Surry County Records, Surry County, Virginia, 1652-1684
Surry County Records, Surry County, Virginia, 1652-1684

Author: Eliza Timberlake Davis

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0806309040

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Deriving from two volumes of court order books--the oldest extant records of Surry County--this work consists of abstracts of court proceedings and legal transactions and includes recordings of deeds, inventories, coroners' inquests, powers of attorney, and bills of sale. In short, this work encompasses all the public records of the newly created county, doubtless embracing references to some 6,000 persons listed in the index.

Adapting to a New World
Adapting to a New World

Author: James Horn

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 0807838314

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Often compared unfavorably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. In this important new study, James Horn challenges this conventional view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the enduring influence of English attitudes, values, and behavior on the social and cultural evolution of the early Chesapeake. Using detailed local and regional studies to compare everyday life in English provincial society and the emergent societies of the Chesapeake Bay, Horn provides a richly textured picture of the immigrants' Old World backgrounds and their adjustment to life in America. Until the end of the seventeenth century, most settlers in Virginia and Maryland were born and raised in England, a factor of enormous consequence for social development in the two colonies. By stressing the vital social and cultural connections between England and the Chesapeake during this period, Horn places the development of early America in the context of a vibrant Anglophone transatlantic world and suggests a fundamental reinterpretation of New World society.

Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

Author: Jeff Carter

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0786489545

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During his presidency, Jimmy Carter received a comprehensive analysis of his family's genealogy, dating back 12 generations, from leaders of the Mormon Church. More recently Carter's son Jeff took over the family history, determined to discover all that he could about his ancestors. This resulting volume traces every ancestral line of both Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter back to the original immigrants to America and chronicles their origins, occupations, and life dates. Among his forebears Carter found cabinet makers, farmers, preachers, illegitimate children, slave owners, indentured servants, a former Hessian soldier who fought against Napoleon, and even a spy for General George Washington at Valley Forge. With never-before-published historic photographs and a foreword by President Jimmy Carter, this is the definitive saga of a remarkable American family.

Hamilton Unbound
Hamilton Unbound

Author: Robert E. Wright

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2002-08-30

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0313012709

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Modern financial theories enable us to look at old problems in early American Republic historiography from new perspectives. Concepts such as information asymmetry, portfolio choice, and principal-agent dilemmas open up new scholarly vistas. Transcending the ongoing debates over the prevalence of either community or capitalism in early America, Wright offers fresh and compelling arguments that illuminate motivations for individual and collective actions, and brings agency back into the historical equation. Wright argues that the Colonial rebellion was in part sparked by destabilizing British monetary policy that threatened many with financial insolvency; that in areas without modern financial institutions and practices, dueling was a rational means of protecting one's creditworthiness; that the principle-agent problem led to the institutionalization of the U.S. Constitution's system of checks and balances; and that a lack of information and education induced women to shift from active business owners to passive investors. Economists, historians, and political scientists alike will be interested in this strikingly novel and compelling recasting of our nation's formative decades.

Hardie, Vincent, Gaines, and Related Families
Hardie, Vincent, Gaines, and Related Families

Author: Robert Murel Clark

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13:

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John Hardie and his wife, Sarah, were living in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, in 1760. They moved to Sussex County, Virginia, by 1766. He died in 1773. His grandson, John Henry Hardie, was born 1794, the son of Rev. Thomas Thomas Hardie. He married Mary Ray Moss in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, in 1816. They had five children, 1819-1832. The family moved to Salifsbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, ca. 1825. He died in Rowan County in 1850. His only surviving son, John Henry Hardie (1829-1888), served with the Georgia militia during the Civil War. After the war, he and his family moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and then Denbury, Panola County, Texas.