Author: John BedellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
"Few Know that Such a Place Exists"
Author: John BedellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Nature and History in the Potomac Country
Author: James D. RicePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421402629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
How environmental forces, and human responses to them, profoundly shaped both Native American and colonial life along the Potomac River. James D. Rice’s fresh study of the Potomac River basin begins with a mystery. Why, when the whole of the region offered fertile soil and excellent fishing and hunting, was nearly three-quarters of the land uninhabited on the eve of colonization? Rice wonders how the existence of this no man’s land influenced nearby Native American and, later, colonial settlements. Did it function as a commons, as a place where all were free to hunt and fish? Or was it perceived as a strange and hostile wilderness? Rice discovers environmental factors at the center of the story. Making use of extensive archaeological and anthropological research, as well as the vast scholarship on farming practices in the colonial period, he traces the region’s history from its earliest known habitation. With exceptionally vivid prose, Rice makes clear the implications of unbridled economic development for the forests, streams, and wetlands of the Potomac River basin. With what effects, Rice asks, did humankind exploit and then alter the landscape and the quality of the river’s waters? Equal parts environmental, Native American, and colonial history, Nature and History in the Potomac Country is a useful and innovative study of the Potomac River, its valley, and its people.
Ancestry
Author: The Dallas Quarterly
Author: Hayes, Johnson, and Allied Families
Author: Charles Clifton HayesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The immigrant ancestor of the Johnson family, John Johnson (ca. 1610/20- aft. 1665), was born in England of the British Isles -- perhaps Scotland. He died in Northumberland Co., Va. He had two children: Jeffrey Sr. or I (ca. 1640-1725/26) born before coming to America, married Elizabeth ca. 1660's, died at Jeffrey's Marsh Plantation, Elk Run (formerly Marsh Run) in King George County (now Fauquier), Va.; and Ann (ca. 1640-aft. 1696) born probably in Northumberland Co., Va. married there ca. 1663, Samuel Gooch. Henry Hays (1667-1746), the immigrant ancestor of the Hayes family, was baptized in Epwell, Oxfordshire, England. He died in 1746 in East Marlborough, Chester Co., Pennsylvania. Includes other emigrant ancestors from England to Virginia, Pennsylvania etc. in the 1600s. Descendants live in Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and elsewhere.
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Author: Virginia Colonial Abstracts
Author: The Common Law in Colonial America
Author: William Edward NelsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190465050
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Présentation de l'éditeur : "In a projected four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America, William E. Nelson will show how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies, which were initially established in response to divergent political, economic, and religious initiatives, slowly converged until it became possible by the 1770s to imagine that all thirteen participated in a common American legal order, which diverged in its details but differed far more substantially from English common law. Volume three, The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750, reveals how Virginia, which was founded to earn profit, and Massachusetts, which was founded for Puritan religious ends, had both adopted the common law by the mid-eighteenth century and begun to converge toward a common American legal model. The law in the other New England colonies, Nelson argues, although it was distinctive in some respects, gravitated toward the Massachusetts model, while Maryland's law gravitated toward that of Virginia."
Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775
Author: Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806312297
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This second volume in the series has abstracts of all of the grants from 1742 to 1775, a period that saw the formation and settlement of Frederick, Fairfax, Culpeper, Loudoun, Fauquier, and Dunmore (changed in 1778 to Shenandoah) counties in Virginia, and Hampshire and Berkeley counties now in West Virginia. Altogether, in more than 4,000 abstracts, about 7,500 early Virginia residents are cited, all of them listed in the index.
The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia
Author: C. Malcolm WatkinsPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This book is a historical and archaeological investigation of the port town of Marlborough in Stafford County, Virginia, and the plantation of John Mercer. It is divided into three main sections: history, archeology and architecture, and artefacts. The history section provides information on the origins of Marlborough, John Mercer's occupation of the town, and its eventual decline. The archeology and architecture section discusses the site, preliminary tests, and various structures found, such as wall systems, mansion foundations, and kitchen foundations. The artefacts section covers ceramics, glass, personal use objects, and metalwork found at the site.