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...ument ed incidents that I have been able to find connecting the Rev. Mr. Sturges with the Revolution. It is easy to imagine him at Morgan's Spring giving his ble ing to the regiment before it began its historic march, or preaching patriotic ermons from the carved oaken pulpit in ...
... ociety 35 there would have been little money to pend to maintain the building during the Revolution. Money was very carce ince tobacco the money crop could not be exported and price were correspondingly high. orbome Pari h would have had to depend entirely upon contributions aft...
... well known that the gentleman buried within the church was Captain William Morgan of the Revolution. Two other prominent men were said to be buried there, a Mr. Williams and a Mr. Comegys." Captain Morgan died on October 17, 1788, but I have found no information about the other ...
... of the War for American Independence, condensed from Ca"ington's Battles of the American Revolution. Presented by Col. Bergling. Virginia Tucker-Henry L Brooke Correspondence, Richmond, Va. 1831-69. Presented by Miss Fredrica H. Trapnell of Wilmington, Del. Virginia Tucker and H...
...tern Panhandle. The building had the misfortune of being completed at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. The church was located in an area whose early settlers were mostly from Pennsylvania and Maryland and who had long resented Virginia's tithing for the support of the Angli...
...riptions The Bee Line Chapter of Charles Town, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution has just completed the compilation of all tombstone inscriptions in Jefferson County, West Virginia. These inscriptions have been put in one volume and titled Tombstone Inscriptio...
...County in 1804 no Jeffer on o.) John Melvin wa with George a hington' unit throughout the Revolution. John Hendrick (b. 1762) married Elizabeth Darke. He died 1796 and hi will i on record in Berkeley County. lizabeth Darke wa the daughter of Jo eph Darke and the niece of Gen. Wil...
J ff n unt , Hi t rical .. ociet 23 t thi time and prior to the revolution the colonies served as a dumping ground for hat i referred to in Engli h documents as ~, agrant and offender "or convict . Per ons having committed crimes fan 'magnitude were known a ~'his magistie seven-y...
...nd. 9 Abraham Davenport lived and remained in southern Maryland until sometime during the Revolutionary War. About 1746, having fulfilled his seven-year commitment, he married Mary Simms, a daughter of Anthony Simms, a prominent land holder and tobacco fa11ner in the region. 10 M...
...ek Parish, p. 15. 22 Land g rants. Virginia State Archives. R ichmond, Va. 1772 # 146. 23 Revolutionary Pensioners and No n-Pensioners un der the Maryland Service and DAR Patriot Index.
...tleman run to seed in the same bouquet, for John Brown's grandfather was a Captain in the revolution, and he was a direct and proven descendant of the first shipload of pilgrims. A hundred years of slavery had made the Puritan a raider off reed om, and the Washington a pompous ol...
...ory of Shepherdstown. Shepherd town: The Independent. p. 78. 12 Daughters of the American Revolution, Compiler. Tombstone Inscriptions of Jefferson Count}', West Virginia 1687-1980, p. 277. I 13 Netherton, Alene L. and Thurman, Diane S., Compilers. Leichleiter and Variants. Carli...
...of William Burnett, William Hall, and John Rion. 1 The latter of French extraction, was a Revolutionary soldier, whose title dates back to 1784. Burnett was the only one of the proprietors who honored the place with his bones. He is buried in the grave yard behind the house and ...
...her's mother was Virginia, daughter of Daniel Bedinger of Shepherdstown, a soldier in the Revolution, and later Paymaster at the Gosport Navy Yard. Virginia was considered very beautiful, if friend and family may be believed. Her portrait is not flattering, but it is not un attr...
... O'Bannon and shown under the auspices of the Bee Line Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution; and the Jefferson County Museum di plays that included among other artifacts, the wagon that carried John Brown to his execution in 1859. These event were open every day during t...
...ale in September 1790 and they moved to Tennessee. He died in 1846. Job, born 1757, was a Revolutionary soldier who fought in the Southern campaign with his cousin, General William Darke (then a captain). Later, he died of smallpox in the army near Philadelphia. His father left h...
...tion of his fighting; the Indian wars had subsided and he was only ten years old when the Revolution began. His energies were devoted almost entirely to farming. About 1787, he married Sarah Rion of Halltown, Va., a daughter of John Rion ( 1739-1788), a Revolutionary soldier who ...
