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Book Pittsylvania County  Virginia

Download or read book Pittsylvania County Virginia written by Larry G. Aaron and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen of Virginia's tobacco-producing counties, one of the top five fossil sites in the world, home to heroes, adventurers, counterfeiters and innovators...Pittsylvania County's lush, rolling farmland has seen a host of significant events and personalities throughout its nearly three centuries. Join local historian and longtime resident Larry G. Aaron as he guides you through Pittsylvania's rich and remarkable history, from the achievements and sufferings of Pittsylvanians through all of America's major wars to the lives of the county's African Americans and the early history of neighboring Danville, the last capital of the Confederacy. A concise, enjoyable volume that you will treasure for years to come.

Book Virginia s American Revolution

Download or read book Virginia s American Revolution written by Kevin R. C. Gutzman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia's American Revolution focuses on the remaking of colonial Virginia into a republican society. It considers this topic with a focus on particular episodes, such as the Richmond Ratification Convention of 1788 and the adoption of the Virginia Resolutions of 1798, that b...

Book Wellspring of Liberty

    Book Details:
  • Author : John A. Ragosta
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2010-05-19
  • ISBN : 0199750947
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Wellspring of Liberty written by John A. Ragosta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the American Revolution, no colony more assiduously protected its established church or more severely persecuted religious dissenters than Virginia. Both its politics and religion were dominated by an Anglican establishment, and dissenters from the established Church of England were subject to numerous legal infirmities and serious persecution. By 1786, no state more fully protected religious freedom. This profound transformation, as John A. Ragosta shows in this book, arose not from a new-found cultural tolerance. Rather, as the Revolution approached, Virginia's political establishment needed the support of the religious dissenters, primarily Presbyterians and Baptists, for the mobilization effort. Dissenters seized this opportunity to insist on freedom of religion in return for their mobilization. Their demands led to a complex and extended negotiation in which the religious establishment slowly and grudgingly offered just enough reforms to maintain the crucial support of the dissenters. After the war, when dissenters' support was no longer needed, the establishment leaders sought to recapture control, but found they had seriously miscalculated: wartime negotiations had politicized the dissenters. As a result dissenters' demands for the separation of church and state triumphed over the establishment's efforts and Jefferson's Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom was adopted. Historians and the Supreme Court have repeatedly noted that the foundation of the First Amendment's protection of religious liberty lies in Virginia's struggle, turning primarily to Jefferson and Madison to understand this. In Wellspring of Liberty, John A. Ragosta argues that Virginia's religious dissenters played a seminal, and previously underappreciated, role in the development of the First Amendment and in the meaning of religious freedom as we understand it today.

Book History of a Dream Deferred

Download or read book History of a Dream Deferred written by Charles Rodenbough and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history of a tract of land in modern-day Rockingham County, N.C., that was purchased by William Byrd II and later owned by the Farley family.

Book The History of Pittsylvania County  Virginia

Download or read book The History of Pittsylvania County Virginia written by Maud Carter Clement and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1973 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book rings with the names of early inhabitants and prominent citizens. For the genealogist there is the important and wholly fortuitous list of tithables of Pittsylvania County for the year 1767, which enumerates the names of nearly 1,000 landowners and property holders, amounting in sum to a rough census of the county in its infancy. Additional lists include the names, some with inclusive dates of service, of sheriffs, justices of the peace, members of the House of Delegates, 1776-1928, members of the Senate of Virginia, 1776-1928, clerks of the court, and judges.

Book The Many Faces of Judge Lynch

Download or read book The Many Faces of Judge Lynch written by C. Waldrep and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-11-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. is the most violent industrialized country in the world, and lynching - that is, murder endorsed by the community - may be a key to understanding America's heritage of violence and perhaps point to solutions that can eradicate it. While lynchings are predominantly racial in tone and motive, Christopher Waldrep's sweeping study of the meaning and uses of lynching from the colonial period to the present reveals that the definition of the term has shifted dramatically over time, and that the victims and perpetuators of lynching were as diverse as its many meanings. By examining lynching from a comparative and temporal perspective, Waldrep teaches us important lessons not only about racial violence in America, but about the ways in which communities define and justify crime and the punishment of its criminals.

Book Long  Obstinate  and Bloody

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lawrence E. Babits
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2009-03-15
  • ISBN : 9780807887677
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Long Obstinate and Bloody written by Lawrence E. Babits and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-03-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at Guilford Courthouse in piedmont North Carolina. In Long, Obstinate, and Bloody, the first book-length examination of the Guilford Courthouse engagement, Lawrence E. Babits and Joshua B. Howard piece together what really happened on the wooded plateau in what is today Greensboro, North Carolina, and identify where individuals stood on the battlefield, when they were there, and what they could have seen, thus producing a new bottom-up story of the engagement.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1977 with total page 1624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia

Download or read book A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia written by Robert Baylor Semple and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collie Family of Pittsylvania County  Virginia

Download or read book The Collie Family of Pittsylvania County Virginia written by Betty Cox Collie and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Collie was born in 1756, the son of James Collie, an immigrant from Scotland to Virginia, and Ann Cornwell Collie. Charles' siblings were William, Mary and James. Charles married Mary and their children included Lydia, Phillip, William, Thomas, Banister, Anney, Joseph or Joel and Polly. A descendant, James II, married Nancy Jennings. Two of James and Nancy's daughters married Elizah and Samuel Richardson. Descendants settled in North Carolina, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky.

Book The Dodson  Dotson  Family of North Farnham Parish  Richmond County  Virginia

Download or read book The Dodson Dotson Family of North Farnham Parish Richmond County Virginia written by Mrs. Sherman Williams and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index in v. 2.

Book The Buckley Family Genealogy

Download or read book The Buckley Family Genealogy written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Buckley (1722-1787) died in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia. He married Mary and they were the parents of nine children. Their son John Buckley married Mary (Polly) Harris (1767-1806) in Pittsylvania Co. They were the parents of six children. Their daughter Betsy Ann Buckley married Thomas Brown. They lived and died in Clarke Co., Georgia. Another son, James Buckley, Jr. was a Revolutionary soldier like his brother John. He married Mary Ridgeway in Halifax Co., VA in 1788. They settled later in Williamson Co., Tennessee. Other family members lived in Weakley and Henderson Co., Tenn. Several generations of descendants are given.

Book Ragsdales of America

Download or read book Ragsdales of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Search of Footprints

Download or read book In Search of Footprints written by Thomas Lynn Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mildred Faye Gorsuch, daughter of Charles Gorsuch and Mable Blanch Ford, was born 5 Nov 1910 in Pattonsburg, Daviess, Missouri. Mildred married Lynn Elwin Hooker on 6 May 1933 in Columbia, Boone, Missouri. They had one child before divorcing on 11 June 1940. Mildred died on 28 May 1991 in Reisterstown, Maryland. Her ancestors have lived in Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, and England.

Book Library Catalog

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daughters of the American Revolution. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1042 pages

Download or read book Library Catalog written by Daughters of the American Revolution. Library and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: