Author: William Henry Harrison StowellPublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
The Stowell genealogy : a record of the descendants of Samuel Stowell of Hingham, Mass.
Author: William Henry Harrison StowellPublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
A Genealogy of the Descendants of Joseph Bixby, 1621-1701 of Ipswich and Boxford, Massachusetts
Author: Willard Goldthwaite BixbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
A Contribution Toward a Genealogy of All Torreys in America
Author: Dolphus TorreyThe New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author: Publisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
A Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316680
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Previously published by Magna Carta, Baltimore. Published as a set by Genealogical Publishing with the two vols. of the Genealogies in the Library of Congress, and the two vols. of the Supplement. Set ISBN is 0806316691.
The Trials of Anthony Burns
Author: Albert J. Von FrankPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674039544
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Before 1854, most Northerners managed to ignore the distant unpleasantness of slavery. But that year an escaped Virginia slave, Anthony Burns, was captured and brought to trial in Boston--and never again could Northerners look the other way. This is the story of Burns's trial and of how, arising in abolitionist Boston just as the incendiary Kansas-Nebraska Act took effect, it revolutionized the moral and political climate in Massachusetts and sent shock waves through the nation. In a searching cultural analysis, Albert J. von Frank draws us into the drama and the consequences of the case. He introduces the individuals who contended over the fate of the barely literate twenty-year-old runaway slave--figures as famous as Richard Henry Dana Jr., the defense attorney, as colorful as Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Bronson Alcott, who led a mob against the courthouse where Burns was held, and as intriguing as Moncure Conway, the Virginia-born abolitionist who spied on Burns's master. The story is one of desperate acts, even murder--a special deputy slain at the courthouse door--but it is also steeped in ideas. Von Frank links the deeds and rhetoric surrounding the Burns case to New England Transcendentalism, principally that of Ralph Waldo Emerson. His book is thus also a study of how ideas relate to social change, exemplified in the art and expression of Emerson, Henry Thoreau, Theodore Parker, Bronson Alcott, Walt Whitman, and others. Situated at a politically critical moment--with the Whig party collapsing and the Republican arising, with provocations and ever hotter rhetoric intensifying regional tensions--the case of Anthony Burns appears here as the most important fugitive slave case in American history. A stirring work of intellectual and cultural history, this book shows how the Burns affair brought slavery home to the people of Boston and brought the nation that much closer to the Civil War.
Genealogy and American Local History in the Michigan State Library
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Ryerson Genealogy
Author: Albert Winslow RyersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Ancestry and descendants of Martin Ryerson (d. ca. 1687), Dutch immigrant in 1640 to Long Island, who married Annetje Joris de Rapelje in Brooklyn, New York.
Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780
Author: John A. SchutzPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555533045
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This single volume contains meticulously researched biographies of the men who served as representatives in the General Court from the Charter of 1691 to the end of the American Revolution. Schutz also provides readers with enlightening essays on the history and workings of the Massachusetts General Court, and its influence in shaping the political and cultural milieux of colonial and revolutionary America.
Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society ...
Author: New England Historic Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description