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                       4  November 2006
                Issue 2006, Number 11
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o  This Months Special - 20% off
o  New Releases from the U.S.
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=== This Months Special - 20% off =================

Each month, Archive CD Books USA will offer a 20% discount on a single title in
order to highlight our wide range of products from the United States, Great
Britain, Ireland, Canada, and Australia.  This is a great opportunity to get
some of our most popular titles at a substantial discount.

This month's special is....

SIR ARTHUR VICARS, INDEX TO THE PREROGATIVE WILLS OF IRELAND, 1536-1810
Regular Price: $29.95, Sale Price: $23.95
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This important book is well known to Irish genealogists. It contains an index to
over 40,000 Irish wills, most of which were destroyed in the 1922 explosion at
the Public Record Office in Dublin. As a consequence this book is especially
important as the only surviving evidence of what did exist at one time. This
index gives the name of every person who left a will, their address, rank or
occupation and the date of probate. Vicars' based his work on the abstracts to
the original wills compiled by Sir William Betham, and is the only index to his
voluminous collections of abstracts and extracts in existence.

However, this edition is doubly important because we have included the never-
before-published supplement compiled in 1914 to correct errors and omissions in
Vicars' work.


=== 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.


Samuel Hazard, ANNALS OF PENNSYLVANIA FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE DELAWARE, (1850)
2006
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Hazard has compiled an extensive documentary history of the Swedish, Dutch and
English settlements on the Delaware river from the earliest European voyages of
discovery in 1609 to the arrival of William Penn in 1682. The records presented
here cover parts of Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

The author has incorporated into his narrative transcripts from a wide range of
original sources, taken from unpublished manuscripts and from published
documentary collections. Documents from England, Holland, Sweden, New York and
New England are included, in addition to records from Pennsylvania, Delaware and
New Jersey.

In addition to the material devoted to the broader aspects of constitutional and
institutional history, Hazard has also transcribed items from a wide range of
sources that provide insight into the affairs of private individuals. He has
used private diaries and also the records of the Upland, New Castle and Sussex
courts.

There are records of early patents of land, along with some birth, death and
marriage entries. Also, some deeds and estate papers are abstracted. An appendix
lists the earliest grantees of lots in Philadelphia.

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Thomas Williams Bicknell, A HISTORY OF BARRINGTON, RHODE ISLAND, (1898) 2006
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Bicknell has written a history of the town of Barrington, Rhode Island, from
1621 to 1898, that combines the chronological and the topical arrangements, and
incorporates extensive material from original sources, providing detailed
information on town officers, church membership and military service.

The area that became the town of Barrington was part of a larger region known by
the Indian name of Sowams. This included the home of Massasoit, the leader of
the Wampanoag tribe. The early settlers at Plymouth made frequent trips to
Sowams to deal with Massasoit and his people.

The town of Swansea was established in this westernmost part of Plymouth Colony,
bounded on Narragansett Bay, in the 1660s. The first church in Swansea was one
of the first Baptist churches in New England. When Plymouth Colony merged with
Massachusetts Bay in 1692, Swansea became part of Bristol County. As the
population grew, the residents in the western part of Swansea wanted their own
church, and eventually their own town. As a result, Barrington was set off in
1717. To this point the volume covers much of the history of Swansea.

In 1747 several Bristol County towns, including Barrington, were transferred to
Rhode Island, and Barrington was renamed Warren. In 1770 the town of Warren
split into two parts, the eastern half retaining the name of Warren and the
western half reassuming the old name of Barrington.

The author includes extracts from town, county, church and other records. There
are lists of church members from the first church of Barrington, and for about a
dozen years records of baptism and marriages, including many vital events for
blacks and Indians. There are many militia lists, including especially complete
lists of service in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.

The volume concludes with biographical sketches for more than a hundred
prominent residents of Barrington, and genealogical information on some of the
families.

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Oren F. Morton, A HISTORY OF PENDLETON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA, (1910) 2006
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The author has divided this history of Pendleton County, West Virginia, into
three parts: chronological history (from the earliest settlement); family
history (pioneers and more recent families); and statistics. Each of these
sections is detail-oriented and filled with the names of county residents.

When settlement began in the 1740s, the area that became Pendleton County was
largely part of Augusta County, Virginia. The chronological history begins in
this context, providing details on many of the earliest land patents (and
patentees) in this region. In 1778 Rockingham County was set off from Augusta,
and included most of what became Pendleton County. In 1788 parts of Augusta,
Rockingham and Hardy counties were set off to form Pendleton County.

The author has searched diligently to identify the earliest settlers of the
county, providing names of many German, Scotch-Irish and English pioneers. He
also narrates the course of the French and Indian War, the Revolution, the War
of 1812 and the "Period of Interstate War" in this county.

In the family history section, based largely on interviews with the descendants
of the pioneers, Morton covers about two hundred of the earliest families of
Pendleton County. The format is highly condensed, but the author provides a
clear and detailed guide to the use of his compilations. He also includes a
section of "Extinct Families," in which the paternal surname is no longer found
in the county, but many female lines continue.

