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...rson County residents: Miss Elsie Murphy of Charles Town; Harry L. Snyder ( editor of the Shepherdstown Register), Mrs. E. S. Jarrett, and Thomas C. Miller (principal of Shepherd 17 See, ~, Clift, Founding Sisters, 119; «They Helped to Win the Great War;, The Magazine of the Jeff...
... sed the amendment by a good majority; however, the Senate tied 14- 14. By this time, the Shepherdstown Register was 11ot optimistic that the amendment would be recon idered during the pecial ession. 28 The newspaper s prediction notwith tanding, the battle was not over and legis...
96 The Magazine of the Men of Shepherdstown went on sale on July 6, 1963 for $3.00 postpaid. Still available, you can purchase a copy today for $10.00 or have it mailed to you for $13.00. In 1954, Charlotte Judd Fairbairn published the Washington Homes of Jefferson County, West V...
...ied Elizabeth Conrad Bedinger, daughter of Daniel Bedinger and Sarah Rutherford of nearby Shepherdstown, Virginia. Nine children were born at Berry Hill before the log and plank structure was destroyed by fire in about 1824. The new mansion, built in 1825-1828 is situated on a hi...
...ger was the second of thirteen children of Daniel Bedinger and Sarah Rutherford of nearby Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Virginia and now West Virginia. She was born 27 September 1793 in Norfolk, Virginia where her father was then with the Custom House. At the age of 16, Elizab...
...ks, Kentucky. George Michael Bedinger was the brother of Daniel Bedinger of Bedford, near Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co., Virginia and the grandfather of Mildred Berry Washington. The couple removed to Solomon's home, Bedinger House near Vanceburg, Kentucky where he was a farmer an...
...egard and such welcome. As an editor, Mr.W. long wielded an influence wi th the people 44 Shepherdstown Register, 21 Jul 1855, p. 2. 45 D01/y Democratic State Journal (Sacramento, CA):Wednesday,Aug 8, I 855,Vol V II, issue 89, page 3. "Col. 8. F.Wash1ngton, formerly the accomplis...
...ok, Thornton Perry Collection (microfilm), Ruth Scarborough Library, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV.
...ok, Thornton Perry Collection (microfilm), Ruth Scarborough Library, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV. See fn. 1.
...On April 12, 1734 Robert Brooke made a survey for Richard Morgan above the future site of Shepherdstown referring to «the dividing of Josiah Jones,s and Charles Anderson,s path;' which connected Anderson's Terrapin Neck tract and Josiah Jones,s mill on Rockymarsh Run to the lower...
... and Thomas Swearingen, the latter of whom would come to operate the ferry at the site of Shepherdstown, received the first land patents where Little Antietam Creek came down off the mountain (near Keedysville). 50 After the Antietam Creek ford, the road 49 The author acknowledge...
... for about two miles, from Shenandoah Junction in the west almost all the way down to the Shepherdstown Pike. Hart allocated the lower sections of his survey to his son Miles Hart and his brother-in-law John Miles. His ordinary and the Wagon Road crossing apparently lay in the up...
...ied Elizabeth Conrad Bedinger, daughter of Daniel Bedinger and Sarah Rutherford of nearby Shepherdstown, Virginia. Nine children were born at Berry Hill before the log and plank structure was destroyed by fire in about 1824. The new mansion, named Cedar Lawn where four more child...
...the migration to Missouri. The unmarried girls, Sarah {Sallie) Eleanor, Mary Elizabeth, 8 Shepherdstown Register, 21 Jul 1855, p 2. 9 Daily Democranc State Journal (Sacramento, CA): Wednesday, Aug 8, 1855, Vol VII, issue 89, page 3: ''Col 8. F. Washington, formerly the accomplish...
.... Like other arti ans of the period, silversmiths settled in principal centers of growth. Shepherdstown, Charlestown, Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg all boasted a number of silversmiths through the years 7 https:/ /www.readandmullin. com/articles/southerns ilver.php
...t the 175-acre family farm in Middleway, he moved to Arkansas in 183 7. Smith Hunsi cker (Shepherdstown)mark, two various fo1111 . Photo courtesy of Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va. James Hutchinson (1795-1854): a silversmith who worked in Martinsburg from 1823 to 1854....
