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The Family of Hay
Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay (1745-1785) was born at Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, the only child of Micahel and Esther Wilkins Hay. He accompanied his uncle to New York to obtain an education and while there he married Martha Smith (1745-1821) in 1763, daughter of Judge William Smith. After their marriage, the couple went to Jamaica, but after the death of their first three children there, they returned to New York and settled at Haverstraw on the banks of the Hudson. They had twelve children, 1764-1785. He served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He died two years after the war in New York City. His widow died in South Carolina. Descendants listed, chiefly descendants of the children who migrated to South Carolina, lived in South Carolina, Georgia, and elsewhere.
Lay Bare the Heart
Texas native James Farmer is one of the “Big Four” of the turbulent 1960s civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young. Farmer might be called the forgotten man of the movement, overshadowed by Martin Luther King Jr., who was deeply influenced by Farmer’s interpretation of Gandhi’s concept of nonviolent protest. Born in Marshall, Texas, in 1920, the son of a preacher, Farmer grew up with segregated movie theaters and “White Only” drinking fountains. This background impelled him to found the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942. That same year he mobilized the first sit-in in an all-white restaurant near the University of Chicago. Under F...
Essays in the History of Canadian Law
These essays look at key social, economic, and political issues of the times and show how they influenced the developing legal system.
Sessional Papers
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Sessional Papers
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as an addendum to vol. 26, no. 7.
Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas
Biography is not given its rightful place in literature. It has a more intimate relation to History than is assigned by common judgment; for, after all, the life of any nation is written in the lives of those who have shown themselves in some respects superior to their fellows. History is to a great degree but the sum of individual action, and the work of the historian consists in connecting many fragments of personal experience and effort, in such a way as to form a narrative harmonious and instructive. Of no Commonwealth, in ancient or modern times, is it so true as of Texas, that its history can only be thoroughly understood through intimate acquaintance with the lives of those who made t...
