Bøker utgitt av Heritage Books

This information is culled from local newspaper obituaries, cemetery records, death records and funeral home records. Typical entries include name, age, date and place of birth, date of death, names of spouse and children, and source of information.

Revolutionary War historians as well as genealogists seeking ancestors in Maine will devour these documents, which dates from June 1766 to July 1777. Documents are arranged chronologically and are miscellaneous in nature, concerning land grants, Indian troubles and the increasing tension between the crown and the colonies. The first two documents concern the garrisons at Fort Pownall and Castle William. The next is a petition regarding a landowner's dispute with the government of New Hampshire, which ran a township line through his property. Petitions for the establishment of towns include names of the earliest settlers. The Boston Tea Party left in its wake an anxious state of vigilance and suspicion. Letters and petitions describe the difficulties of raising militias, the distress of the people in isolated areas lacking food and other supplies, the detainment of spies and other aspects of the prevailing instability. The final documents in this volume are letters from Meschech Weare to the council of Massachusetts Bay, "confirming the unhappy affair at Ticonderoga." and urging that "some spirited measures should be immediately taken." Fans of the famous Revolutionary War novels by Kenneth Roberts will recognize the names of ships, places and leaders who took part in the defense of the coast of Maine. Several exciting reports of naval battles are included. Read the account of the capture of the king's cutter at Machias in 1775, and the list of terrible losses following the attack by the British on Falmouth.

Prince George Winyah Parish was established in 1721 from St. James Santee Parish. The first known register of Prince George Winyah Parish begins in 1815 and ends in 1916. The format of the original register has been followed as closely as possible. The second register covers baptisms, burials, confirmations, marriages, and lists of communicants, 1916-1936. The entries in these registers include slaves, Negroes, and free persons of color. Chapters include: Baptisms, 1815-1916; Confirmations, 1816-1909; Marriages, 1816-1911; Communicants, 1866-1915; Burials, 1816-1915; Communicants, 1916-1936; Baptisms, 1916-1936; Confirmations, 1916-1936; Burials, 1916-1936; and Marriages, 1916-1936. A sketch of the Prince George Winyah Church, a facsimile reprint of a marriage page from the original register, and a full-name index add to the value of this work.

The term guardian accounts can be misleading. These records span a greater range of human activity than one might envision. The fact that a child has lost his father creates records which reveal older siblings, widows and their new husbands, uncles, aunts, division of land, questions of guardian abuse, spouses of the older children - all the stuff that genealogy is made of! These records are filled with genealogical information covering a period in which there is a scarcity of data - from the 1750s to the 1850s. Information on relationships between parties is often revealed (stated or implied). Ages are evident, sometimes exact and other times approximate. Approximate dates of death can also be inferred. Clues to relative wealth are interspersed throughout. Names of court officials in the proceedings have been omitted for purposes of economy. Records are grouped by the decedent's surname. Mary Marshall Brewer has gleaned a myriad of records, condensing and re-arranging them in a most useable package. An index to full-names and places adds to the value of this work.

This is the first volume of a planned series of Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The first volume is devoted to the works of Mary Frances Carey, whereas subsequent volumes also include the works of Barry Miles and M. K. Miles. Mary Frances has devoted many years to research of early Accomack County families and is in the process of turning over her research to Barry and M. K., whose collaboration has generated a database of Accomack County families. The database initially focused on the upper portion of Accomack County, but it has expanded into the rest of Accomack and Northampton Counties. These three individuals have over twenty-five years of experience each with Accomack County families and the various local records, cemeteries, and people still living in Accomack County. Mary Frances has researched and locally printed over forty family booklets, and, with Barry and M. K., she has published the Tombstone Inscriptions of Upper Accomack County, Virginia. The Miles team published the Marriage Records of Accomack County, Virginia, 1854-1896 in 1997 and the Abstract of the Wills and Administrations of Accomack County, Virginia, 1800-1860 in 2000. They have also assembled over 40,000 names in a genealogy database representing hundreds of Accomack families. This volume is devoted to families of Accomack and Northampton Counties including descendants of: James Bonnewell, Richard Bundick, William Mason, Edward Thornton, Henry Trader/Armitrader, and Henry Wright. A full-name and place index adds to the value of this work.

