Oh, Strange New WorldRobert Looney (d.1770) and his wife Elizabeth and their family immi- grated during or before 1734 from the Isle of Man (off the Scottish coast) to Philadelphia. They moved westward through Pennsylvania and settled near what is now Hagerstown, Maryland, and in 1739/1740 moved to the Shenandoah Valley in Augusta (later Botetourt) County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Texas and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry on the Isle of Man and elsewhere in Scotland. |
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Page 95
... San Antonio , and this part of the country needed a railroad . A rail loading point at Goliad would be a lot closer and better than San Antonio . In the 1880s leaders of the then struggling little village of Beeville were pulling for ...
... San Antonio , and this part of the country needed a railroad . A rail loading point at Goliad would be a lot closer and better than San Antonio . In the 1880s leaders of the then struggling little village of Beeville were pulling for ...
Page 218
... San Antonio spent several days of the past week on a visit to friends in Beeville . January 5 , 1900 , Beeville Bee : County Clerk , Frank How- ard , who had his residence burned some time ago , has again become a householder , having ...
... San Antonio spent several days of the past week on a visit to friends in Beeville . January 5 , 1900 , Beeville Bee : County Clerk , Frank How- ard , who had his residence burned some time ago , has again become a householder , having ...
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... San Antonio . When he heard the famous call , " Who will go with old Ben Milam into San Antonio ? " , he was among those who answered the call . During the attack , Ben Milam was killed and buried in the Veramendi yard . John Freeman ...
... San Antonio . When he heard the famous call , " Who will go with old Ben Milam into San Antonio ? " , he was among those who answered the call . During the attack , Ben Milam was killed and buried in the Veramendi yard . John Freeman ...
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PARTI Strange New World | 1 |
Map of Kings Mountain Battlefield | 3 |
To Goliad With Love | 47 |
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