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Jefferson aunty Historical Society o:a, REVOLUTIONARY }lEl\1IlNISCENCES OJ TOH BY AN EX-MEMBER OF CONGRESS. \V YORK: . A. ROLLO, 169 AND 170 FULTON STREET, OPP08IT• 8T. PAUL'S OBUBOB. 1860. • • • <...::... -c • 13
...afterward we found ourselves in f rant of the f 01111er re idence f General Charle Lee of Revolutionary notoriety. The hou e i a I ng low quaint-looking building, with a high-pitched roof and irregularly-placed chimney . It tand a short distance from the turnpike road and on risi...
...1g i o noted a place i11 this neighborhood. It eem tl1at wl1en the momentous drama of the Revolution was about to begir1 and the l1eart of Virginia was throbbing in responsive uni on with tl1e eloquence of Patrick Henry who se memorable words, '"We mu t fig/1 t-I repeat it sir we...
...a sen e of light that permeates every corner of the house, ech i11g in it rustic way that revolutionary use of light introduced by Indig Jone into Englisl1 architecture from Italy three hundred years before in the Banqueting Hall and transported to the ew Republic tl1rough tl1e a...
...o the General introducing young Dandridge, who had been his aide in the early days of the Revolution, recommending him as an appropriate suitor for Ann Stephen, the General's only <laugher and heir. After listing his good qualities, family connections, and describing his estate i...
...mmunity. Henry St. George Tucker is one of the most interesting figures to emerge in post-Revolutionary political and judicial life of Virginia. He was born in 1780 at Matoax, a Randolph plantation on his mother's side where St .. George Tucker, his father, had taken the family t...
... ea e and a thankful acceptance of Gods gifts. But already tl1e Machine of the Industrial Revolution was in the arden of den the abu11dance and careless ease of pre-war Virginia cou11try life was slipping away: crops failed, drouths continued old debt were pre ed and tl1e loving ...
...t a commission.) The Jeff er on County Commission has given priority first to marking pre-Revolutionary structures in preparation for the 1776 Bicentennial. bronze plaque ins ribed A Jefferson County Historic Landmark'' will be presented to eacl1 place.
...st of Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Pre-Revolutionary Structures and Sites in Jefferson County Charles Town Area Ruins of the English Church (St. George's Chapel) . . I 3 Stone Kitchen at Piedmont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
...ark." It i hoped that valid pre ervation will be encouraged by uch award . Obviou ly po t-Revolutionary land mark far outnumber the earlier tructure . For homes such as Piedmont Happy Retreat and Beverly the later portion are the dominating feature . The de ignation of landmark ...
...the Davenport heirs presented it to the Bee Line Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. With their funds, generously supplemented by the Shenandoah-Potomac Garden Council, and a work force supplied, as a Bicentennial year contribution, by the Harpers Ferry Historic ...
...ported a hand ome pulpit from England. (Vol. Ip. 43-45). He was an acti e upporter of the Revolution in which three of his sons fought. Portion of hi wife' diary for the last two years of his II m
...y donated the land for the English Church. With William Darke he offered hi er ice in the Revolutionary War but there is no record of hi activitie other than recruiting shortly before his death. The tone kitcJ1en at the 1anor House howing the outside oven and a glimpse of the rva...
...verly have been judged by the Historic Landmarks Commission to have been built before the Revolution. Beverly, or Kalorama, as it was originally known, is located to the right of Route 340 three miles south of Charles Town. It is owned by Mr. and Mrs. John Porter Burns, Sr. It wa...
...burg." He was married to Mary Morgan, daughter of Richard. Four of his sons served in the Revolutionary Army-Major Thomas, Jr. (to be one of the orga11izers of Berkeley County in 1772), Col. Joseph, Benomi, and ''Indian'' Van. Jr.
...The lane runs nine-tenths of a mile through woodland to two houses one of which is a pre Revolutionary fieldstone house and the other a brick mansion. The mansion is at the top of a hill, the older house is nearby and southwest at the foot of the hill. The stone house is believe...