...zine of the John Grove (Johann Groff) Silversmith, Clock Maker. Martinsburg 1800-1814/20, Shepherdstown 1809, Hardscrabble 1825. Frederick Tyler Harrison (B. 1793-D 1878) Silversmith, Watchmaker. Charlestovvn 1811-1814. Charles Thomas Hayden (B. 1845-D.1826) Silversmith. Son of S...
...the American Revolution I Adam Stephens Chapter, tour docent at the Historic Entler Hotel Shepherdstown Museum and former board member of the Jefferso,i County Historic Landmarks Commission.
...n B. Hall, Charle Town Jame L Glymph, Avon Bend Bet y Well , Charle Town P. Dougla Perk , Shepherdstown John Bagladi, Harper Ferry John D. Glymph, Avon Bend Chri tine M. nyder, Ran on Jame L Glymph, Avon Bend Di1-el·tor : I:1·1c Je11k111 , la rtir1 burg; u a1111ah Buckle , . hena...
...ed together that Stephenson, who was the senior officer should cross the Potomac River at Shepherdstown and Morgan at Harpers Ferry, meet at Frederick Town proceed together to headquarters at Cambridge. Morgan however crossed the day before us on the 15th July did not stop or wai...
...f May 24th, 1776: ''Rec'd Orders My Self to proceed homewards, &c." 12 After returning to Shepherdstown, Henry was active in recruiting riflemen for the new battalion. George Michael and Joseph Swearingen 13 were expecting a general engagement with the British and desirous of par...
...of, I returned home with my worthy companion and well-tried friend, Benoni Swearingen, to Shepherdstown. No other important engagement took place that season between Washington 1 s army and the British. 23 upplie to Valley Forge General Washi ngton and his army went into camp at ...
...781, Michael, carrying letters from Henry to his mother and Captain Shepherd, set out for Shepherdstown by way of Richmond, where he was to settle the accounts of his company. On October 15 Henry records in his journal that the British ships coming to the aid of General Cornwalli...
...o u 11 t }' H i ori cal Soc i et}' 49 Bedford Home of Daniel Bedinger. Built in 1799 near Shepherdstown In August 1782, with British support, a bout 50 Loyalists, and 300 Indians, crossed the Ohio River into Kentucky. They meant to surprise and destroy the settlement of Bryan Sta...
.... A descendant of the family, Cornelius Wynkoop, would later take over Entler's Tavern in Shepherdstown. In 1719, two things happened. Esther's father, Griffith Miles, died leaving certain legaci es to his family members. And in an apparently friendly 27 Ht'-. 11a111e apptar, 1n ...
...n various directions, including to the Lower Valley as operators of the Pot omac ferry at Shepherdstown. 35 See Paton Yoder, «Tavern Regulation in Virgi nia: Rationale a nd Reality;, 87 Va. Mag. Hist. & Biog. 259-278 (July 1979). Virginia law re quired any place serving intoxicat...
...aid. Charles Town Bicentennial 1786- 1986. 1986. $10 each; $13 postpaid. Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962. By A. D. Kenamond. 1963. $10 each; $14 postpaid. Tombstone Inscriptions, Jefferson County, W Va. 1687-1980. Bee Line Chapter, NSDAR. $20 each; $25 postpaid. The Wash...
...r ~ Leeto n Cameron's == Depot Charlestown nt Bullskin Run Rippon Clifton • Berryville 23 Shepherdstown Halltown arpers Ferf) John Bagladi
...all reconnoitering party, who have gone back. Lomax's scouts report no enemy this side of Shepherdstown. Will encamp on Smithfield pike near Cameron's Depot, in supporting distance of either flank. General Early has desired me to take charge of all the cavalry whilst General A[nd...
...n force moved to Bunker Hill and Lomax's cavalry made reconnaissance's to Martinsburg and Shepherdstown, while Anderson's whole force remained near Winchester. 42 41 heridan, Personal Memoirs, 490-492. 42 Jubal Anderson Earl y, Narrative of the War Between the States ( ew York, D...
...cope of such a map as the ''Attack in the P.M. of Aug 25th 1864, on Federal Retreat, near Shepherdstown'' or the ''Engagement of Fitz Lee's Cavalry, Smithfield, Va. Aug. 28th, 1864," to the much more detailed ''Engagement at Charlestown." 67 66 \"illia1n B Packette .. hand,, 1r1t...
