Casper Branner of Virginia and His Descendants

by John Casper Branner

1913

Casper Branner (ca.1729-ca.1792) emigrated from southern Germany or possibly eastern Switzerland, and settled in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia probably about 1750. He married Catherine and they had eight children. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois and elsewhere.

The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, with the Best Wishes of the Author

by John William Linzee

1918

Peter Parker (1720-1765) married Sarah Ruggles in 1752/1753, and lived in Roxbury and Brookline, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Maryland, Missouri, Wisconsin, California and elsewhere. Includes many ancestors and some descendants of these ancestors, living in England, India and elsewhere.

The French Balades

by John Gower

2011 · Medieval Institute Publications

Gower's imaginative French poetry is now available in a new edition with facing page translation, annotations, and introduction. Gower's Traitie employs the French poetic form of balade, typically used for courtly verses, to avow instead the virtues of loving marriage, characteristic of Gower's signature moralizing. His Cinkante Balades confront the tradition of the French Livre de Cent Balades, by describing the feelings of a young man towards his lady, but eventually offering a praise of love insofar as it is subject to reason and morality. Together the two works offer an excellent introduction to the Anglo-Norman works of Gower and are perfect for classroom use.