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European and French Huguenot connections of immigrant ancestor Jean Pierre Bondurant of Génolhac, Gard, France, who arrived in Virginia, in September 1700. Allied families include Amat, Barjon and Belcastel.
John Leland (1754-1841) was one of the most influential and entertaining religious figures in early America. As an itinerant revivalist, he demonstrated an uncanny ability to connect with a popular audience, and contributed to the rise of a democratized Christianity in America. A tireless activist for the rights of conscience, Leland also waged a decades-long war for disestablishment, first in Virginia and then in New England. Leland advocated for full religious freedom for all-not merely Baptists and Protestants-and reportedly negotiated a deal with James Madison to include a Bill of Rights in the Constitution. Leland developed a reputation for being mad for politics in early America, deliv...
Researchers studying the people and land of east Georgia should always have a ready map reference to watercourses and militia districts. Those two features are used to identify the location of land and residences, where streams often serve as property boundaries and tax and census records are arranged by militia district. This atlas is a functional research aid, with fifty individual county maps encompassing the entire region granted under the headright land system.
A compilation of naturalization and denization records in the British colonies in America between 1607 and 1775. Records were compiled from published literature, then expanded and improved by the examination of original source materials.
"The foundation for this work is the Muster of Jan 1624/25 which had never before been printed in full."--Page xiii, volume 1.
A case study in the social history of frontier town building set in the swamps of South Carolina On the banks of the lower Savannah River, the military objectives of South Carolina officials, the ambitions of Swiss entrepreneur Jean Pierre Purry, and the dreams of Protestants from Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, and England converged in a planned settlement named Purrysburg. This examination of the first South Carolina township in Governor Robert Johnson's strategic plan to populate and defend the colonial backcountry offers the clearest picture to date of the settlement of the colony's Southern frontier by ethnically diverse and contractually obligated immigrants. Arlin C. Migliazzo co...
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In one small Atlanta suburb, the recorded history of the Cherokee, rail, war, and oral history provides a much richer tapestry of myth than claimed.After extensive review from the early 1800s to mid-20th Century, the culture and color behind the times of Vinings, Georgia is revealed in a readable, and some times humorous profile, giving this unique community a valid character of mysteriously quaint.
The later diaries of Eliza Frances Andrews, an upper-class Southern woman whose earlier diaries have already been published as The Wartime Journal of a Georgia Girl: 1864-1865. Covering the period 1870-1872, the diaries cover her trip to New Jersey to visit Northern relatives and the beginnings of her first novel, ending with her mother's death. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR