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• !Cl)' David Keplinger of Shepherdstown and His Descendants r~. Jo\ 1ce nn 1cKee Jack\on .,, ,John Keplinger on of l)a,,id and Elizabeth (Co t) Keplinger c>t· hepherd '"tO\'n" ( O\' \-\'\ 1 ) 53 Th K pli11g 1· r1111e to 111erica fro111 Betzdorf 01· Cadol burg. orth Ba, 1 a1·i,'2...
...The Jefferson Co. Historical Society met at 7:30 this evening in the Woman's Club room in Shepherdstown. The meeting was called to order by President A.D. Kenamond. Miss Ella May Turner read the minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee held in Harpers Ferry January 12th....
20 The Magazine of the POST OFFICES IN JEFFERSON COUNTY Numbered By Date Established 1. Shepherdstown June 30, 1792 2. Charles Town January 30, 1799 3. Middleway January 11, 1830 4. Leetown October 12, 1831 5. Kabletown January 25, 1833 6. Summit Point September 9, 1836 7. Hallt...
...nt of Jacob D. Derr on April 19, 1898. Service ceased on September 2, 1903 and thereafter Shepherdstown served the area. WHEATLAND With the coming of the Norfolk and Western the area known as Wheatland needed a post office. A facility was opened on November 18, 1883 and was so na...
...house known as Toll Gate House, about a half mile south of Keameysville on the Smithfield-Shepherdstown Pike, for $500.00. However, it seems that he rented thi property out and never occupied it. According to the 1870 Census, John Fox at age 24, a male
... descendants are also buried. His passing was reported in the May 25, 1911 edition of the Shepherdstown Register as a man much respected in the community. John H. Fox, a well-known colored man, died at his home near Bardane, last Friday night, after a long illness, aged 65 years....
... estate provided for hereunder. I hereby constitute and appoint George M. Beltzhoover, of Shepherdstown, sole executor of this my last Will and Testament. Given under my hand and seal this 1st day of August, 1908. John H. Fox, (Seal) Codicil 1, John H. Fox, do hereby make and dec...
...llege in 1867. Shepherd College originally begun as a teachers college was established in Shepherdstown in 1872 and the first propulsion of a boat by a steam engine occurred here in 1789. Railroads came to the county in the 1830s and roads were built to facilitate the getting of ...
...and, the Freewill Bapti t teachers reoccupied the schools in Harper's Ferry, Charle Town, Shepherdstown, and Martinsburg. 61 In the summer of 1866, N. C. Brackett became the superintendent for freedmen' chools throughout the entire Shenandoah Valley from Lexington to the Potomac ...
...rkamp ............................................... 3 3 The Railroad at Potomac Cliffs, Shepherdstown, compiled by John E. Stealey ill, with an editorial note .............................................................................................. 51 Tudor Hall, by Mrs. J...
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...f land sixty-six feet wide and ninety feet long lying on the bank of the Potomac river at Shepherdstown in said county belonging to Fanny Shepherd, Alexander B. Shepherd and R. Davis Shepherd, in which Mrs. Elizabeth S. Shepherd had a dower interest. The proceedings in the case w...
...ce which he sells at his stand, the Tudor Hall Farm Market, and at the farmer's market in Shepherdstown.
...n Daphne, Alabama. He spent ten years with the National Conservation Training Center near Shepherdstown, We ·t Virginia.
...Mapleshade ( I 9 2 0 s) and Shep he,. d' s Lowe,~ Fa,. m ( I 8 7 0 s -1 8 9 0 s) . Nearby Shepherdstown has had other names such as Mecklenburg or Packhorse Ford which will occasionally appear in the text. Because property boundaries have changed over the years I also occasionall...
...ted on the Potomac River between Hancock and Cumberland, Maryland, about 50 miles west of Shepherdstown. Charles Anderson had been in the Indian trading business since at least 1712, when he was recorded as entering into a lawsuit in Cecil Co, Maryland, with the widow of Indian t...
...ite 3 years later in 1734, though they retained and lived on several large parcels in the Shepherdstown area. Hite al o had an additional I 00,000 acre g1·ant in the Shenandoah Valley issued to him by the Virginia authorities that he shared with a group of partners. Hite already ...
