Author: John Frederick Dorman
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
John Preston (d.1748) married Elizabeth Patton, and immigrated in 1738 from Ireland to Augusta County, Virginia. Descendants lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, California and elsewhere.
The Prestons of Smithfield and Greenfield in Virginia
Author: John Frederick Dorman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
John Preston (d.1748) married Elizabeth Patton, and immigrated in 1738 from Ireland to Augusta County, Virginia. Descendants lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, California and elsewhere.
Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
John Preston (d.1748) married Elizabeth Patton, and immigrated in 1738 from Ireland to Augusta County, Virginia. Descendants lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, California and elsewhere.
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Montgomery County Branch Records
Author: Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Montgomery County Branch
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Category : Blacksburg (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
The records largely document the recent history of Smithfield Plantation, ancestral home of the Preston family, focusing particularly on its restoration beginning in 1962. While much of the renovation occurred in the 1960s, many of the records detail other renovation projects done in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection is organized into seven series: Series I: Correspondence(largely from and to George Shackelford); Series II: Publications, including APVA and Montgomery County branch newsletters and APVA Discovery magazines; Series III: Smithfield Plantation Renovation, including appraisals, reports, and receipts; SeriesIV: Renovations of other Smithfield Plantation Buildings, including information about the renovations of other structures on the Smithfield property, (the cook's cabin, the miller's log house, and the smokehouse); Series V: AVPA General Files, including meeting minutes, financial reports, and building committee reports; Series VI: Historical Documents from dating from the original Preston family's residence at Smithfield (materials include manuscript account books (1754-63) of William Preston while residing at Greenfield, manuscript pages detailing work done by a wheelright (1845-50); and genealogical information about the Preston family); and Series VII: Miscellaneous Documents, which includes materials relating to historic Montgomery County and the Smithfield Plantation. The collection also contains an oversize folder with blueprints and architectural drawings.
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Category : Blacksburg (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
The records largely document the recent history of Smithfield Plantation, ancestral home of the Preston family, focusing particularly on its restoration beginning in 1962. While much of the renovation occurred in the 1960s, many of the records detail other renovation projects done in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection is organized into seven series: Series I: Correspondence(largely from and to George Shackelford); Series II: Publications, including APVA and Montgomery County branch newsletters and APVA Discovery magazines; Series III: Smithfield Plantation Renovation, including appraisals, reports, and receipts; SeriesIV: Renovations of other Smithfield Plantation Buildings, including information about the renovations of other structures on the Smithfield property, (the cook's cabin, the miller's log house, and the smokehouse); Series V: AVPA General Files, including meeting minutes, financial reports, and building committee reports; Series VI: Historical Documents from dating from the original Preston family's residence at Smithfield (materials include manuscript account books (1754-63) of William Preston while residing at Greenfield, manuscript pages detailing work done by a wheelright (1845-50); and genealogical information about the Preston family); and Series VII: Miscellaneous Documents, which includes materials relating to historic Montgomery County and the Smithfield Plantation. The collection also contains an oversize folder with blueprints and architectural drawings.
Preston Family (Charles Peale Didier Collection) Papers
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Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Didier Collection of Preston Family Papers includes papers of James Patton, Patton's grandson William Preston, and Preston's eldest son, John Preston, all of Montgomery County, Virginia. The Preston family was important in the surveying, settlement, military affairs, and government of Southwest Virginia in the 18th and 19th centuries. Their papers consist of business and legal documents, surveys, and correspondence. Much of the collection relates to John Preston (1764-1827), treasurer of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1810 to 1819. For further information on the Preston family, see John F. Dorman, The Prestons of Smithfield and Greenfield in Virginia (1982).
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Didier Collection of Preston Family Papers includes papers of James Patton, Patton's grandson William Preston, and Preston's eldest son, John Preston, all of Montgomery County, Virginia. The Preston family was important in the surveying, settlement, military affairs, and government of Southwest Virginia in the 18th and 19th centuries. Their papers consist of business and legal documents, surveys, and correspondence. Much of the collection relates to John Preston (1764-1827), treasurer of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1810 to 1819. For further information on the Preston family, see John F. Dorman, The Prestons of Smithfield and Greenfield in Virginia (1982).
