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                 10 October 2006
              Issue 2006, Number 10
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o  New U.S. Releases
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=== New U.S. Releases =========================

The following new searchable data CDs are now available at
www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com. Product descriptions are by Robert Charles Anderson,
FASG, for Archive CD Books USA.


Thomas Bridgman, MEMORIALS OF THE DEAD IN BOSTON; CONTAINING EXACT
TRANSCRIPTIONS OF INSCRIPTIONS ON THE SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS IN THE KING'S CHAPEL
BURIAL GROUND, IN THE CITY OF BOSTON, (1853) 2006.
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Bridgman begins this book with transcriptions of hundreds of surviving
tombstones in Boston's King's Chapel Burial Ground, and supplements this source
material with narrative and genealogical accounts of many of the families who
used this cemetery, identifying thousands of relatives of the deceased.

The burial ground treated in this volume was the first in Boston, used from the
first years of the town's existence. King's Chapel, the first Episcopalian
church in Boston, was not built on these grounds until more than half a century
later. Since this compilation was prepared in 1853, many inscriptions that no
longer exist or are no longer legible appear here.

Most of the tombstones represented here are from the seventeenth century or the
early eighteenth century. A few of the plots continued to accept burials in the
early nineteenth century, but other burial grounds, including Copp's Hill and
the Granary, had long been available by that time.

The second half of the book has dozens of articles on those families with many
burials in the King's Chapel grounds. These articles were contributed by several
writers, with some being composed in narrative form and others in a more
standard genealogical arrangement. In either case, these accounts place those
buried here in a broader context, and described thousands of individuals related
to the deceased, most of whom died and were buried elsewhere.

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Nathaniel Adams, ANNALS OF PORTSMOUTH, COMPRISING A PERIOD OF TWO HUNDRED YEARS
FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE TOWN; WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF A FEW OF
THE MOST RESPECTABLE INHABITANTS, (1825) 2006.
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Adams has compiled a chronological account of the history of Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, providing year-by-year entries from 1621 through 1823, based on a
wide range of primary sources. Salted throughout the narrative are brief
biographies of town leaders, ministers and others important to the town.

The author scoured all sources available to him, including town, county,
military and church records. He organized this material into annual accounts of
events occurring in town each year, as well as events in the larger world that
impinged upon Portsmouth, frequently providing lengthy verbatim excerpts from
the records. The topics covered include the usual ones of the foundation of the
town, church history and Indian conflicts. Adams also took notice of other less
usual matters, such as eclipses and earthquakes.

As might be expected, the annual entries for many of the earliest years are
relatively brief, with some years being omitted, largely because of the paucity
of records for the beginning years. By the middle of the eighteenth century, and
especially during the Revolutionary years, the entries become quite substantial,
covering the wide range of important events occurring throughout the colonies.

Adams frequently diverted from his straightforward chronological presentation
and inserted brief biographies of ministers, town leaders, merchants and other
leading citizens of the town.

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The Librarian of the Rhode Island Historical Society [Howard M. Chapin], THE
EARLY RECORDS OF THE TOWN OF WARWICK, (1926) 2006.
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/www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0231
This verbatim transcript of the first volume of town records of Warwick, Rhode
Island, contains a wide range of documents, mostly from 1648 to 1667, for the
first generation of inhabitants of that town, including town orders, land
grants, deeds (including Indian deeds) and a variety of lesser items.

Warwick was founded in 1643, but no records have survived from the first five
years of its existence. The core of the present volume is a complete run of the
town meeting minutes from 1648 to 1667. This portion of the book includes town
orders relating to the government of the town, along with appointments and
elections of town officers and records of many land grants to individuals.

Another section of the book, covering approximately the same time period,
includes dozens of records of grants of land from the town to individuals, as
well as deeds transferring land from person to person, including many original
sales of land from Indians to the English settlers. This same part of the book
includes a few probate proceedings, along with a few apprenticeships and
guardianships. The inclusion of these documents in town records reflects the
position of Rhode Island as the colony and state that has always had the most
localized system of recordkeeping, with deeds and probates recorded at the town
level.

Again from this same early time period, the volume includes a handful of court
proceedings and coroner's inquests. In addition, there are many records of
excise taxes levied for the importation of spirituous beverages.

The book in which all these records are found also included other records, some
apparently entered at an earlier time and others certainly written down at a
much later date. There are many pages which are partially in a shorthand
notation; these turned out to be sermon notes, suggesting that the book had been
brought from England to New England by one of the early Warwick settlers and
then converted to the purpose of containing the town records.

Then, for several decades in the eighteenth century, those pages or parts of
pages that remained blank were employed in recording the earmarks assigned to
Warwick inhabitants.

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George Madison Bodge, SOLDIERS OF KING PHILIP'S WAR BEING A CRITICAL ACCOUNT OF
THAT WAR WITH A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE INDIAN WARS OF NEW ENGLAND FROM 1620-
1677, (1896) 2006.
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Bodge has scoured the contemporary seventeenth-century documents in order to
compile as complete as possible an account of the men who served in King
Philip's War in New England in 1675 and 1676. Thousands of young men served in
this conflict, and hundreds died in the fighting or from diseases.

Most of the information in this volume has been taken from the financial
accounts maintained by John Hull, the treasurer for Massachusetts Bay Colony for
these years. From these records, Bodge was able to construct company-by-company
accounts of the progress of the war. He followed each group of men on its
marches and in its battles, showing for many of the men the exact time served
and the pay that they received.

Bodge searched many other sources as well and included in this volume letters
written by participants in the fighting, or petitions for relief that were filed
many years later. Searches in the colony archives yielded many official accounts
of action, some written at the time of the fighting and some written years
later.

The important final chapter provides information on the so-called Narragansett
towns. One of the ways in which the soldiers were compensated was by gathering
them into groups, frequently by town of residence at the time of the war, and
granting to the group an entire township in the wilderness. These grants were
not acted on until decades after the conflict, and the eighteenth-century lists
of grantees frequently match the soldier's name with the name or names of heirs
who actually received the land many years later.

An appendix gathers together information on the organization and the logistics
of the military operations in Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut
colonies.

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Edgar W. Hassler, OLD WESTMORELAND: A HISTORY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DURING THE
REVOLUTION, (1900) 2006.
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/www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0275
Westmoreland County was set off from Bedford County in 1773 and during the
Revolution encompassed the western quarter of Pennsylvania. Hassler tells the
story of the county during the Revolution, episode by episode, with detailed
accounts of individuals who took part in the military expeditions.

The author opens with a discussion of the earliest settlers in the county, and
also describes the conflicts arising from the claims by Virginia to much of the
same territory. For several years both Virginia and Pennsylvania courts operated
in much of this territory.

Hassler then begins his Revolutionary account with events in 1774, including the
establishment of a committee of correspondence. Chapter by chapter, he narrates
each episode occurring in this territory, in which those sympathizing with the
Revolutionary side were in conflict with Loyalists, British, and Indians allied
with the former two groups.

The various stories tell of espionage, transportation of gunpowder from New
Orleans and St. Louis, commando raids, and straightforward military operations.
Since most of these events were quite small and limited in time compared with
the fighting further east, the author is able to investigate in detail the
activities of many ordinary participants.

The various accounts are well documented, with citations to a wide range of both
published and manuscript original sources, such as private letters and diaries
and official reports, as well as secondary sources prepared during the
nineteenth century.


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