The records that have been abstracted in this book were found in a suit in Loudoun County, Virginia, suit number M:2491 Lane & West vs Evans et als 1771. It was thought before the discovery of these records that none of the records of Cameron Parish were in existence; therefore it was most exciting to find these few documents. The surviving records cover only a few years (1763-1767) and only a part of the parish. The area of the county covered is above Goose Creek and Little River to Fauquier County line. It appears in these records there is a tithable list for this district above Goose Creek and Little River for the year 1765. A full-name index adds to the value of this work.

During the American Revolution men from the Old Dominion served in both Continental and state military establishments consisting of a sometimes bewildering array of regiments, battalions, corps, legions, detachments, and companies. A valuable aid to the s

This volume continues to focus on families living in Kent County and Sussex County, tracing lineages of early settlers into the early 1800s. The primary sources of information are court records (probate and orphans' court), land records, and church records. Many of the early settlers in these counties were Quakers.

This book compiles three years' worth of issues of a bi-monthly periodical of the same name; it draws information from over 75 counties throughout the state of Illinois inclusive of dates ranging throughout the 19th century. Entries have been gleaned from newspapers and various other sources of records, and include death records, burial records, marriage records, tax lists, deed records, court records, bond records and military service records, among other genealogically rich data.

Jeremiah Johns was born in South Carolina on November 18, 1788. He married circa 1809, probably in Wayne County, Georgia, and then settled in Hamilton County, Florida. A special forward by Vera Mallon, past chairman of the Florida Pioneers Committee of the Florida State Genealogical Society is included with copies of original documentation suggesting that this Jeremiah is the one who signed off on the deed of Jacob Johns of Walterboro, South Carolina, as of January 23, 1817. Jeremiah appears in what is now Hamilton County, Florida in 1829, and he was listed in the 1830 Territorial Census of Florida as the head of the family, so descendants of Jeremiah E. Johns, upon presentation of the proper evidence, should qualify for "Florida Pioneer Descendants Certificates." The Florida State Genealogical Society urges members who have territorial Florida ancestors to apply for this certificate. This book identifies the relationships of almost 4,000 descendants of Jeremiah, including the following major surnames: Johns, Bryan, Cheshire, Ellis, Hogan, Brown, Johnson, Mickler, Smith, McGhin, Hutchinson, McMullen. Stewart, Dorman, Williams, Peeples, Knight, Miller, Turner, and Ward. There are also over 700 other surnames of people who were touched by "Jeremiah's Brand." Over 300 of his descendants contributed information including birth, death, burial location, marriages, children, and other textual data on themselves and their ancestors. A full-name index that includes birth and death date (if available), a list of sources, and facsimile reprints of original documents (including maps) enhance the text. Burton Johns is a member of the National Genealogical Society, the Florida State Genealogical Society, the Suwannee Valley Historical Association, the Colleton County Genealogical Society, and numerous other local groups. He has been working on this project since 1987. He is a Florida Pioneer descendant.

With over 1,500 Tennessean surnames, Mr. Hehir provides, in one source, a comprehensive listing of all printed Tennessean genealogies and family histories that have made their way into major library collections across the U.S. The author researched library listings and catalogs covering many genealogical libraries, including the Library of Congress, the National Genealogical Society Library and the Library of the Daughters of the American Revolution, along with historical association libraries from Massachusetts to California. Many of the books deal with multiple families, some with non-Tennessee roots. Arranged for ease of use, the entries are presented alphabetically according to surname, with a cross-reference index to family and secondary names to help researchers find surnames that would otherwise remain buried within the text. No genealogist working with Tennessee families should be without this time-saving volume. The author has also added an appendix with helpful hints on "Accessing the Library of Congress records via the internet."

This book contains information about the men and women from Maryland and Delaware who served in the military or in civil service and rendered aid to British and American soldiers during the war against the French and Indians. Approximately 6,000 soldiers, sailors and civilian supporters have been identified. In many cases genealogical information has been included about the soldier or patriot and his family. Names have been cross-referenced within the text, precluding the need for a separate index. This book should be a useful research tool for those seeking information about their Colonial Maryland and Delaware ancestors.

This volume continues the series using a wide variety of primary and secondary records. It covers the following families: John Baskervyle/Baskerville, Henry Borodell, Ambrose Cobbs/Cobb, John Drewry, Ralph Graves, William and Charles Grymes, Edward Grymes, Anthony Lamb, Gabriel Maupin, Thomas Morgan, John Overstreet, Walter Patrick, John Rogers (and John Aduston), Captain William Rogers, The Reverend James Sclater, Nicholas Sebrell, Armiger Wade, Thomas Wade of James City County, Edward Wade, Thomas Wade of York County, and John Weldon. A full-name index adds to the value of this work. 'In all three volumes, while emphasis has been placed on using published copies of original records, the views of as many other reasonable interpreters of the historical record are included to give credible possibilities of where to begin to look to strengthen the historical record.'

This volume continues the series using a wide variety of primary and secondary srecords. It covers the following families: Albrighton, (Albritton, Albridgton), Thomas Ballard, Chapman, John Doswell (Dozwell), Major James Goodwin, Isaac Gooding/Goodwin, John Gooding, John Hansford, William Hansford, Giles Moody (Mode), Augustine Moore, John Parsons, John and Stephen Pond, John Robinson, John Tomer (Toomer), Wagstaff. A full-name index adds to the value of this work.

Abstracts from the Land Records of Dorchester County Maryland often reveal names of wives, sons, daughters, and other relationships. Included with the deeds are abstracts of land commissions that re-established the boundaries of land tracts at the request of a new owner. These hearings consisted of depositions of persons knowledgeable of the original markers. The individuals gave not only their knowledge of the history of the boundary markers of the tract of land in question but their own ages, and other bits of information. For research of families in Dorchester County, which has such a dearth of early material, the land records are a must. Fortunately, the abstracts were done with care and a keen knowledge of the records. An index to full-names and places adds to the value of this work.

From his early years in the old world of peace and security, Ernest Poole has watched the great social forces here and abroad that have brought us over the Bridge of time into today's world of chaos and crisis. He is one of those rare men who have seen a great deal and been able to dramatize it; and he understood why things have happened. His book is packed with little stories, each one pointing to the larger events which were to come. His boyhood in Chicago in the nineties was full of lively incidents. After graduating from Princeton, then a college of a mere twelve hundred students, Ernest Poole went to live in New York on the lower East Side in the days when that was the melting pot. There he wrote stories of people and incidents that were part of his daily life. With his visit to Russia in 1905, the Bridge crosses into a world where he saw at first hand the early stirrings of revolution. Back in New York, Mr. Poole tells of writers he knew (Mark Twain, O. Henry, and others), of playwriting, the radical movement, and the writing of The Harbor. The year 1914 found him in Berlin and in the front-line German trenches doing articles for magazines in the United States, this country being still neutral. He visited Russia again in the first stages of the revolution, when many new political factions were giving rise to fresh discontent and the power of the Bolsheviki was growing day by day; by way of Siberia he returned to the United States and to Washington. The rest of the story tells of Wall Street in the mad twenties, the New Deal, life in fascist Italy, and life the White Mountains in New Hampshire. The Bridge is both an epic of vast social changes and the personal story of one who has felt and thought and grown in pace with the trends of his era. An index to full-names, places and subjects adds the value of this work.

This book contains the most complete genealogy of the Pendleton family to date. It includes all known descendants (with the Pendleton surname) of Philip Pendleton, the immigrant, and his wife, Elizabeth Hurt, whose descendents now number in the tens of thousands and are scattered throughout the United States. The family is considered from its known beginnings around 1500 in Manchester, England, through about 1920. The origin of the Pendleton name as well as historical perspectives that link thirteen generations of the bearers of this surname to their place and time are provided. Included are maps that show where Philip Pendleton (who came to Virginia from Norwich, England, in 1674) resided, as well as the home counties of the generations that followed. There is a wealth of vital and biographical information on thirteen generations of this Pendleton family and a complete full name index, with over 6,000 entries, that will allow the reader to easily trace a particular branch.

On memorial days in the 1930s, the author helped her father with the decoration of J. E. B. Stuart's monument on the Yellow Tavern battlefield in Virginia. The area called Yellow Tavern cannot be located on any modern map. Yellow Tavern is now defined by the action that took place there, along the roads that passed through it, the railroads that encircled it, and by the lives of the families who lived there during the eighteenth century. It is the author's intention by this treatise to try to look at the strife through the eyes of the women as they wove the threads of their lives and those of their loved ones through the events that transpired there. Yellow Tavern and Beyond preserves the story of this region during its grimmest years. Mrs. Atkinson uses a diverse selection of first person sources - many not publicly available - as she follows the area's families during the course of the war. Her collection begins with the author's grandfather, Tom Francis, his three brothers, and their brother-in-law, Charles Terrell who left home to serve in the Fifteenth Virginia Regiment. Out of their concern for those left behind, they wrote letters telling of their experiences during the Civil War. Some of them did not live out the war, but their letters have been cherished by the women in the families and passed down as tangible evidence of their personalities and the times in which they lived. In those letters and other journals, often written in the dialect of Virginians, the words spelled phonetically, this generation who never knew them, can still hear their ancestors speaking. A full index, with subjects, names, and places, adds to the value of this book.

