Re: Who was the first Floyd in America?
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Who was the first Floyd in America?
6/21/99
Alan - I don't know if first Floyds in America have been established, but N.J.Floyd in his VIRGINIA-KENTUCKY FLOYD FAMILIES (1912) says that "the general trend of all VA and GA traditions and genealogies leads back to two Floyds who landed at Jamestown something over a dozen years after its settlement, as the progenitors of the family in the South.Their names are given as Nathaniel and Walter."He says that a search of the old Jamestown records reveal "the fact that in 1623 a record was made of the arrival from Wales of 'Nathaniel Floyd, age twenty-four years, in his own vessel, the "Nova," bringing 16 other persons."He goes on o say that several Floyds settled in Accomac County in 1675, and that these were likely grandsons of Nathaniel--perhaps one of them grandson of Walter.He then says that "it is quite certain that John, the elder of the party (Accomac Co., 1675) was the grandfather--possibly the father--of William of Amherst (1720-1789) from whom all the Virginia-Kentucky Floyd families are descended.I don't know how reliable this book is, but, it is quite interesting--should be in any good genealogical library.
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