Marriages of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1628-1800
Marriages of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1628-1800

Author: Blanche Adams Chapman

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0806307102

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The marriages in this work are founded upon the records of the ancient shire of Isle of Wight and include marriages from the area of present-day Southampton County, erected from Isle of Wight in 1749. They derive chiefly from inferential sources, in particular will books, deed books, and order books, though marriage bonds, ministers' returns, and Quaker records also figure significantly in the list of sources. Since comparatively few marriage bonds or official marriage records of Isle of Wight County prior to the year 1800 survive, the great importance of this compilation is at once apparent. The marriages, with the exception of those based on ministers' returns, are arranged alphabetically by the name of the groom, following which is given the name of the bride, the name of a parent or surety, the date of the marriage or marriage record, and the exact source citation. Some 6,300 persons are identified, everyone of whom, including grooms, is cited in the index.

Virginia Marriage Records
Virginia Marriage Records

Author: Elizabeth Petty Bentley

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 810

ISBN-13: 0806309830

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From ther Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly.

America’S Forgotten Caste
America’S Forgotten Caste

Author: Rodney Barfield

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-05-14

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1483619664

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Free blacks in antebellum America lived in a twilight world of oppressive laws and customs designed to suppress their mobility and their integration into civil society. Free blacks were free only to the extent of white tolerance in their community or town. They were at the mercy of the lowest members of the dominant race who could punish them on a whim. They were, in the words of a 19th century European traveler to America, "masterless slaves." Nonetheless, many successful and even prominent blacks emerged from the mire of oppressive laws and general public disdain to realize major achievements. Though excluded from the political process, from education, and from most professions they became preachers, teachers, missionaries, contractors, artisans, boat captains, and wealthy entrepreneurs. Members of this twilight social and legal class, which numbered nearly a half million by 1860, made great accomplishments against strong opposition in the first half of the 19th century. The history of America and of American slavery is woefully incomplete without their story.

Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas
Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas

Author: Christina K. Schaefer

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 846

ISBN-13: 9780806315768

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Covers the period of colonial history from the beginning of European colonization in the Western Hemisphere up to the time of the American Revolution.