Mimeographed typescript genealogy.

This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...command of the city a few days after, while Mr. Peters returned to York in this State, where Congress then held its session. T left, ' says Mr. Peters (in a letter to a friend), 'fifty thousand dollars, to the order of Arnold, for the payment of the clothing and stores. The traitor seized those articles and never paid for them, but converted the greater part of the money to his own use, among others to buy the country seat of Mr. McPherson on the Schuylkill. Col. Pickering and I detected him in ordering stores and provisions out of the public magazines to fit out privateers of his own, and for his extravagant family establishment. An attempt to stop this robbery produced between me and Arnold an open quarrel. I did not conceal, but wrote to headquarters my want of confidence in Arnold. When his traitorous conduct at West Point became public, neither Col. Pickering nor myself were the least surprised at it. He was placed in that command at the solicitous request of some respectable New Yorkers who knew only his military character, which I always deemed overrated far beyond its real merit.' "Mr. Peters' exertions became peculiarly meritorious and useful at the time when General Washington suddenly changed his intended attack on New York to that of Yorktown in Virginia. We all know that this movement closed the war. "DeGrasse, with his fleet, offered to co-operate with the South, provided the American army could be immediately put in motion to act in concert with his fleet. His cruise off the Chesapeake, he said, would be short, and whatever the land forces intended to do must be done quickly. At this crisis there were no battering cannon ready, no means of transporting the army, which lay at Mbrristown in New Jersey, no money in...