Place-Names of the Northern Neck of Virginia
Author: Mary R. Miller
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Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780884900993
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mary R. Miller
Publisher:
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780884900993
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States Board on Geographic Names
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Everett-Heath
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-09-19
Total Pages: 1854
ISBN-13: 0192602543
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This unique and informative dictionary explores the history, meanings, and origin of place names around the world. In over 11,000 entries it covers an enormous geographical range, including continents, countries, islands, cities, mountains, rivers, and much more. Key historical facts are incorporated into each entry, as well as a record of the place name in the local language for an accurate and comprehensive account. For this fifth edition, 134 entirely new entries have been added, including Byzantine Empire, Lac qui Parle, Nasr, Sauk City, and Yekaterinogradskaya. Existing entries have also been fully updated to reflect recent socio-political and geographical changes, most notably in Eswatini and Northern Macedonia. In addition to the entries themselves, the dictionary contains invaluable supplementary content to support the text. There is a glossary of foreign word elements which appear in place names, as well as a list of personalities and leaders who have influenced the naming of places around the world.
Author: Geographic Names Information System
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 500
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William M. McCarty
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 630
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dennis McCarty was born in England in about 1655. He emigrated in about 1670 and settled in Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia.
Author: Michal Sobel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-06-08
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1400820499
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the recent past, enormous creative energy has gone into the study of American slavery, with major explorations of the extent to which African culture affected the culture of black Americans and with an almost totally new assessment of slave culture as Afro-American. Accompanying this new awareness of the African values brought into America, however, is an automatic assumption that white traditions influenced black ones. In this view, although the institution of slaver is seen as important, blacks are not generally treated as actors nor is their "divergent culture" seen as having had a wide-ranging effect on whites. Historians working in this area generally assume two social systems in America, one black and one white, and cultural divergence between slaves and masters. It is the thesis of this book that blacks, Africans, and Afro-Americans, deeply influenced white's perceptions, values, and identity, and that although two world views existed, there was a deep symbiotic relatedness that must be explored if we are to understand either or both of them. This exploration raises many questions and suggests many possibilities and probabilities, but it also establishes how thoroughly whites and blacks intermixed within the system of slavery and how extensive was the resulting cultural interaction.
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Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 2009-06
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0806313706
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The "headright" system, widely used for acquiring land in Virginia was never recognized in Virginia's Northern Neck. People wanting to acquire land there had to purchase a warrant and obtain a survey before they were issued a grant. The original Grant Books, now on microfilm, were used in making this collection of abstracts, and they generally provide the following information on some 5,000 Northern Neck residents: the name of the grantee, dates of warrant and survey, date and location of grant, amount of acreage, names of former owners/occupiers, names of adjacent property owners, and often the names of heirs and other family members.
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Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0806311762
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The "headright" system, widely used for acquiring land in Virginia was never recognized in Virginia's Northern Neck. People wanting to acquire land there had to purchase a warrant and obtain a survey before they were issued a grant. The original Grant Books, now on microfilm, were used in making this collection of abstracts, and they generally provide the following information on some 5,000 Northern Neck residents: the name of the grantee, dates of warrant and survey, date and location of grant, amount of acreage, names of former owners/occupiers, names of adjacent property owners, and often the names of heirs and other family members.