All news, both foreign and local, which appeared in the newspaper for this period is abstracted or transcribed. Full text and original woodcuts present a wide range of items from fabrics and other goods imported by captain and ship listed, to property for sale with description of the buildings and terrain. Every noun, place name and proper name is indexed.

Legislative petitions, a practice which was carried over from British law, were used as a means to seek remedy for grievance for a number of types of actions ranging from divorce to taxation. These lists may prove invaluable in determining neighbors, comrades or kin. Though now widely available to researchers, most of these petitions were abstracted by Hamilton J. Eckenrode and published as "Calendar of Legislative Petitions, Arranged by Counties; Accomac to Bedford," in the Fifth Annual Report of the Library Board of the Virginia State Library, 1907-1908. Mr. Pippenger has used the Eckenrode...

This guide to the records of the District of Columbia provides a detailed description of public and private records, their content and location. Records include: census schedules and city directories; probate, guardianship and apprenticeship records; real and personal property records; marriage and divorce records; birth and death records; church records, cemetery records; court records; military records; and much more. Maps and an index to full names, places and subjects complete this work.

During the 19th century, Georgetown played an important role in commercial and social activities, and for a time it competed for prominence with its neighbors-the City of Washington and Alexandria. Newspapers printed in Georgetown covered commercial and social activities for both sides of the Potomac River, government activities in the City of Washington, and tidbits of foreign news. Perhaps surprisingly, editors of Georgetown newspapers often subscribed to newspapers from cities up and down the eastern seaboard of the United States, and routinely inserted marriage and death notices they...

This volume contains an index to 21,416 certificates of death that were filed with the District of Columbia health officer. The original certificates are now maintained at the D.C. Archives. Entries are arranged alphabetically by surname, and typically include: certificate number, full name of the deceased, age at time of death, race, place of birth, date of death, and place of burial.

This work contains Alexandria Quaker records, 1802-1827 (minutes, certificates of removal, marriages, births, deaths); extracts from the Vestry Book of Christ Church Fairfax, 1765-1806 with burial plot owners in 1812; burial permits, 1787-1795 (support payments, apprenticeship of orphans, pew owners); extracts from Truro Parish Vestry Book, 1732-1765 with references to orphans and burials (from which you can estimate the year of death), the needy for whom payments were made, and other payments; and the register of baptisms, marriages and funerals during the ministry of Rev. James Muir,...

Much of the information pertaining to Alexandria lot sales is bewildering to the modern researcher. This work sifts through the available records from the Fairfax County Circuit Court records and the Proceedings of the Board of Trustees for the Town of Alexandria, and the Alexandria Hustings Court to give a clear and concise history of ownership and rental for each town lot.