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This is a collection of the abstracts of the oldest court records for Franklin County in existence, ranging over civil suits, appointments of justices of the peace and other officials, references to the principals named in deeds and wills, and so on.
"But Franklinites should not forget the days and ways of their forefathers, for those people have the best hope of the tomorrow who are mindful of the yesterdays." Marshall Wingfield COURTS AND CASES The record of the first severe penalty assessed by a Franklin County Court reads as follows: "At a court held at Franklin Court House on Wednesday, the 15th of September, 1786, for the examination of Robert Edmonds and Rebecca Edmonds, his wife, who was committed on suspicion of stealing from Charles Draughton a squirrel skin purse and in it one Doubloon, a Joannis, Eight and one-half Joaneses and one Guinea. ... it being demanded of the said prisoners whether they were guilty of the fact wherew...
In this methodically organized and profusely illustrated volume, Marshall Wingfield recounts the history of Virginia's twenty-ninth county and its most prominent residents, from the founding of the county in 1727 to the First World War. Contains numerous
In The Second Great Emancipation, Donald Holley uses statistical and narrative analysis to demonstrate that farm mechanization occurred in the Delta region of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi after the region’s population of farm laborers moved away for new opportunities. Rather than pushing labor off the land, Holley argues, the mechanical cotton picker enabled the continuation of cotton cultivation in the post-plantation era, opening the door for the civil rights movement, while ushering a period of prosperity into the South.
A Kind Of Fate: Agricultural Change In Virginia, 1861-1920 surveys farming in Virginia through the experiences of Jacob Manning and his son James. We read about their individual struggles, the impact of the Civil War, contrasts between farming and country life, Jacob having to farm through the harsh times of the Civil War, his son James farming experiences during a post-war time of rising prosperity. Author Terry Sharrer (curator of health sciences at the Smithsonian Institutions, Washington, D.C.) focuses on the changes in agriculture and its shift from crop-focused to livestock-dominated farming.