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The Colonial Clergy of Maryland, Delaware and Georgia $25.00
Frederick Lewis Weis, TH.D.
Lancaster, Mass: The Society of Descendants of Colonial Clergy, 1950
Table of contents:
Interior of the First Church in Lancaster
Publications of the Society
List of Annual Addresses, 1934-1950
The Colonial Clergy of America .
Officers of the Society, 1933-1950
Members of the Council, 1933-1950
Membership, 1933-1950
The Colonial Clergy of Maryland, 1629-1776
The Colonial Clergy of Delaware, 1638-1776
The Colonial Clergy of Georgia, 1733-1776
The Colonial Churches of Maryland, 1629-1776
Friends Meetings in Maryland, 1656-1776
The Colonial Churches of Delaware, 1638-1776
The Colonial Churches of Georgia, 1733-1776
Summary of the Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of
Maryland, Delaware and Georgia
103 pages, 6x9 hardbound, good condition, light stain on back cover.

Florida
Observations Upon The Floridas $14.95
Charles Blacker Vignoles
Gainesville Florida: University of Florida 1977
Bicentennial Floridiana Facsimile Series
A Facsimile reproduction of the 1823 edition with an introduction and index by John Hebron Moore
(from the introduction) " Because it was written soon after Spanish Florida was ceded to the United States, Charles Blacker Vignoles' Observations Upon The Floridas (1823) is a valuable source of historical information on that new American territory. Furthermore, the authors subsequent career gives this work added interest as a historical document. Vignoles, who had been practicing his profession for only a few years when he prepared his commentary on Florida, subsequently became one of the great civil engineers of Victorian England, famous for railroads and bridges that he constructed in the British Isles, and on the continents of Europe and South America." 1 fold out map.
185 pages, hardbound, simulated leather, good condition

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Our Story of Orange City Florida, 1894-1966 $25.00
Village Improvement Association.
Deland, Fla.: Second Edition, November, 1966
Table of contents
Lois Ireland Leavitt Note, Florida, Orange City, Poems:, "Orange City", by Louise Wellington, "Orange City", by Lois Ireland Leavitt, "My Orange City Home", by E.P. Markham. Blue Spring, Indians Earliest Inhabitants, First Settlers in Vicinity of, Orange City.. The Thursby Family Isabelle S. Thursby, Early Settlement of Orange City - I Early Settlement of Orange City - II Annals of Orange City, by George M. Parker, Orange City History, by Alice Spencer., River Traffic on the St. John's, The Cemetery., Orange Groves, The Big Freeze Lue Gim Gong., Post Office, Camphor Gum, Orange City Water, Health Conditions, Physicians, Lawyers.., Railroads, Organization of Orange City.. Mayors of Orange City. Town Officers 1965, Court of Justice of the Peace, at Orange City, Fire Department, Orange City's Worst Fire, Officers 1965, Auxiliary Women's Christian Temperance Union, Methodist Church, Pastors, First Congregational Church, Pastors, Vida Chisholm, Saint Timothy Episcopal Church, Mrs. Louise Dettmer, Miss Neva Benham, African Methodist Church, Missionary Baptist Church, Primitive Baptist Church, Sanctified Church First Baptist Church of Orange City, Pastors The American Congregation of, Franciscans Pilgrim Community Church ., Pastors, The Orange City Library Association First Officers of Orange City, Library Association, Dedication of the Dickinson, Memorial Library Building . Librarians, June 1965 Officers, Extracts from Deeds to Orange City Library Association . The Dickinson Family, Schools, Orange City Elementary School . . . Olive Martin St. John's River Conference College Rollins College, Forerunners of The Marian L. Coleman Elementary School
The Marian L. Coleman Elementary, School, Dr. Evelyn Sharp, Green Valley School, Village Improvement Association, Membership, March 21, 1894, Charter Member State Federation, of Women's Clubs, The Park, First New Year's Reception, Important Dates, Presidents, Life Members, Famous Women of the Village, Improvement Association, Legends, Minutes - Typical Activities, Village Improvement Association 1965 Officers
Items - Treasurers' Reports, 1914-1926, Orange City Club Song, Extracts from Deeds, Three Famous Women, Telephones, Mrs. Mary Culp, Electricity, Orange City Orchestra, The Allen Sisters, The Parent-Teachers Association, Officers 1965, Mrs. Grace L. Warner, Recreation Hall, Recreation Hall Burns^,,Extension Home Maker's Club, County Home Demonstration Report 1965, Officers 1965, Orange City in the Florida Boom Monday Bridge Club, The Orange City Times - 1927, Orange City Chamber of Commerce, Officers 1965, Orange City Bank, Edward _.Beardsley Ailing Orange City Chapter of the American, Red Cross, Founding Orange City Chapter, Chapter House, 1965 Officers, 4-H Club of Orange City, Tourist Club, Officers 1965, Orange City Shuffle Board Club, Officers June 1965, Business Woman's Club, Lions Club, Officers 1965, Orange City Garden Club, Officers 1965-1966, Sorosis Club of Orange City, Officers 1965-1966, Boy Scouts of America - Orange City Troop No. 544, Officers 1965, Orange City Cub Scouts - Pack, Officers 1965, Orange City Girl Scouts Orange City Terrace Civic Association, Officers, Orange City Nursing Home, Nursing Home Auxiliary, Present Physicians
ILLUSTRATIONS, Lois Ireland Leavitt Frontispiece Blue Spring, Cemetery, General Store and Post Office, F.E.C. Depot and "Old Faithful", Orange City Town Hall, Methodist Church, First Congregational Church, First Baptist Church, Pilgrim Community Church, Dickinson Memorial Library Building Dickinson Homestead, Elementary School, Telephone Company Building, Home of Mrs. Mary Culp, First Telephone Building, Red Cross Chapter House 4-H Club House Shuffle Board Club.
454 pages; 6 x 9; softbound; illus. with b/w photographs; good; previous owner’s name on front cover; repair front & back covers

