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An original publication, 1995. xx, 146 pp., illus., index This book is the result of research done by Ellen Clinkscales Smith Rippy on her Smith and Sullivan family lines. Much of her work on the Sullivan history was facilitated by research previously available from other members of the family on the Sullivans, Brownlees, Dunklins, Hueys, Walkers, Clinkscales, Moorheads, and Gilkeys. Research into the Smith line was made more difficult because of some apparent conflicts in the line of descent and a lack of availability of authentic records. But, she finally placed the Smiths on the Broad River at Smith's Ford, in Cherokee County. John Smith was buried on this land and information on his headstone indicated that he had been born in Botetourt County, Virginia. Further research established that John's father was Henry Smith who had come to South Carolina from the Upper Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia. From the Smith's Ford location in South Carolina, children would later move into Anderson County and… Read More

Orig. pub. Salisbury, NC, 1801. Reprinted 1976. Print on Demand Edition 2011. viii, 76 pp., new intro., new index James Hall was an eminent Presbyterian clergyman, educator, and patriot who made a missionary journey in 1800-01 which laid the foundations of the Presbyterian Church in Mississippi. This first history of the Mississippi Territory was a by-product of Hall's journey down the perilous Natchez Trace to minister to the scattered Presbyterian congregations in the area. More an intelligent and informed historical sketch than an actual history, he describes the country and its boundaries, its form of government, and discusses such topics as the soil, climate, produce, manners and customs, population, and trade and commerce. This volume retains significance as a rare historical document and an eyewitness account.

Orig. pub. Atlanta, 1875. Reprinted 1976. Print on Demand Edition 2017. (vi), 32, (v), xxvi pp. Eufaula, Alabama sits on a bluff on the west bank of the Chattahoochee River which is the boundary between Alabama and Georgia in that area. When the author wrote this brief history, Eufaula (formerly Irwinton) had been in existence less than forty years. This history traces Eufaula's development from its origins in the 1820s as an outpost of civilization, through its development as a prosperous agricultural and mercantile community, to its situation at the close of the Civil War. The text includes lists of officials of the municipal government, churches, benevolent societies, school officials, and railroad time tables. An unusual feature of this reprint is the reproduction of the advertisements from the original edition, which give a nostalgic and colorful picture of the commercial life of the community in the author's day.

Orig. pub. Chattanooga 1933. Reprinted 1974. Print on Demand Edition 2012. 100 pp., frontis., index Contents include: Genealogy of the Emigrant Doaks, Genealogy of the Reverend Samuel Doak, D.D., Other Doak lines, Sketch of the Reverend Samuel Doak, D.D., Washington College, Miscellaneous records, Doak Wills, and Mathews-Mathes.

Orig. pub. 1935. Reprinted 1974, 1982, 1988, 2002. Print on Demand Edition 2014. VIII, 191 pp., frontis., new index Written by a native son, this history of White County, Tennessee, has chapters devoted to: the pioneers and early settlement of the county, education and religion, the economic history of White County, wars and their effect, White County today (1935), and brief biographical sketches of approximately 240 people involved in the history of White County.

Orig. pub. Spartanburg 1981. Reprinted 1989, 1993, 1996. Print on Demand Edition 2018. (vi), 143 pp., index This volume consists of marriage and death notices from the three Baptist newspapers which were published in South Carolina before and during the Civil War. The Southern Baptist and General Intelligencer or later The Southern Watchman and General Intelligencer (1835-1837), The Southern Baptist (1847-1860), and The Confederate Baptist (1862-1865). The first two were published in Charleston and the last was published in Columbia. As the compiler, professional genealogist Brent H. Holcomb, notes "references to 'this city' should be noted appropriately." Although the Biblical Recorder gives its dateline as both Raleigh and Charleston, it was actually published in Raleigh and has not been included in this publication. The notices themselves pertain mainly to South Carolinians or persons with strong South Carolina connections. Of much interest are notices of persons who had removed to other states,… Read More

Orig. pub. Spartanburg 1981. Reprinted 1989. Print on Demand Edition 2010. (vi), 152 pp., index Compiled by professional genealogist Brent H. Holcomb, this volume contains abstracts of marriage and death notices from all York (or Yorkville) newspapers which could be located. An unusual feature of this book is the fact that the Yorkville Enquirer has extant a complete file of newspapers for the period of the Civil War, a time when few newspapers in the South continued to publish. The newspapers in this volume contain marriage and death notices not only from the York area, but also from nearby South Carolina districts Union, Spartanburg, Lancaster, and Chester, and from Cleveland, Gaston, and Mecklenburg counties in North Carolina. In addition to the Yorkville Enquirer, which is the most complete, newspapers in this volume include: The Pioneer, The Pioneer and South Carolina Whig, Journal of the Times, The Yorkville Compiler, Yorkville Miscellany, and The Remedy.

