The National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, House of Burgesses Chapter, Orange, Virginia

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Friday, November 30, 2018

Visit to Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, VA

The Madisons of Montpelier Chapter, United States Daughters of 1812, and House of Burgesses Chapter, Colonial Dames 17th Century toured the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond Virginia 22 September 2018.  Howard P. and Jean H. Hart donated their Martial Arms Collection to the Museum.  The Collection consists of arms for every war from the Revolutionary War to present day, plus the accoutrements. (Note: Martial arms are those guns financed by the Government of the United States for use by American troops in war.)




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  • The National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century
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  • The 1752 Calendar Change in North America by William Dollarhide
  • The Netherland-America Foundation
  • The New Amsterdam History Center Online
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Recommended Books

  • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
  • 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann, Alfred A. Knopf, 2011
  • A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America by James Horn
  • Capital Dames: The Civil War and The Women of Wahington, 1848-1868 by Cokie Roberts
  • Colonial Records of Virginia, Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964
  • Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America by Jaap Jacobs
  • Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture, Edited by Roger Panetta, Hudson River Museum, 2010
  • Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities by Craig Steven Wilder, Sep 17, 2013
  • Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
  • George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution by Brian Kilmeade
  • James Madison: A Life Reconsidered by Lynne Cheney
  • Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts
  • Louisa Catherine: The Other Mrs. Adams by Margery Heffron
  • Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriages for Two Generations after The Landing
  • Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Of Plymouth Plantation from The Handwritten Manuscript of William Bradford, Edited by Caleb Johnson
  • The American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor
  • The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy by Kimberly Powell
  • The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America by Scott Weidensaul
  • The Mayflower and Her Passengers by Caleb H. Johnson
  • The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis
  • The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy by Val D. Greenwood
  • The Works of Anne Bradstreet by Anne Bradstreet

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