Georgia
Oglethorpe: A Brief Biography $15.00
Amos Aschbach Ettinger
Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press 1984 (originally published 1929)
(from the end flap) "Ettinger begins with a brief survey of the family background of the Oglethorpes and their Jacobite activities. He then charts James Oglethorpe's Parliamentary career and attempts to place him in the proper historical perspective. The major portion of his essay, however, is devoted to the origin , settlement, administration and protection of the colony of Georgia by Oglethorpe and the phases of his career in America."
90 pages, 6x9 hardbound, dust jacket, good condition.

The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia Vol. 27 $18.50
Edited by Kenneth Coleman and Milton Ready
Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1977
(from the introduction) "This volume spans the years 1754 through 1756, essentially the period of John Reynolds' administration as Governor of Georgia, and consists of Reynolds' letters and reports to the Board of Trade in London. For these years the main developments in Georgia were the institution of royal government and the outbreak of war between England and France. The first of these events does not loom very large in this volume, but the second does.
In Reynolds' initial letter to the Board of Trade, he showed himself to be prosaic and not very impressed with his colony or his job. This attitude continues throughout the volume. Reynolds described Savannah as an unimpressive town of about 150 small, rundown wooden buildings and indicated his fear that the French might wean Georgia's Indian neighbors away from their friendship with the English. Reynolds at the same time reported he had already discovered that he could not live in Georgia in a manner befitting a governor on his salary of 1600, so he asked for an increase.
Throughout the volume there are documents about silk culture, the operation of Georgia's government, the troubles which soon developed between Reynolds and his council, land granting under both the Trustees and the new royal government, and the attempt to move the capital to Hardwick on the Altamaha River. The closely associated items of Indian relations and defense were the two most important problems from Reynolds' viewpoint. He sent to England a long and detailed defense plan developed by Engineer John G. W. DeBrahm. The plan was obviously too expensive for Georgia or the home government to implement, but Reynolds never seemed to grasp this reality
More than half of this volume is taken up with the Bosomworth Affair the attempt of Thomas and Mary Bosomworth to secure compensation for Mary's services as Indian interpreter and "agent" since the founding of the colony. The volume opens with documents on this problem continued from Volume 2 6 of this series. There is also Thomas Bosomworth's main effort in the affair, a long "Narrative" of the case from the Bosomworth viewpoint, with numerous appendices and enclosures. It was transmitted to the Board of Trade by Reynolds for a decision in September, 1756. The Governor was ore favorable to the Bosomworth claims than the President and assistants under the Trustees had been. Much of this document seems not to have been used by historians who have written on the Bosomworths."
310 pages, hardbound, as new.

