Download or read book Marriages of Orange County North Carolina 1779 1868 written by and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriages of Orange County contains abstracts of all the marriage bonds issued in Orange County from 1779 until 1868, when marriage bonds--as prerequisites for marriage--were discontinued. These marriage records were abstracted from a microfilm copy of the original marriage bonds on file at the State Archives in Raleigh and refer altogether to some 20,000 persons, including bondsmen. The data is arranged throughout in alphabetical order by the surname of the groom, and each entry includes the name of the bride, the date of the bond, the name of the bondsman, and, from 1851, the date of the actual marriage.
Download or read book Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County North Carolina 1752 1800 and 202 Marriages Not Shown in the Orange County Marriage Bonds and Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County North Carolina 1800 1850 written by National Society Daughters of the American Revolution of North Carolina. Davie Poplar Chapter, Chapel Hill and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1972 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North Carolina s Free People of Color 1715 1885 written by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as “negroes,” “mulattoes,” “mustees,” “Indians,” “mixed-bloods,” or simply “free people of color.” From the colonial period through Reconstruction, lawmakers passed legislation that curbed the rights and privileges of these non-enslaved residents, from prohibiting their testimony against whites to barring them from the ballot box. While such laws suggest that most white North Carolinians desired to limit the freedoms and civil liberties enjoyed by free people of color, Milteer reveals that the two groups often interacted—praying together, working the same land, and occasionally sharing households and starting families. Some free people of color also rose to prominence in their communities, becoming successful businesspeople and winning the respect of their white neighbors. Milteer’s innovative study moves beyond depictions of the American South as a region controlled by a strict racial hierarchy. He contends that although North Carolinians frequently sorted themselves into races imbued with legal and social entitlements—with whites placing themselves above persons of color—those efforts regularly clashed with their concurrent recognition of class, gender, kinship, and occupational distinctions. Whites often determined the position of free nonwhites by designating them as either valuable or expendable members of society. In early North Carolina, free people of color of certain statuses enjoyed access to institutions unavailable even to some whites. Prior to 1835, for instance, some free men of color possessed the right to vote while the law disenfranchised all women, white and nonwhite included. North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885 demonstrates that conceptions of race were complex and fluid, defying easy characterization. Despite the reductive labels often assigned to them by whites, free people of color in the state emerged from an array of backgrounds, lived widely varied lives, and created distinct cultures—all of which, Milteer suggests, allowed them to adjust to and counter ever-evolving forms of racial discrimination.
Download or read book The Underwood Family of Stanly County North Carolina A Biography and Genealogy written by Jonathan Underwood and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the descendants of Thomas Underwood (who landed in America in 1650) who migrated to North Carolina in 1762. The history primarily pertains to Alexander and Mary Underhill Underwood and their sons Samuel, Joseph, and Henry who made their home in Montgomery County (now Stanly County), North Carolina in 1794. Includes a narrative of each branch of the Underwood family, biographical sketches, proofs of relationship, photographs, maps, and a record of generations down to the present time. Includes an index.
Download or read book Our Berrys in Frontier America written by Benjamin Henderson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raban Rabone Raybourn Rayburn Raburn Family in America written by Dorothy Elizabeth Moore Bernay and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the Raburn family from John Raban to Audrey Docia Raburn in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Texas. It contains a short biography of each direct Raburn ancestor including maps, Family Group Sheets, Timelines and Notes. The Notes Section contains transcriptions of all found documents and published information with sources.
Download or read book Durham County written by Jean Bradley Anderson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth.
Download or read book The DOWNES or DOWNS FAMILY GENEALOGY written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UPDATED! July 2010 with some family photos included in the book! There are two Chapters in this book Section A- Henry Downes of Maryland, and Section B: Ludowick Downs of Texas. Chapter Two covers Henry Downes & Lady Jane Douglas of Virginia and descendants. The states this line of Downs family is found is: Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. There is lots of DOWNES or DOWNS family history of the surname included. This book is complete with wills, cemetery records, census records, book research information, land deeds, and every scrap of information I could locate on the Downes or Downs family lines. Chapter Two family descendants traveled down and settled in the South Georgia area, Worth County, Georgia. This book is a must have if your surname is DOWNES or DOWNS.
