Genealogists and Historians researching royal descendants have found this work to be extremely helpful. Browning's "Americans of Royal Descent" is considered a standard on royal genealogy, containing 213 pedigrees, which outlines the lineal descent of hundreds of American families from European Kings and Queens. The information presented has been developed primarily from recognized authorities, privately printed family histories, and pedigree manuscripts to which the author had access. The indices contain approximately 4,000 surnames, with thousands more individuals documented within the content of the book. Many of the entries include dates of birth and death, marriages, information on the spouse, occupations, as well as other information. Paper, (1891), repr. 2011, Index, 732 pp.

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The author follows hundreds of Welsh pioneers into Pennsylvania via the records of the various land companies who re-settled William Penn's famous grant of land along the Schuylkill River. For sources, he utilizes lists of settlers, land patents, plat maps, and biographical sketches to flesh out the process of settlement in Merion and the adjacent towns of Haverford and Radnor.Still other important features are a study of the sometimes strained affairs between Welsh Tract settlers and William Penn, various personal accounts by the settlers, and a history of the Quaker meetings founded within the Welsh Tract.

Represents the first 276 pages of "Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania" written by Charles H. Browning and originally published by William Campbell, 1912, Philadelphia. Lists those who arrived in 1682 or soon thereafter and gives genealogies of some of thei

Rich in historical and genealogical material about these New World pioneers and their descendants. The first Welsh Quaker families arrived in 1682. Old manuscript records trace the establishment of the Welsh Tract through deeds, maps, account ledgers and

During the 1850s the doctrine of Manifest Destiny sanctioned a popular movement in which adventurers sought to enlarge the nation's boundaries by military incursions into Latin American countries. Brown portrays the leaders of the expeditions and describes the filibuster movement as a part of larger affairs--the slavery issue, the Monroe Doctrine, the rivalry for commercial supremacy in the Caribbean, and the assertion by the United States of its claim to national greatness.
Originally published in 1980.
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