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A thousand unique gravestones cluster around old Presbyterian churches in the piedmont of the two Carolinas and in central Pennsylvania. Most are the vulnerable legacy of three generations of the Bigham family, Scotch Irish stonecutters whose workshop near Charlotte created the earliest surviving art of British settlers in the region. In The True Image, Daniel Patterson documents the craftsmanship of this group and the current appearance of the stones. In two hundred of his photographs, he records these stones for future generations and compares their iconography and inscriptions with those of other early monuments in the United States, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. Combining his reading of the stones with historical records, previous scholarship, and rich oral lore, Patterson throws new light on the complex culture and experience of the Scotch Irish in America. In so doing, he explores the bright and the dark sides of how they coped with challenges such as backwoods conditions, religious upheavals, war, political conflicts, slavery, and land speculation. He shows that headstones, resting quietly in old graveyards, can reveal fresh insights into the character and history of an influential immigrant group.
Book contains 6,616 abstracts of the records found in nine deed books. In addition to abstracts of deeds, also contains land grants, powers of attorney, mortgages, trust deeds and bills of sale.
The will abstracts in this volume, 1749-1790, are based on the oldest Mecklenburg County wills of record, as well as upon the extant returns of wills and estates of the North Carolina Secretary of State. While the length and contents of these abstracts vary, most of them provide the name of the testator, date of the will, names and relationships of all heirs to the estate (sometimes with ages given or inferred), contents of the estate, names of executors, and, usually, the date of probate.
A revision and expansion of v. 1 (c1976) of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina deed abstracts, which was planned in 2 v.; v. 2 never published.
Gustaf Fredrik Johannson (later Fred Wilson) was born 27 February 1842 in Stora Karr, Sweden. His parents were Johan Henrik Olsson and Christina Elisabeth Andreasdotter. He married Charlotta Louise Stryker in 1879 in The Dalles, Oregon. He died in1924 in Yuba City, California.