Colonial Roots

The twentieth volume in this popular series contains abstracts of the people and events of 1846. Highlights of this period were the death of Pope Gregory XVI and the wreck of the steamship Atlantic off Long Island. The abstracts comprise news items as well as appointments by the President; promotions in the army and navy; marriage and death notices; murders and disasters; criminal cases; courts-martial; all petitions to Congress relating to a person or persons; patents; real estate sales; legal notices; chancery and equity records. The abstracts are arranged chronologically, and the book includes an index of surnames as well as vessels and tracts of land. 2006. 678 pp.