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    1. [COATES-L] more books online
    2. * Charlotte
    3. Here's the index for the books on line... http://genweb.net/~blackwell/books.html Char ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/13/2000 06:35:33
    1. [COATES-L] Fwd: Books online
    2. * Charlotte
    3. Thought you might be interested in this...it is a dictionary of Early New England Settlors....there are other books on line here as well... Char ----Original Message Follows---- From: "beckymac" <beckymac@neo.rr.com> To: COLE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Savage Book Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:56:34 -0400 Here is the site for the Savage Book it is on line http://genweb.net/~books/savage/savage.htm ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/13/2000 06:32:07
    1. [COATES-L] Fwd: Delson Coates - MI
    2. Charlotte Coats
    3. FYI...Char ---- Begin Included Message ---- From: "Del Fox" <dfox_cfp@techie.com> Sent: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 22:47:37 -0400 To: charlotte.coats@coatsarchive.zzn.com Subject: Delson Coates    Do you have any information on Delson Coates DOD June 1974    Hudson , Mi    Married to Lulu Coates DOD 1984 Hudson, MI    Delson Coates is my Grandfather.    Thank you    Del Fox     ---- End Included Message ---- Get your Free E-mail at http://CoatsArchive.zzn.com ____________________________________________________________ Get your own Web-Based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com Get your own Web-Based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com. Get your 100MB FREE Internet storage! Sign up now - www.netdrive.com/?O=ZZN4 Get your 100MB FREE Internet storage! Sign up now - www.netdrive.com/?O=ZZN4

    06/13/2000 05:57:52
    1. [COATES-L] Fwd: Coates line
    2. Charlotte Coats
    3. ---- Begin Included Message ---- From: Graysoldiers@aol.com Sent: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:15:38 EDT To: charlotte.coats@coatsarchive.zzn.com Subject: Coates line My wife descends from Henry Coate & his first wife, their son Henry who was married to a Hannah ? , they were in the Newberry Dist. of SC, and their son Marshall born abt. 1816 & died abt. 1863,  who married a Nancy Walker. Is this some of your same line? I am: Ray Brown aka Graysoldiers@aol.com ---- End Included Message ---- Get your Free E-mail at http://CoatsArchive.zzn.com ____________________________________________________________ Get your own Web-Based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com Get your own Web-Based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com. Get your 100MB FREE Internet storage! Sign up now - www.netdrive.com/?O=ZZN4 Get your 100MB FREE Internet storage! Sign up now - www.netdrive.com/?O=ZZN4

    06/13/2000 05:52:00
    1. [COATES-L] Fwd: Coats Geneaology - TN & KY
    2. * Charlotte
    3. FYI...Char ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Laura Angel" <tamaters@home.com> To: <coats@lawyer4u.com> Subject: Coats Geneaology Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:02:27 -0400 Dear Charlotte, I found your listing in the GenWeb Archives for Bedford Co., TN. In searching for leads on my Crick family line, I came across your Coats family deed. A separate family line of mine, the McGregors of Caldwell Co., KY, has a tie in with the Coats family, of whom I know nothing. One of my maternal great-grandfathers, Paten Nance McGregor (1848-1906), married Mary Elizabeth Coats (1861-1921). They were married in 1892 in Caldwell Co., KY. It was Paten's second marriage and he had children from the first marriage plus children by Mary Elizabeth--the total number that I have listed is five, but I'm not sure which were Mary Elizabeth's step-children. I am trying to uncover any information regarding Elizabeth's ancestors or where she was from, and would appreciate it if you could kindly check you records regarding Mary Elizabeth Coats McGregor. Thank you, Laura Hunt Angel, tamaters@home.com Reseaching HUNT MCGREGOR MOSELEY CRICK MATHEWS COATS MELTON MCMILLIAN WILSON RAY TAYLOR PUTMAN and related lines. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/13/2000 05:45:32
    1. [COATES-L] 1850 Clinton County OH
    2. * Charlotte
    3. I also found these, all 1850 Clinton County OH: Wilmington Twp p. 344 Living in the household of Samuel Jackson - 41 an Aquilla Coate, 20 or 30 (couldn't read it well) farmer - born in PA Wilmington Twp p. 345 Living in the household of Jacob Shickle - 39 Benjamin Coates - 22 - phyisician - born in OH Union Twp p. 385 Living in the household of Isaac B. Thomas - 44 - an Isaac L. Coate - 26 born in VA Now these looked like they were boarders so I didn't get the entire listing on the family...in otherwords there were several people listed under the family but not with the family surname....so I figured these might be like boarding houses or they were boarding with a family... Char ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/12/2000 01:17:52
