151 pages, including index. Free shipping media mail. "Only a historian with prodigious talent and range could master the vast details of early North America. Fortunately, Alan Taylor is ideal for the task. Native Americans, Spanish, French, Dutch, English, and Africans are all here, their stories elegantly woven together into a gripping overview of the colonial era." View More...
This is the authoritative work on Swiss emigration to the Carolinas and Pennsylvania in the 18th century. Volume I identifies approximately 2,000 emigrants from the Canton of Zurich during the period 1734-1744, most references comprising such useful data as age, date of birth or baptism, trade, name of wife, names of children, and place of origin and destination. Volume II extends the scope of investigation to Bern (1706-1795) and Basel (1734-1794) and surpasses Volume I in the quantity and variety of assembled data. View More...
"Colonial Massachusetts: A History" is the first modern history of Massachusetts from its colonial beginnings to its adoption of the state constitution in 1780. By using a unique style, Professor Labaree has skillfully combined recent scholarship with established standard views on Massachusetts history, while adding his own interpretations of early Massachusetts. 349 pages, indexed.
This is an authoritative list of the 700 passengers who are believed to have come to New England with John Winthrop in 1630. Based on research undertaken in England and America, it provides as much data as could be verified on each passenger--name, place of departure, places of residence in England and America, occupation, church affiliation, dates of birth, marriage, and death, and relationships to other passengers. It also has indexes of names, places, and subjects as well as appendices listing the passengers on the Mary and John and the Lyon, which sailed contemporaneously with the Winthrop... View More...
690 pages, including the index. The Founders, Portraits of Persons Born Abroad who came to the Colonies in North America before the year 1701. View More...
Great American men have always understood the importance of women. John Adams described them as "the most infallible barometer...of morality and virtue in a nation." And Daniel Webster said the "promulgation of sound morals" was a woman's contribution to "the preservation of a free government." View More...
A collection of historical records from Maryland; includes Colonial records, Revolutionary records, county records, and church records from original sources. 130 pages, indexed.
Between 1769 and 1784, in an area some twenty-five miles long and about two miles wide, located on the north side of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River and extending from Lycoming Creek (at the present Williamsport) to the Great Island (just east of the present Lock Haven), some 100 to 150 families settled. They established a community and a political organization called the Fair Play system. This study is about these people and their system. 122 pages, indexed.
In November 1633 the 358-ton Ark and the 26-ton Dove sailed from the Isle of Wight in England, transporting some 125 colonists to settle the Proprietary Province of Maryland. This work, The Ark and the Dove Adventurers, is the first comprehensive account of these original Maryland colonists, and it contains compiled genealogies of their descendants to the fifth generation when possible, much like the five-generation project of the Mayflower Society or the six generation project of the Order of First Families of Virginia. It is an authoritative and significant contribution to early Maryland his... View More...
The Pitt family of Bristol, Gloucester, Charlestown, Massacusetts, and Isle of Wight County, Virginia. 144 pages, full name index. Pedigree chart included
It isn't the way of the Amish to write about themselves. But John A. Hostetler, author of the best- selling Amish Society, has put together a delightful anthology in which they do just that. More than 150 rare and unusual letters and journal entries, poems and stories, riddles, legends, and bits of family lore offer a uniquely authentic view of Amish life from colonial times to the present. Illustrated with 25 pages of full-color illustrations, this is the Amish story as told by the Amish themselves, by their friends and neighbors, and by others who understand Amish ways.Hans Nussbaum, a ninet... View More...
A history of the Campbell, Clarke, Cornell, Davis, Fones, Hallett, Havens, Hubbard, Hughes, Jackson, Langfitt, Seaman, Winthrop, And twenty-nine other families 1485-1987. 265 pages, indexed. View More...
142 pages, including Appendix A) The Hamburg Emigration Lists Appendix B) Checklist of Passenger List Publications. A guide to the Records of Immigrants Arriving at American Ports by Sail and Steam View More...