... for a man e which wa built in 1922. The 111 t r ontai11 the gra es of Civil War a well a Revolutionary "oldie1· . l1 \.\'n b the Gat way Garden Club. 6. A ATAW Y GARDENS: See 20th Tour, 1975. 7. THE BRIT ER HOUSE UJc·aticJ11: H;,r_:/1 1,·eet, l1e1Jherd toltv11. Tl1i i11tereL tin...
...)' .... igl1tl1or c Har1·y'') Lee' .. rev,,rard for out. landing c1·,,j t.: dt1ri11g tl1~ Revolution \/a a la11d grant of' 44"000 ac1·e.:· .. knc)v.. n a .. th~ ortl1 r11 ck Land Grar1t, h1ch a a portion of the l,t11ds once ------J ti<) 11 ~1 I g a o I i 11 e s 11 o rt age l: il ...
... early 1760' s. The Davenport family completed its con truction immediately following the Revolutionary War. It is Georgian style architecture and built of soft brick, probably fired on the premises. Of interest is the old kitchen, the fireplaces and the original native pine wood...
...ineteenth century brick structure is of unusual sophistication. Dr. Edward Owen Williams, Revolutionary soldier, died in 1821. He had incurred so many debts in building such an elegant house that his widow and children lost Swan Pond Manor to his creditors. It was purcha ed by Ge...
... Lord Fairfax to Andrew Caldwell in 1778. In 1795 Major Andrew Waggoner, a veteran of the Revolution, purchased it, and the following year gave it to his daughter Mary and her husband General Elisha Boyd who built a beautiful brick home completed in 1839, for his son John Elisha ...
...his five sons and one daughter were born. Two sons, John and Hugh, became colonels in the Revolutionary Anny. Hugh commanded the company of riflemen who made the famous Bee Line March to Cam bridge, Mass., a distance of nearly 600 miles, in 24 days. These men, and Colonel Morgan...
... whe1·e e, 1ery window command a view ()1' lo\el 1u1·al landscape, i~ an exa1nple of pr·e-Revolutionary con truction. The 111,1i11 . ectio11 i. field ~tone and l1a~ fot1r fini hed . to1ie with fireplace5 011 three. ,111d~tone t1·in1 i~ ~een o er tl1e front door and the window,. O...
118 The Magazine of the it stands today, was built by General Horatio Gates of Revolutionary War fame. Gates, the victor over British General John Burgoyne at the Battle of Saratoga, the turning point in the war, purchased this 659 acre plantation near Shepherdstown in Berkeley C...
...ame. town. In 1791 Jame town wa renamed arkeL. ille" in honor of General William Darke, a Revolutionary War hero ho l1ad his headquarter~ there during that War. Th larhe ~tone chirnr1ey . y. tern, with two arched key toned fireplaces, i riginal. F<J1· a few ear. the chin1ney, bui...
124 The Magazine of the 240:6:0 pounds. After the hard time and neglect caused by the Revolution and the disestablishment of the Church in Virginia, this building needed to be rebuilt or extensively repaired. Records of a subscription taken in 1788 for this purpose survive. Capt....
... at th suppo d ite of hi grave. harl ashingto11 L rved in the Virginia militia during the Revolution and wa~ al, th builder f the fam d Ri ing un Tavern in Frederick burg Vvh1ch \.\ 1as a fa\orite gath ring pla for Virginia patriot prior to the War. Pre~ nt o ner of Happy Retr at...
...arly 19th century tructures as well as four early cemeteries. Built prior to the American Revolution, the original (center) section of Scollay Hall was constructed of logs covered with clapboard. The south (brick) section of the house wa probably constructed in the mid-1790s duri...
...1l;lic· c1. Ha17Je1·.~ f~e,·1). Tl1e l1 111e of Rohcrt Hru11 r a built during the merican Revolution and it l1a~ bee11 rt111c)d led a 11u1nb r of t11ne in keeping ith changing ta te~. t,1rtir1g i11 I 32 ,111d e11di11e. l1ortl\ 1 ,1f,ter the i, 1il ar~ it l1ad a '-' ., period cJf....
...home. Six years passed before its completion, because workmen were called to serve in the Revolutionary Army. Robert Harper's wife died during this period and he died in 1782, at which time his first home, his second on the Shenandoah and the present one were the only houses in H...
...the stake for the contending partie . When litigation re~ urned in the afte1111ath of the Revolution the renewed cramble for the di puted land took place within a new order and wa pre ided over by a new judiciary that Vv'a ju.~t becoming organized. The 1nain partie in Hite i1. Fa...
