Hello Bradshaws! I took a little 20-mile trip into town yesterday to the local Library to look through the shelves of Virginia Genealogy books housed in their Genealogy Room. I found something quite interesting pertaining to a family legend. My GGGrandmother (1822-1913) wrote in her journal that the first Bradshaw (of our family, I presume) "came from England with Victor Harvey's son(s) and brought with him at least 7 sons and a daughter, but no wife". It is a well-known story in our family that we have speculated about it for years. She also wrote that this first Bradshaw was of some nobility. Found: Source-"EARLY VIRGINIA IMMIGRANTS 1623-1666" by George Cabell Greer, Clerk of Virginia State Land Office. Baltimore Publication Co, Inc, 1978 [originally published in Richmond, Virginia, 1912; reprinting began again in 1960 >1973 > 1978]: Greer writes: "Since the publication of "Hotten's Immigrants", no successful effort has been made to gather together, in one volume, a list of the thousands of persons who came into Virginia during the early period of her life. "The records of the land Office in Richmond remain the only source from which these names can now be obtained. As the records stand, it is simply impossible, without the most extensive & expensive research, to obtain names of persons who came to Virginia, unless they themselves were patentees of land; and the great majority of immigrants to the colony do not appear as patentees..." -George Cabell Greer (1912). He goes on to say that 25,000 names are listed in these old records and he has published them in this book, as they appear in the records. [Note: The first name = the immigrant, and the 2nd name, following the word "by", is the patentee or party bringing them over (from Europe)] I copied all the Bradshaw names found in the list and found the following: BRADSHAW, Robert, 1640, by Thomas HARVEY, James City Co. This, of course, caught my eye. So I searched for any "Harveys" who may have come over on that same date and ship & I found: HARVEY, John, 1640, by Thomas Harvey, his father, James City Co. HARVEY, Mary, 1640, by Thos. Harvey, her husband, James City Co. Of course, the first thing I noticed was that the name was not Victor Harvey, but Thomas Harvey, but it is amazingly accurate after that. Anyone have any info about this Robert Bradshaw? In IGI Files, I found a Robert Bradshaw listed in 1622. I also found a Mrs. Mary Harvey Married: 1721 to Simeon Harvey, Jamestown, James City, VA. Welcome any comments. Please jump in on this. Anyone have anything more they can add about this historical record that has shed new light on my Bradshaw Family Legend? ~Annie~ [email protected]