The author has abstracted probate records and selected court orders from the county which include items of genealogical interest such as references to the decedent's estates, guardian accounts or bonds, guardians, and persons who were proclaimed tax free. There are over 730 slave listings in this book. A full-name index, which includes the given names all slaves, adds to the value of this work.
Found in a Loudoun chancery suit M2491 these titheables lists were lost for many years. They cover the area above Goose Creek and Little River to the Fauquier County line.
The author has abstracted probate records from the county which include items of genealogical interest such as Inventories, Wills, Estate Accounts, and Estate Sales. There are over 700 slave listings in this book.
Humphry Davy's contemporaries bestowed on him their highest honors. Since Davy's death in 1829, each scholarly generation has accrued info. about him & his colleagues. His startling discoveries of the scientifically novel, his isolation & identification of 7 new elements, & his association of electrical properties & chemical behavior coupled with his fame as a lecturer, made him a popular cultural hero. Others saw him as the man who had made agriculture "scientific." Davy's refusal to profit financially from his invention of the miners' safety lamp endeared him to those humanitarians who idealized scientists as members of an altruistic brotherhood. Here is a readable, thoroughly researched biography of Davy's early life. Illus.
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