| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Virginia settlers and English adventurers: abstracts of wills, 1484-1798, and legal proceedings, 1560-1700, relating to early Virginia families. With an added pref. to the American ed
| | | | Alt. Title: | English adventurers and Virginian settlers
| | | | Creator: | Currer-Briggs, Noel. | | | | Publication: | Genealogical Pub. Co, Baltimore,1970 [c1969] | | | | Notes: | Published in 1969 under title: English adventurers and Virginian settlers. | | | | Call #: | F16F C976V 1970 | | | | Extent: | 3 v. in 1. (xxiii, 837 p.) 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Wills -- Virginia | Court records -- Virginia | Frontier and pioneer life -- Virginia
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Logan, the last of the race of Shikellemus, chief of the Cayuga nation: a dramatic piece; to which is added, the dialogue of the backwoodsman and the dandy, first recited at the Buffaloe seminary, July the 1st, 1821
| | | | Creator: | Doddridge, Joseph, 1769-1826 | | | | Publication: | R. Clarke & Co, Cincinnati,1868. | | | | Notes: | Includes reproduction of t.-p. of original edition, Buffaloe Creek, Brooke County, Va., 1823. | | | | Call #: | E87 L831D | | | | Extent: | 76 p. ; 25 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Logan, James, -- d. 1780 | Frontier and pioneer life -- Virginia | Ohio imprints 1868
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Cavaliers and pioneers: abstracts of Virginia land patents and grants, 1623-1800
| | | | Creator: | Nugent, Nell Marion. | | | | | Virginia State Library | | | | | Virginia Genealogical Society | | | | Publication: | Press of the Dietz Print Co, Richmond,1934-1999. | | | | Notes: | Vol. 2-3 published by the Virginia State Library, lack ed. statement and dates in subtitle; v. 4-7 published by the Virginia Genealogical Society. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. | | | | Call #: | F16D N967 | | | | Extent: | 7 v. illus., col. maps, col. coat of arms, facsims. 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Land grants -- Virginia | Frontier and pioneer life -- Virginia | Virginia -- Genealogy
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | The captives of Abb's Valley: a legend of frontier life
| | | | Creator: | Brown, James Moore, 1799-1862 | | | | Publication: | Presbyterian Board of Publication, Philadelphia,c 1854 | | | | Notes: | Copyright date on verso of t.p. Another edition, without imprint date (vii, 9-169 p.) has 10 additional lines of text, and the copyright date on mounted slip. | | | | Call #: | B 6003 | | | | Extent: | vii, 168 p., [3] p. of plates : ill., ; 16 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Brown, Mary Moore, -- d. 1824 | Indians of North America -- Captivities | Frontier and pioneer life -- Virginia | Abb's Valley (Va.)
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | Bound away: Virginia and the westward movement
| | | | Creator: | Fischer, David Hackett, 1935- | | | | | Kelly, James C., 1949- | | | | | Virginia Historical Society | | | | Publication: | University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville,2000. | | | | Notes: | "This book began as a catalog for an exhibition, at the Virginia Historical Society, to mark the centenary of Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis on 'the significance of the frontier in American history'"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-340) and index. | | | | Call #: | F16DA F529 | | | | Extent: | xvi, 366 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Migration, Internal -- Virginia -- History | Migration, Internal -- United States -- History | Frontier thesis | Frontier and pioneer life -- Virginia | Frontier and pioneer life -- United States | Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Virginia -- History -- 1775-1865 | Virginia -- Population -- History | United States -- Territorial expansion -- History
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