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Category : Land grants
Languages : en
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Notes from Cavaliers and Pioneers, Vol. 1, by Nell Marion Nugent
Author: Cavaliers and Pioneers
Author: Nell Marion NugentPublisher:
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Category : Land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Years 1690 - 1692.
LEAVES OF A STUNTED SHRUB Vol One
Author: Publisher: RICHARD BALDWIN COOK
ISBN: 0979125758
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
Author: Jeff CarterPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786489545
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
During his presidency, Jimmy Carter received a comprehensive analysis of his family's genealogy, dating back 12 generations, from leaders of the Mormon Church. More recently Carter's son Jeff took over the family history, determined to discover all that he could about his ancestors. This resulting volume traces every ancestral line of both Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter back to the original immigrants to America and chronicles their origins, occupations, and life dates. Among his forebears Carter found cabinet makers, farmers, preachers, illegitimate children, slave owners, indentured servants, a former Hessian soldier who fought against Napoleon, and even a spy for General George Washington at Valley Forge. With never-before-published historic photographs and a foreword by President Jimmy Carter, this is the definitive saga of a remarkable American family.
The County Court Note-book
Author: Cavaliers and Pioneers: 1695-1732
Author: Nell Marion NugentPublisher:
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Category : Land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Mountains on the Market
Author: Randal L. HallPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813136245
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Manufacturing in the Northeast and the Midwest pushed the United States to the forefront of industrialized nations during the early nineteenth century; the South, however, lacked the large cities and broad consumer demand that catalyzed changes in other parts of the country. Nonetheless, in contrast to older stereotypes, southerners did not shun industrial development when profits were possible. Even in the Appalachian South, where the rugged terrain presented particular challenges, southern entrepreneurs formed companies as early as 1760 to take advantage of the region's natural resources. In Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the South, Randal L. Hall charts the economic progress of the New River Valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia, which became home to a wide variety of industries. By the start of the Civil War, railroads had made their way into the area, and the mining and processing of lead, copper, and iron had long been underway. Covering 250 years of industrialization, environmental exploitation, and the effects of globalization, Mountains on the Market situates the New River Valley squarely in the mainstream of American capitalism.
Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia
Author: Frederic W. GleachPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803270916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Frederic W. Gleach offers the most balanced and complete accounting of the early years of the Jamestown colony to date. When English colonists established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607, they confronted a powerful and growing Native chiefdom consisting of over thirty tribes under one paramount chief, Powhatan. For the next half-century, a portion of the Middle Atlantic coastal plain became a charged and often violent meeting ground between two very different worlds.
Farther Along: Origins of the Cobb, Pope, and Ball Families of Harlan County, Kentucky
Author: John RhinehartPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794886346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The book traces the progenitors of the Harlan County, Kentucky, Cobb, Pope, and Ball families from their known North American origins in colonial Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina to their eventual settlement in eastern Tennessee, western Virginia, and southeastern Kentucky. Substantial national, state, and local history is included in the narrative for the purpose of setting the people discussed in the context of their times. Issues such as the Methodist Church and the slavery issue, and Kentucky and the secession crisis are considered, as is Harlan County and the Civil War. Much attention is given to Harlan County's political history, from its Democratic-Whig beginnings to the Radical Republicanism of the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877. The narrative ends about 1900. Roughly 100 of the 500 pages of the book are exhibits.
Becoming Free, Becoming Black
Author: Alejandro de la FuentePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies.