Badenheim Nineteen-thirty-nine


Book Description

A tale of Europe in the days just before the war. It tells of a small group of Jewish holiday makers in the resort of Badenheim in the Spring of 1939. Hitler's war looms, but Badenheim and its summer residents go about life as normal."







Virginia's Colonial Soldiers


Book Description

Presents an authoritative register of Virginia's colonial soldiers, drawing on county court minutes, bounty land applications, records of courts martial, county militia rosters, and public records in England. Detailed information on soldiers' names, ranks, pay, places of birth, and appearance is divided into sections on different sources and different conflicts, including King George's War, the French and Indian War, and Dunmore's War. Useful for genealogists and historians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




West Virginians in the American Revolution


Book Description

The Revolutionary War soldiers identified in this work lived at one time or another in what is now the State of West Virginia, their military duties having been discharged in the service of other states, notably Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland. The data given for each soldier typically includes the name, age, date of birth, service record, date pension applied for and granted, place of residence, names of wife and children, and, in support of the pension claim, comrades-in-arms.




Benjamin Lemasters of Nicholas County, West Virginia


Book Description

Abraham LeMaitre, a Huguenot, was born at Derval, Brittany, France, and immigrated to England, with his wife, Elizabeth, in the late 1650s. There they anglicized their surname to Lemasters. They immigrated to Maryland ca. 1660. He died in 1722 on his plantation "Betty's Delight, Charles County, Maryland. His great great grandson, Benjamin Lemasters (1756-1837), was born in Charles County, Virginia, the son of Isaac and Ann Scott Lemasters. His family lived in in Frederick County, Maryland, through the 1760s and migrated to to Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1770. After serving in the Revolutionary War, 1776-1779, Benjamin married Rebecca Ann Martin in 1779. They were the parents of ten known daughters, born 1780-1804, who lived to maturity. The family was living at Bucks Garden, Kanawha County, later in Nicholas County, Virginia, by 1793.




The 1787 Census of Virginia


Book Description

The personal property tax lists for the year 1787.