ABBREVIATIONS
6WIV - Alison Weir, "The Six Wives of Henry VIII," Ballantine Books, New York, 1991.
AAH - Frederic Louis Huidekoper, compiler, "The American Ancestry of Frederic Louis Huidekoper and Reginald Shippen Huidekoper of Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America," Imprimerie Alber Kundig, Geneva, 1931.
AAP - Gary Boyd Roberts, Compiler, "Ancestors of American Presidents," Published by Carl Boyer III, Santa Clarita, California, in cooperation with the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1989.
AAS - Andrew Arnold Starr
ABCC - R.D. McAvoy, "Alexander Bane of Chester County Pennsylvania and His Descendants," Rev. 1, Chester County Historical Society document, undated.
AC - Jack Shepherd, "The Adams Chronicles - Four Generations of Greatness," Little, Brown & Co., Boston and Toronto, 1975.
ADM - Barbara W. Tuchman, "A Distant Mirror The Calamitous 14th Century," Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984.
AJB - Hans L. Trefousse, "Andrew Johnson - A Biography," W.W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 1989.
ALB - David Hackett Fischer, "Albion's Seed - Four British Folkways in America," Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1989.
AMC - William Manchester, "American Caesar," Little, Brown & Co., New York, 1978.
AMER - Charles Mosley, Compiler, "American Presidential Families With Political Essays by Hugh Brogan
ARL - Carol Felsenthal, "Princess Alice," St. Martin's Press, New York, 1988.
ASA - Stephen Birmingham, "America's Secret Aristocracy," Little, Brown & Co., New York, 1987.
ASC - Lucy Chaplin Lee, "An American Sojourn in China," The Turnpike Press, Annandale, Virginia, 1968.
ASE - Sir Frank M. Stenton, "Anglo-Saxon England," Third Edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1943, 1947, 1971.
ASPX - Joseph J. Ellis, "American Sphinx - The Character of Thomas Jefferson," Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1997.
BEE - Henry Hart Beeson, "A Genealogy of the Beeson - Beason Family," Houston, 1978.
BF - Ronald W. Clark, "Benjamin Franklin - A Biography," Random House, New York, 1983.
BCW - John M. Gresham, Editor, "Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania," John M. Gresham & Co., Philadelphia, 1890.
BLY - Brooke Kroeger, "Nellie Bly Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist," Random House, Times Books, New York, Toronto, 1994.
BOU - John H. Davis, "The Bouviers -- From Waterloo to the Kennedys and Beyond," National Press Books, Washington, DC, 1993.
BOYD - J.H. Powell, "Bring Out Your Dead - The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793," University of Pennsylvania Press, TIME Reading Program, 1949, 1965.
BRH - B. Reed Henderson
BRIN - Janetta Wright Schoonover, compiler and editor, "The Brinton Genealogy A History of William Brinton Who Came From England to Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1684 And of His Descendants with Some Records of the English Brintons," Trenton, 1924, Gateway Press, Baltimore, 1992.
BTT - Geoffrey C. Ward, "Before the Trumpet - Young Franklin Roosevelt 1882 - 1905," Harper & Row, New York, 1985.
CCHS - Chester County (Pa.) Historical Society
CFP - John W. Jordan, "Colonial Families of Philadelphia - Vol. II," Lewis Publishing Co., New York, 1911.
CFW - Frances & Joseph Gies, "Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel - Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages," HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1994.
CHM - Catherine (Helms) Mitchell
CHNJ - Unknown, "Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. XXII, Marriage Records 1665-1800," Publisher unknown, date unknown.
CKC - C.V. Wedgwood, "A Coffin for King Charles - The Trial and Execution of Charles I," The MacMillan Co., 1964.
CNN - Cable News Network, Atlanta, GA.
CNYH - Unknown, "Collections of the New York Historical Society," publisher unknown, 1892.
DGLM - Conover Hunt-Jones, "Dolley and the "great little Madison,"" American Institute of Architects Foundation, Washington, 1977.
DLT - DAILY LEADER-TIMES, Kittanning, Pennsylvania
DOM - Margaret Leech, "In the Days of McKinley," Harper & Brothers, New York, 1959.
DW - Charles Higham, "The Duchess of Windsor The Secret Life," Charter Books, New York, 1988.
EAST - Hettie A. Walton and Eastburn Reeder, "The Eastburn Family," The Intelligencer Co., printers, Doylestown, 1903.
EKR - Sylvia Jukes Morris, "Edith Kermit Roosevelt Portrait of a First Lady," Random House, New York, 1980.
EOA - Amy Kelly, "Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings," Harvard University Press, 1950, 1978.
ER1 - Blanche Weisen Cook, "Eleanor Roosevelt - Volume One - 1884 - 1933," Penguin Books, New York, 1992.