    1. [COATES-L] OH 1850 Census Records
    2. * Charlotte
    3. I was running through the Clinton County OH 1850 census records today...and found these: Chester Twp p. 298 Daniel Leaseney - 33 years old born in OH - a blacksmith M. Leaseney - age 32 - Born in OH J. - 15 - female M.J., Rainisbottone - 3 - female James Coats - 66 - born in South Carolina Mary Coats - 63 - born in South Carolina this was all one family group...I'm wondering if the M. Leaseney was the daughter of James and Mary Coats of SC... This was the 1850 Census so at 66 James would have been born in 1784 and Mary would have been born in 1787... Anyone got a Leaseney in their family tree... Char ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/12/2000 01:10:35
    1. [COATES-L] Fw: Ancestry Daily News, 12 June 2000--lots of COATES
    2. Jay & Carol Menges
    3. ____________________________________________________________________ > > PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDING FAMILIES, 1681-1911 > > First settled by Dutch traders, Pennsylvania was chartered to William Penn in > 1681. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many important and > prominent families established themselves in the colony. This database, > originally published as three volumes in 1911, is a collection of genealogical > records regarding these early families. It includes biographical sketches of > family members, vital records of births, marriages, and deaths, and > accomplishments of the family as a whole. Records span from the families' first > arrival in the colony through 1911. For researchers of early Pennsylvania > ancestors, this can be a source of detailed and helpful information. > > Source Information: Ancestry.com. "Pennsylvania Founding Families, 1681-1911." > [Database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Electronic reproduction of > "Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Vol. I-III" originally > published in 1911. > > To search this database, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4677.htm > ____________________________________________________________________

    06/12/2000 06:43:34
    1. [COATES-L] Location of some periodicals
    2. * Charlotte
    3. Periodical Title: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography General Subject Area: U.S. Topics: Pennsylvania Issues per Year: 4 Other Titles: Notes: index v.1-75, 87 ACPL Holdings: v.1- 1877- ACPL Call Number: ISSN Number: 0031-4587 Repositories holding this title include: Allen County Public Library Los Angeles Public Library Dallas Public Library Library of Congress New York Public Library Newberry Library New England Historic Genealogical Society Library Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton Co. State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library Family History Library (partial holdings) Publisher: Hist Soc of Pennsylvania Publisher Address: 1300 Locust St., Philadelphia, PA 19107 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/10/2000 08:34:01
    1. [COATES-L] more articles - 2
    2. * Charlotte
    3. Location Subject Record Type Topic Article Periodical Volume Issue Month/Season Year Surname Coats Reatha Sayrs Coats Remembers, Sherman Co, Oregon Sherman County: for the Record 10 1 Spring 1992 Surname Coats Robert H. Coats (Dr.), 1874-1960, Ontario Huron Historical Notes 22 1986 Surname Coats Robert Hamilton Coats (Dr.), Huron Co., Ont. Huron Historical Notes 30 1994 Surname Coats Sterling Coats Family, North Carolina Johnston Journal 4 3 September 1978 Surname Coats W.C. Coats Fam. Move to Arkansas, 1872 Greene County Historical and Genealogical Quarterly 6 1 Winter 1993 Surname Coats William Coats (Col.) Rev. War, Corr. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 32 4 October 1908 Surname Coats William Coats Family, Cherokee Nation Cherokee Blood Newsletter 1 Spring 1983 Surname Coats William Coats Heirs, Mississippi Pontotoc County Pioneers 2 2 Summer 1981 Surname Coats William S. Coats Plantation, Hart Co., Kentucky Hart County Historical Society Quarterly 9 4 October 1977 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/10/2000 08:32:28
    1. [COATES-L] more articles
    2. * Charlotte
