While the genealogical landscape has changed considerably since 1954, the Guide to Genealogical and Biographical Sources continues to be a reliable pointer for the manuscripts and printed works available in the five principal libraries with New York City genealogy holdings--the Brooklyn Historical Society (formerly Long Island Historical Society), New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New-York Historical Society, New York Public Library, and New York State Library (in Albany). No other guide to New York genealogical resources has dealt with this subject so comprehensively, a fact borne out by the following range of subjects covered by the author: probate records, deeds, births, marriages, deaths, censuses, burials, military records, passenger lists, naturalizations, biographical sketches, special court records, voting records, church records, and many more.
Book Excerptn people to rise in arms and perhaps bring about "the utter dispersion" of the planters.With the staple crop of the colony a drug on the market because of the Navigation Acts, with tax piled on tax to buy back the liberties of ...
Book Excerpt: n people to rise in arms and perhaps bring about "the utter dispersion" of the planters.
William L. Barney James E. Crisp James West Davidson John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger Richard Godbeer Peter Charles Hoffer Mark H. Lytle Douglas Cazaux Sackman Allan M. Winkler Series Editors James West Davidson Michael B. Stoff ...
In the early seventeenth century, Virginia's Chesapeake region saw the emergence of a multiracial society centered around the profitable tobacco industry.
In Virginia, Colonists fought the Indians in direct opposition to the British Royal Governor's Commands.
Michael Leroy Oberg has transcribed, edited, and introduced the official record left by Samuel Wiseman, King Charles II's scribe assigned to this uprising's investigation_making this history widely available for the first time in book form.
This is the definitive study of the unsuccessful rebellion in Virginia led in 1676 by the younger Nathaniel Bacon, celebrated in history as the rebel, against Sir William Berkeley, the colonial governor of Virginia and one of the lords ...
The Story of Bacon's Rebellion
The colonial experience of Americans was not one long march toward independence. Sixteen hundred seventy-six was a cataclysmic year of Indian insurrection and civil war in America, when the colonies...