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Book Synopsis The Prestons of Smithfield and Greenfield in Virginia by : John Frederick Dorman
Download or read book The Prestons of Smithfield and Greenfield in Virginia written by John Frederick Dorman and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Preston (d.1748) married Elizabeth Patton, and immigrated in 1738 from Ireland to Augusta County, Virginia. Descendants lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, California and elsewhere.
Author :Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Montgomery County Branch Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :13 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (12 download)
Book Synopsis Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Montgomery County Branch Records by : Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Montgomery County Branch
Download or read book Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Montgomery County Branch Records written by Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Montgomery County Branch and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The records largely document the recent history of Smithfield Plantation, ancestral home of the Preston family, focusing particularly on its restoration beginning in 1962. While much of the renovation occurred in the 1960s, many of the records detail other renovation projects done in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection is organized into seven series: Series I: Correspondence(largely from and to George Shackelford); Series II: Publications, including APVA and Montgomery County branch newsletters and APVA Discovery magazines; Series III: Smithfield Plantation Renovation, including appraisals, reports, and receipts; SeriesIV: Renovations of other Smithfield Plantation Buildings, including information about the renovations of other structures on the Smithfield property, (the cook's cabin, the miller's log house, and the smokehouse); Series V: AVPA General Files, including meeting minutes, financial reports, and building committee reports; Series VI: Historical Documents from dating from the original Preston family's residence at Smithfield (materials include manuscript account books (1754-63) of William Preston while residing at Greenfield, manuscript pages detailing work done by a wheelright (1845-50); and genealogical information about the Preston family); and Series VII: Miscellaneous Documents, which includes materials relating to historic Montgomery County and the Smithfield Plantation. The collection also contains an oversize folder with blueprints and architectural drawings.
Book Synopsis Preston Family (Charles Peale Didier Collection) Papers by :
Download or read book Preston Family (Charles Peale Didier Collection) Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1747 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Didier Collection of Preston Family Papers includes papers of James Patton, Patton's grandson William Preston, and Preston's eldest son, John Preston, all of Montgomery County, Virginia. The Preston family was important in the surveying, settlement, military affairs, and government of Southwest Virginia in the 18th and 19th centuries. Their papers consist of business and legal documents, surveys, and correspondence. Much of the collection relates to John Preston (1764-1827), treasurer of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1810 to 1819. For further information on the Preston family, see John F. Dorman, The Prestons of Smithfield and Greenfield in Virginia (1982).
Book Synopsis Diversity and Accommodation by : Michael J. Puglisi
Download or read book Diversity and Accommodation written by Michael J. Puglisi and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this collection argue that traditional views - of ethnic and cultural isolation, of German clannishness and Scots-Irish individualism - contain a kernel of truth but are far too restrictive and simplistic.
Book Synopsis Faces of the Confederacy by : Ronald S. Coddington
Download or read book Faces of the Confederacy written by Ronald S. Coddington and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Extensive research, fascinating characters . . . The author has done an admirable job of literally placing a face on the ordinary Confederate soldier.” —The Journal of Southern History “The history of the Civil War is the stories of its soldiers,” writes Ronald S. Coddington in the preface to Faces of the Confederacy. This book tells the stories of seventy-seven Southern soldiers—young farm boys, wealthy plantation owners, intellectual elites, uneducated poor—who posed for photographic portraits, cartes de visite, to leave with family, friends, and sweethearts before going off to war. Coddington, a passionate collector of Civil War-era photography, conducted a monumental search for these previously unpublished portrait cards, then unearthed the personal stories of their subjects, putting a human face on a war rife with inhuman atrocities. The Civil War took the lives of twenty-two of every hundred men who served. Coddington follows the exhausted survivors as they return home to occupied cities and towns, ravaged farmlands, a destabilized economy, and a social order in the midst of upheaval. This book is a haunting and moving tribute to those brave men. Like its companion volume, Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories, this book offers readers a unique perspective on the war and contributes to a better understanding of the role of the common soldier. “With his meticulous research and a journalist’s eye for good stories, Ron Coddington has brought new life to Civil War photographic portraits of obscure and long-forgotten Confederates whose wartime experiences might otherwise have been lost to history.” —Bob Zeller, cofounder and president of the nonprofit Center for Civil War Photography
Book Synopsis Historical Sketches and Reminiscences of an Octogenarian by : Thomas Lewis Preston
Download or read book Historical Sketches and Reminiscences of an Octogenarian written by Thomas Lewis Preston and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Defending the Old Dominion by : Stuart Lee Butler
Download or read book Defending the Old Dominion written by Stuart Lee Butler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defending the Old Dominion describes historical events in Virginia during the War of 1812, examining how Virginia's militia was organized, supplied, and financed by the Commonwealth. The book discusses the militia's unpreparedness in training, its lack of adequate ordnance and arms, and how that affected its ability to defend the state against British incursions during the war. Political activities of the Virginia legislature and the U.S. Congress are examined with special reference to how the state financed the war and its relationship with the U.S. government. The book includes the fascinating story of nearly two thousand former slaves who fled to British ships to fight in Virginia with British forces.
Book Synopsis Wartime Washington by : Elizabeth Blair Lee
Download or read book Wartime Washington written by Elizabeth Blair Lee and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Blair Lee was raised in Washington's political circles, and her husband, Samuel Phillips Lee, third cousin to Robert E. Lee, commanded the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. When they married, Elizabeth promised to write every day they were apart. Of the hundreds of letters with which she kept her promise, Virginia Jeans Laas has edited a choice selection that illuminates the functioning of a nineteenth-century family and the Mrs. Lee's unique perspective on the political and military affairs of the nation's beleaguered capital.
Book Synopsis William Preston and the Allegheny Patriots by : Patricia Givens Johnson
Download or read book William Preston and the Allegheny Patriots written by Patricia Givens Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kentucky's Last Cavalier by : Peter J. Sehlinger
Download or read book Kentucky's Last Cavalier written by Peter J. Sehlinger and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2004-05-07 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As this biography shows, Preston was Kentucky's last cavalier, the beau ideal of the Old South, a dashing defender of the old aristocracy both in the political realm and on the battlefield. His is a multidimensional story of power and privilege, family connections and gender roles, public service and proslavery politics. As Kentucky state historian James C. Klotter declares in the foreword, Preston's life "reveals much about his entire generation and his world.""--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Louisville by : John E. Kleber
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Louisville written by John E. Kleber and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ultimate reference to Kentucky's first chartered city is "an absolute must for anyone interested in Kentucky, regional, or urban history" (James C. Klotter). Readers learn about the inspiration for the city's name (King Louie XVI of France), its former famous residents (John James Audubon and Muhammad Ali), facts about the Kentucky Derby, and much more. 306 photos. 79 maps.
Book Synopsis Memoranda of the Preston Family by : Orlando Brown
Download or read book Memoranda of the Preston Family written by Orlando Brown and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Preston was born at Londonderry, Ireland, and married Elizabeth Patton in Ireland. They had four daughters and a son, 1728-ca. 1739. The family immigrated to Virginia in 1740 with Elizabeth Preston's brother, Col. James Patton, and settled first at Spring Hill, Augusta County. They moved to land near Staunton, Virginia, in 1743. John Preston died shortly after 1743. Elizabeth Preston died at the home of her son, Col. William Preston, at Grefield, Virginia, in 1776 at age 76. Children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, lived in Virginia, Kentucky, and elsewhere. Few dates given for descendants.
Book Synopsis Bonds of Womanhood by : Susanna Delfino
Download or read book Bonds of Womanhood written by Susanna Delfino and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class, race, and gender collide in this insightful examination of the life of Susanna (Susan) Preston Shelby Grigsby (1830–1891)—a white plantation mistress and slaveholder who struggled to participate in the economic modernization of antebellum Kentucky. Drawing on Grigsby's correspondence, author Susanna Delfino uses Grigsby's story to explore the complex cultural and social issues at play in the state's economy before, during, and after the Civil War. Delfino demonstrates that Grigsby engaged in certain kinds of antislavery activism, such as hiring white servants as a way of conveying her support for free labor and avoiding ever selling a slave. Despite her beliefs, however, Grigsby failed to hold to her moral compass when faced with her husband's patriarchal authority or when she experienced serious economic trouble. This compelling study not only illuminates how white women participated in the South's nineteenth-century economy, but also offers new perspectives on their complicity in slavery.
Book Synopsis "Greenfield" and the Prestons of "Greenfield" and "Smithfield." by :
Download or read book "Greenfield" and the Prestons of "Greenfield" and "Smithfield." written by and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870 by : Lewis Preston Summers
Download or read book History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870 written by Lewis Preston Summers and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Washingtons. Volume 4, Part 2 by : Justin Glenn
Download or read book The Washingtons. Volume 4, Part 2 written by Justin Glenn and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 875 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth volume of Dr. Justin Glenn’s comprehensive history that traces the “Presidential line” of the Washingtons. Volume One began with the immigrant John Washington, who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and became the great-grandfather of President George Washington. It continued the record of their descendants for a total of seven generations. Volume Two highlighted notable members of the next eight generations of John and Anne Washington’s descendants, including General George S. Patton, author Shelby Foote, and actor Lee Marvin. Volume Three traced the ancestry of the early Virginia members of this “Presidential Branch” back in time to the aristocracy and nobility of England and continental Europe. Volume Four resumes the family history where Volume One ended. It presents Generation Eight of the immigrant John Washington’s descendants, containing nearly 7,000 descendants. Future volumes will trace generations nine through fifteen, making a total of over 63,000 descendants. Although structured in a genealogical format for the sake of clarity, this is no bare bones genealogy but a true family history with over 1,200 detailed biographical narratives. These in turn strive to convey the greatness of the family that produced not only The Father of His Country but many others, great and humble, who struggled to build that country. Volume Four, Part One covers the descendants of the immigrant John Washington’s child Lawrence Washington. Volume Four, Part Two covers the descendants of the Immigrant’s children John Washington, Jr., and Anne (Washington) Wright.
Book Synopsis A History of William Radford of Richmond, Virginia by : Robert Somerville Radford Yates
Download or read book A History of William Radford of Richmond, Virginia written by Robert Somerville Radford Yates and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The descendents of John and Sarah Radford were found in Maryland in 1677. Evidence shows that they probably came from England. Descendants lived in Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, and elsewhere.
