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Those Early Days - OldTimers' Memoirs Oak Creek, Sedona & the Verde Valley Region of Northern Arizona Like New, Soft cover, 6x9, 270 pages Enlarged Edition, Indexed, llustrated Published 1975 71 stories, many photographs and illustrations $31.95 + $3.49 shipping and handling (sale thru Sept 3, Reg $39.99) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200514646230&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT Contributors included Don Willard; Thompson, Albert E.; Dumas, M. O.; Schnebly, Ellsworth M.; Fairchild, Fletcher; Purtymun, Dan; McBride, Laura; Williams,Sally Munds; Lay, Inez Loy; Dumas, Lenore; et al. Willard (Author) This is a 1975 Enlarged edition of the book, book is in very good condition with only minor shelf wear, no markings in the book, bent or torn pages. Spine is straight and intact. Pages are tight. Original price tag still present on the rear cover. A charming collection with regional details, including stories of early settlers families and roads, Indians and cowboys, hunters and doctors, fruit growers, sheriffs, prospectors, families, roundups, snowstorms, introduction of electricity, etc. "It will seem that though many stories include events occurring outside the Oak Creek and Verde Valley area, such material is essentially a related part of the lives of those settlers who lived here in early days. Also, it seemed fairly obvious that there has to be a general regional focus on Oak Creek and the Verde Valley as a whole, since there were so many family connections and the shared activities and experiences of friend and neighbors. . . It seemed that we must keep to the central theme of conveying to our readers the picture of WHO the first settlers were and depicting the way they lived."

Resolutions, Laws and Ordinances Relating to The Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution By U.S. House of Representatives 1838 Reprinted 1998 510 pages, indexed New, Printed hardbound book Unread, unused, undamaged ISBN: 9780806313375 $27.75 + $3.49 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200514490550&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT This rare and little-known government publication is a synopsis of all the Acts of Congress relating to the promises made by Congress to the officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Army up to the year 1836. The significance of the work to genealogists lies in the fact that the hundreds of Congressional enactments printed here, both large and small, contain the names of the soldiers or their heirs who applied for relief under the terms of each of the special Acts. For a variety of reasons veterans may not have received arrears of pay, may not have been issued their promised half pay for life or their widows and orphans their seven years' pay, or they may not have taken up their bounty land; thus, years later, either they or their heirs applied to Congress for satisfaction of their claims, which were dealt with by Acts and Resolutions of Congress. The individual petitions laid before Congress contained testimonials by friends, witnesses, and relatives; then there were statements supporting claims made by widows and children, statements identifying parents, corroborations of service records, affidavits of good character, and stories of personal misfortune. The list goes on and on. There is of course no guarantee that the subject of your research will be discovered in these pages, but in the "leave no stone unturned category," this obscure government publication is a researcher's dream.

