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Genealogical facts, controversies, and stories about the ancestors and allied families of: The Lufts in Sweden, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and New York. The Meekers in England, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and New York. The Hanfords in England, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. The Wooddys in Scotland, Ireland, England, Virginia, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Also contains material pertaining to the Campbell, Crews, Falck, Finch, Fitch, Foster, Gage, Hoyt, Morton, Olmstead, Packard, Payson, Rhea, Seeley, Sheldon, Snow, Washburn, Watson, Webster, and Whipple families, and many others.
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In this expansive book, David Narrett shows how the United States emerged as a successor empire to Great Britain through rivalry with Spain in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast. As he traces currents of peace and war over four critical decades--from the close of the Seven Years War through the Louisiana Purchase--Narrett sheds new light on individual colonial adventurers and schemers who shaped history through cross-border trade, settlement projects involving slave and free labor, and military incursions aimed at Spanish and Indian territories. Narrett examines the clash of empires and nationalities from diverse perspectives. He weighs the challenges facing Native Americans along with th...
"...A detailed study of the growth and develolpment of the trade in seeds, plants, bulbs and trees from the middle ages to the 19th century..."--Publisher description.
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