I’ve got a lot of Virginia ancestry, primarily Jamestown, but do have one from the vicinity of Richmond. Surname variously spelled Faure/Foree/Fore/Ford under the loose spelling of the era, it morphed over time and in different branches. French Huguenot, settlement was Manakin Towne, west of present-day Richmond, on the James River.
None of my ancestors arrived after the Revolutionary War, the one Johnny-come lately was German-speaking from Alsace, 1738. Earliest European was 1610, Jamestown. Then, there’s the smattering of Indian wives from the frontier era in the NC backcountry.
Yeah, like that.
A lot of back country Indians and even whites had African blood as well.
Our families settled at World’s End, just outside Church Creek south of Cambridge, MD. Of course there were no towns then, only swamp and mosquitoes, just like now. By the 1700s there were more people living there than today.
Some of the Parks lived on the James river. Others settled on Smith Island in the 1700s. Both of my grandfathers married German immigrant women.