MacRaes to America!!


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Persons with the surname McRae, or several variations thereof, are listed by state. Information was taken mainly from U.S. censuses from 1790 to 1850.




History of Obion County, Tennessee


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By: E.H. Marshall, Orig Pub. 1941, Reprinted 2019, 270 pages, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-934-6. Obion County was created in 1823 from ceded Indian lands in the northwestern corner of the state. This land was first settled in 1819 when the western portion of the state was being opened for settlement. This book is not too different from other county history books of this era. With such topics as trade and transportation, labor, farming, politics, and race relations - all important in the development of the county - are 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.







1820 Census of Overton County, Tennessee


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Call of a Distant Drum


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James B. Speed (1679-1719) was the son of Dr. John Speed and (2) Philadelphia Knollys of Southampton, England. He emigrated to the Colonies and settled in the eastern part of Virginia in 1695. He was married to Mary Pulley in Surry Co., VA in 1711. They were the parents of seven sons and four daughters. Their son John B. Speed (1714-1779) married Mrs. Mary Minetry Taylor in Surry Co., VA. in 1737. They were the parents of eleven children. They owned land in Mecklenburg Co., VA at the time of their death. Eleven generations of descendants are given. Family members lived in Virginia, Kentucky, New York, North Carolina and elsewhere.




Census Reports


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Index to the 1820 Census of Tennessee


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Overall, this is an alphabetical index to 35,000 Tennessee heads of households listed in the fourth federal census, taken in 1820, with reference to the individual's county of residence and the page number of the census schedule wherein full data on the household and its occupants may be found.




Populations of States and Counties of the U. S. (1790-1990)


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Contains extensive data about population in all of the states and counties of the U.S. from 1790-1990. Contents: population of the U.S. and each state; population of counties, earliest census to 1990; and historical dates and Federal information processing standard (FIPS) codes. Information presented in tabular form.




Ninth Census-volumes


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Railroad Builders: The Dunavant Family of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee


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By 1856, the Dunavants had begun building railroads and they would eventually be among the South's prominent railroad contractors. As they migrated from Virginia to North Carolina and Tennessee, they added to those regions new railroads, mills, hotels, golf clubs, dams and tunnels. For 73 years, from 1856 to 1929, their large-scale construction projects contributed substantially to the development of Southside Virginia, Western North Carolina (Morganton, Charlotte, Statesville, Asheville and Blowing Rock), Tennessee (Memphis), and other southern states. The naming of Dunavant Street in Charlotte paid homage to former resident and builder, Henry Jackson Dunavant. In downtown Morganton, Samuel David Dunavant organized Burke County’s first mill (the Dunavant Cotton Mnfg. Co., later known as the Alpine Cotton Mill); its building has been added to the National Historic Register. (2015 Recipient of a History Book Award and a Family History Book Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians)