Author: William H. RicePublisher:
ISBN: 9780870128431
Category : Potomac River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Colonial Records of the Upper Potomac
Author: William H. RicePublisher:
ISBN: 9780870128431
Category : Potomac River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Colonial Records of the Upper Potomac: 1750-1755, A path to destruction
Author: William H. RicePublisher:
ISBN: 9780870128547
Category : Potomac River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Colonial Records of the Upper Potomac: From a native American wilderness to 1744
Author: William H. RicePublisher:
ISBN: 9780870128004
Category : Potomac River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Colonial Records of the Upper Potomac: 1744-1748, the peaceful years
Author: William H. RicePublisher:
ISBN: 9780870128189
Category : Potomac River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Colonial Records of the Upper Potomac: 1748-1750, Settlement expansion
Author: William H. RicePublisher:
ISBN: 9780870128356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Colonial Records of the Upper Potomac
Author: William H. RicePublisher:
ISBN: 9780870128721
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Pioneers of Old Monocacy
Author: Grace L. TraceyPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806311835
Category : Frederick County (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
This is a definitive account of the land and the people of Old Monocacy in early Frederick County, Maryland. The outgrowth of a project begun by Grace L. Tracey and completed by John P. Dern, it presents a detailed account of landholdings in that part of western Maryland that eventually became Frederick County. At the same time it provides a history of the inhabitants of the area, from the early traders and explorers to the farsighted investors and speculators, from the original Quaker settlers to the Germans of central Frederick County. In essence, the book has a dual focus. First it attempts to locate and describe the land of the early settlers. This is done by means of a superb series of plat maps, drawn to scale from original surveys and based both on certificates of survey and patents. These show, in precise configurations, the exact locations of the various grants and lots, the names of owners and occupiers, the dates of surveys and patents, and the names of contiguous land owners. Second, it identifies the early settlers and inhabitants of the area, carefully following them through deeds, wills, and inventories, judgment records, and rent rolls. Finally, in meticulously compiled appendices it provides a chronological list of surveys between 1721 and 1743; an alphabetical list of surveys, giving dates, page reference--text and maps--and patent references; a list of taxables for 1733-34; and a list of the early German settlers of Frederick County, showing their religion, their location, dates of arrival, and their earliest records in the county. Winner of the 1988 Donald Lines Jacobus Award
The Genealogical Quarterly Magazine, Devoted to Genealogy, History, Heraldry, Revolutionary and Colonial Records
Author: Nature and History in the Potomac Country
Author: James D. RicePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421402629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
How environmental forces, and human responses to them, profoundly shaped both Native American and colonial life along the Potomac River. James D. Rice’s fresh study of the Potomac River basin begins with a mystery. Why, when the whole of the region offered fertile soil and excellent fishing and hunting, was nearly three-quarters of the land uninhabited on the eve of colonization? Rice wonders how the existence of this no man’s land influenced nearby Native American and, later, colonial settlements. Did it function as a commons, as a place where all were free to hunt and fish? Or was it perceived as a strange and hostile wilderness? Rice discovers environmental factors at the center of the story. Making use of extensive archaeological and anthropological research, as well as the vast scholarship on farming practices in the colonial period, he traces the region’s history from its earliest known habitation. With exceptionally vivid prose, Rice makes clear the implications of unbridled economic development for the forests, streams, and wetlands of the Potomac River basin. With what effects, Rice asks, did humankind exploit and then alter the landscape and the quality of the river’s waters? Equal parts environmental, Native American, and colonial history, Nature and History in the Potomac Country is a useful and innovative study of the Potomac River, its valley, and its people.
Colonial Chesapeake Families British Origins and Descendants
Author: Harrison Dwight CavanaghPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493188089
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
This history began as a small pedigree assembled as a birthday gift for my late father-in-law, Colonel Henry Perkins Gantt (1894-1983) of Holly Rod, Gloucester Point, Virginia, on his 72nd birthday, 29 April 1966. With continued research over the past 47 years, it has grown to encompass the history of nearly the complete descendants of Thomas Gantt (ca. 1634-1692), transported to Maryland in 1654, and his second wife, Ann Fielder (ca. 1662-1726), through at least the first six generations, and, in many lines, extending down through the eighth and succeeding ones as well. In a project of this enormous size and scope, there are bound to be errors and omissions that the author leaves to future historians of the family to correct, as well as to extend and continue the narrative. Where critical, probative information is sourced to original archives, but the sheer volume of data makes this by necessity incomplete.