LORD DUNMORE?S LITTLE WAR OF 1774: His Captains And Their Men Who Opened Up Kentucky & The West To American Settlement - Warren Skidmore with Donna Kaminsky. Unique to this volume are the previously unpublished set of ledgers that include 3 broad categories of information: the names of the rangers called out to protect the Virginia frontier in 1773 and 1774 and the pay owed them, the militiamen that served soon after in Dunmore?s War proper, and the sums due the farmers and merchants that put in claims for goods and services that supported this effort. These long lists, taken together, contain about 38,000 entries and caught the many of the men (and their occasional widows) living in western Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania in 1775. We have now a substitute for a kind of census of this time and place. The introduction corrects some popular myths about the war and the Battle of Point Pleasant, and taken together with Reuben Gold Thwaites and Louise Phelps Kellogg?s Documentary History of Dunmore?s War 1774, may be taken as the definitive history of the last colonial war in America. Useful biographies have been footnoted for all of the captains, including those who went (like many of their men) soon after to Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and the west. A portrait of Lord Dunmore in his tartans, an old woodcut depicting the Battle of Point Pleasant, and 2 new maps enhance the text. 2002, 284 pp., 8.5x11, maps, appendices, full name index, cloth."--Amazon.
This genealogy presents six generations of descendants of the English immigrant Thomas Stonestreet. Thomas is believed with some certainty to have been christened at Birchden, Withyham, East Sussex, on July 14, 1630, as the son of Edward Stonstrete. He was transported to America as servant to William Waters and married a fellow servant, Elizabeth Butler, c.1688. By 1668/9, he had received a land grant from Charles Calvert of a 150-acre tobacco plantation in St. Mary's (now Charles) County, which he named Birchden after his English birthplace. He would acquire a great deal more land over the ensuing years conveying Birchden to his eldest son Thomas, and living out his days on a second plantation known as Morris' Help. He died c.1706, having fathered four children, and his will and estate inventory have survived to this day. Thomas Stonestreet's descendants are traced down through the male lines of his two sons, Edward (born c.1673) and Thomas (born c.1682). Each descendant has been assigned an individual reference number and the last recorded descendants bring the family up to the 1850s. This genealogy is enhanced by a series of entries copied from the Bishop's transcripts from Withyham, Sussex, and the parish register of East Grinsted, Sussex, noting Stonstreet births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths, as well as Sussex probates and assizes. Surname variations include Stonstreete, Stonstreat, Stanstreet, Stanstrete, Stanstreete, Stanstret, Stanstrett and Stansted. A full-name index augments the text.
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A long-forgotten event once shattered the community. But that's just the beginning as demonic forces take their toll in this chilling church mystery. In the upscale college town of Newcastle, romance intertwines with the supernatural at St. Barnabas Church where Elliot Buchanan is a new Pastor, and Stacie Jordan is a Professor of Theology at a local university. Together they unravel a mystery that began with a bizarre death fifteen years earlier to one dropped at the very doorstep of their lives. This is a behind-the-scenes look at church life where the devil doesn't take 'no' for an answer.
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