The First Families of Virginia Primogeniture favored the first sons' inheriting lands while other sons went to the colonies and went to Virginia.
Primogeniture (/pram--/ also UK: /-o-dntr/) is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn legitimate child to inherit the parent's entire or main estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child or any collateral relative. First Families of Virginia (FFV) were those families in Colonial Virginia who were socially prominent and wealthy, but not necessarily the earliest settlers. Tidewater Virginia evolved as a society descended from second or third sons of English gentry who inherited land grants or land in Virginia. 
