Photo: A reenactment of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe toasting. The Germanna Foundation Board of Trustees hosted a living history colonial encampment in 2016 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition, which took place in August and September 1716 and began and ended at Fort Germanna. For more information visit the Germania Foundation site.

Jamestown Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 17

By Melissa Berry on December 8, 2022

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on descendants of the Jamestown settlers, writing about the order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe... (Read More)

Photo: Harvey Hunter Pratt (1860-1924), son of Henry Jones Pratt and his 2nd wife Maria Jones Hunter. From "Massachusetts State Representatives Officials and Employees -- Pictorial Works." Courtesy of the Massachusetts State Library.

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 30 (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on December 6, 2022

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing on the lineage of historian and author Harvey Hunter Pratt... (Read More)

Photo: Lyon Gardiner Tyler, American historian and president of William and Mary College. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Jamestown Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 16

By Melissa Berry on December 2, 2022

Melissa Berry continues her series on descendants of the Jamestown settlers, focusing on the lineage of genealogist and educator Dr. Lyon Tyler... (Read More)

Illustration: portraits of Leonard Walter Jerome and Clarissa Hall, parents of Jennie Jerome and grandparents to Sir Winston Churchill. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 29

By Melissa Berry on November 29, 2022

Melissa Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, debunking old theories and exploring new ones of Winston Churchill’s Mayflower connections... (Read More)

Photo: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Maj. Gen. Edgar Hume posed for this photograph after the formal induction ceremony for Churchill into the Society of Cincinnati on 16 January 1952. Credit: The Society of the Cincinnati Archives.

Winston Churchill’s American Revolution Bloodlines

By Melissa Berry on November 15, 2022

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about the American lineage of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill... (Read More)

Photo: Jennie Jerome, "Lady Randolph Churchill," in her riding habit, by Elliott & Fry. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

They Called Them ‘American Dollar Princesses,’ Part 2

By Melissa Berry on November 10, 2022

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her story about Lady Randolph Churchill, who was the mother of future British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill... (Read More)

Photo: Lady Randolph Churchill (nee Jennie Jerome) with her sons: the future Major John Strange Spencer-Churchill "Jack" (left); and future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir Winston Spencer Churchill (right), in 1889. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

They Called Them ‘American Dollar Princesses,’ Part 1

By Melissa Berry on November 8, 2022

Melissa Davenport Berry writes about Lady Randolph Churchill, who was the American mother of future British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill... (Read More)

Photo: Helen Keller, 1904. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Jamestown Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 15

By Melissa Berry on November 4, 2022

Melissa Berry continues her series on descendants of the Jamestown settlers, focusing on the lineage of disability rights activist Helen Keller... (Read More)

Illustration: portrait of William Roane Aylett (1833-1900). Courtesy of Trevor Caboor, a descendant of the Aylett family in Tennessee.

Jamestown Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 14

By Melissa Berry on October 21, 2022

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on descendants of the Jamestown settlers, focusing more deeply on the lineage of William Roane Aylett... (Read More)

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