Many genealogical and biographical sketches of Halifax County, Virginia, families have been compiled and presented here. The vital information in a number of these sketches include abstracts of wills and lists of marriages. Hopefully this publication will assist readers in their genealogy research of their Halifax County ancestors. Some of the names in here are: Adams, Anderson, Armstrong, Atkisson, Ballou, Barksdale, Baynham, Bean, Belt, Bennett, Blackwell, Booker, Borum, Bostick, Boxley, Boyd, Brandon, Bruce, Butler, Calloway, Carlton, Carrington, Carter, Chalmers, Chappell, Chastain, Chiles, Christian, Clark, Coleman, Coles, Connally, Craddock, Crews, Dabbs, DeJarnette, Dews, Drinkard, Easley, Edmondson/Edmundson, Edmunds, Farmer, Faulkner, Ferrell, Flournoy, Fourqurean, French, Green, Hall, Halleburton, Hart, Henry, Hodges, Howerton, Hudson, Hurt, Irby, Irvine, Jeffress, Jones, Jordan, Lacy, Lawson, Leigh, Ligon, Logan, Lovelace, Maxey, Medley, Moon, Morton, Nance, Owen, Palmer, Penick, Ragland, Roberts, Scott, Stebbens, Stevens, Stokes, Sydnor, Terry, Thornton, Vaughan, Wade, Watkins, Wilbourn/Wilborn, Willingham, Wimbish, Wooding, Wyatt, Yuille.

`A comprehensive, balanced and judicious treatment of biographical methods in social research, made all the more useful to students by its careful delineation of the practicalities involved' - Raymond M Lee, Royal Holloway, University of London

Specifically designed for those carrying out biographical, life history or family history research, this concise guide covers the methods and issues involved.

The author demonstrates that biographical research is a distinctive way of conceptualizing social activity. The three main approaches to biographical and family history research are covered:

- Realist - focused around grounded-theory techniques of interviewing;

- Neo-positivist - more structured interview techniques;

- Narrative - with emphasis on the active construction of life stories through the interplay between interviewer and interviewee.

An invaluable introduction to the field, which contains much that will be of interest to the experienced practitioner, the book will be ideal for researchers in sociology, psychology, political science, social policy or anthropology.

The book under consideration here marks the second in a series on Scottish colonial soldiers compiled by emigration authority David Dobson. (The first volume was published as two parts in one.) Working from manuscripts in the Acts of the Privy Council and the Calendar of British State Papers and published sources such as the Aberdeen Journal, the Edinburgh Advertiser, and the Georgia Gazette, the author has uncovered information on an additional 750 Scottish colonial solders not found in his earlier book. One such soldier was "John Wright, born in High Calton, Edinburgh, during 1728, an army sergeant who fought in the French and Indian War and in the American War of Independence, witnessed to death of Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham, died in Joppa, Edinburgh, in 1838, father of a Roman Catholic priest in Montreal."

Under the leadership of Rufus Putnam, 48 men, departed New England during the severe winter of 1787/88 and made their way west through the mountains to Sumrill's Ferry on the Youghiogheny River in Pennsylvania. There they spent the winter building two huge flatboats and three canoes to take them down the Youghiogheny to the Monongahela River and then down the Ohio River to their destination, a point of land at the mouth of the Muskingum River. Here, these pioneers would establish the first settlement in the territory northwest of the Ohio River and name it Marietta. Among these early pioneers, who opened the door to western settlement of the United States, were many heroic men and officers of the American Revolution. George Washington said, "I know many of the settlers personally, and there never were men better calculated to promote the welfare of such a community." General Lafayette, the Frenchman who fought alongside the colonists during their struggle for independence said, "I knew them well. I saw them fighting for their country. They were the bravest of the brave. Better men never lived." This book contains the true stories of these great men and other pioneers who withstood Indian Warfare, starvation, sickness, death and deprivation to establish themselves in the wilderness of the early American frontier and begin the westward expansion of the greatest nation on earth. A great companion book for "Pioneer History" by S. P. Hildreth first published in 1848. This book is part of the Historical Collection of Badgley Publishing Company and has been transcribed from the original. The original contents have been edited and corrections have been made to original printing, spelling and grammatical errors when not in conflict with the author's intent to portray a particular event or interaction. Annotations have been made and additional contents have been added by Badgley Publishing Company in order to clarify certain historical events or interactions and to enhance the author's content. Photos and illustrations from the original have been touched up, enhanced and sometimes enlarged for better viewing. Additional illustrations and photos have been added by Badgley Publishing Company.

