This is some of the stuff I read to look so smart, and so confused. My favorite is simply the title alone of Hotten’s masterpiece. It fills three lines and is the first title referenced in the Davis Family bibliography.

References for the von Kouwenhovens
  • The Von Kouwenhoven Family in the Netherlands and in New Netherland, P. de Boer.
  • Voor Genealogie, Part 50, Dec 16, 1996, Central Bureau
  • The Hague, by M. S. F. Kemp. Additional information has been obtained from the NYGBR issues of October 1997 and January 1998.
  • Conover Family Genealogy Page, David K. Conover
  • Pioneers and Pilgrims, Kelley, Elizabeth Conover, Harlo Press, MI: 1982
  • The Documentary History of the State of New-York, Vol. IV, O’Callaghan, M.D. (Albany: Charles Van Benthuysen, 1851).
  • Instructions for Director Willem Verhulst and the Council of New Netherland, April 22, 1625.
  • Nicolaes Van Wasenaer. Historisch Verhael from Original Narratives of Early American History: Narratives of New Netherland 1609-1664 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1909) pp. 67-96 found online at google books.
  • The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498-1909, Vol, 5. Isaac Newton Phelps-Stokes (New York: Six volumes published 1915-1928 by Robert H. Dodd), p. xvii.
  • The Von Kouwenhoven-Conover Family, taken from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol 070, No. 3, Lincoln C. Cocheu. July 1939 p. 232.
  • Letter from Isaack de Rasiere to the Amsterdam Camber of the West India Company September 23, 1626 from Documents Relating to New Netherland, 1624-1626
  • Van Rensselaer Bowerie Manuscript.
  • Karen Sivertsen. Babel on the Hudson: Community Formation in Dutch Manhattan, dissertation Department of History Duke University.
  • American Treasures of the Library of Congress  1, Dr. O’Callaghan’s manuscript translation of colonial records; N. Y. Col. Docs. XIV. 10; Stiles,
  • History of Kings County, Vol I.
  • Archives of Amersfoort, Copied with slight variations from E. B. O’Callaghan’s manuscript translation of the original in the New York Colonial MSS., Vol. I, p. 155, destroyed in the Capitol fire of March 29, 1911, Albany, October 4, 1933; signed A.J.F. van Laer.
  • Colonial Dutch Manuscripts
  • Holland Society Year Book, 1900
  • The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674, Berthold Fernow, ed.(The Knickerbocker Press, New York: 1897), I, 5:67.

A large thank you to David Kipp Conover for his efforts over the years. He has compiled much of the research related to the Descendants of Gerritt Jansz Kouwenhoven found online. David’s surname is an Anglicized version of Couvenhoven.

