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With a preface by Miles Barnes. The land causes abstracted here refer to chancery suits regarding dower rights, divisions of land among heirs, ejectment proceedings, etc. Included are depositions by...

Probably the most useful monograph on the head-right system in Virginia. It provides an insight into how this system of land conveyance shaped the Commonwealth.Author: Fairfax HarrisonPublisher:...

Includes a listing of Virginia militia units and the actions in which they were engaged, abstracts of the pension applications of several hundred militia pensioners, lists of militia officers...

This popular volume provides vital statistics on people born in Virginia or West Virginia as drawn from the three biographical volumes of the six-volume work, History of Virginia (American Historical...

Covers old Dover including the present towns of Lee, Madbury, Durham, Somersworth, Newington, and Rollingsford. The records contained in this volume were extracted from the early town records,...

A very complete collection of vital statistics containing all the data from the first four volumes of town books, a lengthy section of family and vital records extracted from the town's early town...

This volume contains a transcript of the earliest record book available for this church in Baltimore, transcribed from a photostatic copy at the Maryland Historical Society. Vital records may contain...

During the Orphan Trains Era, 1854 until 1929, an estimated 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, or homeless children and families were relocated from major metropolitan east coast cities to new homes in the...

Of all the Hessian units employed by England during the American Revolutionary War, none traveled more widely than the 3rd English-Waldeck Regiment. This contingent of men served in the New York-New...

The extracted biographical data on the War of 1812 bounty land warrant and pension applications found here is taken from the file jackets located at the National Archives. All applicants were in some...

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...

"As can be quickly recognized by examining the following abstracts, indenture or apprenticeship records can be some of the most valuable and informative records ever encountered by the genealogical...

These records provide wills and settlements for Warren County, Tennessee residents who passed between the years 1887 and 1910. A full-name index adds to the value of this work. (1996), 2023, 6x9,...

This is a collection of vital records taken from German Lutheran and Reformed churches at Hagerstown, Salem (Cearfoss Pike), Funkstown, St. Paul's near Clearspring, Jacob's near Leitersburg, and...

"The 1865 sheriff's census of Washington County, Arkansas, is the only county census known to exist from this enumeration. Its importance lies in having been taken just nine months after the end of...

Originally hand copied by Samuel Webster Piper and typed and indexed by Conococheague Chapter, NSDAR several years ago. Encompassing the cemeteries of Sharpsburg District #1 (13 cemeteries) and...

Originally hand copied by Samuel Webster Piper and typed and indexed by Conococheague Chapter, NSDAR several years ago. This volume covers cemeteries in Clearspring District 4 and Hancock District 5...

Originally hand copied by Samuel Webster Piper and typed and indexed by Conococheague Chapter, NSDAR several years ago. This volume covers cemeteries in Cavetown District 7, Rohrersville District 8,...

Originally hand copied by Samuel Webster Piper and typed and indexed by Conococheague Chapter, NSDAR several years ago. Funkstown District (10), Sandy Hook District (11), Ringgold District (14),...

Originally hand copied by Samuel Webster Piper and typed and indexed by Conococheague Chapter, NSDAR several years ago. Leitersburg District (9), Tilghmanton District (12), Keedysville District (19)...

Originally hand copied by Samuel Webster Piper and typed and indexed by Conococheague Chapter, NSDAR several years ago. Downsville District (20) and Halfway District (26), Hagerstown District (21),...

Originally hand copied by Samuel Webster Piper and typed and indexed by Conococheague Chapter, NSDAR several years ago. Remainder of District 22 of Hagerstown includes part of Rose Hill Cemetery...

These documents provide a complete collection of court records for Washington County, Tennessee during the years 1791-1799. This work concludes with a full-name index. WPA Records (?, 2005), 2024,...

This publication provides records covering births and deaths in Washington County, Virginia during the years 1853 through 1892, arranged alphabetically by surname. The documents include details such...

U.S. Navy rescue tugs and salvage ships were in the thick of the action during the invasion of French North Africa, the lengthy, bitter Italian Campaign, and the invasion of France in World War II...

Represents the first 276 pages of "Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania" written by Charles H. Browning and originally published by William Campbell, 1912, Philadelphia. Lists those who arrived in 1682...

This genealogy is concerned primarily with the ancestry and descendants of Hans Jacob Wurtz, who left the Palatinate and emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1731. The European data concerns his Wurtz...

Westchester County is an original shire; it was formed in 1683 although it was settled much earlier. Hence, the county and its families have a long and illustrious history. The first settlers were...

This periodical contains previously unpublished records from Western Maryland. Each volume of Western Maryland Genealogy is sold as a set of four booklets. It includes Arthur Nelson of Maryland,...

These abstracts were gleaned from the earliest newspapers of Frederick and Hagerstown, Maryland. Vital records; legal notices; property sales; runaway wives, apprentices and slaves; and local events...