The 1774 Berkeley County Tithable List included in this publication has been virtually unknown to historians and genealogists in the past since it was safely tucked away in the James Wood Collection in the Handley Regional Library in Winchester Virginia.

The 1774 List of Tithables and Wheel Carriages in Berkeley County, Virginia

History

William H. Rice

Americas

McClain Printing Company

In the 17 July 1889 issue of the Cumberland Daily Times the writer of an article about Elkins, West Virginia, refers to it as The magic city of the wilderness . That phrase accurately describes the sentiments of many people during the summer of 1889 as the City of Elkins began to emerge like a bright star rising on the horizon. The livelihoods of thousands of laborers employed in building the railroads and running the industries that would fuel the development of the new city also depended on its success. And hundreds of families from throughout the region were headed for Elkins to stake their claims and establish their homes in a city which they believed had an exciting future. This book hopes to capture that moment by bringing together a large amount of information that relates to Elkins, West Virginia, during the summer of 1889.

Elkins, West Virginia 1889 The Magic City of the Wilderness

The history of the Upper Potomac has been a rich one.The Colonial Period, however, has been somewhat neglected, primarily because the earliest records that relate to the Upper Potomac are not easily accessible.Volume I of Colonial Records of the Upper Potomac. . . is concerned with those records that provide information about this region from the earliest written sources in the 1600s up through 1744. It is a collection of documents and abstracts of records from a wide range of sources. This volume includes documented information on Silver Mines on the Potomac, the Shawnee's underground railroad, a trading post and horse race on the Potomac, as well as documents and maps throughout its 200 pages.

Colonial Records of the Upper Potomac Volume I From a Native American Wilderness to 1744

Since the Civil War patriotic Americans have been told that our nation has continued to enjoy the freedom and independence that was fought for and won during the American Revolution. However, a closer examination of the facts as presented in this book tells a different story. During the thirty years before the Civil War the North had been steadily losing its independence from England by borrowing substantial amounts of money from British banks that had to be paid back with interest, by seeking English political advice especially with regard to ending slavery in the Southern States, by developing an economy based on English capitalism and, like the English, becoming more expansionist and more comfortable with increasing the size and centralization of their government.  Meanwhile, the South, dominated by the larger and faster growing North, felt its independence slipping away so they chose to become independent of the North by forming a new nation called the Confederate States of America. When that nation was defeated in 1865 the U.S. Independence proclaimed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence in 1776 essentially ended.

The Mortgage of America: The Early End of U.S. Independence

Volume Three of Colonial Records of the Upper Potomac is, for the most part, a continuation of Volume One and Two. Volume Three, however, has more surveys and land records. It includes 171 plats of pre-French and Indian War surveys on 23 maps. The early histories of each of the platted surveys accompany the maps. Copies of 43 original documents are included in the chronology in Volume Three. Volume Three is the culmination of 44 years of historical research by the author.

Colonial Records of the Upper Potomac Volume Three 1748-1750, Settlement Expansion

Volume four of Colonial Records of the Upper Potomac includes over 500 surveys and land entries in the Upper Potomac region that were dated prior to 1757. Nearly 400 of the surveys have been platted and are shown on one of the 59 maps found in this volume. They cover a wide area in part or all of ten counties in three states including Allegany and Washington counties in Maryland; Morgan, Hampshire, Mineral, Tucker, Hardy, Grant and Pendleton counties of West Virginia; and Highland County in Virginia. In many cases the plats of these surveys will help determine where people lived and who their neighbors were, a valuable genealogical clue to possible marriages and relationships.

Colonial Records of the Upper Potomac Volume Four

Colonial Records of the Upper Potomac A Path to Destruction is the fifth in a series of reference sources and a tool for historians and genealogists to gain insight about a particular family or event within an area and period of time for which few conventional sources have survived. Wives and children, servants and slaves and Indians were usually not mentioned in available records but references to them are included whenever possible. Chances are good that heads of household in the region before the French and Indian War should be found in at least one of the five volumes. References to documents and people that appear to be outside of the region are included when they appear to have some association with the Upper Potomac area. Lawsuits involving people in debt or accused of a crime are included because these cases also have plaintiffs and witnesses and often contribute interesting incidental information.

Colonial Records of the Upper Potomac -- Volume V

Volume Six completes the Colonial Records of the Upper Potomac series. The series is made up of 1,200 pages of abstracts from several thousand documents which relate directly or indirectly to the people and events of the Upper Potomac watershed prior to 1761.

Colonial Records of the Upper Potomac -- The French and Indian War and Frontier Devastation 1755-1761

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