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...rical papers proclaim, ''The Old Unterrified District', as be- ing one tlundred per cent Revolutionary, and the ''Bee Line for Boston'' has been often to'ld in song and story. But there was at least one Tor.y in these parts in Revolu tionary times, althoug,h up to ·that time he...
...s \vl1ich ·he bore with fortitude and resignaion. M·r. M ,Knight \Vas a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary ar nd braved the dan·gers of the memorable battle of Tren ton. In he character of Mr. M 'Knight ,vere combined the folIo,ving in valuable traits, ger1uine piety, honesty, temp...
...France, with his ·brother, the Due of Chartres, both exiled from their native land by the Revolution, made a • tour of th-is part of the country, beginnin-g at Mt. Vernon. where they were guests, and r-oughing it in what was then ca·lled ''the West''. Coming from ·Mt. Vernon, the...
... So years old. Mrs. Herrington satys tha1 it was used as a rendezvous for soldiers in the Revolutionary War, was a ba·r racks during the War of 1812, and durini the Civil WaT it was a so occupied from time to tim'e 'by s.o1'Cliers, Union m·en and Confederates a tern, arting in i...
... 11 an1ong· the Quakers \'ho were banish ed from Pennsjyl vania at the beg·inning of tl1e Revolution and he ld prisoners in Wincheste·r for a number of yea rs. Quite a ~istory Oif this oc·currence is am•on g· the reco rds at Haverfo rd Colleg·e near Philadeli1hia, which I have h ...
...Crawford, who afterwards beca,me Col. Wm. Crawford. This Col. Crawford, who served in the Revolution
...phenson had some pro'p erty near Shepherdstown and had gone into partnership be,fore the Revolution with David Shepherd in esta1blis.hing a rival Ferry where Van Swearingen Ferry had prior possess1on. You will note that the executors of the Ste·phenson wil! were tw.o half brothe...
...ce and commented upon ·after wards. It would be co·m 1paratively easy to write about th~ Revolutionary W,ar, the freeing· o,f the slaves, or the cedar cut•• ting campaign, but the· roads have gradually been built ancl g·radually g·rown worse or better without much com·ment fro11...
...e historic iati I1s lu~ t rin • around them. During the Colonial per i a11d i11 the po t-Revolution period the e taverns and inns :ll 11g the n1ai11 Iii h\J a)'S f travel served as a meeting place 1 or a11 la .. of American people. At these taverns, distinui hed e 1e11, e e11 th...
...les Town. It was built at least as early as 1770. It was ~1 famous rendezvous durin·g the Revolution ,and was built by Captain William Cherry, a11 old Revolutionary hero. It wa£ oc·cupied for nearly a century and was torn down in 18 81 to give place to a modern building .. It was...
... _ along ide them a steady strea·m of pioneers on h i r a to the west; the oldiers of the Revolution before the t rns, and ei· ht year3 later the armies of a country in the tl1r e of a ci vii war-all this the e old taverns witnessed. Tt1 ir qui k deca , aft r the building of the ...
...r. Ba'ker, Juliette (Boy•er. West Virginia State History of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 1928. 260 pages. Contains list of Jeff er son Ooun.ty graves of Revolutionary ·Soldiers. In Shepherdstown !Public Library. Ba1·1·y, Joseph. The .Strange .Story of Harpers Ferry....
...hich he de tailed the patriotic services and sufferings, of us (three Broth ers) in the revolution &ec, &ec-Gentlemen were invited and attended from every Cot1nty in this Congressional district; an·d I 11ever saw so decent, so orderly a meeting at a festive bo1ard; we had the H...
...efferson County . . . . . . . . . 18 Pioneer Preachers in Jefferson County . . . . . . 19 Revolutionary Soldiers of Jefferson ,County. . 38
...E·piscopal Church at ood tock, who :fought so gallantly in the Ame·rican Ar·my during the Revolutionary War, preached at Mecklenburg about 1729 or 30. On several occasions he visited settlements in Maryland and Virginia and it is quite likely that 'he paid the Ger1nans ·here a vi...
...ester. 111 1 869 he caime to Frederick county, Va., where he serv e as as ·or u11til the Revolutionary War, \vhen he raised a om an of soldiers that joined ashington in ew Jersey. 1-te \ 1as severel)' \ 1ounded near Amboy, while leading ·his men in an atta k on a Hessian redoub ...
...i,d. m. Elizabeth Cralghill. With Capt. Stephenson, 1775. Lived 111 Shepherdstov.'n after Revolution. Moved to Leetown, 1816. Burled at Leetown. Gray, Jol1n. d. Dec. 27, 1776. In Capt. Shepherd's Co. Died in service. G,usen1ar1, Abraham. b. Germany. Enlisted from Harpers Ferry. S...
