Author: W. Doak BlassingamePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Blassingame Families
Author: W. Doak BlassingamePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Family Maps of Randolph County, Alabama, Deluxe Edition
Author: Gregory A. Boyd J.D.Publisher:
ISBN: 9781420320336
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Randolph County, Alabama, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. 326 pages with 71 total maps What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 6708 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 46 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1830s609 1840s495 1850s2878 1860s1806 1870s95 1880s380 1890s284 1900s98 1910s34 1920s9 1950s3 1990s1 What Cities and Towns are in Randolph County, Alabama (and in this book)? Almond, Ava, Bacon Level, Barrett Crossroads, Bethel, Big Springs, Blake, Broughton, Butlers Mill, Cambridge, Cavers Grove, Cedron, Center Chapel, Center West, Christiana, Concord, Corbin, Corinth, Corinth, Cornhouse, Curt, Dickert, Dingler, Folsom, Forester Chapel, Foster Crossroad, Friendship, Fuller Crossroad, Gold Ridge, Graham, Harmon Crossroads, Hawk, Haywood, High Pine, High Shoals, Hobson, Jordan Chapel, Kaylor, Lamar, Lee Crossroads, Liberty, Liberty Grove, Lime, Lofty, Louina, Malone, Midway, Milner, Moores Crossroads, Morrison Crossroad, Mount Olive, Mount Pleasant, Mount Zion, Napoleon, New Hope, Newell, Ofelia, Omaha, Paran, Peace, Peavy, Pine Hill, Pine Tuckey, Pooles Crossroad, Potash, Providence, Roanoke, Rock Mills, Rockdale, Rocky Branch, Sewell, Smyrna, Springfield, Swagg, Taylors Crossroads, Tennant, Union, Wadley, Waldrep, Wedowee, Wehadkee, West, White Crossroads, White Signboard Crossroad, Wildwood, Woodland
King's Mountain and Its Heroes
Author: Lyman Copeland DraperPublisher:
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Category : King's Mountain, Battle of, 1780
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
In Search of the Promised Land
Author: John Hope FranklinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190207604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. In Search of the Promised Land offers a vivid portrait of the extended Thomas-Rapier family and of slave life before the Civil War. Based on personal letters and an autobiography by one of Thomas' sons, this remarkable piece of detective work follows the family as they walk the boundary between slave and free, traveling across the country in search of a "promised land" where African Americans would be treated with respect. Their record of these journeys provides a vibrant picture of antebellum America, ranging from New Orleans to St. Louis to the Overland Trail. The authors weave a compelling narrative that illuminates the larger themes of slavery and freedom while examining the family's experiences with the California Gold Rush, Civil War battles, and steamboat adventures. The documents show how the Thomas-Rapier kin bore witness to the full gamut of slavery--from brutal punishment, runaways, and the breakup of slave families to miscegenation, insurrection panics, and slave patrols. The book also exposes the hidden lives of "virtually free" slaves, who maintained close relationships with whites, maneuvered within the system, and gained a large measure of autonomy.
Family Life in Black America
Author: Robert Joseph TaylorPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780803952911
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Most studies of Black families have had a `problem focus', offering a narrow view of important issues such as out-of-wedlock births, single-parent families and childhood poverty. Family Life in Black America moves away from this negative perspective and instead deals with a wide range of issues including sexuality, procreation, infancy, adulthood, adolescence, cohabitation, parenting, grandparenting and ageing. A fresh aspect of this book is the amount of diversity it reveals within black families and the forces that shape, limit and enhance them.
The Patriots at Kings Mountain
Author: Bobby Gilmer MossPublisher: Scotia Hibernia Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This vol. lists, in alphabetical order & with annotations, Revolutionary War patriots who fought at Kings Mountain in York County, South Carolina.
The Postal Record
Author: Being Good
Author: Martha SaxtonPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809016338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A pathbreaking new study of women and morality How do people decide what is "good" and what is "bad"? How does a society set moral guidelines -- and what happens when the behavior of various groups differs from these guidelines? Martha Saxton tackles these and other fascinating issues in Being Good, her history of the moral values prescribed for women in early America. Saxton begins by examining seventeenth-century Boston, then moves on to eighteenth-century Virginia and nineteenth-century St. Louis. Studying women throughout the life cycle -- girls, young unmarried women, young wives and mothers, older widows -- through their diaries and personal papers, she also studies the variations due to different ethnicities and backgrounds. In all three cases, she is able to show how the values of one group conflicted with or developed in opposition to those of another. And, as the women's testimonies make clear, the emotional styles associated with different value systems varied. A history of American women's moral life thus gives us a history of women's emotional life as well. In lively and penetrating prose, Saxton argues that women's morals changed from the days of early colonization to the days of westward expansion, as women became at once less confined and less revered by their men -- and explores how these changes both reflected and affected trends in the nation at large.
History of Methodism in Arkansas
Author: Horace JewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arkansas
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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