Download or read book Gen J H Cocke s Vanishing Legacy written by K. Brooke Whiting and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Account Book written by John Cole and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harness repair ledger w/index and daybook of John Cole, Brockett's Bridge, Herkimer County, N.Y.
Download or read book Soil Survey Fluvanna County Virginia written by Hobart Clarke Porter and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land Resources of Fluvanna County Virginia written by Claude Clarence Haren and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bremo Papers Additional written by John Hartwell Cocke and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters and account books received or kept by Cocke at Bremo, Fluvanna Co., Va., including accounts and inventories of tools and farm equipment at Bremo, Bremo Recess and Lower Bremo, Fluvanna Co.
Download or read book The Slaves Have Names written by Andi Cumbo-Floyd and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They lived with professors and waited on former presidents. They were masons and nurses, school teachers and field hands, 246 people owned by a man who struggled with the institution of slavery. Yet, almost no one knows their names. When a white woman begins to study the history of the plantations these people built, the plantations where she was raised, she discovers that the silence around these people's lives speaks of a silence in her country's history . . . and in her own life. A creative nonfiction, history book about American slavery and its legacy in the United States. "In the late afternoons sometimes, I walk up and talk to the folks who are buried in the undulating earth, most of their graves are unmarked by any stone except, perhaps, two pieces of slate stuck vertically in the ground, one at head and one at foot, and long worn down or washed clean of names. But three stones bear words, gifts cut into rock - Ben Creasy, the carpenter, Jesse Nicholas, the stonemason, and Primus, the foreman. Ben and Jesse's stones are clear - with their names and dates marked deeply in the sandstone. I can find them in the records - know for sure who they are. Primus's stone is harder to know. The tradition here on the farm is that Primus the foreman at Upper Bremo is buried here, but I cannot be sure. The stone reads "Prams - 12," and I'm not sure that it refers to this Primus. It may be his grandson, also Primus, or some person I don't know yet. It's the 12 that throws me - the Primus I know lived to be an old man, long past 1812 - his death date is noted - 1849. That date seems right according to the records, but then, the records are so sparse; it's hard to know. I don't know how to solidify - to give storied flesh - to these rough marks hewn deep into stone."
Download or read book Students of the University of Virginia written by University of Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farm Memorandum Book written by John Hartwell Cocke and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kept at "Bremo," Fluvanna County, Va. Lists farm laborers and amount fined in corn or money for "disobedience of orders."
Download or read book The Wood Family of Fluvanna County Virginia 1795 1969 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Richard Wood emigrated from England to Fluvanna County, Virginia and in 1795 married Sallie North (from Limerick, Ireland). Descendants listed lived chiefly in Virginia. Includes history of the family plantations before, during and after the Civil War (most of the land was eventually sold).
Download or read book Catalogue of Articles to be Sold at Public Auction at the Mansion House on Bremo Plantation at Strathmore Fluvanna Co Virginia on Thursday November 18 1926 10 A M written by Valentine Auction Company (Richmond, Va.) and published by . This book was released on 1926* with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Corps Forward written by William Couper and published by Mariner Companies, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical sketches of the 257 Virginia Military Institure (VMI) Cadets who fought in the Civil War Battle of New Market, VA May 15, 1864 with new foward by Col. Keith E. Gibson
Download or read book Cemetery Plan written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cemetery at Bremo Recess, Fluvanna County, Va. contains the graves of John Hartwell Cocke, his wives, relatives, in-laws, descendants, house keeper and daughter's mammy.
Download or read book Bulletin written by National Institute for Architectural Education (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Kent written by George A. Hanson and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upshur County, West Virginia was created in 1851 from Randolph, Barbour, and Lewis counties. Upshur's early history and the lives of its more prominent pioneers and nineteenth-century Native Sons are ably captured in this tripartite volume. Part I, a condensed history of the state prepared by Hu Maxwell, ranges over everything from the first explorations of the Blue Ridge, the French and Indian War, and the Revolution to West Virginia geography and geology, formation of the state, and the Civil War in West Virginia. In Part II, Mr. Cutright lays out the history of the county, with emphasis on the Indian Wars, religious life, geography, formation of the county and its political and governmental institutions, Upshur County and Upshur countians in the Civil War, as well as a whole host of miscellaneous topics, such as turnpike and railroad construction, newspapers, financial institutions, the birds of Upshur County, and much more. In the final third of the volume we find an alphabetically arranged series of over 600 biographical/genealogical sketches of Upshur countians (some of them illustrated), which range from several paragraphs to several pages in length. In the majority of cases the subjects, who were mostly born around mid-century, are identified by their year of birth, the name of one or more parents, and the names of their spouse(s) and children. In addition, we learn something of each subject's career, military service (if any), and his/her movements to and from Upshur County. In short, given the book's 607 densely packed pages of historical and genealogical detail, this is the starting point for Upshur County research.
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Download or read book Dear Master written by Randall M. Miller and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dear Master" is a rare firsthand look at the values, self-perception, and private life of the black American slave. The fullest known record left by an American slave family, this collection of more than two hundred letters--including seven discovered since the book's original appearance--reveals the relationship of two generations of the Skipwith family with the Virginia planter John Hartwell Cocke. The letters, dating from 1834 to 1865, fall into two groups. The first were written by Peyton Skipwith and his children from Liberia, where they settled after being freed in 1833 by Cocke, a devout Christian and enlightened slaveholder. The letters, which tell of harsh frontier life, reveal the American values the Skipwiths took with them to Africa, and express their faith in Liberia's future and pride in their accomplishments. The second group of letters, written by George Skipwith and his daughter Lucy, originate from Cocke's Alabama plantation, an experimental work community to which Cocke sent his most talented, responsible slaves to prepare them for the moral and educational challenges of emancipation. George, a "privileged bondsman," was a slave driver. His letters about the management of the plantation include reports on the slaves' conduct and any disciplinary actions he took. Readers can sense George's pride in his work and also his ambivalence toward his role as leader in the slave hierarchy. Lucy, Cocke's chief domestic slave, was the plantation nurse and teacher. Her letters, filled with details about spiritual, familial, and health matters, also display her skill at exploiting her master's trust and her uncommon boldness, for she spoke against whites to her master when she felt they hampered his slaves' education. "Dear Master" affirms that these slaves and former slaves were not simply victims; they were actors in a complex human drama. The letters imply trust and affection between master and slave, but there were other motives as well for the letter-writing. The Liberian Skipwiths needed American-made supplies; moreover, the whole family may have viewed their relationship with Cocke as a chance to help free other slaves. In his new preface, Miller reevaluates his book in light of changes in the historiography of American slavery over the past decade.
Download or read book Barns written by John Michael Vlach and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and unique visual resource, Barns will be invaluable to students; teachers; researchers; historians of art, architecture, design, and technology; architects; engineers; designers of all kinds; and those who love barns."--BOOK JACKET.
