Author: Myron P. WehrPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Mohr Family
Author: Myron P. WehrMennonite Family History Ten Year Index, 1982-1991
Author: Masthof PressPublisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore
ISBN: 1883294053
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A 52,640-name index to the past ten years of Mennonite Family History published from 1982 through 1991, this index includes surnames, authors of articles, subjects and every name mentioned in the articles. (170pp. Masthof Press, 1992.)
To Make this Land Our Own
Author: Arlin C. MigliazzoPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570036828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A case study in the social history of frontier town building set in the swamps of South Carolina On the banks of the lower Savannah River, the military objectives of South Carolina officials, the ambitions of Swiss entrepreneur Jean Pierre Purry, and the dreams of Protestants from Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, and England converged in a planned settlement named Purrysburg. This examination of the first South Carolina township in Governor Robert Johnson's strategic plan to populate and defend the colonial backcountry offers the clearest picture to date of the settlement of the colony's Southern frontier by ethnically diverse and contractually obligated immigrants. Arlin C. Migliazzo contends that the story of Purrysburg Township, founded in 1732 and set in the forbidding environment bounded by the Savannah River and the Coosawhatchie swamps, challenges the notion that white colonists shed their ethnic distinctions to become a monolithic culture. He views Purrysburg as a laboratory in which to observe ethnic phenomena in the colonial and antebellum South. Separated by linguistic, religious, and cultural barriers, the émigrés adapted familiar social processes from their homelands to create a workable sense of community and identity. His work is one of only a handful of examples of what has been deemed the "new social history" methodology as applied to a South Carolina subject. Initially devastated by privation and a high mortality rate, Purrysburg residents also suffered the vicissitudes of an indifferent provincial elite, the encroachment of lowcountry rice planters, Prevost's invasion in 1779, and ultimate destruction of the settlement by Sherman's army. Migliazzo details the community's changing military and economic fortunes, the gradual displacement of its residents to neighboring communities, the role of African Americans in the region, the complex religious life of township settlers, and the quirky contributions of Purry's climatological speculations to the fateful siting of this first township.
A History and Genealogy of the Moore Family of Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Author: Rogan Hart MoorePublisher:
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Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Historical and biographical annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania
Author: Morton Luther MontgomeryPublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania
Author: Morton Luther MontgomeryPublisher:
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Category : Berks County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
Cleveland City Directory
Author: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
Book Description
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support OfficePublisher:
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1456
Book Description
What We Dragged Out of Slavery
Author: Claude A. GreenPublisher: Infinity Publishing
ISBN: 0741435845
Category : Enslaved persons
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
OurStory: What We Dragged Out of Slavery With Us sheds new light on the practices, customs, and events that continue to shape Black Americans today, and on their contributions to national and world culture.