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County court order books contain records of all matters brought before the court while in session. The information contained in these records may not appear elsewhere. The order books typically...

The Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers were major thoroughfares for the Underground Railroad which had waystations in Illinois. Although Illinois was admitted to the Union as a free state (1818), it...

Roane County, Tennessee Minutes Book A, 1801-1805Author: Wpa RecordsPublisher: Heritage BooksPublication Date: Jun 19, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

These documents provide Robertson County, Tennessee marriage records for the years 1839-1861, with a full-name index that refers to the page number in the original volume. (1936), 2024, 81/2x11,...

This publication offers abstracted county court records for Robertson County, Tennessee for the years 1818 to 1820, including deeds and bills of sale. The author concludes this work with a full-name...

Early records of court minutes provide an excellent source of names, because these records precede the county's first extant census of 1820. Almost everyone had dealings with the courts, whether they...

Early New Hampshire laws required that the towns support those who could not do so themselves, if they had not been "warned out" of town ninety days before their dependence would begin. Later, the...

Organized by campaign, regiment, and company, these rosters give the names of soldiers and officers and their rank, dates of enlistment and discharge, and occasional additional data such as date of...

Organized by campaign, regiment, and company, these rosters give the names of soldiers and officers and their rank, dates of enlistment and discharge, and occasional additional data such as date of...

This work contains the roster of soldiers from twenty-six counties of Southside Virginia who fought in the War of 1812. The muster roll of the Field and Staff Officers of the First Regiment and First...

Corporal Nelson Taylor wrote 103 letters to his family in Clifton Park, New York, while he served with the Ninth New York State Volunteer Cavalry from his enlistment in 1861 through his discharge in...

This book offers a detailed and highly readable account of the Salem witchcraft affair of 1692. Its publication coincides with the tercentenary observance of the events that form one of the grimmest...

This publication offers an in-depth examination of Schuyler County, Missouri's rich history, from the early settlers and their way of life to the growth and development of the county over the years...

Bolton's definitive work examines conditions in Ulster, Northern Ireland that prompted the immigration of Scotch Irish to the New World about 1718. It studies their settlements throughout Maine, New...

A fascinating collection of articles and original documents culled from the public records of the county of Renfrew, Scotland and the town of Paisley. This material is drawn primarily from the...

This publication offers a wealth of information on the people of Shelby County, Tennessee through a compilation of family sketches, Bible records, and letters. The author also includes unpublished...

With over 40 different newspapers abstracted in this volume, the areas of west Tennessee, eastern Arkansas and northern Mississippi are well covered. These records offer Memphis and Shelby County,...

Each alphabetical entry contains an abstract, willbook and page. Information includes family relationships, excutors and witnesses, date written and date proved.Author: Amelia C. GilreathPublisher:...

These abstracts contain information from deeds, leases, releases, mortgages and other agreements that reveal family relationships. The abstracts are presented in the original order that they were...

These abstracts contain information from deeds, leases, releases, mortgages and other agreements that reveal family relationships. The abstracts are presented in the original order that they were...

A detailed history of Old Frederick County which encompassed the present Berkeley, Clarke, Frederick, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan, Shenandoah, and Warren counties. Great numbers of Valley...

Contains all of the articles, lists, excerpts, abstracts and minutes listed in the third edition of Lancour's Bibliography. This set includes obscure foreign sources and excerpts from books,...

This volume is arranged in chronological sections: Pre-Colonial, Early Colonial and the Revolution (ten articles); Early Nineteenth Century (eight articles); Civil War Events and Personalities...

Lists over 2,000 Jewish communities in eastern Europe, giving locations and lists the names of some Jews known to have lived in each community as compiled from newspapers, book subscriber lists,...

As early as 1791, the spit of land at the confluence of the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers was set aside as a military reservation to guard the southern approaches to the new federal capital...

Along with some general Texas Ranger history, the author recalls his first brush with Indians, the Mason County War, the Horrell-Higgins Feud, Sam Bass and his robber gang, the Salt Lake War, his...

This interesting work contains brief biographical and genealogical sketches on a hundred or more Lynchburg families known to the author. It primarily concerns people who were born in the period from...

This is an abbreviated abstract of Genealogy and Biography of the Leading Families of the City of Baltimore and Baltimore County, Maryland, a book originally published by Chapman Publishing Company,...

This volume contains genealogical extracts from Portrait and Biographical Record of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The original contained portraits of citizens of the past and present, together with...

This rather typical county history names many residents in the main text, and has a fifty-page addenda providing biographical sketches of prominent citizens. This informaiton is now made more usable...