This volume focuses on the early families of Kent County, tracing lineages of early settlers into the early 1800s. The primary sources of information are court records (probate and orphans' court), land records, and church records.
Chapters are included for descendants of the following families: Banning; Bell; Boggs; Bowman; Bradley; Daniel Brown; John Bryan; Thomas Bryan; Cohoon; Caldwell of Somerset County, Maryland and Kent County, Delaware; Callaway; Chance of Kent County, Delaware; Clifford; Coudrat; Phillip Denny; John Denny; Downham; Dunlap; Durborow; Edmonds; Edmondson; Fitzgerald (Jarrell); Harper; Killingsworth; Luff; David Morgan; George Morgan; Nichols; Rash; John Reynolds; Henry Reynolds; Saxton; Shurmer; Simpson (Simson); Thomas Skidmore; Samuel Skidmore; Snow; Benjamin Stout; Triger (Trigar); John Tomblin (Tumlin); Nathaniel Tumblin (Tumlin); Turley; Vangaskin (Gaskin, Vangasco); Vickory (Viccory); Voshell; Whitehead; Wilds (Wild, Wiles); and Robert Wood. A list of sources, additions and corrections to Volume 2 and Volume 3, and an index to full-names and places add to the value of this work.