Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Family history, ancestors and descendants of Cary Arthur Prescott (1883-1965), son of Cary Washington Prescott of Pennsylvania and Permelia Eliza Keith of West Virginia. He was born in Derby, Kansas. He married 1911, Delia Jane McCaffree (1893-1965), daughter of James Edward McCaffree of Kentucky and Nancy Jane Hushaw of Illinois. She was born in Randolph, Fremont Co., Iowa. The early members of Prescott family came from England as early as 1665. They lived in New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Members of the McCaffree family came to Colonial Virginia in the 1700's, and later moved to Kentucky and elsewhere. Descendants live in Kansas, California, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio, Michigan and elsewhere.
This book is both the unique story of Alexandria before the Civil War and a comprehensive portrait of a seaboard antebellum community in transition. It depicts the economic, political, social, cultural and religious life of the city on the Potomac, emphasizing developments from the mid-1840s to the outbreak of war in 1861. The pages therein not only describe local happenings; they endeavor to relate events in the town with developments in other seaboard communities, especially in the South. Special attention is given to the class structure of the community and the prominent role which merchants and civic leaders played, as well as the part of ordinary people in the city's portrait.
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
A master directory to the people who peddled their services and wares in early Alexandria compiled from newspapers, property records, city directories, and census records. M0598HB - $32.85