Luther Owens (1910-1984) was the second child of James Alderson Owens (b.1889) and Elizabeth Sutherland of Prater, Buchanan Co., Virginia. He married Velva Dare Taylor (b.1912), the daughter of William Jackson Taylor and Emma Curtis Sutherland of Tenso, Dickenson Co., VA. They were the parents of three children: Daniel, Jack and Shirley. Family members are descendants of William Owens of Russell Co., VA, Moses Ramey of Pike Co., KY, Charles Rakes, David Diel/Deel and other early settlers. Several generations of descendants are given.

Theophilus Simonton was born in about 1685 in North Ireland. He married Mary Smith. They emigrated in about 1725 and settled in Lewes, Delaware. They had six children. Theophilus died in 1754 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Delaware, Ohio, North Carolina, Georgia, Nebraska, Texas and elsewhere.

This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.

William Gibson (ca. 1715-1813) migrated to America before the Revolutionary War and settled in Fauquier County, Virginia. He was the father of at least eight children, ca. 1754-ca. 1766. Descendants listed lived in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and elsewhere.

Descendants of John Patrick (1751-1782), who was born in Ireland. He, along with other members of his family, left Ireland (year not known) and came to America settling in Maryland. There in 1772 he married his wife, Mary. They had three sons, James, Pernal and Samuel. John Patrick moved his family to Tryon Co., N.C. in 1777. In 1779 Tryon County was divided and renamed as Lincoln and Rutherford Counties. Descendants in this book are those of Pernal (1776-1856), who was born in Worcester Co., Maryland and died in Macon Co., Ga. He married Catherine Parsons (1784-1855) in 1804. They had ten children. Descendants live in Georgia, Florida and elsewhere.

John McNaul (CA.1758-1827) married Sarah Ferguson about 1784, and in 1793 the family immigrated from Scotland to Philadelphia, settling in Chester County, Pennsylvania. They later moved to Northumberland (now Centre) County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, Washington and elsewhere.

This is the definitive work on Americans taken prisoner during the Revolutionary War. The bulk of the book is devoted to personal accounts, many of them moving, of the conditions endured by U.S. prisoners at the hands of the British, as preserved in journals or diaries kept by physicians, ships' captains, and the prisoners themselves. Of greater genealogical interest is the alphabetical list of 8,000 men who were imprisoned on the British vessel The Old Jersey, which the author copied from the papers of the British War Department and incorporated in the appendix to the work. Also included is a Muster Roll of Captain Abraham Shepherd's Company of Virginia Riflemen and a section on soldiers of the Pennsylvania Flying Camp who perished in prison, 1776-1777.