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While the focus of this book centers on the Allred Family in England and Colonial North America, anyone interested in the story of early immgrants to the Colonies will find this book informative. Members of the Allred family first appear in the records in Eccles Parish, Lancashire, England and continue even after the migration of Solomon Allred, to West Nottingham, Chester, Pennsylvania and eventual relocation to central North Carolina. This single voyager would change the fortunes of a great many descendants of this family in America, as they became involved in the social and religous life, politics and wars that helped create the world in which we now live. Evidence is presented and well documented and provides a background for future research, writing and dialogue.
By studying the family we can increase our understanding of everything from democracy and capitalism to, race, gender, class, violence, religion and death. Recent scholarship has gone beyond demographic study and narrow definitions of the family to consider kinship more widely. Yet a great deal of the material that can help our understanding remains buried and untapped in a variety of remote archives. This four-volume collection of newly transcribed manuscript material brings together sources from both sides of the Atlantic and from a wide variety of regional archives. It is the first collection of its kind, allowing comparisons between the development of the family in England and America during a time of significant change. The volumes are arranged thematically to assist in these comparisons and cover a wide variety of family units. The first volume helps to define the family and covers class, ethnic, racial and religious diversity. The second volume follows the creation of the family and the final two volumes look at how families maintained and perpetuated themselves. This collection will be of interest to all those who research and teach histories of the eighteenth century, the family, women, gender and childhood.
Theodorick Bland (1629-1671) immigrated from England to Charles City County, Virginia about 1652. Various of his brothers and sisters also immigrated, but none left a lasting progeny. Descendants lived in Virginia, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Indiana, Kansas and elsewhere.
My grandfather, Reverend Edgar Cannon Prettyman, first self-published 'THE PRETTYMAN FAMILY - In England And America - 1361-1968' over forty-five years ago. This book has since become the main reference book for Prettyman and related family historians. However, a very limited amount of copies were created and distributed. Now with the help of Amazon self-printing and e-book distribution, everyone can receive a quality copy of this family classic. My grandfather spent 35 years of his life visiting churches, libraries, museums, and state archives in order to gather as much history as he could find on the family. He also greatly depended on other historians in the family to fill in the missing pieces. While he, with his own words, admits that there is missing information and maybe even incorrect information within its pages, this collection was the first of its kind. Even today, there is not one source of information on the family. Many of today's family historians have gathered additional information on their branch of the family and posted this information on various websites and blogs. However, there is no one book or one website that puts all the information together. This book will become the cornerstone of the website "prettymanfamily.org," which in 2015 will allow all family members to update the history of the Prettymans in one place, interactively. There have been many famous members of the Prettyman family since its beginnings. The first known recording of the family was in the charter of Bacton Manor in 1361 in Suffork County, England. The manor was previously owned by King Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves, and Queen Elizabeth. In 1361 the charter declared that John Pratyman owned property there. John's grandfather was knighted by King James I in 1603. John's wife, Margaret, was King James V of Scotland's great great granddaughter. It is believed that the family replaced the 'a' in Pratyman with an 'e' to honor Queen Elizabeth. This practice was common. Sometime before the Prettyman family arrived in America, the second 't' was added to the name, forming the name 'Prettyman'. The additional 't' may have been an indication of relations to the Driffield family and is a direct relationship to Sir John Prettyman, knight. Queen Victory and President Lincoln appointed Dr. John Shepard Prettyman as consul to Glasgow, Scotland. The family is first known to exist in American just fourteen years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. John Prettyman was a plantation owner in the Lord Baltimore Colony. According to my grandfather's discoveries, there seems to be no record on exactly when he arrived in America, although he, or his relatives may have come to America on one of two ships lead by Caption Thomas Yong "to make discoveries and explore inhabited land." Many members of the Prettyman family were founders of the modern Methodist religion including Reverend William Prettyman. Multiple members had associations with presidents in the White House; Thomas Gray Prettyman built George Washington's coffin; Dr. John Sheppard Prettyman was one of the first advocates for supporting Abraham Lincoln's run for the presidency; Arthur Prettyman was a loyal valet to President Roosevelt for many years until the president's death. Elijah Barrett Prettyman was Chief Justice for the U.S. Appeals Court in Washington, D.C. The courthouse was named in his honor.