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The Founders, Portraits of Persons Born Abroad Who Came to the Colonies in North America Before the Year 1701. Three volumes bound in two; by Charles Knowles Bolton; Paperback; 3 vols. in 2. 1,103 pp; Published: 1912-1926, Reprinted: 2012; ISBN: 9780806319506; Item # CF560D
Fascinating, delightful, entertaining--not words one would ordinarily choose to describe a work of reference but words which can be applied here without a whisper of overstatement. In these volumes Charles Knowles Bolton, the celebrated New England genealogist and historian, has reproduced a gallery of 17th-century portraiture and secured for us a permanent gift of the past. The combined collection is a pantheon of American Fathers and Mothers, a gallery of the authenticated portraits of the Founders of the American colonies who immigrated before the year 1701. It contains several hundred portraits--some by Rembrandt, Van Dyke, Sir Peter Lely, and Sir Godfrey Kneller, as well as portraits by lesser known or obscure hands.
The compiler offers a scholarly account of the origin and authenticity of each portrait along with extensive biographical and genealogical notes which, in themselves, constitute a formidable body of useful data. On the whole, the work is intelligently indexed and usefully documented and will adorn the shelves of genealogist and historian alike.
The following is a representative selection of the featured portraits:
- Alsop, George
- Armory, Thomas
- Adros, Sir Edmund
- Bacot, Pierre
- Bailey, Rev. John
- Ball, Elias
- Banta, Epke
- Baudouin, Pierre
- Bellingham, Richard, Lord
- Bjorck, Rev. Eric
- Blair, Rev. James
- Bleecker, Jan
- Bolling, Robert
- Bowdoin, James
- Bradstreet, Simon
- Bray, Rev. Thomas
- Broughton, Thomas
- Brown, Jane Lucas
- Byfield, Nathaniel
- Byrd, William, I
- Carpenter, Samuel
- Carroll, Charles
- Carter, Elizabeth Landon
- Chambers, Charles
- Claiborne, William
- Clark, Dr. John
- Colepeper, Thomas, Lord
- Colman, John
- Coram, Thomas
- Corbin, Gawin
- Cotton, Rev. John
- Curwin, George
- Darnell, Henry
- Davenport, Rev. John
- Davie, Mary
- De Lancey, Stephen
- De Peyster, Margareta Katrijn
- Desborough, Samuel
- De Vries, David
- Downing, Sir George
- Du Bois, Rev. Gaulterus
- Endecott, John
- Eskridge, George
- Fitzhugh, William
- Freeman, Rev. Bernardus
- Freke, John
- Gale, Christopher
- Goffe, William
- Gray, Edward
- Hamilton, Andrew
- Haynes, Mabel
- Heathcote, Caleb
- Herrman, Augustine
- Herrman, Jannetje
- Jaffrey, George
- Jaquelin, Edward
- Jay, Augustus
- Johnson, Sir Nathaniel
- Keith, Rev. George
- Kelpius, Johannes
- Knollys, Rev. Hanserd
- Koster, Henrich
- Larkham, Thomas
- Le Noble, Catherine
- Le Serurier, Elizabeth
- Le Serurier, James
- Leverett, John
- Livingston, Robert
- Logan, James
- Lunsford, Sir Thomas
- Mather, Rev. Richard
- Mazyck, Isaac
- Mazyck, Marianne
- Montague, Richard
- Moseley, Arthur
- Moseley, Susanna
- Moseley, William
- Moseley, William, Jr.
- Nelson, John
- Norris, Mary
- Page, John
- Pepperrell, William
- Percy, George
- Peter, Hugh
- Philipse, Frederick
- Plaisted, Roger
- Pollard, Anne
- Printz, Johan
- Provoost, Johannes
- Pryce, Rosamund
- Pynchon, William
- Randolph, William
- Rawson, Edward
- Rhett, William
- Saltonstall, Sir Richard
- Sandys, George
- Savage, Thomas
- Sewall, Samuel
- Sewall, Stephen
- Steendam, Jacob
- Steenwyck, Cornelius
- Stoddard, Elizabeth Roberts
- Stoughton, William
- Strijcker, Jacob
- Strijcker, Jan
- Thacher, Rev. Thomas
- Van Cortlandt, Oloff
- van der Donck, Adriaess
- Varleth, Anna
- Vetch, Samuel
- Wheelwright, Rev. John
- Winslow, Edward
- Winslow, Penelope
- Winthrop, John
- Wintrop, John, Jr.
- Winthrop, Mary
- Winthrop, Stephen
- Woodbridge, Rev. John
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