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Baylor & Shortridge Receipt Book, 1822-1835

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These are written notations of court judgements from Baylor & Shortridge Attorneys and cover the years of 1822-1835. Baylor & Shortridge were attorneys in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.

Hiram Shortridge was born in Kentucky and moved to Tuscaloosa in 1822.Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky in 1793, and arrived in Tuscaloosa in 1822. Together these two men created the firm of Baylor & Shortridge. Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor was whom Baylor University was named after.

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New London: A History of its People

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Title: New London: A History of its People Author: Carmelina Como Kanzler Publication date: 1996 Publisher:   Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive Contributor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Repository: Internet Archive Introduction My expectations for this book were clear from the beginning. I had a theme running in my head and a vision in mind’s

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Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut, 1650 – 1900

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Title: Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut, 1650 – 1900 Author: Barbara W. Brown , James M. Rose Publication date: 1980 Publisher: Gale Research Company Digitizing Sponsor: Charles E. Shain Library Contributor: Charles E. Shain Library Repository: Internet Archive Forward In the process of compiling the material for BLACK GENESIS (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978) it became

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Refugio : a comprehensive history of Refugio County from aboriginal times, Vol 1

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Title: Refugio : a comprehensive history of Refugio County from aboriginal times to 1953, vol 1 Author: Hobart Huson Publication date: 1953 Publisher: Woodsboro, Tex. : Rooke Foundation Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive Contributor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Repository: Internet Archive Notes About the Book 2 volumes : 24 cm Bibliographical footnotes, and bibliographical

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History of Chester, New Hampshire, including Auburn

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In preparing for the 200th anniversary, in 1922, of the founding of the Town of Chester, a general desire was expressed that events which had occurred since 1869, together with the earlier ones which Benjamin Chase was unable to include in his History of Old Chester, should be published in suitable form. The History of

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Bentleysville

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Bentleysville was a rural community of three hundred persons in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1868. It had grown around a mill that Sheshbazzar Bentley Junior and Senior operated on the southern branch of Pigeon Creek. Its history is short because as a country village it existed less than a century. The events are substantially in chronological order, beginning with the settlers over the mountains in 1750 and ending after the Centennial in 1916.

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Perry sesquicentennial, Erie, Pa., May 29-Sept. 10, 1963

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morated the 150th Anniversary of the Building of Perry’s Fleet and the historical Battle of Lake Erie. Oliver Hazard Perry’s victory still ranks as the proudest moment in the history of our country. The results of this victory set the pattern for the establishment of borders between the United States and Canada; borders which, even today, remain un-patrolled in the spirit of the close and friendly relations between our two countries.

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The William Wade Hinshaw index to Pennsylvania Quaker meeting records

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These monthly meeting records were abstracted from the original Pennsylvania Quaker Monthly Meeting records in the 1930’s by William Wade Hinshaw of Washington, D. C. They are a transcription of the microfilmed records containing birth, death, burial, and marriage records, as well as meeting minutes, removals and certificates. After Hinshaw’s death, the unpublished material was

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The memorial history of Boston, including Suffolk County, Massachusetts

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The memorial history of Boston comprises four volumes of manuscripts written by professionals in their field of study at the time, and edited by one of the premier historians of the 19th Century, Justin Winsor. Starting with the first volume in the early and colonial period, this work defines the history of Boston up to the date of its publication in 1880. This work is not restricted to Boston, but also includes the cities of Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, Roxbury, and West Roxbury, Replete with illustrations and facsimiles of autographs, genealogists can use this work to help fill in the historical narrative of their ancestors life in Suffolk County Massachusetts.

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Records of the Revolutionary War

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Records of the Revolutionary War: containing the military and financial correspondence of distinguished officers: names of the officers and privates of regiments, companies, and corps, with the dates of their commissions and enlistments; general orders of Washington, Lee, and Greene, at Germantown and Valley Forge, with a list of distinguished prisoners of war, the time of their capture, exchange, etc., to which is added the half-pay acts of the continental congress, the revolutionary pension laws, and a list of the officers of the continental army who acquired the right to half-pay, commutation, and lands

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Middlebury College Online Digital Archives

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Nestled between Lake Champlain and a portion of the Green Mountains lies a Liberal Arts college of National repute, Middlebury College. Established in the early 1800s when that area of Vermont was on the outskirts of  larger settlements, Middlebury College has risen in stature and prominence as one of the leading (and most expensive) Liberal

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Photos from the Middlebury College Online Digital Archives

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As I was creating the page for the Middlebury College Online Digital Archives it quickly became obvious that a separate page would be needed for those photographs identified with a person’s name. It is unfortunate that those posting took two different avenues, as some photographs are listed by the first name, some by the last

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The Middlebury Campus

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The Middlebury Campus was a newspaper published by the Middlebury college since 1905 and most issues from 1905-2007 have been placed online digitally. You may read, search, print, or download these papers. The paper when it originally came out included obituaries of past alumni and attendees, so if your ancestor attended Middlebury College it’s possible there is an obituary published within its pages.

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Illinois Newspaper Collection

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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library has digitized over 200,000 pages of 131 pre-1922 (out of copyright) historically significant newspapers. Newspapers digitized as part of this program are also included in the Library of Congress Chronicling America collection. Their current  list (as of post update) are below. Titles Currently Available: The Advertiser 2 March

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