Download or read book Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas written by Christina K. Schaefer and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1998 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the period of colonial history from the beginning of European colonization in the Western Hemisphere up to the time of the American Revolution.

Download or read book Three River Valleys Called Home written by Vicki Holmes and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes people leave their home with the hopes of finding something better. Sometimes they are forced out and chased away. Philip Eamer and his wife, Catrina, experience both in this true story of immigrants searching for a place to call home. The Eamer family’s story begins in 1755 as they leave the Rhine Valley for a better life in America. Once there, they move to the Mohawk River Valley in New York, where they build a home and raise 10 children. Despite the effects of the French Indian War, the Eamers flourish and happily find their lives intertwined with their neighbours and fellow immigrants for almost two decades. However, no family’s story occurs in isolation, and eventually the Eamers find themselves at the mercy of the political and historic events of the American Revolution. Choosing to side with the Crown, they are forced to flee their home at the hands of neighbours and soldiers. What follows next is representative of many Loyalists’ experiences. The Eamer family is forced to make a 370-km (230-mile) trek to Montreal, where they must live in a refugee camp for three years before finally being granted their own land in the St. Lawrence Valley for their loyalty to the King. Told by one of Philip and Catrina’s descendants, Three River Valleys Called Home is historical fiction based on a real family and true events. Although some of the interactions and dialogue may be imagined, they are firmly planted in the harsh realities that many immigrants faced and pay tribute to the true grit of the settlers who built North America. While this book will have special meaning for the thousands of descendants of the Eamer family (and the other families who made up their community), their story will touch anyone with a history of immigration in their family tree.

Download or read book The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record written by Richard Henry Greene and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings written by New York State Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report written by New York State Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tercentenary Studies 1928 Reformed Church in America written by Reformed Church in America. Tercentenary Committee on Research and Publication and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report written by New York State Library and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biographical record of the alumni of Amherst college 1821 1871 written by Amherst college and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biographical Record of the Alumni of Amherst College 1821 1896 written by Amherst College and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biographical Record of the Alumni of Amherst College During Its First Half Century 1821 1871 written by William Lewis Montague and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Peacock Rueff Kittle Van Deusen Quackenbos McCarn Kayser and Related Families in New Netherland 1623 1759 written by Earle Franklin Peacox and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Best Land written by Susan A. Brewer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Susan A. Brewer's fascinating The Best Land, she recounts the story of the parcel of central New York land on which she grew up. Brewer and her family had worked and lived on this land for generations when the Oneida Indians claimed that it rightfully belonged to them. Why, she wondered, did she not know what had happened to this place her grandfather called the best land. Here, she tells its story, tracing over the past four hundred years the two families—her own European settler family and the Oneida/Mohawk family of Polly Denny—who called the best land home. Situated on the passageway to the west, the ancestral land of the Oneidas was coveted by European colonizers and the founders of the Empire State. The Brewer and Denny families took part in imperial wars, the American Revolution, broken treaties, the building of the Erie Canal, Native removal, the rise and decline of family farms, bitter land claims controversies, and the revival of the Oneida Indian Nation. As Brewer makes clear in The Best Land, through centuries of violence, bravery, greed, generosity, racism, and love, the lives of the Brewer and Denny families were profoundly intertwined. The story of this homeland, she discovers, unsettles the history she thought she knew. With clear determination to tell history as it was, without sugarcoating or ignoring the pain and suffering of both families, Brewer navigates the interconnected stories with grace, humility, and a deep love for the land. The Best Land is a beautiful homage to the people, the place, and the environment itself.

Download or read book The Frontiersmen of New York written by Jeptha Root Simms and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Texture of Contact written by David L. Preston and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texture of Contact is a landmark study of Iroquois and European communities and coexistence in eastern North America before the American Revolution. David L. Preston details the ways in which European and Iroquois settlers on the frontiers creatively adapted to each other’s presence, weaving webs of mutually beneficial social, economic, and religious relationships that sustained the peace for most of the eighteenth century. Drawing on a wealth of previously unexamined archival research, Preston describes everyday encounters between Europeans and Indians along the frontiers of the Iroquois Confederacy in the St. Lawrence, Mohawk, Susquehanna, and Ohio valleys. Homesteads, taverns, gristmills, churches, and markets were frequent sites of intercultural exchange and negotiation. Complex diplomatic and trading relationships developed as a result of European and Iroquois settlers bartering material goods. Innovative land-sharing arrangements included the common practice of Euroamerican farmers living as tenants of the Mohawks, sometimes for decades. This study reveals that the everyday lives of Indians and Europeans were far more complex and harmonious than past histories have suggested. Preston’s nuanced comparisons between various settlements also reveal the reasons why peace endured in the Mohawk and St. Lawrence valleys while warfare erupted in the Susquehanna and Ohio valleys. One of the most comprehensive studies of eighteenth-century Iroquois history, The Texture of Contact broadens our understanding of eastern North America’s frontiers and the key role that the Iroquois played in shaping that world.

Download or read book Schuyler Genealogy The Schuyler families in America Prior to 1900 written by Florence A. Christoph and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Constitution and By laws Vol 1 1901 written by New York State Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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