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Author: Louisa Skinner Hutchison
Publisher: Heritage Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781888265118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndexes County Court will books, v. A-Z, 2A-2E, 1757-1850; Superior Court records, v. A, 1810-1850; and deeds partly proved, 1767-1827.
Author: Boston (Mass.). Office of the Mayor
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 444
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Augusta County (Va.)
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 734
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ted Maris-Wolf
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2015-04-20
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1469620081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. Ted Maris-Wolf explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced free African Americans to make a terrible choice: leave enslaved loved ones behind for freedom elsewhere or seek a way to remain in their communities, even by renouncing legal freedom. Maris-Wolf paints an intimate portrait of these people whose lives, liberty, and use of Virginia law offer new understandings of race and place in the upper South. Maris-Wolf shows how free African Americans quietly challenged prevailing notions of racial restriction and exclusion, weaving themselves into the social and economic fabric of their neighborhoods and claiming, through unconventional or counterintuitive means, certain basic rights of residency and family. Employing records from nearly every Virginia county, he pieces together the remarkable lives of Watkins Love, Jane Payne, and other African Americans who made themselves essential parts of their communities and, in some cases, gave up their legal freedom in order to maintain family and community ties.
Author: Boston (Mass.). Office of the Mayor
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Randy F. McNew Crouse
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-04-06
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 1365875288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUse discount Code FEBRUARY15 for 15% off at checkout! Hurry, expires midnight Friday 24 February. Buckingham County suffered significant loss of its early court records. This scarcity of records makes this tax list transcription a valuable one. Spanning a period of 29 years (1764,1773-4,1782-92) with over 12,700 individual records, statistical tables and graphs, plus a host of other information that will illuminate the lives and social structure of the county during the late Colonial and early Federal period. Information varies by year, but the curious researcher will find much of interest here. Included are the names of the taxpayers, their taxable male cohabitants, their slaves' names, number of their slaves, horses and cattle along with other taxable items like riding carriages and acres of land. Features a 160 page index of every name, allowing the researcher to quickly assemble the information needed in successive years for genealogical, historical, sociological or demographic analysis.
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 620
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndex of all items recorded in will books created by a Virginia county or city during the period 1800-1865. Compiled from microfilm records in the Library of Virginia, and organized by geographic region.
Author: Joseph Smith (III)
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 844
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philadelphia Bibliographical Center and Union Library Catalogue. Committee on Microphotography
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 712
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth A. Davison
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2011-01-16
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0759119562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a full-color catalogue raisonne interprets the distinctive furniture made by John Shearer, one of the most accomplished and intriguing furniture makers during the post-Revolutionary period. Shearer emigrated from Scotland in the late 18th century and retained loyalist sympathies throughout his life, evidenced by the imagery and inscriptions sympathetic to various British causes_such as the suppression of the Irish rebellion in 1798 and the British victory in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805_that he worked into his furniture. Davison provides insight into the furniture's appeal to Anglo-American patrons, not secret loyalists, but men still culturally tied to Great Britain. Shearer's pieces are scattered among various collections, and many of them have been identified only in the last 25 years. This catalog is the only work in which all of Shearer's known pieces of furniture are presented in a single volume.
