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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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1.0.      PREFACE

 

2.0      OUR WILLISS ROOTS

Introduction

2.1         The First Gens Back

2.2        Our Quaker Roots

2.3        William Williss and the Williss Tavern

2.4        Our Willisses During the Anti-Slavery Movement

 

3.0    THE APPLERS: NEW PERSPECTIVE

3.1        The Applers in America

3.2        Further on Their German Roots 

 

4.0    CLAN McCRAY

4.1:       From Scotland Through the American Revolution

4.2       Into the Tennessee Frontier; Chattel Slavery  

4.3       Through the Creek War and Afterwards

 

5.0    HOUSE OF SANDYS, + FRENCHIES

5.1       Sands, from the Civil War Back to the American Revolution

5.2       Some French Protestant Roots

 

6.0     OUR BERGERS, AND THEIR KIN

6.1.       Our Bergers, Generally

6.2.       The Grandpa Joe Generation

6.3        The Berger Brothers, Minus One

6.4        Matthias, Our Berger Immigrant

6.5        Our German Peasant Roots

6.6        The Vine Dressers of Deidesheim

6.7        Krebs, of Hosbach

6.8        Weisent of the Wasgau

 

7.0    IRISH DRAMA