The Forgotten Royals of The USA - ABBE DE VERE

The Forgotten Royals of the USA is a genealogical and historical investigation into the families who helped shape early America, tracing their lines from Britain, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Europe into the colonial and post-Revolutionary United States.

Written by Abbe de Vere for and inspired by Chester Hunter, this work began as a private family history project and grew into a wider study of ancestry, migration, inheritance, and identity. Through the Hunter, Gilpin, Dulany/Dulaney, Lingo, Waples, Owen, Craig, Trousdale, Stockard, Fergusson, Cunningham, Grierson, McGhie, Hamilton, Stewart, de Vere, and allied lines, the book explores how families connected to old-world nobility, royal houses, Quaker communities, colonial settlement, law, medicine, landholding, military service, and public office became woven into the foundations of the United States.

This book is not simply a family tree. It places genealogy back into history. It examines the world these families entered: Indigenous America, colonisation, Quaker conscience, slavery and manumission, westward migration, Revolutionary service, DNA markers, pedigree collapse, and the transformation of inherited identity in the American landscape.

Drawing on public-domain family histories, wills, land deeds, Quaker records, historical accounts, estate traditions, and genealogical evidence, The Forgotten Royals of the USA follows where the records lead. It forms part of the wider Royal Dragon Court research framework, connecting with The Dragon Legacy, The Royal Dragon Court: Inbred Britain, and The Dragon Cede, while standing as a substantial work of American family history in its own right.

For readers tracing their own ancestry, this book may open doors into forgotten surnames, lost branches, and older bloodlines carried across the Atlantic. For descendants of the families included, it is a legacy document: a record of who they were, where they came from, and why their history matters.

A book for genealogists, family historians, Royal Dragon Court readers, and anyone drawn to the hidden royal, noble, and colonial roots of the United States.