Early Western Augusta Pioneers

Early Western Augusta Pioneers
ISBN-10
0806345225
ISBN-13
9780806345222
Category
Reference
Pages
496
Language
English
Published
2009-06-01
Publisher
Genealogical Publishing Com
Authors
Cleek, George Washington Cleek

Description

From its establishment in 1745, Augusta County, Virginia served as a haven for Scotch-Irish, German, and, to a lesser extent, English immigrants who failed to find economic opportunity or religious freedom in the colonial settlements along the Middle Atlantic coastline. This little known but important work contains detailed genealogies of the twenty families mentioned in the title of the work, who settled in that region of "old western Augusta" that today encompasses Bath and Highland counties, Virginia. In addition to the family histories, the compiler has provided introductory chapters on the history of German and Scotch-Irish settlement to the region; a table of family members who fought in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil Wars, and a full name index with approximately 10,000 entries.

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