Orig. pub. Columbia 1941. Reprinted 1975, 1992. Print on Demand Edition 2009. 160 pp., map Many people and diverse factors have entered into the making of South Carolina and have left their imprint on her place names, giving wide variety and strong individuality to the titles of cities, towns, plantations, islands, mountains, and streams. This volume, originally compiled by the WPA, explores the history of many of those names. Many towns are named for places in England; others bear Spanish, French, German, or Indian names. Some names show the influence of the surrounding flora and fauna, others honor families of importance, and others point to geographical features. Some are whimsical - Round O, Hell Hole Swamp, Devil's Woodyard, and Granny's Quarter Creek.

Orig. pub. Macon, GA 1927. Reprinted 1978. Print on Demand Edition 2010. 154 pp., illus., new index Jefferson County, site of Georgia's first permanent capital at Louisville, is the subject of this short history written in 1927 by Mrs. Z.V. Thomas. Jefferson was formed in 1796 from Burke and Warren Counties. The book gives a brief, textual account of the colonization of Georgia, the early days and early settlers of Jefferson County, and general accounts of schools, churches, newspapers, railroads, business and industry, and the Yazoo land fraud. Also included are brief historical sketches of the following towns in Jefferson County: Louisville, Wadley, Bartow, Moxley, Stapleton, Stellaville, Matthews, Avera, Wrens, Zebina, and Bethany. Chapters deal with Jefferson County in the Civil War and in World War I. Civil War companies mentioned are the Jefferson County Guards, Jeff Grays, Battey Guards, Jefferson Volunteers, and Grubbs Hussars. An every-name index, compiled for this edition, has been added to… Read More

Orig. pub. Baltimore 1894. Reprinted 1971, 1992. Print on Demand Edition 2009. 136 pp. The North Carolina coast in the colonial period furnished a haven for pirates, for its inlets and islands enabled those overly romanticized brigands, who preyed on the extensive shipping industry of Charleston, South Carolina, to escape pursuit. Drawn from colonial records and legislation, this book gives an authentic presentation of the pirate problem as it confronted not only North Carolina but also South Carolina and to a certain extent Virginia. One in a series of monographs under the auspices of Johns Hopkins University and the general editorship of Herbert Baxter Adams, this volume remains a standard source for those interested in both the glamour and the social consequences of piracy The author examines how the pirates arose, how they were regarded by the colonists and English authorities, how they affected life and commerce, and how they were exterminated. This presentation is enlivened with accounts of two… Read More

Orig. pub. New York 1865. Reprinted 1973. Print on Demand Edition 2021. (ii), (XXVI), 86 pp. David Fanning was the most notorious and successful of the Loyalist partisan leaders in the Southern colonies. Born in Amelia County, Virginia, he grew up in Johnston County, North Carolina. In 1764 he and his older sister were orphaned and bound to guardians. By 1773 he had journeyed to South Carolina and settled on Raeburn's Creek where he farmed and traded with the Indians. At the beginning of the Revolution, Fanning was an officer in a local militia unit in the South Carolina upcountry. In 1775, that region leaned in favor of the Loyalists and Fanning joined that effort. When hostilities began, the South Carolina Whigs with support from North Carolina defeated the Loyalists in the "Snow Campaign" of December 1775. Shortly after, Fanning was captured and this would be the first of fourteen times he was captured over the next three years. In 1779, he was granted a conditional pardon from South Carolina… Read More

Orig. pub. Brunswick, GA 1962. Reprinted 1984, 1996 from 1969 revised ed.. Print on Demand Edition 2009. x, 156 pp., index + illus. Colleton, one of the three early counties of South Carolina, has always occupied a unique place among people interested in the history of the state, but information about Colleton County is not easy to find. This history includes discussions of the origins of the county, first settlements, early churches, land grants, baronies, early schools, statutes pertaining to Colleton, eminent men of the county, Revolutionary battles, leading families, origins and founders of Walterboro, the Civil War, anecdotes about families and prominent people, important dates, buildings, customs, early institutions, newspapers, and rivers and ferries. Among the surnames in the index are quite a few entries for Ackerman, Anderson, Bellinger, Campbell, Colleton, DuBose, Fishburne, Fripp, Glover, Hayne, Henderson, Jackson, Jones, Klein, Lowndes, Miles, Peurifoy, Pringle, Rivers, Sanders,… Read More

Orig. pub. Asheville, NC 1950. Reprinted 1976, 1999, 2003. Print on Demand Edition 2008. xiv, 161 pp., index + illus. Mrs. Patton, a member of the North Carolina Department of Archives and History, gathered material about Polk County over the years and wrote brief sketches for publication in various newspapers and magazines. These articles were published in book form as Sketches of Polk County History. Included are sketches entitled: Before White Men Crossed the Frontier; The Developing Frontier; A New County to be Called Polk; Polk County is again Created; War Clouds Gather over White Oak Mountain; Polk County Men in the Confederacy; The Railroad Reaches Polk County; Writers Discover Happy Valley; Three New Towns are Chartered; Polk County - Its Citizens; Sidney Lanier; Polk's Officials; Interesting Notes; Early Marriage Bonds of Polk County Citizens; The Treaty of White Oak Mountain; and A Giant of the Frontier.