Kentucky
Old Shaker Town and the Shakers A Brief History of the Rise of The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Coming, the Establishment of the Pleasant Hill Colony, Their Beliefs, Customs and Pathetic end. $9.95
Daniel M. Hutton
Harrodsburg, Kentucky, 1936 5th edition
Profusely illustrated.
table of contents: Plan the Pleasant Hill, Preface, Shaker Town of the Shakers, What the Shakers Believed, the Name Shaker, Other Settlements, Kentucky Reached, Shawnee Runs Settlement, Pleasant Hill settlement, Land Secured, Shaker Personnel, the Family, Church Covenant, Signature Is to Covenant, Desertions, Building Campaign, Shaker Industries, Membership, on Rearing Children, Shaker Dress, the Ritual, Singing a Worship, Dancing and Worship, Angels Make Visit, Shaker Characteristics, Testimony Withdrawn for period, in the Realm of Mysticism, the French Profits, Sister Mary Settles, Eldress, Sister Jane Sutton, trustee, the Period of Astounding Manifestations, Possession of Gifts Productive of Good and Evil, Divine Healing, Visit of a Host of Indian Spirits, Holy Sinai's Plain, Shakers Received a Testament from God, Did Not Make Use of Water Baptism, Did Not Celebrate the Lord's Supper, Manifestation of Christ and the Female, Marriage a Carnal Relation, Shaker Funeral and Cemetery, Cemetery Place a Wonderful Scenes, the Playgrounds, Shaker Belief Expressed in a Home, but an Emancipated Slaves, Religious and Other Meetings, the Formality in Receiving Members, Opera Founded on Shaker Romance, the Great Shaker Bell, a Prosperous People, Water System, Paper Mill, Tan Yard, Shaker Records Model, Notes on Shaker Customs, Father a Science Doctor to Shaker Life, the End.
80 page pamphlet, good condition, spine faded, small tear on top spine.

Boyle County, Kentucky 1850 Census $13.50
Danville, KY: St Asaph’s Chapter, NSDAR, 1988
166 pages, 9x12 softbound, index, very good condition

Louisiana
Kinfolks Vol 7 # 2 1983 $4.00 postpaid
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Calcasieu Parish Marriages 1910-15
From our Exchange Program
Parish Names
Louisiana's Newspapers
Louisiana Parish Map
Magnolia Cemetery
Perrin Family
Additions to Lyons Genealogy
Marriage Records by JP Delino Derouen
Queries & Book Review
Ancestor Chart
Ancestor Chart
Private Genealogical Libraries
Editorial
About 20 pages, magazine

Maryland
Speaking of Our Past: A Narrative History of Owings Mills, Maryland, 1640-1988. $14.95. (out of print)
Marie Forbes.
Bowie, Maryland; Heritage Books, Inc.; 1988.
(from the back cover) In the mid-1970's, Owings Mills was selected as one of two new "town center" sites for Baltimore County. By that decision a quiet, rural community was catapulted into the throes of major change. In 1980, the Owings Mills Historical Council was formed, it's purpose being to collect, preserve, and disseminate information about the town's history. Part of that effort took the form of an oral history project in which fifty interviews with the town's older residents were recorded.
Marie Forbes, an active participant in the Council's activities, and a well-published free-lance writer, was inspired to take those recordings and transform them into a written history of the town which would combine and distill the collective memories of the community. This book is the result.
Part I of this book deals with the early history of the community. Since no living representatives of those early times were available to interview, Ms. Forbes has reconstructed, based on her extensive historical research, lively and exciting narratives featuring a series of historical figures which form a series of "Voices Past".
Part 11, "Voices Present", contains verbatim extracts taken from the History Council's taped interviews conducted between 1980 and 1988. The extracts have been arranged in an interesting manner by topical headings, and have been supplemented with brief annotations by Ms. Forbes. Most of the narrators were long-time residents of Owings Mills, and all had a strong connection with the current or past life of the community. As Ms. Forbes has noted, "As the various voices contribute their remembrances of how we ran our homes and businesses, what we did for fun, how we cared for the sick, who among our citizens was unusual or unique, and a wealth of other topics, we obtain not just a narrowly focused view of life in the Owings Mills community, but a widely-angled perspective." The text has been attractively illustrated with many old-time photographs
390 pp.; softbound, VG.

