Blow Family

More than 20 years ago, when doing research for my book on the Bynum family, I collected what I think is a nearly complete set of records for the Blows of early Surry County, Virginia.  At the time, it seemed possible that John Bynum's wife Rosamond may have been a daughter of George Blow.  In an effort to identify the evidence for this claim, I collected a great many records.  I reached the conclusion that no evidence exists, so it is unlikely that I am personally related to this family.  Having collected the records, though, it makes sense to make them available to others who are descended from these people.  See also the Bynum pages for additional details of that family.

• Blow Family of Surry County, Virginia is a series of biographical sketches for the first three generations.  This document also corrects a  number of errors and omissions in the "Blow of Surry County" article in John Bennett Bodie's Historical Southern Families, Volume VI, pp183-187.  
  
  
• Blow Records in Surry County, Virginia  is a set of transcripts and abstracts of the records from which the above summary was  taken.  It contains a set of chronologically-arranged records from Surry County, with comments added.  This is a fairly large file, about 25 pages when printed, and contains essentially all records of the name from 1661 through 1720. 

My original reason for collecting the data was to answer the question: Was John Bynum's wife Rosamond Blow?