...el Friend had also taken up land nearby along both sides of the river outh of present-day Shepherdstown, probably in the 1720 . (Friend's title to the Maryland land apparently came from everal generous Indian chiefs who considered him their friend -ee Diller, undated. Thomas Swea...
...fed tributaries, one of which begins in present-day Morgan's Grove Park. The community of Shepherdstown has been referred to by a number of names over the years. From the 1720s to the 1750s it was commonly referred to as Pack Horse Ford, in reference to the ancient river crossing...
...s against the white colonists. 1764 -Van Swearingen bought lots 54 and 56 in Mecklenberg (Shepherdstown). He also received a Fairfax grant for 234 acres along both sides of Back Creek, we t of present-day Hedgesville. He and 2nd wife Priscilla eventually sold this to a Snodgrass ...
...ample, the Shepherd town Natural Cement Plant on the east bank of the Potomac River below Shepherdstown. Thus the story ends with just some stone edifices and some street and stream names remaining as reminders of an era that was most important in the builiding of ettlements that...
...ading to Martinsburg in what was then called the Van Meter Marsh area west of present-day Shepherdstown and included the tract containing John Van Meter's old home, outbuildings and orchard, and the area that has now become the Heatherfield subdivision, that John Van Meter had fi...
...h have not been independently verified at this point -several of his fellow soldiers from Shepherdstown were imprisoned until 1779). Van's son Hezekiah, 28, enlisted about a year later under Capt. William Morgan, and Van's youngest son Thoma 23, al o became a soldier, most likely...
...funeral charges and debts were paid. Abraham has been described as the ''feudal lord'' of Shepherdstown from this time until 1793, when town decisions were made by an elected Board of Trustees, but with Abraham, of course, as President (Kenamond 1963). After returning to the Cont...
...rontier and elsewhere. Out west in the Wheeling area, Col. David Shepherd of Mecklenburg (Shepherdstown), in command of Fort Henry which was then under siege by attacking Indians, was relieved to have Col. Andrew Swearingen, Van's nephew, appear with men and supplies (J.H Newton ...
...sion of southern Virginia; it seems very likely that this was Maj. Thomas Swearingen from Shepherdstown. They must have been released a short time later. George Washington's Revolutionary Army, with the help of the French, defeated Briti h regulars under Lord Cornwallis at Yorkto...
...y rejected and the warehouse was instead built upstream near Williamsport (Wayland 1907). Shepherdstown (i.e. Abraham Shepherd) also petitioned the Virginia legislature for a tobacco warehouse this year, and again successfully in 1788, citing the favorable location of the town on...
...pp. 64 and 142). James Rumsey launched his steamboat from the Swearingen ferry landing in Shepherdstown, and demonstrated it before a large group of astonished local dignitarie , including Capt. Abraham Shepherd, Col. Joseph Swearingen, Benoni Swearingen and a Van Swearingen. She...
... same year (H.H Swearingen). Brothers Thomas and Samuel were probably still living in the Shepherdstown area. Jo iah's estate settlement gives an interesting glimpse of farming life in the mid1790s. Crews were contracted over the next few years to plant, harvest, haul and clean m...
...th. On November 7th, 1797 Abraham Shepherd re-acquired the property across the river from Shepherdstown known as Pell Mell from the Freemans of New Jersey (his brother had sold it in 1769 to a Jacob Vandiver, who passed it to his daughter Phoebe and her husband Dr. Clarkson Freem...
...mer town of Mecklenburg was now officially renamed Shepherds Town (this was contracted to Shepherdstown after the Civil War). Abraham Shepherd at this time also was busy with land transactions out in Ohio. Between 1798 and I 813 he would patent some 6895 acre in the Virginia Mili...
...f Moses Shepherd one hundred and fifty dollars for the [indecipherable] Abraham Morgan of ShepherdsTown in part pay for negro girl bought by Abraham Shepherd from Abraham Morgan April the 12, 1799 Abraham Shepherd's sawmill produced a large order of lumber of various sizes includ...
...es when he was wounded in his leg and brea t. The young soldier wa moved into the town of Shepherdstown, Virginia, just aero s the Potomac, nine miles from Harper s Ferry, and was cared for there by Ellie Rentch, until he died three weeks later on November 11, I 862. Typed transc...
