Lyman Chalkley's three-volume Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800 (Rosslyn, Va., 1912-1913; reprint, 1965) is a popular reference work that contains abstracts taken from the Augusta County court records. Chalkley's Chronicles may serve as a useful source for leads and to identify original records to consult, but there are many reasons to exercise caution when using it.
Before the publication of the Chronicles, the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which had been approached to become the publisher, commissioned genealogist and historian Thomas Forsythe Nelson to make an analysis of the work. Nelson's detailed evaluation, in which the Society as well as Herbert Putnam, who was then the Librarian of Congress, and historian J. Franklin Jameson all concurred, was that the typescript of Chalkley's abstracts that had been submitted should not be published. Nelson found that the abstracts contained an abundance of transcription errors, erroneous dates, misspelled names, material omissions, and other serious mistakes. He concluded that the abstracts were "condensed to the point of mutilation" and that many entries misrepresented the contents of the original documents.
Nelson also pointed out that Chalkley had abstracted only some of the records that pertained to persons and families in which he was interested. Publication of the abstracts could easily lead to the erroneous conclusion that the absence in the abstracts of information about a person or a family meant that there was no information on the person or family in the county court's records.
Nelson's whole report, containing detailed comparisons between Chalkley's abstracts and the original records, was published as a substantial pamphlet under the authority of the 21st Congress, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution (Washington, D.C., 1912) with the title Report on the Chalkley Manuscripts.
Mary Smith Lockwood, an honorary vice-president-general of the Society, nevertheless proceeded on her own to have the typescript of Chalkley's abstracts published in the familiar three-volume edition.
Many users have no doubt concluded wrongly, as Nelson predicted, that the absence of references in Chalkley's Chronicles indicated a lack of data; and many other users have certainly been mislead by using Chalkley's faulty abstracts and not consulting the original records. Chalkley's Chronicles can be a valuable resource if it is used as a first finding aid for citations but not as a correct reproduction or representation of the full rich entries in the county court's original manuscript records.
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I loved reading the Whole Earth Catalog when I was young. So I bought it for my new library. It is not available at Amazon so I had to get mine from eBay. When I did, there weren't any clean copies of the original 1968 $5 edition so I bought a newer on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog
Whole Earth Scanning Project
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Also, I remember a book called Shelter that I loved - that one is still in print so I bought one at Amazon.
There are more variations of this book and the author also wrote a book about septic systems
Apparently, Lloyd Kahn was the "Shelter" editor for the original WEC and when I googled him, wow, he has a lot of writing on the Internet. He had a blog and now he has a Substack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Kahn
https://www.lloydkahn.com/ blog
https://lloydkahn.substack.com/
https://www.instagram.com/lloyd.kahn/
There is a video interview of Kahn on Kirsten Dirksen's Youtube
Σhomesteading
The Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1776 are the official minutes of the lower house of the colonial Virginia legislature. Throughout the colonial period, the legislature met frequently but irregularly, with sessions lasting from a few days to several weeks; in some years, the legislature did not meet at all. " -- section of book, pg. _ or v. _
Contents: v. 1. 1619-1658/59 (1915) -- v. 2. 1659/60-1693 (1914) -- v. 3. 1695-1696, 1696-1697, 1698, 1699, 1700-1702 (1913) -- v. 4. 1702/03-1705, 1705-1706, 1710-1712 (1912) -- v. 5. 1712-1714, 1715, 1718, 1720-1722, 1723-1726 (1912) -- v. 6. 1727-1734, 1736-1740 (1910) -- v. 7. 1742-1747, 1748-1749 (1909) -- v. 8. 1752-1755, 1756-1758 (1909) -- v. 9. 1758-1761 (1908) -- v. 10. 1761-1765 (1907) -- v. 11. 1766-1769 (1906) -- v. 12. 1770-1772 (1906) -- v. 13. 1773-1776, including the records of the Committee of Correspondence (1905).
