Author: Lyon Gardiner TylerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine
Author: Lyon Gardiner TylerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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.
Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine
Author: Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World
Author: Alison GamesPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674573819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
England's seventeenth-century colonial empire in North America and the Caribbean was created by migration. The quickening pace of this essential migration is captured in the London port register of 1635, the largest extant port register for any single year in the colonial period and unique in its record of migration to America and to the European continent. Alison Games analyzes the 7,500 people who traveled from London in that year, recreating individual careers, exploring colonial societies at a time of emerging viability, and delineating a world sustained and defined by migration. The colonial travelers were bound for the major regions of English settlement -- New England, the Chesapeake, the West Indies, and Bermuda -- and included ministers, governors, soldiers, planters, merchants, and members of some major colonial dynasties -- Winthrops, Saltonstalls, and Eliots. Many of these passengers were indentured servants. Games shows that however much they tried, the travelers from London were unable to recreate England in their overseas outposts. They dwelled in chaotic, precarious, and hybrid societies where New World exigencies overpowered the force of custom. Patterns of repeat and return migration cemented these inchoate colonial outposts into a larger Atlantic community. Together, the migrants' stories offer a new social history of the seventeenth century. For the origins and integration of the English Atlantic world, Games illustrates the primary importance of the first half of the seventeenth century.
The Tennison Family of Southern Maryland
Author: Ralph D. SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Chiefly a record of the Tennison family from 1650-1770 in the counties of St. Mary's and Charles in Maryland. Also includes the Dennis family in Virginia before 1650. Volume 3 deals with the Tennisons in southern Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina from 1650 to 1800.
They Went Thataway
Author: Charles Hughes HamlinPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806305886
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Composed almost entirely of abstracts of wills, deeds, marriage records, powers of attorney, court orders, church records, cemetery records, tax records, guardianship accounts, etc., this unique work provides substantive evidence of the migration of individuals and families to Virginia or from Virginia to other states, countries, or territories. Although primarily concerned with Virginians, the data are of wide-ranging interest. England, France, Germany, Scotland, Barbados, Jamaica, and twenty-three American states are represented, all entries splendidly tied to court sources and authorities. Each record provides prima facie evidence of places of origin and removal, irrefutably linking individuals to both their old and their new homes, and incidentally naming parents and kinsmen, all 10,000 of whom are listed in alphabetical order in the indexes. It is a safe observation that half of the records, having been exhumed from the most improbable sources (some augmented by the compiler's personal files), are the only ones in existence which can prove the ancestor's identity and origin.
She Took Justice
Author: Gloria J. Browne-MarshallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000283550
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power – 1619 to 1969 proves that The Black Woman liberated herself. Readers go on a journey from the invasion of Africa into the Colonial period and the Civil Rights Movement. The Black Woman reveals power, from Queen Nzingha to Shirley Chisholm. In She Took Justice, we see centuries of courage in the face of racial prejudice and gender oppression. We gain insight into American history through The Black Woman's fight against race laws, especially criminal injustice. She became an organizer, leader, activist, lawyer, and judge – a fighter in her own advancement. These engaging true stories show that, for most of American history, the law was an enemy to The Black Woman. Using perseverance, tenacity, intelligence, and faith, she turned the law into a weapon to combat discrimination, a prestigious occupation, and a platform from which she could lift others as she rose. This is a book for every reader.
The Making of American Whiteness
Author: Carmen P. ThompsonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666923222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The Making of American Whiteness: The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century Virginia changes the narrative about the origins of race and Whiteness in America. With an exhaustive array of archival documents, Carmen P. Thompson demonstrates not only that Whiteness predates European expansion to the Americas as evidenced in their participation in the transatlantic slave trade since the fifteenth century, but more importantly that it was the principal dynamic in the settlement of Virginia, the first colony in what would become the United States of America. And just as the system of White supremacy was the principal framework that fueled the transatlantic slave trade, it likewise was the framework that drove the organization of civil society in Virginia, including the organization and structure of the colony’s laws, social, political, and economic policies as well as its system of governance. The book shows what Whiteness looked like in everyday life in the early seventeenth century, in a way eerily prescient to Whiteness today.
Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011
Author: Publisher: Douglas Richardson
ISBN: 1461045207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2635
Book Description
Virginia Ancestors and Adventurers
Author: Charles Hughes HamlinPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806306424
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Information was transcribed or abstracted from many counties in Virginia. Some information is included for North Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.