This book contains a detailed history of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, which traces its early settlement, growth, and development, as well as many of the individuals responsible for the County's progress. The author did not restrict her documentation to only current county boundaries, but also addressed the people of Southern Piedmont Virginia, that is, of Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Patrick, Franklin, Bedford and Campbell Counties. The book is a wonderful genealogical repository of over 5,000 individuals partly responsible for the growth and development of Pittsylvania County. Also prominent are numerous lists---many including inclusive dates---gleaned from records and other source material. These include Lists of Tithables Taken in 1767, which provides the names of 800-1,000 landowners; Early Sheriffs; Early Justices of the Peace; Members of the House of Delegates, 1776-1928; Members of the Senate of Virginia, 1776-1928; Early Ministers' Bonds; Clerks of the Court; and Judges. There are also numerous illustrations, including maps, engravings, and documents. Softcover, (1929), repr. 2004, 2011, Illus., Index, 390 pp.

The beginning of this book was conceived by Mackie McAlpin and Patsy Johnson while sitting in the Blackland Cemetery. We wanted the history of our communities to be passed on to the future generation. We have spent over ten years researching and talking with other citizens. This is the history of Blackland, Osborne and Oak Hill communities, Prentiss County, Mississippi. It tells the story of people, places and things in pictures and stories that bind these communities together. This book begins in pre-Civil War days to the present.

Dunmore's War of 1774 was the culmination of a long series of disputes between settlers and Native Americans in western Virginia and Pennsylvania. In an effort to quell the increasingly violent Indian incursions, Virginia Governor John Murray, the Earl of Dunmore, carried on a successful retaliatory campaign known as "Dunmore's War." This book presents a history of that war through the use of primary documents selected from the mass of manuscript historical material in the famous Draper Collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Numerous footnotes throughout the volume provide a wealth of biographical information, as do the lists of muster rolls and biographies of field officers at the end of the book.

"Printed for Clearfield Company by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 2010"--T.p. verso.

The Battle of King's Mountain, which occurred on October 7, 1780, was a decisive victory for the Americans in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolutionary War. This encounter lasted only 65 minutes and resulted in the total destruction of Major Patrick Ferguson's Loyalist militia force of over one-thousand men. This book is an important work on this engagement and of the Revolutionary Soldiers who participated. Information was collected from numerous sources, including records and documents from the various states and counties, correspondence, and the Draper Collection. This work is divided into two sections: Section One contains chapters on the Battle of King's Mountain; the Watauga and Its Records; General John Sevier; Draper and Martin Letters; Diary of Captain Alexander Chesney; Pension Declarations; Militia Rosters; and various other topics. Section Two consists of Personal Sketches of approximately 1,000 King's Mountain Soldiers; Tennessee Revolutionary Pensioners List; a Bibliography; and an Index.

In the early seventeenth-century, when Spanish interests often competed with those of the House of Austria, three women in the court of Philip III of Spain--Empress Mar?a, Philip's grandmother; Margaret of Austria, Philip's wife; and Margaret of the Cross, Philip's aunt--worked behind the scenes to win favor for the causes of the Austrian Habsburgs.

In "The Empress, the Queen, and the Nun," historian Magdalena S?nchez offers an intriguing examination of the political power wielded by these three women. S?nchez examines the ways that women used religious piety, childbearing, illnesses such as melancholy, and marriage arrangements to sway political decisions. They employed distinct strategies and languages at informal occasions such as meals, masquerade celebrations, and religious ceremonies to influence the political scene. By incorporating women into informal political networks, this work breaks new ground in the study of early modern European politics.

