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Rise of the Cajun Mariners
The story of four families of Cajun boatmen and their rise from trappers and shrimpers to mega-millionaires. Rise of the Cajun Mariners documents an untold piece of American history—the beginnings of what is now the global, multibillion-dollar marine oil and gas industry. In addition, it gives an insightful insider account of one of America’s only truly distinctive cultures—the Cajuns. The book tells the story through the Cajun boatmen who drive the boats that supply and move the men who work the offshore platforms. The book follows four of these French-speaking trailblazers as they scrape to buy and build their first boats and struggle toward success. Their success stories will appeal...
From Africa to Illinois, The Search for Freedom and a Place to Call Home
Most of the material you will hear at this time is not and was not taught in school. Only in the last twenty years has much of this information has come to light by hard working researchers who, like myself, have spent thousands of hours digging out the facts from diverse sources. The usual class room teachings acknowledge slavery only in a general way moving on to the Civil War, dwelling only a moment on the Reconstruction's initial success and then its failure. We then skip to World War Two forgetting eighty years worth of struggle during the great migrations north for work and finding more disappointment trying to improve their lives. The story of Elgin's African American Community begins in West Africa, then to the New World in the seventeenth century, then to the fledgling United States of 1700's, to the Northwest Territory of 1793, to Illinois, to Kane County, and at last to Elgin.
Six Confederates at Upper Lotts Creek
Six Confederates... is a collection of the life stories and war records of the Six Confederate Veterans buried at Upper Lotts Creek Primitive Baptist Church in Bulloch County, Georgia. They are; Robert W. DeLoach, Z. Taylor DeLoach, Ephraim H. Edenfield, Theodore H. Griffin, Griffin W. Parrish and Henry Parrish.
Federal Register
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Danforth genealogy
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Williams Genealogy
Matthew Williams was born in about 1623, probably in England. He married Susannah Cole, daughter of Samuel Cole, in about 1646. They had five children. Matthew died between 1654 and 1659, probably in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Utah and California.
