Author: Francis E. Shaw
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Languages : en
Pages : 463

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Samuel Shaw of Bucks Co., Pennsylvania married three times, and in 1806 moved to Columbiana Co., Ohio.

Author: Emily Foster
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813187435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the next fifty years as she strove to keep herself and her children in their memories. With Anna's natural talent for storytelling and her unique, female perspective, the letters provide a sustained and vivid account of everyday domestic life on the Ohio frontier. She writes of carving a farm out of the forest, bearing many children, darning and patching the family clothes, standing her ground in religious controversy, nursing wounds and fevers, and burying beloved family and friends. Emily Foster presents these revealing letters of a pioneer woman in a framework of insightful commentary and historical context, with genealogical appendices.

Author: Mary Edith Shaw
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 3144

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Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 2430

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Category : Accomack County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 796

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Robert Snead was born circa 1630 in England. He married Mary Lucas in England, He married Mary West in Virginia. He died in 1712 in Accomack County, Virginia.

Author: Dwight Hall Bruce
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Category : Onondaga County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1076

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Author: Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives
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Languages : en
Pages : 968

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Category : Mennonites
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Author: David Goodman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804724807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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"The brave independence of the 'roaring days', the camaraderie of the gold fields, jolly diggers on a spree - these are the images that have come down to us of the gold era of the 1850s in Australia and California. But these images were largely shaped decades later, by writers such as Henry Lawson and Bret Harte - they speak of later nostalgia rather than the experience of the time." "In this study of the contemporary response to the discoveries of gold in Victoria and California, David Goodman argues that people at the time were apprehensive about gold rushing, and the kind of society it seemed to prefigure. In the chaos of the gold rushes, individual self-interest seemed to be all that could motivate people to any exertion. And it was only the economic rationalists of the day - those who believed in political economy and its promise, that out of the confusion of individual self-interest would come some sort of social order - who could wholeheartedly endorse the gold rushes as events." "This is a history of the ways people talked about gold. As the first full-length cultural history of the gold rushes on two continents, it examines the meanings of gold at the time, and the narratives which were told about social disruption. It locates the deeper underlying themes in the response to gold. It also looks at the ways in which the dominant later memories of gold were shaped. And it is about national differences, about the construction of distinctive national cultures out of materials common to the British world. This book should be read not only by Australian and American historians but by anyone with an interest in the cultural history of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved