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  • American Settlements and Migrations
    Lloyd de Witt Bockstruck
    This work provides a synopsis of the original settlement and migration patterns throughout the United States. Although the author discusses each of the 50 states, his focus is on the states and territories that were established between the colonial period and the middle of the 19th century. For each state the author examines settlers’ origins, the reasons for settlement, place...
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    28,52 €

  • Name Is the Game
    Lloyd de Witt Bockstruck
    Names, like people, have lives of their own, which is why Lloyd Bockstruck’s new book about the serendipity and life’s choices that can alter our family names is must-reading for every researcher. Mr. Bockstruck, one of America’s foremost genealogists and the former genealogy librarian at the Dallas Public Library, has distilled the wisdom of a lifetime about the vagaries of na...
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    21,05 €

  • Revolutionary War Pensions, Awarded by State Governments 1775-1874, the General and Federal Governments Prior to 1814, and by Private Acts of Congress
    Lloyd de Witt Bockstruck
    This book brings together for the first time all the data from federal and state sources used to reconstruct Revolutionary War pension records. It is an attempt to identify and recreate the Revolutionary War pension files generated prior to the disastrous fire in the War Department on 8 November 1800, which destroyed nearly a quarter-century of records. Despite the best efforts...
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    113,16 €

  • Naval Pensioners of the United States, 1800-1851
    Lloyd de Witt Bockstruck / Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck
    Beginning in 1800, pensions for U.S. naval personnel were awarded on the basis of death or disability during active service. Under various acts of Congress, the number of pensions awarded between 1800 and 1851 grew from 22 in 1802 to 1,228 in 1851. Taking its cue from the ever- increasing number of applicants, this work presents information on some 3,000 seamen and sailors who ...
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    40,44 €

  • Bounty and Donation Land Grants in British Colonial America
    Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck
    From Nova Scotia south to Florida, the British Crown awarded land to approximately 6,500 soldiers and sailors for service in the various colonial wars. Grants of land were generally made on the basis of rank, with veterans from colonies with no vacant lands sometimes taking up land in other colonies; certain Massachusetts soldiers receiving grants of land in Virginia, for examp...
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    62,24 €

  • Denizations and Naturalizations in the British Colonies in America, 1607-1775
    Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck
    Unfortunately, colonial denization and naturalization records can be difficult to find, since their location varies from one colony to another. They may be found at the local jurisdictional level as well as the colonial level, in court minutes, government records, deed books, legislative journals, statutes, private papers of proprietors such as William Penn, and land patents. N...
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    42,11 €

  • Virginia’s Colonial Soldiers
    Lloyd DBockstruck / Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck
    American military history began with the establishment of the Virginia colonial militia in the seventeenth century. Although ill-trained, it was the colony’s only defense against Indian attacks and invasion by hostile powers. The records left are fragmentary and scattered, and it has always been hard to locate them and make them accessible. With the publication of this work tha...
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    50,35 €

  • Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants
    Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck
    After the Revolutionary War, the federal government awarded bounty lands to citizens and soldiers for services rendered. In its simplest form, this involved the exchange of free land for military service. Federal records of these Revolutionary War bounty land awards are well known and readily accessible to genealogists. But the federal government was not alone in rewarding its ...
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    67,28 €