Talk:Francis West (colonel)

unreliable reference removed
I've removed the Further Reading section which only included the "Adventurers of Purse and Person" as unreliable plantation literature, although a google search indicates the book is available for purchase through Amazon for more than $100. I recently saw it referenced in the Gwalthmey book, 12 Virginia Counties where the Western Migration Began (published in 1937) that IMHO is of limited reliability, though easy reading. The poorly cited book may have been published between 1911 and 1928, and I won't be able to visit the Library of Virginia for a while. The book is not yet available through Hathi Trust. A search of that site limited to that title shows it referenced in several pamphlets published in honor of Jamestown's 350th Anniversary 50+ years ago. Records from the counties along the York River, dominated by aristocratic planters including this man, were either lost in fires before the Civil War, or in the Confederate evacuation fire in Richmond in April 1865, and local genealogical libraries in northern Virginia have few local histories of King William County (other than a circa 20 page bicentennial pamphlet and a chapter in the Gwalthmey book). For what it's worth, I added a cite to the Cynthia Miller Leonard book which is considerably more reliable than the recent web page also cited.Jweaver28 (talk) 18:40, 30 January 2022 (UTC)