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"With this continuation of records from the counties surrounding Fredericksburg as well as from Fredericksburg, we begin to get a clearer picture of how the present population came to be as well as some interesting insights into life styles, patterns of migration and family 'alliances.'" The marriages were extracted from marriage bonds, marriage licenses, newspaper articles, ministers' returns and church records. "Unlike earlier documents, licenses and minister returns after 1854 contain a wealth of genealogical data." There are a large number of marriage records for people of African heritage. Also included are some records for Spotsylvania County recorded in Fredericksburg. A list of ministers for Fredericksburg and Stafford County, a list of churches in Stafford County and Fredericksburg (1851-1900), a church location map, a list of free blacks of Fredericksburg, and a full-name index add to the value of this work.

WINNER OF THE SUMNER A. PARKER PRIZE for the best genealogical work concerning a Maryland family published in 2015. Awarded by the Maryland Historical Society. John F. Polk Jr. This book of the Polk / Pollock family traces the family of Robert and Magdalen Polke who came to Somerset County, Maryland, from Donegal, Ireland, about 1687, among the first Scotch-Irish settlers in colonial America. They settled in an area called (for good reason) Damned Quarter but now known more genteelly as Dames Quarter. Beyond Damned Quarter is a carefully researched account of the family's initial struggle and ultimate success over its first three generations. Drawing from the original colonial records of the Maryland and Delaware State Archives much new information is introduced which changes some of the long-accepted beliefs about the family's history. The book runs almost 400 pages and contains detailed accounts of the lives of Robert and Magdalen and their 10 children, with a 4 generation family tree. Also included are family genealogical letters written in the 1800s and an extensive compilation of actions from the Somerset Court records involving Polk/Pollock family members.

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. Chapters are included for descendants of the following families: Thomas Anderson, Ashford, Baucomb, Blacksheare, Bowers, Owen Cain, Francis Cain, Caton, John Clark, Maschal Clark, William Clark, William Clark (brickmaker), Daniel Corbit, Mathew Corbet, Craig/Crage of Kent County (Delaware), Edward Craig, Crippen, Cuff, Jacob Emerson/Emmerson, Vincent Emerson, Adam Fisher, John Fisher of Sussex County, William Fisher of Sussex County, Fitzjarrell/Fitzgerald, Fleetwood, Fleming, Moses Freeman, Samuel Freeman, William Freeman, Futcher/Footcher, James Gordon, John Gordon, George Green, William Green, Hart, Kollock, Marim, Molleston, Paynter, (N) Paynter (sons Rees, Richard and Samuel), Parker, John Robinson/Robison, George Robbison, William Robinson, Samuel Rowland, Thomas Rowland, Sap, Standly, Stanton, Steel, Tarrant, Tilton, John Tomlin, Nathaniel Tomlin, Townsend, Train, Tybout, Vanderford, Vanwinckle, Waples, James Wells, Richard Wells, West, James Williams, John Williams, Reynear Williams, Thomas Williams, John Willson, Winsmore, Worral, John Wright, Jonathan Wright, and Wynne. A list of sources, additions and corrections to the first volume, and an index to full-names and places add to the value of this work.

In 1658, George Alsop left England for Maryland, where he worked as an 'indented' servant in Baltimore County, under the government of Lord Baltimore. It seems highly probable that the lord proprietor and governor, both eager to attract laborers, encouraged Alsop to write this glowing account of the province. Alsop paints an extremely enticing picture of the bountiful natural resources of Mary-Land, followed by a discussion of the merits of "her well ordered Government," and her virtuous settlers. The benefits of apprenticeship and the necessity of servitude are discussed. "And what's a four years Servitude to advantage a man all the remainder of his dayes, making his predecessors happy in his sufficient abilities, which he attained to partly by the restrainment of so small a time?" The section on trade and commerce discusses the three main commodities of tobacco, 'furr and flesh.' Alsop's flattering words do not extend to his horror-filled chapter on the customs, manners and religion of the Susquehanock Indians. This slender volume, reprinted from the original edition of 1666, is enhanced by an introduction by Newton D. Mereness, Ph.D. that offers a glimpse of the author's life and times. The book concludes with a collection of letters written by the author.

