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With over 1,800 Ohioan surnames referenced in this work, Mr. Hehir provides, in one source, a comprehensive listing of all printed Ohioan genealogies and family histories that have made their way into major library collections across the U.S. The author researched library listings and catalogs covering many genealogical libraries, including the Library of Congress, the National Genealogical Society Library, and the Library of the Daughters of the American Revolution along with historical association libraries from Massachusetts to California. Many of the books deal with multiple families, some with non-Ohio roots. Arranged for ease of use, the entries are presented alphabetically according to surname, with a cross index to family and secondary names to help researchers find surnames that would otherwise remain buried within the text. Also included is a separate bibliography of titles on microfilm at the Library of Congress. No genealogist working with Ohioan families should be without this time-saving volume on his or her shelf.

Early records of court minutes provide an excellent source of names, because these records precede the county's first extant census of 1820. Almost everyone had dealings with the courts, whether they were serving on a jury, suing a neighbor, or being sent to jail! The information, chronologically arranged, was transcribed from microfilm. Every name has been indexed for easy reference. The court minutes include the names of the officials who were present at each session and the names of the parties involved in the court proceedings. Records of meetings could include appointments to offices, applications for licenses, petitions, descriptions of deeds, new roads and property boundaries, sales of slaves, etc. These records also provide a glimpse of life as it was long ago: "Tavern Rates till Next Court, half a pint Whiskey 16 2/3 Cts, half pint Brandy 21 Cents, half pint rum or Wine 25 Cents, Breakfast or supper 25 Cents, Dinner 33 1/3 Cents" (July 1796).

This important work is the culmination of twelve years of detailed investigation aimed at identifying all the people born with the surname Young (prior to 1870) who lived in Strafford County, New Hampshire. It is a truly excellent compilation, very professionally done, and should serve as a model for others who undertake similar projects. The compiler has drawn her information from a thorough study of essentially all the relevant primary sources, as well as from numerous published materials, and arranged it in a basic dictionary format which is very easy to use. The compiler shows that thirty towns that were at some point part of Strafford County had Young residents, and that there were a dozen or more independent progenitors of the Young families in the county who came from England and Scotland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and from Ireland and Canada in the nineteenth century. The lengthy introduction explains in detail the methodology and the format used. Basically, every person born with the name Young who lived to marry is the subject of a main biographical article which gives all the known information about that person including names of parents, spouses, and children, and all the available vital statistics, information on land ownership, estates, etc. In addition, there are many main entries for men and women who did not marry, but were otherwise important members of their communities, and about whom a good deal of information was found.

The probate records of Delaware provide the richest source of information for those seeking genealogical data or material for social or economic history in the early years. ...All of the original probate records in the Hall of Records have been compared wit

This is a transcription of War of 1812 prisoner of war records of American sailors, marines, soldiers and merchantmen which were transcribed from the ledgers of the British Admiralty. Chatham received prisoners directly from the prison facilities at Halifax, Canada, and at Plymouth and Portsmouth in England. A large number of men were captured at the ports in Great Britain at the beginning of the war and sent to Chatham. The Royal Navy's Chatham Dockyard was the home of one of the three prisoner of war prison ship facilities which were used during the War of 1812 to house American prisoners of war. The facility had been used since 1796 to intern French prisoners of war during the Napoleonic Wars. A total of 3,955 Americans, including 543 African-Americans, were interned at Chatman before being transferred to Dartmoor, or released and sent back to the United States. The ledgers from Chatham include the partial listing of the crews from the U.S. Frigate President, the U.S. Brig Argus, the U.S. Schooners Growler and Julia, and the U.S. Revenue Marine Cutters James Madison and Surveyor. Mr. Johnson is a lineal descendant of seven veterans of the War of 1812, and he is the past president of the Society of the War of 1812 in the State of Ohio (2008-2011). He is currently the Registrar General for the General Society of the War of 1812; and has served as the Historian General (2011-2014) and the Archivist General (2014-2017) for this society.

