Author: William Carter Stubbs
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Marion J. Kaminkow
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 926

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Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.

Author: Matthew Schoenbachler
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813173590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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The “Kentucky Tragedy” was early America’s best known true crime story. In 1825, Jereboam O. Beauchamp assassinated Kentucky attorney general Solomon P. Sharp. The murder, trial, conviction, and execution of the killer, as well as the suicide of his wife, Anna Cooke Beauchamp—fascinated Americans. The episode became the basis of dozens of novels and plays composed by some of the country’s most esteemed literary talents, among them Edgar Allan Poe and William Gilmore Simms. In Murder and Madness, Matthew G. Schoenbachler peels away two centuries of myth to provide a more accurate account of the murder. Schoenbachler also reveals how Jereboam and Anna Beauchamp shaped the meaning and memory of the event by manipulating romantic ideals at the heart of early American society. Concocting a story in which Solomon Sharp had seduced and abandoned Anna, the couple transformed a sordid murder—committed because the Beauchamps believed Sharp to be spreading a rumor that Anna had had an affair with a family slave—into a maudlin tale of feminine virtue assailed, honor asserted, and a young rebel’s revenge. Murder and Madness reveals the true story behind the murder and demonstrates enduring influence of Romanticism in early America.

Author: Stella Pickett Hardy
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Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 780

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Author: Malcolm H Harris
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806352947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1086

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Dr. Malcolm Harris' two-volume history and genealogy of "Old" New Kent County (the three present-day counties in the aggregate) is one of the great achievements of Virginia local history of the last century. Clearfield Company is honored to have been selected by the Harris family to produce this hardcover edition of "Old New Kent County." Privately published and out of print for many years, this work takes on even greater importance in light of the loss of county records in New Kent and in King & Queen counties and the survival of mere fragments for King William County prior to 1865.

Author: Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Robert Armistead Stewart
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806304189
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Author: Ethel Clyde Woodall Grider
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Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Author: Eleanor Phillips Passano
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806302713
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records in which they appear. In addition, there is a research record guide arranged by county and type of record, and it identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist up to 1940, when this book was first published. Included are church and county courthouse records, deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, and other data sources.