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THE SPAULDING HERITAGE
Compiled by Cynthia Jewel Akey
Edward - The First Generation
In the Spalding Book, dated 1897, we read: “The first known
authentic record of the Spalding Family in America appears
in a Virginia State Document entitled ‘Virginia Colonial
Records, 1619-1680.’” . . .
Emigrants had been coming to the colony, which we think of
now as Jamestown, since early in the seventeenth century;
the first successful permanent colony dates back to 1607.
. . . Not one in twenty remained when Sir George Yeardley
arrived in April, 1619. With Sir George was Edward Spalding
and his wife. . . .
But the Indians decided these people were encroaching on
their freedom, and on March 22, 1622, at mid-day, they
fell upon the Colonists. . . .
Shortly after this, Edward took his family from “James
Citie,” probably because of the hostility of the Indians.
They came to Massachusetts by trading vessel . . .
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