Author: Martha W. McCartney
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317748
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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"From the earliest records relating to Virginia, we learn the basics about many of these original colonists: their origins, the names of the ships they sailed on, the names of the "hundreds" and "plantations" they inhabited, the names of their spouses and children, their occupations and their position in the colony, their relationships with fellow colonists and Indian neighbors, their living conditions as far as can be ascertained from documentary sources, their ownership of land, the dates and circumstances of their death, and a host of fascinating, sometimes incidental details about their personal lives, all gathered together in the handy format of a biographical dictionary" -- publisher website (January 2008).
Author: Michael Tepper
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806308540
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
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A consolidation of the many articles regarding ship passenger lists previously published.
Author: Chloe Webb
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 0875654452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Sacred Harp music or shape-note singing is as old as America itself. The term sacred harp refers to the human voice. Brought to this continent by the settlers of Jamestown, this style of singing is also known as “fasola.” In Legacy of the Sacred Harp, author Chloe Webb follows the history of this musical form back four hundred years, and in the process uncovers the harrowing legacy of her Dumas family line. The journey begins in contemporary Texas with an overlooked but historically rich family heirloom, a tattered 1869 edition of The Sacred Harp songbook. Traveling across the South and sifting through undiscovered family history, Webb sets out on a personal quest to reconnect with her ancestors who composed, sang, and lived by the words of Sacred Harp music. Her research irreversibly transforms her rose-colored view of her heritage and brings endearing characters to life as the reality of the effects of slavery on Southern plantation life, the thriving tobacco industry, and the Civil War are revisited through the lens of the Dumas family. Most notably, Webb’s original research unearths the person of Ralph Freeman, freed slave and pastor of a pre-Civil War white Southern church. Wringing history from boxes of keepsakes, lively interviews, dusty archival libraries, and church records, Webb keeps Sacred Harp lyrics ringing in readers’ ears, allowing the poetry to illuminate the lessons and trials of the past. The choral shape-note music of the Sacred Harp whispers to us of the past, of the religious persecution that brought this music to our shores, and how the voices of contemporary Sacred Harp singers still ring out the unchanged lyrics across the South, the music pulling the past into our present.
Author: Philip Alexander Bruce
Publisher:
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Author: Albert Eugene Casey
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Chiefly a record of various Taylor families in Virginia, North Carolina, Louisiana, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, Kentucky, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Maryland.
Author: York (England)
Publisher:
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Category : Wills
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: Diana Jean Muir
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359486479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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The first Architect of the Capitol, William Thornton, was raised in England and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Dr. Thornton traveled extensively on a study tour in Europe before briefly practicing medicine in Philadelphia (1786-1790) where he met and married Anna Maria Brodeau. His descendants can now be found across the United States, including Virginia, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois and Florida. Originally from Yorkshire, England the name Thornton means ""thorn hill.""
Author: James Russell Major
Publisher:
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385450896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author: Clayton Torrence
Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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