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Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Anthony, Peter (d.1660/1663), and Nicholas (d.1682) Wright, Quaker brothers, emigrated in 1635 from England to Saugus (now Lynn), Massachusetts, moved to Plymouth in 1637, and to Oyster Bay, New York in 1653. Anthony never married. Descendants lived in New England, New York, New Jersey, Illinois and elsewhere. Includes English ancestry to 1423.
Author: Raymond S. Wright, III
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806318165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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This is an exhaustive guide to family history sources in German archives at every level of jurisdiction, public and private. Anyone searching for data about people who lived in Germany in the past need only determine which archives today have jurisdiction over the records that were created by church or state institutions.
Author: Robert Noel Grant
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Contains land grants (1752-1900), deed records (1752-1901), land tax lists (1782-1850), death records (1853-1896), and probate records (1752-1907). Each section contains source information and an index. G4118HB - $38.00
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476728763
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot. Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education and little money never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off, they risked being killed. In this “enjoyable, fast-paced tale” (The Economist), master historian David McCullough “shows as never before how two Ohio boys from a remarkable family taught the world to fly” (The Washington Post) and “captures the marvel of what the Wrights accomplished” (The Wall Street Journal). He draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them. Essential reading, this is “a story of timeless importance, told with uncommon empathy and fluency…about what might be the most astonishing feat mankind has ever accomplished…The Wright Brothers soars” (The New York Times Book Review).
Author: Eunice Miena Barber
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Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Samuel Wright (d.1663/1667) immigrated from England to Springfield, Massachusetts during or before 1639, and moved to Northampton, Massachusetts in 1655. Descendants lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Iowa, Florida and elsewhere.
Author: William Henry Wright
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Author: Dianne Swann-Wright
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813921372
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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An African American folk saying declares, "Our God can make a way out of no way.... He can do anything but fail." When Dianne Swann-Wright set out to capture and relate the history of her ancestors--African Americans in central Virginia after the Civil War--she had to find that way, just as her people had done in creating a new life after emancipation. In order to tell their story, she could not rely solely on documents from the plantation where her forebears had lived. Unlike the register of babies born, marriages made, or lives lost that white families' Bibles contained, ledgers recorded Swann-Wright's ancestors, as commodities. Thus Swann-Wright took another route, setting out to gather spoken words--stories, anecdotes, and sayings. What results is a strikingly rich and textured history of a slave community. Looking at relations between plantation owners and their slaves and the succeeding generations of both, A Way out of No Way explores what it meant for the master-slave relation to change to one of employer and employee and how patronage, work relationships, and land acquisition evolved as the people of Piedmont Virginia entered the twentieth century. Swann-Wright illustrates how two white landowners, one of whom had headed a plantation before the Civil War, learned to compensate freed persons for their labor. All the more fascinating is her study of how the emancipated learned to be free--of how they found their way out of no way.
Author: Robert Noel Grant
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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A resource for Wright family researchers. G1603HB - $48.00
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Category : Circleville (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 1708
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Author: Robert Noel Grant
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Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Each section contains source information and an index. A most helpful feature for each entry is the "identification" column, in which the author identifies the specific family and Wright ancestors from whom the named Wright descends. G3847HB - $25.00
