By Edgar E. Hume

Learn about the arrival of Jacobite prisoners in Virginia, 1716, the trial and conviction of George Hume (1698-1760) His letters. the murder of Margaret Hume, Ladie Billie, 1752, The French and Indian War. This is the fascinating story of one branch of the Humes. Crown surveyor of Fredericksburg, Virginia, that George helped to establish, and Washington's teacher of surveying, records and letters from his life. Descended through a long line of kings, barons, and earls, from a very early history in England, the branch in Scotland, and to those in Virginia and all of America, the heroes, statesmen, and public figures. George Hume had his share if misfortunes, captured in England, imprisoned, but permitted to come to America in 1721. An Officer of the Colonial Militia, 1729, Crown Surveyor for Spotsylvania, Orange, and Frederick Counties. Married Elizabeth in 1728. Note -The same author presents the Hume Family as it relates to the Kennedy and Brockman families, 1912.

(163p. 1931)