Bøger om Colonization and Settlement

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By: I. Daniel Rupp, Pub. 1844, 560 pages, NEW INDEX, ISBN #978-1-63914-144-9. From the noted author of his time, I.D. Rupp, comes the reprint of his important work covering south central Pennsylvania. These counties were officially created around the 1752 and 1814 but settlers started arriving in the area around the 1740's. Early immigrants were of Swedish, Welch, French, German, English and Scotch-Irish descents. There is much genealogical information to be found interspersed throughout this book. A new Index has been completed for this reprint with approximately 7,000 entries.

By: Elisabeth Hartsook and Gust Skordas, Pub. 1946, reprinted 2023, 124 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-140-1. This book will make a great resource tool for those searching for relatives in Maryland. This bulk of this book is the history of the Land Administered by colonial Maryland to these early settlers thru discussions of Patents, Warrants, Propriety Leases, Rent Rolls, Debt Books and etc... The author also has included a study of the colonial Prerogative Court which was in control of all Probate matters. This too will benefit the Maryland researcher looking for those relatives within the state.

By: Atlanta Town Committee, Pub. 1962, reprinted 2023, 200 pages, New Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-137-1. The records were compiled for the Department of Archivers and History of the State of Georgia. Georgia's colonial period starts with the Charter signed by King George II in 1732 and ends at the close of the Revolutionary War in 1777. Many of the colonial records have been lost due to war and neglect. During the Civil War the most important records were loaded on wagons and hauled to Charleston, SC. From there they were moved to Newbern, NC then to upper Virginia and finally to Maryland. They were not returned to Savannah until 1783 again by wagon. Wills were not considered the most important papers and did not make the wagon transfers. Some of these early records ended up in the Tower of London where they remained until 1801. The wills within this book are those that were found in trunks within the Tower of London.

By: Lillian Powell, Dorothy Odom, and Albert Hillhouse, Pub. 1974, reprinted 1988 & 2023, 384 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-136-4. Burke County was one of the first 8 counties created by the Constitution of 1777 after Georgia broke from British control and became an independent state. During the short period 1733-1752 when Georgia was a Trustee Colony, and later a part of this geographical area was known as "Halifax District". In 17893 a portion of Burke was cut off to help create Screven County and in 1796 another portion to form Jefferson County and in 1905 to create Jenkins County. Waynesboro is the county seat and other cities are Midville, Sardis, Alexander, Blythe (partly in Richmond), Girard, Gough, Keysville, Rosier, Shaw Town, Shell Bluff, St. Clair, and Vidette. Also included in this book, but located in Jefferson, Jenkins, Richmond and Screven Counties are 39 cemeteries in the main not far from Burke County line.

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail--an epic journey into the wilds of seventeeth-century New England, and a chase like no other.'From what is it they flee?'He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, They killed the King.1660 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe board a ship bound for the New World. They are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I--a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control.But now, ten years after Charles' beheading, the royalists have returned to power. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, the fifty-nine men who signed the king's death warrant and participated in his execution have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. Some of the Roundheads, including Oliver Cromwell, are already dead. Others have been captured, hung, drawn, and quartered. A few are imprisoned for life. But two have escaped to America by boat.In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is charged with bringing the traitors to justice and he will stop at nothing to find them. A substantial bounty hangs over their heads for their capture--dead or alive. . . .Robert Harris's first historical novel set predominantly in America, Act of Oblivion is a novel with an urgent narrative, remarkable characters, and an epic true story to tell of religion, vengeance, and power--and the costs to those who wield it.