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From: TCozz57795 <>
Subject: Harkey/Barringer Possible Reference Material
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:29:37 EST


Sorry for all the reading but, does anyone have access to one or more of these
books? Thanks for reading, Tom.

4850. (CENSUS). STATE CENSUS OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1784-1787. By Alvaretta K.
Register. 2nd ed. 233 pp., indexed. (1971), repr. Balto., 1993. $20.00
Compiled from original records in the North Carolina Department of Archives
and History, this work lists 14,000 heads of households and provides an
enumeration of individuals in each household by age, sex, and race. In
addition, individuals named are listed under a reference to the original
census page, thus furnishing the researcher with a key to the manuscript
records. Based on a special state enumeration, this 1784-87 census names many
individuals who had left North Carolina by the time of the first federal
census of 1790.

1025. MARRIAGE RECORDS, North and South Carolina, From the Earliest Colonial
Days to the Civil War. Comp. by William M. Clemens. 295 pp. (1927), repr.
Balto., 1995. $25.00
Almost 7,500 marriages are listed, the arrangement being alphabetical by
surname, and this includes the maiden names of the brides. For each is given
the full date and the place where the wedding took place.
5740. EMIGRANTS TO PENNSYLVANIA, 1641-1819. A Consolidation of Ship Passenger
Lists from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Ed. by Michael
Tepper. 302 pp., indexed (1975), repr. Balto. 1992. $20.00

Collection of ship passenger lists from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History
and Biography...places origin, occup[ations, wives and children, dates of
arriva. Ranges from brief name lists to full-blown articles. Approximately
6,000 immigrants, mainly British and German
5045. GERMAN, SWISS, DUTCH, FRENCH and Other Immigrants to Pennsylvania from
1727 to 1776, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of. By I.
Daniel Rupp. 583 pp., illus., indexed. (1876, 1931), repr. Balto., 1994.
$30.00
The body of this work consists of 319 ship passenger lists, with the name of
the ship and its origin, arranged by date of arrival. Also included is a
listing of over a thousand settlers who came to Pennsylvania from other
states. There is an index of ships and an eighty-four page index of surnames.

5615. LUTHERAN Baptisms and Marriages, Early, In Southeastern Pennsylvania. By
John C. Stoever. 107 pp., indexed. (1896), repr. Balto., 1988. Temporarily out
of print.
John Casper Stoever, one of the first clergymen to serve early Pennsylvania-
German settlers, had a ministry in southeastern Pennsylvania for fifty years.
He kept a record of the baptisms and marriages he performed in his missionary
travels, and these were done from 1730 to 1779. These records were translated
into English and published in book form in 1896, but that edition, unlike
this, had no index. This book has two sections, one of baptismal records and
the other of marriage records, both arranged chronologically. Typically the
baptisms give the location, the child's name, the parents' names (usually the
father), the dates of birth and baptism, and the names of the sponsors. The
marriage records give the names of the newly-weds, the marriage date, and the
town or county of residence. There are at least 6,000 persons mentioned in
this work.

1835. PENNSYLVANIA BIRTHS, 1675-1875, Early. By Charles A. Fisher. 107 pp.,
wrappers. (1947), repr. Balto., 1996. $9.00
Although the actual coverage of this magnificent collection of birth records
is confined principally to the counties of Berks, Northumberland, Snyder, and
Union, it does, in instancing several thousand births from eastern and
southeastern Pennsylvania and the middle and southern sections of the
Susquehanna Valley, encompass a significant portion of the state of
Pennsylvania. The text is arranged alphabetically in each of the several
sections by the surname of the principal subject. As a general rule data given
include the name of the child, date of the birth or baptism, names of the
parents, and names of sponsors (often relatives). By any conservative estimate
at least 10,000 persons are mentioned in the text.

4564. PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN Church Records, Births, Baptisms, Marriages,
Burials, Etc. With an Intro. by Don Yoder. 3 vols. 2,371 pp., illus., indexed.
Balto., 1983. The set: $135.00 Per vol.: $45.00

Here in three volumes the genealogist has access to all of the church records
ever published in the Proceedings and Addresses of the Pennsylvania German
Society. These records are indispensable to anyone interested in Pennsylvania-
German origins, but until now they have been almost impossible to locate as
few libraries have a complete file of this scarce serial publication. From the
beginning the Society showed an interest in publishing the earliest-known
records of the German Reformed and Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Pennsylvania. With Vol. III (1893) it began the task of putting such records
into print. Church records were deemed then to be the backbone of
Pennsylvania-German genealogy, and nothing has happened to change that idea.
Before the Society wound up its project, it had succeeded in publishing the
records of a great many key churches in southeastern Pennsylvania--Lancaster,
York, Lehigh, Montgomery, and Northampton--the heartland of Pennsylvania-
German country. In these three volumes are births, baptisms, marriages and
burials, the records that identify people and their relationships to one
another--not only parents and children, husbands and wives, but witnesses and
sponsors as well. A staggering 125,000 persons are mentioned in these records,
and every one of them is cited in the new indexes, which have been
painstakingly compiled especially for this publication. The records themselves
answer the usual who, where and when questions, but because of their
magnitude, because of the vast number of people who figure in these records,
they must now be accounted, in the aggregate, as the very basis of
Pennsylvania-German genealogy. (For a complete list of the contents write the
publisher.)

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