Historical Record of the First Regiment Maryland Infantry $27.50
Charles Camper and J. W. Kirkley
Baltimore, 1990, Reprint of the 1871 edition,
This regiment saw violent action in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, and later from the Wilderness Campaign through the Petersburg siege
321pp, photos, index, hardbound, VG. >m

Guide to The Research Collections of the Maryland Historical Society $15.00
Edited by Richard J. Cox and Larry E. Sullivan
Baltimore, Maryland: Maryland Historical Society, 1981
Historical and genealogical manuscripts and oral history interviews.
354 pages, hardbound, very good condition.

Assateague, Maryland $4.95
William H. Wroten, Jr.
Centreville, Md.: Tidewater Publishers, 2d Edition, 6^th Printing, 1982.
Frontispiece
Acknowledgments
The Setting Indians
Early Explorers of The Islands
Settlements
Economic and Recreational Activities
Ponies
Life-Saving and Lighthouse Map of Life-Saving Stations
Storms and Inlets
Martinet's Map of Maryland, 1866
Back Cover: Martinet's Map of Maryland, 1885
Cover Photograph: Assateague Ponies Along the Bay Shore
Assateague Island National Seashore
58 pages; softbound; illus. cover; illus. with b/w photos; good; light shelf wear.

Mississippi
Index to Lawrence County Mississippi Marriages 1818 1879 $28.50
Compiled by Maxie Ruth Hedgepeth Brake
Copied from the records of the Circuit Clerk with an alphabetical arrangement and Bride index. Includes name of Groom, Name of Bride, Date and reference to the original record.
81 pages, 9x12 hardbound, cover is rubbed, good condition.

North Carolina
Fort Defiance, and the General (North Carolina) $7.95
Margaret E Harper (autographed)
Hickory NC: Clay Printing Company 1976 Stated First Paper Edition
The story of Revolutionary War General William Lenoir and the restoration of Fort Defiance.
126pages, good condition, minor edge wear.

Texas
The Danish Texans $25.00
John L. Davis
San Antonio: The University of Texas Institute of Texan cultures have San Antonio, 1979, second edition, revised, 1983
(from the preface) This book presents a general story of Danish immigration to Texas, discussing the major areas of settlement and giving an outline of why these individuals and groups came and what they did after their move. It is a book of examples, not an exhaustive history. Neither is this work a genealogical reference nor doesn't presume to tell the story of every Dane who came to Texas. There are far too many individuals for a work of this length.
Most examples included are either first generation arrivals or immediate descendants. Most of them stayed, a few moved on, but all left their mark as part of Texas's diverse culture.
166 pp. hardbound, dust jacket, has some spotting on it, good condition.

Marriage Records of Como County Texas 1826-1864 $12.00
Compiled by Jack H. Douglas and Thomas A. Easily
New Braunfels, Texas: Comal County family historians, 1984
Over 1500 names alphabetical by grooms, brides indexed.
42 pages, 9 x 12 softbound good condition.

Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas $12.00
Annual Report of the American Historical Association 1908
Edited by George P. Garrison, Ph. D.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911
Part II Correspondence with the United States (concluded), Mexico and Yucatan. Interesting reading for those who want more detail on that period of Texas's history.
807 pages, fair condition, ex library, inside front and back hinges are split but attached.

