The Samuell/Samuel Families of Tidewater Virginia

By: Carlton C. Sims, Pub. 1947, Reprinted 2018, 256 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-700-9.

This book is not too different from other county history books of this era. With such topics as trade and transportation, labor, farming, politics, and race relations - all important in the development of the county - are carefully discussed. This type of county history book can help one develop ideas or paths to those missing ancestors by showing the customs and traditions of the local residents. A particular useful feature of this book are the hundreds of mini biographees inter dispursed through out the various chapters within this book.