Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to North American History
Author: Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790 to 1990
Author: Richard L. ForstallPublisher: National Technical Information Services (NTIS)
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Report provides the total population for each of the nation's 3,141 counties from 1990 back to the first census in which the county appeared.
Las Villas Del Norte
Author: Moises GarzaPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507788776
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
This book contains the 1757 censuses for the six Villas del Norte; Laredo, Dolores, Revilla, Mier, Camargo, and Reynosa. Included in this book is a name index of these censuses in alphabetical order by last name. It also includes information about the Indians of each Villa. This book is a great genealogical resource and a great addition to any library.
The Genealogical Helper
Author: Stirpes
Author: Republic of Texas: Poll Lists for 1846
Author: Marion Day MullinsPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806305983
Category : Poll tax
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Arranged alphabetically, this work lists the names and counties of residence of approximately 18,000 Texas taxpayers. (A "poll" tax of one dollar was levied on every white male resident over the age of twenty-one and on women who were heads of household.) By 1846, when Texas became the thirty-sixth state in the Union, there were sixty-seven county governments already organized as functioning units of the state, yet no authorized census of the state was undertaken until 1850. This 1846 poll list, compiled from the original tax rolls housed in the Texas State Archives, is actually the nearest thing we have to a complete census of the period.
Slavery and Freedom in Texas
Author: Jason A. GillmerPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820351636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In these absorbing accounts of five court cases, Jason A. Gillmer offers intimate glimpses into Texas society in the time of slavery. Each story unfolds along boundaries--between men and women, slave and free, black and white, rich and poor, old and young--as rigid social orders are upset in ways that drive people into the courtroom. One case involves a settler in a rural county along the Colorado River, his thirty-year relationship with an enslaved woman, and the claims of their children as heirs. A case in East Texas arose after an owner refused to pay an overseer who had shot one of her slaves. Another case details how a free family of color carved out a life in the sparsely populated marshland of Southeast Texas, only to lose it all as waves of new settlers "civilized" the county. An enslaved woman in Galveston who was set free in her owner's will--and who got an uncommon level of support from her attorneys--is the subject of another case. In a Central Texas community, as another case recounts, citizens forced a Choctaw native into court in an effort to gain freedom for his slave, a woman who easily "passed" as white. The cases considered here include Gaines v. Thomas, Clark v. Honey, Brady v. Price, and Webster v. Heard. All of them pitted communal attitudes and values against the exigencies of daily life in an often harsh place. Here are real people in their own words, as gathered from trial records, various legal documents, and many other sources. People of many colors, from diverse backgrounds, weave their way in and out of the narratives. We come to know what mattered most to them--and where those personal concerns stood before the law.
Everton's Genealogical Helper
Author: Red Book
Author: Alice EichholzPublisher: Ancestry Publishing
ISBN: 9781593311667
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
" ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.
A New and Complete Statistical Gazetteer of the United States of America
Author: Richard Swainson FisherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description