The index to wills found in this work differs substantially in its arrangement from the original. The column format has been retained; however, it has been rearranged into a more reader-friendly format. There are five columns: Date, Surname, Given Name, Instrument and Will Book, and page number. Entries are alphabetized by surname and given name. The probate records are arranged in chronological order by will book for each decedent in the Instruments column. There is an abbreviated index on each page for surnames. Additional information includes, where available, location at the writing of the will, date of death, month/year the will was recorded, location of a court other than Prince William, where the will was first recorded, and alternative name spellings.

Genealogy research is like a puzzle that must be solved without the help of a reference picture. This book presents valuable puzzle pieces to complete the picture for the Port of New York, spanning December 9, 1719 through December 31, 1723, with a complete list of ships and their travels. The author has reconstructed a nearly complete list of ships and their voyages across the Atlantic and West Indies to and from New York. In addition to records for the New York Custom House, this book shows partial arrival and departure records (including ports other than New York) and previously unknown interactions between ships and captains. After cross-referencing names, ships, ship types, dates, and ports from the original list of 2348 captains and 2348 ships, the list was concatenated to 347 captains and 376 ships. This wealth of information is presented in a table format. An index of captains, an index of ships, and an index of sources add to the value of this work.

This book contains a narrative history of the town of Abbeville, South Carolina, from its beginnings until the early twentieth century. "Three disastrous fires in the 1870s destroyed many of the public records of this area," requiring the author to gather information from alternate sources, including articles from numerous authors. "The variety of authors enables the reader to see Abbeville life from different perspectives." In his search, he "was frequently impressed by accounts of life in the town of Abbeville. They included contemporary records, but were primarily reminiscent accounts of persons and events in its history, and they reflected the atmosphere of the town." Two themes run through Abbeville's history: a strong sense of pride and honor; and, recurring incidents of violence. These themes are emphasized by accounts which the author "found interesting as well as important." The author has included materials which will be of particular interest to genealogists and other students of family history: names of residences from the census, church records, and other sources as well as businesses and institutions. The author "made a special effort to include some account of the life of the blacks in Abbeville's history and to integrate them in the story. During most of its past, they were a majority in the population of the town."

This volume begins the series of abstracting this county's land records.

The author opens with a transcript of the Charter for the "Province of Mayne," listing Sir Ferdinando Gorges as the "Lord" of the province, then proceeds with a general early history. Moody covers: York in the Colonial War - Louisburg; the War of 1812; the Civil War; the Olde Gaol; the first Parish Meeting House; the York Harbor and Beach Railroad; York hospital; newspapers; schools; York as a summer resort; cotton and woolen mills; witchcraft, legends and traditions; the Norridgewock Expedition; William Hutchins - the last survivor of the Revolution; shipbuilding and sea captains; physicians and surgeons; the York Country Club and much more. A section of brief biographical sketches of York's prominent men follows, including George Burdette, Samuel and Nathaniel Donnell, the Fitzgeralds, Isaac Lyman, Alexander McIntire, Samuel Moody, Abraham Preble, Henry Sayword, David Sewall, and Samuel Sewall. The text is filled with names and dates, including a list of 1861 York patriots, and a "Civil List" of representatives. A portrait of the author, numerous brief excerpts from a variety of documents, and a full-name index enhance the value of this book.

In 1853, the Commonwealth of Virginia began an annual registration of births and deaths. The Birth Index of Slaves, 1853-1865 was later transcribed by the Works Project Administration (WPA) and recorded on microfilm. While the information-name of slave owner, infant's name, mother's name, birth date, place of birth-is of immense value to genealogists, working with the microfilm can be problematic. Hence, the creation of this multi-volume reference work, Virginia Slave Births Index, 1853-1865. In 2003, staff and volunteers with Local History/Special Collections, Alexandria Library began to transcribe the WPA microfilm, enter data into spreadsheets, and sort the information by slave owner's surname and given name. Entries include single births, multiple births, and stillbirths. Occasionally, both parents of an enslaved infant are identified. In rare instances, the name of a freeborn infant appears. Independent city and county names are spelled out. Data not reported in the microfilm is denoted by "----." Illegible text in the microfilm is denoted by "####." This index includes more than 130,000 entries.

