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By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1993, reprinted 2023, 76 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-173-9. Hertford County was created in 1759 from Bertie, Chowan and Northampton Counties, NC. In 1779, part of Hertford County was ceded to create a new county named Gates. This book should be of great interest to those persons looking for relatives in this "BURNED County". It should also be of great interest to those researching in Bertie, Chowan, gates and Northampton counties.

By: R.A. Brock, Pub. 1886, reprinted 2023, 256 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-148-7. This book is the definitive work on the Huguenot emigration into Virginia. It contains numerous lists of refugees, emigrants and passenger lists. One of the most important lists is a record of the baptisms at Manakin-Town, 1721-1754. Beyond the obvious of a child's birth, the researcher will discover the names of the godparents, who often times were a relative of the family. Along with other genealogical data included within this book, the author has included an Appendix of Genealogies. This 88-page section contains genealogies of the following families: Chastain, Cocke, Dupuy, Fontaine, Marye, Maury, Trabue and other allied families of these families. The Index mentions approximately 4,000 persons.

By: Stratton Nottingham, Pub. 1929, reprinted 2023, 140 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-161-6.Located on the Eastern Shore, Northampton County was created in 1642 from Accomac Shire, one of the original 8 shires of Virginia. This book contains approximately 3,500 marriage bonds showing dates of bonds and the names of approximately 10,000 brides, grooms, parents, and sureties. The book is arranged alphabetically order by the surname of the groom, with an index to brides.

By: Adolph B. Benson, Pub. 1926, reprinted 2023, 240 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-150-0. This work is intended to show and describe some of the Swedish interest and participation in the American War of Independence. Consequentially it outlines the official and non-official Swedish attitude towards the American Colonists while also showing the commercial relationships which existed between the two. More importantly, the author has included a complete list of officers who directly or indirectly fought for American Independence giving their names with details and accounts of their service sometimes giving additional data such as birth and death data.

By: John W. Wayland, Pub. 1907, reprinted 2023, 324 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-168-5. The Shenandoah Valley comprises the Virginia counties of Augusta, Clarke, Frederick, Page, Rockingham, Shenandoah and Warren along with the West Virginia Counties of Berkeley and Jefferson. These German immigrants came mostly from the mid-Atlantic states of Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. This book is similar to other history books of the era with such topics as: a geographical outline of the Valley, the first white men of the Valley, why and when these German immigrants came, early settlements, select deeds during the French and Indian War from Augusta, Frederick and Orange Counties, towns, Religion, Politics, War, Education, Slavery, and Industry. The author has included numerous lists within, such as: Testators for Augusta County, 1778-1786; testators for Franklin County, 1770-1783; persons selling land in Rockingham County, 1777-1793; testators for Shenandoah County, 1772-1784, members of House of Burgesses, 1742-1776; members of the Virginia Senate and House of Delegates, 1883-1903; Revolutionary Pensioners from Frederick, Page, Rockingham and Shenandoah Counties. The index mentions over 3,800 individuals.

By: Mona A. Taylor, Pub. 1992, reprinted 2023, 228 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-158-6. Gates County was created in 1778 from Hertford, Chowan and Perquimans counties, N.C. It is located in the Northeastern corner of the state bordering Virginia. It is surrounded by the counties of Camden, Chowan, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans counties N.C. and by Nansemond County, VA. Many inhabitants of the "BURNED" counties of Hertford, N.C. and Nansemond, VA. which adjoin Gates County are mentioned in these early deeds. Deeds are one of favorite research tools of the genealogists due to the wide variety of family connections found within them. Not only will the reader find the deed transaction itself, but often times such things as: marriages, relinquishments of dower, divisions of family farms among heirs, remarriages of widows are just a few of the matters you can anticipate finding within records of deeds.

By: Benjamine F. VanMeter, Pub. 1901, reprinted 2023, 186 pages, Index soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-151-7. This book is a series of biographical sketches of families from 17th and 18th century Virginia and Kentucky. The author compiled these sketches from published sources, original records and interviews with the oldest living members of a number of the families. These sketches are a balanced mixture of genealogy and biography, which makes for interesting reading while covering as many as six generations of family members. Surnames of these pioneers are: Allan, Bigelow, Bruce, Campbell, Clay, Cunningham, Field, Garrard, Hall, Hamilton, Hanna, Harness, Harrison, Hockaday, Holloway, Hull, Johnson, Johnston, Kleiser, Lewis, McNeill, Moore, Nicholas, Payne, Petit, Prewitt, Rodes, Smith, Stonestreet, Swoope, Van Meter, West, Wetherill, Williams, Willis, Wright, and Yerkes.

