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Items relating to individuals living in Talbot, Dorchester, Worcester, Somerset, Caroline, Queen Anne’s and Kent Counties. Vital records, legal cases, property sales and rentals, lists of letters left at post…
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These records are the very earliest available for each church through 1800.
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This volume continues to focus on families living in Kent County and Sussex County, tracing lineages of early settlers into the early 1800s. The primary sources of information are court…
This volume focuses on the early families of Kent County, tracing lineages of early settlers into the early 1800s. The primary sources of information are court records (probate and orphans’…
This is a collection of vital records taken from German Lutheran and Reformed churches at Hagerstown, Salem (Cearfoss Pike), Funkstown, St. Paul’s near Clearspring, Jacob’s near Leitersburg, and Williamsport. Excerpts…
This volume contains abstracts of death and marriage notices taken from extant copies of The York Recorder at the Library of Congress. These deaths and marriages occurred in York County…
From earliest newspapers of Frederick and Hagerstown. Vital records; legal notices; property sales; runaway wives, apprentices and slaves; lists of letters left at post office, local eventsa persons in Western…
The names of individuals whose lives and activities are not mentioned in church, probate, or land records may only be found in occasional lists such as the ones compiled in…
Sales of property, runaway slaves, apprentices, horses and wives, marriages and deaths, appointments of administrations, stray livestock and their owners, deserters.
This volume contains items relating to individuals living in Talbot, Dorchester, Worcester, Somerset, Caroline, Queen Anne’s and Kent Counties, with occasional items from adjoining counties. Vital records, legal cases, property…
Names of heirs and other persons contained in will, references to land and other possessions.
This volume contains genealogical extracts from Portrait and Biographical Record of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The original contained portraits of citizens of the past and present, together with portraits…
Marriages, deaths, legal notices, property sales, chancery court cases, intentions to move, local events-any item relating to an individual is abstracted here. This volume contains about 3,500 names. An index…
Tax lists of Somerset (1723), Talbot (1733), Chester Hd. (1721) Marks of Cattle of Kent, Somerset & Talbot. Petitions. Levy records of Kent, Talbot, Somerset, Queen Anne’s. Militia Returns of…
These abstracts were gleaned from the earliest newspapers of Frederick and Hagerstown, Maryland. Vital records; legal notices; property sales; runaway wives, apprentices and slaves; and local events are preserved on…
From the collections of the Library of Congress and the Maryland Historical Society.
From issues held by the Lancaster County Historical Society and the Library of Congress. Entries of different newspapers sometimes conflicted as to ages, dates, spelling of names, etc. These disparities…
This volume lists persons who were taxed, i.e.: householders or landholders and tenants, residents in the household of another who worked for the landowner, freemen who were single men over…
Taken from issues held by the Lancaster County Historical Society & the Library of Congress. Entries of different newspapers sometimes conflicted as to ages, dates, spelling of names etc. These…
Includes present-day Adams County. Taken exactly as written in the published Third Series, Pennsylvania Archives (1897).
Abstracts give names of all persons mentioned in the original will, including witnesses, names of tracts, acreage & situation or means by which a property came into the possession of…
In 1904, Jane Baldwin published the first volume of The Maryland Calendar of Wills series. The purpose of her work, as expressed in her introduction, was to meet the need…
Gives names and brief abstract of the item: marriages, deaths, legal notices, property sales, chancery court cases, intentions to move, local events in which persons are named.
These Bible records have been taken from copies, notes, and in some cases, the Bibles themselves, on file at the Washington County Historical Society. Washington County was often a stopping…
In 1904, Jane Baldwin published the first volume of The Maryland Calendar of Wills series. The purpose of her work, as expressed in her introduction, was to meet the needs…
This is a collection of church registers and pastoral records of births, marriages and deaths in Cumberland County of the eighteenth century. Existing church records include: Presbyterian; Lutheran; German Reformed…
Includes Wilmington Monthly Meeting, Marriage Bonds of New Castle, Emanuel Anglican, Welsh Tract Baptists, some later Methodist records & some records of Pencader Presbyterian Church, and St. Peters Roman Catholic…
Many relationships are revealed in land records. Included in this compilation are landmarks and all references to persons and relationships.
These wills were abstracted under the auspices of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania in the early 1900s. Every name mentioned in the will is abstracted, as well as land tract…
In order to reconstruct the history of pre-Cape May County families, the author has organized past research and performed additional research when necessary to fill the gaps. Using a number…
These wills were abstracted under the auspices of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania in the early 1900s. Entries typically include the full name of the decedent, occupation, and place of…
Every name mentioned in the will is abstracted, land tract names, residence and occupation of the deceased when given.
The information preserved in this volume was gleaned from public records and newspapers. A full-name index adds to the value of this work. (1981, 2002), 2015, 51/2x81/2, paper, index, 114…
This book is excerpted from First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge, published in the 1930s by Orra Eugene Monnette. It includes a wealth of marriage, birth and…
From the Carlisle Gazette & York Advertiser (& its successor, the York Recorder); with issues from Franklin & Adams County newspapers when available. Property sales; estate administrations; runaways; slaves, apprentices…
This book provides data on the marriages and deaths recorded in available records for 1821-1830. Information was gleaned from newspapers and church records held by the Library of Congress and…
This book contains a collection of church records, primarily Quaker records of Wilmington Monthly Meeting and the records of Old Swedes (Holy Trinity), and marriage bonds, with a few cemetery…
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