An Endless Web
An individual was likely to be a cousin, in one degree or another, to practically everybody within a radius of thirty miles around him. And his circle of kin, of course, overlapped more or less with the next, and that in turn with the next beyond, and so on in an endless web, through the whole South. W. J. Cash, The Mind of the South.
The southeastern families in this history owe their inclusion here to John and Rebecca Dickinson of Colonial Bertie, North Carolin. The migration of their kith and kin across the cotton frontier joined them with other families whose rich histories trace from the medieval courts of Europe to the council fires of the proud Mvskoke, a uniquely American story.
This work currently features over 26,000 individuals and over 2,000 surnames. Who profits from a narrowly drawn tree? My goal has always been to meet interesting, and often unsung, people.
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