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Annual Town Reports are a rich vein of genealogical information, which the author has gleaned and compiled to create a valuable genealogical research tool. This three-part work is divided into Births, Marriages and Deaths. Entries are arranged alphabetically by surname within each section. Birth entries include (as available): child's name, date and place of birth (if other than New Castle) and number of the child; father's name, place of birth, age and occupation; mother's maiden name, age and place of birth. Marriage entries include (as available): groom's name and residence; bride's name and residence; date and place of marriage (if other than New Castle). Information pertaining to husband and wife is listed individually and includes: age, occupation, number of marriage (if other than first); father's name, place of birth and occupation; and mother's name, place of birth and occupation. Death entries include (as available): name of deceased, place of death, date of death, age at death, cause of death, marital status, birthplace, father's name and place of birth, and mother's name and place of birth. Some of the later records have been supplemented with data from the Social Security Death Benefit database. Early vital records of many New Hampshire towns, including Annual Town Reports, can be located through the state's Vital Record Department, on microfilm through the LDS Family History Centers, and at the New Hampshire State Library in Concord.

The book used for recording the general affairs of the town of Rowley from 1639 to 1672 is a much worn, mutilated, and neary illegible, many leaves are missing, so that nothing remains of record before August, 1647. The printed copy begins on page 51. Another book, containing the record of the laying out of lands and division of fences, was begun in 1643. It appears herein on the first fifty pages and thence chronologically in connection with the first named record. There is a third book, styled "Book No. 1" of the town records, into which some matters of the book have imperfectly copies. Records therein, not found in the other two books, appear herein in proper order.These records have been carefully transcribed to follow the original words, letters, punctuation and blank spaces so that the reader has all the advantages that can be gained from the original, save the handwriting.

During the 1780s the state government of New York was zealously working towards acquiring the title to the land which would later become Chenango County. It was late in 1788 before the state officially assumed jurisdiction of the area, and by 1789-90 a land survey was completed that divided the county into townships. The land was promptly put up for public sale, but it was some time before settlers migrated en masse to the county. Circa 1791, immigration began to climb, and steadily the population of Chenango County increased. A great portion of these immigrants were Revolutionary War veterans. Some of these veterans had recently received their pensions and were looking to make a home in Chenango County. It is this subject that this work very astutely addresses. The veterans of Chenango County came from various locations around the state and the country, and it has often been quite difficult for individuals to research them. However, this series makes that task seemingly effortless. The sources used are extremely reliable. The initial research was taken from files generated by the Daughters of the American Revolution. These files subsequently became part of the collection of the Chenango County Historian's Office. The author logically followed by compiling a list of possible veterans using the innumerable libraries, archives, historical associations and societies at his disposal. The register of likely veterans was established by a process of rational conclusions, using information from varied sources. These sources include: family information, surrogate records, family genealogies, cemetery records, historical publications and many local historians. The format of this serial study is set up in a very sensible manner. In short form each entry incorporates all or most of the following information: the veteran's name, date of residency, town of residence, date of birth and birthplace, mother and father, date and place of death, name and location of cemetery, and epitaph. A more detailed description of each veteran's history is also present. Aspects examined are service history; family information, including a brief profile of the veteran's children; and other additional information. Each edition provides a handy alphabetical listing of veterans to aid in research, and a family name index for the entire series exists within Volume IV. The veterans of Chenango County, New York, were quite active in their respective communities. They served their nation faithfully, with distinction and valor in war, and brought home to Chenango a sense of pride. They truly merit a place in Revolutionary War-era history. This is the first of four volumes of vital records concerning the Revolutionary War veterans of Chenango County, New York. It lists veterans with names that begin with letters A and B. Additional sections in this volume discuss: pension legislation, Revolutionary War battles, and Chenango County burial grounds.

