In a message dated 7/20/2005 4:20:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > Am looking for information on the Peter/Peters family that founded > Petersburg. Thank you in advance for any information. I look forward to > hearing from > you. > Mike, Petersburg was named for a Peter Jones (back to whom lead many other Peter Jones) a crony of William Byrd II. At one point I thought my Baugh genealogy went back to him, but alas it was the wrong Archibald Baugh with this ancestry. See this website as an example. http://www.cvco.org/tourism/histrich/pburg.html One item you can check off your list now (smile). Janet (Baugh) Hunter To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html