Genealogy of the McKay Family

Genealogy of the McKay Family

Author: James Adolphus McKay

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-10-03

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781333826529

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Excerpt from Genealogy of the McKay Family: Descendants of Elkenny McKay, the Founder of the Family in America; And Including Thirty-Seven Generations of the Ancestors of the Family of Daniel McKay, A. D. 560 to 1890-1330 Years Meanwhile the news of the disaster had reached this fort, and its occupants made all possible preparations to evacuate early in the morning and go down the river for safety, and when in the morning they had all em barked and just about to push off, Mrs. Owen, the mother of Phineas, declared she must go back to the fort. They all remonstrated, and asked her why she must go back. She said she did not know why she must, but her mind was so wrought upon that she must go, and she went; and as she opened the door to go in on one side of the fort, her son Phineas opened the door on the opposite side. She beckoned him to hasten. And they were soon on their wav down the river. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Genealogy of the McKay Family

Genealogy of the McKay Family

Author: James Adolphus McKay

Publisher:

Published: 1896

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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Elkenny McKay emigrated from Scotland to Lenox, Massachusetts about 1725, and his first son, Alexander McKay, was born in 1732. Descendants lived in New England, New York and elsewhere.


The Frederick Douglass Papers

The Frederick Douglass Papers

Author: Frederick Douglass

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2023-09-12

Total Pages: 691

ISBN-13: 0300274491

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The selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer dating from the immediate post–Civil War years This third volume of Frederick Douglass’s Correspondence Series exhibits Douglass at the peak of his political influence. It chronicles his struggle to persuade the nation to fulfill its promises to the former slaves and all African Americans in the tempestuous years of Reconstruction. Douglass’s career changed dramatically with the end of the Civil War and the long-sought after emancipation of American slaves; the subsequent transformation in his public activities is reflected in his surviving correspondence. In these letters, from 1866 to 1880, Douglass continued to correspond with leading names in antislavery and other reform movements on both sides of the Atlantic, and political figures began to make up an even larger share of his correspondents. The Douglass Papers staff located 817 letters for this time period and selected 242, or just under 30 percent, of them for publication. The remaining 575 letters are summarized in the volume’s calendar.


Family Fare

Family Fare

Author: Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Department

Publisher:

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13:

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Genealogy of the Mckay Family

Genealogy of the Mckay Family

Author: James Adolphus Mckay

Publisher:

Published: 2017-08-18

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9781974680238

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This is a genealogical book describing a vast number of descendants from the McKay family. It chronicles several generations, going back all the way to 560 A.D. It is a wonderful reference of family history.


A Bird on the Wing

A Bird on the Wing

Author: Linda Evodia Hult

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2009-07-25

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1450046096

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The orders always came to her in their usual way, “Here is the target, extinguish it, you have forty eight hours to reply”. Sounded like a cheap imitation of a cheesy spy movie to her, but then again why change things when they work so well.