This the first volume in a two-volume series of transcriptions of microfilm No. 68, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Marriage Register, Volume 7, 1854-1906. The microfilm is of the handwritten original Fauquier County Marriage Register, 1854-1906. The first vo

Harford County was created from Baltimore County in 1773 and its first court was established in March 1774 in Harford Town (or Bush). In the first two decades following the creation of Harford County, a great quantity of records of importance to local historians and genealogists were generated. This three-volume series presents facts relating to individual Harford Countians from the creation of the county in 1773 through and including the first United States census of 1790. Volumes 1 and 2 have been extracted from the following: Tax lists of 1774, 1776 (missing two hundreds now contained in the supplement), 1778, 1783; censuses of 1776 and 1790; Dr. Archer's ledgers; Orphan's Court Proceedings; Family Bibles; Estate Administrations; registers of St. Johns, St. George's, Quaker monthly meetings of Deer Creek and Little Falls; wills; court minutes; commercial licenses; survey certificates; land records index; marriage licenses; gleanings from various publications such as the Bulletin of the Historical Society of Harford County and other periodicals and histories; list of Non-Associators and Non-Enrollers in 1775; tombstone inscriptions; and other data drawn from the author's research and collections. Virtually any person connected to an historical and/or genealogical event between 1773 and 1790 in Harford County has been included in this book. Over 30,000 entries.

Volume 11 focuses on the early families of Kent County including some of their lines to Sussex and New Castle, especially the Davis/David families. It covers descendants of John Bennett, Robert Bohannon/Buchanan, Robert Buckhanon/Bohannon (No. 2), Buckingham, Joseph Buckmaster, Thomas Buckmaster, Joseph Burchinal/Burchinell, William Burrows/Burroughs, Levin Coverdall, Richard Coverdill, Davis/David/Davies of Delaware, Robert Davis, Thomas Davis, Thomas Davis (Davies) of Sussex County, John David, Morgan David/Davis, Owen David (Davis), Daniel David, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Hamilton, Joel Hamilton, John Hamilton, Hamm/Ham, Milby, and Needles. A list of sources, additions and corrections to previous volumes, and an index to full-names and places add to the value of this work.

This work consists primarily of deeds, but these early land records sometimes served as a "catch-all" for recording events including powers of attorney, patents, articles of agreement, acknowledgment of receipt of estate portion, deeds of gift to family members, contracts, and quit claims. A full-name and place index adds to the value of this work. Kent County, originally a part of Whorekill District (created in 1664), became an independent territory under the name of St. Jones County in 1680. In circa 1682 the name was changed to Kent County. Subsequent to 1674, settlers (principally from Maryland) began to take up land in this area.

In order to reconstruct the history of pre-Cape May County families, the author has organized past research and performed additional research when necessary to fill the gaps. Using a number of sources: wills, church records, land records, and published material, including early issues of _The Cape May County Magazine of History and Genealogy,_ the author has reconstructed lineages for the following families: Badcock, Bancroft, Bennett, Bishop, Brandreth, Briggs, Buck, Carman, Champion, Chester, Church, Corson, Crandall, Crawford, Cresse, Crowell, Daniels, Dennis, Dole, Downes, Edmonds, Edwards, Eldredge, English, Evans, Fish, Flower, Foreman, Foster, Gandy, Garlick, Garretson (Garrison), Godfrey, Goff, Golding, Griffing, Hamilton, Hand, Hathorn, Hedges, Hewett, Hildreth, Holden, Hughes, Ingersul, Ireland, Iszard, Jeacocks, Jenkins, Johnson, Kent, Laughton, Lawrence, Leaming, Lee, Ludlam, Lupton, Mackey, Mason, Mathews, Mulford, Newton, Norton, Osborne, Page, Parsons, Pierson, Pine, Pratten (Pratt), Raney, Reeves, Richardson, Robinson, Ross, Savage, Sayre, Schellenger, Scull, Searle, Shaw, Simkins, Smith, Somers, Spicer, Steelman, Stevens, Stewart, Stillwell, Stites, Storer, Stubbs, Swain, Taylor, Thompson, Townsend, Van Gelder, Wells, Weston, Wheaton, Whilldin, Willits, Woolson, Yates. Whenever possible, the family has been traced up to the time of the Revolutionary War.This edition contains additional information in the appendix based on the Bible records of Cape May County. A full name index adds to the value of this work.

