Descendants of Adam Spach

Descendants of Adam Spach
Author: Adelaide Lisetta Fries
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1924
Genre: Forsyth County (N.C.)
ISBN:

Adam Spach was born in 1720 at Pfaffenhofen, Alsace, Germany. He and his father immigrated to America in 1733. When they reached America, he was bound out for six years to pay part of the passage. At the end of the six years he settled at Manakosy, Maryland. He married Maria Elisabeth Hueter in 1752, at Frederickstown, Maryland. They had nine children, 1753-1771. They moved to North Carolina in 1753 and settled near Wachovia, North Carolina. He died at Friedberg, North Carolina, in 1801.

An Index of the Source Records of Maryland

An Index of the Source Records of Maryland
Author: Eleanor Phillips Passano
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 506
Release: 1967
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780806302713

The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records in which they appear. In addition, there is a research record guide arranged by county and type of record, and it identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist up to 1940, when this book was first published. Included are church and county courthouse records, deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, and other data sources.

Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
Author: William S. Powell
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2000-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807867004

The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.

Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America

Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America
Author: Annette K. Burgert
Publisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore
Total Pages: 732
Release: 1992
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Each family group record in this impressive volume includes the name(s) of the immigrant(s), ship arrival data, European villages of origin (including earlier Swiss residences where given), data on each family from the European church registers, as well as information on many of the 628 families after their arrival in America. (690pp. illus. index. hardcover. Author, 1992.)