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In a practical narrative style, Mrs. Ellet relates all of the major events of the American Revolution, begining with the difficulties with Great Britain, the commencement of the war, and the general state of society. She gives much attention to the ¿female influence,¿ making use of all opportunities to tell anecdotes of brave acts by women. Other topics include the evacuation of Boston, the occupation of New York, European sentiment, the march of Burgoyne, the battle of Saratoga and Valley Forge, the British prison ships, whaleboat warfare, the French alliance, the battle of Monmouth, Indian depredatons, attacks on the South, the treason of Arnold, the battles of Cowpens, Yorktown, and early settlements in the West (Kentucky and Tennessee). Special focus is given to South Carolina, including the surrender of Charleston.

In preparing this work the abstracts of wills were made from the originals in the office of the Secretary of the State, and where they are recorded a reference to the book of record is given. The wills are arranged in alphabetical order by the testators or intestates names.

Deed books typically contain records of land transactions plus leases, mortgages, bills of sale, slave manumissions, and powers of attorney. Deed books are a main staple in genealogy research to determine family relationships. This volume contains entries from Albemarle County Deed Book No. 12, 1795-1798, beginning on page 83 and ending on page 264 for courts held April 1796 through June 1797.

This island was one of Cabot's early discoveries in North America, and was called by him St. John, a name it carried through much of its history. However, it was claimed by France as part of the discoveries made by Verazani in 1523, and it remained under French control for much of its early history. In 1713, when Acadia and Newfoundland were ceded to England, the French inhabitants were given liberty to leave, and many went to St. John. Again, when the Acadians were driven from Nova Scotia in 1755, many removed to St. John. In 1763, St. John was ceded to the British, who then developed some grand plans for the settlement of the island by their own people. Subsequently it was settled by Loyalists fleeing from the American colonies, and by many Scotch highlanders. The latter are readily apparent from the names of the heads of households in the 1798 census of the island which is included as an appendix to this history. The author also wrote a history of Nova Scotia. A new full-name index has been added.

The purpose of this book is to identify Maryland residents who served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812 and not to create a detailed service record for each individual man. There are mistakes! Due to misspelling of surnames, missing records, and other factors, some men are missing, some men are listed twice, and some men are not properly identified. Overall, this book should be used to identify soldiers and to point out what records are available for each individual. It is entirely safe to say that Marylanders served in nearly every U.S. Army regiment during the war and that they also fought in every major battle in both the United States and in Canada. Marylanders, by birth, had migrated to all parts of the United States by the start of the war. Marylanders, who were seamen, joined the army at every major U.S. seaport after the British blockade made it too dangerous to sail into the open waters around our coastline. There are a total of 5,452 men listed in this book. Twenty-seven men have been identified as being African-Americans; 545 men became prisoners of war; and, 541 men died during the war either in battle, from wounds, from diseases, or from injuries. There were ten Marylanders who graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, and who served in this war. There is also one woman, Mary Harker, who may have been a washerwoman in the 14th Infantry.This book honors the memory of those Marylanders who fought in the War of 1812 while serving as members of the U.S. Army. The War of 1812 Society in the State of Maryland was founded by the soldiers themselves as they stood strong against the British attack in 1814 and stated: "We will never disband".

