Hello, All! Most of this looks very familiar and some of you may have
already corresponded with me. I am at the office and do not have my
notes. Most importantly, many of us researchers have much the same info
on the early Virginia Cave families but collected and organized in
different ways. A few may have some info the others do not yet have.
Cave, Andrews, Withers and Travers all appear to be connected in early
Virginia records, clustered in the counties in the Tidewater between the
Potomac and the Blue Ridge. My earliest record, I think, is of a John
Cave who operated a warehouse on an island in the Potomac in the 1600s.
Several of us have developed the notion that the Cave Families (in this
area) all came from this John and/or his siblings. The genealogy
promulgated in the "Cave Genealogy" by Tyrrell (which was commissioned by
?Mrs. Thompson) follows the Burke's Genealogy very well, but there is NO
evidence so far that any Cave in early Virginia was a descendant of
William Cave, the vicar/canon, of Windsor. So far, none of us has been
able to complete the early Virginia puzzle. Hopefully, some day, the
puzzle will be completed. We can each help one another. By the way, I
have acquired some of the writings of William Cave and they are, indeed,
very scholarly and extremely interesting reading. He was supposedly
fluent in Greek, Latin and Hebrew and read his sources in the original
languages. He also lived during and witnessed some of the profound
happenings at Windsor Castle during the mid and late 1600s (and kept is
own head, later to retire to complete his scholarly works). He would have
been a man we would have wanted to meet. But, as far as descent, NO
evidence, at least so far. Regards and Happy Holidays to all you
spelunkers! Ed Troutman of Fort Worth, TX (twice from Old Benjamin Sr,
the Burgess) PS: It was Benj SR who received the land grant 1728 at the
Forks of the Rapid Ann, but it was Benj JR who founded Monticello, just
north of Orange Courthouse. EGT