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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 Montgomery Clemens, a prolific genealogist, journalist, and writer. Nephew to the Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain, 1835-1910), William M. Clemens started writing for the Pittsburgh Leader in 1879 and was the editor of Genealogy Magazine. This interesting compilation contains the marriage records of many of the early colonists of New England, Long Island, New…
By John Farmer. Reprinted with additions and corrections by Samuel G. Drake. 1979. Contains various genealogical and biographical notes collected from ancient records, manuscripts, and printed works. 351 pages. ISBN 0806301082. Hardcover. Good Condition. Non-circulating library edition but has library markings. Hardly used.
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 Emily S. Wilson. 1983. 124 pages. Paperback, with plastic protective coating. 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 Craig R. Scott, C.G.R.S. Copyright @ 1996. From the Introduction: This book is a finding aid to 144 boxes of payment records found in the series entitled “Settled Accounts for Payment of Accrued Pensions (Final Payments)” found in the Records of the Third Auditor, Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the…
Compiled by Stratton Notthingham (1991). Includes Lancaster County, 1795 – 1848 and Northampton County, 1731 -1868: Lancaster County, 1795 – 1848 and Northampton County, 1731 -1868. These land causes refer to chancery suits regarding dower rights, divisions of land among heirs, ejectment proceedings, etc. In many cases ownership of the land is traced down from…
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.
By Fred Anderson. 2000. In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years’ War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution–takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain’s empire and…
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…
Compiled by Charles A. Fisher. Reprinted 1977. 107 pages. Although the actual coverage of birth records is confined principally to the counties of Berks, Northumberland, Snyder, and Union in this volume, it also includes births from eastern and southeastern Pennsylvania and the middle and southern sections of the Susquehanna Valley. The text is arranged alphabetically…
Authors: John Pitts Launey & F. Edward Wright. 1997. Chiefly the Quaker records of the Chester Monthly Meeting of the southern part of the county. Includes registers of marriages, births and deaths, certificates, minutes, acknowledgments, and disownments. A small portion of the book (9 pages) is a compilation of records of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church…
By John Bennett Boddie. Reprinted 1974. Surry County was formed in 1652 from James City County, which was one of Virginia’s eight original counties. Contents of this book: early history of the county, various genealogical data on pre-revolutionary time frame, Surry County Land Grants, 1624-1740, Surry County Censuses 1668, 1678, 1688, 1698 and 1782, Surry…
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