...John. ·b. Oct. 20, 1745. d. June 26, 1819. m. Nancy Morrow. In William Morgan's Co. After Revolution was mayor of Shep hertlstown and built present Presbyterian manse. Kerney, Anthony. b. Berkeley Co., Va., Feb. 15, 1752. d. Jefferson Co., Va., May 4, 1829. m. 1790, Sarah Shephe...
...active and acquaint ed \Vith the woods 011 these frontiers.'' From 175 8 until after the Revolution Robert Rutherford \Vas a member of the House of Burgesses. With George Mason, Patri-ck Henry and Edmund R•andolph he drafted the Decba.ra- tion of Rights and framed a plan of gov...
... Jameson, 27'' by 32'', painted in 1849; JOHN JAMESON, son of Colonel Jdhn Jameson of the Revolution, paint:ed in 1849; JOHN WIL I.filAM J ~· ......... --, son of John and Elizabeth Jameson, 24'' by 28'', painted in 1849; ELIZA F4RANCES JAMESON, at the age of eighreen, daiJ.gh-t...
...own. Portrailt, oil on canvas, of DR. W!IU30N CARY .SF)4.PEN, 1bom 1761, a surgeon in bhe Revolutionary_ anny, Who ·built '~Exeter'' near Loosburg, Va., and lirved there till his death in 1835, owned by Andrew K. Selden, of Ohar_les Town. !Portrait of ·-- L JOHN MdOAILLA, OWlled ...
...ng the d!ress she wore at ,the t1roe ~in,gton resigned his commission as commander of the Revolutionary Army. These po~trai~ are at the home of Mrs. Edm1Jll.d Taylor. Mrs. Charles C. 1,-·ces,, Charles Town 'l'wo portradts, oil on canvas: ROBERT • _.... BROWN, 17991874, clerk of t...
...born 1759 at Point of Rock.5, Md., died 1815: rendeI·ed dist.inguished service during the Revolution, rewaTded with rank of General; charter member of Society of Cincinnati, as indicated in tl1e portrait: a Maryland congressman and judge. Mrs. Tayloe Perry, Charles Town Portrait ...
...a half high, above a full basen1,ent, but it no\v forms only a small part of a large post-Revolutionary _dwelling. This is in poor co11dition and its days seem n·um-bered. The e,1rly
...of them1 was elected Lieutenant in the com,pany raised by C~11t. Abran1 Sheph·erd for the Revolutionary ar~ny, and tl1ere is a thrilling· s.tory of how a Raleigh Morga11 was bI1J•vely resct1ed from l11dian massacre at the time of St. Clair's def eat l1v James • Glenn on Novem'ber...
...to Amendment and Repeal. And our Flag shall b h same that our Fathers fought under in the Revolution. Article XL VII 0 PL RALITY OF OFFICES o wo of the offices specially pr.ovided for, by this instrument, sh 11 be filled b the ame person, at the same time. Article XL VIII OATH I'...
...an any other f 11 11 ph r to n f amilie of Germtan stock. he l1r 011 er 11 offi rs in the Revolutionary ' 4 r i z : ( 1 ) a • or H en r )' B e d in r ho 1 iv e d first in the ,jtl a.n lh n o a ro p rou old ag in hi oun try home ·1 r u1nn 11 , r ar in bt1r •• {2) G or ·e Michael B...
...emen fro 1m York county in 1775. He survived the war, as his name appears on the lis,t of Revolutionary pensioners. (9) f.rederick Buedinger, (no recor· d). ( 10) EV1ru Buedinger is said by Samuel Lane to have married a man named Macel bine or Maselheim of Hanover. Since the rec...
...ummit i11t 0111etirn1e et,,,een 1772 and 1774. Their seven sons all fou ht in l1e merican Revolution. 'f lle ma 11ifice11t estate lies ,adjacent to Charles To\vn, st \ 1ir inia, ,on the road to Middleway. The original house \'a of ,,:eall1 rboar and there were three rooms, a very...
...'ill to James Verdier the junior, it was re f rred to as the tannery )'ar,d. Dur,ing the Revolutionary War James Verdier contrib uted generousl)' to the support of the Continental Army, as is ,vitnessed b)' the certificates ·filed in the State Archives at Ricl1mond, Virginia . ...
...as to drench a natio11 with the blood of brothers and com plete a far-reaching political revolution in America. In its part i11 tl1ose first, tu1m1ultuous events, no Vi1·gini:a home had so outstanding and memorable a pa1·t as did Beall Air. With out desig11 by its O\vners, this...
...ch toward the immigration and migration of other Links and their services to the American Revolution. His journeys through our virgin I·and must have been exte11sive and his interest broad. So it seems fitting· that after crossing seas ana wandering in the wilderness of a new lan...
