Andrew Gallup is the editor of Memoir of a French and Indian War Soldier, and co-author, with Donald Shaffer, of La Marine: The French Colonial Soldier in Canada, 1745-1761. Anyone interested in North American colonial history and/or Native American cultural history will appreciate the importance of this volume. The maps show the locations of French forts in western Pennsylvania, and the routes Céloron followed from Montreal to Lake Chautauqua, and Lake Chautauqua to Pickawillany. Additions to this new edition include an introduction, annotations, maps and an index of names, places and events. These journals, published over seventy-five years ago in The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications, Volume XXIX (1920), have not been readily accessible to the public. Taken togethez the two reports give an excellent snapshot of the Ohio country just prior to the final French and Indian War. Bonnecamps detailed the flora, fauna and other aspects of natural science, as well as activities of the expedition. Céloron wrote of how he dealt with the Native Americans and otherwise conducted his assignment. This book contains the reports of Céloron, the expedition?s commander, and the Jesuit priest, Father Bonnecamps. The French sent Captain PierreJoseph Céloron de Blainville with a large force to show the flag and compel the English traders to leave. France was pressured to take action as English traders became dominant in the disputed Ohio territory. The limited interest in this trek has often centered on the lead plates that the French buried along the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers. Few Americans have heard of the 1749 French expedition into western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio, known as the Céleron Expedition. 2011, Maps, Source Material, Biblio., Index, 1167 pp. The two sections, "The Memoir of Major Thomas Young," and "Loyalist List: Petition to Lord Germain, dated 19 April 1782," are two hard-to-find resources that will be of great use to those researching the Young family lines." -SUTRO LIBRARY, San Francisco, California (May 2011). The extensive family listings are made even more valuable by the inclusion of maps, the list of sources (all clearly indicated in each entry,) and the index. "This is an excellent example of genealogical research. The surnames of some of the related or allied families in these two-volumes include: Abernathy, Baker, Brooks, Brown, Clark, Cook, Davis, East, English, Golightly, Harwell, Holley, Johnson, Jones, Kyle, Martin, Minatra, Mitchell, Moore, Robertson, Rogers, Sanders, Smith, Taylor, Tenery, Thompson, Walker, Watson, White, Willeford, Williams, Williamson, Wilson, Worsham and Young. Supplementing the genealogical biographies, the author has included, The Memoir of Major Thomas Young (1764-1848), which primarily focuses on Major Young's exploits during the Revolutionary War and a transcription of the Petition to Lord Germain, dated 19 April 1782, which contains the names of those who signed the document and a list of approximately 300 Loyalists Casualties who were "murdered" by the Wigs during the Revolutionary War. A list of the contributing counties is included. To give the researcher a sense of the scale of this effort, there are currently in excess of 3,000 counties in the United States of which 779 have contributed source material to this work. Source material, both private and public, include Vital Records (birth, death, marriage records) Cemetery and Gravestone Records Baptismal and Christening Records Bible Records Census Records Guardian Records Jail and Prison Records Information from Immediate Family Military Records Newspapers Will, Probate, and Estate Records Ship Passenger Lists and Port Arrival Information Tax Records Voter Registration Records Court Records Land and Property Records and much more. Young draws upon an abundance of reference material in developing the individual narratives, and drafts his conclusions in clear and succinct biographies. It contains approximately 10,000 biographies of the original 16 early Young pioneers of pre-1850 Giles and neighboring counties, and their descendants. The Young Families of Early Giles County, Tennessee is a well-written, comprehensive, impeccably researched body of work, providing, in many instances, documentation of family lines down to the present day progeny. has more than quadrupled, and source material has increased exponentially, which now necessitates a two-volume printing for the more than 1,150 pages. With the publication of this Second Edition, the number of major contributors. 1197 2011 J-Y1229 2011 It has been more than 25 years since the 1986 First Edition of this work was published.
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