    3. Location Subject Record Type Topic Article Periodical Volume Issue Month/Season Year Surname Coats Coats Family, Oregon Sherman County: for the Record 11 1 Spring 1993 Surname Coats Coats Family, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas Mesquite Tree 18 3 September 1982 Surname Coats Coats Family, South Carolina, Texas Mesquite Tree 2 1 October 1965 Surname Coats Coats of Lynn, Massachusetts and Stonington, Connecticut American Genealogist 18 4 April 1942 Surname Coats Coats-Boze-Williford-Nichols Families, Georgia Carroll County Genealogical Quarterly 10 3 Fall 1989 Surname Coats Coats-Lawrence Bible, 1776-1962, Georgia Family Puzzlers 657 May 1980 Surname Coats Coots-Coats Family, Grayson Co., Kentucky Silent Footsteps 10 2 April 1989 Surname Coats Cornelius B. Coats-Nancy E. Hooper Fam., Texas Cass County Connections 2 4 October 1975 Surname Coats Eglenton-Lord-Richards-Coats Note, New Jersey Gloucester County Historical Society Bulletin 5 5 September 1956 Surname Coats Eliza Goforth Coats Obit., 1911, Missouri Historic and Genealogical Society of Douglas County MO December 1998 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/10/2000 08:30:14
    1. [COATES-L] Periodicals on Coats, Coates, Coate
    2. * Charlotte
    3. These are some periodical articles on the Coats, Coates, Coate family: Location Subject Record Type Topic Article Periodical Volume Issue Month/Season Year Surname Coats Amos Coats and Turlington Sisters, North Carolina Johnston Journal 20 2 June 1994 Surname Coats Chester Coats, Potter Co., Pennsylvania Potter County Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin 21 July 1971 Surname Coats Chet Coats Recalls Sack Sewing, Sher. Co, Oregon Sherman County: for the Record 16 1 Spring 1998 Surname Coats Chet Coats Remembers, Sherman Co., Oregon Sherman County: for the Record 10 1 Spring 1992 Surname Coats Chet Coats, WWII Mems., USAAF, Washington Sherman County: for the Record 14 1 Spring 1996 Surname Coats Coats Family of Connecticut, Vermont, New York, Wisconsin Wisconsin Helper Winter 1970 Surname Coats Coats Family Record, Conc. and Index Wisconsin Helper 3 3 February 1970 Surname Coats Coats Family Record, New York, Wisconsin Wisconsin Helper 3 1 August 1969 Surname Coats Coats Family Record, New York, Wisconsin Wisconsin Helper 3 2 November 1969 Surname Coats Coats Family, Kansas, California, New York Researcher 26 March 1970 Viewing records 1-10 of 49 Next, Page: 1 2 3 4 5 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/10/2000 08:28:57
    1. [COATES-L] Slaveholders in Newberry County 1800
    2. * Charlotte
    3. Henry Cotes on here and a Samuel Coates.... http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/text/census/slaveholders1800.htm ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/10/2000 05:36:05
    1. [COATES-L] Dane/Coats - MA
    2. * Charlotte
    3. When I do a Coats or Coates search in the MA birth data base I only get *other* last names...just wondering if the mother in this case is Coates/Coats ...the spelling Coate doesn't show up in this area...does the Dane last name sound familiar to any searching the MA area...? there are some other last names as well... Char Name Sex Birth Date Birth Place Father's Name Mother's Name DANE, Hiram M Oct. 18, 1839 Westford John Sally DANE, Horace White M Aug. 31, 1827 Dracut Osgood Mary DANE, James Moody M Dec. 13, 1788 Andover John, Jr. Deborah DANE, James M Aug. 6, 1804 Andover Moses Priscilla DANE, James M Sept. 12, 1811 Andover Benjamin Sarah DANE, James M Andover Moses Priscilla DANE, Jedediah M Mar. 7, 1784 Andover Francis DANE, John O. M Nov. 28, 1820 Andover Benj[ami]n, Jr. Lydia DANE, John M 1692 Andover Francis Hannah DANE, John M Apr. 9, 1736 Andover Francis ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/10/2000 07:14:28
    1. [COATES-L] Lieut.-Col. Coates, SC
    2. * Charlotte
    3. The Annals and Parish Register of St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, in South Carolina, from 1680 to 1884. Introductory Notes. Lieut.-Col. Coates, in command of 500 infantry and 100 cavalry, was attacked by Lieut.-Col. Lee with the Legion, and Lieut.-Col. Hampton with the State cavalry. Generals Marion and Sumter, coming up with reinforcements, continued the engagement. The Americans killed and wounded 40 of the British and took 140 prisoners, and a large quantity of baggage, several wagons and above 100 horses. Those who fell were buried by the roadside, from Quimby Avenue to Quimby Bridge. The Wando was the scene of many skirmishes. The British at one time fortified Cainhoy, and the Americans searched vessels passing up and down the river. * ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/10/2000 06:39:23
    1. [COATES-L] Fwd: Re: [NCGUILFO] [Fwd: Guilford Co. N.C.]
