On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 9:54:04 AM UTC-7, C.V. Shaw wrote:
The following is the URL of a very interesting online article by Family Search entitled: "Major Lawrence Smith." Major Lawrence Smith is a "Gateway" ancestor to Royal Lineage. An interesting partial quote from this article states: "The best research
today only identifies about 250 colonial immigrants with Magna Carta and royal lines." (may not be exact quote). He is one of my Gateway ancestors.
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LRHH-DCB/major-lawrence-smith-1629-1700
Try Gary Boyd Roberts, "Royal Descents of" immigrants. (I'm looking at "600 Immigrants", the 2008 edition. Page 417 has Lawrence Smith, "almost certainly the immigrant to Virginia".)
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