ESX - Ivan Bloch, "Sexual Life in England Past and Present," Oracle Publishing, Ltd., Royston, 1938, 1996.
ETC - Frank Barlow, "Edward the Confessor," University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1970.
ETG - Elizabeth Jenkins, "Elizabeth the Great," Find the Publisher and date.
EWT - Margaret Truman, "Bess W. Truman," MacMillan Publishing Co., New York, 1986.
FBG - Friends' Burial Ground
FIR - Margaret Truman, "First Ladies," Random House, New York, 1995.
FLOH - Carl Sferrazza Anthony, "Florence Harding - The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President, " William Murrow & Co., New York, 1998.
FON - Fonda, Henry, "Fonda - My Life as Told to Howard Teichmann," New American Library, 1981.
FPW - Frank Probst Walthour, CHART, "Descendants of Christopher and George Walthour," Greensburg, 15 Nov 1930.
F&T - Antonia Fraser, "Faith and Treason - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot," Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1996.
G3 -Christopher Hibbert, "George III - A Personal History," Basic Books, Perseus Books Group, New York, 1998.
GPQ - Mary Belle Lantz, "Our German, Pilgrim and Quaker Ancestors," Find the Publisher and date.
GRA - William S. McFeely, "Grant - A Biography," W.W. Norton & Co., New York and London, 1981.
GSF - Unknown, "Genealogy of the Stillwell Family, publisher unknown, date unknown.
HAB - Andrew Wheatcroft, "The Habsburgs - Embodying Empire," Penguin Books, London, New York, Victoria, Toronto, Auckland, 1995, 1996.
HAC - Robert Walter Smith, "History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania," Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883. Reprinted by Unigraphic Inc., Evansville, Indiana, 1975.
HAR - Alpheus H. Harlan, "History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family and Particularly of the Descendants of George and Michael Harlan Who Settled in Chester Co., Pa., 1687," originally published in Baltimore, 1914, Gateway Press Inc., Baltimore, 1991.
HAWK - Kenneth Hawk Slaker, "Early German Hawk Families of Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania," publisher and date not known.
HBC - William S. Buck, "History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania," TBD.
HCC - J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope, "History of Chester County, Pennsylvania," Louis H. Everts, Philadelphia, 1881.
HCW - George Dallas Albert, Editor, "History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men," L.H. Everts & Co., Philadelphia, 1882.
HDC - Henry Graham Ashmead, "History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania," L.H. Everts, Philadelphia, 1884.
HFR1 - Gerald R. Fuller, June Markus Hoopes and Lillian Fredsall Webster, "The Hoopes Family Record - Volume One - The First Six Generations," Hoopes Family Organization, Houston, 1979.
HGW - Harry G. Williams
HLS - Gerard and Patricia Del Re, "History's Last Stand," Avon Books, New York, 1993.
HMA - Sidney Painter, "A History of the Middle Ages 284-1500," Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1954.
HOD - John Thomas Scharf, "History of Delaware 1609-1888 - Vol. II," L.J. Richards & Co., Philadelphia, 1888.
HOE - W.E. Lunt, "History of England," Third Edition, Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1928, 1938, 1945.
HOOV - Eugene Lyons, "Herbert Hoover A Biography," Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1964.
HOW - John Davies, "A History of Wales," Penguin Books, London, 1990, 1993, 1994.
HWC - John W. Jordan, Editorial Supervisor, "History of Westmoreland County Pennsylvania - Genealogical Memoirs - Volume II," Lewis Publishing Co., New York and Chicago, 1906.
IAI - Iona Alpers Inman
IGR - Irvin Garfield Reagan
IIQ - Albert Cook Myers, "Immigration of the Irish Quakers Into Pennsylvania 1682 - 1750 With Their Early History in Ireland," Swarthmore, 1902.
IRM - Irvin Reagan Mitchell
ISM - Irvin Sharp Mitchell
JAJA - Christopher Andersen, "Jack and Jackie - Portrait of an American Marriage," William Morrow & Co., New York, 1996.
JBKS - Jennie Baker (Kirk) Sharp
JWSH - Jessie Walter (Sharp) Henderson
KAD - Peter Collier and David Horowitz, "The Kennedys - An American Drama," Simon & Schuster, New York, 1984.
KDD - John H. Davis, "The Kennedys - Dynasty and Disaster - 1848 - 1984," McGraw-Hill, New York, 1984.
KJ - W.L. Warren, "King John," University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, London, 1961, 1978.
KOF - John Parker, "King of Fools," St. Martin's Press, New York, 1988.
LAW - James Spada, "Peter Lawford - The Man Who Kept the Secrets," Bantam Books, New York, 1991.
