Author: Mary Elizabeth Lindon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970164827
Category : Montgomery County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 772

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ISBN:
Category : Montgomery County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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The militia was organized in 1777 after the county was established in the previous year. All men between the ages of 18 and 50 were required to register, attend muster and perform others with their captain of the militia. Only those who were infirm or not fit were allowed not to attend and this information is often listed on the muster rolls.

Author: Richard Swainson Fisher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Author: Thomas H. S. Boyd
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806379548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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This is an historical, biographical, and genealogical work on Montgomery County, Maryland, with chapters on the founding and early settlement of the county and biographical sketches of prominent men. It is brimming with genealogical information and is reprinted here with an added index of names.

Author: Charles W. Crush
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montgomery County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Author: Daniel B. Thorp
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813940745
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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The history of African Americans in southern Appalachia after the Civil War has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both African Americans and the region. In Facing Freedom, Daniel Thorp relates the complex experience of an African American community in southern Appalachia as it negotiated a radically new world in the four decades following the Civil War. Drawing on extensive research in private collections as well as local, state, and federal records, Thorp narrates in intimate detail the experiences of black Appalachians as they struggled to establish autonomous families, improve their economic standing, operate black schools within a white-controlled school system, form independent black churches, and exercise expanded—if contested—roles as citizens and members of the body politic. Black out-migration increased markedly near the close of the nineteenth century, but the generation that transitioned from slavery to freedom in Montgomery County established the community institutions that would survive disenfranchisement and Jim Crow. Facing Freedom reveals the stories and strategies of those who pioneered these resilient bulwarks against the rising tide of racism.

Author: U. S. A. Heavener
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806306904
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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This work surveys the history of the German New River Settlement and succeeds in identifying all, or nearly all, German New River settlers in chapters devoted to pioneer families, baptisms, marriage records, and court records.

Author: Benjamin Floyd Nuckolls
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806306408
Category : Grayson County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Grayson County is famous in southwestern Virginia as the cradle of the New River settlements--perhaps the first settlements beyond the Alleghanies. The Nuckolls book is equally famous for its genealogies of the pioneer settlers of the county, which, typically, provide the names of the progenitors of the Grayson County line and their dates and places of migration and settlement, and then, in fluid progression, the names of all offspring in the direct and sometimes collateral lines of descent. Altogether somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 persons are named in the genealogies and indexed for ready reference.

Author: Marion Cabell Tyree
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chores
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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"Virginia, or the Old Dominion, as her children delight to call her, has always been famed for the style of her living ... Tearing the glittering arms of King George from their sideboards, and casting them, with their costly plate and jewels, as offerings into the lap of the Continental Congress, they introduced in their homes that new style of living in which, discarding all the showy extravagance of the old, and retaining only its inexpensive graces, they succeeded in perfecting that system which, surviving to this day, has ever been noted for its beautiful and elegant simplicity. This system, which combines the thrifty frugality of New England with the less rigid style of Carolina, has been justly pronounced, by the throngs of admirers who have gathered from all quarters of the Union around the generous boards of her illustrious sons, as the very perfection of domestic art." -- Preface.

Author: David Emmons Johnston
Publisher: Pantianos Classics
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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This history covers the middle New River area from 1654 to 1905 with an emphasis on Mercer County, West Virginia. Mercer County was created in 1837 from Giles and Tazewell counties, Virginia, and was part of Virginia until 1863.