"The letters and documents are arranged chronologically beginning with Thomas Gilmore Pearson's draft of his will, 1850, up to 1936. They are divided into three sections, following the family histories: section 1: pre-Civil War and Civil War period; section 2: 1875-1887, basically the courtship letters of Laura Pearson and Benjamin Hammond; section 3: 1887-1937, Pearson & Hammond letters." (p. ix). The families chiefly lived in Troup County, Georgia...

Contains information about the Battle of West Point, Georgia fought April 16, 1865, at the end of the Civil War, and about Fort Tyler, which protected West Point. Includes both Union and Confederate eyewitness accounts of the battle, as well as firsthand accounts by women of the area, lists of participants in the battle, and a list of the prisoners captured there. Describes how the battle has been commemorated over the years, including the reconstruction...

Henry Nell was born in Germany or Switzerland. He was the son on Karl Nell who lived in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany in the last part of the 18th century. Henry immigrated to America with his brother Charles and they landed at the port of Baltimore 22 August 1802. Henry settled in Reading Township. Adams Co., Pennsylvania. He married twice and was the father of eight children. Descendants lived primarily in the state of Pennsylvania.

Matthew Adams (fl.1773-1793) was in Bucks County, Pennsylvania during or before 1773. He and his wife, Mary, had at least seven children born between about 1770 and 1784. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Virginia and elsewhere.

George Cook was born in 1845 in Virginia. He married Calcie Beacham in 1869 in Montgomery County, Georgia. They had eleven children.

Peter Starnes was born in South Carolina in 1781 but later moved to Alabama. He married Mary, who was the mother of Nancy, Margaret, Anna, Eleanor, Bazil and Peter. John Starnes was born in 1787 in South Carolina, the younger brother of Peter Starnes. He married three times. The name of John's first name is unknown, but she was the mother of seven of his children: Margaret, Phriba, Isham, William, John, Peter and Hannah. His second wife was Elizabeth...

Adam Bonawitz was on a list of taxpayers in Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1754. He purchased land in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, in 1760, and died in 1761. He and his wife, Juliana, were the parents of three sons and a daughter. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Texas, Arizona, Michigan, Virginia, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Kansas, Oregon, California and elsewhere.