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1985 · ref. vita9800 — DeLeon Springs Florida: E. O. Painter Printing Company 1985. Octavo green cloth hardcover gilt letters xviii 149 pp. Fine in a Good dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: Years of research came to fruition in this book a genealogy-history with biographical sketches for the first time of Nathaniel Partridge and his descendants. The odyssey begins in the early seventeenth century with the original progenitor emigrating from England to the prosperous plantation-type English colony of Barbados West Indies. The adventure story continued. By the eighteenth century his descendant sails 1500 miles from Barbados to Charles Town S.C. As Provost Marshal of the Admiralty for the Province of South Carolina Nathaniel Partridge in a series of encounters meets the infamous Stede Bonnet “gentleman pirate” of coastal America. John Nathaniel Partridge the early nineteenth century decendant pioneers in territorial Florida and as a delegate signs Florida’s first Constitution in 1839. His son Henry Edward Partridge an ordained minister served sixty-five years in the itenineracy of the Florida Conference of the Methodist Church. Excerpts from his 1867-1895 Diary relate his ministry mirror a typical life-style of that era and describe his travels. “Another Family With English Roots” a short chapter includes reserach of the William Strangward Family of Nassington “Northamps” Northamptonshire England and their American descendants. E. O. Painter Printing Company, (1985). hardcover books