...meeting of nine of the persons elected as Trustees of a school about to be established in Shepherdstown at the home of Thomas James on the 13th Nov 1812, to wit John Kearsly, Lewis Mayer, Robert Worthington, Thos V. Swearingen, James Brown, Van Bennett, Daniel Buckles, Presley Ma...
...the 14th in tant at 10 o'clock A.M. A. Jewitt Sec'y Pres. At a meeting of the Trustees of Shepherdstown Academy on Tt1esday the 14th day of April agreeable to adjournment at the house of James Brown. Present. Rev'd Lewis Mayer James Brown John Baker Thomas Toole Aaron Jewitt Van ...
... the Board now adjourn. James Brown, Sec'y Pro. Tern. At a meeting of the Trustees of the Shepherdstown Academy on the 15th day of April 1820, present Henry Boteler, W. S. Selby, John Briscoe, John Baker, James Brown and A. Jewitt. A communication a rec'd from Nathan S. Read, Pri...
...plify the boundary between their respective properties and allow a more direct route from Shepherdstown to Shepherd's recently acquired dwelling at Springwood. A little over ten acres comprising the narrow corridor pointing east to Terrapin N eek was sold by Van Swearingen to Abr...
... a surveyor from Maryland, in his journal described the landscape between Martinsburg and Shepherdstown: The First 6 Miles from Martinsburg Mountainous & Piny poor Ground bad farmers, plaster would help; now in Jefferson County Virginia, the ,iext Six Miles to Sheppards Town, a D...
... Company annual report indicated that toll collectors had been appointed at Williamsport, Shepherdstown and Harpers Ferry to gather tolls from freight boats passing these locations, in hopes of ''a handsome increase of revenue'' (Corra Bacon-Foster 1912). The company had struggle...
...w Orleans on July 27th (a large monument now marks his grave in the Shepherd graveyard in Shepherdstown). R.D had to travel to New Orleans to get things in order, and seems to have taken a stronger interest in his old Virginia home after this time. His business acumen may have se...
...home sold to the Shepherds by his sister, his remaining small farm on the Potomac and the Shepherdstown area in general had undoubtedly lost some of its charm. In a deed dated I st April, 1843, he sold the remaining 197 acres of RiverView Farm to his 15-year-old sister Elizabeth ...
...R.D) was born; he had been married to Elizabeth Boteler, daughter of Alexander Boteler of Shepherdstown who served on Stonewall Jackson's staff and in the Confederate Congress. James Touro Shepherd, youngest son of Henry and Fanny, also died during the war. Henry, now over 70 yea...
...ural pursuits'' (Shep. Register 4 Sept 1891). 1872 - James Markell died. He was living in Shepherdstown with his wife Elizabeth, youngest daughter Sallie and two African-American servants, one of them a child of 7; he died of erysipelas, a bacterial disease of the skin. His wife ...
...n State, is the time honored manor of the well-known Shepherd Estate, four miles North of Shepherdstown, in Jefferson County. Looking out from a gently reclining hill, on the picture que Potomac, with it varied and beautiful scenery, this old Virginia Homestead i one of those wel...
...ss the road from my house in Steamboat Run (off Shepherd Grade about three miles north of Shepherdstown) is an old family burial ground, the final resting place of the Chapline family which first settled in this area more than 250 years ago. The cemetery is situated on a rise tha...
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...gical research as a consultant for a proposed development, named Potomac Crossing, in the Shepherdstown area. 1 Several citizens had raised concern about the project 's impact because Bedford, home of local Revolutionary War hero Daniel Bedinger, had once been located in the prop...
... was mapped by Vladimir Antonov of Resource International, referencing an old plat map of Shepherdstown for the location of lot numbers and road locations. The examination of this location on the ground brought the archaeologists to the site of the f orrner Apple Products Company...
...965-1994 $15 1995-current $10 Other publications (order same as above): Proniinent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962 $10 Between the Slienandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson County, West Virginia $49.95 DVD: Between the She11andoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferso...
...ized by Col. Whiting, a Texas Ranger, and left for California on February 23rd, 1849. The Shepherdstown Company, whose pre ident was Dr. Richard Parran, left '' ... in the spring of 1849." 1 On January 9th, 1849, a third company, the Charlestown Virginia Mining Company, held its ...
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