Annie Lash Jester

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Annie Lash Jester

A careful Virginia genealogist and local historian, she is best remembered for turning early colonial records into lively, readable history. Her work helped preserve stories of seventeenth-century Virginia families and everyday life for later generations.

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Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century

by Annie Lash Jester

About the author

Born in 1894 and deceased in 1971, Annie Lash Jester was an American genealogist and historian associated with Virginia history. She is especially known for research on early colonial Virginia and for writing in a way that made archival material more accessible to general readers.

Her best-known books include Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century and Adventures of Purse and Person: Virginia, 1607–1625. Those works reflect a strong interest in the people behind the records—families, households, and the practical details of life in early America.

Jester’s reputation rests on careful documentary work and a lasting contribution to historical and genealogical research. Even today, readers interested in Virginia’s colonial past still encounter her name through those foundational studies.