Indian Island in Amherst County
Author : Peter W. Houck
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Peter W. Houck
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : William Montgomery Sweeny
Publisher : Clearfield Company
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780806305738
Author : Sherrie McLeRoy
Publisher :
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780788443732
This book presents a historical overview of the free Negro in Virginia, from the mid-eighteenth century through the Civil War, along with the physical and historical background of Amherst County. The original edition preserved a wealth of information on n
Author : Samuel R. Cook
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 22,59 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803215054
Monacans and Miners sheds new light on the indigenous and immigrant communities of southern Appalachia by comparing the political, economic, and social experiences of the Monacans, a historically significant Native American group in Amherst County, Virginia, with those of Scottish and Irish settlers who made their home in Wyoming County, West Virginia, in the late eighteenth century. The Monacans are the descendants of a powerful people who both fought and traded with the Powhatan Indians. As a tide of English settlers swept through Virginia and continued west, some Monacans took refuge in the Blue Ridge Mountains. For the next few centuries the Monacans, like some other Native American groups in the Southeast, were legally classified as black and not permitted to vote or hold office. Many were also forced into indentured servitude, laboring in apple orchards for large landowners. Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic resurgence of Monacan ethnic and political identity and independence. They have won legal recognition as a tribe, collaborated with local universities to document their history, and worked to create a tribal museum. Samuel R. Cook tells the story of the Monacans in a uniquely comparative way. Their changing fortunes and relationships with outsiders are juxtaposed with the experiences of Scottish and Irish settlers in rural Wyoming County, West Virginia, a region now dominated by the coal industry.
Author :
Publisher : S. E. Grose
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release :
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Author : John Lyle Campbell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385108454
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Bailey Fulton Davis
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
By: The Rev. Bailey Fulton Davis, Pub. 1985, Reprinted 2018, 470 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-302-X. Amherst County was created from the southwestern portion of Albemarle County in 1761. These wills cover from the very beginning of the county all the way through to 1865.
Author : Lenora Higginbotham Sweeny
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 2014-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780788422614
Formed from Albemarle in 1761, Amherst County, much larger than it is today, rested on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge, and included what we now call Nelson County. This book is the result of many hours spent in a congested courthouse gathering together information from various sources. Some of the documents originally thought missing, she found. One such discovery was "The Lost Order Book" for the years 1773-1782, an interesting document containing records of the court, records that provide us with insights into daily life and the legal system in place at that time. This work contains information on the Committee of Safety, and Minute Men, the First Rifle Company, Revolutionary Officers of the Amherst County Militia, Captain Azariah Martin's Company of Militia, Captain William Tucker's Company of Militia, Regiment of Guards, Clothing and Beef for the 16th Division, Disbursement to the Wives, Widows and Orphans of Revolutionary Soldiers, Letter of Colonel William Fontaine Describing Surrender of Cornwallis, Letter of Colonel Hugh Rose to Governor Harrison, Claims for Property Impressed or Taken for Public Service, Applications for Pensions, Soldiers of the French and Indian War, and the Officers of Amherst Militia Before the Revolution. The Appendix contains the Will of Sarah Henry, mother of Patrick Henry. An assortment of illustrations and the original full-name index further complement this work.
Author : Molly McCully Brown
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0892554789
A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017 Harrowing poems from a dark corner of American history by the winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. Haunted by the voices of those committed to the notorious Virginia State Colony, epicenter of the American eugenics movement in the first half of the twentieth century, this evocative debut marks the emergence of a poet of exceptional poise and compassion, who grew up in the shadow of the Colony itself.
Author : Bailey Fulton Davis
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
These are abstracts of original records.