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On the Bookshe f you can anticipate finding within records of deeds. Another very special note, the author has included a slave index to help those persons researching their African American lines. This book should make a GREAT EDITION to everyone’s library who has family in Western North Carolina. History of Surry County, North Carolina By J. G. Hollingsworth; Originally printed in 1935; Reprinted 2005; 6x9; 288 pp plus new index; hardbound. Order from the publisher at: Southern Historical Books, 375 West Broad St., PO Box 1267, Greenville, SC 29601; 800-233- 0152; Fax 864-233-2349; http:// southernhistoricalpress.com; ISBN: 0-89308-748-3; $35.00 plus p&h. Surry County was formed from Rowan County in 1771. At the time of it creation it was surrounded by Iredell, Rowan, Stokes, Wilkes counties, N.C. and to the North by Henry county, VA. The time frame of this book concentrates on the Colonial & Revolutionary era, with such topics as frontier life, Indians, trade & transportation, labor, farming, politics, education, newspapers, and religion—all important in the development of the county. These types of HISTORY books are can be very helpful in your research. They can help one develop ideas or pathways to those missing ancestors by showing the customs and traditions of local residents. This is very important in trying to figure out what signification factors were prevalent in the county, such as floods, draughts, matters of economic prosperity, matters of governmental intrusion or influence, or one of any number of things that might cause a person to stay or move on. The author has also included numerous lists: muster rolls of soldiers who served in the War of 1812, the detached Militia organization of 1814, pensioners in Surry County of 1840 Revolutionary or Military services, Pensions issued to Surry in 1833 for services in the War of 1812, Mexican War veterans, numerous Civil War Companies including commissioned & noncommissioned officers and privates, and Veterans of the Spanish-American War and WWI. Duplin County, North Carolina Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions 1784-1787 (Vol. 1) By Leora H. McEachem; Originally printed in 1978, 1979 & 1980; Reprinted 2005; 5.5x8.5; 118; Indexed; softbound. Order from the publisher at: Southern Historical Books, 375 West Broad St., PO Box 1267, Greenville, SC 29601; 800-233-0152; Fax 864-233-2349; http://southernhistoricalpress.com; ISBN: 0-89308-808-0; $23.50 plus p&h. Duplin County was formed in 1750 from New Hanover County, NC. It is located in the Southeastern section of the state and is surrounded by the counties of Jones, Lenoir, New Hanover, Onslow, Sampson, and Wayne. In these abstracts, one will find local office holders being appointed, the levying and expenditure of local taxes, selecting & summoning of juries, licenses being granted to operators of taverns, as well as deeds & bills of sale being acknowledge by the grantor. The Court also oversaw a wide range of matters involving estates, including probate of will, settlements of estates, and appraisements, as well as matters dealing with bastardy, and many other valuable bits of information. Pennsylvania The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania—A Study of the So-Called Pennsylvania Dutch By Oscar Kuhns; Originally printed in 1900; Reprinted 2008; 5.5x8.5; 276 pp; softbound; indexed. Order from the publisher at: Clearfield Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore, MD 21211; or www. genealogical.com; CF9723; ISBN: 9780806351353; $28.50 plus $4.00 p&h. Just who are the “Pennsylvania Dutch” When and why did they emigrate to colonial America Who founded their various colorful communities, and what was their style of life If you’re looking for answers to these and related questions about the Pennsylvania Dutch, you’ll find them in Oscar Kuhns’ classic treatise, The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania. In scarcely 200 pages, Professor Kuhns has surveyed the factors that compelled roughly 100,000 emigrants from the Palatinate, Wurtenberg, 140 © Ev e r t o n’s Ge n e a l o g i c a l He l p e r Ja n ua ry/Fe b r u a r y 2009
On the Bookshelf Zweibrucken, and other principalities in southern Germany to settle in Pennsylvania between 1683 and 1776 and establish a new way of life in their adopted homeland. The author pinpoints the different waves of colonial Germans and Swiss and illustrates the pivotal roles played by such personalities as William Penn, Francis Daniel Pastorius, and Henry Melchior Muhlenberg in helping launch communities in Philadelphia, in Lancaster and Berks counties, and ultimately throughout Pennsylvania. The entire process of immigration is captured in vivid descriptions of (often unscrupulous) immigrant recruitment, the difficult passage across the Atlantic, indentured servitude, and settling on the land. Most of these immigrants were farmers, and their customs and manners are recounted in an examination of housing, provisions, agricultural methods, superstitions, and so forth. There is a chapter on language, literature, and education and a separate appendix on German family names. Perhaps the most informative chapter in the book covers the extraordinarily diverse religious life of these Protestant Germans, which, while dominated by the Lutheran and Reformed churches, also accommodated Moravians, Mennonites, Brethren, Dunkards, Seventh-Day Baptists, Schwenkfelders, and others. Concluding as it does with a chapter on the Revolution, in which we discover which Pennsylvania-Germans were patriots and which were pacifists, The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania is one volume that will hold the interest of Americans of colonial German descent from cover to cover. South Carolina Edgefield County, South Carolina Deed Books 42 and 43 Abstracted by Carol Wells; 2008; 5.5x8.5; 238 pp; softbound. Order from the publisher at: Heritage Books, Inc., 100 Railroad Ave., Suite 104, Westminster, MD 21157; Phone 800-876-6103; Fax 410-871-2674 or www. heritagebooks.com; W4509; ISBN: 078844509X; $24.50 plus $7.00 p&h. The deed book abstracts in this volume were gleaned from documents that were recorded between 1826 and 1829. In addition to the names, dates, and land descriptions one would expect to find in such records, these deed abstracts also reveal names of children and neighbors, ties to other areas, clues to family wealth (or lack of), names of wives, mothers, slaves, previous spouses, kinship, etc. These pages contain deeds of trust for protection of wives and small children from a husband’s financial troubles; prenuptial agreements; depositions; powers of attorney connecting different places; sheriff sales to partition estates or settle lawsuits, which often include the names of slaves. Chains of title reach back to the 18th century original grantees and list the names of subsequent owners. The names of witnesses, adjoining landowners, heirs, churches, branches, creeks, bridges, and ferries are included. The deeds are presented in original page number order with a full name index. People and Professions of Charleston, South Carolina 1782-1802 By James W. Hagy; Originally printed in 1992; Reprinted 2008; 5.5x8.5; 112 pp; softbound; indexed. Order from the publisher at: Clearfield Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore, MD 21211; or www. genealogical.com; CF9135; ISBN: 9780806313238; $19.50 plus $4.00 p&h. This publication affords us as close a glimpse of the population of Charleston, South Carolina during the last quarter of the 18th century as we are likely to come by. Professor Hagy has compiled all the names and other pertinent genealogical information that can be found in the Charleston city directories of 1782, 1785, 1790, 1794, 1796, 1801, and 1802 and in the federal censuses for Charleston for 1790 and 1800. In assembling his data, the author has chosen to respect the integrity of his sources, thus the contents of each directory or census are arranged in a separate alphabetical sequence, preceded by a brief commentary concerning the methods used by the original compilers in producing the directory or census in question. In the case of the city directories, the names of inhabitants are followed by their occupations and addresses; for the censuses of 1790 and 1800, only the names of the heads of household appear. Since a given individual may appear/disappear in as many as nine different listings spanning a 20-year period, the People and Professions of Charleston affords genealogists the rare opportunity of tracing the mobility or migration of a given ancestor at very close range. While this work cannot Ja n ua ry/Fe b r u a r y 2009 Ev e r t o n’s Ge n e a l o g i c a l He l p e r © 141
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