Download or read book THE WILKINS FAMILY AND THE BUILDING OF AMERICA written by Arthur F. Wilkins and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-12-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in San Bernardino, California, the author enlisted in the U.S. Navy immediately after his high school graduation and served as a radioman. Later he attended Mt. San Antonio College, and following graduation there he earned his Bachelor’s Degree (Social Sciences) at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. Wilkins has always taken a keen interest in social issues. In Santa Ana, California, he founded Catholic Americans for Peace Through Strength. In the early 1990s he actively participated in Right to Life, and in 1996 he joined the Indiana Citizens Volunteer Militia, where he served as an officer until 2002.
Download or read book The Maris Family in the United States written by George Lewis Maris and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE LINDSEYS KANSAS PIONEERS 1855 2024 written by Marvin L and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2024-03-03 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written largely for the benefit of the writers children and grandchildren so they would know something of the life and hardships faced by their pioneering ancestors. It was inspired by their questions about our childhood and youth and their own memories of many visits to the Kansas farms of their grandparents and great grandparents. However, we think many other readers will enjoy learning something about what it was like growing up on a midwestern farm in the 1940s and 50s. A time that was in many ways much simpler but certainly not easy. We had the privilege of knowing personally grandparents and great grandparents who had lived through the many profound changes that occurred around the change of the century. Automobiles, tractors and telephones had only arrived on the farm about 30 years earlier and the grandparents’ barns and garages were still filled with horse-drawn equipment and harnesses from an earlier era. Electricity and graveled roads only occurred after WWII in our memory and running water and indoor bathrooms were still not common on many farms as late as 1955. It was a different and changing world of which we were privileged to be a part. Almost all our relatives lived nearby, and neighbors all knew us and didn’t hesitate to let our parents know if we were up to any mischief. We were expected to take responsibility, work hard, always be truthful, stay out of trouble, study hard and plant straight rows. All are excellent traits that unfortunately are not as valued today as they were then. In the book we have shared some history of the area and some stories of incidents from our lives that were not uncommon among farm families. We hope readers enjoy learning about us and our families.
Download or read book History of North Carolina North Carolina biography by special staff of writers written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Descendants of William Cromartie and Ruhamah Doane and Related Families written by Amanda Cook Gilbert and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious work chronicles 250 years of the Cromartie family genealogical history. Included in the index of nearly fifty thousand names are the current generations, and all of those preceding, which trace ancestry to our family patriarch, William Cromartie, who was born in 1731 in Orkney, Scotland, and his second wife, Ruhamah Doane, who was born in 1745. Arriving in America in 1758, William Cromartie settled and developed a plantation on South River, a tributary of the Cape Fear near Wilmington, North Carolina. On April 2, 1766, William married Ruhamah Doane, a fifth-generation descendant of a Mayflower passenger to Plymouth, Stephen Hopkins. If Cromartie is your last name or that of one of your blood relatives, it is almost certain that you can trace your ancestry to one of the thirteen children of William Cromartie , his first wife, and Ruhamah Doane, who became the founding ancestors of our Cromartie family in America: William Jr., James, Thankful, Elizabeth, Hannah Ruhamah, Alexander, John, Margaret Nancy, Mary, Catherine, Jean, Peter Patrick, and Ann E. Cromartie. These four volumes hold an account of the descent of each of these first-generation Cromarties in America, including personal anecdotes, photographs, copies of family bibles, wills, and other historical documents. Their pages hold a personal record of our ancestors and where you belong in the Cromartie family tree.
Download or read book Dixon Family History written by Mary Gant Bell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Dixon, son of Henry Dixon and Rose, was born in Ireland. He married Ann Gregg in about 1690. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana.
Download or read book The Wheelers of Granville County North Carolina written by Frances Wheeler Sayler and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rain on a Strange Roof written by Jan Whitt and published by Hamilton Books. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholar of Southern literature and culture, Jan Whitt has written a personal narrative about adoption, childhood abuse, and fifty years of searching for her family in rural Appalachia. A testament to the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit, Rain on a Strange Roof unflinchingly explores death and loss at the same time that it celebrates the transformative power of love and literature. An award-winning professor, Whitt teaches courses in American and British literature, literary journalism, media, and women’s studies. Quoting from films, novels, and short stories about the American South, Whitt weaves a narrative about the necessity for human connection and the desire for home.
Download or read book Proud Shoes written by Pauli Murray and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.
