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One of the most elegant mansions in Florida, Goodwood was built over a century ago and stands today as one of Tallahassee's grandest historical monuments. It was once the center of a thriving plantation founded by the Croom family of North Carolina, who in the 1820s sought to revive their fortunes in the newly opened Florida territory. William Warren Rogers and Erica R. Clark tell the story of this family and their legacy, shedding new light on many aspects of antebellum family life, plantation management, and race relations. They describe how brothers Hardy and Bryan Croom developed Goodwood Plantation to over four thousand acres with nearly two hundred slaves before Hardy and his family were killed in a shipwreck, and how a twenty-year lawsuit, complicated by questions of survivorship and residency, denied Bryan control of the estate. This meticulously detailed account, drawing extensively on family correspondence and court records, is a story of humaneness, hard work, and family values—but also of selfishness and greed—that reveals an intriguing chapter of southern history.
The second volume of the set (see Item 531) covers more families from the early counties of Virginia's Lower Tidewater and Southside regions. With an index in excess of 10,000 names.
William Whitfield immigrated in 1636 as a headright of John Chandler, and settled at Point Comfor, Elizabeth City County, Virginia. Many other Whitfield immigrated are also listed. The descendants and relatives of William for eleven generations are listed, and the descendants and relatives of some other Whitfield immigrants for up to eight generations. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, California, Texas, Florida and elsewhere.
Victor Emanuel Weyher (1847-1930) is the immigrant ancestor of this family. He came to New York City in 1869 from Austria. He lived and worked in Maryland for awhile and in 1871 settled in Kinston, North Carolina. He was married to Rachel Susan Parrott (1848-1915).