Tobacco and Slaves
Tobacco and Slaves

Author: Allan Kulikoff

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 0807839221

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Tobacco and Slaves is a major reinterpretation of the economic and political transformation of Chesapeake society from 1680 to 1800. Building upon massive archival research in Maryland and Virginia, Allan Kulikoff provides the most comprehensive study to date of changing social relations--among both blacks and whites--in the eighteenth-century South. He links his arguments about class, gender, and race to the later social history of the South and to larger patterns of American development. Allan Kulikoff is professor of history at Northern Illinois University and author of The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism.

A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family
A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family

Author: Samuel Gordon Smyth

Publisher:

Published: 1909

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13:

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"This work 26 is a genealogy and history of the related families of John Van Meter, Thomas Shepherd and John Duke: settlers between 1730 and 1750 of the Northern Neck in the Valley of Virginia; conspicuous figures in the formative period, as their descendants have been in later developments, of Frederick and Berkeley Counties in what is now western Virginia."--Foreward.

Voyagers to the West
Voyagers to the West

Author: Bernard Bailyn

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-08-03

Total Pages: 721

ISBN-13: 0307798526

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Saloutos Prize of the Immigration History Society Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives of those who emigrated to the New World. "Voyagers to the West is a superb book...It should be equally admired by and equally attractive to the general reader as to the professional historian."--R.C. Simmons, Journal of American Studies

Tobacco Culture
Tobacco Culture

Author: T. H. Breen

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2001-08-12

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0691089140

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The great Tidewater planters of mid-eighteenth-century Virginia were fathers of the American Revolution. Perhaps first and foremost, they were also anxious tobacco farmers, harried by a demanding planting cycle, trans-Atlantic shipping risks, and their uneasy relations with English agents. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and their contemporaries lived in a world that was dominated by questions of debt from across an ocean but also one that stressed personal autonomy. T. H. Breen's study of this tobacco culture focuses on how elite planters gave meaning to existence. He examines the value-laden relationships--found in both the fields and marketplaces--that led from tobacco to politics, from agrarian experience to political protest, and finally to a break with the political and economic system that they believed threatened both personal independence and honor.

Rust of Virginia
Rust of Virginia

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1940

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13:

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William Rust was born about 1634, probably in Suffolk Co., England and immigrated about 1650 to Westmoreland Co., Virginia. He married twice and died about 1699.

History of Greene County, Missouri
History of Greene County, Missouri

Author: Western Historical Company

Publisher:

Published: 2018-11-21

Total Pages: 1010

ISBN-13: 9780893087159

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By: Western Historical Company, Pub. 1883, Reprinted 2018, 1010 pages, Index, Hard Cover, ISBN #0-89308-715-7. Located in the western portion of the Ozark region of the state, Greene County was created in 1833 from Crawford and Wayne Counties. Even though Missouri didn't become an official state until 1821, settlers began showing up in the western side around this time. Many of whom were from the Southern states such as: Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. This book is a complete detailed history of the state, the county along the various towns of the time. Numerious individuals are mentioned with clues to their previous residents being discussed through out these various history sections. But the reader will delight in the biographical sketches of some 523 individuals of the county and genealogical data on some 2,000 other families / individuals. These persons were not only from VA, TN, NC, & KY but also had large numbers of settlers from OH, PA, IN, IL, & MO along with lesser quanties from the states of DE, GA, IA, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NY, VT, WI, & WV. The NEW INDEX for this reprint mentions over 3,000 entries.

Virginia's Colonial Soldiers
Virginia's Colonial Soldiers

Author: Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9780806312194

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Presents an authoritative register of Virginia's colonial soldiers, drawing on county court minutes, bounty land applications, records of courts martial, county militia rosters, and public records in England. Detailed information on soldiers' names, ranks, pay, places of birth, and appearance is divided into sections on different sources and different conflicts, including King George's War, the French and Indian War, and Dunmore's War. Useful for genealogists and historians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR