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by Jean R. Soderlund | Paperback| Very Good Condition | 432 pages |Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press; 1St Edition edition (June 29, 1983) | ISBN-10: 0812278623 On March 5, 1681, one day after receiving his royal charter for Pennsylvania, William Penn wrote that he believed God would make his colony “the seed of the nation.” Penn wanted his Pennsylvania…
By William H. Whitmore, A.M. Originally published 1870. Reprinted 1969. Contains a list of the names and dates of appointment of all the civil officers constituted by authority of the charters, or the local government. 172 pages. Hardcover. Good Condition. Non-circulating library edition. Hardly used.
By: Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution | Publisher: Monongahela, Pa. Society Sons of American Revolution: 1995 | First Edition; First Printing | Hardcover, black cloth, nearly new, near fine condition with no dust jacket. 916 pages. Members and ancestors are alphabetically arranged in separate sections.
By Thomas Nelson Page. Hardcover. Fair condition. No dustjacket. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece portrait of Page. Originally published in 1887 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Included is a description of the series and a three page biography of Thomas Nelson Page. Not an ex-library copy. 230 pages. Spine needs repair.
Compiled by Mary Louise Marshall Hutton. Reprinted, with permission, by the Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1983. Hardcover. This key to lineage records lists 13,000 ancestors from whom descent by members has been proved. 482 pages.
By Ellen Thomas Berry & David Allen Berry. First Edition, 1987. This book sets out to acquaint the researcher with the types of Quaker records that are available, the location of the records, and the proper and effective use of those records, guiding him through the pyramidal “meeting” structure to the records of birth, marriage,…
By Carole Shammas, Marylynn Salmon, and Michel Dahlin. 1987. A study of how Americans have distributed household wealth over three centuries, focused on the relationship between the inheritance process and changes in capitalism and the structure of the family. Hardbound, very good condition, non-circulating library edition (has library ID markings), 6” x 9”, 320 pages.
By Terence Grocott. 1997. This book is a chronicle of shipping disasters during the last great war of the age of sail, based almost exclusively on the reporting of the time. Hardcover, rebound damaged cover, good condition, non-circulating library edition (has library ID markings), 6.25” x 0.25,” 430 pages.
Published in 1895. This informative genealogy presents ten generations of the descendants of the Huguenot John Mallet (1673-1745). John was one of some 300,000 Huguenots (a Calvinist religious sect) who fled France in the 17th century to escape religious persecution. The text is divided into three sections: a survey of the existing historical record of…
Compiled by Bob and Mary Closson and reprinted in 2005. Includes names, ages, and places of residence, as returned by the marshals of the several judicial districts under the act for taking the 6th census, Washington, D.C., 1841. This publication was produced from a professional scan of an original edition of the book, which can…
Author: Robert Armistead Stewart. Reprinted 1993. The first part of this work recounts the exploits of the largest of all the State navies, while the roster of officers and men, in the second half of the book, is a compilation deriving from a variety of source records. Alphabetically arranged, the entries include, wherever possible, rank…
The Spirit of ’76: The Growth of American Patriotism Before Independence, 1607-1776 by Carl Bridenbaugh.1975. This book is an investigation of the growth of American patriotism before the Declaration of Independence. 162 pages. Indexed. Hardcover with dust jacket and clear cover. ISBN10: 0195021797. Very good condition. Non-circulating library edition, with library ID markings. 5.5” x…
By George K. Schweitzer, Ph.D., Sc.D., self-published. Table of Contents: Chapter1: History of the War; Chapter 2: The Archives; Chapter 3: National Book Sales, Book Sales > Publications; Chapter 4: State Book Sales, Book Sales > Publications; Chapter 5: Local Sources; Chapter 6: Histories: Individual, Regimentl, Battle, State, Group; Chapter 7: Sites, Museums, Memoires.
By Jacob Judd. From the earliest days of settlement in the thirteen colonies, the people who migrated to these shores were revolutionaries. Regardless of the varying motivations which led them to undertake this most dangerous venture, they set out to transform their ways of life and the land upon which they settled. For the next…
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