LBJ1 - Robert Caro, "The Years of Lyndon Johnson - The Path to Power," Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.
LBJ2 - Robert Caro, "The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Means of Ascent," Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 198?.
LCRS - Unknown, "Genealogy of the Stillwell Family," publisher unknown, date unknown.
LDS - Latter Day Saints
LISR - Hoff, "Long Island Source Records," Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1987.
LLBD - Craig W. Horle, et. al., "Lawmaking & Legislators in Pennsylvania - A Biographical Dictionary," University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1991.
LMC - Joseph and Francis Gies, "Life in a Medieval City," Originally published by Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1969, Harper Perennial edition, New York, 1981.
LNS - John E. Stillwell, M.D., "The History of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell Progenitor of the Stillwell Family in America with Some Notices of the Family in the Kingdom of Great Britain," New York City, 1929
LOE -Alison Weir, "The Life of Elizabeth I," Ballantine Books, New York, 1998.
LOP - Christopher Ogden, "Life of the Party - The Biography of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman," Little, Brown & Co., Boston, New York, Toronto, London, 1994.
LOR - Hugh Ross Williamson, "Lorenzo the Magnificent," G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1974.
LOV - Paul C. Nagel, "The Lees of Virginia - Seven Generations of an American Family," Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1990.
LPW - Carl Sandburg, "Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years & The War Years One Volume Edition," Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London, 1954.
LSM - Loretta Margaret (Starr) Mitchell
LTWS - Peter Levi, "The Life and Times of William Shakespeare," H. Holt & Co., New York, 1988.
LUCE - Ralph G. Martin, "Henry and Clare - An Intimate Portrait of the Luces," G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1991.
LYI - Louis A. Warren, "Lincoln's Youth - Indiana Years - Seven to Twenty-one - 1816-1830," Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, 1991.
MAM - Mark Alan Mitchell
MCB - Charles H. Browning, "Magna Charta Barons and their Descendants," Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1969.
ME2 - Robert Lacey, "Majesty - Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor," Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London, 1977.
MEN - MENDENHALL MATTERS, Edited by Dean Leonard
MHN - Margaret Huffman Nelson
MNRM - Carley Bisher Worth, Compiler, "Mendenhall - Ancestry and Descendants of Nathan and Rebecca Mendenhall," 1997.
MOE - Jean Morris, "The Monarchs of England," Charter House, New York, 1975.
MOH - David McCollough, "Mornings on Horseback," Simon & Schuster, New York, 1981.
MOP - Marvin Kitman, "The Making of the Prefident 1789 -- The Unauthorized Campaign Biography," Harper & Row, 1989.
MQS - Antonia Fraser, "Mary Queen of Scots," Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Ltd., Frogmore, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, 1969.
MSJ - Mary Scannell James
MSM - Mary Louisa (Sharp) Mitchell
MTL - Ruth Painter Randall, "Mary Lincoln - Biography of a Marriage," Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1953.
NEM - C. Torrey, "New England Marriages Prior to 1700," publisher unknown, date unknown.
NJMR - William Nelson, "New Jersey Marriage Records 1665-1800," Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1973.
OMK - Jerry Oppenheimer, "The Other Mrs. Kennedy - ETHEL SKAKEL KENNEDY: An American Drama of Power, Privilege, and Politics," St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994.
ONR - Orson Nevin Ritzman
ORA - Elizabeth Longford, Editor, "The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes," Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984.
PA1 - David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace, "The People's Almanac," Doubleday & Co., Garden City, New York, 1975.
PA2 - David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace, "The People's Almanac #2," Bantam Books, Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, 1978.
PA3 - David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace, "The People's Almanac #3," Bantam Books, Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, 1981.
PAT - Julie Nixon Eisenhower, "Pat Nixon The Untold Story," Simon and Schuster, New York, 1986.
PH1 - William Seale, "The President's House - A History - Volume One," White House Historical Association, with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society, Washington, 1986.
PH2 - William Seale, "The President's House - A History - Volume Two," White House Historical Association, with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society, Washington, 1986.
PL2 - Philippe Ariés and George Duby, General Editors, Arthur Goldhammer, Translator, "A History of Private Life - II - Revelations of the Medieval World," Harvard University Press, Boston, London, 1988.
POP - Saul David, "Prince of Pleasure - The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency," Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1998.
PSW - Charles Hastings, "Pioneer Settlers of Western Pennsylvania," 1976.
PW - Paul F. Boller, "Presidential Wives - An Anecdotal History," Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1988.
PWM - Paul Woodward Mitchell
QG - Hazel May Middleton Kendall, "Quaker Greggs," published by the author, Anderson, Indiana, 1944.
