Author: William Hand BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the Society.
Maryland Historical Magazine
Author: William Hand BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the Society.
The Early Ward Families of Southern Maryland
Author: Ralph D. SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Robey, Roby, Robie
Author: William Grafton Jr RobeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The earliest known ancestor of the Robey family was John Roby (1455- 1515) who owned Castle Donington, England. One of his descendants, Henry Robie (1618-1688), immigrated to America and settled in New Hampshire. His many descendants and other people surnamed Robey, Roby and Robie live throughout the United States and Canada as well as in Great Britain.
Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women
Author: Edith M. ZieglerPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817318267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women, Edith M. Ziegler recounts the history of British convict women involuntarily transported to Maryland in the eighteenth century. Great Britain’s forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain’s earlier program of sending convicts—including women—to North America. Many of these women were assigned as servants in Maryland. Titled using epithets that their colonial masters applied to the convicts, Edith M. Ziegler’s Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women examines the lives of this intriguing subset of American immigrants. Basing much of her powerful narrative on the experiences of actual women, Ziegler restores individual faces to women stripped of their basic freedoms. She begins by vividly invoking the social conditions of eighteenth-century Britain, which suffered high levels of criminal activity, frequently petty thievery. Contemporary readers and scholars will be fascinated by Ziegler’s explanation of how gender-influenced punishments were meted out to women and often ensnared them in Britain’s system of convict labor. Ziegler depicts the methods and operation of the convict trade and sale procedures in colonial markets. She describes the places where convict servants were deployed and highlights the roles these women played in colonial Maryland and their contributions to the region’s society and economy. Ziegler’s research also sheds light on escape attempts and the lives that awaited those who survived servitude. Mostly illiterate, convict women left few primary sources such as diaries or letters in their own words. Ziegler has masterfully researched the penumbra of associated documents and accounts to reconstruct the worlds of eighteenth-century Britain and colonial Maryland and the lives of these unwilling American settlers. In illuminating this little-known episode in American history, Ziegler also discusses not just the fact that these women have been largely forgotten, but why. Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women makes a valuable contribution to American history, women’s studies, and labor history.
The Genealogical Helper
Author: Everton's Genealogical Helper
Author: The Descendants of Thomas Thomas and His Wife, Elizabeth, Daughter of James Knott
Author: W. Cary AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Thomas Thomas came to America from England and settled in Virginia. He married Elizabeth Knott about 1650 and had five children. He owned a large piece of land in Virginia and information on several lines of his descendants is given within this material. Descendants gradually moved west and now reside in Maryland, Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and elsewhere.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
The Record of Old Westminsters
Author: Westminster School (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Endowed public schools (Great Britain)
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Simpson Families of Southern Maryland, Western Maryland, and the District of Columbia to 1820
Author: Ralph D. SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Includes information about Simpson family slaves.