The name of Wright was common in early America, especially in New York, New England, and New Jersey. Most of the early New York Wright families appear to have originated in the British Isles but the surname has also been found in Germany and other European countries, and in Dutch records under such spellings as Ryte and Ryt.This volume focuses on Wright families migrating to and from Westchester and old Dutchess Counties, as well as migrations going further up the Hudson River to Albany County and westward.The author is a member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and the Maine Historical Society.

An Act passed by the State of Virginia in 1853 required that a register of marriages, a register of births and a register of deaths be kept by court clerks. It also required that a copy of these records be provided to two locations: the Auditor of Public Accounts in Richmond, Virginia, and the local clerk of the court. Unfortunately, the two records often differ. This compilation is based primarily on the copy that was filed with the Auditor of Public Accounts. It represents 3,927 death records for whites, non-whites and slaves, for the period 1856-1896. There are no records in this series for 1853-1855 and 1863-1869. The records in this volume include: 1,327 white; 2,096 colored; 467 slave; 29 unidentified; 13 free black; and 1 mulatto. Entries include the full name of the deceased, race: White or Colored (free or slave), name of slave owner, gender, date of death, place of death, name of disease or cause of death, age, names of parents, where born, occupation, consort of or unmarried, name of person giving the information of death, and designation of informant. Earlier entries for Colored may also list whether free or slave and name of slave owner. The front matter includes: Abbreviations, Act Requiring Vital Statistics, Common Diseases and Causes of Death, and two Register of Death examples (1861 and 1896). A place name index adds to the value of this work.

The purpose of this work is not to reproduce the record but to extract the content so that researchers may determine if the actual recorded copy needs to be consulted elsewhere. Entries here give the page numbers from the original record, date of the instrument and recording, signatories (both parties and witnesses), type of record, and a brief abstract to show the purpose of the original writing. Few deeds give actual metes and bounds, but rather give adjacencies as landmarks or reference to the properties of other owners. Many deeds give acreage as an estimate in round numbers, like "100 acres more or less." Spelling of known parties varies significantly, even within the same record. Commissions where a wife was examined to relinquish her rights are not always filed with the record to which they pertain. Individual items such as animals, kitchen or household furniture, or other personal items are indexed as personal property. Of particular interest in the deed books for this period are the multiple polls or election lists. These may be useful to researchers as a type of early enumeration or census of eligible voting white males for a particular district within Essex County. This collection is filled with references to apprentices, bonds for public position, guardians, emancipation of slaves, military service references, powers of attorney, and deeds, gifts, mortgages, agreements, and polls. An index to full-names, places and subjects adds to the value of this work.

In 1853, the Commonwealth of Virginia began an annual registration of births and deaths. The Birth Index of Slaves, 1853-1865 was later transcribed by the Works Project Administration (WPA) and recorded on microfilm. While the information-name of slave owner, infant's name, mother's name, birth date, place of birth-is of immense value to genealogists, working with the microfilm can be problematic. Hence, the creation of this multi-volume reference work, Virginia Slave Births Index, 1853-1865. In 2003, staff and volunteers with Local History/Special Collections, Alexandria Library began to transcribe the WPA microfilm, enter data into spreadsheets, and sort the information by slave owner's surname and given name. Entries include single births, multiple births, and stillbirths. Occasionally, both parents of an enslaved infant are identified. In rare instances, the name of a freeborn infant appears. Independent city and county names are spelled out. Data not reported in the microfilm is denoted by "----." Illegible text in the microfilm is denoted by "####." This index includes more than 130,000 entries.

