Book Reviews

Book Reviews Valley Forge . In Search of that Winter Patriot, .19 December 1777-19 June 1778. By Ramona Cameron Worley. Illustrated by Agnes Barter Cameron Siglinger. (The National Society Sons of the American Revolution, 1000 South 4th Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40203, 1979) paperbound 125 p. $10.00. Designed as a comprehensive guide for tracing Valley Forge Ancestors. Mrs. Worley, Illinois State Registrar of the DAR, has used her own experience in searching for Revolutionary ancestors in an effort to aid others in their search. She gives great credit to John B. B. Trussell's book Birthplace of An American Army . A Study of the Valley Forge Encampment. Included are examples of Returns of the Continental Army; Muster Rolls; Pension Applications and Pensions. Their availability and uses are explained. Instructions are given as to the use of the National Archives materials and DAR records. Intermingled with these instructions are personal records of problems encountered in her own research. Listings for each of the thirteen original states include information on the state regiments at Valley Forge and bibliographies for each state. She has included a great deal of background material to inform the searcher of the particular problems with the records of the individual states. For the inexperienced researcher in military records this should be of great value and make the search easier. Ancestral Register: The National Society of Colonial Dames in the Stale of New York. (National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York, 215 East 71st Street, New York, New York 10021, 1979) paperbound n, p. $5.00. An up-to-date eligibility list for the society, giving the services of each person, his dates, and the name of his wife. A helpful addition is a list of men in New York who may not be used without more research to prove loyalty, date of arrival, service or definitive identification of the man with the service. Bible Records in Museums & Libraries of Iowa. Volume III. Compiled by jo Ann Burgess & Rita Goranson. (Family Researchers, 115 Lakeview Drive, Mason City, Iowa 50401. 1978) 41 p. index. paperbound. $5.95. index only $1.00. This volume contains records now on file in the State Historical Society of Iowa Library. These are nineteenth century Bible records that appear to have been abstracted carefully and include other items attached to the records. 379 380 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Guide To The Parish and Non-Parochial Registers of Devon and Cornwall 1538- 1837. Compiled by Hugh Pcskett. (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, 7 The Close, Exeter, England EX4 4Q1-1 1979) maps. 258 p. £5. "There were in Devon and Cornwall before 1837 some seven hundred Anglican parishes and chapelries keeping registers of baptism, marriage and burial; congregations of other denominations bring the total to well over one thousand. The purpose of this guide is to give an account of what registers exist, and where they are to be found, together with the numerous transcripts, copies, and indexes." This statement is the beginning of Mr. Peskett's introduction to the Guide. In great detail he evaluates the registers, gives the religious history of the times and deals with record keeping by the different denominations. Part I deals with Anglican parish registers, and part II the non-parochial registers of the churches other than Anglican. Each individual parish listing has the location and covering dates of the parish records. In many cases alias place names, details of modern parishes and other relevant notes and comments are provided. A more than adequate number of maps are used to show the locations of parishes, and areas of the non-parochial churches. Families in 1850 of Clay, Nicholas, and Webster Counties, West Virginia. (The 1830 Census of Nicholas County, Virginia) By John W. Bobbitt. C. 20037 (John W. Bobbin, 2502 Eye Street, NEW., Washington, 1980) index. 77 p. paperbound. $8.00. a This is a complete transcription of the 1850 census for Nicholas County, Virginia. Every person enumerated in this particular census is to be found in the index of 3,890 persons. The original census record numbered 602 families. Daniel Carroll II: One Man and His Descendants 17304978. By Sister M. Virginia Geiger. (Sr. Virginia Geiger, Ph.D., College of Notre Dame of Maryland, 4701 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21210. 1979.) Illustrations. Charts. Index. 314 p. paperbound. $21.00. Daniel Carroll II served the state of Maryland and the nation for almost twenty years, 1777-1795. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a member of the House of Representatives. The son of Daniel and Eleanor (Darnall) Carroll, he was born in 1730, at the Carroll Manor in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland. The son of a wealthy merchant, he was a member of the aristocratic class of Maryland Catholics. Upon his father's death in 1751, Daniel II inherited the responsibility for the family business. A year later he married "a very distant relation," Eleanor Carroll, heiress to Cerne Abbey, England. Their descendants derive from an only son, Daniel III, who married Elizabeth Digger. The book contains charts to show the relationship of the three famous Carroll lines and narratives relating to one hundred and twenty families, among these Book Reviews 381 are: Bache, Boone, Boyce, Brent, Carter, Christmas, Darnall, Denison, Digges, Ellicott, Horsey, Jayne, Kirtland, Laughlin, Lee, Macgill, Merryman, O'Donnell, Scull, Shipley, Shriver, Tweeddale, Twohy, Walker