Virginia
Tidewater Virginia Families $49.95
Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company 1989, 1998
Covering an incredible 375 years, this book sets forth the genealogical history of some forty families who have their roots in Tidewater Virginia, families whose very history mirrors the social development of Virginia itself. Starting with the earliest colonial settler, the origins of the following Tidewater families are presented: Bell, Binford, Bonner, Butler, Campbell, Cheadle, Chiles, Clements, Cotton, Dejarnette(att), Dumas, Ellyson, Fishback, Fleming, Hamlin, Hampton, Harnison, Harris, Haynie, Hurt, Hutcheson, Lee, Mosby, Mundy, Nelson, Peatross, Pettyjohn, Ruffin, Short, Spencer, Tarleton, Tatum, Taylor, Terrill, Watkins, Winston, and Woodson.
All families tie in with the earliest Hutcheson, Peatross, Butler, and Lee settlers in the colony of Virginia, and in each instance the family history, its vital statistics, and the events of the time are reported, as are brief accounts of collateral issue in each generation. (Note that a family chart is included to make the progression from one generation to the next easier to follow.) The settlers treated here range from a "Bridewell orphan" to an early secretary of the colony, and the time-frame extends from the arrival of the George in 1619 to contemporary times.
xiv + 716 pp. as new

Colonial Williamsburg - Its Buildings and Gardens. $6.95
A Lawrence Kocher & Howard Dearsyne
Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg, 1949
The restoration of Williamsburg was not very old when this was published. Table of Contents: The Virginia Planter's Capital, Buildings and Builders of Williamsburg, The Manner of Furnishings, The Gardens of Williamsburg, The Restoration of an American Town, A photographic Tour of Williamsburg: The Governor's palace, The George Wythe House, Burton Parish Church, The Court House of 1770, The Magazine, The Ludwell-Paradise House, Raleigh Tavern, The Capital, The Public Gaol, Houses and Outbuildings, Gates & Fences, The College of William & Mary, Arts & Crafts, Williamsburg Shopping District, Bibliographical Notes.
104 pages, hard bound, dust jacket, several tears on edges, missing a piece on spine.

Roanoke, Virginia 1740-1982 $13.50
Claire White
Table of contents: Preface 1736-1764, 1764-1790, 1790-1838, 1838-1860, 1860-1881, 1881-1893, 1893-1918, 1918-1945, 1945-1982, Bibliography, Index, illustrated.
133 pages, 6x9 softbound, very good condition.

Folkways of The Mammoth Cave Region, Number Two $10.95
Gordon Wilson (autographed)
National Park Concessions, 1967
Interesting look at The Mammoth Cave region. Interesting photos.
Table of Contents: The people of The region, Passing Institutions, Language, Some Quaint Words, Some Local or Old-time Pronunciations, Some Common Regional Words, Some Place Names, Proverbial Lore, Some Similes with The Farm Flavor, Banter and Belittling Sayings, Accept The Universe, Some Folk Grammar, Folk Remedies, Talisman Some Magic, Internal Medicine's, Rub on Remedies, Beliefs, Luck, Beliefs about Weather, Snow and Cold Weather, Moon, Thunder and Lightning, Some General Signs, Boy Life in The Area, Dresses, Breaches, and Pants, Horse, Bridle, and Saddle, Boots, Hightops, Etc. How to Measure, "Lest We Forget", Bibliography.
64 Pages, 6x9 Pamphlet, Some Fading of Cover, Mark Where Price Sticker Was.

Washington DC
A Capital Capital City (Washington D.C.) 1790-1814 $7.95 (New Book) (List $14.95)
By Suzanne Hilton
Library Professional Publications 1987
Anyone who visited the ten square miles chosen as the capital of the new nation by the first US. Congress would have seen swampland, thick forests, and cornfields. Pierre-Charles L'Enfant, the Frenchman chosen to design the city in the wilderness, saw manicured parks, wide avenues, and huge state buildings. Fortunately, George Washington kept things in perspective. Even so, it would be many years before other architects transformed the wilderness into an elegant city.
During these early years congressmen were forced to share rooms in crowded boardinghouses. Abigail Adams had to use the East Room as a drying room for laundry. Dolley Madison introduced a lively social life and eccentric costumes after Thomas Jefferson's casual, and sometimes misunderstood, manner of receiving visitors.
The city also faced serious problems during its early development. Residents experienced malaria and other fevers every summer. The editor of the first newspaper and the Speaker of the House clashed over freedom of the press. Then the British attacked the city by land, and a president and his wife had to escape from a capital under siege. But Washington rose from the ashes of the fires set by the British and proved its worth as a capital city.
A Capital Capital City vividly describes the first twenty-four years in Washington, D.C. and the men and women who lived there and contributed so much to the early history of the United States.
156 pages, 6x9 hardbound, dust jacket

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