Author: Robert William BarnesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780806313733
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Maryland Marriages, 1801-1820
Author: Robert William BarnesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780806313733
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Maryland Marriages, 1801-1820
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806362090
Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Missing Relatives and Lost Friends
Author: Robert W. BarnesPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806353686
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Researchers on the trail of elusive ancestors sometimes turn to 18th- and early 19th-century newspapers after exhausting the first tier of genealogical sources (i.e., census records, wills, deeds, marriages, etc.). Generally speaking, early newspapers are not indexed, so they require investigators to comb through them, looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack. With his latest book, Robert Barnes has made one aspect of the aforementioned chore much easier. This remarkable book contains advertisements for missing relatives and lost friends from scores of newspapers published in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia, as well as a few from New York and the District of Columbia. The newspaper issues begin in 1719 (when the "American Weekly Mercury" began publication in Philadelphia) and run into the early 1800s. The author's comprehensive bibliography, in the Introduction to the work, lists all the newspapers and other sources he examined in preparing the book. The volume references 1,325 notices that chronicle the appearance or disappearance of 1,566 persons.
The Tennison Family of Southern Maryland: Records of the Tennison family during the period 1650-1830 in Southern Maryland and the District of Columbia, with a few extensions of the family to Va. and N.C
Author: Ralph D. SmithThe Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists
Author: Sharon DeBartolo CarmackPublisher: Family Tree Books
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Provides genealogists with research summaries, maps, and timelines for every U.S. state; county-level data that can be utilized to acquire most genealogical records; and listings of contact information, Web sites, libraries, and genealogical and historical societies.
Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin
Author: The Colonial Ancestors and Twentieth Century Descendants of Samuel A. Nichols (1787-1866) of Howard County, Maryland
Author: Joseph Howard NicholsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Samuel Ambrose Nichols, son of Robert Nichols and Sarah Robertson, was born 22 Feb 1787 near Annapolis, Maryland. He married Susannah Hardey, daughter of George Hardey and Priscilla Jenkins, on 24 Sep 1815. They had ten children. Susannah died on 16 July 1864 and Samuel died 3 Dec 1866. Their children and descendants have lived in Maryland, District of Columbia, South Carolina, Florida, and other areas in the United States.
American Grit
Author: Emily FosterPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813187435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the next fifty years as she strove to keep herself and her children in their memories. With Anna's natural talent for storytelling and her unique, female perspective, the letters provide a sustained and vivid account of everyday domestic life on the Ohio frontier. She writes of carving a farm out of the forest, bearing many children, darning and patching the family clothes, standing her ground in religious controversy, nursing wounds and fevers, and burying beloved family and friends. Emily Foster presents these revealing letters of a pioneer woman in a framework of insightful commentary and historical context, with genealogical appendices.
Diminishing the Bill of Rights
Author: William Davenport MercerPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806158662
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The modern effort to locate American liberties, it turns out, began in the mud at the bottom of Baltimore harbor. John Barron Jr. and John Craig sued the city for damages after Baltimore’s rebuilt drainage system diverted water and sediment into the harbor, preventing large ships from tying up at Barron and Craig’s wharf. By the time the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1833, the issue had become whether the city’s actions constituted a taking of property by the state without just compensation, a violation of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The high court’s decision in Barron v. Baltimore marked a critical step in the rapid evolution of law and constitutional rights during the first half of the nineteenth century. Diminishing the Bill of Rights examines the backstory and context of this decision as a turning point in the development of our current conception of individual rights. Since the colonial period, Americans had viewed their rights as springing from multiple sources, including the common law, natural right, and English legal tradition. Despite this rich heritage and a prohibition grounded in the Magna Carta against uncompensated state takings of property, the Court ruled against Barron’s claim. The Bill of Rights, Chief Justice John Marshall declared in his opinion for the majority, restrained only the federal government, not the states. The Fifth Amendment, accordingly, did not apply to Maryland or any of the cities it chartered. In explaining how the Court came to reject a multisourced view of human liberties—a position seemingly inconsistent with its previous decisions—William Davenport Mercer helps explain why we now envision the Constitution as essential to guaranteeing our rights. Marshall’s view of rights in Barron, Mercer argues, helped him navigate the Court through the precarious political currents of the time. While the chief justice may have effected a shrewd political maneuver, the decision helped hasten a reconceptualization of rights as located in documents. Its legacy, as Mercer’s work makes clear, is among the Jacksonian era’s significant democratic reforms and marks the emergence of a distinctly American constitutionalism.
An Index of the Source Records of Maryland
Author: Eleanor Phillips PassanoPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806302713
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
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.