For an excellent genealogical survey of the Floyd family see the extensive work of Pat M. Stephens IV. His 392 page pdf file is here.

At William Preston's Smithfield Plantation (where Letitia Preston Floyd was born) the Smithfield-Preston Foundation Board member Ray Scott is many-generation Floyd descendant and an active Floyd genealogy researcher.  To contact Ray via email, send a message to his attention at info@smithfieldplantation.org.

John F. Dorman's reliable work  The Prestons of Smithfield and Greenfield in Virginia: Descendants of John and Elizabeth (Patton) Preston Through Five Generations (Louisville, KY: Filson Club, 1982) is available for borrowing at the Internet Archive at this link. It includes biographical sketches of Governor John and Letitia Preston Floyd and their family.

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