Fayette County Pennsylvania Biographies Genealogy Book

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Fayette County, Pennsylvania Biographies
John M. Gresham and Samuel T. Wiley
Volume of 476 pages. This is a new book with a small problem. Someone has sliced  the back over with a box cutter, otherwise the book is new. Please see the  picture. Below is a description of contents by the publisher.
Fayette County, Pennsylvania Biographies
consists
of no fewer than 500 sketches of Fayette County inhabitants living at the time  of the book's original publication in 1889. The sketches are arranged by city or  township and then alphabetically for each of the following localities:  Brownsville and Bridgeport, Bullskin, Connellsville, Dunbar, Franklin, Georges,  German, Henry Clay, Jefferson, Luzerne, Menallen, Nicholson, Redstone, Salt  Lick, Springfield, Springhill, Stewart, Tyrone, Uniontown, Washington, and  Wharton. While most of the sketches primarily discuss the individual's  education, career, political and religious leanings, etc., they also give, at a  minimum, the subject's date and place of birth, names of parents, name of  spouse(s), date of marriage, names of children, and names of spouse's parents.  In some cases, of course, the genealogical content is much richer, as when a  subject's ancestors had fought in the Revolution or were born abroad. While the  work lacks an index, researchers will find that the detailed table of contents  makes it easy to locate the principal subject of each essay.
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Free Black Heads of Household in The New York State Federal Census
1790-1830
Softbound volume totaling
301
pages. Book is in new condition. Just what you need for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
Published originally in 1981, the work at hand is an alphabetical listing of all free African-American heads of household listed in the five U.S. censuses for the State of New York taken between 1790 and 1830. Since it was during this 40-year period that the New York legislature passed a series of statutes resulting in the gradual emancipation of the state's slave population, the scope of this work documents the emergence of a completely free black population by 1830. In all, there are 15,000 references to freedmen, many of whom appear in more than one census.
A few observations about the arrangement and contents of the volume are in order. The householders are listed by surname in a single alphabetical sequence. Persons for whom a first name but no surname is given in the census are interwoven into the alphabetical arrangement by first name. Accompanying each householder is the census year in question, his/her New York county and township of residence, and a page reference to the original record. While the sources given for the 1800 to 1830 censuses refer to pages found on the microfilm copies of the original census enumeration sheets, the 1790 references correspond to pages in the well known 1908 U.S. Census Bureau publication,
Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790
. Finally, the researcher must bear in mind that many free blacks of this era worked for and resided with white families. Since only heads of household are identified in these censuses, these black servants/boarders cannot be represented in this volume. Nor can the other members of the African-American households-except as one of the statistics attributed to every household.
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