Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781680340228
Category : Charles County (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Charles County, Maryland, Wills: 1801-1808 AL-12
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781680340228
Category : Charles County (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Mudd Family of the United States
Author: Richard Dyer MuddThe Maryland and Delaware Genealogist
Author: William Webster of Prince George's County Maryland, 1698-1777
Author: Edythe Maxey ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
William Webster appears in Prince George's County, Maryland in June of 1712 when he is judged to be 14 years of age. Includes information about people who married into the family and provides a great deal of information about each individual. All appear to be in Maryland and surrounding areas.
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
Author: Thomas D. MorrisPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864307
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically, he demonstrates that there was no coherent body of law that dealt solely with slaves. Instead, more general legal rules concerning inheritance, mortgages, and transfers of property coexisted with laws pertaining only to slaves. According to Morris, southern lawmakers and judges struggled to reconcile a social order based on slavery with existing English common law (or, in Louisiana, with continental civil law.) Because much was left to local interpretation, laws varied between and even within states. In addition, legal doctrine often differed from local practice. And, as Morris reveals, in the decades leading up to the Civil War, tensions mounted between the legal culture of racial slavery and the competing demands of capitalism and evangelical Christianity.
The Genealogical Helper
Author: The Bean Stalk
Author: Appealing for Liberty
Author: Loren SchweningerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190664304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Dred Scott and his landmark Supreme Court case are ingrained in the national memory, but he was just one of multitudes who appealed for their freedom in courtrooms across the country. Appealing for Liberty is the most comprehensive study to give voice to these African Americans, drawing from more than 2,000 suits and from the testimony of more than 4,000 plaintiffs from the Revolutionary era to the Civil War. Through the petitions, evidence, and testimony introduced in these court proceedings, the lives of the enslaved come sharply and poignantly into focus, as do many other aspects of southern society such as the efforts to preserve and re-unite black families. This book depicts in graphic terms, the pain, suffering, fears, and trepidations of the plaintiffs while discussing the legal system—lawyers, judges, juries, and testimony—that made judgments on their "causes," as the suits were often called. Arguments for freedom were diverse: slaves brought suits claiming they had been freed in wills and deeds, were born of free mothers, were descendants of free white women or Indian women; they charged that they were illegally imported to some states or were residents of the free states and territories. Those who testified on their behalf, usually against leaders of their communities, were generally white. So too were the lawyers who took these cases, many of them men of prominence, such as Francis Scott Key. More often than not, these men were slave owners themselves-- complicating our understanding of race relations in the antebellum period. A majority of the cases examined here were not appealed, nor did they create important judicial precedent. Indeed, most of the cases ended at the county, circuit, or district court level of various southern states. Yet the narratives of both those who gained their freedom and those who failed to do so, and the issues their suits raised, shed a bold and timely light on the history of race and liberty in the "land of the free."
Robey, Roby, Robie
Author: William Grafton Jr RobeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The earliest known ancestor of the Robey family was John Roby (1455- 1515) who owned Castle Donington, England. One of his descendants, Henry Robie (1618-1688), immigrated to America and settled in New Hampshire. His many descendants and other people surnamed Robey, Roby and Robie live throughout the United States and Canada as well as in Great Britain.
Major William Boarman, Charles County, Maryland, 1630-1709
Author: Mary Louise DonnellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
William Boarman (1630-1709), the progenitor of this family, was born in England. When he came to Maryland is not known but the first record of him living there shows him living with the Jesuit priest at the age of fifteen. He was married (1) to Sarah Linle (d. ca. 1669); (2) prior to 1673 to Mary Mathews; and (3) by 1686 to Mary Jarboe, the daughter of Colonel John Jarboe. The will of William Boarman was probated in Charles Co., Maryland on June 17, 1709. He fathered twelve children. Descendants live in Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and elsewhere.