Happy Valley School was an outgrowth of the work of The Five Point House, a private charitable foundation organized in 1850 to relieve the distressed conditions of an area in New York City known as the "Five Point District." It was a country home school for boys and girls in the first through the eighth grades, from six to eighteen years of age. It was dedicated to the service of children whose homes had been broken or who would benefit from school experience in homelike surroundings. Happy Valley was truly integrated. Black, White, Hispanic, Jew and Arab slept side by side, ate, played and worked together. The common denominator was family dysfunction; neglect, abuse and poverty had brought them all together. Although they had house-parents around, the warmth, camaraderie and interaction was with one's peers. Children fought, made friends and felt the first pangs of adolescent love with their peers. Discussions include: The New Mission House of the Five Points, Claude Boorum and the Happy Valley Colony, Edwin Gould: A Friend of Happy Valley and a Titan of Philanthropy to Children, History and Purpose, Sports and Recreation, Health, The American Female Guardian Society and the Home for the Friendless, Institution Chronology, Alumni of Pomona's Happy Valley School Reunite as School is Torn Down, transcript of an article about Happy Valley School: "Happy are the Memories," George Cosmos (a Former Happy Valley Alumni) Fills Us in on the 1930's and the 1940's, Board of Trustees and Other Members, School Life, Religious Life, The Minisceongo Golf Club: Friends Golf on the Site of a Former Children's Home, Data Retrieval Investigations of a Multi-Component Site at the Minisceongo Golf Course (Ramapo, New York) with a history of investigations and detailed site description, Stage III Investigations, and Research Potential. A wealth of facsimile reprints of photos enhance the text.

The dates given in the title of this book are those found on the original book. These dates do not, however, represent the years in which the land sales, purchases, and deeds took place. In many cases, the actual deeds are dated much earlier - in some books as early as the late 1600s. Covers the counties of Essex, Middlesex, Monmouth and Somerset. Although Bergen County was a part of East New Jersey, the majority of their records for this period were recorded at the county courthouse. However, some Bergen Co. deeds are recorded here while others make references to Bergen Co. names within the deed's description.

This is a transcription of War of 1812 prisoner of war records of American sailors, marines and merchantmen which were transcribed from the ledgers of the British Admiralty. These men were either captured off the coast of western Europe or who were taken off British warships and merchant vessels in England at the beginning of the war.The Royal Navy's Plymouth Naval Base was the home of one of the three prisoner of war prison ship facilities which were used during the War of 1812 to house American prisoners of war. The facility had been used since 1796 to intern French prisoners of war during the Napoleonic Wars.A total of 3,568 Americans, including 392 African-Americans, one Indian and one Chinese, were interned at Plymouth for up to three months before being transferred to Ashburton, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, Chatham or Stapleton prison of war facilities. The ledgers from Plymouth include the listing of the crews from the U.S. Brigs Argus and Syren plus a partial crew listing from the U.S. Frigate Chesapeake.Mr. Johnson is a lineal descendant of seven veterans of the War of 1812, and he is the past president of the Society of the War of 1812 in the State of Ohio (2008-2011). He is currently the Registrar General for the General Society of the War of 1812; and has served as the Historian General (2011-2014) and the Archivist General (2014-2017) for this society.

This series covers the counties of Essex, Middlesex, Monmouth and Somerset. However, some Bergen Co. deeds are recorded, while others make references to Bergen Co. names within the deed's description. Hutchinson's latest volume also includes nineteen wills, five intestate filings, and one declaration of intention to marry. In addition, the author has also added an addendum - a reprint of "A Further Account of New Jersey, In an Abstract of LETTERS Lately Writ from thence, By Several Inhabitants there Resident" (London, 1676). The period of this latest book, 1702 to 1717 is the general period of recording, not the date of the actual transaction (land sales, conveyances, mortgages, powers of attorney, etc.) which oft times predated the dates of the books. One is able to follow ownership of land from parents to their children and their children's spouses in many of the conveyances.

This volume covers the period when deeds and related records were recorded in Deed Books Books I-2 and K-2 for the counties of Essex, Middlesex, Monmouth and Somerset. Although Bergen County was a part of East Jersey, the records for this period were recorded at the county courthouse and are not included here.

