans, jackets, britches, tools, guns, spinning wheels, distilling equipment, mattresses and bedding, horses, saddles, cows, books, coins, tell us about what was of value in their lives.
This website of compiled genealogies, commissioned research, contributions from family members, tell us of Lewis Pugh's Welsh origin and his lineage back to the 1200s, his travels to the Colony of Virginia and then back to Wales to collect an inheritance. It is about his life, his marriage, his children, his acquaintances, and about the many directions that his grandchildren and great-grandchildren took in settling America in the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century.
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This introduction and the following three generations of the Lewis Pugh family was written and copyrighted by Daniela Moneta, MLS, CG, CGL, Co-owner of www.GenealogyOne-on-One.com, [email protected].
CG, Certified Genealogist, CGL, and Certified Genealogical Lecturer are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists® used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office. MLS, Masters in Library and Information Studies from UCLA.
Live along the Rappahannock River, where Lewis Pugh lived his adult life, comes alive after reading surviving court, tax, voting, military, and land records. Learning about the laws, customs, political, and social events in the Northern Neck of Virginia, create a backdrop for the lives of the Pugh family.
Original records created at the time of an event often reveal who was kin to whom, their relationship to neighbors, what were people' occupations, and what was their specific place in society. Records about custody of minor children, dower rights, and court records about minor offenses such as swearing in public, not attending church, and fines for disapproved conduct give us a picture of what may have been heard on a daily basis and about the religious and moral values of the time.
What people left to others in their wills, i.e., iron pots and pans, jackets, britches, tools, guns, spinning wheels, distilling equipment, mattresses and bedding, horses, saddles, cows, books, coins, tell us about what was of value in their lives.
This website of compiled genealogies, commissioned research, contributions from family members, tell us of Lewis Pugh's Welsh origin and his lineage back to the 1200s, his travels to the Colony of Virginia and then back to Wales to collect an inheritance. It is about his life, his marriage, his children, his acquaintances, and about the many directions that his grandchildren and great-grandchildren took in settling America in the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century.
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This introduction and the following three generations of the Lewis Pugh family was written and copyrighted by Daniela Moneta, MLS, CG, CGL, Co-owner of www.GenealogyOne-on-One.com, [email protected].
CG, Certified Genealogist, CGL, and Certified Genealogical Lecturer are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists® used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office. MLS, Masters in Library and Information Studies from UCLA.