Author : Evelyn Scales Thompson, Ph.D.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1439612978
From slavery in the 1800s to freedom in the 1950s, Black America Series: Around Surry County traces the footsteps of African Americans through their transition from house servants and field hands to land owners, farmers, and successful small business proprietors. This detailed pictorial history celebrates and honors the strong faith, courage, and determination of the Surry County area's black community.
Author : Carolyn Boyles
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 2000-10-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439627746
Founded in 1771 from parts of Rowan County, Surry County possesses a special charm and an engaging history in the northwest corner of the Tar Heel Statea heritage famous for rolling hills, autumn festivals, and the birthplace of Mayberry, which attracts countless tourists and visitors each season to the countys 15 townships. This volume, containing over 200 black-and-white images, transports readers into the Surry County of yesteryear, a time when the countys unpaved roads echoed with a cadence of noisy wagons matched with the sounds of early automobiles. Through these historic photographs, readers will explore the landscape of a bygone era, from the 1880s through the 1930s, and travel through each of the countys townships: Franklin, Bryan, Elkin, Marsh, Dobson, Stewarts Creek, Mount Airy, Eldora, Rockford, Siloam, Shoals, Pilot, Long Hill, Westfield, and South Westfield. Surry County uncovers the personal side of the countys history by touching upon many elements of everyday life, from family gatherings, church services, various occupations, daily work on the farm, early rural schoolhouses, and people at play. These scenes serve as fitting testimony to Surry Countians sheer will and determination to carve successful and lasting communities into this beautiful setting.
Author :
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : Marriage records
ISBN : 080630975X
Marriages of Surry County contains abstracts of all extant marriage bonds and licenses for the period 1779 until 1868 when bonds, as prerequisites for licenses, were discontinued. The data in this volume are arranged throughout in alphabetical order by the surname of the groom, and each entry provides the name of the bride, the date of the marriage bond, and the names of the bondsmen, clergymen, and justices of the peace. Altogether the text bears reference to approximately 16,000 persons.
Author : Edgar McDonald
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Segraves Collection
ISBN : 0806353589
Reprints. Lists originally published in the Magazine of Virginia genealogy, February 1984-August 1986; Interpreting headrights in Colonial-Virginia patents: uses and abuses originally published September 1987 in National Genealogical Society quarterly.
Author : Frank Burnside Kingsbury
Publisher :
Page : 1082 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Surry (N.H.)
ISBN :
Author : Hardin E. Taliaferro
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 1859
Category : History
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Charles City County (Va.)
ISBN : 0806312858
Information was abstracted from land records and quit rent rolls.
Author : John Bennett Boddie
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Land grants
ISBN : 0806300264
This is a collection of genealogical data from important name lists for Colonial Surry, which once encompassed almost the entire southern part of the state of Virginia (i.e., fourteen present-day Virginia counties). Noteworthy lists include Surry land grants, 1624-1740, and various Surry and Sussex censuses and marriage bonds.
Author : Deborah Harrison Dawson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0738592196
Just a 20-minute ferry ride from the place of the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown on the southern banks of the James River begins 306 square miles of ravines and level lands, fresh water streams and creeks, and scenic views of Virginia's longest river. Surry was formed in 1652 and was most likely named by early colonists in honor of the English county of Surrey and in recognition of its location, as it lay across the Thames from London, as did Surry from Jamestown. For more than 350 years, Surry has depended on an agriculture economy and small businesses that developed around the meat processing industry, lumber harvesting, and farming. Residents, state officials, and now this photographic collection help to preserve this wonderful slice of American history.
Author : Jo White Linn
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Surry County (N.C.)
ISBN : 0806313463
Based on recorded wills and original wills at the North Carolina State Archives as well as "Loose Estate Papers" of intestates, these abstracts cover not only wills but powers of attorney, bonds, inventories, bills of sale, etc. Significantly, Surry County lay within the Granville Proprietary at its formation, and after Lord Granville's death in 1763 until 1778, the Proprietary land office did not reopen, making it very difficult--but for these will abstracts--for the present-day researcher to establish the residence of many individuals during that time period. What is more, as there are no extant marriage bonds for Surry County for the period 1771 to 1780, these will abstracts assume an importance out of all proportion to their customary value.
