Faith-filled Foremothers


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Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel French, the Joiner, of Stratford, Connecticut


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Samuel French (1687-763) was born in Bradford Abbas, Dorset, England, the son of Samuel and Susannah French. He and his wife, Mary Price (d. 1775), had eleven children, ca. 1710-1730. The family immigrated to America, ca. 1715 and were living at Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, in 1722. Samuel and Mary French are buried in the old cemetery east of Huntington Center, Fairfield County, Connecticut. Descendants lived in Connecticut, Vermont, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Ontario, and elsewhere.




The First Homesteader


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Music And Dance In California And The West


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This comprehensive survey of music and dance in the American West covers everything from Native American drumming to country line dancing. Saunders brings his passion for the subject to life with vivid descriptions and expert analysis. 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.




America's National Game


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This book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.







The Book of Englewood


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How to Form a Library


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The Charleston Orphan House


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"In The Charleston Orphan House, distinguished economic historian John E. Murray uncovers a world about which previous generations of scholars knew next to nothing: the world of orphaned children in early national and antebellum America. Employing a unique cache of records, Murray offers a sensitive and sympathetic account of the history of the institution - the first public orphan house in the US - while at the same time making it clear that Charleston's beneficence toward white orphans was inextricably linked to the racial ideology of the city's leaders. In Murray's hands, the voices of poor white families in early America are heard as never before." -- Peter A Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. -- Book jacket.