This slender volume contains data transcribed from the Cumberland County, Virginia, tithable lists for 1759. There are two sections, the first gives the information in the order it was written by the commissioner of each district, showing neighboring households. The second section presents the same information alphabetically by the surname of the household. The transcriptions were compared with the article published by J. C. Kolbe in Southside Virginian in Volumes 2:111-113, 156-7, and 3:30-34. Entries include: Kolbe's volume/page number, surname, first name, number of tithables, name of commissioner, and sequence number in the commissioner's list.

This thorough investigation of the Ward family by William Hurley, one of Maryland's most prolific authors of genealogy, begins with James White Ward, a Revolutionary War veteran born in 1759 and the father of Ignatius Pigman Ward, whose three sons then contribute the remaining family history. One of them, Enoch George Ward, married three times and was the father of twenty children. The descendants are followed to the present time with information from land, church and cemetery records, census returns, family files, and any documents that could be found through the Montgomery County Historical Society. As always, the interesting and straightforward presentation of the data makes Mr. Hurley's books valuable to both seasoned and novice family hunters. This volume is completed by a twenty-eight-page index full of local family names, including Allgood, Baker, Brown, Burdette, Day, Dunn, Duvall, Fulks, Gingell, King, Nicholson, Pearce, Ricketts, Schneider, Sullivan, and six pages of Wards alone. The Wards of Maryland provides all kinds of interesting details when available such as occupations, personal belongings, military service and legal proceedings. The author points out that in the Ward families of Montgomery and Frederick counties a number of lineages appear to be involved, including German and English. Although Mr. Hurley concentrates on traceable lines of descent, all of the information uncovered in his research is included in this text so that it will not be lost, and can be of value for other researchers.

Edited by Hazel L. Berry and Mary H. Remler. This volume comprises genealogical data gleaned from five cemeteries within the Harrison Township. Harrison is the northern-most township of Hamilton County, and the first plat for this village was recorded in 1813. Records are grouped by cemetery, arranged by lot number, and include (as available) first and last name, date of birth or age, date of death, and remarks. In 1817, Jabez C. Tunis donated one acre of land for a cemetery, stipulating that it always be used as a public burial ground-the Harrison Park Cemetery. Sixty-three burials were removed to Glen Haven Cemetery in 1887, and in 1894, the remaining burials were removed to the Woodlawn Cemetery. Three burials remain in the park to fulfill the donation requirements. Glen Haven Cemetery was incorporated in 1857 and is still active. This, the largest section, also provides (as available) place of birth, cause of death, and place of residence. Land for the Woodlawn Cemetery was deeded to the Presbyterian Church in 1832. The cemetery, now owned by Harrison Township, is still active. On February 10, 1829, two and three-tenths acres of land were deeded to the Presbyterian Church. The church building was demolished in 1879, but the Old Baptist Cemetery remains. The cemetery that later became St. John The Baptist (Catholic) Cemetery was first established in 1857. A map of Hamilton County cemeteries, maps of the individual cemeteries (with lot locations), a list of abbreviations used, and a surname index augment the text.

Contains nearly 8,000 marriage notices for Steuben county, New York relating to newspaper accounts for 1797-1884.

