By Edgar E. Hume

In 1938 There was a Memorial to George Hume (1698-1760) Esq., Crown surveyor of Fredericksburg, Virginia, that he helped to establish, and Washington's teacher of surveying, with notes on his life.  It records the history and genealogy of the Hume family with related families. Descended through a long line of kings, barons, and earls, from a very early history in England, the branch in Scotland, and to those in Virginia and all of America, the heroes, statesmen, and public figures. George Hume had his share if misfortunes, captured in ngland, imprisoned, but permitted to come to America in 1721. Officer of the Colonial Militia, 1729, Crown Surveyor for Spotsylvania, Orange, and Frederick Counties. Married Elizabeth in 1728.   Note -The same author presents the Hume Family as it relates to the Kennedy and Brockman families, 1912.

(99p., Illus, 1939)