- Back to School Special - Sale thru Sept 3 History Of The University of Virginia 1819-1919 Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4 &5 By Philip Alexander Bruce, 1920; 2,000+ pages, ****************************************************************************** Digital Book CD Requires Adobe Reader 5.0 or higher to View ****************************************************************************** $9.99 (Reg. 17.99) + $1.99 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=130426976239&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, 1819-1919. 5 Vols. By Philip Alexander Bruce. New York. The Macmillan Company. 1920. “This is a great book by a great historian. With a thoroughness seldom equaled and never surpassed, Mr. Bruce has collected and used every scrap of material bearing on the story of our State University from its inception to the present time. Indeed, the completeness of the work rather appalls the reader until he gets into it and begins to admire its artistic finish. Mr. Bruce is a master both of the science and art of history-writing. The first volume is naturally given to the establishment of the University and its physical creation. There is a preliminary sketch of the creator, "The Impress of Jefferson." This is followed by a detailed account of Jefferson's "Struggle for a University." Most Virginians of that day thought that the one State college of William and Mary was sufficient, and it was Jefferson's difficult task to convince a reluctant people and legislature that a higher institution of learning was needed. He succeeded, and then, along with Cabell and Cocke, brought the University of Virginia into being. The chapter on "The Building of the University" is most detailed. Seldom is architectural history given so completely. Nothing remains to be told of the launching of the great school at Charlottesville. The second volume deals with the "Formative and Experimental Stage." There is an excellent account of the English professors, Long, Blaetermann, Key, Bonnycastle and Dunglison, who came to our shores to impart European culture. To this is added the story of the first American professors. Administrative details are given at length: the organization of the schools, matriculation, etc. There is likewise a full description of the courses, the text-books used, methods of instruction and degrees. The first two volumes give the beginnings. The third volume tells the story of the expansion of the experimental State University into an important American college, the peer of Yale and Harvard. Its main section is entitled "Expansion and Reformation, 1842-1861." By 1830, the university was on its feet and had begun to draw students from the lower South, as well as from Virginia and that sister State which has always patronized Virginia institutions, North Carolina. By 1840, the Charlottesville institution had become the pet school of the planter class; it was a fashionable finishing-school for young men and anything but the school for the whole people which Jefferson devised. This alteration in its destiny, however, was mainly beneficial to the University ; it became the stamping-ground of the' finest breed of men ever raised in America, who owned the university from 1840 to 1861 and who continued to come to it until about 1890, when the breed may be said to have become extinct. The young Southern planter was a superb individualist and, generally speaking, a fine man. He drank oceans of whiskey and played poker all night—yet frequently managed to leave the university with a deep culture. He habitually carried fire-arms and habitually used them on the fixtures of the university—indeed, as late as 1900, students were in the habit of shooting at electric lights with pistols. We mention this as one of the few possible additions to Mr. Brace's narrative. The pranks were numberless and sometimes ended in riots, especially on those delightful occasions when an Uncle Tom's Cabin company played at the town theater. Then the students, en masse, proceeded and very properly, to be sure—to mob the performers and break up the show. The police would fatuously interfere, and there would be a grand fight in which several policemen would be considerably damaged. (We regret to say that Mr. Bruce forgot to include these mobbing of shows. They were a feature of the university once. The boys who go there now are too gentle for such shindigs.) These splendid individualists who knew no law but their own will finally precipitated a serious riot in 1845 in which a professor was killed and the prestige of the University seriously injured. So there had to be a Reformation. Every human institution seems to need reforming sooner or later; but one may regret the necessity of it at the University of Virginia. True the students did get out of bounds and something had to be done—but they were such a virile and characterful lot of youths, the descendants of the men who made the United States and themselves later its brightest ornaments until abolition came to- rum them. Mr. Bruce's account of the Great Insurrection of 1845 is the most interesting thing in his interesting book. It is to be regretted, however, that he has so little sympathy for the students. He seems to think that a little property damage was a very serious matter, while, in reality, it was the result of the exuberance of youth. Indeed, if there is any defect in a book so comprehensive and admirable it is in the lack of a study of the student personnel—a study which would narrate the careers of outstanding students while at the university. Mr. Bruce makes much of the fact that Woodrow Wilson was at the university for a time— graduated there in law or medicine or something. But Woodrow Wilson was really quite insignificant as a student: as a student he does not rank with such engaging personalities as "Sinner" White or Paul B. Barringer, that true descendant of the splendid planters who lost his academic degree by riding his horse up the steps of the Rotunda and into the building. An absolutely complete history of a college would, too, include some account of the balls and festivities, and of the visiting girls and college widows who made life worth while for the students of the past. But such a studv would possibly be considered beneath the dignity of history, interesting as it would be, and within the realm of formal history Mr. Bruce's narrative is well-nigh perfect. Especially is this true in respect to the professors. It might seem worth while to be a college professor if one could be sure that a Bruce would go into tiny details of one's life and set them forth in such a work. No man of any consequence who was ever a teacher at Charlottesville has been overlooked. No course of study has been neglected, no incident of the slightest importance in administration, finance or progression. The narrative is complete with a completeness almost meticulous, though not quite so. It is the completeness of an artist in details. The style of the book is altogether admirable. Probably no such readable college history has ever been written before. In spite of the great size of the work, the pages slip by so easily and pleasantly that one finds a volume read before one realizes it. In literary workmanship, as in research, the history is all that could be desired. The fourth volume is devoted to the later activities of the University. This is the only volume really open to criticism. Mr. Bruce has included an account of the rise and development of athletics at the university. He has done so with a most obvious ignorance of such matters as baseball and football. The assistance of some one conversant with college sports would have been beneficial, for in the modern college athletics rank ahead of everything else. In fact, the experience and reputation that a student gains as a football player are more important than any mere course of study. Boys recognize this fact, and are blamed for doing so, as if academic theories are more vital than realities. The truth is that a student can capitalize an athletic reputation so as to get a vast start in the race of life. Since athletics are thus in no sense inferior in importance to studies, they are worthy of a more detailed and technical treatment than Mr. Bruce has given them. But in a work so vast such a deficiency can not be considered a great blemish. The fact remains that Mr. Bruce has written the best college history ever written in this country. Indeed, he has devoted to telling the story of a small college riches of learning and literary skill that would have adorned the relation of the fall of an empire. One feature that must be emphasized is the excellence of the characterizations. Jefferson and his compeers; Long; Sylvester; Gessner (the Great) Harrison; the absurd Bledsoe; the very singular Schele de Vere; the majestic John B. Minor; Gildersleeve, world figure in scholarship ; Noah K. Davis, that mind of Descartes and soul of child; "Daddy" Holmes; illustrious Mallet; Paul B. Barringer, fat scientist loved by so many generations of school-boys for his Lincolnian stories; Alderman, first king; Milton Humphreys, greatest of them all—these figures and many more pass through the delightful pages of Mr. Bruce's charming book. Everybody who ever succeeded in attending the university—if only for a brief season—should read it.” Review By H. J. ECKENRODE The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. XXIX Dec 1921

Warwick County, Virginia Colonial Court Records ISBN 9780806353814 CF#9356 Mfg. sells for $49.95 +$7.50 shipping and handling ISBN: 9780806351438 Book Title: Colonial Court Records in Transcription. Third edition Author: Edited by Richard Dunn Binding: Soft Cover Copyright: 2008 Pages: 635 Size: 5.75 x 8.75 x 1.75 in. $39.75 thru Sept 3 (Reg. 44.95) + $2.49 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=130426840915&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT Warwick County, which merged with the city of Warwick in 1952, was one of Virginia's original shires upon its creation in 1634. (The name changed from Warwick River County to simply Warwick County in 1642-1643.) Today, it is part of Newport News, VA. The original records of Warwick County have never been transcribed-- until now. Thanks to the prodigious efforts of Mr. Richard Dunn, we are now in possession of a meticulously transcribed volume that purports to gather up the crumbling documents of colonial Warwick-- some of them from the 1640--and to make them accessible to researchers for the first time. To make their transcription as comprehensive as possible, Mr. Dunn examined original records not only from institutions like the Library of Virginia, Virginia Historical Society, and Swem Library, College of William and Mary, but also from the New York Historical Society, Rosenback Museum and Library, Newport News Museum and Archives, Virginia War Museum, Huntington Library, and county archives throughout Virginia. Arranged by repository and thereunder chronologically, the entries derive mostly from court order books, record books, minutes, cattle accounts, and a variety of miscellaneous material. As is characteristic of court records in general, Warwick County's records range over a multitude of contemporary affairs, such as estate settlements, petitions, appointments of local officials, orphan and bastardy cases, licenses, payments of debts, petty criminal matters, surveys and boundary disputes, the swearing in of justices of the peace, and so on. This consolidated edition also includes previously unpublished lists of Warwick County church wardens, commissions of the peace, constables, juries, sheriffs, "surveyors," vestrymen, and other functionaries not included in previous ones. The transcriptions place upwards of 10,000 Virginia ancestors in Warwick County at a particular moment during the colonial period. Thanks to the complete name index, these heretofore inaccessible ancestors have been rescued from oblivion.

