colonial Virginia family
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concept
A colonial Virginia family is a kinship-based household unit in 17th–18th century Virginia, typically headed by a white male landowner, encompassing spouse, children, extended relatives, enslaved people, and sometimes indentured servants, all embedded in a plantation-based, hierarchical social and economic structure.
Observed surface forms (7)
- Virginia planter family ×9
- Virginia colonial family ×2
- American colonial lineage ×1
- Virginia planter dynasty ×1
- colonial American dynasty ×1
- colonial Virginia lineage ×1
- colonial elite family ×1
Instances (15)
- Greenleaf family via concept surface "American colonial lineage"
- Wayles family
- Custis family via concept surface "Virginia planter dynasty"
- Washington family via concept surface "Virginia planter family"
- Burwell family of Virginia via concept surface "Virginia colonial family"
- Randolph family of Virginia via concept surface "Virginia planter family"
- Ludwell family via concept surface "Virginia colonial family"
- Beverley family of Virginia via concept surface "Virginia planter family"
- Grymes family of Virginia via concept surface "Virginia planter family"
- Hill-Carter family via concept surface "Virginia planter family"
- Eppes family via concept surface "Virginia planter family"
- Jones family of Virginia via concept surface "Virginia planter family"
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producing George Washington, first President of the United States
surface form: Washington family
- Mason family of Virginia via concept surface "Virginia planter family"
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Bizarre Plantation scandal
via concept surface "Virginia planter family"
surface form: Randolph family