The Annals of Yorkshire


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GENEALOGY OF THE BEAR FAMILY &


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Brant Genealogy of Somerset County Pennsylvania ...


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This meticulously researched genealogy traces the ancestry of the Brant family in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. With detailed information on family history and lineage, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in genealogy or local history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.







Descendants of Cornelius Comegys in North America


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A genealogy of the descendants of Cornelius Comegys.







Journal of a Lady of Quality


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Alexander and Janet Schaw, Scottish siblings, began a journey in 1774 that would take them from Edinburgh to the Caribbean Islands and then to America. Part of the early wave of Scottish colonization, the pair visited family and friends who had already established themselves in the colonies. ""Journal of a Lady of Quality"" is Janet Schaw's account of this voyage through letters to a friend in Scotland. The letters describe the sights, scenery, and social life she encountered, but they also reveal the political atmosphere of an America on the verge of revolution. Stephen Carl Arch provides a new introduction for this Bison Books edition.




A Beveridge-McLeish Family History


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Thomas Beveridge was born 28 March 1826 in Scotland. He was the son of T. Beveridge and Isabel Greig. Thomas immigrated to America sometime soon after the year 1851 and settled in Delaware Township, Middlesex County, Canada. He married Margaret Kennedy McLeish (born 1 January 1838 in Port Glasgow, Scotland) 12 December 1861. She was the daughter of D. McLeish and A. Lamont. Thomas and Margaret lived in Canada and were the parents of eight children. Descendants lived in Manitoba, Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Michigan, California and elsewhere.




A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois


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Christiana and John Tillson moved from Massachusetts to central Illinois in 1822. Upon arriving in Montgomery County near what would soon be Hillsboro, they set up a general store and real estate business and began to raise a family. A half century later, in 1870, Christiana Tillson wrote about her early days in Illinois in a memoir published by R. R. Donnelley in 1919. The Tillsons lived quite ordinary lives in extraordinary times, notes Kay J. Carr, introducing this edition. They moved west and prospered in the land business at a time when America was being transformed from a rural, agricultural country into an urban, industrial nation. Their views and sensibilities, Carr says, might seem strange to us, but they were entirely normal to people in the early nineteenth century. Thus Tillson's memoir provides fascinating but believable snapshots of ordinary nineteenth-century American life.