Flowers Chronicles

Download or read book Flowers Chronicles written by Pugh Brown Flowers and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Flower II (1595-1657) was a son of John and Katherine Flower of Ratcliffe, England, and was captain of various ships sailing between England, Bermuda, Virginia and Newfoundland. By 1645 he acquired land in Virginia, although he continued as a ship captain and died in England. John Flower (b.1624) and Jacob Flower (b.1635), two sons of John Flower II, emigrated in 1656 from England to the land purchased by their father in what is now Surry County, Virginia. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Flowers) and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Texas and elsewhere. Includes some ancestral records and genealogical data in England to ca. 1542.