The author comments, "I am still not sure why Rebecca's letters grip me as they do, but I read each one with a growing sense of family, of love, and of gratitude that she allowed us an intimate look back more than one hundred seventy-five years into the minds and hearts of her people. There were more than one hundred fifty letters, stained, torn, and faded, but neatly folded and protected in clear plastic envelopes. I can almost see the writers laboring with the sharpened end of a large feather in the dim light of a fire, candle or lantern. They were delivered by post, by hand sometimes through the kindness of a traveler...Spanning about a century, they involve four generations of her family. Most were written from South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, and Mississippi. They speak of daily life, of war and worship, of birth and death. While telling of the Earles and Whittens, they depict typical southern families as they moved south and west to settle the vast wilderness that became these United States." Rebecca Berry Whitten was the daughter of Silas Reagan Whitten and Eleanor Kee Earle. In the early 1840s, when she was a teenager, she began saving all the mail that came to her home, Pleasant Grove, in Gowensville, South Carolina. This careful preservation became a life-long habit, even after her family had settled in Tippah County, Mississippi, in 1851. In this book, Mr. Moore, a descendant of Rebecca, shares the letters of a lifetime with all who are interested in first hand glimpses of a lost age. Again quoting the author, "More can be learned from old letters than from those we write today. The old ones were longer and covered a broader range of subjects. Aside from intimate personal contact, nothing reveals the thoughts and character of individuals with greater clarity than old letters written to friends and family. Always valuable for genealogical research, they let us peer into the hearts and minds of writer and recipient." These Whittens and Earles were active Baptists. The letters often refer to persons, ideas, and events that will be of interest to Baptist historians: Rev. John Gill Landrum and Rev. Thomas J. Earle; Dr. Furman of Greenville, South Carolina; old Mercer College of Penfield, Georgia; a Calvinist concept of salvation; Old Side, Hardshell, and Missionary Baptists; Tiger Creek, Crossroads, and other churches of Greenville District, South Carolina are mentioned. Adding to the value of this collection as a research tool are the chapters Mr. Moore has written on the Whitten and Earle families. Here the writers and subjects of most of the letters are introduced, and their relationships to each other can be determined. Two indices enhance the value of this work: one, an every-name index; the other, a list of all the letters and articles included in the collection.

John Williams was a Puritan minister in Deerfield, Massachusetts, at a time of intense hostility between English settlers and the local Indian tribes. Throughout the 1690s the young clergyman was continually called upon to encourage and comfort his parishioners as members of the community were killed or captured by Indians. On February 29, 1703, Williams himself became a victim when a French and Indian raiding party sacked Deerfield. Two of his children were murdered outside his house, but he, his wife and their five other children were kidnapped and marched - with over a hundred captured prisoners - to Montreal. His wife, as well as many others who were too weak or infirm for the arduous journey, was killed along the way. He spent two and a half years as a captive in Quebec. Williams wrote his autobiographical account of the ordeal in 176, the year he was released, and it remained for many years one of the most populart among numerous Indian captivity accounts. After his description of the march to Montreal, Williams' narative focuses on the coercive attempts of the French to proselytize the English prisoners into the Roman Catholic faith. To make this early New England classic available to readers, Heritage Books, Inc. has taken a 1908 reprit of the 1795 sixth edition of The Redeemed Captive, which contains a sermon preached by Williams at Boston only two weeks after his return. Several appendices are also included, containing such information as, the names of all the Deerfield captives and brif chronologies of Deerfield before and after the devastating raid. A new everyname index has been added. Greatly enhancing this offer of the Williams' book is its combination with the related 1905 work by George Sheldon, Heredity and Early Environment of John Williams, "The Redeemed Captive." This valuable record provides biographical details of John Williams' youth, education and early adulthood as well as background information into the Puritan faith that was so much a part of Williams' and his neighbors' lives. An everyname index is included.

This is the fourth volume of a four-volume set, which contains abstracts of the Loudoun County, Virginia Office Judgments Books for 1786-1847. This volume presents abstracts from two books: the first covers the period 1835-1842; the second covers the period 1842-1847. Entries may include: name of administrator, assignee, attorney, defendant, plaintiff, sheriff, deputy sheriff, or others; judgment, security, interest charged, and more. Debt cases "dominated civil court dockets throughout the colonial period." During this period, Virginia court clerks were required to keep judgment dockets, which recorded any amount of money rendered in his court, and as requested, any court within the Commonwealth or federal court; any judgment for money and the time from which it would bear interest; the specific amount; and, the names of creditors and debtors and their addresses (if known), etc. In order to endow credit agreements with greater security, the court was often used "as a rational mechanism to record debts." A full-name index adds to the value of this work. 2015, 5¿x8¿, paper, index, 352 pp.