...est son and the heir to this portion of his estate, who died as a British prisoner in the Revolution, leaving his widow to care for their five children. The old house has seen much history. During the French and Indian War, Richard Morgan raised a company in the vicinity to prote...
...fighting Indian in 1758-9. He wa captain of a compan rai ed among hi neighbor to join the Revolutionary Army. Exhibiting out tanding bravery at the Battle of Germantown in 1777 he wa captured and held aboard a pri on hip until hi exchange in ovember 1780. Organizing a regiment fr...
... in the wildern,ess,' oftentimes returning to it to temporarily escape the demands of the Revolution.
...in Jefferson County, some to the present day. One who benefited by Rite's sellout was the Revolutionary General, Charles Lee who, in 1775, bought ''all that plantation where the said Jacob Hite now dwells." At this time the main house consisted of a log section, now enclosed in t...
...ay the Hi toric Landmark Cammi sion can determine whether it wa built before or after the Revolution. The brick addition wa built in 1913. he propert now i owned by the heir of John L. Burn Sr.: aleb Burn , Eleanor Burn Pu ter and William Huyett Burn . The h u e i occupied b the ...
... ............................. 3 List of Members .................................. 4 Pre-Revolutionary Structures and Sites in Jefferson County Locust Ridge-Stone Haven ...................... 13 Aspen Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 6 Fa...
...nt stone house recognized by the Jefferson County Historic Landmarks Commission as of pre-Revolutionary construction is Locust Ridge. It is on the old road leading from Morgan's Grove Park to the newer section of the Ridge Road about two miles from the town limits of Shepherdstow...
...h sits where every window commands a Vlew of lovely rural landscape, is an example of pre-Revolutionary construction. The main section of the house is fieldstone and has four finished stories including the full basement and full finished attic. It faces west with the front door a...
...nchester. Next is Media. The original log and stone portion probably was built before the Revolution. It was bought in 1786 by Charles Yates and now is owned by his McDonald descendant, Julia Davis Adams, and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Charles O'Brien. Mrs. O'Brien formerly was Lou...
...bject of speculation and gossip locally and in the valley of northern Virginia, until the Revolution provided a more pressing subject for conversation. E.K. Meade has summarized Campbell's rise and fall: The career of Andrew Campbell in Frederick County was as remarkable as it wa...
... ruins are now the property of Bee Line Chapter, ational ociety Daughters of the American Revolution, having been deeded to the Chapter by the Davenport heirs. After receiving the final deed in 1973 the Daughters started work on preservation. Help has come from many directions bu...
...elson of the Department of History of Berea College on ''Lee, Gates, Stephen, and Morgan, Revolutionary War Generals of the Lower Shenandoah Valley." On October 5, 1976, ''Daniel Morgan'' was the subject of Dr. Don Higginbotham's lecture. He is a Professor of History at the Unive...
...zations with originals and reproductions depicted such themes as hepherdstown's birthday, Revolutionary War documents local pictures the C&O Canal a tribute to James Rumsey, Civil War trea ures, and agriculture in this community. Since Shepherdstown was the setting for the public...
...rent by steam on the Potomac at Shepherdstown. The Link family marked the graves of their Revolutionary War ancestor, John Adam Link, 2nd., and his wife, Jane Ogle Link, in the old Lutheran graveyard on East German Street with bronze plaques. The Jaycees sold copies of great Amer...
... cale of migration into the Valley of Virginia in the brief forty year before the merican Revolution is difficult to imagine.
...wn rye, oats, barley, wheat, and corn to the less known hemp and flax. After the American Revolution, wheat became the primary cash crop, with the city of Baltimore being the major emporium. Valley farms produced sub stantial numbers of horses, cattle, swine, and sheep for trade...
...lip Clayton s view, things not Virginian were invariably wanting. II. Tlze Transportation Revolution and g1·ici1ltural Decline, 1840's to 1940's ran portation enterpri es, emanating from eastern urban centers, in the late 1820's would have a profound impact on the succeeding deca...
16 The Magazine of the The revolutionary element in the history of the two counties was the building of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Baltimore through Harper's Ferry, Reedson, Duffields, Kearneysville, Van Clevesville, Martinsburg, and North Mountain. The railroad reached...
