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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The County Court Note-book
Author: Sussex County, Virginia Court Records: Court of Oyer & Terminer, 1754-1801 ; Order book. 1754- 1756
Author: Weynette Parks HaunPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Records of Colonial Goucester County, Virginia
Author: Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806347201
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The middle chapters of this book are given over to Wilkes County genealogy and biography, with chapters on the buyers and sellers of lots and the early settlers of the county. The work as a whole is crowded with references to ministers, officials, teachers, and soldiers, so much so that an index of more than 2,000 entries was created by Mrs. Hays to encompass them.
The Killing of Reverend Kay
Author: Cynthia MattsonPublisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457555875
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
It is the early fall of 1755 in the backcountry of Virginia. The British army has suffered a stunning defeat at the hands of the French and their Indian allies in the opening battle of the French and Indian War, leaving the frontier in flames and open to attacks from the enemy. William Kay, a young minister well-known to the colonial establishment for his years long stand against a powerful planter and vestryman bent on revenge, is murdered. Three of Kay’s slaves are accused and swiftly condemned to the brutal form of justice reserved for the enslaved, while another man who had threatened Kay’s life disappears from the scene. When the colonial governor and officials aligned with him suppress the news of the unprecedented crime and the court record of the slave trial, the killing of Reverend Kay becomes lost to history––until now.
The County Court Note-book, Volumes I-X, and Ancestral Proofs and Probabilities, Numbers 1-4
Author: Milnor LjungstedtPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Leaves of a Stunted Shrub
Author: Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1935538047
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
The Settle-Suttle Family
Author: William Emmet ReesePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Given by Joel S. Watkin.
Turley Family Records
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
There were at least five Turley families in Virginia as early as 1716. From there descendants went to South Carolina, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Oklahoma and elsewhere.
A Revolutionary Friendship
Author: Francis D. CoglianoPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674292499
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Francis Cogliano revisits the relationship between Washington and Jefferson, arguing that their vaunted differences mask mutual investments in the Revolution itself. Their later divergence demonstrates how wartime unity gave way to competing visions for the new nation, making clear that there was no single founding ideal--only compromise.
Slave Counterpoint
Author: Philip D. MorganPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these two regional black cultures, exploring the differences as well as the similarities. The result is a detailed and comprehensive view of slave life in the colonial American South. Morgan explores the role of land and labor in shaping culture, the everyday contacts of masters and slaves that defined the possibilities and limitations of cultural exchange, and finally the interior lives of blacks--their social relations, their family and kin ties, and the major symbolic dimensions of life: language, play, and religion. He provides a balanced appreciation for the oppressiveness of bondage and for the ability of slaves to shape their lives, showing that, whatever the constraints, slaves contributed to the making of their history. Victims of a brutal, dehumanizing system, slaves nevertheless strove to create order in their lives, to preserve their humanity, to achieve dignity, and to sustain dreams of a better future.