This valley includes the counties of Augusta, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Page, Warren, Frederick, and Clarke of VA, and the counties of Berkeley, and Jefferson of WV. The majority of Germans immigrants came to the valley from MD and PA prior to 1800, with a

The Tidewater area of Virginia covers Henrico and Charles City Counties. These two counties were the parent counties of Goochland, Albemarle, Amherst, Buckingham, Fluvanna, Cumberland, Powhatan, Chesterfield, Richmond City, Prince George, Brunswick, Lunenburg, Halifax, Bedford, Pittsylvania, Mecklenburg, Charlotte, Amelia, Prince Edward, Nottoway, Dinwiddie, and Petersburg City. Families mentioned in this volume include: Baugh, Bevill, Bland, Bullington, Cousins, Cox, Giles, Gower, Hancock, Hatcher, Howlett, Knibb, Mann, Perkinson, Perrin, Ragsdale, Soane, Stratton, Tanner, Trent, Walthall, and Webster. Jourdan takes the lineage from the earliest colonial records up through about 1800 using a wide range of documented sources: unpublished manuscripts, published family histories, magazine and newspaper articles, history books, biographies, abstracts of records, as well as some original records of Henrico County and the various counties which evolved from and adjoined the original county. A full-name index adds to the value of this work.

This work describes the genealogical and historical holdings of historical societies, court houses, archives, and public libraries in York and Adams Counties. It contains information on original records, and bibliographies of published material, church and probate records, and other source materials. It also includes listing of cemetery records held by the Historical Society of York. Chapters include: Archives, Court Houses and Institutions; Atlases, Maps and Gazetteers; Bibliography; Cemeteries; Censuses, Directories and Tax Lists; Churches; Family Histories; Land; Military; Naturalization; Newspapers; Origins of Settlers; Other Court Records; Passenger Lists and Immigration Records; Periodicals and Other Publications; Probate Records; Townships; Vital Records; and Visiting York County. An index to full-names, places and subjects adds to the value of this work.

Revised, corrected, and greatly expanded from the first edition published in 1989. This is a genealogy in the true sense of the word. It brings more than dates and names to the light by focusing on the historical significance, motivation, and trials and joys of this family. "Scots-Irish McCrays settled in most of the American colonies, and were always among the first pioneers in westward moving frontiers. The story of each McCray family, with particular attention given to female spouse lineage, and written in narrative form, is preceded by an account of the political and economic forces that motivated their migrations, as well as their role in the development of new communities they helped to found. This work examines the seventeenth century origin of the Scots-Irish as a distinct ethnic people, when Scots in Ulster fell victim to Stuart oppression and Irish rebellion, and who then fled to America in a series of five great migrations during the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century." Some of these McCrays eventually settled in New England, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, and Pennsylvania. "Original records, private journals and anecdotes, supplied by dozens of contemporary McCrays, bring life to ancestors." Contains detailed family charts, maps, and an extensive index.

Union County was formed in 1785; in 1800 it became Union District. In the colonial period, the area of Union County was considered part of Craven County or Berkeley County, South Carolina. Prior to the border surveys of 1764 and 1772, the area was included in the North Carolina counties of Anson, Mecklenburg, and Tryon. For this reason, many grants and deeds from North Carolina are referenced in the Union County deeds. Union County bordered on the counties of Spartanburg, Laurens, Newberry, Fairfield, York, and Chester. Little changes in its boundaries occurred until 1897 when a portion of Union County was taken, with portions of Spartanburg and York Counties, to form Cherokee County. The deeds in this volume were recorded between 1800 and 1811. As is common, there are deeds recorded from a much earlier time period. The earliest deed included in this work dates from 4 July 1769. The deeds in this volume have been abstracted from South Carolina Archives microfilm, Rolls C2206 and C2207. Abstracts typically include: deed book and page number(s), date of sale/lease, name of grantor/lessor, name of grantee/lessee, the grantee/lessee's county and/or district of residence, amount charged and/or paid, number of acres and location of property (in a few cases the property is a slave rather than land), names of witnesses, name of justice of the peace and/or other official approving deed, date approved, and date recorded. A map of Union District (1822), a full-name index, and a place index add to the value of this work.

