Some Farrar's Island Descendants

Some Farrar's Island Descendants

Author: Alvahn Holmes

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13:

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Thomas Farrar (ca.1662-1740/1742), son and grandson of William, was born on Farrar's Island, married twice, and died in Goochland County, Virginia. Descendants lived in Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and elsewhere.


Genealogies in the Library of Congress

Genealogies in the Library of Congress

Author: Marion J. Kaminkow

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2012-09

Total Pages: 882

ISBN-13: 9780806316673

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This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.


The Descendants of Cheney Boyce, "ancient Planter", and of Richard Craven, for Seven Generations

The Descendants of Cheney Boyce,

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Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13:

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Cheney Boyce (ca. 1598-1643) immigrated to Virginia, ca. 1617. He and his wife, Joyce (ca. 1615-after 1661) were married ca. 1637 in Charles City County, Virginia. Their granddaughter, Bethia Boyce (ca. 1667-1725) was born in Charles City County, the daughter of Thomas Boyce (ca. 1638-after 1665). She married John Scott (ca. 1660-1724) ca. 1685. They had six children, ca. 1687-ca. 1697. John and Bethia Boyce Scott died in Prince George County, Virginia. Descendants listed, to ca. 1885, lived in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and elsewhere.


Slaves in the Family

Slaves in the Family

Author: Edward Ball

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 623

ISBN-13: 146689749X

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Decades after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family is reissued by FSG Classics, with a new preface by the author. The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them. In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part personal story of investigation and catharsis, Slaves in the Family is, in the words of Pat Conroy, "a work of breathtaking generosity and courage, a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word ‘family.'"


The Wooldridge Family

The Wooldridge Family

Author: William C. Wooldridge

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13:

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John Wooldridge was born in about 1678. He married Martha and they had six children. He died in 1757. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Missouri, Kansas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas and Oregon.


Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-century Colonists

Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-century Colonists

Author: David Faris

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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Prepared by David Faris, who had assisted Mr. Sheppard with the last two editions of "Ancestral Roots, Plantagenet Ancestry" provides the descent from the later Plantagenet kings of England (Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III) of more than one hundred emigrants from England and Wales to the North American colonies before 1701, including many colonists not included in former editions of "Ancestral Roots." All 137 lines in this new volume include the consecutive generations of married couples with the spouse of Plantagenet descent on the left margin, each such individual being the child of the previous generation. Generation 1 names the parents of an emigrant, and the preceding generations are numbered back in time to the Plantagenet kings. Considerable biographical information is provided together with documentation for each generation.


The Papers of Jefferson Davis

The Papers of Jefferson Davis

Author: Jefferson Davis

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2012-03-12

Total Pages: 767

ISBN-13: 0807139084

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Volume 13 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows the former president of the Confederacy as he becomes head of the Carolina Life Insurance Company of Memphis and attempts to gain a financial foothold for his newly reunited family. Having lost everything in the Civil War and spent two years immediately afterwards in federal prison, Davis faced a mounting array of financial woes, health problems, and family illnesses and tragedies in the 1870s. Despite setbacks during this decade, Davis also began a quest to rehabilitate his image and protect his historical legacy. Although his position with the insurance company provided temporary financial stability, Davis resigned after the Panic of 1873 forced the sale of the company and its new owners canceled payments to Carolina policyholders. He left for England the following year in search of employment and to recuperate from ongoing illnesses. In 1876, Davis became president of the London-based Mississippi Valley Society and relocated to New Orleans to run the company. Throughout the 1870s, Davis waged an expensive and seemingly endless legal battle to regain his prewar Mississippi plantation, Brierfield. He also began working on his memoirs at Beauvoir, the Gulf Coast estate of a family friend. Though disfranchised, Davis addressed the subject of politics with more frequency during this decade, criticizing the Reconstruction policies of the federal government while defending the South and the former Confederacy. The volume ends with Davis's inheritance of Beauvoir, which was his last home. The editors have drawn from over one hundred manuscript repositories and private collections in addition to numerous published sources in compiling Volume 13.