This work contains comprehensive biographical and genealogical studies of fifty Great Migration immigrants to New England with newly discovered English origins of seven (shown in bold type), extended ancestry of sixteen more, and much heretofore unpublish
This work contains comprehensive biographical and genealogical studies of fifty Great Migration immigrants to New England with newly discovered Englis...
"In 1708, representatives of the first major wave of German immigrants arrived upon American shores. By that time, Germans had already been coming to America for a century, but this was the date associated with the first major wave-the first of many that
"In 1708, representatives of the first major wave of German immigrants arrived upon American shores. By that time, Germans had already been coming to ...
This work presents six highly informative lectures which provide a thorough understanding of Scottish place-names and the people, language, geography and history which produced them. At the end of the book is a very handy index of place names with their t
This work presents six highly informative lectures which provide a thorough understanding of Scottish place-names and the people, language, geography ...
This particular record offers a sobering illustration of the trials of pioneer life in early Pennsylvania, including: "predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian Wars, and the War of the Revolution, &c." Th
This particular record offers a sobering illustration of the trials of pioneer life in early Pennsylvania, including: "predatory incursions, massacres...
The majority of the text is the gazetteer of New Jersey. All areas and places (rivers, lakes, harbors, counties, townships, etc.) delineated on the enclosed map are given a complete entry in the gazetteer. A typical entry describes the physical characteri
The majority of the text is the gazetteer of New Jersey. All areas and places (rivers, lakes, harbors, counties, townships, etc.) delineated on the en...
This book traces the development of both a town and the county in which it resides from their origins in the 1850s through the original publication. The first half of the book provides a chronological account of the development of Emporia. Following this
This book traces the development of both a town and the county in which it resides from their origins in the 1850s through the original publication. T...
The records are presented as they appeared in the original books; chronologically arranged and categorized into baptisms, deaths and burials, and marriages. The author inserted notations and comments within the actual records to indicate when a new pastor
The records are presented as they appeared in the original books; chronologically arranged and categorized into baptisms, deaths and burials, and marr...
This was the fourth of the five Indian wars which began in 1688 and extended down to the fall of Quebec. It was fought all along the English frontier but especially in New England. This volume covers the major events and also details the numerous minor sk
This was the fourth of the five Indian wars which began in 1688 and extended down to the fall of Quebec. It was fought all along the English frontier ...
This right to exclude, or "warn out," was exercised frequently. Some towns only warned out persons they thought likely to become a charge, others automatically warned out any and all newcomers. Many who were warned out never left, with the result that "a
This right to exclude, or "warn out," was exercised frequently. Some towns only warned out persons they thought likely to become a charge, others auto...
"Captain Henry Wirz, the Confederate officer in immediate command of the prison stockade at Andersonville, was, in the year 1865, tried by a Military Commission, at Washington, D.C., and convicted and executed for his brutality to the prisoners under his control." Samuel John Mills Andrews had been a prisoner at Andersonville and was one of the many witnesses at that trial. Hence he obtained a copy of the transcripts, which he published in a small book in 1870. His introductory pages contain a personal narrative of the horrors he endured there. Helen Cox Tregillis revives this historic work...
"Captain Henry Wirz, the Confederate officer in immediate command of the prison stockade at Andersonville, was, in the year 1865, tried by a Military ...