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Extant records of the Alexandria Hustings Court which began to receive probates of wills and deeds and to grant administrations in 1782.

Gives names and brief abstract of the item: marriages, deaths, legal notices, property sales, chancery court cases, intentions to move, local events in which persons are named.

Heirs, relationships, executors, witnesses, dates wills were written and probated, page number of record.

These wills were done under the auspices of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Every name mentioned in the will is abstracted, land tract names, residence and occupation of the deceased when given.

These abstracts contain the names of all persons, relationships and tract names mentioned in the records. Buyers and sellers from adjoining counties are given. The land records from this time period also include transactions involving property other than

This right to exclude, or "warn out", was exercised frequently. Some towns only warned out persons they thought likely to become a charge, others automatically warned out any and all newcomers. Many who were warned out never left, with the result that "a

This is the definitive work on early passenger lists to the Delaware River. The volume contains reprints, reprints with corrections and additions, and original articles pertaining to shipping and passengers arriving during the first years of the founding

Menallen Monthly Meeting began keeping minutes for both the men's and women's meetings at their first meeting in 1780. The books, after they were filled, were eventually turned over to the Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsy

Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church was organized about 1770. Rev. John Simpson (1740-1808) was ordained and installed as pastor in 1774; he served the church until 1790 when he removed to Pendleton District, South Carolina. Rev. Simpson visited every famil

A comprehensive guide to recording and understanding tombstone inscriptions and art. Traces the historical development of tombstone materials, styles, artwork and epitaphs, and details the process of creating and preserving a clear reproduction of a grave

A history of a 4,000 acre tract at the foot of Cobbler Mountain in Fauquier County, Virginia, and the families that lived there. The emphasis is on Turner Dixon, the first member of the family to settle there, and on his widow and twelve children. Chronic

Contains all of the articles, lists, excerpts, abstracts and minutes listed in the third edition of Lancour's Bibliography. This set includes obscure foreign sources and excerpts from books, bibliographies and place and variant surname spelling indexes, a

Spine title: Maryland and D.C. volunteers in the Mexican War.

Abstracts include all persons mentioned in the original will, names of tracts, acreage and situation or means by which a property came into the possession of the testator.

It is to be expected that the history of Chesterfield County's coal mines would include the explosive nature of the mines and related fatalities. However, the author discovered an even darker side of this history while researching public documents-a life

United States Air Force historian, genealogist, and great-great grandson of a Union Army veteran; Russell Dutcher has compiled the Official Report of Professor Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe and his Union Army Balloon Corps during the Great War of the

Memories of the horrors of war are often sealed forever in the minds of the participants. Alabama Bomber Boys is the story of some sixty World War II veterans who, after six decades, opened their minds to tell today's generation, especially our youth, of