Joe David Bellamy

******Island in the Sky is now available in hard and soft covers. It is a work of 222 pages and includes a name index, appendix, and bibliography. If you are interested in purchasing a copy of this book, please send a check for $35.00 for the hardcover (postpaid) or $25.00 for the paperback edition (postpaid)to: Joe David Bellamy, 5318 Lake Bluff Terrace, Sanford, FL 32771.******



This new book by the author of The Bellamys of Early Virginia is the story of how Bellamy history and ancestry is linked to a mysterious island in the Chesapeake Bay that caused a war in the 1600s between Virginia and Maryland. The Isle of Kent was discovered, named, and colonized by William Claiborne, one of the most keen and influential settlers in the early history of the Jamestown colony. One of Claiborne's descendants married into the Bellamy family. This book also deals with the ancestral lines of the known wives of the sons of John-II and traces them and several allied families back into the 1600s--to Jamestown, to the Eastern Shore, and to several of the earliest known English colonists in North America.