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........................................... vol. XIV, p. 15 Cavalry, Capt. Jaco·b Reinhart's Shepherdstown ............................................................ vol. VII, p. 38 Charles Town Notables .................................................. vol. VIII, p. 19 Church, T...
...tate of Virginia and the fancy uniforms specified. The country boys, not to be outdone by Shepherdstown's famous Hamtramck Guards, organized the Shepherdstown Cavalry,-you see they had plenty of horses right at home. The muster roll indicates that most of the members of the con1p...
...plish a bit of writing ·that attracted more than local notice. Rurnsey's work was done at Shepherdstown, then in Berkeley county, where he also carried on his experirnen ts in perfecting ma chinery to propel boats against the current by ineans of stearn. He was completely absorb...
...areer of his son, also narned Nathaniel. This young Nathaniel assisted in the printing at Shepherdstown and Martinsburg. Then after the papers had been printed he rode post with a tin horn and saddlebags through the thinly settled section, delivering the papers to the scatter ed...
... WILLIAM L ~ CAS~ Member of Congress 1839-1841 and 1843-1845. Born at ''Cold Spring' near Shepherdstown in 1800. En ered law office of Henry Berry of Shepherdstow11. Lat~ r a ended aw school of Judge Henry St. George Tucker, of ''Woodbu1 .. y' near Leetown. Moved to Charles Town ...
...1·y-Thornton T. Perry, Jr., Charles Town, W. Va. Corresponding Secretary-Ella May Turner, Shepherdstown, W. Va. T1 asurer-Anne S. <Mrs. Clarence) Hobart, Charles Town, W. Va. Ct1rato1·-Elizabetl1 Daniel Charles Town, W. Va. Di1·ector s-Sallie Lee Po,vell, Shepherdstown; Susan Gre...
...ually cast. In the two polling places open, Harpers Ferry voted 52 for and 1 against, and Shepherdstown 196 for and 1 against, rnaking the county a part of West Virginia, ac cording to the results certified. With so Inany of the voters of the county away in the Confederate ar1ny...
Jeffe1·son County Historical Society 13 of Shepherdstown, now in the possession of his g1"and daugh et" Miss Helen Boteler Pendleton. This paper is in his ov.1n handwriting and records what he regarded as co1·1--ec info1--ination as to the balloting. otes by Colonel Boteler List...
...His estate has been variously estin1ated from two to three million and even higher.'' The Shepherdstown Register said: ''His estate is supposed to be worth one and a half millions.'' In settlernent of the internal revenue tax on legacies, his three heirs made oath that all his re...
24 Magazine of the be m.oved to Shepherdstown, the hall should be offered for use as a court house. It was thus used frolll 1866 to 1871, and during the early part of that period the two wings were added to the hall built by Mr. Shepherd. In 1871, after the building was abandoned...
... -identifies the writer as ''the judge who sentenced John B1~own to death.'' H VY LOAD AT SHEPHERDSTOWN WHARF ( roltl hepherdstown Register March 27, 1858) The Boat ''Susan Baker'' owned by RENTCH & TO EBREAKER of this place Mr. George Harris, Capain left the Wharf of the ·Chesap...
...al. Froni these early records the following information, giving narnes of postrnasters in Shepherdstown and neighboring towns and date of appointment, is gleaned: ' Mecklenburg, Virginia, now Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in operation October 18, 1792*. (The asterisk fol lowing ...
...County Offices Building Cl1a1·les Town, West Virginia OFFICERS P1 std n,--A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va. ic -P1·esid nt-J. Burns Huyett, Cha1·les Town, W. Va. R co1·ding Secr·e a1· -Thornton T. Per·ry, Jr., Charles Town, W. Va. Co1·1· spo11di11g Sec1·eta1-.y-Ella May Turne...
...ffer·son Countians, or books about the County and its people. M1 .. s. C. F. Lyne, of the Shepherdstown Public Library, has made a list of books published since the appearance of the Society's 1954 Magazine.) Old Jube, Ca1·r Publishing Co. 1955. By Millard K. Bushong, who in his ...
...uent deeds from the original grantee. March 13, 1751 - Edward Teague - 400 acres. East of Shepherdstown on Potomac. See Deed Book 4, page 101, Winchester. June 12, 1751 -· Thomas Shepherd -457 acres. West of Shepherdstown. See Northern Neck Grant, Book. G, page 545, Richmond.
20 Magazine of the September 15, 1756 - Richard Morgan. He sold 105 acres of it east of Shepherdstown, between Thomas Shep herd and Edward Teague, to Henry Cookus on August 3, 1765. See Deed Book 7, page 369, Winchester. . November 10, 1756 - Thomas Manard Goldsberry -407 acres....
... of the old homestead near Halltown. THE STORY OF REDMOND BURKE A revived interest in the Shepherdstown activities of Redmond Burke, noted scout for General J. E. B. Stuart, resulted from a visit by his granddaughter, Mrs. Sam J. Smith, of Waco, T exas, and her daughter, Mrs. Jew...
