Deed books typically contain records of land transactions plus leases, mortgages, bills of sale, slave manumissions, powers of attorney, and more. Deed books are a main staple in genealogy research to determine family relationships. This volume contains entries from (old) Rappahannock County Deed Book No. 4, 1668-1672 beginning on page 1 and ending on page 146 for Courts held October 4, 1668 through February 10, 1669/70. Originally published in 1989. Reprinted 2016.
Deed books typically contain records of land transactions plus leases, mortgages, bills of sale, slave manumissions, powers of attorney, and more. Deed books are a main staple in genealogy research to determine family relationships. This volume contains entries from (old) Rappahannock County Deed Book No.4, January 27, 1669/70 through March 7, 1671/2. Originally published in 1989. Reprinted 2016.
Deed books typically contain records of land transactions plus leases, mortgages, bills of sale, slave manumissions, powers of attorney, and more. Deed books are a main staple in genealogy research to determine family relationships. This volume contains entries from (old) Rappahannock County Deed & Will Book No. 5 1672-1676, March 7, 1671/2 through February 4, 1673/4. Originally published in 1989. Reprinted 2016.
A facsimile reprint of the Second Edition (1994) of this genealogical guide to 25,000 descendants of William Burgess of Richmond (later King George) County, Virginia, and his only known son, Edward Burgess of Stafford (later King George) County, Virginia. Complete with illustrations, photos, comprehensive given and surname indexes, and historical introduction.
It is one thing to draw a line in the sand but another to enforce it. In this innovative new work, Jessica Lauren Taylor follows the Native peoples and the newcomers who built and crossed emerging boundaries surrounding Indigenous towns and developing English plantations in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake Bay. In a riverine landscape defined by connection, Algonquians had cultivated ties to one another and into the continent for centuries. As Taylor finds, their networks continued to define the watery Chesapeake landscape, even as Virginia and Maryland’s planters erected fences and forts, policed unfree laborers, and dispatched land surveyors. By chronicling English and Algonquian attempts to move along paths and rivers and to enforce boundaries, Taylor casts a new light on pivotal moments in Anglo-Indigenous relations, from the growth of the fur trade to Bacon’s Rebellion. Most important, Taylor traces the ways in which the peoples resisting colonial encroachment and subjugation used Native networks and Indigenous knowledge of the Bay to cross newly created English boundaries. She thereby illuminates alternate visions of power, freedom, and connection in the colonial Chesapeake.
The middle chapters of this book are given over to Wilkes County genealogy and biography, with chapters on the buyers and sellers of lots and the early settlers of the county. The work as a whole is crowded with references to ministers, officials, teachers, and soldiers, so much so that an index of more than 2,000 entries was created by Mrs. Hays to encompass them.