...l list of the litigants, including 40 suits mounted by some 160 landholder s. In the post-revolutionary phase of Hite v. landholder litigation the case style of Hite, et al. v. Fairfax, et al. no longer means much, the virtual dissolution of the Proprietary having l eft the holde...
... above all~ by hi lack of financial upport from a trong client. ri~ing figure on the po t-revolutionary cene he wa a man in a hurry. He 'ha~ not prepared to make a laboriou ca e-by-ca e review or explore the ariou weakne .. e in the Hite po ition ba ed on actualitie of the earlie...
...ost all cases, especially given the backing of an influential Proprietary. Even after the Revolution the holders had a well-info1·1r1ed and probably friendly individual on the bench in the person of Chancellor Wythe through his having served as counsel to the Proprietary in the 1...
...w the fictions of the 1730s emerged as irrebuttable presumptions and the facts of the pre-revolutionary era got short shrift from the newly organized courts as they decided upon the equitable claims of holders. In particular the case papers that survive-a trove of briefs, deposit...
... five-foot \Vide portico running the length of the house. (This structure. one of two pre-revolutionary frame buildings still standing in Jefferson County and the only one still habitable and occupied, was extended in the 1850s but is still a central part of the main house on "Bo...
...on ln their litigatio11 witl1 the Proprietary the Hite owed mt1ch to the outco111e of the revolutionary war. Even under the General Court' decree of 1769 ordering con\ 1eyance to the plaintiffs, they would have had slim IJicking a11d no rnore than a handftil of settler would have...
...this outcome was no less than a legal process gone out of control in the aftennath of the Revolutionary war, the dissolution of the Proprietary, and the ''reinvention'' of the judiciary under the Commonwealth. The holders had simply fallen into the official machinery in the turbu...
...ncestry, and the Baltzells were prosperous Maryland people before and during the American Revolution. The son's name is generally given as Charles Broadway Rouss. It was certainly Charles B. Rouss, and the writer of these lines believes, though he does not know, that the ''B'' in...
...32 on land granted to him in 1751 by Thomas Lord Fairfax. His wife Mary Darke, an aunt of Revolutionary General William Darke accompanied him. The third Edward Lucas was born at Elmwood in 1738, most likely in the log cabin built by his father. In 1797 Edward III, married to Eliz...
... mo t men, to whom every black man counted a thou, and dollar , to recognize the right of revolution in four million human beings, but they did acknowledge that John Brown was all through the stuff of \~lhich hi an wer ~ were made when Governor Wi e and Senator Mason que tioned h...
...ise was to supplement the volume by the Bee Line Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution which ter1ninated its coverage around 1978, this work does include a substantial amount of information that predates that year, including cemeteries and graves inevitably not incl...
... in Summit Point who had arrived from England to what was then Berkeley County during the Revolutionary War. Interesting enough, Samuel had in his time three wives, none of which bore him any children. Davenport had however raised an orphan child as his own, named Camilla. In his...
...sh a post office in Duffields. Darke was the proposed name because the home and g1-ave of Revolutionary War hero General William Darke are nearby. The original name of the post office at this location was Duffields. The post office was located about 160 feet north of the B&O rail...
...at marker). The Pack Horse Ford Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (N.S.D.A.R.) also erected a marker, Shepherdstown, in 1932. The State of West Virginia then adopted the historic road marker program, and published the first book of road markers ...
...ounds is the home of General William Darke (1736-1801), who served as officer in American Revolution and in St. Clair' 1791 expedition against Miami Indians in Ohio. He served as delegate to the Virginia Convention called in 1788 to ratify the Federal Constitution, was elected to...
...Gen. Horatio Gates, built on land bought, 1763. Gates, once a British Officer, joined the Revolutionary Ar111y, and was the leader of the Continentals in decisive victory over Gen. Burgoyne at Saratoga. (1/2 Mi. S.W.) Intersection of Leetown Road (County Route I) and State Route ...
...rs, the county has furnished a good percentage of its citizenry to fight in wars from the Revolutionary War through the Gulf War. It has suffered through several floods which has inundated the town of Harpers Ferry and low lying areas along the Shenandoah River. Several drought h...
...ily heirlooms. A cannon ball bed that originally belonged to Captain George Printz of the Revolutionary War's Virginia Militia is on the third floor. Two iron beds are also in the home -one in which Charles was born and one in which Beth wa born.
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