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This book contains the genealogical records of over 950 families of early Hartford, Connecticut. The records that were used were mainly church records, sexton's records, and probate records and are arranged alphabetically by family name.--From Preface.
From the mid 1700's to the early 1900's there was a mass exodus of people from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. During the reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901, around fifteen million people emigrated to America, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. The reasons they left the country of their birth were many and varied. There was high unemployment in the working classes due to the Industrial Revolution, the Agricultural Revolution, the Enclosure Movement and the Land Clearances. The potato famines in Ireland and Scotland caused starvation and death, prompting a mass exodus from those areas. This story follows the lives of three families who immigrated to Sout...
“An intense rollercoaster of a thriller and a searing indictment of which victims get our attention and sympathy.” –#1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu In this ripped-from-the-headlines Gone Girl meets A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz weaves a white-knuckle YA thriller about a beautiful young influencer who vanishes after going on vacation with her boyfriend. #WhereisAmeliaAshley The Influencer Amelia Ashley shares everything with her followers – her favorite hole-in-the-wall restaurants, her best fashion tips, and her European trip-of-a-lifetime with her hot boyfriend. The Boyfriend Josh has no choice but to return home...
What role does the organisation of labour relations play in the health of a democratic society? Axel Honneth’s major new work is devoted to answering this question. His central thesis is that participation in democratic will formation can only proceed from a transparent and fairly regulated division of labour. The social world of work – where we spend so much of our time – is almost unique in being a space in which we have experiences and learn lessons that we can use to influence the attitudes of a political community. Therefore, by shaping working conditions in a particular way, we have a prime opportunity to foster cooperative forms of behaviour that benefit democracy, both by makin...
Albert Albertsen ter Heun was born about 1619 in Holland, married about 1647 in New York and died there. His grandson, Roelof Janse Terhune, was born in New York in 1685 and was married and died there. Descendants live in many parts of the United States.
Excerpt from Historical Collections of Harrison County, in the State of Ohio: With Lists of the First Land-Owners, Early Marriages, (to 1841), Will Records, (to 1861), Burial Records of the Early Settlements, and Numerous Genealogies Anniversary Discourse Delivered in the Ridge Church by Rev. Robert Herron, D. D Dec. 13, 1873: Uhrichsville, 1874. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
So Far, So Good! is about Theodore (Ted) Doege, born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1928, the second of five children in the family of Arthur and Erna Doege. In 1937, the family moved east to the small town of Bronxville near New York City, when Reverend Arthur Doege became president of Concordia Collegiate Institute, a small, Lutheran Church-affiliated high school and junior college. Attending Bronxville High School and then receiving a scholarship to Oberlin College, Ted graduated in 1950 and briefly was a Burlington Railroad section hand. Drafted into the Army in late 1952, he became a parachutist, after discharge enrolling as a medical student at the University of Rochester School of Medicine a...