Heritage Books

Includes both Scottish and Scottish-American clan crests, and depicts both ancient and modern crests of Scottish clans. The two hundred and fifty crests are beautifully drawn by the author/artist...

This is the pioneer history of the border wars of New York during the American Revolution. The information was gathered from statements of those involved in the Revolutionary War, "the then aged men...

One result of the French and Indian War was supremacy over the North American continent for the English and the largest land transfer in the history of the world. The French and Indian War provided...

This detailed social history of the Potomac River port town of Georgetown offers personal accounts by The Chronicler that cannot be found anywhere else. Richard Plummer Jackson (1816-1891), relates...

Dade County, Virginia was formed from Cherokee lands in the late 1830s, quickly gaining popularity with gold miners looking to find wealth in the mountainsides. By the year 1860, over 3,000 residents...

Approximately 12,000 Union troops fought in the April 1864 battles of Sabine Cross Roads and Pleasant Hill in Louisiana. The diary covers the period December 1863 through 1864, discussing the battles...

This is a charming eyewitness account of the battles, marches, and hardships of the 1st and 2nd Brigades of Missouri troops enlisted to serve the Confederacy. Interwoven into the story is a...

This publication provides an alphabetized list of about 2,500 Confederate Soldiers of Hamilton County, Tennessee from 1860 and those who settled after the Civil War. Biographical details such as...

Imagine yourself, a young man of twenty in the year 1840, about to embark on a sailing ship for an adventure you will never forget. You bid an emotional farewell to your friends and family, wondering...

A history of a 4,000 acre tract at the foot of Cobbler Mountain in Fauquier County, Virginia, and the families that lived there. The emphasis is on Turner Dixon, the first member of the family to...

Loren P. Waldo originally read his address on the early history of Tolland before the Tolland County Historical Society and many of his listeners expressed a strong desire to see his address in print...

From 1726 forward, records for Lancaster are complete and continuous; records before 1726 for Lancaster are scanty. This collection of early records, which will help researchers "fill the early...

The Presbyterian church was first organized in Goshen in 1720, and the first settled minister arrived the follow year. This volume contains the earliest extant vital statistics from the records of...

This important work chronicles the development of the Stamford settlement from its difficult and demanding early days to its later period of relative prosperity and independence. Details of the...

"Part I, containing a history of the town of East Haven, from its first settlement in 1644, to the year 1800. Also an account of its boundaries, iron works and mills, division of lands, controversies...

This slender volume presents a beautifully detailed description of Old Salem, North Carolina; its luxuriant landscape, its buildings, its Moravian history. The author has recorded "one stranger's...

This popular history tells the story of Virginia's portion of the Delmarva Peninsula from the first recorded English landing to the opening of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel connecting Accomack and...

This interesting work provides a detailed history of the southern colonies during their formative stages, prior to 1700. Some chapter headings: American Discovery During the Sixteenth Century;...

Genery's Gap lies half in Jefferson County and half in Shelby County, Alabama. Covers the early pioneers who came from the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia.Author: Madge PettitPublisher: Heritage...

The first permanent German settlement in America was at Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1683. But most people do not realize that Germans first arrived in America in 1608, settling at Jamestown,...

The founding of Harman's Station on the Louisa River was directly caused by a tragedy as dark and horrible as any ever perpetrated by the savages upon the exposed and dangerous frontier of Virginia...

Max Von Eelking was a captain in the Saxon-Meiningen Army and corresponding member of the Historical Society of New York. In 1863, he published (in Hanover, Germany) a large two-volume history of the...

Covers the German settlement of Pennsylvania down to the Revolutionary War. Discusses Europe in the 1700s, settlements made in Pennsylvania, and every-day life of the immigrants. Also lists German...

According to Charles F. Jenkins, this guidebook is not a history; it presents the main historic facts arranged so that "the sightseer may have no trouble in finding and identifying each particular...

This latest edition, originally published in 1990, has been expanded to provide significantly more information for those researchers working on their English ancestry. Ms. Mellen describes at great...

A brief summary of events from its first settlement is followed by a description of each of the 13 townships and their more than 40 villages, interesting stories, churches, shops and industry the...

Edited with an introduction by Randall H. Bennett. Dr. Nathaniel Tuckerman True's The History of Bethel, Maine originally appeared in the pages of the town's first newspaper, The Bethel Courier,...

Pennsylvania's western and northern borders were both fixed by 1789. In September 1790, "Pennsylvania formed and adopted her Constitution." Erie County was formed in 1792. This informative history...

The original town of Guilford stretched along Long Island Sound from Branford to Killingsworth, and included the present towns of Guilford and Madison (set off in 1828). The first settlers were about...

There are some indications (see Massachusetts: A Bibliography of Its History, 1976) that this early history of the ancient town of Haverhill was drafted by John Greenleaf Whittier, a native son, who...