Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky
Written By: Otis K. Rice, Stephen W. Brown

This newly-released narrative is a 264-page written and pictorial history of the Parsonses who came from England and immigrated to what eventually became known as Tucker County, West Virginia. It begins with Thomas Parsons, Sr. and progresses to Worley Parsons who descended from two of Parsons' sons, Thomas and James. In 1762, Captain James Parsons was captured by Indians and carried to Ohio ...

Manufacturer: McClain Printing Company
Written By: Darlene Irvin Parsons

This vast work comprehends the first explorations, settlements, and Indian wars, as well as notes, anecdotes, and biographies of the Border scouts and pioneers, with copious memoranda and remarks concerning the military careers--mostly Revolutionary--of numerous Border settlers. Sown throughout the work are biographical sketches, genealogies, and thumbnail portraits of the early pioneers and ...

Manufacturer: Clearfield Co
Written By: Lucullus Virgil McWhorter

In this collection, noted scholars from several disciplines examine the daily lives of the women and families who settled in Virginia City.

Manufacturer: University of Nevada Press
Written By: Ronald M James, C. Elizabeth Raymond

The minute books of the old Virginia courts herein transcribed cover the District of West Augusta and Yohogania and Ohio counties during the period when Virginia claimed and exercised jurisdiction over what are now the Pennsylvania counties of Washington, Greene, Fayette, Westmoreland, and Allegheny. The minute books contain, in addition to land titles, transcripts of legal instruments of ...

Manufacturer: Clearfield Co
Written By: Boyd Crumrine

Manufacturer: McClain Printing Company
Written By: Russell Lee Davisson

Manufacturer: Colonial Williamsburg Dept of

Describes in detail the life of Charles Snodgrass, a pioneer on the Monongahela River Valley frontier, from 1774 when he served in Lord Dunmore's War until he died in 1808 on Pharoah's Run in Monongalia County, Virginia (now Marion County, West Virginia). Charles had seven children with his first wife: William, James, Jane, Susannah, John, Mary, and Charles, Jr. He married his second wife, Barbara ...

Manufacturer: North Star Books
Written By: Millie Covey Fry

Manufacturer: Mcclain Printing Co
Written By: William Sanders, Darrell McPherson, William Sanders Sr.

The land was called "Virginia" by Sir Walter Raleigh. A region of natural beauty, governed by temperamental weather, the western slopes of the Alleghenies beckoned a sturdy stock of early hunters, explorers, and settlers. This is the story of how those early residents forged a home, a nation, and finally, a state, along these rocky slopes.

Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
Written By: Marie Mollohan