The Founders, Portraits Of Persons Born Abroad Who Came To The Colonies In North America Before The Year 1701. 3 Vol. Bound In 2
The Founders, Portraits Of Persons Born Abroad Who Came To The Colonies In North America Before The Year 1701. 3 Vol. Bound In 2
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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