Mortality among the seventeenth-century pioneers was disheart- ening. “Bloody flux,” typhoid and per- haps yellow fever slew hundreds in their first year of settlement. Ma- laria weakened those who sur- vived the other diseases. Indians raided the scat- tered farms. In spite of every- thing, the families in- creased fast and with no loss of vigor. Slaves became more numer- ous, the livestock multi- plied, the tobacco grown on expanding plantations crowded yearly the hold of a lar- ger fleet. The second generation began to buy luxuries from Eng- land and en- joyed larger leisure. Men of the third gen- eration consid- ered them- selves aristo- crats. Within seventy-five years, a new and highly prosperous landed society had been organized, where, in 1640, there had been forest or emptiness. It was a closely knit society, too. Short-lived men and women mar- ried early and begot sons and daughters who found wives and husbands on nearby plantations. Soon kin- ship was so confused that the colonials de- voted no inconsider- able part of their con- versation to determin- ing and unraveling it. had there been a col- lege of heralds in Vir- ginia, its members would have grown rich. …by 1730 the majority of the long-seated pro- prietors were kin or, as they politely phrased it, were “connected by marriage.” George Washington A Biogra- phy, Vol. 1 Young Washington, Douglas Southall Freeman, New York Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948 Volume 2 Issue 3 17th CenturyVirginians November 2006 November Meeting What Treasures Does the Library Hold?  Thursday, November 2nd 7:00 p.m. 12th & Con- nection—Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints  Membership Dues to Pauline Aldrich  Singles: $15.00  Couples: $20.00 Starting Your Italian Re- search 2 Maiden Name Research 2 Tip on Using Indexes 2 Cars 7 Computers 3 Aberdeen Museum of History 3 Epitaphs 4 A Year of Preservation, part 1 4 Inside this issue: The Mason Log Mason County Genealogical Society As one of our Soci- ety’s mission state- ments we showed a willingness to help oth- ers with their genea- logical quests. One way that our group can assist in this is to be willing to work on a project for our state archives project known as “Digital Archives”. They have need of people to index the in- formation that will then be crosschecked by the archives personnel themselves. If we choose to they will send us copied pages, and a computer pro- gram for us to then en- ter. This is something that we can do at our leisure and in our own homes. The State Ar- chives personnel will gladly help us with our project, and will find one for our county and is fitting for the size of group that can partici- pate. I would like to see our group working on a project that can help someone miles away find out what happened to their relative in our county. What year were Cheerios invented? Answer on page 4 , OCR Text: Mortality among the seventeenth-century pioneers was disheart- ening. “Bloody flux,” typhoid and per- haps yellow fever slew hundreds in their first year of settlement. Ma- laria weakened those who sur- vived the other diseases. Indians raided the scat- tered farms. In spite of every- thing, the families in- creased fast and with no loss of vigor. Slaves became more numer- ous, the livestock multi- plied, the tobacco grown on expanding plantations crowded yearly the hold of a lar- ger fleet. The second generation began to buy luxuries from Eng- land and en- joyed larger leisure. Men of the third gen- eration consid- ered them- selves aristo- crats. Within seventy-five years, a new and highly prosperous landed society had been organized, where, in 1640, there had been forest or emptiness. It was a closely knit society, too. Short-lived men and women mar- ried early and begot sons and daughters who found wives and husbands on nearby plantations. Soon kin- ship was so confused that the colonials de- voted no inconsider- able part of their con- versation to determin- ing and unraveling it. had there been a col- lege of heralds in Vir- ginia, its members would have grown rich. …by 1730 the majority of the long-seated pro- prietors were kin or, as they politely phrased it, were “connected by marriage.” George Washington A Biogra- phy, Vol. 1 Young Washington, Douglas Southall Freeman, New York Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948 Volume 2 Issue 3 17th CenturyVirginians November 2006 November Meeting What Treasures Does the Library Hold?  Thursday, November 2nd 7:00 p.m. 12th & Con- nection—Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints  Membership Dues to Pauline Aldrich  Singles: $15.00  Couples: $20.00 Starting Your Italian Re- search 2 Maiden Name Research 2 Tip on Using Indexes 2 Cars 7 Computers 3 Aberdeen Museum of History 3 Epitaphs 4 A Year of Preservation, part 1 4 Inside this issue: The Mason Log Mason County Genealogical Society As one of our Soci- ety’s mission state- ments we showed a willingness to help oth- ers with their genea- logical quests. One way that our group can assist in this is to be willing to work on a project for our state archives project known as “Digital Archives”. They have need of people to index the in- formation that will then be crosschecked by the archives personnel themselves. If we choose to they will send us copied pages, and a computer pro- gram for us to then en- ter. This is something that we can do at our leisure and in our own homes. The State Ar- chives personnel will gladly help us with our project, and will find one for our county and is fitting for the size of group that can partici- pate. I would like to see our group working on a project that can help someone miles away find out what happened to their relative in our county. What year were Cheerios invented? Answer on page 4 , Mason County Genealogical Society,Mason Logs,Mason Logs,2006,V2 I3 MCGS Nov 2006 Newsletter.pdf,November+2006.pdf Page 1, November+2006.pdf Page 1