...he grave of the pioneer, Edward Lucas, and many members of his family. All these are near Shepherdstown. '''Elmwood' grave-yard.'' Page 17. Caption and photograph from Mary Taylor Miller/s ''Records of Tombstones Outside Towns'' In the collection of the Perry Room at the Charles ...
...corded what she could learn about graves denoted by these unmarked field stones. While in Shepherdstown, Miller observed that ''at 'Bellevue' [home of the Swearingen family] there are many unmarked stones." ''In the Halltown neighborhood'' Miller found the ''grave of John Rion, a...
92 The Magazine of the of the Democracy of Harpers Ferry-left for Bath, Martinsburg, Shepherdstown on tour with Grundy, returned to H.F. on 24 th ;'' November 25, 1841, ''Old Mrs. Fitzsimmons was found dead this morning-gave Miss Mary (Fitzsimmons) order for a cord of wood- $4.0...
...on. 1984. $20 each. Charles Town Bicentennial 1786-1986. 1986. $10 each. Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962. By A. D. Kenamond. 1963. $10 each. Tombstone Inscriptions, Jefferson County, W Va. 1687-1980. Bee Line Chapter> NSDAR. $20 each. The Washington Homes of Jefferson Co...
Jeffer on ount Hi tori al o iet 27 ''Falling Spring,'' Shepherdstown Home of Jacob Morgon from a recent photograph t n H u built b Ab l grandfather in 1734. In Augu t of l 796~ Ja b \'a in ited to go back to orfolk ith Daniel Bedinger and l1i fa1nil to p nd th inter ith the1n. Th...
...cob Morgan had become wealthy in the mercantile business and began building a new home in Shepherdstown, to become known as ''Falling Spring'', on the land he had inherited on which the 'Old Stone House '' was situated. Daniel found during his tenure in the Custom House that the ...
.... Mr. Fitzsimmons statement was duly forwarded to President Washington. 24 • 25 Return to Shepherdstown When George Washington decided not to run for a third term as president and retired to his country plantation at Mount Vernon, Daniel Bedinger hoped that a Jeffersonian Republi...
... Navy Agent at Norfolk was difficult for Daniel. He was happily settled at ''Bedford' and Shepherdstown was a pleasant part of the country in which to raise a family. He was well off financially and occupied a respected position in society. Yet, he accepted Secretary Smith's offe...
...of Napoleon and the return of the Bourbon monarchy, the Federalists held a celebration in Shepherdstown. Daniel Bedinger recognized the celebration as a pretext to 'embarrass the government ''' and ''drive James Madison from the helm of state'. To express his repudiation of the F...
...on. 1984. $20 each. Charles Town Bicentennial 1786-1986. 1986. $10 each. Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962. By A. D. Kenamond. 1963. $10 each. Tombstone Inscriptions, Jefferson County, W Va. 1687-1980. Bee Line Chapter, NSDAR. $20 each. The Washington Homes of Jefferson Co...
18 The Magazine of the American Revolution (DAR) in Shepherdstown dedicated a monument to the ''The Spirit of 1775 ." The monument com memorated Captain Hugh Stephenson's Rifle Company's Bee Line March to Cambridge, Massachusetts. The monument was originally located along the Ke...
...ael Cre ap and Thomas Price were chosen to lead the Maryland rifle companies. 20 Historic Shepherdstown. Danske Dandridge. The Michie Company, Printers. Charlot tesville, Virginia. 1910. Page 79. The quote comes from a letter written by Henry Beding er to Samuel Berkeley Finley...
...l Finley were made lieutenants. 25 Historic She pherdstown. Page 79. 26 Ibid. 27 Historic Shepherdstown. Page 77. 28 Ibid. Pages 88-89. 29 Busho ng, Millard K. Historic Je fferson County. Carr Publis hing Company, Inc. Boyce, Virginia. 1972. Pages 497-498. 30 Ibid. Page 80. 31 Ib...
...i tory of the Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regime,it. Page 7. 64 Ibid. Page 5. 65 Historic Shepherdstown. Page 143. 66 A Muster Roll of Captain Abraham Shepherd's Rifle Company appears on pages 154-155
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