By: Marvin L. Skaggs, Pub. 1941, reprinted 2023, 250 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-149-4. Controversy or boundary disputes have followed many states from their colonial days forward. These issues are important to the development of the state. All of this is important for the genealogists when researching persons along these boundary lines. North Carolina was not immune to these disputes. She actually had disputes with South Carolina and Georgia. This work follows these disputes from the Propriety period to its progress though the reign of George II to its extension into the mountains. This controversy continued on to independent statehood with fruitless negotiations, settlements, modified agreements and new surveys.

By: Mona A. Taylor, Pub. 1985, reprinted 2023, 172 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-156-2. Gates County was created in 1778 from Hertford, Chowan and Perquimans counties, N.C. It is located in the Northeastern corner of the state bordering Virginia. It is surrounded by the counties of Camden, Chowan, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans counties N.C. and by Nansemond County, VA. Many inhabitants of the "BURNED" counties of Hertford, N.C. and Nansemond, VA. which adjoin Gates County are mentioned in these early deeds. Deeds are one of favorite research tools of the genealogists due to the wide variety of family connections found within them. Not only will the reader find the deed transaction itself, but often times such things as: marriages, relinquishments of dower, divisions of family farms among heirs, remarriages of widows are just a few of the matters you can anticipate finding within records of deeds.

By: Jay G. Cisco, Pub, 1909, reprinted 2023, 320 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-160-9. Sumner County was created in 1786 from Davidson County. It was later divided to create the counties of Smith and Wilson. This book was the consolidation of a series of articles that the author had published in the Nashville American in 1907. These articles were revised and expanded for this book along with the addition of additional data that came from interview of many survivors of the original settlers of Sumner County. The first portion of this book is similar to other history books of the ear, covering such topics as early exploration of the county, local topography, territorial laws, officials, early landowners, and Sumner County in the participation in wars, particularly the Civil War. The bulk of this work focuses on Sumner County pioneers and their families in a series of genealogical and biographical sketches of the featured families of Bledsoe, Cage, and Douglass. The author also included mini biographical sketches on numerous other pioneers and their families including: Anderson, Barrow, Barry, Bate, Bell, Bertinatti, Blackmore, Belmont, Bowen, Bowie, Breckenridge, Campbell, Carmack, Carr, Cisco, Clark, Desha, Donaldson, Ellis, Fulton, Gaines, Garth, Guild, Gwin, Hall, Hallum, Hammond, Hatton, Head, Judd, Lauderdale, Lindsey, Malone, Mansker, Martin, McKendree, Morgan, Morris, Odom, Parker, Peyton, Pickett, Read, Rogan, Rogers, Rutherford, Sanders, Sharkey, Shelby, Scurry, Smith, Spencer, Trousdale, Vanderbilt, Walton, Weatherred, Williams, Wilson, Winchester, and Wynne.

By: Thomas Speed, Pub. 1886, reprinted 2023, 80 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-146-3. This book was written for the Filson Club back in 1885 as a description of the Routes of Travel by which the Pioneer and Early Settlers first came to Kentucky. These early settlers came from Virginia, the Carolinas, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The greater portion of this travel was over the Wilderness Road, though many persons made their way down the Ohio River. The author has included a map showing these routes from various established cities or forts such as Richmond, VA and Philadelphia, PA. across the mountains to Boonesboro or Crab Orchard, KY. Mooney has also included descriptions of the routes containing the mileage from spot to spot along the way.

By: J. Ansel Caughman, Pub. 1952, reprinted 2023, 215 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-166-1. Lexington County was created in 1785 and lies in the center of the state just north of the state capitol, Columbia. This book begins with a brief history of the Indians of the area. Quickly moving on to brief histories of the Salem Lutheran Church, Cedar Grove Congregation, Lexington Baptist Church and Sherman's Raid. The next sections will delight the researcher with biographical sketches / family histories of the following surnames: Adams, Addy, Austin, Black, Boggs, Caughman, Craps, Crout, Derrick, Drafts, Eargle, Fulmer, Hallman, Hare, Hayes, Hite, Holley, Huff, Keisler, Langford, Lybrand, Nichols, Oxner, Risinger, Roberts, Sease, Seastruck, Shealy, Snelgrove, Swygert, and Wise

This volume brings together scholars from intellectual history, social sciences, philosophy and theology to evaluate central questions concerning political violence and aggression. This multidisciplinary collection of essays critically investigates forms and modes of justification of political violence from historical and contemporary perspectives, especially within the context of the development of the idea of Europe and modern European identity. What is meant by political violence and aggression? When and under which conditions is it justified? Who has the right to exercise it and against whom? Answers differ depending on various factors such as pre-established ends, available resources and possibilities of action, historical and socio-economic context, the ideological, political, and religious-theological background of the actors. The volume pays special attention to (a) how the above questions have been addressed and answered political, philosophical and theological thought, and (b) what kind of ideological currents and historical events lay at the background of such considerations.