...the built by the uncle who was a notorious prankster. Also, the Daughters of the American Revolution had held a ceremony in 1933, in which they had placed a stone marker acknowledging the Washlngtons in the front yard of Happy Retreat. (This marker does not specify burials.) Then...
...s elected chairman of the Landmarks Commission • which gave first priority to marking pre-Revolutionary structures in preparation for the 1976 Bicentennial. In tracing the recent history of the Society it is important to include these related fields of service which have greatly ...
... Shenandoah Valley in the number of its vintage homes-not only pre-Civil War but also pre-Revolutionary. onsider first the early settlers, many of whom were political and religious refugees who moved southward from Pennsylvania where they had not found homesites to their liking. ...
... Wale in 1700. Colonel William Morgan and his son William Morgan both were officer in the Revolutionary War and assembled at Morgan' pring near Shepherdstown, and from there made the f amou Bee Line March to Bo ton. It has not been at this date verified that William I wa on of I ...
...wn). Wife Agnes (Vail) died June 31, 1822, in 65th year. William served as Captain in the Revolutionary War. Both he and his father are proven D.A.R. lines ( DAR Patriot Index). Before his death, William had purchased his father's, Colonel Morgan's home place-the Lucas land-and m...
...ffort to prevent the threatened uprising. Dr. Joseph Johnson's Traditions of the American Revolution in the South says James had for
...to him immediately. This, R. W. Gibbes relates in his Documentary History of the American Revolution, in the form of letters Col. Williamson dispatched. Kercheval ·also related that a man named ''Parrish'' was thought to have stirred up the Cherokees against Jacob Hite. This was ...
...ng record in pre ent Charle ton S . . , where all up-country record were filed before the Revolution. George Peari ay in the deed to hi father that it i not to interfere with a bargain between hi father Richard Peari and Jacob Hite for Jacob to ha e one-third of the 150 000 acre ...
...itish subjects and as such to have all the rights and privileges of Englishmen. After the Revolution, in 1784, South Carolina opened up the farmer Cherokee land in the north-western part of the state, including present Greenville County and proceeded to grant away the Richard Pea...
... Indian War, once commanded Fort Cumberland, and later held the British commission in the Revolution. He acquired and lost at least three fortunes, had a white wife, Rhoda, and Indian ''side wife'' who lived at T oquo, the mother of George Pearis, and he had a son Richard, Jr. an...
... died. Hi will doe not how any South Carolina propert . What of the Hite family after the Revolution? Jacob had made a will March 7 1770 and a codicil Dec. 22, 1771. It wa witne ed by Bartholemew Fryatt John Hyatt Jame Lee William Hayhur t and Abram Hite. The codicil wa witnes ed...
...utor of Jacob e tate returned the money to the e tate. When George Hite returned from the Revolution with au ele hand from wound and deeper inner wound from grief over the death of hi father and mother hi brother Jame and very likely hi two young i ter the ituation he found in Vi...
... County Hi torical Society 57 John on, Jo eph: Tradition & Reminiscen ces of the American Revolution in the South, alker & Jame , harle ton .C. 1851. (Hite Prince, Hampton & Wood familie & detail of Hite mas acre). Hemphi.11 & Wate : Extracts From the Journal of the Provincial Co...
... 1976, we reported some twenty structures which were judged to have been built before the Revolutionary War. Twenty-seven houses, built largely before the Civil War, have been designated as Landmarks since. A majority of these have been described in this Magazine's Historic Homes...
...of tithes. It wa an impressive li t of names, a number of which figure prominently in the Revolution and in the settlement of the West. Dougla outhall Freeman in writing of the life of Washington, has given a uccinct account of the dutie of vestrymen: To begin with they were uppo...
...h. When an Anglican place of worship was built in Martin burg Bi hop Meade says after the Revolution-it would ha e been a chapel of ease and called a "chapel '' as were the buildings at Mecklenburg and Bunker Hill. This rotation of Sunday services was and had been the practice in...
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