edited by Jessie Carney Smith ; foreword by Alex Haley.
ISBN
0313225931 (lib. bdg.)
Place of Publication
Westport, Conn
Publisher
Greenwood Press,
Date of Publication
1983.
Physical Description
xxxix, 440 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographies and index.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Contents
Librarians and genealogical research / Russell E. Bidlack -- Basic sources for genealogical research / Jean Elder Cazort -- Library records and research / Casper L. Jordan -- Researching family history / Bobby L. Lovett -- The national archives and records service / James D. Walker -- The genealogical society of Utah library / Roger Scanland -- American indian records and research / Jimmy B. Parker -- Asian-American records and research / Greg Gubler -- Black American records and research / Lyman De Platt.
"In the record office of the City of London is a register containing the names of 3,398 servants bound out for service in the American colonies and the West Indies. Details concerning nearly 2,000 of these indentured servants, taken from the original indenture forms, were published over twenty years ago. Yet information on 1,544 additional servants, whose names appear in the register but for whom no indentures survive, had never been published. With this present work, however, we now have a published list of these missing servants as well as a digest of associated data. In addition to the servant's name and the name of the transporting agent, the tabulation includes the name of the colony to which the servant was shipped and the date--either the date of the indenture form itself or the Assize at which it was registered. The majority of these servants were destined for Maryland, Pennsylvania, or the West Indies." [from GoogleBooks]
v. 1. Official rolls of Loyalists recruited from North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana -- v. 2. Official rolls of Loyalists recruited from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and those recruited from other colonies for the British Legion, Guides and Pioneers, Loyal Foresters, and Queen's Rangers -- 3. Official rolls of Loyalists recruited from the Middle Atlantic colonies, with lists of refugees from other colonies.
Volume 2 and 3 originally published in 1974 and 1976 under title: English convicts in Colonial America, Volume 1 and 2.
Contents
v. 1. History of transportation, 1615-1775 -- v. 2. Middlesex, 1617-1775 -- v. 3. London, 1656-1775 -- v. 4. Home counties, 1655-1775 -- v. 5. Western Circuit, 1664-1775 -- v. 6. Oxford Circuit, 1663-1775 -- v. 7. Norfolk Circuit, 1663-1775 -- v. 8. Northern Circuit, 1665-1775 -- v. 9. Midland Circuit, 1671-1775.
"The material in this book is an abstract of, and index to, information reported by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, and published in their annual reports to the Smithsonian Institute [sic], printed as Senate documents (1900-1974), published by the Society in a separate volume (1975-1977) and published annually in the DAR magazine (1978-1987)"--T.p. verso.
Philadelphia naturalization records : an index to records of aliens' declarations of intention and/or oaths of allegiance, 1789-1880, in United States Circuit Court, United States District Court, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Quarter Sessions Court, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia
Rev. version of an index originally issued as: Index to records of aliens' declarations of intention and/or oaths of allegiance 1789-1880 in United States Circuit Court, United States District Court, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Quarter Sessions Court, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia (Section 2 of Alphabetical index of naturalization records, 1794-1880, of maritime records, Port of Philadelphia [1940])
The original manuscript of which this index formed a part was compiled by Work Projects Administration Project no. 20837 and was sponsored by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission.