Marriages of Wilkes County, North Carolina, 1778-1868
Marriages of Wilkes County, North Carolina, 1778-1868

Author: Brent Holcomb

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0806310081

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This work contains abstracts of all marriage bonds issued in Wilkes County shortly after it was erected from Surry County, to 1868. The 5,000 marriage records abstracted here refer in total to some 15,000 persons, including bondsmen. As is the convention, the data are arranged throughout in alphabetical order by the surname of the groom, and each entry contains the name of the bride, the date of the bond, and the name of the bondsman.

Marriages of Surry County, North Carolina, 1779-1868
Marriages of Surry County, North Carolina, 1779-1868

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Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 080630975X

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Marriages of Surry County contains abstracts of all extant marriage bonds and licenses for the period 1779 until 1868 when bonds, as prerequisites for licenses, were discontinued. The data in this volume are arranged throughout in alphabetical order by the surname of the groom, and each entry provides the name of the bride, the date of the marriage bond, and the names of the bondsmen, clergymen, and justices of the peace. Altogether the text bears reference to approximately 16,000 persons.

Slavery in Wilkes County, North Carolina
Slavery in Wilkes County, North Carolina

Author: Larry J. Griffin

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1467135836

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Slavery is a tragic chapter in the history of Wilkes County with a lasting legacy. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams Barber endured forty-five years of slavery and garnered respect from both white and black residents. Her story is linked to free person of color and noted landowner Henderson Waugh, whose illustrious, slaveholding white father connected the two families--one slave and the other free. Author Larry Griffin takes readers on an emotional journey to separate fact from myth as he chronicles the history of slavery in Wilkes County. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams Barber endured forty-five years of slavery and garnered respect from both white and black residents. Her story is linked to free person of color and noted landowner Henderson Waugh, whose illustrious, slaveholding white father connected the two families--one slave and the other free. Author Larry Griffin takes readers on an emotional journey to separate fact from myth as he chronicles the history of slavery in Wilkes County.

Just an Old Made up Mess
Just an Old Made up Mess

Author: A. M. Wadkins

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2017-01-31

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1524568120

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At the tender age of fifteen, author A. M. Wadkins embarked on a journey that would last her a lifetime. A promise is simple enough on the surface, but in this case, that promise was the driving force that would see a young girl through lifes trials and tribulations. Each day, whether met with happiness or tears, diligence was always the key. It this book, meet the author and learn about the promise she made on a mountaintop in Virginia so long ago. Then travel back through the grains of time with the author asthrough her researchshe meets the people that helped shape the United States. Witness their struggles in defining not only who they would become, but who this country would become. Be there as men are sent off to war to fight for either the North or South. Then continue on through the turning of century, when life seemed golden. Take a walk through history with the people who lived it and get to know the faces that made it possible.

The Lives of Chang & Eng
The Lives of Chang & Eng

Author: Joseph Andrew Orser

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1469618303

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Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America

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 Phillips Family
The Phillips Family

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 1210

ISBN-13:

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John Phillips (ca. 1735-1801) and his family moved from Loudon County, Virginia to Rowan (now Davie) County, North Carolina during or before 1790. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Texas and elsewhere. Includes some Phillips genealogical data (where no connection can be traced as yet) in New England, New York, New Jersey and elsewhere.

Virginia Valley Records
Virginia Valley Records

Author: John Walter Wayland

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0806303727

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This volume is largely a source book of genealogical and historical materials, compiled from the public records of Rockingham, Augusta, Greenbrier, Wythe, Montgomery and other counties of Virginia, with valuable contributions from various other parts of the United States.