    2. * Charlotte
    3. No Coates, Coate, Coats showing in there but of the other surnames I sent these were there....Char ----Original Message Follows---- From: Barbeejr@aol.com To: coats@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [NCGUILFO] [Fwd: Guilford Co. N.C.] Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 10:52:30 EDT Charlotte, I found only Hunts in the New Garden Cemetery listings. None of the other names appear. The names I found are: Cammie London Cook Hunt, b 02-16-1897, d 02-28-1961, Section 2-L-1. wife of Webster M. Hunt Eleazer Hunt, b 11-12-1762, d 11-23-1840, Old Section 7, son of William & Sarah Mills Hunt Ellen B. Hunt, b unk, d 11-20-1924, Section 2-K-9, age 76 years James Edward Hunt, b 04-27-1899, d 08-10-1900, Section 2-L-1 John Hunt, b 12-01-1804, d 03-06-1880, Old Section 6 John Douglas Hunt, b 03-05-1895, d 04-06-1980, Section 1-43, Husband of Kaie Thelma Harrel Hunt John F. Hunt, b 12-22-1902, d 10-30-1907, Section 2-K-9, Son of C.E. & M.O. Hunt Kaie Thelma Harrell Hunt, b 03-03-1897, d 12-02-1977, Section 1-43, Wife of John D. Hunt, Sr. Louise Marsh Hunt, b 09-09-1899, d 01-30-1984, Section 1-43, Wife of Thomas C. Hunt Lydia Worley Hunt, b 02-24-1759, d 10-29-1832, Old Section 7, Wife of Eleazer Hunt Paul Hunt, b 05-05-1892, d 06-23-1893, Section 2-L-1 Sara Mills Hunt, b unk, d 1778, Old Section 29, Wife of William Hunt Thomas Cook Hunt, b 06-02-1888, d 01-07-1964, Section 1-43, Husband of Louise Marsh Hunt Webster Milton Hunt, b 02-20-1862, d 10-28-1937, Section 2-L-1 William Memorial Hunt, b 1733, d 1772. Old Section 29 Also recorded as buried at New Garden but for whom no stones were found are: Jack Hunt, b unk, d 03-27-1942 John Hunt, b 1771, d 1809 Mattie Hunt, b unk, d unk, Buried 12-04-1948 I hope you can make a connection. Jim ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/10/2000 05:58:42
    1. [COATES-L] Fwd: Re: [NCGUILFO] [Fwd: Guilford Co. N.C.]
    2. * Charlotte
    3. FYI....Char ----Original Message Follows---- From: Barbeejr@aol.com To: coats@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [NCGUILFO] [Fwd: Guilford Co. N.C.] Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 16:45:23 EDT Charlotte, The cemetery is at the corner of Friendly Avenue and New Garden Road, across the road from the campus of Guilford College. The present New Garden Meeting House (1961) is on property adjoining the cemetery.The cemetery dates to 1754. I have a book "New Garden Cemetery" edited by Denzel Hinshaw Dickerson and published in 1994 by the New Garden Cemetery Association. The book includes a history of the cemetery, lists all of the tombstone inscriptions that were legible at that time, and records of others buried there but for whom no tombstones are found. The earliest legible stone was dated 1787. There is a 1895 photo which shows many stones in the old section. However, as has been pointed out, there would have been many early unmarked graves. I am willing to do lookups as time permits. Jim Barbee ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/10/2000 05:57:39
    1. [COATES-L] Fwd: Funeral Home and Cemetery Records
    2. * Charlotte
    3. This from another list for CA but if CA has a Cemetery Division I'll bet other states do also...might we find some lost cemeteries this way?...I have at least one Funeral Home in MO that went out of business so will let you know..... btw, most states have website...so if there is an email they will probably take inquires via email... Char ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Donna@MBS" <mbs@inland.net> To: CARIVERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Funeral Home and Cemetery Records Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 10:20:25 -0700 Hi Listers; I found out something really interesting the other day that I didn't know and thought I would share it with everyone. If a Funeral Home has gone out of business or Cemetery filled up or you don't know where those records are that you desperately need. Here is a place that you can write and they should be able to tell you where the records are... Department of Consumer Affairs Cemetery Division 400 R. Street Sacramento, CA 95814 I don't know if they have an e-mail addy, but this is more than I had before and I thought I would share it with you all. Donna ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/10/2000 05:08:47
    1. [COATES-L] Mary Langdale Coates Father's
    2. * Charlotte
