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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Nathaniel Everett was born in about 1678. He married a widow, Mary Mitchell Harrison in about 1701 in Albermarle, North Carolina and they had four children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina.
Nathaniel and Mary (Mitchell) Harrison Everett of Tyrrell (now Washington) County, North Carolina and Some of Their Descendants and Related Families
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Nathaniel Everett was born in about 1678. He married a widow, Mary Mitchell Harrison in about 1701 in Albermarle, North Carolina and they had four children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Nathaniel Everett was born in about 1678. He married a widow, Mary Mitchell Harrison in about 1701 in Albermarle, North Carolina and they had four children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina.
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Lineage Book IX.
Author: National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
Publisher:
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Category : Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
"Esteemed Bookes of Lawe" and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia
Author: Warren M. Billings
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813939402
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Virginia men of law constituted one of the first learned professions in colonial America, and Virginia legal culture had an important and lasting impact on American political institutions and jurisprudence. Exploring the book collections of these Virginians therefore offers insight into the history of the book and the intellectual history of early America. It also addresses essential questions of how English culture migrated to the American colonies and was transformed into a distinctive American culture. Focusing on the law books that colonial Virginians acquired, how they used them, and how they eventually produced a native-grown legal literature, this collection explores the law and intellectual culture of the Commonwealth and reveals the origins of a distinctively Virginian legal literature. The contributors argue that understanding the development of early Virginia legal history—as shown through these book collections—not only illuminates important aspects of Virginia’s history and culture; it also underlies a thorough understanding of colonial and revolutionary American history and culture.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813939402
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Virginia men of law constituted one of the first learned professions in colonial America, and Virginia legal culture had an important and lasting impact on American political institutions and jurisprudence. Exploring the book collections of these Virginians therefore offers insight into the history of the book and the intellectual history of early America. It also addresses essential questions of how English culture migrated to the American colonies and was transformed into a distinctive American culture. Focusing on the law books that colonial Virginians acquired, how they used them, and how they eventually produced a native-grown legal literature, this collection explores the law and intellectual culture of the Commonwealth and reveals the origins of a distinctively Virginian legal literature. The contributors argue that understanding the development of early Virginia legal history—as shown through these book collections—not only illuminates important aspects of Virginia’s history and culture; it also underlies a thorough understanding of colonial and revolutionary American history and culture.
The Common Law in Colonial America
Author: William Edward Nelson
Publisher: 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."
Publisher: 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."
The Seale Family from the Northern Neck of Virginia to Greene County, Alabama
Author: Joyce Ellison Graf
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
William, Anthony and John Seale (brothers and probably sons of immigrant William Seale) were probably born in Virginia, and lived in various counties of Virginia. Descendants lived in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and elsewhere.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
William, Anthony and John Seale (brothers and probably sons of immigrant William Seale) were probably born in Virginia, and lived in various counties of Virginia. Descendants lived in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and elsewhere.
Wills and Administrations of Elizabeth City County, Virginia, 1688-1800, with Other Genealogical and Historical Items
Author: Blanche Adams Chapman
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806309091
Category : Elizabeth City County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Owing to an unfortunate error in Clayton Torrence's Virginia Wills and Administrations it is widely believed that the early probate records of Elizabeth City County do not exist. This present volume is in large part a correction of that error, and indeed the bulk of it is devoted to abstracts of the county's wills and administrations for the period 1688 to 1800. As an aid to research in the county (now the independent city of Hampton), this work further includes such items as an index to land patents, the quit rent rolls for 1704, tithables of 1782, soldiers of 1776, marriage records, and lists of burgesses, justices, sheriffs, clerks, surveyors, and much else besides.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806309091
Category : Elizabeth City County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Owing to an unfortunate error in Clayton Torrence's Virginia Wills and Administrations it is widely believed that the early probate records of Elizabeth City County do not exist. This present volume is in large part a correction of that error, and indeed the bulk of it is devoted to abstracts of the county's wills and administrations for the period 1688 to 1800. As an aid to research in the county (now the independent city of Hampton), this work further includes such items as an index to land patents, the quit rent rolls for 1704, tithables of 1782, soldiers of 1776, marriage records, and lists of burgesses, justices, sheriffs, clerks, surveyors, and much else besides.
Nature and History in the Potomac Country
Author: James D. Rice
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801890322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801890322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y
A "Topping People"
Author: Emory G. Evans
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813930375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
A "Topping People" is the first comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. Evans studies twenty-one leading families from their rise to power in the late 1600s to their downfall over one hundred years later. These families represented the upper echelons of power, serving in the upper and lower houses of the General Assembly, often as speaker of the House of Burgesses. Their names—Randolph, Robinson, Byrd, Carter, Corbin, Custis, Nelson, and Page, to note but a few—are still familiar in the Old Dominion some three hundred years later. Their decline was due to a variety of factors—economic, social, and demographic. The third generations showed an inability to adapt their business philosophies to the changing economic climate. Their inclination was to mirror the English landed gentry, living off the income of their landed estates. Economic diversification was the norm early on, but it became less effective after 1730. Scots traders, for example, introduced chain stores, making it more difficult to continue family-run stores. And land speculation was no substitute for diversification. An increase in population resulted in the creation of new counties, which weakened the influence of the Tidewater region. These leading families began to spend more than they earned and became heavily indebted to British mercantile firms. The Revolution only served to make matters worse, and by 1790 these families had lost their political and economic status, although their social status remained. A "Topping People" is a thorough and engrossing study of the way families came to gain and, eventually, lose great power in this turbulent and progressive period in American history.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813930375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
A "Topping People" is the first comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. Evans studies twenty-one leading families from their rise to power in the late 1600s to their downfall over one hundred years later. These families represented the upper echelons of power, serving in the upper and lower houses of the General Assembly, often as speaker of the House of Burgesses. Their names—Randolph, Robinson, Byrd, Carter, Corbin, Custis, Nelson, and Page, to note but a few—are still familiar in the Old Dominion some three hundred years later. Their decline was due to a variety of factors—economic, social, and demographic. The third generations showed an inability to adapt their business philosophies to the changing economic climate. Their inclination was to mirror the English landed gentry, living off the income of their landed estates. Economic diversification was the norm early on, but it became less effective after 1730. Scots traders, for example, introduced chain stores, making it more difficult to continue family-run stores. And land speculation was no substitute for diversification. An increase in population resulted in the creation of new counties, which weakened the influence of the Tidewater region. These leading families began to spend more than they earned and became heavily indebted to British mercantile firms. The Revolution only served to make matters worse, and by 1790 these families had lost their political and economic status, although their social status remained. A "Topping People" is a thorough and engrossing study of the way families came to gain and, eventually, lose great power in this turbulent and progressive period in American history.