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The middle chapters of this book are given over to Wilkes County genealogy and biography, with chapters on the buyers and sellers of lots and the early settlers of the county. The work as a whole is crowded with references to ministers, officials, teachers, and soldiers, so much so that an index of more than 2,000 entries was created by Mrs. Hays to encompass them.
Describes the social and economic conditions in Virginia during the hundred years prior to the Revolution, and examines how the county developed
The book rings with the names of early inhabitants and prominent citizens. For the genealogist there is the important and wholly fortuitous list of tithables of Pittsylvania County for the year 1767, which enumerates the names of nearly 1,000 landowners and property holders, amounting in sum to a rough census of the county in its infancy. Additional lists include the names, some with inclusive dates of service, of sheriffs, justices of the peace, members of the House of Delegates, 1776-1928, members of the Senate of Virginia, 1776-1928, clerks of the court, and judges.
The rugged character and indomitable spirit of the early pioneers of Stephen F. Austins Texas colony had their roots in a turbulent, distant past. From the early 1600s, their courageous ancestors had pushed westward, leaving the European shores to carve out a new nation from the wilderness. They fled religious and political oppression in search of a better life in which freedom was of supreme importance. Many came with tales of their former struggles in Londonderry, Ireland during the great siege, of terrible massacres and clan rivalries in the times of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland. They vividly remembered the tribulations of Martin Luther and the deadly religious s...
This volume transcribes the earliest records of Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia, predating by several years the establishment of the parish in 1666. Some of the entries in this vestry book relate as well to Lancaster Parish and Middlesex County. This volume contains a verbatim transcript of the parish vestry book, in which was recorded essential accounts of parish business. The bulk of the entries concern: disbursements of funds for routine services and maintenance of church property which generally name the recipient and the service or product supplied; disbursements of funds for the support of poor and/or sick parishioners which generally name the caretaker and the cared-for parties; and appointments of tithingmen and other church officers. C0806HB - $30.00
"In this reprint edition the contents [of the original 34 volumes] have been rearranged, re-typed, and consolidated in three hardcover volumes, each with its own master index."--Title page verso.