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23 July 2007
Issue 2007, Number 8
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=== NEW: Digested Summary of Private Claims =========
Archive CD Books USA announces the availability of a major new resource for those who are researching their early-American family histories. The "Digested Summary and Alphabetical List of Private Claims Which Have Been Presented to the House of Representatives" represents nearly one hundred years of claims by citizens of the United States to their government for reimbursement for property or expenses.
Referencing approximately 100,000 names, this unique collection spans the period 1789-1882 and includes petitions for a wide variety of personal reimbursements, most notably in relation to the acts of the government during the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican-American War, the Civil War, and various Indian engagements. Barbara Vines Little, Genealogical Consultant for Archive CD Books USA, noted that the collection contains claims for "restitution for property lost, damaged or destroyed due to government actions (or inaction); bounty land; land titles; patent extensions; payment for services rendered; and a myriad of other personal items that its citizens wanted the government to fix."
"No claim was too large or too small," said Ms Little. "One woman applied for relief for loss of husband in public service. Jonathan Painter, a black man wanted payment for services as a spy in 1812, and J.R. O'Bierne wanted part of the reward for capturing John Wilkes Booth." Many of these claims never became law but, as Ms. Little explained, "they generated paper—paper that provides details about our ancestors. Locating your ancestor in one of these volumes will start you on a whole new adventure in your search for your ancestors."
"There is no other known searchable source for this complete set of five volumes, including high-quality images of the original pages," said Bob Velke, President of Archive CD Books USA. It is, therefore, a vast untapped resource for researchers of 18th and 19th century. "Best of all," said Mr. Velke, "you can search all five volumes at once using advanced search capabilities which include single words or phrases, proximity searches, and Boolean (and/or) searches."
For a limited time, this major new collection is available for the introductory price of just $19.97 which is 50% off the regular retail price of $39.95. For more information about "Digested Summary and Alphabetical List of Private Claims," please visit:
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=== More new releases from the U.S. =================
The following new data CDs are now available at www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com. Product descriptions are by Robert Charles Anderson, FASG.
Edmund B. O'Callaghan and Berthold Fernow, transcribers, MUSTER ROLLS OF NEW YORK PROVINCIAL TROOPS. 1755-1764. COLLECTIONS OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR 1891, (1892) 2007
$19.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0296
The transcribers have presented in this volume verbatim transcripts of all surviving New York muster rolls for the Seven Years' War (the last phase of the French and Indian Wars) from 1755 to 1764 (except for the year 1757, for which records are missing), arranging them in convenient tabular form.
All muster rolls include the date of the roll, the name of the unit, the names of all the men in the unit and (usually) the rank of every member of the unit. Many of the rolls incorporate additional information, much of it of great genealogical value, including age, birthplace, occupation, date of enlistment and rate of pay. A relatively small number of the rolls also give even more personal data, such as height, complexion and hair color.
The volume concludes with an appendix, containing colonial proclamations regarding the raising of soldiers and other stray documents, and, most importantly, with an every-name index.
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LIST OF CITY AND COUNTY EMPLOYEES, WITH THEIR RESIDENCES AND SALARIES, ETC, (1888) 2007
$16.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0254
Driven by local politics, a committee appointed by the Boston City Council compiled a detailed list of all those individuals who were employed by the city in 1888. The result is a collection of detailed information on thousands of men and women, from the mayor to the lamplighters and streetsweepers.
The list is arranged by department, beginning with the mayor's office. Each entry provides the name of the employee, his or her birthplace, the date of appointment to the office, the employee's residence at the time of appointment and also in 1888, and the rate of pay at the time of appointment and in 1888.
For example, within the Health Department, "Cleary, Thomas, Ash-driver," was born in Ireland and was appointed in 1856. His residence in 1856 was Hamburg Street, Ward 10, and in that year he was paid $1.12 a day. In 1888 he lived at 6 Chadwick Court, Ward 20, and received $2.00 a day.
This list provides an excellent social and economic snapshot of the city of Boston in the late nineteenth century, and also serves as a partial substitute for the lost Federal census of 1890.
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Mary E. Neal Hanaford, compiler, MEREDITH, N.H.: ANNALS AND GENEALOGIES, (1932) 2007
$24.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0214
The compiler has brought together historical sketches relating to the town of Meredith, New Hampshire, and has combined these annals with extensive genealogies of the families of the town, gathered from a large number of local correspondents. The volume concludes with records of Meredith marriages. The area that became the town of Meredith was surveyed in 1748 and was incorporated in 1768. In 1855 a portion of Meredith was set off as Laconia and in 1873 another section of the town was included in Center Harbor.
The historical section of this volume includes lists of early proprietors and Revolutionary War soldiers. There are separate sections for each of the town's churches, with lists of members and, in some cases, of baptisms performed in that church. At the end of the volume is a section listing marriages performed in Meredith, by ministers and by justices of the peace.
