GEN 973 PROM
The Prominent Families of the United States of America
by A. M. Burke
Early Prominent Families of Virginia:
Washington, Carter, Randolph, Lee, Byrd, Page, Fairfax, Harrison, Bolling, Claiborne, Diggers, Conway, Cabell, Ashton, Fitzhugh, Fowke, Gordon, Henry, Pendleton, Slaughter, Tyler, and Chichester.
Early Prominent Families of Maryland:
The Calverts, Carrolls, Ridgelys, Tilghmans, Burwells, Brents, Briscoes, Lloyds, Lowndes, Tildens, Brookes, and Chews.
Early Prominent Families of The Carolinas:
Middleton, Pinckney, Lowndes, Izard, Blake, and Rutledge.
The Pilgrim Fathers
John Carver
William Bradford
Edward Winslow
William Brewster
Isaac Allerton
Miles Standish
John Alden
Samuel Fuller
Christopher Martin
William White
Richard Warren
John Howland
Stephen Hopkins
Edward Tilley
John Tilley
Francis Cooke
Thomas Rogers
Thomas Tinker
John Rigdale
Edward Fuller
John Turner
Francis Eaton
James Chilton
John Billington
Moses Fletcher
John Goodman
Degory Priest
Thomas Williams
Gilbert Winslow
Edmund Margeson
Peter Browne
Richard Britteridge
George Soule
Richard Clarke
Richard Gardiner
John Allerton
Thomas English
Edward Dotey
Edward Leister
Some Prominent Puritan Surnames:
Higginson, Hooker, Cotton, Mathers, Winthrops, Bulkeleys, Faunces, Pynchons, and Chaunceys.
Some Prominent Quaker Surnames:
Penn, Gilpins, Biddles, Morrises, Thomases, Whartons, and Shoemakers.
Some Prominent Dutch Surnames:
Van Cortlandts, Schermerhorns, Van Rensselaers, Stuyvesants, Kips, Beekmans, de Peysters, Vanderbilts, Van Burens, and Schuylers.
Some Prominent Huguenots Surnames:
Revenel, Mazyck, Porcher, Cordes, Bayard, Rhinelander, Huger, and de Lancey.
These were the principal European settlements of America, and most of the historic families of the United States are descended from these founding families.