Jeffe1·son County Histo1"ical Society 53 THE RUMSEY ANNIVERSARY AT SHEPHERDSTOWN Belief in James Rumsey's right to fame as the inven to1--of the steam·boat was considerably enhanced by a p1·og1·am of add1·esses and 1--iver demonst1·ations at Shep herdstown on Saturday, Septembe...
...rious Redmond Burke and some four or five other Confederate scouts, whose ren dezvous in Shepherdstown had been betrayed to them. His associates were captured, but Redmond Burke \Vas left behind when the infantrymen returned to Sharps b,urg. He was shot to death while attemptin...
Jefferson County Historical Society ALBUM OF HISTORICAL HOMES X THE SHEPHERDSTOWN MANSE AND JOHN KEARSLEY 9 The Presbyterian Manse in Shepherdstown is the large brick dwelling on the northwest corner of Church and Main, or German, streets. For more than a hundred years it had twe...
...tombstones of both wives are in the old Presbyterian burial ground in Elm wood Cemetery, Shepherdstown. One of them shows that Margaret was born in 1771 and died in 1849. John Kearsley had one son and six daughters. To son Jonathan he left the Rider farni of 258 acres, near Hall...
...o be in order for background and to get the man himself in to perspective. He was born in Shepherdstown on May 16, 1815, the son of Dr. Henry and Priscilla Robinson Boteler. On his mother's side he was the great-grandson of Charles Will son Peale, the noted artist who is particu...
...er Farm, Shepherd Grade ... .. . . . . .. .. ... .. . . .. .. .. . . Vol. X, p. 20 Manse, Shepherdstown .......................................... Vol. XXV, p. 9 Media ............................................................................ Vol. XV, p. 9 New Hopewell ...........
44 The Magazine of the Shepherdstown a Century Ago ............................ Vol. XIV, p. 4 Shepherdstown Pledges Support to John Adams ........................................................ Vol. XI, p. 27 Smithfield, Battle of ..................................................
...isode ............................................................ 20 Memorial Plaques in Shepherdstown .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 21 Charlestown and Shepherdstown by Bagby . . .. . . .. . .. . .. . . . . 22 Travelling on the Railroad in 1840 .. . .. . ....
...iety 17 Benjamin Allen, 1789 - 1829, served the Episcopal Chur .. ches of Charlestown and Shepherdstown from Jan ua1 .. y 1815 to September 1821. During his second year he published a ''Layman's Mag·azine." In 1815 Charlestown talked of building a new church (Zion), an old one (...
...eard of him.. His residence in Harpers Ferry and burial in the old Episcopal graveyard in Shepherdstown were brought to light here by visits from Mr. and Mrs. Louis Laval Williams, of Arlington, Va., who supplied the portrait photograph carried herewith, and by correspondence of ...
...d Robert Douglas and his first wife Mary, daughter of Col. John Robertson. He was born in Shepherdstown on Septeinber 29, 1838, in a house that stood on the south side of High Street east of Mill, which was the Ref ornied parsonage till the church bought its present parsonage on ...
...was given to Shepherd College by Upton S. Martin, of Richmond, Virginia, in memory of his Shepherdstown father, U. S. Martin, 1859-1957. Preceding the scheduled addresses the plaque was un veiled by Hirst Martin (Mrs. Charles R.) Rush, daughter of Upton S. Martin, and Dr. 0. C. ...
...o ·11 l1ome of Dr. Guy F1~ank college professor, v., s on of l1e i1·st brick dwellings in Shepherdstown. l da of its e1ection is well established by a letter 4 c i ed b Geo1·ge Michael Bedinger then at Lim.estone, K n uck f1 1 01n his Shepherdstown m.other, Magdalene di11g 1· in ...
...ered arrny, Jam.es Glenn was serving as sharpshooter, along with young Daniel Bedinger of Shepherdstown. A year later the con quering arniies of Greene and Washington met at York town, and Glenn shared in the glory of the Cornwallis surrender. Upon reorganization of the U. S. A...
...entered as Knights, appropriately dressed,'' who engaged in a ring tourna ment held near Shepherdstown, the exercises being ''en livened by the elegant performance of the Shepherds town Brass Band.'' An afterpiece was ''a fine Ball'' given at night in Shepherdstown. Glenn was ...
...1887. Old Ref orrned Graveyard (At the extre111e eastern end of Main or Germ.an Street in Shepherdstown. The adjoining ''Church Hill Cenie tery," bought by the Church in 1867, is not here included. Inscriptions were read by Miss Rose:mary Lyne and Carl Jorgensen. Some burial or ...
... Venice Arthur Ruark, now of the Atomic Energy Commission, as Shylock; Augusta Morgan, of Shepherdstown, now Mrs. J. S. Phillips, as Portia; Nettie Huyett, of Charles Town, now Mrs. Welton Hutton, as Nerissa; and Mary Maude Moore, now Mrs. Edwin W. Miller, of Martinsburg, as Jess...
