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Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.

Philip Peter Visinard was born in Germany in 1684. He married Allena Neff in 1710 and in 1731 he brought his wife and two of his sons to America settling in Pennsylvania. Later his descendants moved to North Carolina and on to Indiana and later further west. Information on many of his descendants who later changed their names to various forms of Whisnsant are included in this book along with some families which can not be positively connected to this family. Several children's lines are followed giving as much information was readily available or submitted. Descendants now live in North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, and elsewhere throughout the United States.

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William Reed, son of Nathaniel Reed, was born in 1756 in North Carolina. He married Frances Robins about 1777 in Randolph County, North Carolina and they had 13 children. William died in Gilmer County, Georgia on 9 July 1840. Frances also died in Gilmer County on 7 June 1836. Their children and descendants have lived in Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, Mississippi, and other areas in the United States.

Long out of print and found only in rare-book stores, it is now available to a contemporary audience with this new paperback edition. When slavery was abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation, there were slaves in every county of the state, and almost half the population was directly involved in slavery as either a slave, a slaveowner, or a member of an owner’s family. Orville Taylor traces the growth of slavery from John Law’s colony in the early eighteenth century through the French and Spanish colonial period, territorial and statehood days, to the beginning of the Civil War. He describes the various facets of the institution, including the slave trade, work and overseers, health and medical treatment, food, clothing, housing, marriage, discipline, and free blacks and manumission. While drawing on unpublished material as appropriate, the book is, to a great extent, based on original, often previously unpublished, sources. Valuable to libraries, historians in several areas of concentration, and the general reader, it gives due recognition to the signficant place slavery occupied in the life and economy of antebellum Arkansas.