Orig. pub. Gainesville, FL 1956. Reprinted 1973, 1975, 2001. Print on Demand Edition 2009. XIV, 153 pp., index + illus., maps This study of the first Spanish attempts at settling the Carolinas, and of the Chicora Indians, treats all European contacts prior to 1670. The author describes the earliest explorations of the new land, the Spanish settlement in 1526 at the mouth of the Waccamaw River across from present Georgetown, South Carolina, contention between France and Spain, the English colony, the Indians, and resulting rivalry of all parties for the land. The area covered in this study is the country extending along the Atlantic coast from Savannah, Georgia, to Wilmington, North Carolina, and inland including what is now northeastern Georgia and southeastern North Carolina with all of South Carolina in between.

Orig. pub. Atlanta 1924. Reprinted 1974. Print on Demand Edition 2009. 200 pp., map Using all the early land grants and other records of the state, McLendon, who was secretary of state in Georgia at the time he wrote this book, put together a valuable study of Georgia's land disposition history dealing specifically with the lands acquired from the Creek and Cherokee Indians and the Georgia western lands in largely what is now Alabama and Mississippi. He discusses the headright and land lottery counties. Particular emphasis, however, is on the Yazoo Land Fraud, a massive fraud perpetrated by several Georgia governors and the state legislature from 1795-1803 by selling large tracts of land to insiders at absurdly low prices. Major companies involved in this were the Georgia Land Company, the Georgia Mississippi Company, the Upper Mississippi Company, and the Tennessee Company. Earlier companies involved were the South Carolina Yazoo Company, the Virginia Yazoo Company, and the Tennessee Yazoo Company.… Read More

Vol. I, xii, 216 pp., index, map

Orig. pub. New York 1860. Reprinted 1976. Print on Demand Edition 2009. 234 pp. Gen. Sam Dale was a soldier, frontiersman, backwoods politician, and adventurer. Born in Virginia, Dale was active on the frontier as it moved westward through Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Based on personal interviews, the book describes his frontier adventures, his fights with Indians during the Creek Wars, his character and achievements, and relates the frontier and its customs in the style of the time in which he lived. Dale commanded a battalion of Kentucky volunteers against the Creeks in 1814 and carried dispatches for General Andrew Jackson from Georgia to New Orleans. After the war, he became a trader at Dale's Ferry in Alabama, was appointed colonel of militia, held various local offices, and was a delegate to the 1816 convention that divided the territory of Mississippi. He was a member of the first general assembly of Alabama and served in the state legislatures of both Alabama and Mississippi.

Orig. pub. Boston 1891. Reprinted 1972. Print on Demand Edition 2009. (ix), x, 211 pp. By one of Georgia's most prolific historians, this volume contains sketches of the lives of the following delegates from Georgia to the Continental Congress: Benjamin Andrew, Abraham Baldwin, Nathan Brownson, Archibald Bullock, Joseph Clay, William Few, William Gibbons, James Gunn, Button Gwinnett, John Habersham, Joseph Habersham, Lyman Hall, John Houstoun, William Houstoun, Richard Howley, Noble Wymberley Jones, Edward Langworthy, Lachlan McIntosh, William Pierce, Samuel Stirk, Edward Telfair, George Walton, John Walton, Joseph Wood, and John Joachim Zubly. Many of them were gentlemen of high culture, superior education, and attractive social and political virtues. Fourteen of them, in one capacity or another, bore arms in the struggle for independence; ten were members of the legal profession; six were merchants; three were physicians; one was a clergyman; and not less than ten were interested in agricultural… Read More

Orig. pub. 1983. Print on Demand Edition 2015. vi, 198 pp. Consolidated index for South Carolina Genealogies, Vols. I-IV

Orig. pub. Atlanta 1933. Reprinted 1979, 1980. Print on Demand Edition 2014. 222 pp., new index + illus. This history of Turner County covers an extensive period before the creation of the county in 1905. Early chapters discuss Indian trails, villages, and battles as well as customs, religion, and occupations of the pioneers and old roads and towns. Records of land grants to Revolutionary War soldiers, land-owners and tax-payers in 1857, and marriage records (1906-1932) for applicable parts of the area are provided. Genealogical material and lists include county officials, lawyers and physicians, family records from early times to 1935, World War I veterans, members and ancestors of Turner County, U.D.C. and the Knox-Conway Chapter, D.A.R., and extensive cemetery lists. A comprehensive name index was prepared for this reprint edition.