Colonial Roots

Lewis Preston Summers’ book covers the territory west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, including areas now in Kentucky and West Virginia, he focuses primarily on the Virginia counties of Botetourt, Fincastle, Montgomery, Washington, and Wythe, including the present-day West Virginia counties of Boone, Cabell, Fayette, Greenbrier, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mason, Mercer, Mingo, Monroe, Putnam, Raleigh, Summers, Wayne, and Wyoming. Includes minutes of the county courts, marriage licenses, abstracts of deeds and wills, surveys of lands, and lists of soldiers, and an exhaustive list of Revolutionary War soldiers from Southwest Virginia. Numerous illustrations and three large fold-out maps. (1929).1996. 1,757pp. Hardbound. 2 vol set.