The early history of Manchester, New Hampshire, is complicated by the fact that it lies on the Merrimack River in a region early claimed by both Massachusetts and New Hampshire, which made it the subject of numerous conflicting grants. It was known at various times as Harrytown, Tyng's-town, Amoskeag, and Derryfield before receiving its present name. The Manchester Historic Association was formed in December 1895 to collect and preserve documents and artifacts pertaining to the history of the Manchester area, and to publish historical studies. Early in its history it published a series of volumes of "collections" which contain a great deal of valuable, but relatively unknown, historical and genealogical material. Those collections were a mixture of short articles, papers read before the meetings of the society, and extensive transcripts of original documents. They were only published in small numbers, primarily as a quarterly membership periodical, and hence are difficult to find today. New name indexes have been added where needed, which will make the reprints more useful for researchers than the original volumes.

The Wyeth / Wythe family is American history in action. The family has been on the forefront of the American story since Nicholas Wyeth came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony around the time of the Great Migration. They struggled through King Philip's War, suffered cruelly in the Salem Witch Trials, protested taxation without representation in the Boston Tea Party, marched as minutemen on the first day of the American Revolution, served in General George Washington's Continental Army, and battled for both the North and the South in the Civil War. Striving to thrive in times of war and peace, Wyeth / Wythe families helped build America. Their occupations ranged from masons to farmers, from teachers to undertakers, from architects to drug company founders and from well-known explorers to iconic artists. Family stories are wide ranging as well. George McClelland Wyeth stealing chickens in Monongahela, Pennsylvania to feed his ten motherless children in 1906 is light years away from the 1910 high society party of George Edward Wyeth's debutante daughter, Charlotte Grosvenor Wyeth, on 42nd Street in New York City, New York. Nevertheless, their stories are equally American.The family stories in this book were born of the aspirations of one man, Nicholas Wyeth, when he bravely set his sights on a strange new world over 3,000 miles away from the familiar golden fields of his home in Suffolk County, England. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ This book is enhanced with numerous photographs, documents, endnotes, a bibliography and a name index. It is divided into two sections. The first section includes theories for the connection of Declaration of Independence signer George Wythe to Nicholas Wyeth, a history of the bigamy charge brought against one of Cambridge's most affluent Wyeths, and details for some of Nicholas Wyeth's famous descendants. The second section uses the register numbering format to name and give statistics for the descendants of Nicholas Wyeth from his children to his fifth great grandchildren.

Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton is one of the most infamous figures in the annals of American Revolutionary War history. His British Legion, popularly known as the "Green Horse" or "Tarleton's Legion," was an extremely mobile military formation, cons

Contains a history of John Jacob Link and his family, their immigration to America in 1733, their antecedents in Germany, and all known American descendants. This supplemental volume extends the family data through 11 generations, and provides additions and corrections to the original work. Genealogical records have been updated, and new descendants have been added-more than a 1,000 descendants listed in the 10th generation, and over a 100 listed in the 11th generation.

There have been many Texans, from all walks of life, affiliated with the Masons. Information from Grand Lodge annual reports published for the years 1858 through 1882 is the basis for this book. The book is organized in three parts. Part One, Deaths Repor

This is the nineteenth volume in a series of volumes of family histories pertaining to the colonial families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Members of nearly all the families described in this volume lived in Dorchester County. The following families are covered: Aaron, Beckwith, Billings, Brannock, Budd, Bullock, Evans, Ferguson (Farguson), Flowers (Flower), Geoghegan (revised), Gray, Haines (Haynes), Hambrook (Hayward, Stewart), Hardikin (Hardigan, Hargaton), Harper, Hayward, Hodson (Hudson), Kendall, Lake, Long (including Talbot County), Marine (Mareen), Norman, Nuner (Nooner, Newner), Pagan (Pagon), Pindar (Pinder), Robson, Sare (Sares), Shorter, Simmons (Seamans), Smart, Tench, Todd, Tottell (Tootle), Vickers (Vickars, Vicars), Windows (Window), and Woodland. An index to full-names and places adds to the value of this work.