References for the de la Fontaines
  • Church of England Families: Fountain (Fontaine), The Fontaine Maury Society
  • Old Somerset: Eastern Shore of Maryland, Clayton Torrance, 1935
  • They lived in Somerset:  17th Century Marylanders, Wilmer O. Lankford, Manokin Press, 1990
  • Register of Qualified Ancestors, The National Huguenot Society, Vera Reeve
  • Patentees of Land in Old Somerset Area, 1662-1666, Maryland Archives
References for Davis Family :
  • Our Early Immigrant Ancestors: The original lists of persons of quality: emigrants; religious exiles; political rebels; serving men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American plantations 1600-1700. Hotten, J. Camden. NY : J. W. Bouton. 1874.
  • Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Vol. I, John Bennett Boddie, Wilmette, IL., 1938. 1993.
  • Memories and Records of Eastern North Carolina, Mary C Lambeth, Curley Print Co., Nashville TN 1957.
  • History of Perquimans County, North Carolina, Mrs.Watson Winslow, Raleigh, NC, 1931. 1990. Compiled and edited by: Richard R. Dietz.
  • Wills and Administrations of Isle of Wight County VA Books 1-3, Blanche Adams Chapman, 2006, Heritage Books Inc, Westminster MD
  • The Early Settlement of Carolina, Virginia’s Southern Frontier, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Lindley S. Butler, (1971).
  • Cavaliers and Pioneers, Nell M. Nugent, (1934).
  • Ye Countie of Albemarle in Carolina, William S. Powell, (1958).
  • Alumni Cantabrigienses, vol. 2, John Venn, (1922).
  • Isle of Wight and Nansemond Emigrants Establish North Carolina’s First Permanent Colony, Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Boddie, John Bennett. Genealogical Publishing Com, 1973 (reprint). 124.
  • Carolina Charter of 1663: how it came to North Carolina and its place in history, with biographical sketches of the proprietors. Powell, William Stevens, Raleigh, N.C: State Dept. of Archives and History, 1954. 16.
References for Montgomery Family:
  • Deposition of James Montgomery, Jr., 1747, as found in Kegley’s Virginia Frontier. See also:
  • Deposition of James Montgomery, 1747, as published in Records of Augusta County, Virginia, by Lyman Chalkley, Genealogical Pub. Company, 1965.
  • Deposition of James Montgomery from Southwest Virginia Families by David B. Trimble.
  • A Seed-Bed of the Republic, Robert Stoner, Commonwealth Press, 1962, Radford, Va., Augusta Co, VA
  • Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement of Virginia (Records of Augusta County, Virginia 1745-1800) by Lyman Chalkley, Genealogical Publishing Company, Vol III, 1966.
  • Montgomery Heritage, Vol III, by Oral Montgomery.
  • Augusta County, Virginia, Deed Bk.
  • Virginia Will Book 2 and Order Book 6
  • The Road to Black Ned’s Forge, Turk McCleskey, University of Virginia Press, 2014.
  • The traditional relationship of the Montgomery clan to the Calhouns is partially confirmed by the Journal of Alexander Noble 1762-63, University of South Carolina Library, Columbia, SC.
References for our Montgomery lineage in Great Britain
  • Origin and History of the Montgomerys, Montgomery, Bo-Gabriel de, (William Blackwood and Sons, Ltd; Location: Edinburgh and London; Date: 1948;) E book
  • Montgomery Families: Irish Notes, Montgomery, Robert H, (Name: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; Date: 1958;), Page 288 Montgomery_pdf.
  • Genealogical History of the Family of Montgomery, Montgomery, Thomas Harrison, (Name: Printed for Private Circulation; Location: Philadelphia; Date: 1863;), Pages 123-127
  • Montgomerys de Broadstain: A Genealogical History of the Family, E Book, PDF 170 pages
  • A Genealogical History of the Montgomerys and their Descendants, Montgomery, David B, (Name: Name: J P Cox; Location: Owensville, Indiana; Date: 1903;), E Book: PDF 436 pages
  • Marriage Notes: Hugh Montgomery and Jean Alexander, (Location: ancestry.com;), Notes about the marriage of Hugh Montgomery and Jean Alexander and their home at Mount Alexander.
  • Ulster-Scots Biographies, Roulston, Dr William and Thompson, Mark, (Name: Ulster Historical Foundation;), Pamphlet # 9.
References for the Andersons
  • Ye Andersons of Virginia, Volume 11, Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly, Columbus, Ohio, 1908
  • The Andersons of Goldmine, by Edward L. Anderson
  • Climbing the Family Tree by Bessie Lamar Anderson Calvert
  • Anderson Family Records, William Pope Anderson, (W. F. Schaeffer & Co., Cincinnati, 1936).
  • A Continuation of Anderson Family Records (1936) & Early Descendants of William Overton & Elizabeth Waters of Virginia & Allied Families, (Cincinnati, Ohio; 1945), William Pope Anderson, author
  • The Vestry Book of St. Paul’s Parish, C. G. Chamberlayne, Hanover County, Virginia 1706-1786, (Clearfield Company, Inc.; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland 1999).
  • Historical Southern Families, Vol. XV, p. 201-202 Edited by Mrs John Bennett Boddie, Honolulu, Hawaii, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1971.
  • Burke’s American Families with British Ancestry, (Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1977) p.2539. Excerpted from Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 16th ed. (London, 1939).