RAS - Peter Collier with David Horowitz, "The Roosevelts - An American Saga," Simon & Schuster, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore, 1994.
RDFP - Royal Descents of Famous People -- Website
RJF - Unknown, "Record of the Jackson Family, Proc. of the Sesquicentennial Gathering of the Descendants of Isaac and Ann Jackson at Harmony Grove, Chester County, Pennsylvania," Philadelphia, 1878.
RRM - W. H. Murray, "Rob Roy MacGregor His life and times," Richard Drew Publishing, Canongate Press, 1982, 1995.
RTB - Ronald McNair Scott, "Robert the Bruce - King of Scots," Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., New York, 1982.
RTJ - Ronald Thomas Johnson
RTM - Robert Thomas Mitchell
SC4 - Will Durant, "The Story of Civilization - 4 - The Age of Faith," Simon and Schuster, 1950.
SC7 - Will and Ariel Durant, "The Story of Civilization - 7 - The Age of Reason Begins," Simon and Schuster, 1961.
SC11 - Will and Ariel Durant, "The Story of Civilization - 11 - The Age of Napoleon," Simon and Schuster, New York, 1975.
SDTB - Miriam Luke, compiler, "Some Descendants of Thomas Bryant of Chester County, Pennsylvania," publisher unknown, 1976.
SGAG - Arlene Eakle and Johni Cerny, Editors, "The Source - A Guidebook of American Genealogy," Ancestral Publishing Co., Salt Lake City, 1984.
SHAK - Ivor Brown, "Shakespeare," Special edition, Time Reading Program, Time, Inc., 1949, 1962.
SKS - Caroline Bingham, "The Stewart Kingdom of Scotland 1371 - 1603," Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Barnes & Noble, 1974, 1995.
SMA - Michael Wood, "In Search of the Dark Ages," Facts on File Publications, New York, Oxford, 1987.
SOE - Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil, "The Story of English," Elisabeth Sifton Books, Viking, New York, 1986.
SP - Sally Pavia
TFH - Sara Frances Grimes Sitherwood, "Throckmorton Family History," Bloomington, IL, 1929.
TFL - Margaret Truman, "First Ladies," Random House, New York, 1995.
THR - Charles Wickliff, "Throckmorton Family - A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Throckmortons," Old Dominion Press, 1868.
TJB - Brodie, Fawn M., "Thomas Jefferson - An Intimate History," W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1974.
TKP - William Beckett Brown III, "Thomas Knight of Pennsylvania and Some of his Descendants," Royer Printing Co., Pennsanken, NJ, 1973.
TMK - Thelma M. Kifer
TMP - Robert E. Gilbert, "The Mortal Presidency - Illness and Anguish in the White House," publisher to be determined.
TODD - Jean H. Baker, "Mary Todd Lincoln - A Biography," W.W. Norton & Co., New York, London, 1987.
TOW - Alison Weir, "The Princes in the Tower," Ballantine Books, New York, 1992.
TRU - David McCollough, "Truman," Simon & Schuster, New York, 1992.
TUD - John Guy, "Tudor England," Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 1988.
VIC - Stanley Weintraub, "Victoria An Intimate Biography," Truman Talley Books, E.P. Dutton, New York, 1987.
WABF - WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS, Scripps Howard Co., New York, 1992.
WASH - Douglas Southall Freeman, "Washington - An Abridgement in One Volume By Richard Harwell of the Seven-Volume George Washington," Simon & Schuster, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore, 1968.
WCS - Gene Smith, "When the Cheering Stopped - The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson," William Morrow & Co., 1964.
WF - Sheila L. Skemp, "William Franklin - Son of a Patriot, Servant of a King," Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1990.
WHW - The White House World Wide Website (http://www.whitehouse.gov), May 1996.
WLBF - William Manchester, "A World Lit Only by Fire - The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age," Little, Brown and Co., Boston, Toronto, London, 1992, 1993.
WMA - Frances & Joseph Gies, "Women in the Middle Ages," Thomas Y. Cromwell Co., New York, 1978.
WOH - Antonia Fraser, "The Wives of Henry VIII," Random House, New York, 1992.
WOR - Alison Weir, "The Wars of the Roses," Ballantine Books, New York, 1995.
WSM - Walter Sharp Mitchell
WTC - David C. Douglas, "William the Conqueror - The Norman Impact Upon England," University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1964.
WV - Antonia Fraser, "The Weaker Vessel," Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984.
WWME - Michael Hicks, "Who's Who in Late Medieval England (1272-1485) being the third volume in the Who's Who in British History series," Shepheard-Walwyn, London, 1991.
WYNK - Richard Wynkoop, "Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America," Third Edition, The Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1904.
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