Colonial Families of Surry and Isle of Wight Counties, Virginia, Volume 8
Author : John A. Brayton
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Page : 570 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 2004
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Author : John A. Brayton
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Page : 570 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 2004
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Page : 570 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Deeds
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Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Isle of Wight County (Va.)
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Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Isle of Wight County (Va.)
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Isle of Wight County (Va.)
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Isle of Wight County (Va.)
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Isle of Wight County (Va.)
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Page : 180 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Isle of Wight County (Va.)
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Author : Jennie Holton Fant
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 2016-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1611175852
The Travelers' Charleston is an innovative collection of firsthand narratives that document the history of the South Carolina lowcountry region, specifically that of Charleston, from 1666 until the start of the Civil War. Jennie Holton Fant has compiled and edited a rich and comprehensive history as seen through the eyes of writers from outside the South. She provides a selection of unique texts that include the travelogues, travel narratives, letters, and memoirs of a diverse array of travelers who described the region over time. Further, Fant has mined her material not only for validity but to identify any characters her travelers encounter or events they describe. She augments her resources with copious annotations and provides a wealth of information that enhances the significance of the texts. The Travelers' Charleston begins with explorer Joseph Woory's account of the Carolina coast four years before the founding of Charles Town, and it concludes as Anna Brackett, a Charleston schoolteacher from Boston, witnesses the start of the Civil War. The volume includes Josiah Quincy Jr.'s original 1773 journal; the previously unpublished letters of Samuel F. B. Morse, a portrait artist in Charleston between 1818 and 1820; the original letters of Scottish aristocrat and traveler Margaret Hunter Hall (1824); and a compilation of the letters of William Makepeace Thackeray written in Charleston during his famous lecture tours in the 1850s. Using these sources, combined with excepts from carefully chosen travel accounts, Fant provides an unusual and authoritative documentary record of Charleston and the lowcountry, which allows the reader to step back in time and observe a bygone society, culture, and politics to note key characters and hear them talk and to witness firsthand the history of one of the country's most distinctive regions.
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Page : 1158 pages
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Release : 1915
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