What was Providence, Rhode Island, like in a the early years? One way to answer this question is to "visit with" some of its first residents. None of their homes exist today, but you can walk in their shoes and imagine why they saw Providence as a refuge for the "distressed of conscience." Read about the original 52 Towne Street (now Main Street) home lot owners in this booklet and in the online Google maps overlay. -- back cover.

Mr. Davidson's history of Wilkinson County takes on added importance owing to the 1852 fire in the county courthouse that destroyed a number of the county's pre-Civil War records. Indeed, the middle quarter of the book includes abstracts of several thousand Wilkinson County marriage records and, to a lesser extent, wills and Civil War muster rolls for Wilkinson County. The balance of the work is almost evenly divided between a narrative history of the county and genealogical and biographical essays treating about 100 Wilkinson County families.

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