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and a former president of the Abraham Lincoln Association
of Jersey City, the oldest Lincoln society in
the United States.
Delaware
Orphans’ Court Proceedings of New Castle
County, Delaware—April 1761-July 1777
By Margaret Dealyne Mealy;
2008; 5.5x8.5; 285 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Colonial Roots,
17296 Coastal Highway,
Lewes, DE 19958; 800-576-
8608; 302-644-2798; www.
colonialroots.com; D3031;
$31.00 plus $6.50 p&h.
Contains detailed abstracts
from Books D and E. These
records reveal not only the
names of minors (girls under
age 18 and boys under 21) but the names of the
guardians which could be the mother, father (in the
case of property left to the children by one other than
the father), and husbands (when married to a girl under
18). Other information includes the name of subsequent
husband of the widow, accountings by the
executors or administrators of the estate, valuations
of the land, and division of the land. The eldest son is
specified since he received two shares to his siblings’
one share. Example of an entry (condensed): Richard
Dinniss and his wife Hannah, late Hannah Coates, one of
the daughters of Mary Coates, late Mary Hale, set forth
that Mary Hale married John Coates, late of Philadelphia,
bricklayer. She died seized of 282 acres; her husband died
soon thereafter. Her children are named along with the
husbands of her daughters. A deceased daughter is also
named. A wealth of information.
Orphans’ Court Proceedings of New Castle
County, Delaware—April 1778-July 1787
By Sarah Deakyne Burke;
2008; 5.5x8.5; 255 pp; softbound;
Order from the publisher
at: Colonial Roots,
17296 Coastal Highway,
Lewes, DE 19958; 800-576-
8608; 302-644-2798; www.
colonialroots.com; D3032;
$28.50 plus $6.50 p&h.
Contains detailed abstracts
from Book F. These records
reveal not only the names
of minors (girls under age 18 and boys under 21),
but the names of the guardians which could be the
mother, father (in the case of property left to the
children by one other than the father), and husbands
(when married to a girl under 18). Other information
includes the name of subsequent husband of
the widow, accountings by the executors or administrators
of the estate, valuations of the land, and
division of the land. The eldest son is specified since
he received two shares to his siblings’ one share. Example
of an entry (condensed): Richard Dinniss and
his wife Hannah, late Hannah Coates, one of the daughters
of Mary Coates, late Mary Hale, set forth that Mary Hale
married John Coates, late of Philadelphia, bricklayer. She
died seized of 282 acres; her husband died soon thereafter.
Her children are named along with the husbands of her
daughters. A deceased daughter is also named. A wealth
of information.
Maryland
History of Frederick County, Maryland—
2 Volumes
By T. J. C. Williams and
Folger McKinsey; Originally
printed in 1910; Reprinted
2008; 5.5x8.5; 1,724 pp; softbound.
Order from the
publisher at: Clearfield Company,
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;
CF6410; ISBN:
9780806380124; $140.00 plus
$4.00 p&h.
If the genealogist would
identify the perfect county history—one containing
equal parts of history and biography, and enough
genealogy to make the blood race—Williams’ History
of Frederick County, Maryland would surely be his/her
choice. The history of Braddock’s campaign, the local
events of the Revolution, John Brown’s raid nearby,
the old National Road, the earliest American railroad
and its opening to Frederick, and the great events of
the Civil War are all covered in the first volume of
this monumental work. Of particular interest to the
genealogist are the 1790 census of Frederick County
and the roster of Maryland Troops in the French and
Indian War.
The second volume, the “Biographical Record of
Representative Families,” is really worth pausing
over, for it contains no fewer than 1,100 biographical
and genealogical sketches, in most cases supplied
by the subjects of the sketches themselves. Each
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