Author: V. L. Skinner
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806353112
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The Prerogative Court was the focal point for probate in colonial Maryland. A judge and various clerks staffed the court. All matters of probate went directly to the Prerogative Court, which was located in Annapolis, Maryland's colonial capital. Eventually, administration of probate was delegated to the several county courts; however, many documents related to probate continued to be filed at the Prerogative Court and not in the corresponding county. It should be noted that the Prerogative Court was also the colony's court for equity cases-resolution of disputes over the settlement and distribution of an estate. (Beginning in 1674, inventories and accounts were recorded in a separate series.)
Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland. Volume VII: 1693-1697. Libers 15B, 15C, 16
Author: V. L. Skinner
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806353112
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The Prerogative Court was the focal point for probate in colonial Maryland. A judge and various clerks staffed the court. All matters of probate went directly to the Prerogative Court, which was located in Annapolis, Maryland's colonial capital. Eventually, administration of probate was delegated to the several county courts; however, many documents related to probate continued to be filed at the Prerogative Court and not in the corresponding county. It should be noted that the Prerogative Court was also the colony's court for equity cases-resolution of disputes over the settlement and distribution of an estate. (Beginning in 1674, inventories and accounts were recorded in a separate series.)
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806353112
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The Prerogative Court was the focal point for probate in colonial Maryland. A judge and various clerks staffed the court. All matters of probate went directly to the Prerogative Court, which was located in Annapolis, Maryland's colonial capital. Eventually, administration of probate was delegated to the several county courts; however, many documents related to probate continued to be filed at the Prerogative Court and not in the corresponding county. It should be noted that the Prerogative Court was also the colony's court for equity cases-resolution of disputes over the settlement and distribution of an estate. (Beginning in 1674, inventories and accounts were recorded in a separate series.)
Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland. Volume XXXVI
Author: Vernon L. Jr. Skinner
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806355764
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This series of Prerogative Court transcripts is arranged, with a few exceptions, chronologically by court session. Volume XXXVI, the latest one in the series, refers to roughly 7,000 colonial inhabitants of the Province of Maryland. For the most part, the transcriptions state the names of the principals (testators, heirs, guardians, witnesses, and so forth), details of bequests, and names of slaves, appraisers, and more.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806355764
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This series of Prerogative Court transcripts is arranged, with a few exceptions, chronologically by court session. Volume XXXVI, the latest one in the series, refers to roughly 7,000 colonial inhabitants of the Province of Maryland. For the most part, the transcriptions state the names of the principals (testators, heirs, guardians, witnesses, and so forth), details of bequests, and names of slaves, appraisers, and more.
Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland
Author: Vernon L. Skinner, Jr.
Publisher: Clearfield
ISBN: 9780806355924
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher: Clearfield
ISBN: 9780806355924
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland. Volume XXVIII, 1751-1752, 1755. Libers
Author: Jr. Skinner
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806355108
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The work at hand marks the twenty-eighth volume in this continuing series. Volume XXVIII consists of testamentary abstracts for the balance of 1751-52 and part of 1755. (Researchers will find the years 1750-53 covered in Volumes XXVI and XXVII.) In all, this book refers to an additional 7,000 colonial inhabitants of the Province of Maryland. For the most part, the transcriptions state the names of the principals (testators, heirs, guardians, witnesses, administrators, and so forth), as well as details of bequests, names of slaves, appraisers, and more.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806355108
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The work at hand marks the twenty-eighth volume in this continuing series. Volume XXVIII consists of testamentary abstracts for the balance of 1751-52 and part of 1755. (Researchers will find the years 1750-53 covered in Volumes XXVI and XXVII.) In all, this book refers to an additional 7,000 colonial inhabitants of the Province of Maryland. For the most part, the transcriptions state the names of the principals (testators, heirs, guardians, witnesses, administrators, and so forth), as well as details of bequests, names of slaves, appraisers, and more.
Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland. Volume Xlii
Author: Jr. Skinner
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806355948
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This series, begun in 2004, is arranged, with a few exceptions, chronologically by court session. (There is a gap in the records from July 13, 1689, to June 1692, owing to the Glorious Revolution, and another, unexplained gap from November 1, 1765, to May 23, 1766.) Volume XLII, the conclusion to this prodigious series, refers to nearly 5,000 colonial inhabitants of the Province of Maryland. As with the previous books, for the most part, the transcriptions state the names of the principals (testators, heirs, guardians, witnesses, and so forth), details of bequests, names of slaves, appraisers, and more.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806355948
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This series, begun in 2004, is arranged, with a few exceptions, chronologically by court session. (There is a gap in the records from July 13, 1689, to June 1692, owing to the Glorious Revolution, and another, unexplained gap from November 1, 1765, to May 23, 1766.) Volume XLII, the conclusion to this prodigious series, refers to nearly 5,000 colonial inhabitants of the Province of Maryland. As with the previous books, for the most part, the transcriptions state the names of the principals (testators, heirs, guardians, witnesses, and so forth), details of bequests, names of slaves, appraisers, and more.
Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland Volume Xxxviii, 1771-1772 Liber
Author: Jr. Vernon L. Skinner
Publisher: Clearfield
ISBN: 9780806355863
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher: Clearfield
ISBN: 9780806355863
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland
Author: Jr. Skinner
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806354293
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Volume XXI of this series consists of abstracts for the period 1736-1739, as found in the balance of Liber 30 and the first thirty-two pages of Liber 31 of the records. In all, the latest book in this remarkable series refers to an additional 7,500 inhabitants of the Province of Maryland in the years just prior to 1740. For the most part, the transcriptions state the names of the principals (testators, heirs, witnesses, administrators, and so forth), as well as details of bequests, names of slaves, appraisers, and more.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806354293
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Volume XXI of this series consists of abstracts for the period 1736-1739, as found in the balance of Liber 30 and the first thirty-two pages of Liber 31 of the records. In all, the latest book in this remarkable series refers to an additional 7,500 inhabitants of the Province of Maryland in the years just prior to 1740. For the most part, the transcriptions state the names of the principals (testators, heirs, witnesses, administrators, and so forth), as well as details of bequests, names of slaves, appraisers, and more.
The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual
Author:
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
ISBN: 9780916489922
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Family historians depend upon thousands of people unknown to them. They exchange research with others; copy information from books and databases; and write libraries, societies, and government offices. At times they even hire professionals to do legwork in distant areas and trust strangers to solve important problems. But how can a researcher be assured that he or she is producing or receiving reliable results? This official manual from the Board of Certification for Genealogists provides a standard by which all genealogists can pattern their work.
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
ISBN: 9780916489922
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Family historians depend upon thousands of people unknown to them. They exchange research with others; copy information from books and databases; and write libraries, societies, and government offices. At times they even hire professionals to do legwork in distant areas and trust strangers to solve important problems. But how can a researcher be assured that he or she is producing or receiving reliable results? This official manual from the Board of Certification for Genealogists provides a standard by which all genealogists can pattern their work.
The Story of Ain't
Author: David Skinner
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062345753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
“It takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the bodice-ripper….David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it to popular perfection.” —Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman The captivating, delightful, and surprising story of Merriam Webster’s Third Edition, the dictionary that provoked America’s greatest language controversy. In those days, Webster’s Second was the great gray eminence of American dictionaries, with 600,000 entries and numerous competitors but no rivals. It served as the all-knowing guide to the world of grammar and information, a kind of one-stop reference work. In 1961, Webster’s Third came along and ignited an unprecedented controversy in America’s newspapers, universities, and living rooms. The new dictionary’s editor, Philip Gove, had overhauled Merriam’s long held authoritarian principles to create a reference work that had “no traffic with…artificial notions of correctness or authority. It must be descriptive not prescriptive.” Correct use was determined by how the language was actually spoken, and not by “notions of correctness” set by the learned few. Dwight MacDonald, a formidable American critic and writer, emerged as Webster’s Third’s chief nemesis when in the pages of the New Yorker he likened the new dictionary to the end of civilization.. The Story of Ain’t describes a great cultural shift in America, when the voice of the masses resounded in the highest halls of culture, when the division between highbrow and lowbrow was inalterably blurred, when the humanities and its figureheads were shunted aside by advances in scientific thinking. All the while, Skinner treats the reader to the chippy banter of the controversy’s key players. A dictionary will never again seem as important as it did in 1961.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062345753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
“It takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the bodice-ripper….David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it to popular perfection.” —Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman The captivating, delightful, and surprising story of Merriam Webster’s Third Edition, the dictionary that provoked America’s greatest language controversy. In those days, Webster’s Second was the great gray eminence of American dictionaries, with 600,000 entries and numerous competitors but no rivals. It served as the all-knowing guide to the world of grammar and information, a kind of one-stop reference work. In 1961, Webster’s Third came along and ignited an unprecedented controversy in America’s newspapers, universities, and living rooms. The new dictionary’s editor, Philip Gove, had overhauled Merriam’s long held authoritarian principles to create a reference work that had “no traffic with…artificial notions of correctness or authority. It must be descriptive not prescriptive.” Correct use was determined by how the language was actually spoken, and not by “notions of correctness” set by the learned few. Dwight MacDonald, a formidable American critic and writer, emerged as Webster’s Third’s chief nemesis when in the pages of the New Yorker he likened the new dictionary to the end of civilization.. The Story of Ain’t describes a great cultural shift in America, when the voice of the masses resounded in the highest halls of culture, when the division between highbrow and lowbrow was inalterably blurred, when the humanities and its figureheads were shunted aside by advances in scientific thinking. All the while, Skinner treats the reader to the chippy banter of the controversy’s key players. A dictionary will never again seem as important as it did in 1961.
Abstraacts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland. Volume XVII
Author: Vernon L. Skinner
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806353951
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Volume XVII resumes with page 141 of Liber 27 and pp. 1-101 of Liber 28. The abstracts are arranged chronologically by court session. For the most part, the transcriptions state the names of the principals (testators, heirs, witnesses, administrators, and so forth) as well as details of bequests, names of slaves, appraisers, and more.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806353951
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Volume XVII resumes with page 141 of Liber 27 and pp. 1-101 of Liber 28. The abstracts are arranged chronologically by court session. For the most part, the transcriptions state the names of the principals (testators, heirs, witnesses, administrators, and so forth) as well as details of bequests, names of slaves, appraisers, and more.