"A true celebration of food in all its forms, The Food Book follows the human quest for sustenance through the stories of individual ingredients. It examines our millennia-long relationship with nearly 200 foods--from nuts and seeds to noodles and meat-- with the help of ... illustrations and tales from all over the world. Food is the cornerstone of daily life, culture, and even religion. Staples like bread, beans, and cereal crops are part of our culinary history and are used in many different ways around the world"--

This work gives an account of the secret schools set up by conquered people, determined to maintain their traditional scholarship.

A classic work on the fascinating subject of traditional wakes in Ireland.

By: George H. Smathers, Pub. 1938, reprinted 2023, 160 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-167-8.This book is a history of the Cherokee land laws affecting the title to land lying west of the Meigs and Freeman line, and the laws affecting the title of land lying east of the Meigs and Freeman line back to the top of the Blue Ridge, including all the land on the waters of French Broad River in what was formerly Buncombe County, which at that time included all the land west of the Blue Ridge in the state of North Carolina. Chapters within discuss: the Indian Treaties and their effect on Land Titles west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Statutes and Laws relating to Land Titles, Origin of Title to Lands now held by Cherokee Indians in NC and Acts of the Legislature creating various counties.

By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1983, reprinted 2023, 124 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-171-5.The city of New Bern is located in Craven County, NC. The city was founded in 1710 and served as the Capitol of the state from 1770-1792. Its earliest settlers were of Palatines and Swiss descent. These abstracts from this newspaper cover a wide variety of genealogical interest, such as: Crimes, Run-Away Slaves giving names of slave and master, Lands for sale including names of seller, physical description and amount of acreage, Marriages and deaths, Divorces, Revolutionary War data, court issues, businesses, and many, many other types of genealogical data. The data within this book covers persons not only from Craven County, but also persons from neighboring counties of Beaufort, Carteret, Dobbs, Duplin, Hyde, Jones, Pitt and other outlying areas. The Index mentions approximately 1,700 persons.

This book provides a historical and socio-legal investigation into the prevalence of litigation arising from cursing and interpersonal hostility in the under-explored region of Northwest England during a period of acute socio-economic crisis in the seventeenth century. Contributing to the scholarship of magic and witchcraft, it shows the complex circumstances of the world of healing and harming using customary knowledge such as magic and folk medicine as it is variously presented in the documents of the legal system. While primary sources such as pamphlets have usefully informed numerous witchcraft studies, this book establishes popular belief derived from the depositions, interrogatories and various other manuscripts of the manorial, ecclesiastical and secular courts positioned within a micro historical early modern context.

Scholarship on Japan¿s development from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century has, perhaps quite understandably, been dominated by attention given to Japan¿s emergence as a world power through a succession of military conflicts, and the burgeoning of a modern literary canon. This book argues that the emergence of empire and high culture needs to be more thoroughly integrated with an awareness of popular culture in urban life, a culture that at times exhibited a less than whole-hearted enthusiasm for the trappings of 'civilization', - a culture that was, in a sense, ¿decadent¿. It integrates coverage of popular culture across diverse media and platforms, accentuating the emergence of new modern forms that evolved from the inter-relation between textual, visual and performative traditions such as k¿dan and giday¿. The commentary is seasoned with reference to contemporary narratives, aiming to capture more ¿on the street¿ perceptions of momentous events such as war and natural disasters, as well as the more arcane or curious media sensations of the moment. These included exposés of scandalous conduct in high places, new fads in popular entertainments and riveting stories of human interest whether it be crime or tragedies of modern urban living.

This book traces changing attitudes towards secrecy in eighteenth-century France, and explores the cultural origins of ideas surrounding government transparency. The idea of keeping secrets, both on the part of individuals and on the part of governments, came to be viewed with more suspicion as the century progressed. By the eve of the French Revolution, writers voicing concerns about corruption saw secrecy as part and parcel of despotism, and this shift went hand in hand with the rise of the idea of transparency. The author argues that the emphasis placed on government transparency, especially the mania for transparency that dominated the French Revolution, resulted from the surprising connections and confluence of changing attitudes towards honour, religious movements, rising nationalism, literature, and police practices. Exploring religious ideas that associated secrecy with darkness and wickedness, and proto-nationalist discourse that equated foreignness with secrecy, this book demonstrates how cultural shifts in eighteenth-century France influenced its politics. Covering the period of intense fear during the French Revolution and the paranoia of the Reign of Terror, the book highlights the complex interplay of culture and politics and provides insights into our attitudes towards secrecy today. 

