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Peter Barrackman was born ca. 1744 in Germany. He served in the French and Indian Wars in Maryland in 1767. He married Elizabeth Antis in Virginia. She may had been his second wife. The family was living at Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania, by 1776 and he ran a ferry service on the river near Fort Pitt during the Revolutionary War. The family migrated to Knox County, Indiana, in the 1780s. He died there in 1790. Focuses on the descendants of his sons, Abraham, Henry and John. Descendants listed lived in Indiana, Illinois, and elsewhere.
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Previously published by Magna Carta, Baltimore. Published as a set by Genealogical Publishing with the two vols. of the Genealogies in the Library of Congress, and the two vols. of the Supplement. Set ISBN is 0806316691.
Marauding outlaws, or violent rebels still bent on fighting the Civil War? For decades, the so-called “Taylor-Sutton feud” has been seen as a bloody vendetta between two opposing gangs of Texas gunfighters. However, historian James M. Smallwood here shows that what seemed to be random lawlessness can be interpreted as a pattern of rebellion by a loose confederation of desperadoes who found common cause in their hatred of the Reconstruction government in Texas. Between the 1850s and 1880, almost 200 men rode at one time or another with Creed Taylor and his family through a forty-five-county area of Texas, stealing and killing almost at will, despite heated and often violent opposition fro...
Includes entries for maps and atlases.