The town of Clayton was established on February 9, 1836 by order of its proprietors, Charles K. McCoy, John McCoy and Reuben K. McCoy. It is situated on the T. W. Railroad, at the junction of a road running towards Quincy and the road diverging to Keokuk, Iowa. The marriage and related entries in this work were abstracted from The Clayton Enterprise newspaper of Clayton, Illinois, dating from 1879 through 1900. Any items mentioning a family name, such as advertisements, jury lists, criminal court records and letters remaining at the post office have been abstracted. Useful information contained in each entry can include: wedding dates and places: name of spouse; name of clergy; and occupation. Surnames are alphabetically arranged for quick and easy reference.

This fascinating historical journey begins in 1632; preceding the settlement in 1633 of the city originally known as Providence. This chronological account continues to the War of 1812, followed by a description of Annapolis and its more prominent public building, including the Naval Academy and St. John's College. Puritan settlers, conflict with Indians, disputes with England, churches, military organizations, General Washington's arrival, and much more are discussed. "In those periods where nothing immediately connected with Annapolis was found, incidents in relation to the history of the Province and State of Maryland, have been introduced." The Appendix contains an abundance of letters from notable figures such as General George Washington, Governor Lee, John Hancock, and others.

Middlesex County, Virginia Order Book Abstracts, 1697-1700 contains entries from Middlesex County, Virginia Order Book No. 3, 1694-1705 beginning on page 170 and ending on page 336 for courts held March 1, 1696/7 through April 1, 1700. County court order books contain records of all matters brought before the court while in session. The information contained in these records may not appear elsewhere. The order books typically provide a synopsis of court cases in a relatively organized format. Records you may find include appointments of local officials, records of legal disputes such as property disputes, estate disputes, and disputes involving slaves and servants, certificates granted for apprehending runaway servants and delivering letters, and much more. This information is similar to our present day small claims and civil courts. An index to full-names, places and subjects adds to the value of this work.

This county in southern Delaware was the site of the first Dutch settlement in the area in 1631. Initially, the county was only twelve miles wide and thirty miles long because what is now the western side of the county was claimed by Lord Baltimore until 1767 when the Maryland boundary was finally settled. "Previous to the settlement of the dispute between Lord Baltimore and Penn[,] Sussex County was only 30 miles long and 12 miles wide. That is the portion referred to in these records." This volume contains a wealth of records for that original county, including civil, court, church, and Bible records. The civil records include many letters, petitions, and resident lists; the court records include land grants, civil suits, wills, administrations, and marriage records; the church records include letters, petitions, subscriber lists, and the vestry records of St. Peter's Church for the early 1800s; the Bible records section includes a wealth of birth, marriage, and death data. Some Kent County records are also included. Several facsimile reprints of vintage photographs and an index to full-names, places and subjects add to the value of this work.

Birth records are an important research area for genealogists. Although Patrick County was formed from Henry County in 1791, birth records were not recorded for the county until 1853. This four-volume series contains abstracted records from the register at the Patrick County Courthouse, Stuart, Virginia, which provide name, date of birth, race, sex, and parents' names.

Birth records are an important research area for genealogists. Although Patrick County was formed from Henry County in 1791, birth records were not recorded for the county until 1853. This four-volume series contains abstracted records from Patrick County, which provide name, date of birth, race, sex, and parents' names. This volume contains 3,989 entries.

This work consists primarily of deeds, but these early land records sometimes served as a "catch-all" for recording events including powers of attorney, patents, articles of agreement, acknowledgment of receipt of estate portion, deeds of gift to family members, contracts, and quit claims.

Many names and relationships are uncovered in Chancery Court records. Abstracts of foreclosures, partition or sale of real estate to settle an estate, satisfy creditors, divorces etc. Every name and tract name abstracted.

