Lucy Bryant – details
Birth: 10 Oct 1774 in Of Windham, Maine Death: 4 Mar 1849 Father: Jarathamul Bryant Marriage 1 Joshua Hawks b: 15 May 1767 in Of Windham, Maine, USA * Married: 20 Feb 1957 Children 1. […]
Jarathamul Bryant – details
Born: 1732 Place: Saco, York, Maine Died: Abt 1796 Place: Married: 4 Sep 1759 Place: Biddeford, York, Maine Father: John Bryant Mother: Hannah Sands Wife's Name: Sarah Mc Lucas Born: 23 Jun 1735 Place: York, […]
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln
THE EVERY-DAY LIFE OFABRAHAM LINCOLN CHAPTER I Ancestry—The Lincolns in Kentucky—Death of Lincoln's Grandfather—Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks—Mordecai Lincoln—Birth of Abraham Lincoln—Removal to Indiana—Early Years—Dennis Hanks—Lincoln's Boyhood—Death of Nancy Hanks—Early School Days—Lincoln's First Dollar— Presentiments […]
John Bolling Sr. details
Major John Bolling, Sr., was born in 1676 to Robert Bolling and Jane Rolfe, who was the granddaughter of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. He thus became the first Bolling born in the New World and […]
John Bolling Jr. details
The only son of John and Mary Kennon Bolling, John, Jr., accumulated extensive holdings in what was then a wilderness country and was able to indulge his propensities for horses, hunting, fishing, eating and dancing. […]
Elizabeth Blair family and life details
Daughter of Dr. Archibald Blair and niece of Reverend James Blair, founder and first president of The College of William and Mary, Elizabeth Blair became the second wife of John Bolling, Jr., in 1728. Nineteen […]
Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk
DEDICATION. To Brigadier General H. Atkinson: SIR—The changes of fortune and vicissitudes of war made you my conqueror. When my last resources were exhausted, my warriors worn down with long and toilsome marches, we yielded, […]
Narrative of the Life of Henry Bibb
CHAPTER I. Sketch of my Parentage.—Early separation from my Mother.—Hard Fare.—First Experiments at running away.—Earnest longing for Freedom.—Abhorrent nature of Slavery. I was born May 1815, of a slave mother, in Shelby County, Kentucky, and […]
William Anderson
Ashley National Forest first forest supervisor The thought has been advanced to me that mayhaps some of the experiences of the early Forest Service men that weren't graphically recorded might be of valuable historic interest. […]
The True Story of My Life
THE TRUE STORY OF MY LIFE – CHAPTER I. My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. If, when I was a boy, and went forth into the world poor and friendless, […]