    3. FYI....any comments anyone? Char ____________________________ To: <charlotte.coats@coatsarchive.zzn.com> Subject: Mary Langdale Coates Father's Autobiography (ca. 1700) From: "jelan1" <jelan1@msn.com> Dear Charlotte, Here is a message I posted on the Genforum Coates and Langdale pages that might interest you. By the way, the Skidmores are Quakers, I understand. Gil Skidmore told me by telephone that she is publishing other Quaker spiritual autobiographies. I've collected a fair amount of information on descendants of Josiah Langdale. Some of these, I believe, live in Colleton County, SC, and Valdosta, GA. If I'm right, they are descendants of Josiah's grandson, Josiah (b. 1739 in Philadelphia), son of John Langdale and Sarah Hudson. Other Langdales, thought to be descended from Samuel (b. 1759 in Philadelphia), a younger brother of the Josiah of Philadelphia (and probably SC), live in such places as Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, and California. According to the Hinshaw encyclopedia of Quaker genealogy, Samuel Coates and Mary Langdale had eleven children. I have seen published pedigrees showing a Henry Coats of Rowan County, NC, as one of them, but that appears unlikely since Samuel and Mary had a son named Langdale Coates born in 1745, the year that Henry Coats is supposed to have been born. I'm referring to the Henry Coats who married Susan Elliott and from whom the Hunts descend. The list of eleven published by Hinshaw does not include a "Henry." With respect to Langdale and Coates genealogy, the LDS records show Josiah Langdale as the son of Marmaduke Langdale and his wife, Elizabeth Savage. I've seen several published pedigrees reflecting this connection, and have myself accepted it as true, having done no research on the matter. That information is contradicted by the autobiography of Josiah Langdale of Yorkshire, some data from which is summarized below. I'm now inclined to believe that someone incorrectly added Josiah Langdale to the children of Marmaduke, Baron of Langdale. Are you familiar with this line? I'd be grateful for your comments. Sincerely, John John E. Lancaster 508 E. Moore St. Valdosta, GA 31602 912-242-1732 ======================== SOME INFORMATION FROM JOSIAH LANGDALE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY & THE INTRODUCTION "Josiah Langdale, 1673-1723, A Quaker Spiritual Autobiography," edited and with an introduction by Gil Skidmore (Sowle Press: Reading, England, 1999). This is a brief account (about 40 pages, counting the introduction) of Josiah's boyhood and young manhood, emphasizing his spiritual struggle over several years that resulted in his leaving the Church of England to join the Quakers. It mentions his journeys to America. It includes a small amount of data on his family, which is discussed more fully in Gil Skidmore's excellent introduction. For anyone interested in acquiring this work, which I found fascinating, here is the address: The Sowle Press 31 Melrose Avenue Reading, Berks RG6 7BN Telephone: 01734-663452 The Sowle Press is operated by Chris and Gil Skidmore. In this brief and perhaps fragmentary autobiography, Josiah names his parents as Joseph and Margaret Langdale of Nafferton, Yorkshire. Joseph had a brother, John Langdale, and an unnamed sister who was married to a man surnamed Layborne. The Laybornes had two sons, Josiah's cousins, who were priests. He says nothing about siblings, which implies he had none. At the age of twenty, he inherited land from his father, who had died in 1681 when Josiah was eight years of age. In 1710, at age 37, he married Margaret Burton. By 1720 Josiah had resolved to move to America, so he traveled a third time across the Atlantic, perhaps primarily to make future living arrangements for his family (1720-21). By this time he and Margaret had a daughter, Mary, and a son, John. They all boarded a ship, the London Hope, in 1723 bound for Philadelphia or Burlington. Unfortunately, Josiah died before reaching America, and Margaret arrived a widow with two young children. A little more than a year later, still carrying on an active ministry, she married Samuel Preston, a Quaker gentleman and merchant whose age exceeded hers by about two decades. She died in 1742 at the age of fifty-eight. Josiah and Margaret's daughter, Mary, married Samuel Coates. Their son, John, married Sarah Hudson. All of them were Quakers in the Philadelphia/Burlington area. John ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/10/2000 04:57:58
    1. [COATES-L] Fwd: [Burned Record Counties: Some Implications]
    2. * Charlotte
    3. I'm sure this is true of other states as well...Char ____________________________ > "kukla" <kukla@lynchburg.net> wrote: > > The loss of records from all but one of Virginia's oldest counties has, I have > long contended (citations below), contributed to the mistaken belief that > early Virginia was a place of chaos. I strongly challenged this view in a 1985 > article (1) and have been pleased that a lot of more recent scholarship -- > historical and archaeological -- is confirming what some regarded, 15 years > ago, as a lonely and contentious point of view. > The work of the late Darrett and Anita Rutman on Middlesex and the late James > Russell Perry on the Eastern Shore were two of the first that supported my > argument. Here's the direct point regarding the burnt-records counties and > destruction of the general court records in 1865 (quoting from my essay about > Perry's book for the convenience of those who may not have back issues of > Reviews in American History at their fingertips): > "On the Virginia mainland, similar networks {[i.e. comparable to the society > Perry explicated on the early Eastern Shore} for the oldest settled areas > along the James and York rivers might have been reconstructed from records > sent to Richmond for safe-keeping during the Civil War. There, along with many > volumes of colonial deed, will, probate, and order books, most of the local > records from counties such as Charles City, Elizabeth City, Gloucester, James > City, New Kent, and Warwick burned when the Confederates evacuated Richmond in > April 1865. York County achieved a stable society between 1634 and 1660, but > the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation started its York County Project with the > 1660s and worked toward the nineteenth century because documents did not > survive in sufficient quantity for demographic reconstruction of the earliest > population. Time will tell {the review essay concluded}, but perhaps James > Russell Perry's conclusions about the Eastern Shore only seem atypical b! > ecause he escaped the snare of {W. J. Cash's myth {explained earlier in the > essay*}. The scarcity of evidence for other Virginia localities suggests that > we pay attention to what he {Perry} painstakingly learned from the only extant > series of continuous local records from the first half century of English > settlement in the Chesapeake." {Reviews in Am Hist vol 20 (1992) p. 301.} > > *The Perry essay makes a parallel asserting that patterns of genealogical > interest and publication created the impression of a demographic gap in the > second quarter of the 17th century that, in turn, bolstered the chaotic > interpretation of early Virginia one associates with the influential 1957 > essay by Bernard Bailyn and its parallels to W. J. Cash's Mind of the South. > In this respect, the Perry essay amplifies the argument of the AHR essay. -jk > > Regarding the records lost in the General Court fire, 170 years ago, Conway > Robinson, a founder of the Virginia Historical Society (one of several centers > for Virginia history), compiled a lengthy memorandum of the records then held > by the court. I edited and published that Memorandum as an appendix to a new > edition of H.R. McIlwaine's Minutes of the Council and General Court (citation > below). Library of Virginia may still sell copies of the 2d edition. There are > three good reasons for serious libraries or scholars to have the 2d edition > even if they are fortunate enough to own the 1st edition: The 2d edition has > several appendices of supplementary material, the 2d edition is printed on > acid-free paper whereas the 1st edition copies are brittle and shreading, and > I printed the 2d edition slightly small than the 1st and it is actually easier > to read. These three considerations also apply to the Library's reprint of > McIlwaine's Legislative Journals of the Council. The only dr! > awback with these volumes is that one must get past my prefaces to them. > > > Citations: > 1. "Order and Chaos in Early America: Political and Social Stability in > Pre-Restoration Virginia," American Historical Review 90 (1985): 297-298. > 2. "Perry on the Eastern Shore," Reviews in American History 20 (1992): > 297-302. A review essay about James Russell Perry, The Formation of a Society > on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1615-1655 (Chapel Hill and London, 1990). > 3. Winterthur Portfolio 20 (1985): 292-295: . A review essay about Darrett B. > Rutman and Anita H. Rutman, A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia, > 1650-1750 (New York, 1984) and Stephen Saunders Webb, 1676: The End of > American Independence (New York, 1984). > 4. "Memorandum of the Records in the General Court Office [in 1829]" and > "Copies of the rules of Court from 1691 to 1775," in Henry Read McIlwaine, > ed., Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, (2d ed., > Richmond, 1979), 537-544, 601-607. > In general # 1 above and Political Institutions in Virginia, 1619-1660 in John > Murrin, ed., Outstanding Studies in Early American History (New York, 1989) > and "The Chesapeake Colonies," in Jacob Ernest Cooke et al., eds., > Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies (New York: Charles Scribner's > Sons, 1993), 1: 188-201. > > > > -- > Jon Kukla....................... Executive Vice-President and CEO > 1250 Red Hill Road ........... Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation > Brookneal, Virginia 24528 .. www.redhill.org .... 804 376-2044 > 804 376-4172 > -- > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1 > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

    06/09/2000 06:00:37