Reveals the English origins of Thomas Rowell and his son Valentine, original proprietors of Salisbury, MA, and presents 10 generations of the Rowell family in New England from 1638 to 1900.

This census names only the head of the household. Often times when an individual was missed on the regular U.S. Census, he would appear on this agricultural census. So you might try checking this census for your missing relatives. Unfortunately, many of the Agricultural Census records have not survived. But they do yield unique information about how people lived. There are 48 columns of information, six of which are transcribed here: name of the owner, improved acreage, unimproved acreage, cash value of the farm, value of farm implements and machinery, and value of livestock. This volume covers Mason, Marion, Magoffin, McCracken, McLean, Marshall, Meade, Mercer, Metcalfe, Monroe and Montgomery counties.

"The late William Tuttle, one time Madison County Historian compiled a file of those Madison County veterans of the War of 1812 from various sources: pensions, claims against the State for clothing/equipment, etc. for which the individual soldier paid out of pocket; local sources such as cemetery inscriptions, newspaper items et al. The following list is taken from his file, now in the County Historian's office in the Madison County Courthouse in Wampsville, NY." This slender volume was originally published as Pipe Creek Publication's Early Settler Series: New York, No. 6. Entries are arranged alphabetically by surname. A bibliography completes this work.

These records are the very earliest available for each church through 1800 and include: Tabor First Reformed, baptisms; Heidelberg Congregation in Schafferstown, baptisms, marriages, and burials; St. Paul's (or Klopp's), baptisms; St. Jacob's Kimmerling's Reformed, baptisms; Trinity Tulpehocken, baptisms and marriages; Swatara Reformed Congregation, Jonestown, baptisms; St. John's Union, Fredericksburg, baptisms; Millbach Reformed Congregation, Millbach Township, baptisms and a few marriages; Quitopahilla (Hill) Lutheran, baptisms, marriages, and burials; and Quitopahilla (Hill) Reformed, baptisms; Zion Evangelical Lutheran, Jonestown, baptisms; Trinity Evangelical Lutheran (Colebrook, Londonberry Township), baptisms and confirmations; Zoar Evangelical Lutheran, baptisms and burials; Bindnagel Evangelical Lutheran, baptisms, marriages, and burials; and some baptisms and marriages performed by John Casper Stoever. A full-name index adds to the value of this work.

During the Vietnam War, 270 U.S. Navy and four Royal Australian Navy warships served at various times on the gunline. Within this armada were the battleship New Jersey, ten cruisers, 212 destroyers, fifty destroyer escorts, and the inshore fire support ship Carronade. When necessary, naval guns poured out round after round, until their barrels overheated and turned red, exterior paint blistered, and rifled-barrel liners were worn smooth. Allied troops locked in battle with North Vietnamese Army or Viet Cong troops in South Vietnam were grateful for artillery support from the sea. When North Vietnam launched the Easter Offensive across the DMZ in 1972, eight to ten ships in line, abreast, often firing simultaneously and around the clock, delivered desperately needed fire support. At one point, over forty cruisers and destroyers were serving together on the gunline. Warships conducting SEA DRAGON and LINEBACKER operations-naval bombardment of military targets along the coast of North Vietnam-came under fire on a number of occasions. Runs in to within five miles of a hostile shore, to strike Vinh, Haiphong, and other targets, often preceded duels with shore batteries. Most such action occurred at mission completion as ships zigzagged, while racing seaward at high speed to clear the coast, to throw off the aim of enemy gunners. This book highlights the grit, determination, and heroism of young men-many who would likely have preferred the laid-back lifestyle of the 1960s, were it not for their country's call to arms. Photographs; maps and diagrams; appendices; a bibliography; and an index to full-names, places and subjects add value to this work.

Hundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best-remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never been published, or have been printed long ago and are no longer readily available. The intent of this effort is to present a selection of these, in the eighth of such volumes, to allow greater understanding and appreciation of the Valley Forge Encampment. The six month encampment of the Continental Army at Valley Forge has long since entered the realm of American myths. Some of the stories that have become legendary are reinforced in the letters herein. There are a number of references to the lack of shoes, blankets and clothing. Food was in desperately short supply. Efforts to rectify these difficulties are represented in these pages. Documents are arranged chronologically, and the original spelling and punctuation has been retained. A descriptive note at the foot of each entry gives the source location of each document, and identifies the writer and recipient the first time each individual appears. The author scoured the National Archives and more than twenty other state archives, university libraries, and historical societies in his search for these rare papers. An index to full-names, places and subjects adds to the value of this work.

