Linthicum Vignettes: Tales of a Linthicum Historian


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Local historian Oscar 'Skip' Booth spent his life living, working, advocating for and writing about his hometown of Linthicum, Maryland. His "Vignette" series provided some of the only written histories of the small, unincorporated Baltimore suburb. The historical local landmarks like Tauber's, Chuck's Drive-In, BWIi Airport, and Bruce's Hardware are carefully detailed here. Skip passed away after a short illness in 2014. His commitment to community lives on in the pages of this book.




Genealogies in the Library of Congress


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Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.




Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5: Families G-P


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"The foundation for this work is the Muster of Jan 1624/25 which had never before been printed in full."--Page xiii, volume 1.










Maryland and Virginia Colonials


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Thomas Prather, 1604-1666, Descendants & Allied Kin


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Thomas Prather (1604-1666) lived in North Wiltshire, England at Eton Water House near Salisbury and immigrated to Virginia at age 18, landing at Elizabeth Citte, now known as Newport News. He married Mary McCay/Powell (ca. 1608) in 1627. Ancestors, descendants and allied families lived in Virginia, England, Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and elsewhere.