The Doolittle Family in America


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The Negro in Virginia


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Slavery is as basic a part of Virginia history as George Washington, who was accompanied at Valley Forge and Yorktown by his slave William Lee, and Thomas Jefferson, who directed his slaves to cut 30 feet off a mountaintop for the site of Monticello. Slavery in the Old Dominion began in 1619, when a Spanish frigate was captured and its cargo of Negroes brought to Jamestown. Virginia Negroes experienced slavery as field laborers, as skilled craftsmen, as house servants. In 1935, the Virginia Writers' Project began collecting data for a history of Negroes in the Old Dominion through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Depression. Published in 1940 as "The Negro in Virginia", it was regarded as a "classic of its kind." Modern readers will be surprised at how relevant it remains today. -- From publisher's description.




Newton genealogy


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Newton genealogy, genealogical, biographical, historical being a record of the descendants of Richard Newton of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts 1638, with genealogies of families descended from the immigrants, Rev. Roger Newton of Milford, Connecticut; Thomas Newton of Fairfield, Connecticut; Matthew Newton of Stonington, Connecticut; Newtons of Virginia; Newtons near Boston.




Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials, and Legends


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Includes DeSoto memorials, Georgia's state seals, and the first steamboat patent.




Wadhams Genealogy


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Old Judge Priest


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High quality reprint of Old Judge Priest by Irvin S. Cobb.







Hennen's Choice


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A genealogy and some biographical sketches of the descendants of Matthew Hennen born 21 Nov 1752 in the Province of Ulster, Ireland. His will was written 15 Jan 1834 and probated 6 Jan 1840 in Greene County, Pennsylvania.







Nurse and Spy in the Union Army


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Autobiography of a woman who masqueraded as a man.