Will Books are a good source in the search for slaves only if the owner named the slave(s). Many times a will lists property without specifying if it includes slaves. For example: "I will and bequeath to my (wife, son, daughter, etc.) all my estate both real and personal of every sort;" or, "...the property I have already given to my (wife, son, daughter, etc.)..." The documents often do not include the slave's name, sometimes only girl, runaway, boy, etc. Each chapter in this work contains information gleaned from one Will Book. The documents include Administrator's Estate, Executor and Guardian Accounts, Wills, and, Inventory and Appraisals. Each entry gives the name of the slave owner, page number, date, and type of document followed by a list of slaves. The new owner is listed if known. Surnames of the owner's children are indexed only if noted in the document. The slaves who were emancipated, freed or manumitted are listed in the index under Emancipated. A full-name index adds to the value of this work.

The author was inspired to create this helpful resource book while researching her second great-grandmother Mildred Timbers. It is not known how Mildred became a slave. Was Mildred willed to someone? Was she purchased at a sale? Was her mother already property when she was born? Without a helpful aid, like the books in this series, the author was faced with the daunting task of reading every page of every Will Book to find the answers. This is the book the author wished she had to help her with her research. Is your ancestor within these pages? Will books are a good source in the search for slaves only if the owner named the slave(s). This series provides researchers with easy access to information that could otherwise require several months of reading through microfilm. Each chapter contains one Will Book. Documents include administrators, estate, executors and guardian accounts, wills, inventory and appraisals. Entries list each slave owner, followed by the page number, date and type of document. The list of slaves follows and the new owner is listed if known. Surnames of the owner's children are indexed only if noted in the document. First names have been standardized in order to make it easier to search for a name. A full-name index adds to the value of this work. This series is a MUST for researchers of slaves and/or owners of Fauquier County, Virginia.

"Castledermot, properly Dysert-Diarmada, is a small town of about 700 inhabitants in County Kildare. The name by itself is worth talking about. It shows up the vicissitudes of Irish place-names; and it illustrates this, too, that much of the glory of the past, suggested by the original name, is obscured and hidden away by barbarous modern un-Irish terms." Chapters include: County Kildare: its clans, round towers, castles, monasteries and convents, and more; Dysert: what it means, the place and the word; Dyserts, What They Were: Croagh Patrick and Slieve Donard and others; The Lake Dysert; The Ocean Dysert; Faded Memories: Should Saints Be Forgotten?; The Irish Lay Brother; Towns Cradled in Hermits's Cells; A Duel Between Names: Dysert-Diarmada or Castledermot?; Dysert-Diarmada Wins as a Place Name; An Objection From Shakespeare; Irish Place-Names Disfigured: Loop Head, Mutton Island, The Ovens and others; Ireland as a National Art Gallery: battles, portraits, groups, legends, sports, historical events, penal scenes and landscapes; Dysert-Diarmada as a Painting: key to a gallery of local pictures; A Ready-Made History of Dysert-Diarmada: local writers, the Sacred Promontory, Camden's Mistake, the Gaelic League and supplementary facts. An Index of Place-Names Explained and a General Index complete this work.

This information is culled from local newspaper obituaries, cemetery records, death records and funeral home records. Typical entries include name, age, date and place of birth, date of death, names of spouse and children, and source of information.

This information is culled from local newspaper obituaries, cemetery records, death records and funeral home records. Typical entries include name, age, date and place of birth, date of death, names of spouse and children, and source of information.

Revolutionary War historians as well as genealogists seeking ancestors in Maine will devour these documents, which dates from June 1766 to July 1777. Documents are arranged chronologically and are miscellaneous in nature, concerning land grants, Indian troubles and the increasing tension between the crown and the colonies. The first two documents concern the garrisons at Fort Pownall and Castle William. The next is a petition regarding a landowner's dispute with the government of New Hampshire, which ran a township line through his property. Petitions for the establishment of towns include names of the earliest settlers. The Boston Tea Party left in its wake an anxious state of vigilance and suspicion. Letters and petitions describe the difficulties of raising militias, the distress of the people in isolated areas lacking food and other supplies, the detainment of spies and other aspects of the prevailing instability. The final documents in this volume are letters from Meschech Weare to the council of Massachusetts Bay, "confirming the unhappy affair at Ticonderoga." and urging that "some spirited measures should be immediately taken." Fans of the famous Revolutionary War novels by Kenneth Roberts will recognize the names of ships, places and leaders who took part in the defense of the coast of Maine. Several exciting reports of naval battles are included. Read the account of the capture of the king's cutter at Machias in 1775, and the list of terrible losses following the attack by the British on Falmouth.

