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M3744; ISBN: 0788437445;
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The risk and adventure of
settling field and forest so
different from their motherlands,
shaped by political
and economic events that
offered both constraint and
opportunity, set the context for a group of travelers
to become a community. And so it was, through
triumph and tragedy, old social customs mixed
with new cultural venues and a community was
formed. European ships full of courageous, hopeful
individuals found their way across the Atlantic
Ocean to the shores of the North American continent.
The English embraced Virginia’s shoreline in
1607. More would come, from many countries, to
bond together and call themselves Americans. This
is the story of one of those American communities:
Radford City, Virginia. Her history and the history
of the Radford family for whom she was named are
woven through these pages. The Radford family’s
Episcopal Church history and parishioners shed
additional light on the friends and activities of early
residents. Inside is a historical and genealogical
journey through those histories. From the first Native
American settlement to the early years of the
Radford City’s 1892 incorporation, over 800 family
surnames and 50 illustrations of ordinary people
in extraordinary times bring the New River City’s
past to life. This book is their applause. Radford
City is their legacy.
Westmoreland County, Virginia
Orders 1758-1761
By Pamela S. Pearson; 2008;
5.5x8.5; 338 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Colonial Roots, 17296
Coastal Highway, Lewes,
DE 19958; 800-576-8608;
302-644-2798; www.colonialroots.com;
D7525; $32.00
plus $6.50 p&h.
A faithful transcription
of the orders. Includes court
orders for administration
and inventory of estates;
acknowledgment of deeds, dower rights, bills of
sale; appointments of officers, juries, attys., guardians,
etc.; establishment of roads, mills, ferries, &
ordinaries.
Genealogical and Historical Notes
on Culpeper County, Virginia
By Raleigh Travers Green;
Originally printed in 1900;
Reprinted 2008; 5.5x8.5; 314
pp; softbound. Order from
the publisher at: Clearfield
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.
genealogical.com; CF2330;
ISBN: 9780806379579; $32.50
plus $4.00 p&h.
The chief printed genealogical
source for Culpeper
County, this work comprises a reprint of Dr. Philip
Slaughter’s History of St. Mark’s Parish and a genealogical
history of the county itself, including
an important section entitled Notes for Genealogists
which contains marriage records (1781-1825)
and abstracts of wills (1749-1821). The book further
includes numerous genealogies—many worked
through five generations—colonial military lists,
Civil War musters, and a great variety of miscellaneous
information, all indexed in one alphabetical
sequence.
English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records
Compiled by Louis des Cognets,
Jr.; Originally printed
in 1958; Reprinted 2008;
5.5x8.5; 380 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Clearfield Company,
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;
CF1430; ISBN:
9780806309293; $38.50 plus
$4.00 p&h.
Since its publication in
1958 this work has been regarded as an important
source-book for colonial Virginia genealogy. It contains
transcriptions of numerous historical documents
and provides a great deal of out-of-the-way
information pertaining to Virginians of the 17th
and early 18th centuries, much of it previously unknown.
It is the product, in fact, of the compiler’s
researches into the by-ways of the Public Record
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