This volume continues the series of descriptions of colonial Eastern Shore families of Maryland. Those families include Acworth (Hackworth), Adams, Allen, Bennett, Betts, Cannon, Carlisle, Collier (Collyer), Coulbourne, Crouch, Darby, Davis, Disheroon, Dixon, Dorman, Gale, Hardy, Hobbs, Holland, Horsey, Law (Lawes, Laws), Layfield, Lingo, Minshall (Mitchell), Mitchell, Noble, Parker, Parremore, Robinson, Turpin, Ward, Weatherly, and Wright. An index to full-names and places adds to the value of this work.

The land records of York County, Pennsylvania, begin with the founding of the county in 1749. This book represents abstracts from Deed Book E (1771-1774) and Deed Book F (1773-1775). The county was created out of Lancaster County, which, at its inception, included all of present day York and Adams Counties. Adams County was established in 1800. Most of the early settlers of York County were Germans. The Scotch-Irish settlers began arriving shortly after the Germans, settling the southeastern region of the county. In many of the deeds, the line of ownership reveals the relationship of parents, grandparents, spouses and others. This is especially helpful when the ancestor died without a will (intestate). An index to full-names and places adds to the value of this work.

This volume of news abstracts provides a view of both the everyday life of the colonists of Eastern Connecticut and the extraordinary events of the Revolutionary War. The years 1777 through 1779 were more than just another chapter in our nation's history-Connecticut and the country were in the midst of a rebellion against the greatest power in the world. On 17 December 1773, The New London Gazette was renamed The Connecticut Gazette; however, the form of the paper remained unchanged. It was published weekly and normally carried news of Europe, England and the other colonies; followed by local news. Local news sheds a lot of light on town life. Who lived where and what were they like? What did the towns look like? What did the shopkeepers sell? What holidays did the people celebrate? How did they worship? New London was the home of the Gazette; however, Groton, Stonington, Norwich, Saybrook, Lyme, Colchester, Preston, and Lebanon were also served by the paper, as well as the neighboring towns of Windham County. A full name plus subject index augments the wealth of genealogical and historical information preserved on these pages.

Because of the numerous persons with the surname Wright and similar given names, and to keep track of these different people, the author has adopted the convention of distinguishing Wrights by listing them with their date of death and place of death, the two most commonly available pieces of information. Thus the William Wright who died in 1809 at Franklin County, Virginia, is identified as 1809 William Wright of Franklin County, Virginia. Evidence identifying William Wright is presented in this ten-part analysis which reviews some of the information known about William and John Wright, William's wife Mary (Grant) Wright, documentary evidence, handwriting, suggestive evidence, family naming evidence, and contrary identifications and why they are probably not correct. Additionally, there is a summary in chronological order of the information known about William Wright of Franklin County and Mary (Grant) Wright in northern Virginia.

Genealogical sketches of the first patentees of Dorchester County, generally limited to the first two generations.

The is a story of remarkable men and women who came out of bondage on the Eastern Shore of VA and MD. In researching his family history, the author discovered many African American families whose freedom had been established from the first or second gener

Deed and will books can contain land transactions, mortgages, leases, bills of sale, powers of attorney, marriage contracts, estate settlements, and much more information of genealogical interest. They are a must for researching your family history. An every-name index adds to the value of this work.

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 appointments of local officials and militia officers, records of legal disputes, appointments of guardians for minors, apprenticeships of minors authorized by overseers of the poor, naturalizations, road orders, and the register of free Negroes. This volume contains entries from Westmoreland County Order Book 1705-1721 beginning on page 244a and ending on page 295 for courts held July 28, 1714 through August 30, 1716. A full-name index adds to the value of this work.

While the great wave of Irish immigrants which arrived on our shores in the mid- to late-nineteenth century is well known, and their role in the industrialization of the United States is widely recognized, the important role they played in the original settlement of this country is frequently overlooked. The author's purpose in compiling this volume was to show beyond any doubt the magnitude of the Irish involvement in the founding of the United States. To that end he discusses the various causes of Irish immigration, both voluntary and involuntary, and proceeds to identify at least six hundred Irish men and women who were in America before 1700. The bulk of the text concerns New England, although there is some mention of Virginia and other colonies. There is a wealth of biographical data given in this well documented and fully indexed volume.

