Category: Jamestown and the Virginia Colony

25 April 2025. Our previous post presented some of the important documentation and related conclusions regarding the Causey Clan of Virginia and the probably connection to Maryland. Before we move on to the study of Dorchester County, Colonial Maryland, herein I offer some added notes on Virginia. Causeys Cleare was the 1620 Land Grant to…

24 April 2025. For the next few months I want to offer a series of posts containing raw research. These files are based on geographical areas beginning with Jamestown. My purpose is to share with you much of my research done over the past decade in these areas. In most documents I’ve tried to add…

Good Day my Causey/Cossey/Cawsey Cousins, For the last several weeks I’ve been rummaging through literally thousands of online documents at FamilySearch.org. I’ve saved a lot of documents the which I will soon add to this blogsite. BUT, one thing stood out today; something for which I’ve been searching for years; an original map showing the…

Most of you already know that the first of the Causey clan to arrive in America was Nathaniel and his wife Thomasine Causey. Nathaniel was not only a gentleman planter but was one of Captain John Smith’s trusted soldiers. He and William Causey arrived on the first two resupply ship to arrive at the Jamestown…

6 January 2024 Nathaniel Causey seems likely to be our American Common Ancestor. But, where was he born and what was his Ancestry? During the previous several years I’ve worked on trying to make a connection between The Causeys (Causey, Coursey, Cossey, Cawsey, Cowsey, Case, Casey, Casse, Cassey, Cose, etc.) of America and those of Scot,…