Author: Samuel H. VuncannonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Raldolph County (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The Vuncannon-Voncannons of Randolph County, North Carolina
Author: Samuel H. VuncannonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Raldolph County (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Dixon Family History
Author: Mary Gant BellPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615149731
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
William Dixon, son of Henry Dixon and Rose, was born in Ireland. He married Ann Gregg in about 1690. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana.
The Free State of Jones
Author: Victoria E. BynumPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River, where, legend has it, they declared the Free State of Jones. The story of the Jones County rebellion is well known among Mississippians, and debate over whether the county actually seceded from the state during the war has smoldered for more than a century. Adding further controversy to the legend is the story of Newt Knight's interracial romance with his wartime accomplice, Rachel, a slave. From their relationship there developed a mixed-race community that endured long after the Civil War had ended, and the ambiguous racial identity of their descendants confounded the rules of segregated Mississippi well into the twentieth century. Victoria Bynum traces the origins and legacy of the Jones County uprising from the American Revolution to the modern civil rights movement. In bridging the gap between the legendary and the real Free State of Jones, she shows how the legend--what was told, what was embellished, and what was left out--reveals a great deal about the South's transition from slavery to segregation; the racial, gender, and class politics of the period; and the contingent nature of history and memory.
The North Carolinian
Author: Miles Lassiter (Circa 1777-1850)
Author: Margo Lee WilliamsPublisher: Backintyme
ISBN: 0939479389
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Although antebellum African Americans were sometimes allowed to attend Quaker meetings, they were almost never admitted to full meeting membership, as was Miles Lassiter. His story illuminates the unfolding of the 19th-century color line into the 20th. Margo Williams had only a handful of stories and a few names her mother remembered from her childhood about her family's home in Asheboro, North Carolina. Her research would soon help her to make contact with long lost relatives and a pilgrimage "home" with her mother in 1982. Little did she know she would discover a large loving family and a Quaker ancestor -- a Black Quaker ancestor. -- Publisher's description.
Skeen Families of Tennessee, Their Ancestors of Virginia, New York, & Scotland
Author: Arthur Thomas SkeenPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
John Skeen, son of John Skeen and Ingabo Hughes Allen, was born 11 April 1764 in Virginia. He married Catherine White 16 January 1787. He died in Jefferson County, Tennessee. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Nebraska.
The Historical Records of North Carolina ...
Author: Historical Records Survey of North CarolinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Supplement, the Swaim-Tysen Family of Staten Island, New York, New Jersey, and Southern States
Author: Joseph Francis MullanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
North Carolina Genealogy
Author: Ancestors and Descendants of John Lyman Beecher and H. Maria Alling, California Pioneers
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
John Beecher (1594-1637/1638) married widow Hannah Potter, and immi- grated in 1637 from England to Boston, Massachusetts, setting at what is now New Haven, Connecticut later that year. Descendants led in New England, New York, Illinois, California and elsewhere.