Author: Virginia Genealogical Society
Publisher: Heritage Books Inc.
Keywords: virginia, council, research, cooperative, organization, university, transportation, permission, county, road, orders, published, augusta
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0788436686
ISBN-13: 9780788436680

Augusta County [Virginia] Road Orders, 1745-1769. Published With Permission from the Virginia Transportation Research Council (A Cooperative Organization Sponsored Jointly by the Virginia Department of Transportation and the University of Virginia). Virginia Genealogical Society. (1998, 2003), 2005, 8½x11, paper, comb-binding, index, 282 pp. The establishment and maintenance of public roads were among the most important functions of the county court during the colonial period in Virginia. Each road was opened and maintained by an overseer (or surveyor) of the highways, who was appointed each

Author: Patrick G. Wardell
Publisher: Heritage Books Inc.
Keywords: virginia, data, revolutionary, west, genealogical, volume, nabors, rymer, records, pension, war, bounty, land, warrant
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0788401068
ISBN-13: 9780788401060

Virginia & West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension & Bounty Land Warrant Records. Patrick G. Wardell. Genealogical data pertaining to Virginians and West Virginians who served in the Revolutionary War as derived from National Archiv

Author: Virginia G. Pedigo
Publisher: Clearfield
Keywords: virginia, counties, henry, patrick, history
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1990
List price: $38.50
ISBN-10: 0806380101
ISBN-13: 9780806380100

After an illuminating account of the history of Patrick and Henry counties, which occupies the first third of the book, the authors turn their attention to genealogy, providing authoritative histories of no fewer than 110 families. The book also contains transcriptions of important genealogical source materials.

Author: John W. Wayland
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Keywords: virginia, county, related, regions, rockingham, historical, valley, records, genealogical, materials
Number of Pages: 491
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0806303727
ISBN-13: 9780806303727

This volume is largely a sourcebook of genealogical and historical materials compiled from public records of the counties of Rockingham, Augusta, Greenbrier, Wythe, and Montgomery. Contents include Rockingham Marriages, 1795-1825; Rockingham Landowners, 1789; Augusta County Church Records, 1756-1844; Men in Service Against the Indians, 1774; Rockingham Militia, 1788; Early Settlers in East Rockingham; Extracts from Augusta Court Records; and Rockingham Wills. The book also includes sketches of a number of families in the area, among them Bowman, Cassell, Connelly, Craig, Custer, Harnsberger, H

Authors:Virginia W. Friesen, Virginia Lyons Friesen,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: utopias, american, north, companion, palgrave
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-04-03
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 1403963991
ISBN-13: 9781403963994

What is utopia? Why are communes created? Where are they, and what do they promote? The Palgrave Companion to North American Utopias is a fascinating catalog of utopian societies and communes from past to present. From the Shakers to the Mormons to the Raelians and the Hutterites, the quest for a utopian lifestyle has been a human endeavor since the beginning of time. In this intriguing guide, North American utopian communities are explored by John and Virginia Friesen with a view to a new social system for the twenty-first century. The authors assert that the formation of a utopian society is

Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: special, editions, wordsworth, woolf, works, virginia, selected
Number of Pages: 1024
Published: 2005-08-05
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1840220589
ISBN-13: 9781840220582

The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf’s novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives reveal the characters of the central protagonists. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf’s novels. Based on her early experiences, it touches on childhood and children’s

Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: woolf, second, virginia, fiction, shorter, complete
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1989-06-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0156212501
ISBN-13: 9780156212502

Woolf continually used stories and sketches to experiment with narrative models and themes for her novels. This collection of nearly fifty pieces brings together the contents of two published volumes, A Haunted House and Mrs. Dalloway’s Party; a number of uncollected stories; and several previously unpublished pieces. Edited and with an Introduction by Susan Dick.