Announcing publication of
The McCartys of the Northern Neck: 350 Years of a Virginia Family
by William M. McCarty and Kathleen Much

In 1675, Irish immigrant Dennis McCarty married a Virginia belle,
Elizabeth Billington, and founded a family that now extends beyond
twelve generations. The most famous child of Dennis McCarty (who came
to Virginia about 1665) and Elizabeth Billington was Captain Daniel
McCarty (1689-1724), who was Speaker of the House of Burgesses.

The stories of the McCartys of the Northern Neck of Virginia and their
friends and relatives over the past three centuries have been
collected and brought to life by descendants William M. McCarty and
Kathleen Much. Their fascinating chronicle, based on original records
and family documents, includes information on many allied lines,
including Ball, Barber, Bayliss, Beale, Billington, Carter, Chinn,
Colston, Constable, Cox, Downman, Edmonds, Edwards, Efford,
Fauntleroy, Fitzhugh, Garland, Glascock, Hall, Hawkins, Lee, Mitchell,
Payne, Pope, Rust, Samford, Sydnor, Tarpley, Tayloe, Thornton, Tomlin,
Travers, Washington, Woodbridge, and Yerby. Many standard secondary
sources were consulted, and numerous errors in previous work have now
been corrected.

Hardcover
600 pages with appendixes and full index
26 illustrations and 53 genealogical  "trees"

Price postpaid $75.00
Mail check with order to
W.M. McCarty, M.D.
23 Glebe Court
Montross, VA  22520

REVIEWS
Robert Clay Young, retired archivist, Library of Virginia:
"The McCartys of the Northern Neck is a detailed and superbly
documented account of the lives, land dealings, and court battles of
one of Virginia's wealthy and prominent families over three
centuries. Their genealogical and business connections with the Lees,
Washingtons, Fitzhughs, Tayloes, Thorntons, Balls and other important
Virginia families are pursued in depth.
 "The book admirably covers subjects of interest to the general
 researcher in addition to extensive genealogical data on the McCarty
 family. Chapters on Virginia's colonial government, the Land Office,
 and the legal, military, surveying, and taxation systems of the era
 will be of great help to the inquiring genealogist. Dr. McCarty's
 account of his archaeological examination of family vaults will
 delight any lover of mystery.
"Northern Neck historians and Virginia researchers in general will
find that The McCartys of the Northern Neck admirably fills a large
and very noticeable void in Virginia genealogical bibliography.S

John Augustine Washington, Past President of The Society of Washington
Family Descendants and Past Vice-President of The Society of the Lees
of Virginia:
"In spite of the McCartys' intermarriages with such well-recorded
families as Fitzhugh, Lee, Washington, and Mason, a connected study of
the family, showing the interrelationships of the various McCartys who
keep cropping up in accounts of other prominent Northern Neck
families, has been unaccountably lacking.
"Now the cup runneth over. Dr. McCarty has presented the story of this
family not merely as a skeleton of names, dates, and relationships,
but a fascinating narrative underpinned by a scrupulous concern for
accuracy and detail. For over half a century, Dr. McCarty has gleaned
every scrap of a reference to the McCartys that could be found in the
county records of the region where the family flourished. It is indeed
rare to find such an entertaining and gripping series of tales based
on such meticulous research.
"This book is a model of what ought to be done for every family that
is struggling along--not, as the McCartys have been, in almost total
neglect, but with perhaps only those quaint articles in the early
quarterlies that are now in many cases over a hundred years old.
"An outstanding achievement."

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