The following is listing of known books, manuscripts and articles
as they pertain to the Plowden genealogy line in America. As we continue to update
this website, much of this material will be made available online. For more information
on these materials (if available), send email
or write "The Descendents of Edward Plowden I" - P.O. BOX 24217, Greenville, SC
29616.
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"An overview of 800 years"
by Jesse Clifton Plowden, Jr., 136 pages, published
by McCain Printing, Danville VA, 1996. (You can order
copies of this book by sending $12.00 plus 2.00 shipping/handling to: Pat
Plowden, 150 Westmoreland Ct.-#9, Danville, VA 24541)
"The Descendants of Edward Plowden I in America" by J. S. Plowden 1937.
"Peden - Plowden Families" by Harriet N. Chase, Genealogist, 1924.
"Record of Edward Plowden, 1st, who came to Williamsburg County, South Carolina in 1732 and his descendants". Compiled and edited by Robert W. Plowden, Florence, Alabama - May 1964.
"The Letters of Private John Covert Plowden, (1862-1865)" 164 pages (written to his wife, but edited by Henry B. Rollins, Prof. of English, Columbia College). Re-printed by Plowden's grandson, John Covert Daniels, 1970.
"Sir Edmund Plowden and the New Albion Charter, 1632-1785" by Edward C. Carter 2nd and Clifford Lewis, 3rd as seen in "The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography", Volume LXXXIII, Number 2, April, 1959.
A typed copy of "The Grant of King Charles the First, to Sir Edmund Plowden, Earl Palatine of Albion, of the Province of New Albion, in America, June 21, A.D., 1634", (16 pages).
Some Extracts Relating to Sir Edmund Plowden and Others from the Lost Minutes of the Virginia Council and General Court, 1642-1645 and Some Note on Sir Edmund Plowden's Attempt to Settle His Province of New Albion by Clifford Lewis, 3rd. Reprinted with permission, from William and Mary Historical Quarterly, January, 1940, 19 pages
"The History of Williamsburg" by William Willis Boddie, The State Company, 1923, (references on pgs 10, 13, 33, 57).
"Death
Camp of the North" The
Civil War prison camp at Elmira, New York, had the highest death rate of any
prison camp in the North: almost 25 percent. Comparatively, the overall death
rate of all Northern prison camps was just over 11 percent; in the South, the
death rate was just over 15 percent. Clearly, something went wrong in Elmira.
The culmination of ten years of research, this book traces the story of what
happened. Author Michael Horigan also places the prison in the context of the
greater Elmira community by describing the town in 1864 and explaining its
significance as a military depot and draft rendezvous.
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"Recollections of a Red Shirter", An article by Caroline S.
Coleman from an interview with J.S. Plowden, The State Magazine, 1950.
"Loyalties
in Black and White" by R.W. Lide, published by R.L.Bryan Company, 1940
,(Chapter 6).
"And a Bar of Octagon Soap" by Buford Mayberry, printed by Sumter Printing Company Inc., 1983, (see page 79).
"McFaddin Genealogy, 1730-1930" compiled and edited by A.L. Blanding, M.D., Jacobs & Company, 95 pages
"No Swan Song. Instead, My Psalm of Life" by J.S. Plowden at 90 years, January 4, 1952 (contrasts the thought in verse 10 of Psalm 90)