The statistical section comprises a wide range of data, including but not
limited to lists of county officers, of militia members and of those subject to
the poll tax.

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Robert C. Winthrop, LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN WINTHROP, GOVERNOR OF THE
MASSACHUSETTS BAY COMPANY AT THEIR EMIGRATION TO NEW ENGAND, (1864) 2006
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Using full transcripts of dozens of letters, along with extracts from diaries
and other private papers, Robert C. Winthrop created a detailed account of the
life and family of John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony,
from his birth down to 1630, when he sailed for New England.

Robert C. Winthrop was a descendant of Governor John Winthrop, and had in his
possession most of the sixteenth and seventeenth century documents that he
utilized in creating this documentary biography. Most of these documents are now
owned by the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston.

The story told by Robert C. Winthrop has importance at many levels of the
history of the time. First, of course, the narrative has primary importance for
the Winthrop family itself. Given the large number of surviving documents, we
learn far more about the day-to-day details and the inner lives of the members
of this family than we do for most families of the period. Although the
Winthrops were near the top of the social ladder at the time, many of their
experiences would have been common to all English men and women of the period.

Beyond that, though, this account is essential for the understanding of the
Great Migration to New England. Winthrop thought long and hard about the reasons
for and against making the move to New England, and put these thoughts to paper.
At the same time that he was agonizing about this decision, he was also
recruiting his neighbors from southwestern Suffolk to make the voyage to New
England in 1630. Many of the men and women seen in the letters published in this
volume were members of the Winthrop Fleet of 1630, and helped found
Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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J.C. Flanigan, GWINNETT CHURCHES: A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY CHURCH IN GWINNETT
COUNTY, GEORGIA, WITH SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ITS MINISTERS, (1911) 2006
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/www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0266   $19.95
The author has surveyed all eighty-nine churches in Gwinnett County, along with
three others in neighboring counties with Gwinnett membership. The account of
each church lists all members as of 1911, and all ministers who had served these
churches, comprising more than ten thousand congregants.

The churches of Gwinnett County were all Protestant, more than half being
Baptist, along with Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, Congregational and
Christian. The author has examined the surviving records for each of these
congregations. Each account begins with the date of founding of the church, when
known, and frequently the list of founding members.

The history of each church continues with a list of each minister for that
church, with years of service. In many cases there are also the names of deacons
and other church officers as well. Where available, information is included on
Sunday school activities, along with the teachers of the Sunday school.

Flanigan also attempted to present the date of construction of each church
building and the value of the church edifice. Most sketches are accompanied by
photographs of the church building.

Perhaps the most important part of each church history for genealogists is the
full list of church members as of 1911. Most of these churches had between one
hundred and two hundred members.

The last quarter of the book comprises biographies of many of the ministers who
had served the Gwinnett County churches. Many of these men presided over more
than one congregation, or, over the course of their careers, had moved from one
church to another. Photographs of many of these men are included.

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George S. Porter, INSCRIPTIONS FROM GRAVE STONES IN THE OLD BURYING GROUND,
NORWICH TOWN, CONNECTICUT, (1933) 2006
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Porter presents the incriptions from more than fourteen hundred tombstones from
the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries found in the oldest cemetery of
Norwich, Connecticut. Many of the tombstones contain multiple names, so
information is included on nearly three thousand residents of Norwich.

The compiler prefaces the inscriptions with a history of the Old Burying Ground.
He notes that, although the town had been founded in 1659, no stones have
survived for any burials prior to 1700. He attempts to reconstruct a list of
those persons probably buried in the cemetery prior to that date. Also, he
notes, many more Norwich inhabitants were buried here for whom no stone
survives.

The volume includes photographs of a number of the more interesting stones, and
concludes with a complete index of all names found on the surviving stones.

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Stella Pickett Hardy, COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA,
(1911) 2006
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The author has gathered information on more than sixty prominent southern
colonial families, mostly early settlers of Virginia and Maryland, tracing many
branches through the Revolutionary and Civil War periods. The result is a
compilation of genealogical data on more than ten thousand individuals.

Hardy has concentrated on families who were active in civil and military
affairs, so one will find here accounts of such families as the Byrds, Carters,
Lees and Washingtons. Lineages will be found to several presidents, and to many
generals and other high officers in the Confederate Army, although some Union
officers will be found as well.

This volume was compiled largely by correspondence or direct contact with living
members of the various families. As a result, some of the most valuable
information to be found here is that on the nineteenth-century individuals.
Family members giving information to the author would have reliable data on the
most recent generations, during a time when vital records were not required to
be recorded in these localities.

The families chosen by Pickett were frequently related by intermarriage,
allowing the reader to trace many interesting interconnections. For instance,
accounts of both the Hardy and the Pickett families are included here. The
author herself may be found in the Hardy section, where we find that her mother
was Elizabeth Boudin Pickett. Consultation of the Pickett chapter leads to the
discovery that the author's maternal grandfather, William Henry Pickett, was
second-cousin to General George Pickett of Gettysburg fame.


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