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Unearthing St. Mary's City
This volume summarizes the remarkably diverse archaeological discoveries made during the past half century of investigations at the site of St. Mary’s City, the first capital of Maryland and one of the earliest European settlements in America. Founded in 1634, the city had disappeared by 1750, yet the archaeology documented in Unearthing St. Mary’s City reveals its untold history. Contributors to this volume review new research approaches and methods developed recently at Historic St. Mary’s City. They study the archaeology, architecture, and people of the lively seventeenth-century colonial hub. They also explore the landscapes of agriculture, enslavement, and remembrance that develop...
A Booker Family of Virginia
The early members of this Booker family lived in the parishes of Petsworth, Kingston, and Abingdon, Gloucester Co., Virginia. The earliest proven ancestor, James Booker (ca. 1723-1794, son of James and Amy Lewis Booker, married around 1745 Elizabeth Howlett (1726-1760); (2) Ann Camm (1723-1774/75), daughter of John and Mary Bullock Camm, ca. 1764; and (3) Elizabeth, widow of Ambrose Wright (her second husband). She was first married to Ambrose Bohannon. James Booker had six children by his first wife, Amy Lewis Booker. Family members and descendants live in Virginia, North Dakota, Illinois, Texas, Ohio, Georgia and elsewhere. Includes autobiography of the author, James Motley Booker (b. 1914).
The Sinclair Family of Virginia
Henry Sinclair (d.ca. 1819) emigrated from Scotland to Isle of Wight County, Virginia and married Martha Brock. His son, John Sinclair (1755-1820), married twice and moved from Smithfield, Virginia to Gloucester County, Virginia. Descendants of both lived in Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere.
America’S Forgotten Caste
Free blacks in antebellum America lived in a twilight world of oppressive laws and customs designed to suppress their mobility and their integration into civil society. Free blacks were free only to the extent of white tolerance in their community or town. They were at the mercy of the lowest members of the dominant race who could punish them on a whim. They were, in the words of a 19th century European traveler to America, "masterless slaves." Nonetheless, many successful and even prominent blacks emerged from the mire of oppressive laws and general public disdain to realize major achievements. Though excluded from the political process, from education, and from most professions they became preachers, teachers, missionaries, contractors, artisans, boat captains, and wealthy entrepreneurs. Members of this twilight social and legal class, which numbered nearly a half million by 1860, made great accomplishments against strong opposition in the first half of the 19th century. The history of America and of American slavery is woefully incomplete without their story.
Virginia Genealogies
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