This book explores the improbable rise of medical hypnotism in Victorian Britain and its subsequent assimilation and neglect. It follows the careers of the ¿New Hypnotists¿: Charles Lloyd Tuckey, John Milne Bramwell, George Kingsbury and Robert Felkin. This loosely knit group all trained with the Suggestion School of Nancy and published books on hypnotism. They had to confront the many public and medical prejudices against the trance state which had persisted after the scandalous disgrace of John Elliotson and medical mesmerism, fifty years before. Hypnotism was a highly contested technology and in the 1890s the debates about safety and utility were fought in the national newspapers as well as the medical journals. The new hypnotists took on the might of the medical institutions personified by Ernest Hart, Editor of the British Medical Journal. However their timing was propitious, as the rise of faith-healing forced the medical profession to confront the non-physical therapeutic aspects of the doctor-patient relationship. The hypnotic discourse was shaped by these developments, but also by the fascination of the general public, novelists, occultists, psychic investigators, educationalists and spiritualists in the myriad possibilities of the trance state. Despite growing interest in the prehistory of British psychology and talking therapies, and the recent challenges to the primacy of Freudian histories, there are few accounts of the development of British ¿eclectic therapy¿. This book uses the New Hypnotists as a lens to examine Victorian medicine and society, exploring their role in establishing the term ¿psychotherapy,¿ and legitimising medical hypnotism, a precursor of psychological therapies.

This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. Considering a variety of legal, archival, and published sources, it traces the origins and dissemination of a peculiar method for determining mental unsoundness defined as the ¿Victorian system¿. Shaped by the dynamics surrounding the clandestine committal of wealthy Londoners in private madhouses, this system featured three distinctive tenets: standardized forms, independent medical examinations, and written facts of insanity. Despite their complexity, Victorian certificates achieved a remarkable success. Not only did they survive in the UK for more than a century, but they also served as a model for the development of mental health laws around the world. By the start of the Second World War, more than seventy colonial and non-colonial jurisdictions adopted the Victorian formula for making lunacy official with some countries still relying on it to this very day. Using case studies from Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific, this book charts the temporal and geographical trajectory of an imperial technology used to determine a person¿s destiny. Shifting the focus from metropolitan policies to colonial dynamics, and from macro developments to micro histories, it explores the perspectives of families, doctors, and public officials as they began to deal with the delicate business of certification. This book will be of interest to scholars working on mental health policy, the history of medicine, disability studies, and the British Empire.

Was migration to Germany a blessing or a curse? The main argument of this book is that the Greek state conceived labor migration as a traineeship into Europeanization with its shiny varnish of progress. Jumping on a fully packed train to West Germany meant leaving the past behind. However, the tensed Cold War realities left no space for illusions; specters of the Nazi past and the Greek Civil War still haunted them all. Adopting a transnational approach, this monograph retargets attention to the sending state by exploring how the Greek Gastarbeiter's welfare was intrinsically connected with their homeland through its exercise of long-distance nationalism. Apart from its fresh take in postwar migration, the book also addresses methodological challenges in creative ways. The narrative alternates between the macro- and the micro-level, including subnational and transnational actors and integrating a diverse set of primary sources and voices. Avoiding the trap of exceptionalism, it contextualizes the Greek case in the Mediterranean and Southeast European experience.

This study explores tropes concerned with the Middle Ages in Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia, seeking to explain why an often romanticized medieval past remains potent in Russian politics, society, and culture today.

Welcome to "Quranic Wisdom through Scientific Eyes." This book is all about connecting the dots between what the Quran says and what science tells us. We're on a journey to show that the teachings in the Quran align with what we've discovered through science. First up, in "Some Evidence For The Truth Of Islam," we're going to lay down some solid reasons why Islam makes sense. We're going to dig into Quranic verses and highlight how they match up with what science has found. Then, in the next part, we're diving into the lives of awesome scientists. These folks didn't see a conflict between their faith and what they found in the Quran. We'll look at what they said about the Quran and science, showing how they thought both were pretty cool. Finally, we're ending with some important questions. We want you to think about whether the Quran really holds up. These questions will guide you through pondering the truthfulness of what the Quran says. So, buckle up for a ride where we explore how science and the Quran can go hand in hand. "Quranic Wisdom through Scientific Eyes" is here to make things simple and show you the connections between the Quran and the scientific wonders of our world. Let's dive in!