...Turner land, now, 1964 owned by Kenneth Post Osbourn. It stood about three miles North of Shepherdstown, on the South side of the Shepherdstown-Scrabble road, just a couple poles West of where the Turner Brother's Spring Hill Farin corners with that of Osbourn, Vickers and Shirle...
... opposi e the Ford, on the north side of Route 17 h 1 .. iver 1·oad, about a mile east of Shepherdstown. Th firs 1'oa,dside ma1 .. ke1 .. s in the county, and in West Vi ~ginia ~ e1'e bought and erected by the Jefferson County His 01ical Society in 1932. The inscriptions of thei1...
...aken in exchange for Castings Henry C. Parker ShenandoS1h City, Aug. 5, 1852. (Fro1r1 the Shepherdstown Register, May 19, 1860) HENRY 'K. DOUGLAS Attorney at Law Shepherdstown, Va. Will practice in the Counties of Jefferson, Berkeley and the ad Jo1nlng Counties. Office in Towner...
... ........ Vol. II, Ba by on Charles Town 55 p. 35 and 52 p. 37 p. 25 p. 27 p. 23 p. 4 and Shepherdstown ............................ .................. Vol. XXVI, p. 22 B aker John ........................ ..................................... Vol. XXIV, p. 16 Beall, John Yates ....
...ra i s nd Portrait Painters .................... Vol. VI, p. 21 Post 1 Service, U. S., in Shepherdstown .... Vol. XX, p. 28 Pos mas ers and Pos Offices, Charles Town ........................ Vol. XVIII, p. 23 Potomac Crossings .............................................. Vol. X...
...es Town or Charleston .. .. . ... .. . . ...... .. 19 The Founding of St. Peter's Church, Shepherdstown .. 20 The Hite Families in Jefferson County .......................... 28 Jacob Hite and IInlllediate Family .......................... 32 John Hite, Oldest Son of Jacob . . . ...
Jeff rso11 Count , Histo1·ical Society 15 Ho ve1-Mis Glad s Ha1 .. tzell of Shepherdstown owns on on p p 1· (in g·ood condition) without the linen • n1oun 1ng. In addi ion to the fa1 .. m bounda1·ies ma1 1 ked with the names of the land owne1·s, the map shows the roads s ·1· ams ...
...he Magazine of the were used. It is interesting to note that on this 111ap the ·bridge at Shepherdstown is shown but Inarked ''Destroyed." A thin red line indicates that the Potomac Ford below Shepherdstown was used for crossing the river. Mr. Brown has included the names of the ...
...h, 1?• a a n1 l'Chan in She1)he1·dstown and served as a T1·u 11 1~ in 1796 1799 and 1800. Shepherdstown l1i 01· make l1e last n1 n ion of John Hite when he , a l 1·k of l1e Cot11·t of T1·ustees of Sheohe1·dstown in 1803. H olcl tl1 es side of Lot 12 in Shepherdstown in 1804. H J)...
...r. Joshua Gregg Gibson. F1--orn that union came Agnes Gibson, who was a rnusic teacher in Shepherdstown as late as 1920. 2. Juliet Wood Hite, born on February 1, 1802, died on January 23, 1878. On May 27, 1819 she ma1--ried Major Thomas Briscoe, born at ''Piedmont," the third son...
...agazine beginning in 1935. This number is Volume XXXIII. The late Miss Ella May Turner of Shepherdstown is given the credit for founding the Society. Andrew Price, president of the West Virginia Historical Society, had secured Miss Turner as Jefferson County's representative. She...
...replace are of Italian tile. 10. Popodicon: see 1959 notes. 11. ROCKLAND Location: On the Shepherdstown-Kearneysville miles south of Shepherdstown. 1957 road, 3 Built in the 1770's - Home of Mrs. Henry E. Miller. Built by James Verdier, a French Huguenot of royal descent, this ol...
...t. 8. Wolakadia: see 1962 notes. 9. SPRING MILL MRS. 1960 1960 Location: Half-way between Shepherdstown and Harper's Ferry, on Route 28. From Route 340, turn north at foot of Alstadt's Hill. From Shepherdstown, Route 28 or 28A to 1 mile south of Methodist Church at Moler's Crossr...
48 The Magazine of the OLD ENGLISH CHURCH IN SHEPHERDSTOWN (Before the removal of the plaster from the outside walls) M. E. (now the Asbury Methodist) Church, but kept the church yard, now known as the Old Episcopal Grave Yard. The grave yard contains the graves of many people wh...
...st several members prominent in its activities. Mr. C. S. Musser, venerable editor of the Shepherdstown INDEPENDENT, a charter and life member, died in January. He helped to organize the Society, was a speaker at a number of meetings and wrote the ''History of Shepherdstown, 1730...
...e Moler and assigned her rights to her younger sister Marian. She married Upton Martin of Shepherdstown and now lives in Richn1ond. In 1951 she sold tl1e property to the pres ent owner. Shepherdstown was host to an unusual afternoon meeting on August 2, held at Shepherd College....
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