Prince George Winyah Parish was established in 1721 from St. James Santee Parish. The first known register of Prince George Winyah Parish begins in 1815 and ends in 1916. The format of the original register has been followed as closely as possible. The second register covers baptisms, burials, confirmations, marriages, and lists of communicants, 1916-1936. The entries in these registers include slaves, Negroes, and free persons of color. Chapters include: Baptisms, 1815-1916; Confirmations, 1816-1909; Marriages, 1816-1911; Communicants, 1866-1915; Burials, 1816-1915; Communicants, 1916-1936; Baptisms, 1916-1936; Confirmations, 1916-1936; Burials, 1916-1936; and Marriages, 1916-1936. A sketch of the Prince George Winyah Church, a facsimile reprint of a marriage page from the original register, and a full-name index add to the value of this work.

The term guardian accounts can be misleading. These records span a greater range of human activity than one might envision. The fact that a child has lost his father creates records which reveal older siblings, widows and their new husbands, uncles, aunts, division of land, questions of guardian abuse, spouses of the older children - all the stuff that genealogy is made of! These records are filled with genealogical information covering a period in which there is a scarcity of data - from the 1750s to the 1850s. Information on relationships between parties is often revealed (stated or implied). Ages are evident, sometimes exact and other times approximate. Approximate dates of death can also be inferred. Clues to relative wealth are interspersed throughout. Names of court officials in the proceedings have been omitted for purposes of economy. Records are grouped by the decedent's surname. Mary Marshall Brewer has gleaned a myriad of records, condensing and re-arranging them in a most useable package. An index to full-names and places adds to the value of this work.

This is the first volume of a planned series of Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The first volume is devoted to the works of Mary Frances Carey, whereas subsequent volumes also include the works of Barry Miles and M. K. Miles. Mary Frances has devoted many years to research of early Accomack County families and is in the process of turning over her research to Barry and M. K., whose collaboration has generated a database of Accomack County families. The database initially focused on the upper portion of Accomack County, but it has expanded into the rest of Accomack and Northampton Counties. These three individuals have over twenty-five years of experience each with Accomack County families and the various local records, cemeteries, and people still living in Accomack County. Mary Frances has researched and locally printed over forty family booklets, and, with Barry and M. K., she has published the Tombstone Inscriptions of Upper Accomack County, Virginia. The Miles team published the Marriage Records of Accomack County, Virginia, 1854-1896 in 1997 and the Abstract of the Wills and Administrations of Accomack County, Virginia, 1800-1860 in 2000. They have also assembled over 40,000 names in a genealogy database representing hundreds of Accomack families. This volume is devoted to families of Accomack and Northampton Counties including descendants of: James Bonnewell, Richard Bundick, William Mason, Edward Thornton, Henry Trader/Armitrader, and Henry Wright. A full-name and place index adds to the value of this work.

The records that have been abstracted in this book were found in a suit in Loudoun County, Virginia, suit number M:2491 Lane & West vs Evans et als 1771. It was thought before the discovery of these records that none of the records of Cameron Parish were in existence; therefore it was most exciting to find these few documents. The surviving records cover only a few years (1763-1767) and only a part of the parish. The area of the county covered is above Goose Creek and Little River to Fauquier County line. It appears in these records there is a tithable list for this district above Goose Creek and Little River for the year 1765. A full-name index adds to the value of this work.

During the American Revolution men from the Old Dominion served in both Continental and state military establishments consisting of a sometimes bewildering array of regiments, battalions, corps, legions, detachments, and companies. A valuable aid to the s

This volume continues to focus on families living in Kent County and Sussex County, tracing lineages of early settlers into the early 1800s. The primary sources of information are court records (probate and orphans' court), land records, and church records. Many of the early settlers in these counties were Quakers.