Historical Sketches and Reminiscences of an Octogenarian
Author: Thomas Lewis Preston
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Diversity and Accommodation
Author: Michael J. Puglisi
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870499692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The contributors to this collection argue that traditional views - of ethnic and cultural isolation, of German clannishness and Scots-Irish individualism - contain a kernel of truth but are far too restrictive and simplistic.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870499692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The contributors to this collection argue that traditional views - of ethnic and cultural isolation, of German clannishness and Scots-Irish individualism - contain a kernel of truth but are far too restrictive and simplistic.
Defending the Old Dominion
Author: Stuart Lee Butler
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0761860398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
Defending the Old Dominion describes historical events in Virginia during the War of 1812, examining how Virginia's militia was organized, supplied, and financed by the Commonwealth. The book discusses the militia's unpreparedness in training, its lack of adequate ordnance and arms, and how that affected its ability to defend the state against British incursions during the war. Political activities of the Virginia legislature and the U.S. Congress are examined with special reference to how the state financed the war and its relationship with the U.S. government. The book includes the fascinating story of nearly two thousand former slaves who fled to British ships to fight in Virginia with British forces.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0761860398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
Defending the Old Dominion describes historical events in Virginia during the War of 1812, examining how Virginia's militia was organized, supplied, and financed by the Commonwealth. The book discusses the militia's unpreparedness in training, its lack of adequate ordnance and arms, and how that affected its ability to defend the state against British incursions during the war. Political activities of the Virginia legislature and the U.S. Congress are examined with special reference to how the state financed the war and its relationship with the U.S. government. The book includes the fascinating story of nearly two thousand former slaves who fled to British ships to fight in Virginia with British forces.
Faces of the Confederacy
Author: Ronald S. Coddington
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421400308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
“Extensive research, fascinating characters . . . The author has done an admirable job of literally placing a face on the ordinary Confederate soldier.” —The Journal of Southern History “The history of the Civil War is the stories of its soldiers,” writes Ronald S. Coddington in the preface to Faces of the Confederacy. This book tells the stories of seventy-seven Southern soldiers—young farm boys, wealthy plantation owners, intellectual elites, uneducated poor—who posed for photographic portraits, cartes de visite, to leave with family, friends, and sweethearts before going off to war. Coddington, a passionate collector of Civil War-era photography, conducted a monumental search for these previously unpublished portrait cards, then unearthed the personal stories of their subjects, putting a human face on a war rife with inhuman atrocities. The Civil War took the lives of twenty-two of every hundred men who served. Coddington follows the exhausted survivors as they return home to occupied cities and towns, ravaged farmlands, a destabilized economy, and a social order in the midst of upheaval. This book is a haunting and moving tribute to those brave men. Like its companion volume, Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories, this book offers readers a unique perspective on the war and contributes to a better understanding of the role of the common soldier. “With his meticulous research and a journalist’s eye for good stories, Ron Coddington has brought new life to Civil War photographic portraits of obscure and long-forgotten Confederates whose wartime experiences might otherwise have been lost to history.” —Bob Zeller, cofounder and president of the nonprofit Center for Civil War Photography
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421400308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
“Extensive research, fascinating characters . . . The author has done an admirable job of literally placing a face on the ordinary Confederate soldier.” —The Journal of Southern History “The history of the Civil War is the stories of its soldiers,” writes Ronald S. Coddington in the preface to Faces of the Confederacy. This book tells the stories of seventy-seven Southern soldiers—young farm boys, wealthy plantation owners, intellectual elites, uneducated poor—who posed for photographic portraits, cartes de visite, to leave with family, friends, and sweethearts before going off to war. Coddington, a passionate collector of Civil War-era photography, conducted a monumental search for these previously unpublished portrait cards, then unearthed the personal stories of their subjects, putting a human face on a war rife with inhuman atrocities. The Civil War took the lives of twenty-two of every hundred men who served. Coddington follows the exhausted survivors as they return home to occupied cities and towns, ravaged farmlands, a destabilized economy, and a social order in the midst of upheaval. This book is a haunting and moving tribute to those brave men. Like its companion volume, Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories, this book offers readers a unique perspective on the war and contributes to a better understanding of the role of the common soldier. “With his meticulous research and a journalist’s eye for good stories, Ron Coddington has brought new life to Civil War photographic portraits of obscure and long-forgotten Confederates whose wartime experiences might otherwise have been lost to history.” —Bob Zeller, cofounder and president of the nonprofit Center for Civil War Photography
History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870
Author: Lewis Preston Summers
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
"Greenfield" and the Prestons of "Greenfield" and "Smithfield."
William Preston and the Allegheny Patriots
Author: Patricia Givens Johnson
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description