and White. Sister Geiger's "Narratives" of these families are full of interesting background material and are not limited to the family members with a Carroll connection. This genealogy is an outgrowth of Sister Geiger's doctoral dissertation Daniel Carroll, Framer of the Constitution (Catholic University Press, 1943) when she began to ponder the questions: who were the descendants of Daniel Carroll II? And where are his living descendants today? She has answered these questions with this book in a most scholarly, but highly readable fashion. Even without any particular interest in the family one becomes fascinated with these people, their lives and accomplishments. The Family of John Massie 1743-ca.1830: Revolutionary Patriot of Louisa County, Virginia. By Mavis Parrott Kelsey, M.D. and Mary Wilson Kelsey. (2 Longbow Lane, Houston, Texas 77024, 1979) index. 241 p. paperbound. $35.00. hardbound. $40.00. Dr. Kelsey and his wife started their genealogical explorations over ten years ago, in an effort to trace their ancestors back to the American Revolution. He knew that his Massie family had lived in Texas for four generations, and had come from Virginia, by way of Kentucky. John Massie, of Revolutionary service, had one son George Massie. He was the father of three Massies who settled in Pembroke district, between Christian and Todd counties in western Kentucky shortly after the War of 1812. These Massies were slave holding planters, and at the outbreak of the Civil War joined the Confederate Army. The war stripped them of their wealth. Probably because of this many of this family migrated to Texas in the 1870's. They settled in Parker County, in the Long Creek Community just west of Fort Worth. Other families covered in this book are: Bullock, Butler, Christmas, Carnohan, Carpenter, Dickinson, Goodwin, Gunter, Hiter, Hogan, Holland, Kelsey, Leadbetter, Matthews, Martin, Maynard, Penick, Reynolds, Swift, Terrell, Timberlake, Thornhill, Watkins, Winston, Woolfolk, and Wright. The Appendix includes copies of documents relating to the Massie families. Keith Kinfolks.- Descendants of James Keith, Sr. from 1720 to 1979. By Larry King. (100 Longview Drive, Longview Acres, Hendersonville, Tennessee 37075. 1979) Illustrated. Index. 363 p. hardbound, $25.00. The first Keith came from Scotland to Virginia, where he settled in Montgomery County, now Floyd County. Mr. King has followed the descendants of this man for eleven generations, numbering over 4,000. Among those treated extensively in the book are the families of: Alderman, Bishop, Bolt, Brown, Bruce, Buckner, Chapman, Cole, Daily, Dorsey, Duncan, Eanes, Fitzwater, Gearhart, Grayson, Harman, Harris, Holcomb, Howell, 382 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Hylton, Jarvis, Jeffers, Kincaid, King, Kirby, Knowles, Legg, Logan, Loving, Lunsford, Moles, Moody, Morris, Moseley, Motley, McGaughey, Neal, Patterson, Philips, Poff, Pratt, Osborne, Owens, Quarles, Ramsey, Reed, Rollins, Rountree, Rucker, Semones, Shipman, Slaughter, Slasher, Smith, Sowers, Spence, Sprinkle, Sutphin, Taylor, Tilson, Turman, Weddie, Weeks, Whalen, Williams, Wingate, Woodruff and Woods. The numbering system used here is unusual, but when used in conjunction with the index it works very well. A most interesting feature, is the inclusion of over one thousand photographs of the Keith kinfolk. These begin with the third generation, so many are of an early vintage; they are delightful. Mr. King plans to write other Keith family histories, and would like to hear from all interested Keith descendants. Boggs Newsletter. Edited by Alice C. Grady (4 Mitchell Road, Stow, Massachusetts 01775) Vols. I-IV. paper. 37 p. $3.00 each. subscription for 4 issues, $10.00. To date thirteen issues of this newsletter have been printed. They are replete with genealogy, census records, tax lists, church records and biographies. A review of the general contents of the eight received follows. Vol. I. no. 1. James L. Boggs line of North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky. Vol. IL no, 2. Boggs families of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, Accomack County, Virginia, Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina, Texas and Kentucky. William Boggs-Jane Steen line. Vol. II. No. 3. South Carolina, Aaron Boggs line. Pennsylvania, James & Martha Boggs line. West Virginia, Ezekiel Boggs-Jane Johnson line. Boggs families of Kentucky, Mississippi, Oregon and Missouri. Vol. II, no. 4. Bible records for Boggs-Graham, Boggs-Willis. Lines of Francis Boggs-Jane Morrison Campbell, George Hendricks-Catherine Boggs, William Boggs bane Steen. Charts for Cook-Boggs. Boggs families of California, Indiani, Iowa, Missouri and Oregon. Vol. III. no. 1. Benjamin E. Boggs of Lehigh and Crawford counties, Penn.sylvania. William Boggs-Jane Steen line. Francis Boggs-Jane Morrison Campbell line. James L. Boggs line. South Carolina corrections. Boggs families of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island, Virginia, Ohio and Maine. Vol. III. no. 3 Andrew Boggs-Margery Harris line. Captain John Boggs line. Boggs families of Ohio, Oregon, Maine, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Iowa, South Carolina and Georgia. Vol. III. no. 4. Boggs families in Ireland. Alcy Boggs' will. William BoggsSusannah Mohr line. Francis Boggs of Chester County, Pennsylvania line. James L. Boggs line. Vol. IV. no. 1. North Carolina Boggs records. Aaron Boggs of North Carolina. James Boggs of Ireland. Additions to lines printed. 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