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Isaac Evans (d.1785) and John Evans (ca.1705-1802), brothers, moved before 1751 from Pennsylvania to Frederick County, Virginia (which later became Berkeley County, West Virginia). Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Arkansas and elsewhere.
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Originally, Berkeley County incorporated all the territory in what is now the "Eastern Panhandle" (including present Jefferson and Morgan Counties), and extended from the Potomac to the Shenandoah Rivers on the north and east. This volume begins with desc
Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providin...