...arine Link were spo11" ors at his baptism January 16, 17 5 7. He served in the Am erican Revolution and became an Ensign in the America11 avy in 1782. On April 14, 1783 he married Ja11e Ogle, daughter of Alexander, who erved in the War for Independence, and Mar tha O le who liv...
...n. This ,vas in the year 1774. If thi i orr t tl1en both the father and son served in tl1 Revolution and t he fatl1er' rvice is n1entioned in l1 hio i tri t. Thi i not tl1 a1ne fan1il found in pot1 Ivania Cot1nt' a. Lat r tl1e ma have rno ed to Ohio , n th re dam Lin , ,vl10 liv ...
...re sold to England to fight against the Am- erican colonists at the time of the American Revolution. The daily entries in Prechtel's diary begin with March 7, 1777, the day on which the German regiments departed from Ansbach and end with December 9, 1783, the date on which they ...
... Mount Vernon is by pub lished accounts supposed to have held powder stores dur ing the Revolution, later to have been used as a school house for the Washington children. On his visits to this section during his residency in Fredericksburg, Charles Washington is said to have li...
...tion of this tract being known as Flow ing Spring. Some ten years befo1"e the War of the Revolution Rutherford's title to the tract became involved through the loan of a consit!erable sum of money fron1 his friend, Charles Yates, of Fredericksburg, Va. An indenture dated Novembe...
...nants of today gladly rent property for a few shill ings and a peppercorn thrown in? The Revolutionary War caused silence in Court_ at Martinsburg and Charles Town, but on April 12, 1805, the Burkitts are at it again, Michael Burkitt Sr. and Michael Burkitt Jr., father selling t...
... have to don a sol clier's uniforin but could supply the irnplem.ents of war to become a Revolutionary patriot. Whether the Mc Collochs and Zanes had first known each other in New Jersey, over in Berkeley, or up near Moorefield, I can not say, but they were doubtless neighbors ...
... it was altogether proper for Washington to be baptized in the Potomac at the time of the Revolution in approval of his soldiers' response to a great revival of religious interest among the Baptists. However, this reference to a Vir-
...nia did in organizing their armed forces. The Militia was strictly a Colony's affair. The Revolutionary War proved that the military power of the va1 .. ious states
...n was alleged by eithe1-1· sicl 11 t 01· Go 1 rnor. l1e . ea1's immediateJ· following the Revolution had b1·ougl1 • conomic s agnation, disillusionn1ent discone11 and mucl1 unhaJ)piness to the American people. , ......... h cono1nic outlook began to brighten in 1787, but un c r ...
...tt, Ensign of Rifle Company. Unifornts And Equipage A hundred yea1--s before the American Revolution Louis XIV's minister of wa1 .. , Louvois, had made the world envious of smart n1ilitary equipage. It was a far cry fron1 Washington's ragged arrny at Valley Forge to the dashing u...
... ner· l William Da1 .. ke, who was with Braddock in 1755 and wl10 se1·ved in the American Revolution through the Battl of Yo1·ktown was put in command of this 16th Brigade. James Stevenson, of Be1 .. keley county, was namd he Inspector. B rkeley County Court -September 16, 1794. ...
...the heads of more worthy officers. It rnay be called ''politics'' but the soldiers of the Revolution were being· eased out of the Militia to make way for younger blood. Berkeley County Court -Augt1st 1797. Jacob Hai11es 11a111ed Lieutenant in Captai11 Ab1~aham Morgan's Company of...
... built about the same tirne, in the late 1790's, by Edward Lucas III, a lieutenant in the Revolution, who was born at Elinwood in 1738 and lived there till his death • m 1809. Only four of sons his daughters and two with the help of these two reached Ina turi ty. For and sons the...
...ried Col. Daniel Cresap, Sr., and their son Daniel Cresap, Jr .. was a Lt. Colonel in the Revolutionary War; Thomas, who emigrated to Pennsylvania followed by one of his negroes who was fond of him. Thomas was the ancestor of Orris and Mantis Van Swearingen who built the Railroad...
...organ, and Eleanor, who married Isaac Israel. They had five sons who were officers in the Revolutionary War. There was Majo1· Thomas whose son, Capt. Van, was killed at the battle of St. Clair's Defeat. Major Thomas and his brothe1--, Lt. Benoni, were rnernbers of an expedition t...
...ard expansion 11d upbuilding of· l1e t1--ans-Alleg~heny land. ea1--1 co1ncide11t with the Revolutiona1--y War, there 1·0 e a ev 1·i 11 dete1·mi11a tion in the minds of the colonies o li1ni11ate tl1e Appalachian 1nountain ranges, as bar1--iers i11 a st a1·d 1na1·ch and as bounda1-...
... in which canals, an ancient work of mankind, was to be worsted by the young, untried and revolutionary rnethod of public transportation ·by steam." Both occurred within the boundaries of Maryland. McMast. er gives the canal side of the debate as to Canal ... vs ... Railroads. ''...
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