The bulk of this volume consists of hundreds of genealogical sketches of Meredith families. Some of these sketches attempt to connect the Meredith families with their immigrants forebears of a century or more earlier, but most of the information pertains to families as they resided in Meredith.
An important feature of these genealogies is the material from the latter part of the nineteenth century. The compiler diligently interviewed many of the town's residents and collected from them data on the more recent generations, thus capturing data not always found easily in other sources. There are many transcripts from family Bibles which remain in private hands or which may now be lost.
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Samuel Deane, HISTORY OF SCITUATE, MASSACHUSETTS, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO 1831, (1831) 2007
$12.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0285
Deane compiled one of the earliest comprehensive histories for a New England town, the first half of the volume giving the narrative history of Scituate in a topical format, and the second half presenting biographical sketches of the town ministers and genealogies of nearly three hundred families.
The first part of the volume covers the usual topics, such as the native Americans, early settlement, granting of land, military affairs, and the like. In this section are found lists of town officers, freemen and those who served in King Philip's War and the Revolution. Deane provides citations to town or colony records for much of this material.
A large and important section, more than thirty pages, is devoted to an early church schism at Scituate. John Lothrop, first minister, left for Barnstable in 1639, taking with him a large number of his congregation. He was replaced in 1641 by Charles Chauncy, who soon became controversial when he insisted on baptism by immersion. This position was rejected by several prominent Scituate families (including William Vassall), who engaged their own minister, William Wetherell. This latter church group retained a number of important documents pertaining to this controversy, and Deane published them for the first time in this volume.
The biographical and genealogical half of the volume begins with nearly fifty pages of sketches of the ministers of the two churches at Scituate. This is followed by nearly two hundred pages of genealogies of early families. As with so many of the earliest efforts in New England genealogy, this material is still useful, but must be approached with caution.
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Thomas W. Bicknell, SOWAMS: WITH ANCIENT RECORDS OF SOWAMS AND PARTS ADJACENT, (1908) 2007
$14.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0307
Bicknell transcribes and analyzes the records for Sowams, a tract of land then in Plymouth Colony, on the northeast edge of Narragansett Bay, purchased from the local Native Americans in early 1653, a parcel of land that comprised the major part of what is now the town of Barrington, Rhode Island.
The core of this volume is the transcription of the proprietors' records for the Sowams land, from a volume which had been mislaid but was found by the author and restored to the town of Barrington. The records covered here run from 1653 to 1797, and begin with the transactions between the purchasers (all from Plymouth Colony) and the Indians. In addition, there are records of the agreements with the town of Rehoboth, within whose boundaries the land originally fell. Of most importance are the records of the divisions of the Sowams land to the individual proprietors. Many of these records of divisions state explicitly the transfers of proprietary share from one owner to another, transfers which should have been, but were not always, recorded in the
county deeds.
Bicknell also included sections on the Indians who had resided in this area in the seventeenth century, on the original proprietors themselves (with brief biographies of each) and on the institution of proprietors in New England.
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Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, SUFFOLK SURNAMES, SECOND EDITION, (1861) 2007
$19.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0318
Bowditch created a file of all surnames he encountered in the Suffolk County, Massachusetts, deed and probate records from the 1640s to the 1820s, to which he added lists of surnames from other sources. He organized these surnames into various categories, to which he added his personal analysis.
Some of the categories employed by Bowditch are similar to those used by modern scholars of English surnames, such as "Trades and Occupations," "Relationship and Affection" and "Mental Qualities." Other categories are more idiosyncratic and amusing, such as "Diseases and Medicines; Drinking Names," "Bodily Peculiarities" and "Articles of Dress and Ornament."
The volume concludes with a complete index of the thousands of surnames included in the compilation. Bowditch was clearly still collecting surnames at this final stage of production of his book, as there are dozens of surnames which make their first appearance in the index, where they are explained in footnotes.
In this second edition, the Suffolk surnames which formed the basis of the author's earlier work are joined by lists of names from all over the English-speaking world. The arrangement of the surnames and the comments made by Bowditch are highly entertaining, but his suggestions for the origins of some of the surnames are not always reliable.
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SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAUGHTERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: ORGANIZATION, CONSTITUTION, BY-LAWS, MEMBERSHIP, (1923) 2007
$21.95 http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/find_acdb.mvc?refid=NEWS&p=US0372
This official compilation provides organizational and constitutional information on the Society of the Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century, as well as data on members as of 1923 from three state societies: New York, Missouri and Rhode Island. Portraits of Society Presidents are included.
In order to become a member of this society, a woman must have "descended from an ancestor who rendered service between 1607 and 1700 according to the eligibility list." A list of the varieties of service includes both civil and military offices, at the colony, county and town levels.
The members are listed alphabetically for each state, giving their residence in 1923 and the list of ancestors from whom they descend. For each ancestor there is a statement of the form "Seventh in descent from John Needles." The intervening generations are not supplied.
The volume closes with a list of ancestors claimed by the members, giving the qualifying service for each, and the members who descend from each seventeenth century ancestor.
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