4 LARGE PRINTS of EARLY HAND DRAWN & COLORED PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH FAMILY HISTORIES

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A MATTER OF IDENTITY : FOUR HISTORIC ILLUMINATED FAMILY RECORDS from THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES.
Produced and Printed by the National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C., 1981. Deaccessioned from the American Heritage archive collection.
Four Gorgeous Prints Reproducing Original Hand-Colored / Illuminated Family Histories. Each print measures 14x18”, including the white borders. The prints have a caption in their bottom border. There is also a 14x18” descriptive sheet that accompanies the prints. The 4 prints and the descriptive sheet are housed together in a paper portfolio. The four prints are:
(1) Register of WILLIAM DEGROOT’S FAMILY. Provides Names, Births, Marriages, Deaths, with dates ranging from 1751 (the birth dates of William and Ann Latourrette Degroot) through 1835 (the death of Henry Degroot).
(2) Birth and Baptismal Certificate of JOHANES MILLER of Pennsylvania. Text in Pennsylvania Dutch / German. Dates of 1788 and 1811.
(3) Birth, Baptismal, Confirmation, and Marriage Certificate of JOHANN NICHOLAUS LOTT. Text in Pennsylvania Dutch / German. Dates of 1769 and 1786.
(4) Birth, Baptismal, Confirmation, and Marriage Certificate of MARGARETHA SCHLOSSER SCHWARTZ. Text in Pennsylvania Dutch / German. Dates of 1773 through 1790.
GOOD CONDITION: The Prints and their Portfolio have been folded in half, each now has a folding crease across its center; the prints also have a lighter diagonal crease. The Prints are in otherwise Very Good condition, bright and clear. They would look beautiful mounted and/or framed. The descriptive sheet has some ink underlining and an ink line that marks a paragraph. The portfolio folder has two ink stamps on the front cover that read: AH PAMPHLET FILE (American Heritage Pamphlet File). The portfolio also has some wear to its edges, including some small closed tears, and some light stains and soiling, but is still doing its job well.
As these have been stored folded in half, they will be shipped folded.
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Up for sale is a very interesting volume on the history of Georgia from the founding of the colony until just prior to the Civil War.  It would be of interest to the historian and also to the genealogist.
Title:
The Story of Georgia and the Georgia People 1732 to 1860 (Complete in One Volume)
Author:  George Gillman Smith, DD
Edition:  Second
NOTE:  This is a reprint of the second edition, which was originally published "circa 1901".  This reprint is from 1968.
Publisher:  Genealogical Publishing Company (Baltimore, Maryland)
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number:  68-9359
Hardback book without dust jacket.
About 8.75 inches tall by about 5.75 inches wide.
Pages:  664   (Note:  There are a number of illustrations.  The illustrations are bound in but those pages are not themselves numbered.)
The Table of Contents occupies six pages of small print and therefore is not photographed.  Suffice it to say the coverage appears quite comprehensive.   Near the back are Appendices listing the names of Headright grantees and of Soldiers of the Line.  The volume has a full Index.
George Gillmore Smith, DD was born in 1836, Sheffield, Newton County, Georgia.  He attended Emory College for 8 months in 1855.  (The college would confer the D.D. degree upon him in 1867.)  Beginning in 1857, he served several communities as a Methodist minister.  At the start of the Civil War, Smith joined the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia as a chaplain.  (In the Preface to the Second Edition, he speaks of his admiration for General Robert Toombs, whom he describes as his friend and commanding officer.)  Smith was severely wounded at the Battle of Antietam and was forced to return to Georgia.  After several years he had recovered sufficiently to resume his work as a minister, serving in Maryland and West Virginia, prior to a series of appointments in his home state of Georgia.  In 1888, he retired from active ministry and devoted himself to writing.  He died in 1913.  Some of his books were on the history of Methodism (in the South).  Others concerned specific historical figures (including James Osgood Andrews, George Foster Pierce, and Francis Asbury).  Still others were about the Civil War (e.g. "Boy in Gray").
Please see above for complete description of condition and photos.    Sold as is.
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