The author has compiled this work from histories, public records, letters, diaries, Virginia Gazette newspaper files and periodicals "...to convey an impression (sketch and untechnically, of course) upon a single canvas, of the whole kaleidoscopic scene - military, public, economic, home, hospital, social, literary, even the current jokes - with white persons and negroes, grown persons and children, rich and poor, high and low in their relations to the place and one another." This work is grouped by date, from the Colonial Period (1607-1774) through the War Between the States. Individual chapters are devoted to conflict with Indians, Revolutionary War involvement (including Patrick Henry at the Convention, General Arnold's march up Main Street and the Treaty), architecture and monuments, Richmond as "The City of Churches", with emphasis on the Reverend John Buchanan and the Reverend John D. Blair (the "Two Parsons"), the threat of insurrection headed by former slave "General" Gabriel, the trial of Aaron Burr, the Richmond Theater fire (1811), the War of 1812, Richmond's significance during the Civil War (including the Battle of Seven Pines and the Seven Days Battle), and the Reconstruction. The author has provided a supplementary index of "Places of Special Interest," a listing of homes that are over a century old, and numerous illustrations. Many notable Virginians are examined in the text, including Thomas Jefferson, Colonial Byrd, John Brown, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Edgar Allan Poe. Thomas Jefferson's influence, in particular, is felt throughout.

This book covers the Northumberland County, Virginia, register of free blacks, 1803-1858. Northumberland County lies in the eastern section of the Northern Neck of Virginia, which is the peninsula of land bordered by the Potomac River on the north, the Chesapeake Bay on the east, and the Rappahannock River on the south. Originally, this region was part of Lord Fairfax's Northern Neck Proprietary, which extended from today's Northern Neck all the way to the Allegheny Mountains. At its height, the Northern Neck Proprietary included the following counties: Prince George, Westmoreland, Northumberland, Richmond, Lancaster, Stafford, Prince William, Culpeper, Fauquier, Warren and Frederick, and parts of Loudoun, Fairfax, Clarke and Shenandoah. The author had divided the book into two chapters. Chapter One gives the reader the history of the free Negro, including statistics on the number of free Negroes in Northumberland County compared with other Virginia counties. Chapter Two is the Northumberland County register itself. In 1793, Virginia's General Assembly passed a law requiring all free blacks and mulattos to go to their local courthouse to have their presence in the county registered, and to be given a number. The County Clerk recorded all registrations in ledger books in his office. This book is a transcription of the surviving lists for Northumberland County. Where available the author gives the reader the registration number, first and last name, color, age, stature, any identifying marks or scars, the dates of registration and certification, and whether the person was born free or emancipated. A bibliography and full-name plus subject index is included.

Family historians can hardly find a better way to add life to genealogical records than by reading county court minutes. On these pages can be found references to remarriages, heirs, apprenticeships, orphans, transients, indigents, and the insane. Mentioned here are: the laying out of roads, licensing of officials, mills, ferries, and ordinaries, as well as suits for assault, trespass, debt, paternity, land, and other county matters. Giles County was cut from Maury County in 1809. By this time, Indian problems were in the past, and the area was filling rapidly with settlers. Some families farmed only for a season or two before going elsewhere. Depositions and powers of attorney show connections to counties in South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky. Court was held in private homes until a courthouse was built, which soon burned. These records were abstracted from two surviving county court minute books and one circuit court minute book dating from before 1820. In the absence of census records for early Tennessee, and considering the destruction of many other early records, the information obtained from these three small books is an important discovery for genealogists. This book is arranged chronologically and has an every-name index.

Dr. Hess's years of dedication to this project have created a ground-breaking genealogical series and a must-have for those with Lutheran ancestors in the Philadelphia region. Until this series, these records had never been fully translated and thus were unavailable to researchers. This is the second in a five-volume series that Dr. Hess has translated from the original German. The first three volumes cover baptisms, volume four covers marriages and confirmations, and volume five covers burials. The baptism records include the names of the child, parents and witnesses.

This volume includes the name of the deceased, 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. A full-name index adds to the value of this work.