Bøger af Robert Scott Davis

B Robert S. Davis, Pub. 1979, Reprinted 2017, 396 pages, paperback, Index, ISBN #0-89308-170-1.Wilkes County is Georgia's oldest county, being the first of the original eight created by the first state constitution in 1777. The Federal Census of 1790 revealed that one-third of the population of Georgia was living in Wilkes County. Since 1790, lands that once were part of Wilkes County have been used to create all or parts of present-day Elbert, Hall, Lincoln, Madison, McDuffie, Oglethorpe, Taliferro, and Warren. This book is a collection of never-before-published abstracts of collections of Wilkes County loose marriages, estates, poor school, military, land, court, state, and other records from libraries and archives throughout the South. NONE of these original papers abstracted here were available to Grace G. Davidson in compiling her famous: Early Records of Georgia, Wilkes County". Most of these papers were removed from Wilkes County by private individuals and were "Lost" to researchers until they turned up in manuscript collections throughout the South.

By: Robert S. Davis, Jr., Pub. 1979, Reprinted 2019, 268 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-169-8.More than 1,700 citizens, 1,000 Patriot soldiers, and 800 Loyalists are included in this volume. Also, records of many Virginians who served in Georgia Continentals; of members of South Carolina Continental units in Georgia; and some South Carolina Loyalists are also included. This book will be a MUST for those looking for Revolutionary War service for a Georgia ancestor since the D.A.R. no longer accepts the undocumented records from McCall's three volumes on Georgia Revolutionary War soldiers and only small portions from Lucian Lamar Knight's volume on Georgia in the Revolution.

By: Robert Davis, Jr., Pub. 2019, 264 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-485-9.This book contains the names of approximately 21,000 individuals found in these records. This book is divided into four (4) major sections as follows: PART 1 - which contains Loose Original Records: Inventory of Estate Records, 1801-1823; Lost Court Files of the Inferior Court, 1805-1895; A Listing and Description of Miscellaneous Files, 1800-1925. PART 2 - Abstracts from the Miscellaneous Files: 1. Misc. Records such as a Poor List, 1832 & 1837; Estray Declarations and Records, 1820, 1837-1873; 2. Confederate Records, 1862-1892, such as Guardians of Orphan Children of deceased soldiers; Cripple soldiers for life; Soldiers Widows; Dependents on Soldiers for Support, vis: wives and widows and children of Confederate Soldiers; 3. Militia records, 1804-1831; 4. Poor School Records, 1823. PART 3 - Original Marriage Records, 1804-1850's. PART 4 - Inventory of county records of Georgia Archives, viz: 1. Probate Court Records; Superior Court Records including index to Deeds and Mortgages and Superior Court Minutes; 2. Private records on microfilm, such as family histories, journals, family collections; 3. Militia Records from Duke University, 1804-1823; 4. Appendix, containing a missing page from the 1840 census and Land Court Minutes, 1803-1832.

Searching for your Alabama ancestors? Looking for historical facts? Dates? Events? This book will lead you to the places where you'll find answers. Here are hundreds of direct sources - governmental, archival, agency, online - that will help you access information vital to your investigation.

Building on the work of his 1989 book, The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays, accomplished historian Robert M. Calhoon returns to the subject of internal strife in the American Revolution with Tory Insurgents. This volume collects revised, updated versions of eighteen groundbreaking articles, essays, and chapters published since 1965, and it also features one essay original to this volume. In a model of scholarly collaboration, coauthors Calhoon, Timothy M. Barnes, and Robert Scott Davis are joined in select pieces by Donald C. Lord, Janice Potter, and Robert M. Weir. Among the topics broached by this noted group of historians are the diverse political ideals represented in the Loyalist stance; the coherence of the Loyalist press; the loyalism of garrison towns, the Floridas, and the Western frontier; Carolina loyalism as viewed by Irish-born patriots Aedanus and Thomas Burke; and the postwar reintegration of Loyalists as citizens of the new nation. Included as well is a chapter and epilogue from Calhoon's seminal-but long out-of-print-1973 study The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781. This updatedcollection will serve as an unrivaled point of entrance into Loyalist research for scholars and students of the American Revolution.