Edited and published by authority of the Library Board, Virginia State Library(1).
this description is from FamilySearch - that page has a link list for each volume
Archive.org (I think all the volumes are here?)
The online books page - convenient list includes year (unlike FamilySearch list that only includes volume #)
available for purchase at Amazon if you know which volume you want
1. Note that the current Library of Virginia was formerly known as the Virginia State Library and as the Virginia State Library and Archives.
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NOTE: I am just beginning to try to sort this out and it is really confusing with the different revisions which each have different re-print years. I may have made mistakes. Please comment if you see any. I'm sorting thru - Sept 2024 - and when I am done I will do a double check. So stay tuned to updates!
Since I am studying Virginia history I can't really get away from doing research on Matoaka even though there have been a thousand books written about her and I can't read them all. I am going to start by sorting out the first (?) book about her genealogy - below - there have been updates and different versions published since the original and I will sort that out here.
[List of books about Pocahontas https://history-on-trial.lib.lehigh.edu/trial/pocahontas/bib.php ]
Pocahontas, alias Matoaka, and her descendants through her marriage at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614, with John Rolfe, gentleman; including the names of Alfriend, Archer, Bentley, Bernard, Bland, Boling, Branch, Cabell, Catlett, Cary, Dandridge, Dixon, Douglas, Duval, Eldridge, Ellett, Ferguson, Field, Fleming, Gay, Gordon, Griffin, Grayson, Harrison, Hubard, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade, McRae, Murray, Page, Poythress, Randolph, Robertson, Skipwith, Stanard, Tazewell, Walke, West, Whittle, and others by Robertson, Wyndham, 1803-1888 Publication date 1887
by Robertson, Wyndham, 1803-1888
Publication date 1887
Richmond : J.W. Randolph & English
https://search.worldcat.org/title/12695344
https://search.worldcat.org/formats-editions/963597579
WorldCat OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 824616935
Call Number 929.273 P75br - this just goes to genealogies
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Pocahontas' descendants : a revision, enlargement, and extension of the list as set out by Wyndham Robertson in his book Pocahontas and her descendants (1887)
by Stuart E. Brown, Lorraine F. Myers, Eileen M. Chappel
Publisher: Pocahontas Foundation, [Berrryville, Va.], 1985
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Co.; 3rd edition (January 1, 1997)
ISBN-10 : 0806314079
ISBN-13 : 978-0806314075
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Corrections and additions to Pocahontas' descendants
by Stuart E. Brown, Lorraine F. Myers, Eileen M. Chappel
Publisher: Pocahontas Foundation, [Berrryville, Va.], 1992
ISBN-13 978-0317405163
Amazon ASIN : B0006EZN2A
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An annal begins with Ezekiel and Margaret (Watkins) Phelps, 1793-94 Statement of Responsibility: by Geneva M. Phelps Parsons, West Virginia : G.M. Phelps, c1989
Includes Shaffer, Bolyard, Bowman, Auvil, Annon, Moyer and other related families. Ezekiel and Margaret Phelps were married 1793/94 in Maryland and settled in Anne Arundel County, All Hollows Parish.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/452851?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Genealogical notes on some ancestors and descendants of Noah Birchfield (1825-1912) : with a few allied lines Bailey, Christian, Crapps, Harman, Johnston, Lester, Robinett & others Statement of Responsibility: compiled by James de Maris Birchfield & William O. Birchfield, Sr
by Alma R Hutchens
Native American Ethnobotany
borrow and search online at archive.org
by Moerman, Daniel E 1998
borrow and search online at archive.org
by Frances Densmore 1974
*see my post about online ethnobotany databases
Root Cellars forum
https://www.facebook.com/groups/333207063687880/
A great resource is Mary's Nest. Mary Bryant Shrader has a popular YouTube channel where she cooks from scratch and preserves food with traditional techniques like canning, fermenting, and drying. I bought her cookbook:
