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Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Court Records
This work is a faithful transcription of the oldest surviving court records for Lower Norfolk County. Virtually all of the entries have the virtue of placing one or more settlers in Lower Norfolk County early in the 17th century.
Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World
Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World brings together ten original essays by an international group of scholars exploring the complex outcomes of the intermingling of people, circulation of goods, exchange of information, and exposure to new ideas that are the hallmark of the early modern Atlantic. Spanning the period from the earliest French crossings to Newfoundland at the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the wars of independence in Spanish South America, c. 1830, and encompassing a range of disciplinary approaches, the contributors direct particular attention to regions, communities, and groups whose activities in, and responses to, an ever-more closely bound Atlantic w...
Institutional Slavery
This book focuses on slave ownership in Virginia as it was practiced by a variety of institutions.
Within Her Power
This is an engaging and comprehensive study of property-owning women in the colony of Tidewater, VA during the 17th & 18th centuries. It examines the social restrictions on women's behaviour and speech, opportunities and difficulties these women encountered in the legal system, the economic and discretionary authority they enjoyed, the roles they played in the family business,their roles in the later, trans-Atlantic trading framework, and the imperial context within which these colonial women lived, making this a welcome addition to both colonial and women's history.
Cobb, Hayes, Halm & King Ancestors
George Washington Cobb was born 11 July 1862 in Marion, Massachusetts. His first marriage was to Alberta Perry Hayes in Kittery, Maine, 27 October 1887. His second marriage was to Hannah Young 19 September 1913. George died 29 January 1921 in Marion, Massachusetts. Alberta Perrry Hayes was born 6 December 1865 in Kittery, Maine. Her parents were Calvin Lewis Hayes and Angelia Martin Perry. She married George Washington Cobb. Alberta died 3 March 1917 in Kittery, Maine. Reinhold J. Halm was born 1 September 1852 in New York City. He married Frances Sayer King in Washington, D.C. 12 December 1888. He died 27 September 1937 in Baltimore, Maryland. Frances Sayer King was born 23 October 1849 in Washington, D.C. Her parents were Charles Kirby King and Erin Columbia Moran. Her first marriage was to Rear Admiral John Colt Beaumont in Washington, D.C. 26 June 1873. Her second marriage was to Reinhold J. Halm. Frances died 5 March 1924 in Norfolk, Virginia.
Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660
This book establishes Central Africa as the origin of most Africans brought to English and Dutch American colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and South America before 1660. It reveals that Central Africans were frequently possessors of an Atlantic Creole culture and places the movement of slaves and creation of the colonies within an Atlantic historical framework.
Every Home a Distillery
In this original examination of alcohol production in early America, Sarah Hand Meacham uncovers the crucial role women played in cidering and distilling in the colonial Chesapeake. Her fascinating story is one defined by gender, class, technology, and changing patterns of production. Alcohol was essential to colonial life; the region’s water was foul, milk was generally unavailable, and tea and coffee were far too expensive for all but the very wealthy. Colonists used alcohol to drink, in cooking, as a cleaning agent, in beauty products, and as medicine. Meacham finds that the distillation and brewing of alcohol for these purposes traditionally fell to women. Advice and recipes in such gu...
Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
Previous editions titled: Genealogical books in print
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
When Governor John White sailed for England from Roanoke Island in August 1587, he left behind more than 100 men, women and children. They were never seen again by Europeans. For more than four centuries the fate of the Roanoke colony has remained a mystery, despite the many attempts to construct a satisfactory, convincing explanation. New research suggests that all past and present theories are based upon a series of erroneous assumptions that have persisted for centuries. Through a close examination of the early accounts, previously unknown or unexamined documents, and native Algonquian oral tradition, this book deconstructs the traditional theories. What emerges is a fresh narrative of the ultimate fate of the Lost Colony.