- Back to School Special - #1 - The History of Harvard University Volumes 1 & 2 By Josiah Quincy, 1840 637 + 725 pages, illustrated & indexed #2 – History of Harvard Law School Volumes 1 & 2 By C. C. Langdell, 1918 633 + 538 pages, illustrated & indexed **************************************************************** Digital Book CD Requires Adobe Reader 5.0 or higher to View **************************************************************** $9.99 thru Sept 3 (Reg. 17.99) + $1.99 shipping and handling Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard University is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It is also the first and oldest corporation in North America (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College). Initially called "New College" or "the college at New Towne", the institution was named Harvard College on March 13, 1639, after a young clergyman named John Harvard, who bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and £779 (which was half of his estate). The earliest known official reference to Harvard as a "university" occurs in the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780. During his 40-year tenure as Harvard president (1869–1909), Charles William Eliot radically transformed Harvard into the pattern of the modern research university. Eliot's reforms included elective courses, small classes, and entrance examinations. The Harvard model influenced American education nationally, at both college and secondary levels. Harvard is consistently ranked at or near the top of international college and university rankings, and has the second-largest financial endowment of any non-profit organization (behind the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), standing at $28.8 billion as of 2008. Seven presidents of the United States – John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and George W. Bush – were graduates of Harvard. Its faculty have produced more than 40 Nobel laureates. It was Harvard’s 200th anniversary that prompted the writing of this, by the sitting president. VOLUME FIRST (Quincy). CHAPTER I. Centennial Celebration in 1836. — Origin and Design of this History 17. — Vote of the General Court of Massachusetts Bay, in 1636. — Bequest of John Harvard. State of the finances of the College. 1 CHAPTER II. Presidency of Charles Chauncy. — Previous Events of his Life. 24 CHAPTER III. Influence of the Clergy on the College. — Its catholic Spirit — CHAPTER IV. College Charter of 1692. — Its History and Results. 68 CHAPTER V. College Charter of 1696. — President Mather discontented with it 84 CHAPTER VI. Temporary Settlement of the College 103 CONTENTS. VII CHAPTER VII. Sectarian Controversies. — Attempts to remove John Leverett 127 CHAPTER VIII. The Rev. Samuel Willard accepts the Vice-Presidency 145 CHAPTER IX. Retrospective View of the Benefactors of the College, during the Seventeenth Century. — John Winthrop. — Sir Richard 162 CHAPTER X. Retrospect of political and religious Parties. 195 CHAPTER XI Indications of a Design to embarrass the Corporation. 213 CHAPTER XII. Benefactions of Thomas Hollis. — Their Origin, Motive, and Extent 230 CHAPTER XIII Tutors Sever and Welstoed claim Seats at the Board of Corporation 265 CHAPTER XIV. Proceedings of the Overseers on Sever and Welsteed's MemoriaL 289 CHAPTER XV. Increasing Influence of the Episcopal Church. 314 CHAPTER XVI Difficulties attending the Selection of a President — Cotton Mather, 338 CHAPTER XVII Change in the political Relations of Massachusetts 348 CHAPTER XVIII Wadsworth inaugurated. — General Court establish a Salary 377 CHAPTER XIX. Benefaction of the College. — John Hull. 405 APPENDIX. Early Records of the College. — Harvard’s Legacy List of Engravings -

Original Narratives of Early Virginia Originally published 1908 (Just after the 1907 JamestownTricentennial) Virginia History & Genealogy ************************************************************************** Digital Book CD Requires Adobe Reader 5 or higher to view Autoboot menu for easy access ************************************************************************** $10.99 + $1.99 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130216441745&ssPageName=ADME:L:EOISSA:US:1123 New York Times Book Review Sunday, Feb. 15, 1908 Mr. Jameson, general editor of the “Original Narratives.” could not have done better than to select President Tyler of William and Mary College to edit and digest for the general reader the original narratives of early Virginia. There is no student of American history who has delved more deeply into the sources of early Virginia history than he, and none who approaches his theme with more reverence for the heroes of that epic age than the President of the ancient college.of William and Mary, with its roots running back into the heroic age of English history. The ”Narratives of Early Virginia” cover the period of 1606-1625, and include the writings of George Percy, Lord De La Ware, Don diego de Molina, Father Blard, John Rolfe, John Pory, the redoubtable John Smith, and the proceedings of the Virginia Assemblies of 1619 and 1624, with the discourse of the Old Company. John Smith’s facile pen is accorded 295 of the 460 pages, and with right, for not-withstanding the many attacks that have been made upon his reputation for veracity he knew more of the plans, successes and failures of the planters of the Jamestown colonies than any other. These documents have all been properly collated with the originals, or the best known copies where originals have disappeared; they are explained in short “introductions,” elucidated in valuable footnotes with suitable references to the lives of the men who wrote them or played important roles in the colonizing project. It need scarcely be mentioned that they are printed in good bold type on excellent paper, and in a handy-sized volume. Thus are the interesting and important accounts of the first English settlement in North America put before us. Every one ought to be grateful both to Dr. Jameson and President Tyler. Contrary to the layman’s view, these narratives are exceedlingly interesting; they prove that documents are not always so dry and distasteful as we are prone to think. What could be more picturesque or entertaining than Smith’s “True Relation” or descriptions of Virginia?

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:27:31 -0700 (PDT), vakendot <vakendot@comcast.net> wrote: >The Teaching Company Audio Course: > >From Jesus to Constantine: >A History of Early Christianity I know of very few genealogies from that period that would conned with present day families. How many does the course contain, and how does it bridge the gap between Constantine and the late Middle Ages, when most genealogies of living people stop? -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

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