Morewood family Bible records, 1853.

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Morewood family Bible records, 1853.

Bible records the name of Maria Gansevoort Melville, a niece of Herman Melville who married William P. Morewood. Other families mentioned include Pierpoint and Barrows.

1 v. (1702 p.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7309680

University of Virginia. Library

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Morewood, William Barlow

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Barrow family.

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Pierpoint family.

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Morewood, Maria Gansevoort Melville.

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Morewood family.

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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

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Herman Melville (b. Aug. 1, 1819, NY, NY–d. Sept. 28, 1891, NY, NY) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style; the vocabulary is rich and or...