The diary and letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq., Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of His Late Majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay in North America; with an account of his administration when he was a member and Speaker of the House of Representatives, and his government of the colony during the difficult period that preceded the War of Independence. Compiled from the original documents still remaining in the possession of his descendants. 594 pages, indexed. View More...
Abstracts of examinations in the High Court of Admiralty with reference to Colonial America. 219 pages, full name index.
Names include: Breakcake, Crosse, Harmer, Penryn, Saunders, Willoughby, View More...
This account of the settlement of one segment of the North Carolina frontier -- the land between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers -- examines the process by which the piedmont South was populated. Through its ingenious use of hundreds of sources and documents, Robert Ramsey traces the movement of the original settlers and their families from the time they stepped onto American shores to their final settlement in the northwest Carolina territory. He considers the economic, religious, social, and geographical influences that led the settlers to Rowan County and describes how this frontier community... View More...
This account of the settlement of one segment of the North Carolina frontier -- the land between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers -- examines the process by which the piedmont South was populated. Through its ingenious use of hundreds of sources and documents, Robert Ramsey traces the movement of the original settlers and their families from the time they stepped onto American shores to their final settlement in the northwest Carolina territory. He considers the economic, religious, social, and geographical influences that led the settlers to Rowan County and describes how this frontier community... View More...
Originally published as "A Catalogue of the Names of the FIrst Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut" in 1846, this book represents Royal R. Hinman's first attempt at creating a "genealogical dictionary" for Connecticut. Hinman, who served as the Secretary of State of Connecticut from 1835 to 1842, focused primarily on the seventeenth century, "giving the names of such of the settlers as can be found on record, who came into the Connecticut Colony previous to the Union of the Colonies of New Haven and Connecticut in 1665, together with their standing and condition, as far as can be asc... View More...
The subjoined military records taken from the Colonial Archives in the possession of the State Library represent military services of officers and men, covering a period of nearly one hundred years of the history of the province of New York. 2-volume set, 1130 pages. Full name index.
"Wilderness at Dawn" is the sprawling saga of the men and women who settled the land that would become the United States of America. From early man to the pioneers, this book, the first volume in Ted Morgan's two-volume epic, takes us back to the time when people from around the world converged upon this rugged expanse of land and struggled to make a home for themselves.
Never before have we heard the stories of the ordinary settlers, women, slaves, and Native Americans--the people who actually shaped the country. In the tradition of Daniel Boorstin and David McCullough, Morgan recreates the ... View More...
Christoph Von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern, [NC] - Vincent H. Todd. This is a fascinating story of one of the early colonies in the New World. In 1710, Christoph Von Graffenried and a partner set sail for America with hundreds of Swiss and Palatine immigrants to establish the colony of New Bern, in the province of Carolina. Graffenried hoped to make his fortune from reported veins of silver ore, so he brought many German miners and their families with him. He had been granted the title of Landgrave and so was allowed to purchase several thousand acres of Carolina land. Thi... View More...
"The Pennsylvania Society of the Colonial Dames of America in presenting this new edition of their Register again refer, with what is deemed a pardonable pride, to the fact that, from the action of a small group of women, met together at 1301 Locust Street, Philadelphia, has resulted the large national organization, which has spread a network of patriotic Colonial interest among women in the thirteen original States, in the District of Colombia, and at the present time into nearly every State of the Union". 499 pages. View More...
The largest single immigration of Germans to the United States, and the most unusual, occurred in Texas around the middle of the nineteenth century. The organization formed to direct this German colonization of Texas became popularly known as the Adelsverein (The Society of Noblemen). The key figure in this settlement was Carl, Prince of Solms-Braunfel, appointed Commissioner-General by the Adelsverein. Solms’s diary of this time was discovered in documents relating to the Adelsverein and has been translated here for the first time.
The diary begins with Solms’ departure from the family cas... View More...