Alterations to Revesby - buildings, furnishings, estate management - and family business in Lincoln, London and elsewhere. Alterations to Revesby - buildings, furnishings, estate management - and family business in Lincoln, London and elsewhere.

Each entry in this volume gives the name of the bride and groom, the date of the bond, and the name of the bondsman, who was often a relative of the bride. A brides' index follows at the back of the volume. All told, this work identifies the 3,500 oldest Loudoun County marriage bonds known to exist.

This is the first volume in a new series of books by David Dobson designed to identify the origins of Scottish Highlanders who traveled to America prior to the Great Highland Migration that began in the 1730s and intensified thereafter.The events leading to the Highland exodus are worthy of mention. Much of this emigration was directly related to a breakdown in social and economic institutions. Under the pressures of the commercial and industrial revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries, Highland chieftains abandoned their patriarchal role in favor of becoming capitalist landlords. By raising farm rents to the breaking point, the chiefs left the social fabric of the Scottish Highlands in tatters. Accordingly, voluntary emigration by Gaelic-speaking Highlanders began in the 1730s. The social breakdown was intensified by the failure of the Jacobite cause in 1745, followed by the British military occupation and repression that occurred in the Highlands in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden. In 1746, the British government dispatched about 1,000 Highland Jacobite prisoners of war to the colonies as indentured servants. Later, during the Seven Years War of 1756-63, Highland regiments recruited in the service of the British crown chose to settle in Canada and America rather than return to Scotland.Once in North America, the Highlanders tended to be clannish and moved in extended family groups, unlike immigrants from the Lowlands who moved as individuals or in groups of a few families. The Gaelic-speaking Highlanders tended to settle on the North American frontier, whereas the Lowlanders merged with the English on the coast. Highlanders seem to have established "beachheads," and their kin subsequently followed. The best example of this pattern is in North Carolina, where they first arrived in 1739 and moved to the Piedmont, to be followed by others for over a century. Highlanders from particular counties in Scotland, moreover, settled in particular areas in the colonies; for example, those from Argyll tended to emigrate to North Carolina, to upper New York, and later to the Canadian Maritimes. Another factor that distinguishes research in Highland genealogy is the availability of pertinent records. Scottish genealogical research is generally based on the parish registers of the Church of Scotland, which provide information on baptism and marriage. In the Scottish Lowlands, such records can date back to the mid-16th century, but in general Highland records start much later. Americans seeking their Highland roots, therefore, face the problem that there are few, if any, church records available that predate the American Revolution. In the absence of Church of Scotland records, the researcher must turn to a miscellany of other records, such as court records, estate papers, sasines, gravestone inscriptions, burgess rolls, port books, services of heirs, wills and testaments, and especially rent rolls. (Some rent rolls even predate parish registers.)Mr. Dobson's series, Scottish Highlanders on the Eve of the Great Migration, 1725-1775, therefore, is designed to identify the kinds of material that is available in the absence of parish registers and to supplement the church registers when they are available. Scottish Highlanders on the Eve the Great Migration, 1725-1775: The People of Argyll is the first volume in the series; subsequent volumes will focus on Inverness and other Highland districts. While the present volume is not a comprehensive directory of all the people of Argyll during the mid-18th-century, it does pull together references on nearly 3,000 18th-century inhabitants. Coverage extends to all parishes within Argyll, with the exception of the Isle of Jura, which has been dealt with elsewhere in print. In all cases, Mr. Dobson gives each Highlander's name, a place within Argyll (birth, residence, employment, etc.), a date, and the source. In some cases, we also learn the ide

The firearms produced at Harpers Ferry, the southern site for the federal government's arsenal-armory established in 1794, were used in the Lewis and Clark expedition, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and in virtually all of the battles of the Civil War. This work is fully illustrated with photographs and drawings of all models of firearms produced at Harpers Ferry, and documented by weapons expert and genealogist Stuart Brown Jr.

This work is the result of Polly Mason's prodigious effort to reconstruct the records of Gloucester County from other sources. Volume I cites a variety of land ownership or tax lists relating to Gloucester County, while the second volume focuses on the movement of Gloucester residents into neighboring counties, as evidenced in abstracts of deed books from those counties.