Deed and will books typically contain records of land transactions plus leases, mortgages, bills of sale, slave manumissions, powers of attorney, estate settlements, and more. Deed and will books are a main staple in genealogy research to determine family relationships. This volume contains entries from (old) Rappahannock County Part 1, 1656-1664 beginning on page 1 and ending on page 180, February 4, 1656 through July 1, 1662. Originally published in 1989. Reprinted 2016.

Deed and will books typically contain records of land transactions plus leases, mortgages, bills of sale, slave manumissions, powers of attorney, estate settlements, and more. Deed and will books are a main staple in genealogy research to determine family relationships. This volume contains entries from (old) Rappahannock County Part II, 1656-1664. Records, Deeds, Wills and Settlements of estates, July 3, 1662 through May 3, 1665. Originally published in 1989. Reprinted 2016.

It is one thing to draw a line in the sand but another to enforce it. In this innovative new work, Jessica Lauren Taylor follows the Native peoples and the newcomers who built and crossed emerging boundaries surrounding Indigenous towns and developing English plantations in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake Bay. In a riverine landscape defined by connection, Algonquians had cultivated ties to one another and into the continent for centuries. As Taylor finds, their networks continued to define the watery Chesapeake landscape, even as Virginia and Maryland’s planters erected fences and forts, policed unfree laborers, and dispatched land surveyors. By chronicling English and Algonquian attempts to move along paths and rivers and to enforce boundaries, Taylor casts a new light on pivotal moments in Anglo-Indigenous relations, from the growth of the fur trade to Bacon’s Rebellion. Most important, Taylor traces the ways in which the peoples resisting colonial encroachment and subjugation used Native networks and Indigenous knowledge of the Bay to cross newly created English boundaries. She thereby illuminates alternate visions of power, freedom, and connection in the colonial Chesapeake.

Collection of genealogical data about Cresswell - Crisswell individuals and families, located in most states east of the Mississippi River and in Texas. Includes genealogical data about Cresswell - Crisswell individuals and families in Canada, England, Ireland and elsewhere.