Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
The Northwestern Reporter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Nebraska
Author: Nebraska. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
"Rules of the supreme court. In force February 1, 1914": v. 94, p. vii-xx.
American Marriage Records Before 1699
Author: William Montgomery ClemensPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806300752
Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Public marriage records listed in Colonial America prior to 1699.
The Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay
Author: MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
With historical and explanatory notes, and an appendix.
Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 080630491X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"No other official record or group of records is as historically significant as the 1790 census of the United States. The taking of this census marked the inauguration of a process that continues right up to our own day--the enumeration at ten-year intervals of the entire American population" -- publisher website (June 2007).
An Act for More Effectually Amending, Widening, and Keeping in Repair, the Road Leading from the Town of Kingston Upon Thames, in the County of Surrey, to a Place Called Sheetbridge, Near Petersfield, in the County of Southampton
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: pt. 1. Family of Richard Warren
Author: Remick Genealogy
Author: Oliver Philbrick RemickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Compiled from mss. of Lieut. Oliver Philbrieh Remick for Maine Historical Society.
A Storm of Witchcraft
Author: Emerson W. BakerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199385149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an invisible spirit, the community began a hunt to track down those responsible for the demonic work. The resulting Salem Witch Trials, culminating in the execution of 19 villagers, persists as one of the most mysterious and fascinating events in American history. Historians have speculated on a web of possible causes for the witchcraft that stated in Salem and spread across the region-religious crisis, ergot poisoning, an encephalitis outbreak, frontier war hysteria--but most agree that there was no single factor. Rather, as Emerson Baker illustrates in this seminal new work, Salem was "a perfect storm": a unique convergence of conditions and events that produced something extraordinary throughout New England in 1692 and the following years, and which has haunted us ever since. Baker shows how a range of factors in the Bay colony in the 1690s, including a new charter and government, a lethal frontier war, and religious and political conflicts, set the stage for the dramatic events in Salem. Engaging a range of perspectives, he looks at the key players in the outbreak--the accused witches and the people they allegedly bewitched, as well as the judges and government officials who prosecuted them--and wrestles with questions about why the Salem tragedy unfolded as it did, and why it has become an enduring legacy. Salem in 1692 was a critical moment for the fading Puritan government of Massachusetts Bay, whose attempts to suppress the story of the trials and erase them from memory only fueled the popular imagination. Baker argues that the trials marked a turning point in colonial history from Puritan communalism to Yankee independence, from faith in collective conscience to skepticism toward moral governance. A brilliantly told tale, A Storm of Witchcraft also puts Salem's storm into its broader context as a part of the ongoing narrative of American history and the history of the Atlantic World.
A List of the Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of the War of the Rebellion in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on May 1, 1905, by Cities and Towns, Arranged Alphabetically
Author: Massachusetts. Bureau of StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description