The Black American soldier was a rarity between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. When Congress passed the Militia Act of 1792, it required that "every free able-bodied white male citizen" join his state militia. It is implied that non-whites could not participate in the militia but it left open the possibility that non-whites could join the U.S. Army. The U.S. Army did permit Blacks to serve in the army, but only as cooks or officer's servants between the two wars. Cracks in these restrictions appeared for a short time during the War of 1812. Congress passed An Act for Completing the Existing Military Establishment on 24 December 1811 in which it was stated that only "able-bodied men" may be recruited in the army. No restrictions for race will appear in any military legislation passed during the War of 1812. Without proper rules and regulations governing this issue of recruiting Black soldiers, some commanders in the army did recruit Blacks. This work identifies 455 Black men who enlisted in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812 and another 662 Blacks who served as militiamen in a number of state militias. This book is an expanded version of the author's original book, Black Regulars in the War of 1812, which was first published in 2015. Mr. Johnson is a lineal descendant of five veterans of the War of 1812 and he is the past president of the Society of the War of 1812 in the State of Ohio (2008-2011). He is currently the Archivist General for the General Society of the War of 1812 and has served as the Historian General for this society.

Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, is one of the most historically significant areas in the United States due to the longevity of its settlement, the completeness of written records available, the well-preserved artifacts, and because of its rich cultural history. The Germans began to arrive in Missouri as the United States expanded westward at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Their numbers increased significantly after Missouri became a state in 1821. By the 1830s there was a steady movement of Germans into Ste. Genevieve County after government lands were made available for settlement. This series focuses on the immigration of Germanic people into Ste. Genevieve County between 1800 and 1875, and examines their European origins, what routes they followed to get to Ste. Genevieve County, and identifies the family members who came with them. The intent is to provide a comprehensive compilation of German immigrant families in order to complement the scholarly research that has already been accomplished and to establish groundwork for future study. As a foundation for this project, the author built a database to organize the information using the Personal Ancestral File application developed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The files have grown to include over 29,000 individual records and ancestral lines that extend back into the mid-1600s. With very few exceptions, the author used original primary or secondary sources. Although elements of genealogical research are involved in this project, it is not in any way intended to be a genealogy. This study was designed using the principles of prosopography: the intent of learning about patterns of relationships and activities through the study of collective biography by collecting and analyzing statistically relevant quantities of biographical data about a well-defined group of individuals. The families are presented in two-generation biographical sketches that describe their German origins and the first American-born generation. A full-name index, a bibliography, appendices, a map of Germany before 1871, a map of Modern German States after 1990, and a map of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri Towns and Townships add to the value of this volume.

Caroline County, Virginia, is known among family history researchers as one of the "burned records" counties. Hundreds, if not thousands, of priceless documents went up in smoke during the nineteenth century due to the ravages of the Civil War, or from a combination of poor storage, wooden construction and ineffective firefighting methods.Fortunately for researchers, Kimberly C. Campbell discovered a cache of Caroline County marriage records in the Library of Virginia in Richmond. She learned that clerks were required to make full copies of the marriage registers and send them to the state auditor in Richmond. Even though that city, too, was burned at the end of the Civil War, many of the marriage records survived and can be found in the Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics.A deft compilation of many sources, this volume greatly expands upon the basic marriage records with the addition of information found in the extant marriage licenses as well as deeds, wills and chancery suits. Marriage bonds for the parents of the couples in the registers have been listed in the annotations when they have been found. Ms. Campbell's own knowledge of Caroline County families adds a further dimension to this work, and is bolstered by the contributions of other researchers she consulted. This large-format book contains the marriage records listed chronologically by book. Annotations include document citations, and reveal interesting information such as nickname or cause of death, which is not contained in the marriage records. A bride and groom's index completes this essential Caroline County resource.