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BY: Robert Armistead Stewart, Orig. Pub. 1934, Reprinted 2021, 279 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-039-8.This book is broken up into two main sections. The first is a general history of the organization along with its exploits. The second section is an alphabetical roster of its officers and enlisted men. These entries of the roster include, wherever possible, rank or status of officers and others, names of vessels served upon, length of service, native county, and, in main cases, information about their heirs and descendants.

By: Beverly Fleet, Pub. 1940, Reprinted 2021, 239 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-790-4. Essex County was created from OLD Rappahannock County in 1692. This volume is a consolidation of 2 volumes of books into one user friendly volume that Mrs. Fleet published back in 1940. This book includes Wills & Deeds from 1711-1717.

By: R.L. James, Pub. 1945, reprinted 2021, 160 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-878-1Colbert county is located in the northwestern corner of the state. It was created in 1867 from Franklin County. This book was consolidated out of several out of 4 separate issues of the Alabama Historical Quarterly. The bulk of this book are biographical sketches and obituaries of these early citizens of the county. The index that was created for this book mentions over 2100 individuals.

BY: Thompson Westcott, Pub. 1865, reprinted 2021, 190 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-035-0.This book is a list of approximately 2,000 persons who signed the Revolutionary oath of allegiance in Philadelphia giving the name of signer, the date of signing, and sometimes giving the occupation and residence of the signer. In many instances, the signer was previously from one of the other Thirteen Colonies, and this as well as his European origins are mentioned.

By: Frederick Lewis Weis, Pub. 1955, Reprinted 2021, 108 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-031-2. This book is alphabetical list of approximately 950 colonial clergymen from 1607-1776 who settled in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. These annotations furnish such useful genealogical data as date & place of birth, date & place of death, names of parents, college of matriculation, date of ordination, denomination, names of parishes, dates in which tenure was held, and a variety of other similar data.

By: Clarence Stewart Peterson, Pub. 1959, reprinted 2021, 198 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-028-2.This book is an alphabetically list of approximately 10,000 "Known" military dead during the American Revolution. Information to be found within: names with rank, date of death, and state of birth or service or place where buried.

By: Frederick Lewis Weis, Pub. 1957, Reprinted 2021, 188 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-024-4. This book is alphabetical list of approximately 1,250 colonial clergymen from 1628-1776 who settled in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. These annotations furnish such useful genealogical data as date & place of birth, date & place of death, names of parents, college of matriculation, date of ordination, denomination, names of parishes, dates in which tenure was held, and a variety of other similar data.

By: Janie Revill, Pub. 1939, reprinted 2021, 162 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN # 978-1-63914-019-0.This book is a great source for trying to locate an early ancestor's place of settlement within South Carolina. The 4,000 immigrants listed in this book were Protestant refugees from Europe who came to South Carolina in search of new lands and religious freedom. Arranged chronologically, and taken verbatim from the original Council Journals, 1763-1773, the information given in the certificates and petitions for lands under the Bounty Act includes the date and the location and acres of land granted. In some cases the immigrants are listed with their age, country of origin, and name of the vessel on which they arrived.

By: Works progress Administration, Pub. 1938, Reprinted 2021, 221 pages, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-020-6.This book tells the story of migration of Swedes and Finns in the 17th century from Pennsylvania and Delaware to the creek lands of southern New Jersey. It describes their efforts to preserve their native ways of life and emphasizes the growth of the important Swedish Lutheran Churches at Raccoon and Penns Neck. These two communities are located in Salem County.

By: C.H.B. Turner, Pub. 1909, Reprinted 2021, soft cover, 418 pages, Index, ISBN #978-1-63911-013-8.Sussex County was created in 1680 and is the southern most county in the state. It shares boarders with Maryland and the Atlantic Ocean. This book has a wide variety of records within, ranging from: civil, court, church and Bible records. The civil records range from Letters to Petitions to Residents Lists. While the court records cover such things as: Land Grants, Civil Suits, Wills, Administrations and Marriage records. The Church records cover such things as: Letters, Petitions, Subscriber Lists and Vestry records for St. Peter's church. This leaves us to the last type of records: The Bible records. Here one will discover a wealth of genealogical information including things like: births, deaths, and marriages. Also the reader will discover that there are some Kent County records that have been included.

By: Morton Montgomery, Orig. Pub. 1894, reprinted 2021, 300 pages, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-015-2.Berks County was created in 1752 from: Chester, Lancaster, and Philadelphia Counties. It sits in the southeastern portion of the state. Early immigrants who came to this are were from England, Germany and the Netherlands. This book is arranged in two parts. Part 1: covers the history of Berks County and her residents during the Revolution. With such things as, the county's Associators, the various militia companies and their campaigns including their militia rolls, prisoners of war, matters of supply, proclamations, and estimates of men in service. Part 2: includes approximately fifty biographical sketches of persons with a focus on the individual's participation in the war and, giving names of spouse's and children.

By: Janie Revill, Pub. 1941, reprinted 2021, 387 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-017-6.This is a copy of the original index book showing Revolutionary War claims filed in South Carolina between August 20, 1783 and August 31, 1786. The approximate 11,000 Claimants are listed in alphabetically order, with multiple references to the returns showing the page number of the entry book. Since the Index was kept by the Auditor General of South Carolina, this book constitutes an authoritative source for Revolutionary War claims. The author has also included a section on officers in the hospital and men of the Frigate South Carolina to whom certificates had been awarded.

By: Clinton J. Perryman, Pub. 1933, reprinted 2021, 224 pages, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-005-3. Lincoln County was created 1796 from Wilkes County. This book is not too different from other county history books of this era. With such topics as formation of county, trade and transportation, labor, farming, religion, towns and involvement in Revolutionary & Civil War - all important in the development of the county - are carefully discussed. This type of county history book can help one develop ideas or paths to those missing ancestors by showing the customs and traditions of the local residents. A particular useful feature of this book is the extensive biographical information included. Almost a third of this book is devoted to biographical sketches for: Ashmore (2), Boykin, Clarke, Crawford (2), Curry, Dooly (3), Dunaway, Florence, Hogan (3), Hudson, Humphreys, Lamar (2), Lyon, Murray, Perryman, Smalley, Strother, Tutt, Ward, Ware and Zellars.

By: WPA, Pub. 1941, reprinted 2121, 350 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-003-9.The Spanish Land Grants were land claims filed by settlers in Florida after the transfer of the territory from Spain to the United States in 1821 in order to prove land ownership. Starting in 1790, Spain offered land grants to encourage settlement to the sparsely populated and vulnerable Florida colony. When the United States assumed control of Florida, it agreed to honor any valid land grants. This volume is comprised of confirmed Claims for the years 1793-1797. The value of the translation of the Spanish Land Grants and their supporting documents is also enhanced by the inclusion of geographical data, such as the names and locations of creeks, roads and Indian trails, as well as basic information on the size, location and basis of each claim will be found to be important social and economic data on the English occupation of Florida (1763-1783) and the second Spanish occupation (1783-1821).