Wilkes County, North Carolina, Land Entry Book, 1778-1781
Wilkes County, North Carolina, Land Entry Book, 1778-1781

Author: W. O. Absher

Publisher: Southern Historical Press, Incorporated

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780893086459

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By: W.O. Absher, Pub. 1989, reprinted 2018, 130 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-645-2. The best contemporary documentary evidence for an accurate location of these settlers when the county was created is the original Land Entry Book. It has better details than that to be found in the subsequent land grants. It was customary for the settler to describe the location of his plantation on some stream or head waters of some stream, or on some mountain. Each entry is dated. There were numerous transfers of entries before the issuance of a grant. Some are refereed to in the entry, but generally the entry taker would mark through the name of the original entree and insert the name of the one to whom it was transferred. Not only was the first named entered, frequently marked out, but many times erased and the next name written in its place. Many of the entries had as many as four names marked out and written in with no way of knowing whose name was the last one written. North Carolina started its Land Entry Book when the county was organized in March 1778. This old Entry Book Abstracts will be of help to many whose ancestors either passed through or remained in Wilkes County.

Surry County, North Carolina, Wills, 1771-1827
Surry County, North Carolina, Wills, 1771-1827

Author: Jo White Linn

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0806313463

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Based on recorded wills and original wills at the North Carolina State Archives as well as "Loose Estate Papers" of intestates, these abstracts cover not only wills but powers of attorney, bonds, inventories, bills of sale, etc. Significantly, Surry County lay within the Granville Proprietary at its formation, and after Lord Granville's death in 1763 until 1778, the Proprietary land office did not reopen, making it very difficult--but for these will abstracts--for the present-day researcher to establish the residence of many individuals during that time period. What is more, as there are no extant marriage bonds for Surry County for the period 1771 to 1780, these will abstracts assume an importance out of all proportion to their customary value.

The Yankee Plague
The Yankee Plague

Author: Lorien Foote

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2016-10-05

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1469630567

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During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of local slaves. Their flight created, in the words of contemporary observers, a "Yankee plague," heralding a grim end to the Confederate cause. In this fascinating look at Union soldiers' flight for freedom in the last months of the Civil War, Lorien Foote reveals new connections between the collapse of the Confederate prison system, the large-scale escape of Union soldiers, and the full unraveling of the Confederate States of America. By this point in the war, the Confederacy was reeling from prison overpopulation, a crumbling military, violence from internal enemies, and slavery's breakdown. The fugitive Federals moving across the countryside in mass numbers, Foote argues, accelerated the collapse as slaves and deserters decided the presence of these men presented an opportune moment for escalated resistance. Blending rich analysis with an engaging narrative, Foote uses these ragged Union escapees as a lens with which to assess the dying Confederate States, providing a new window into the South's ultimate defeat.

Society and Culture in the Slave South
Society and Culture in the Slave South

Author: J. William Harris

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1134911858

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Combining established work with that of recent provocative scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts students in touch with some of the central debates in this dynamic field. It includes substantial excerpts from the work of Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, who lay out the influential interpretation of the South as a `paternalistic' society and culture, and contributions from more recent scholars who provide dissenting or alternative interpretations of the relations between masters and slaves and men and women. The essays draw on a wide range of disciplines, including economics, psychology and anthropology to investigate the nature of plantation and family life in the South. Explanatory notes guide the reader through each essay and the Editor's introduction places the work in its historiographical context.

Melungeons and Other Pioneer Families
Melungeons and Other Pioneer Families

Author: Jack Harold Goins

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13:

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History and genealogy of Melungeon families who settled first in Virginia and later in Tennessee. Hezekiah Minor was born in Virginia around 1770. He married Elizabeth Going or Goins in 1795. Children included Lewis, John, Hezekiah, Elizabeth and Zachariah. John married Susan or Sukie Going or Goins. Their children included Zachariah, John, Wilson, Ada, Joseph, Mary and Jane. Another son of Hezekiah and Elizabeth, Zachariah married Aggie Sizemore. The author's grandfather, Harrison Goins was born in 1880 in Tennessee. He was a member of the Primitive Baptist Association, as were other Melungeons.