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Wesley E Pippenger
This collection is filled with references to apprentices, bonds for public position, guardians, emancipation of slaves, military service references, powers of attorney, and deeds, gifts, mortgages, agreements, and polls; as…
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The first issue of this newspaper was published on 31 October 1800, under the title National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser. In 1 January 1813, its name was changed to Daily…
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Anyone who has ever used the land ownership record for the District of Columbia from the years 1791 through 1901 will find this work a must for their crowded bookshelves…
The purpose of this work is to provide an index to the Interment Register which covers the period January 1, 1855 to July 31, 1874. The Register is not complete…
his book contains records of marriages for persons who were at some time associated with Alexandria, Virginia, and in most cases, residents there. Information was gleaned from over 100 sources…
Some of the most valuable information available for genealogical and biographical research is that which is found inscribed on tombstones. It is often intriguing to speculate about any reasons for…
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Much of the information pertaining to Alexandria lot sales is bewildering to the modern researcher. This work sifts through the available records from the Fairfax County Circuit Court records and…
This volume contains court records showing: name; white or colored, free or slave; owner of slave; date, place and cause of death; age; names of parents and spouse; occupation; and…
Extant records of the Alexandria Hustings Court which began to receive probates of wills and deeds and to grant administrations in 1782.
Legislative petitions, a practice which was carried over from British law, were used as a means to seek remedy for grievance for a number of types of actions ranging from…
This guide to the records of the District of Columbia provides a detailed description of public and private records, their content and location. Records include: census schedules and city directories…
This volume contains an index to 21,416 certificates of death that were filed with the District of Columbia health officer. The original certificates are now maintained at the D.C. Archives…
This index represents marriage records for not only residents of the District of Columbia, but also neighboring Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. The compiler found numerous instances where both the groom…
During the 19th century, Georgetown played an important role in commercial and social activities, and for a time it competed for prominence with its neighbors-the City of Washington and Alexandria…
Almost all early records of Essex County have been abstracted or transcribed, either by John Frederick Dorman, or by Ruth and Sam Sparacio. Excepted from publication to date have been…
This work presents marriage records for Essex County, Virginia for the period 1884 to 1921. It continues publication of marriage records after those by this compiler and Suzanne P. Derieux…
In addition to early records of interment (1855-1874) and routine certificates of death (1874 to the present), the District of Columbia maintained a somewhat unique type of death record, called…
Presented here are index entries for primary parties involved in items found in land record books, or deed books, of the District of Columbia, beginning in 1792. Covered are books…
This compilation presents 3,927 death records for whites, non-whites and slaves, for the period 1856-1896. There are no records for 1853-1855 and 1863-1869. The records in this volume include: 1,327…
A system was established in 1812 whereby the District of Columbia courts would record all births, deaths, and marriages in the city. The information presented here is taken from Marriage…
The primary source of this work is Marriage Register 1, kept by the Clerk of the Circuit Court. It covers the period May 19, 1870 to August 31, 1905. The…
For this study, a lost record is considered in two ways: first, as an item from a location where court records have been destroyed; and second, for records that are…
This collection is filled with references to apprentices, bonds for public position, guardians, emancipation of slaves, powers of attorney, and deeds, gifts, mortgages, agreements, and polls; as well as multiple…
This work offers a wealth of genealogical, and varying amounts of biographical, information, with chapters for the following families: Allen, Hicks, Lewis, Adair, Sweazea, Bigger, Davison, and Ridgeway. Numerous photographs…
This work is a compilation of data found in 1,478 marriage bonds or consents of Essex County, Virginia, for the years 1804 through 1850. These are the earliest marriage records…
The purpose of this work is to present a single alphabetical index based on the General Index to Deeds No. 1, 1797-1867, that was created in the style known as…
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This work presents abstracts of Last Wills and Testament found in Essex County, Virginia court records, beginning with Will Book 9 in 1751, and continuing into Will Book 24 that…
This work is a compilation of data found in 1,702 marriage records of Richmond County, Virginia, for the years 1854 through 1890. The index contains over 12,000 entries, including an…
This work is a compilation of data found in 1,510 marriage records of Westmoreland County, Virginia, for the years 1850 through 1880. The index, which is made up of over…
Entries from Tappahannock newspapers are verbatim transcripts, while entries from other newspapers may be abstracts.
The author has primarily followed his direct line that removed from Maryland to Virginia, through John Sheldon Alexander, and has not pursued his siblings’ descendants past about 1800. Contains facsimile…
Presented here are marriage and death notices and other items of interest that have been gleaned from The Rappahannock Times, 1939-1952.
A selection of transcripts gleaned from the published acts of the Virginia General Assembly relating to divorce and name changes between 1789 and 1853.
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This work contains Alexandria Quaker records, 1802-1827 (minutes, certificates of removal, marriages, births, deaths); extracts from the Vestry Book of Christ Church Fairfax, 1765-1806 with burial plot owners in 1812…
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All news, both foreign and local, which appeared in the newspaper for this period is abstracted or transcribed. Full text and original woodcuts present a wide range of items from…
Wesley Pippenger,James Munson
All news, both foreign and local, which appeared in the newspaper for this period is abstracted or transcribed. Full text and original woodcuts present a wide range of items.
