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Genealogical Record of Thomas Wait and his descendants

Genealogical Record of Thomas Wait and his descendants looks at the genealogy of Thomas Wait (1601-1677) who was from Wethersfield Parish, Essex, England. On his arrival in America, landing in Rhode Island, he applied for a lot on which to build,and was granted it on 7/1/1639. On 3/l6/l641 he became a Freeman in Newport R. I. He died in Portsmouth R. I., before April 1677 intestate. This Thomas Wait was a cousin to the Richard Waite of Watertown Mass., who was a large land owner. This unpublished manuscript provides the descendants of this family.

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Rough Riders

Compiled military service records for 1,235 Rough Riders, including Teddy Roosevelt have been digitized. The records include individual jackets which give the name, organization, and rank of each soldier. They contain cards on which information from original records relating to the military service of the individual has been copied. Included in the main jacket are carded medical records, other documents which give personal information, and the description of the record from which the information was obtained.

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Genealogy of the Cherokee Wilkerson Family

Instructions on how to interpret this information 11 Coo-ta-ya. Edward Wilkerson and John Wilkerson 1112 Eliza Wilkerson. Jesse Bushyhead ________ 2 Aaron Wilkerson 3 Richard Wilkerson* 4 James Wilkerson* 5 George Wilkerson.  Susan Poorbear 6 John Wilkerson. Annie Woods 151 John Wilkerson. Rebecca Oglesby 2 Riley Wilkerson* 3 James Monroe Wilkerson. Nancy Jane Keys 4

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Cotton County Oklahoma Cemeteries

Most of these Cotton County Oklahoma cemeteries are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we provide the listing when it is only a partial listing. Hosted at Cotton County OKGenWeb Archives Devol Cemetery Elm Grove Cemetery Fairview Cemetery, Randlett Fairview Cemetery 2 Temple Cemetery Abell-Gutierrez Surnames Hackett-Oxford Surnames Pack-Zerkle Surnames Partial

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Moravian Massacre at Gnadenbrutten

In the early part of the year 1763 two Moravian missionaries, Post and Heckewelder, established a mission among the Tuscarawa Indians, and in a few years they had three nourishing missionary stations, viz: Shoenbrun, Gnadenbrutten and Salem, which were about five miles apart and fifty miles west of the present town of Steubenville, Ohio. During

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C. C. Wilkerson

Sergt. 1st Class, Med. Corps, 81st Div., 312th F. A.; of Durham County; son of W. A. and Mrs. Mary P. Wilkerson. Entered service Oct. 5, 1917, at Durham, N.C. Sent to Camp Jackson, transferred to Camps Mills. Sailed for France Aug. 8, 1918. Returned to USA June 13, 1919, at Newport News, Va. Mustered

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Slave Narrative of Charlotte Martin

Interviewer: Alfred Farrell Person Interviewed: Charlotte Martin Location: Live Oak, Florida Occupation: Farmed, made quilts, and made herb cures. Charlotte Mitchell Martin, one of twenty children born to Shepherd and Lucinda Mitchell, eighty-two years ago, was a slave of Judge Wilkerson on a large plantation in Sixteen, Florida, a little town near Madison. Shepherd Mitchell

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The Discovery Of This Continent, it’s Results To The Natives

In the year 1470, there lived in Lisbon, a town in Portugal, a man by the name of Christopher Columbus, who there married Dona Felipa, the daughter of Bartolome Monis De Palestrello, an Italian (then deceased), who had arisen to great celebrity as a navigator. Dona Felipa was the idol of her doting father, and

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