Courtesy of Library of Virginia – King George County Court Order Book After several years writing many bonds, county deeds, estate inventories, orphan accounts, and other misc court entries, and after having already begun entering ledgers for Col Thomas Turner’s dry goods store, William Longmire finally ascends to […]
Permission from Library of Congress – Edward Dixon Business Papers
Though I have been developing over the years a solid case to prove that William Longmire was the same person sentenced to Newgate Prison in 1725 as the one whose writing and signatures grace so many King George County documents in the 1730’s and 1740’s it was not […]
Elizabeth Longmire – who was she? Where did she come from? And was she a previously unknown daughter of the hat thief? While researching the neighbors and possible friends of William Longmire Jr in Lunenburg County, Virginia I first ran across her name. Having already looked into the […]
George Longmire, to us descendants of William of London, is the progenitor of what some of us call the “Southern Longmires”. I believe him to be the eldest son of William Longmire. Why is this many might ask. Because William’s father’s name was George. How simple can it […]
Some years ago I decided to go to the Library of Congress to begin research on the Edward Dixon Business Papers held in the Manuscript Reading Room there. These are a set of ledger books from King George County, Virginia, beginning in the year 1743. And it was […]
It was a few years ago that I was researching in Richmond, Virginia – one of my favorite places – and I ran across what was, to me, a very curious entry found in the 1740’s King George County Orphan Accounts. While flipping through microfilm at a semi-leisurely […]
She is a lady of mystery. Over the years many a person has tried, unsuccessfully, to document who the wife of William Longmire was. Many a person more has ascribed various last names and family connections for Susannah Longmire which have no basis in fact. And despite the […]
The Life and Times of William Longmire of London and Virginia 