Dear All,

It sounds (from the names cited) like this is a little too far up the
Neck for me (all my stuff is Northumberland, Lancaster, and just a
little taste of Richmond Cos.),  but I am separately interested in the
reference to an "Irish immigrant" in 1675.

My Charles Fallon/Fallin carried a name that had to come from (Gaelic)
Ireland and was buying land in Northumberland County in 1671.  I have a
few sketchy references that might make a West Indies connection and I
pretty much know where he had to come from in Ireland, but it would be
enormously helpful to compare and contrast other (non-indentured
servants) emigrating at about the same time.  So if someone has or
gains access to this book, please let me know what it may say about Mr.
McCarty's origins in Ireland.

Thanks,

Jack Fallin
Walnut Creek, CA


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> Date:    Tue, 17 May 2005 09:26:34 -0700
> From:    Kathleen Much <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: McCartys of the Northern Neck published
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> 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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