Below is a list of suggested books to read, some with references to the Kennon family, some about Colonial Virginia history, some about Virginia Native History, and an assortment of books on slavery. Ultimately, these titles will give you information on the Kennons themselves, or the history of the times and areas they lived.
A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America, by James Horn.
A History of Bristol Parish, VA: With Genealogies of Families Connected Therewith, and Historical Illustrations, by Philip Slaughter.
A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century, by Warren Billings.
A “Topping People”: The Rise and Decline of Virginia’s Old Political Elite, 1680-1790, by Emory G. Evans.
Adventurers of Purse and Person, by John Frederick Dorman.
Chesterfield: An Old Virginia County, 2 Volumes, by Francis Earle Lutz.
Colonial Virginia, 2 volumes, by Richard L. Morton.
Colonial Virginia: A History, by Warren Billings, John Selby, and Thad Tate.
Colonial Virginia: It’s People & Customs, by Mary Newton Stanard.
Free Some Day: The African-American Families of Monticello, by Lucia Stanton.
John Smith’s Chesapeake Voyages: 1607-1609, by Helen Rountree, Wayne Clark, and Kent Mountford.
Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, by Merrow Egerton Sorley.
Martin’s Hundred, by Ivor Noel Hume.
Old Dominion New Commonwealth: A History of Virginia 1607-2007, By Ronald L. Heinemann et.al.
Pocahontas and Her World: A Chronicle of America’s First Settlement in Which is Related the Story of the Indians and the Englishmen–Particularly Captain John Smith, Captain Samuel Argall, and Master John Rolfe, by Philip L. Barbour.
Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, by Camilla Townsend.
Pocahontas’s People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries, Helen C. Rountree.
Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory, edited by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton.
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery, by Joseph McGill Jr. and Herb Frazier.
Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Burgesses 1643-1776, by Jon Kukla.
Statute Law in Colonial Virginia: Governors, Assemblymen, and the Revisals That Forged the Old Dominion, by Warren Billings.
Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia, by Patricia M. Samford.
Tales from a Revolution: Bacon’s Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America, by James D. Rice.
The Art and Soul of African American Interpretation, by Ywone D. Edwards-Ingram.
The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman.
“The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret”: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon, by Mary V. Thompson.
The Planters of Colonial Virginia, by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker.
The Vestry Book an Register of Bristol Parish, Virginia: 1720-1789, by Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne.
The Virginia Adventure: Roanoke to James Towne; An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey, by Ivor Noel Hume.
The Virginia Dynasties: The Emergence of “King” Carter and the Golden Age, by Clifford Dowdey.
The Virginia House of Burgesses: 1750-1774, by Lucille Griffith.
“Those Who Labor for My Happiness”: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, by Lucia Stanton.
Virginia 1619: Slavery & Freedom in the Making of English America, Edited by Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, and James Horn.
Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century, by Edmund S. Morgan.
Who’s Your Founding Father? One Man’s Epic Quest to Uncover the First, True Declaration of Independence, by David Fleming.