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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Everton's Genealogical Helper
Author: The Genealogical Helper
Author: Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
Author: The Harris Papers
Author: Kathryn WigginsLunenburg County Road Orders, 1746-1764
Author: Nathaniel Mason PawlettPublisher: Heritage Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
"The establishment and maintenance of public roads were among the most important functions of the county court during the colonial period in Virginia. Each road was opened and maintained by an Overseer of Highways appointed by the Gentlemen Justices yearly. He was usually assigned all the "Labouring Male Tithables" living on or near the road for this purpose. These individuals then furnished their own tools, wagons, and teams and were required to labor for six days each year on the roads"--Leaf [1].
Descendants of the Jeffress/Jeffries of Virginia and Their Fitzjeffries/Fitzgeffrey Ancestors of 17th Century Virginia and 16th Century Bedfordshire, England
Author: Ancestors of Willis Duke Weatherford II
Author: Richard D. SearsPublisher:
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Category : Berea (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A History of the Elam Family
Author: Earl Henry ElamPublisher:
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Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Back to Old Virginia with Dillard, Daniel, and Kin
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Thomas Dillard (ca. 1706-1774) of Spotsylvania County, Virginia was married first to Elizabeth Holloway, by whom he had nine children. His second wife was Sarah Mason. They had three children. James Daniel (ca. 1700-1763) emigrated from Ireland in about 1730. He married Jean (Kelso) in about 1738 and settled in Virginia. They had six children. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Pennsyl- vania, Georgia and elsewhere.
A Blessed Company
Author: John K. NelsonPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution. Challenging previous characterizations of the colonial Anglican establishment as weak, he reveals the fundamental role the church played in the political, social, and economic as well as the spiritual lives of its parishioners. Drawing on extensive research in parish and county records and other primary sources, Nelson describes Anglican Virginia's parish system, its parsons, its rituals of worship and rites of passage, and its parishioners' varied relationships to the church. All colonial Virginians--men and women, rich and poor, young and old, planters and merchants, servants and slaves, dissenters and freethinkers--belonged to a parish. As such, they were subject to its levies, its authority over marriage, and other social and economic dictates. In addition to its religious functions, the parish provided essential care for the poor, collaborated with the courts to handle civil disputes, and exerted its influence over many other aspects of community life. A Blessed Company demonstrates that, by creatively adapting Anglican parish organization and the language, forms, and modes of Anglican spirituality to the Chesapeake's distinctive environmental and human conditions, colonial Virginians sustained a remarkably effective and faithful Anglican church in the Old Dominion.