The Connecticut, Hudson and Delaware Rivers have played, and continue to play, a significant role in America's trade and transportation system, which enhance local economies and the national economy. This history discusses shipyards, vessels, shipbuilding and trade towns of the Connecticut, Hudson and Delaware Rivers, how these waterways impact trade, and the significance to our nation's waterborne transportation industry.Chapters include: History of Connecticut River Boats with U.S. Waterborne Transportation, Travel and Trade; History of Connecticut River's Shipbuilding/Trade Towns; History of Hudson River Boats with U.S. Waterborne Transportation, Travel and Trade; History of Hudson River's Shipbuilding/Trade Towns; History of Delaware River Boats with U.S. Waterborne Transportation, Travel and Trade; History of Delaware River's Shipbuilding/Trade Towns; Canals That Improved Navigation for Vessels Transporting Commerce and Passengers on Connecticut, Hudson, and Delaware Rivers; Today's Boats Navigating the Connecticut, Hudson, and Delaware Rivers; and Author's Summary. This work is enhanced by a variety of photos of shipyards, ships that currently navigate these rivers, and historic vessels that previously navigated these rivers.

Lyman Copeland Draper's collection focuses on what he called the "Trans-Allegheny West" during the Revolutionary War years. This area included the western Carolinas and Virginia, the entire Ohio River Valley, and parts of the Mississippi River Valley. Letters and interviews in his collection date from the 1840s to 1891, with an emphasis on the western frontier (Kentucky). In this work, letters, interviews, military correspondence and other documents are selected from volumes 4 through 13 of the Boone Papers. Extracts from these ten volumes include more than eighty first-hand accounts. Draper's correspondents relate their stories of Indian captives, raids on isolated cabins, and prolonged sieges on the Kentucky forts. The mythology of Boone is somewhat balanced by Draper's correspondents, many of whom knew Boone personally. The purpose of this work is not to make a complete transcription. Selected letters and interviews have been extracted/transcribed to make available some of the most valuable accounts of a vital era in our history and to make more widely available Lyman Draper's tribute to Daniel Boone and those he called the "warrior-pioneers." These same pioneers, hearing of Boone's adventures, became adventurers and defenders of the frontier as well - some as far west as California. Facsimile reprints of original documents and an appendix that provides a list of other items discovered in the reading of the microfilm add to the value of this work. An index to Draper's original volumes presents full-names, places and subjects with the original volume and page number.

The author was inspired to create this helpful resource book while researching her second great-grandmother Mildred Timbers. It is not known how Mildred became a slave. Was Mildred willed to someone? Was she purchased at a sale? Was her mother already property when she was born? Without a helpful aid, like the books in this series, the author was faced with the daunting task of reading every page of every Will Book to find the answers. This is the book the author wished she had to help her with her research. Is your ancestor within these pages? Will books are a good source in the search for slaves only if the owner named the slave(s). This series provides researchers with easy access to information that could otherwise require several months of reading through microfilm. Each chapter contains one Will Book. Documents include administrators, estate, executors and guardian accounts, wills, inventory and appraisals. Entries list each slave owner, followed by the page number, date and type of document. The list of slaves follows and the new owner is listed if known. Surnames of the owner's children are indexed only if noted in the document. First names have been standardized in order to make it easier to search for a name. A full-name index adds to the value of this work. This series is a MUST for researchers of slaves and/or owners of Fauquier County, Virginia.