The Ignatious Nathan Gann Family


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Ignatious Nathan Gann was born in Virginia in 1759. He fought in the Revolutionary War and was married four times to an unknown woman, to Susan, to Polly, and finally to Sarah Delaney. He was the father of at least twenty one children. Information on many of his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren is given in this volume. Nathan moved his family from Virginia to Tennessee and later North Carolina, while later family members moved to Missouri, Texas, and Oklahoma.




Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains


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Most Americans know Appalachia through stereotyped images: moonshine and handicrafts, poverty and illiteracy, rugged terrain and isolated mountaineers. Historian David Hsiung maintains that in order to understand the origins of such stereotypes, we must look critically at their underlying concepts, especially those of isolation and community. Hsiung focuses on the mountainous area of upper East Tennessee, tracing this area's development from the first settlementin the eighteenth century to the eve of the Civil War. Through his examination, he identifies the different ways in which the region's inhabitants were connected to or separated from other peoples and places. Using an interdisciplinary framework, he analyzes geographical and sociocultural isolation from a number of perspectives, including transportation networks, changing economy, population movement, and topography. This provocative work will stimulate future studies of early Appalachia and serve as a model for the analysis of regional cultures.




Marriages of Rowan County, North Carolina, 1753-1868


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The marriage records abstracted here derive from microfilm copies of the original bonds and from a microfilm copy of a register of marriage bonds maintained from 1851 by the clerk of the county court. The arrangement is alphabetical by the surname of the groom, and each entry has the name of the bride, the date of the marriage bond and, where recorded, the names of the minister, witnesses, and bondsmen. About 9,000 marriage bonds are abstracted.







The King's Mountain Men


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Given by Eugene Edge III.




Southern Kith and Kin


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Ancestors include: Captain Edmond Scarborough (1584-1634) of North Walsham, England; and Virginia -- John Davis, a Revolutionary War soldier of Virginia; and his grandson, William Davis (1798-1870) of Georgia and Salem, Alabama -- Thomas Lockett (d. 1686) of England and Henrico County, Virginia.










Reports (interim and Final) ... 1910


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