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The Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805

Author : May Wilson McBee

Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com

Page : 648 pages

File Size : 29,59 MB

Release : 2009-06

Category : Court records

ISBN : 0806314524

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Book Description

In 1781, two years after Spain took the Natchez District from the British, the Spanish commandant commenced to record all matters involving the mainly British inhabitants that would normally come before a tribunal. Those records form the basis of the first part of this book--sureties, bills of sale for land and slaves, inventories, appraisals, wills, etc. The second part of the work, Land Claims, 1767-1805, deals with British land grants in the Natchez District and is based on abstracts of land titles submitted to the United States for confirmation of land ownership. The index to the whole bears reference to 10,000 persons.











Westward into Kentucky

Author : Chester Raymond Young

Publisher : University Press of Kentucky

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 22,63 MB

Release : 2014-07-11

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0813149266

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Book Description

In his youth Daniel Trabue (1760--1840) served as a Virginia soldier in the Revolutionary War. After three years of service on the Kentucky frontier, he returned home to participate as a sutler in the Yorktown campaign. Following the war he settled in the Piedmont, but by 1785 his yearning to return westward led him to take his family to Kentucky, where they settled for a few years in the upper Green River country. He recorded his narrative in 1827, in the town of Columbia, of which he was a founder. A keen observer of people and events, Trabue captures experiences of everyday life in both the Piedmont and frontier Kentucky. His notes on the settling of Kentucky touch on many important moments in the opening of the Bluegrass region.