This book compiles three years' worth of issues of a bi-monthly periodical of the same name; it draws information from over 75 counties throughout the state of Illinois inclusive of dates ranging throughout the 19th century. Entries have been gleaned from newspapers and various other sources of records, and include death records, burial records, marriage records, tax lists, deed records, court records, bond records and military service records, among other genealogically rich data.

Jeremiah Johns was born in South Carolina on November 18, 1788. He married circa 1809, probably in Wayne County, Georgia, and then settled in Hamilton County, Florida. A special forward by Vera Mallon, past chairman of the Florida Pioneers Committee of the Florida State Genealogical Society is included with copies of original documentation suggesting that this Jeremiah is the one who signed off on the deed of Jacob Johns of Walterboro, South Carolina, as of January 23, 1817. Jeremiah appears in what is now Hamilton County, Florida in 1829, and he was listed in the 1830 Territorial Census of Florida as the head of the family, so descendants of Jeremiah E. Johns, upon presentation of the proper evidence, should qualify for "Florida Pioneer Descendants Certificates." The Florida State Genealogical Society urges members who have territorial Florida ancestors to apply for this certificate. This book identifies the relationships of almost 4,000 descendants of Jeremiah, including the following major surnames: Johns, Bryan, Cheshire, Ellis, Hogan, Brown, Johnson, Mickler, Smith, McGhin, Hutchinson, McMullen. Stewart, Dorman, Williams, Peeples, Knight, Miller, Turner, and Ward. There are also over 700 other surnames of people who were touched by "Jeremiah's Brand." Over 300 of his descendants contributed information including birth, death, burial location, marriages, children, and other textual data on themselves and their ancestors. A full-name index that includes birth and death date (if available), a list of sources, and facsimile reprints of original documents (including maps) enhance the text. Burton Johns is a member of the National Genealogical Society, the Florida State Genealogical Society, the Suwannee Valley Historical Association, the Colleton County Genealogical Society, and numerous other local groups. He has been working on this project since 1987. He is a Florida Pioneer descendant.

With over 1,500 Tennessean surnames, Mr. Hehir provides, in one source, a comprehensive listing of all printed Tennessean genealogies and family histories that have made their way into major library collections across the U.S. The author researched library listings and catalogs covering many genealogical libraries, including the Library of Congress, the National Genealogical Society Library and the Library of the Daughters of the American Revolution, along with historical association libraries from Massachusetts to California. Many of the books deal with multiple families, some with non-Tennessee roots. Arranged for ease of use, the entries are presented alphabetically according to surname, with a cross-reference index to family and secondary names to help researchers find surnames that would otherwise remain buried within the text. No genealogist working with Tennessee families should be without this time-saving volume. The author has also added an appendix with helpful hints on "Accessing the Library of Congress records via the internet."

This book contains information about the men and women from Maryland and Delaware who served in the military or in civil service and rendered aid to British and American soldiers during the war against the French and Indians. Approximately 6,000 soldiers, sailors and civilian supporters have been identified. In many cases genealogical information has been included about the soldier or patriot and his family. Names have been cross-referenced within the text, precluding the need for a separate index. This book should be a useful research tool for those seeking information about their Colonial Maryland and Delaware ancestors.

This volume continues the series using a wide variety of primary and secondary records. It covers the following families: John Baskervyle/Baskerville, Henry Borodell, Ambrose Cobbs/Cobb, John Drewry, Ralph Graves, William and Charles Grymes, Edward Grymes, Anthony Lamb, Gabriel Maupin, Thomas Morgan, John Overstreet, Walter Patrick, John Rogers (and John Aduston), Captain William Rogers, The Reverend James Sclater, Nicholas Sebrell, Armiger Wade, Thomas Wade of James City County, Edward Wade, Thomas Wade of York County, and John Weldon. A full-name index adds to the value of this work. 'In all three volumes, while emphasis has been placed on using published copies of original records, the views of as many other reasonable interpreters of the historical record are included to give credible possibilities of where to begin to look to strengthen the historical record.'