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This volume contains abstracts from Culpeper County, Virginia Deed Book I (17 August 1778-20 September 1779) beginning on page one and ending on page 458 for courts held 18 August 1777 through 21 June 1779. Records generally include the full names of all persons involved in the transaction (grantor, grantee, witnesses, and court officials), sum paid, description and location of property, date of transaction and date recorded. A full-name and p...

The First Presbyterian Church at Caldwell, earlier called the First Presbyterian Church at Horse-Neck, and its cemetery are listed in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places. There are written reports of over 530 burials in the church yard from 1788 to 1881."The persons mentioned in the following gravestone records are grouped into families as far as the information on the stones themselves will permit, and arranged alphabetically according...

There are twenty-three African American cemeteries in Harford County, Maryland. Some of the tombstones and grave markers were copied by various people at times since the 1960s and the information was filed with the Historical Society of Harford County, however, the author realized that these lists were incomplete and an update was needed. In 2018 the author visited these African American cemeteries and copied every tombstone and grave marker h...

First published in 1995, this study has now been revised, and greatly expanded. Printed in a new larger size and easy to read format, each page contains more than twice the original text area, with nineteen chapters in the new edition, rather than the original ten. Approximately 5, 300 more names appear in the index than found in the original edition. All of the data found in the original has been included, with minor corrections and much addi...

Facsimile reprint, originally published: Cambridge, Md.: J.A. McAllister, 1960-1967.

The purpose of this work is to present a single alphabetical index based on the General Index to Deeds No. 1, 1797-1867, that was created in the style known as a Campbell Index. In other words, the purpose here is not to validate the index but to resequence it. What typically results from a Campbell Index is a jumble that requires users to flip back and forth between groups of pages throughout the entire index to seek out where various groups ...

Civil War scholars and genealogists alike will be interested in Massachusetts Volunteer Private Berea M. Willsey's three-year account of his Civil War experiences and his comrades in arms. Private Willsey, who was present at many of the significant military engagements of the Civil War, kept a faithful daily record noting the weather, troop movements, food, marches, battles, his impressions of his commanding officers, visiting clergy, and "the...

First settled in 1623, the "Parish of Rye in New Castle" did not become a township until after the American Revolution. The 1773 census counted a population of 842 inhabitants, by 1886 the count had risen to about 1, 000. A manageable size, then, for the author who managed to mention practically everybody who ever lived in Rye! There is a chapter on "Some old Residents and where they lived, " a "Record of Town Officers" and a 279-page "Genealo...

VOLUME 2 ONLYThis book is a transcription of the 1880 Cherokee Nation census, complete with census card numbers, which were added in 1900. The Dawes Commission used these census cards for tribal enrollment, and each tribe had their own census cards. Some persons may appear on multiple cards if they were adopted by an associated tribe, as in the case of the Shawnee and Delaware who often appear on Cherokee census cards. There are also separate ...

This volume is the fourteenth in the author's series on Maryland marriages and the sixth book for Harford County. It is a comprehensive compilation of about 1, 000 marriages, actual and implied, for the five years from 1876 through 1880 for persons married during that time and who also remarried later, and the marriages of many of their children. Marriages and vital information were gleaned from license books, marriage certificates, probate re...

Includes the name of the deceased, the type of document, dates of signing and probate, heirs, executors, administrators and witnesses. Items in the inventory are generally described, but not in detail. The names of all slaves are included.(2005), 2019, 5¿x8¿, paper, index, 234 pp

Health Matters proposes an audacious new concept of human history. The author, George J. Hill, is a physician and historian. He argues that the primary goal of humans, from cave dwellers to those in the modern world, has been the search for good health and a long life. The quest for health has been to avoid illness, to treat disease and injuries, and to delay death. Humans were aware of the existence of a future, and this motivated them to sea...

The author has amassed a bounty of information about Wrights in southern Virginia. This volume contains appendices to Sorting Some of the Wrights of Southern Virginia: Birth Records, 1853 to 1896, Marriage Records, 1776 to 1900, and Property Tax Lists, 1782 to 1850. These appendices present source records for persons named Wright by county and by type of record with the identification of the person named and their Wright ancestor to the extent...

County court appeals and land causes books contain records of matters brought before the court while in session. The information contained in these records may not appear elsewhere. Entries typically provide a synopsis of court cases in a relatively organized format. Records you may find include rulings of the court in civil matters such as property disputes, payment obligations, and much more.This volume contains records from Caroline County,...

VOLUME 3 ONLY"The time has arrived when it becomes the duty of the people of this county to perpetuate the names of their pioneers, to furnish a record of their early settlement, and relate the story of their progress." So wrote the compilers of this huge undertaking, whose efforts have produced an extensive collection of over 1, 100 biographical sketches of the residents of Orange County, New York, at the end of the nineteenth century. Sketch...

This series traces lineages of early settlers into the early 1800s. The primary sources of information are the court records (probate and orphans' court), land records, and church records.This volume, which focuses on the early families of Kent County, includes the following families: Alexander Adams (Addams), Peter Adams (of Sussex County, Delaware), Adams (of Dorchester County, Maryland and Sussex County, Delaware), (N) Adams (of Kent County...

County court order books contain records of all matters brought before the court while in session. The information contained in these records may not appear elsewhere. The order books typically provide a synopsis of court cases in a relatively organized format. Records you may find include rulings of the court in civil matters such as property disputes and slaves, and much more.This volume contains records from Caroline County Order Book, 1781...

This book was written to benefit the 120, 000 Chinese adoptees and their adoptive parents, who began adopting these children (mostly girls) beginning in the late 1990s and continuing to this day. Most adoptive families are provided very little information by the Chinese Center for Children's Welfare and Adoption (CCCWA) about their child's early heritage. According to the CCCWA nearly all of these children were abandoned by their birth parents...

American and British light fleet aircraft carriers, an expedient of war at a time of dire need in World War II, answered their nations' call a second time during the Korean War. While larger US Navy fleet carriers plied their trade in the deeper Sea of Japan off Korea's east coast, their svelte sisters - USS Bataan, HMS Glory, HMS Ocean, HMS Theseus, HMS Triumph, and HMAS Sydney - were consigned to the Yellow Sea. Operating off the west coast,...

This work presents marriage records for Essex County, Virginia for the period 1884 to 1921. It continues publication of marriage records after those by this compiler and Suzanne P. Derieux for the period 1850-1883. The major difference here is that the format is condensed to include only the pertinent data rather than reproducing the printed form of either the marriage register, marriage license, or related record pieces.The critical notice to...