NEW BOOK FOR 2010 !
J. E. B. Stuart's Birthplace: History, Guide and Genealogy
$14.99
See the Table of Contents and index HERE
Over twenty years ago Historian Tom Perry had the idea to save the site of the birthplace of J. E. B. Stuart
in the community he grew up in. After four years of effort the non-profit J. E. B. Stuart Birthplace Preservation
Trust purchased 70 acres for $60,000. An additional five acres was added bringing the total to 75 acres of the
1,500 acres once owned by the Stuarts.
This newly revised book combines three of Perry’s previously published works on the Stuart and the Birthplace
into one book J. E. B. Stuart’s Birthplace: History, Guide, and Genealogy. In 302 pages Perry tells the history
of the Stuart Family upon their arrival in the North America up through J. E. B. Stuart III. The book also tells
the history of the property from pre-historic times and the Native-American evidence discovered via archaeology
on the property. The book tells about the local people who lived on and near the site that has history including
the American Revolution with William Letcher, who lost his life on the property, killed by pro-British Tories in
1780, and was J. E. B. Stuart’s great-grandfather. The antebellum history of the property, which with archaeology
got the site placed on the Virginia and National Registers of Historic Places.
The life and career of James Ewell Brown Stuart is covered in three chapters followed by a chapter on his wife,
Flora Cooke Stuart and her children and their descendants. This is the only published material on the life of Mrs.
Stuart. Perry includes chapters on life at the Laurel Hill Farm before and after the arrival of the Stuarts and the
final chapter in the History section details the efforts to preserve the site beginning in 1988.
The next section of the book includes driving tours from Mount Airy, North Carolina, Meadows of Dan, and Stuart,
Virginia, in Patrick County. A walking tour ends the second section of the book.
The final section gives a summary of the genealogy of J. E. B. Stuart meant to give interested parties a starting point
to connect their family trees to the Stuarts. It is not intended as a complete and definitive genealogy, but a reference
to start a search.
The book indexed with a full bibliography gives the reader sources to the twenty years of research Perry continues
to work. This book has new information from archaeology recently conducted by Radford University to new material
supplied recently to Jeffery Wert’s new biography of the J. E. B. Stuart, Cavalryman of the Lost Cause.
This book sells for $14.99 and is available from Perry’s website
www.freestateofpatrick.com and www.amazon.com.
This is the first of Perry’s books that is available through all
book distributors such as Ingram and Create Space.
All of Thomas D. "Tom" Perry's books are available at www.amazon.com
Copyright 2009 Thomas D. Perry. No material used without permission.
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J. E. B. Stuart's Birthplace: History, Guide, and Genealogy
$14.99
(REVISED 2010 EDITION)