The history of the Shreve Family in America is a long and illustrious one. Spanning nearly 400 years, beginning with the founding of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. The Shreve Family has witnessed the major religious, political and military events of this Nation. Many early Shreve families were Quakers. Later, when the War for Independence began, the family joined the cause. The family contributed several well-known figures to the war, including Colonel Israel Shreve and Captain Richard Shreve. Later, the Shreve family showed it could not only fight, it could also think. Perhaps one of the best-known figures in Shreve history is Henry Miller Shreve, an early inventor of steamboats and founder of the City of Shreveport, Louisiana. Henry used a snag boat, one of his inventions, he cleared the Great Red River Raft. In the 19th Century the Shreve Family also contributed to the great economic development of the country. From ports in Massachusetts, Captain Benjamin Shreve and others set sail in tall sailing ships to carry goods to distant ports. Scions of this Massachusetts branch of the family founded famous silver, jewelry and mercantile enterprises in Boston and San Francisco. Many other family members received law degrees from Harvard Law School as well as. served as representative for their district in Congress.

Hardcover reprint of the original 1901 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Allen, L. P. (Luther Prentice). The Genealogy And History of The Shreve Family From 1641. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Allen, L. P. (Luther Prentice). The Genealogy And History of The Shreve Family From 1641, . Greenfield, Ill., Priv. Print., 1901. Subject: Shreve Family Thomas Sheriff, Ca. 1620-1675

Thomas Sheriff/Shreve was born before 1620 in England and died in 1675 in Rhode Island. His wife, Martha died after 1691. One descendant, Thomas Curtis Shreve (1800-1878), was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania and was married in 1828 in Stark County, Ohio to Ann Gilbert Coates. They moved to White Cloud, Kansas in 1857. Descendants lived in Kansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and elsewhere.

Hampshire County was formed from the Virginia counties of Augusta and Frederick in 1754. Later, during the American Civil War, it became the first Virginia county wholly in the territory that is now West Virginia. Mrs. Vicki Horton is the compiler of a number of Hampshire County genealogical source record collections, six of which are now available from Clearfield Company (see also items 9734, 9339, 9147, 9336, and 9335). Hampshire County Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists consists of alphabetically arranged lists of all persons who paid a property tax for every year between 1800 and 1814, except for 1808, when no tax was collected. For each taxpayer Mrs. Horton has coded the number of white tithables in the household, the number of horses owned, and the number of slaves, if any. On occasion, persons are identified with supporting information, such as occupation. All the taxpayers are readily identified in the comprehensive index at the back of the volume. Since this volume contains more than 20,000 entries, it is hard to imagine a better census approximation of Hampshire County residents for this time period.

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“A well-tuned mandolin of a gothic adventure.” —Washington Post On the morning of her seventieth birthday, Georgianna Grove receives an unexpected letter that calls her back to Missing Lake, Wisconsin, where her mother was murdered sixty-six years earlier. Georgie’s father had confessed to the murder the next morning and was carted off to a state penitentiary. Determined to unearth the truth, Georgie takes her reluctant family on what will become a dangerous canoe trip up the swollen Bone River to return to the campsite that has haunted her memories. Thrilling and richly drawn, More News Tomorrow follows a daughter’s quest to finally understand her parents’ fate.

Loosely based on Porter Shreve’s own childhood, When the White House Was Ours is the atmospheric and captivating story of a family’s struggle to stay together against great odds. It’s 1976, and while the country prepares to celebrate the bicentennial, Daniel Truitt’s family is falling apart. His father, Pete, has been fired from yet another teaching job, and his mother, Valerie, is one step away from leaving for good. But when Pete lucks into a crumbling mansion in the nation’s capital, he makes a bold plan to start a school under his own roof where students and teachers will be equals. Replete with the wry humor, human insight, and cultural resonance that characterizes Shreve’s critically acclaimed fiction, When the White House Was Ours will be a joy to anyone whose family has lived through an idealistic time and ended up in an era of compromise.