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... known as Mecklenburg, or Maclinborough, using a variety of spellings. By the time of the Revolutionary War it was more commonly referred to as Shepherds Town. This name was given official anction by the state authorities in 1798 (Dandridge, 1910). The Swearingen brothers of Mary...
...at which time he acquired the moniker Indian Van). He would later become a soldier in the Revolution. Other local Shepherdstown families, continuing in the tradition of their parents and grandparents, also moved to the western frontier and took up land near the eastern bank of th...
...aled to the Privy Council in London. The ca, e wa • r1ever he[1rd becau e of the upcoming Revolution. The re~ulting political in tabilit)' led to tl1e di ,1ppearance of a viable appeal court y tern for irgini<ln for n1or than a decade., lea ing the wearingen holding on T 1T ,l pi...
...o fo1·1r1 the rebellious opinions of the settlers in the lower valley; by the time of the Revolution 85% of adult male in New England could read and write, while about 60% of the men could read and write in Pennsy 1 vania and Virginia (Dufour 1994). 1773 -Col. Van Swearingen cont...
... of Quebec, further agitating the now openly rebellious coloni ts in Virginia. 1775 - The Revolutionary War began. Van's eldest son Josiah, 31, enlisted in Capt. Hugh Stephenson's company, along with other local men including hi cousin Joseph Swearingen and Abraham Shepherd, who ...
... from Shepherdstown. They must have been released a short time later. George Washington's Revolutionary Army, with the help of the French, defeated Briti h regulars under Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, which effectively ended British control of their fo11ner colony. Col. ...
...year in the a1 rny) acquired 3347 acre at lea t in part a compen. ati n for ervice in the Revolutionary ar1ny (Doherty 1972). Van w aringen {probably the younger Van on of Major Thoma") acqL1ired 1400 acre in John on ~ Fork of Licking Creek in June of 17 4 by acquiring the right ...
...reed to in 1744 though the French and Indi an War in the mid-to late 1750 followed by the Revolutionary War had hang d the political and demographic boundarie ignificantly. The Pr prietary f Penn } I ania had ~purcha. ed from the Indian ation all the land a t of the Ohio Ri er in...
...ss across the Potomac. Abraham was a local lawyer/land speculator/businessman/hero of the Revolution who with his sibling literally ''owned'' Shepherdstown after the death of their father Thomas Shepherd in 1776 (Abraham did not have for1nal training in the law, but charged fees ...
... now known as Fort Recovery on the Ohio-Indiana border than at any battle of the American Revolutionary War. The few surviving soldiers reported that the powder they were given was so poor that rifle balls were seen bouncing off their foes. American officers had been selectively ...
... from 1786. One wonders if Abraham Shepherd felt uncomfortable about relieving his fellow Revolutionary War comrade-in-arms and brother-in law Josiah of his land and money. Col. Van Swearingen's estate was billed 50 pounds this year by Abraham Shepherd for the hundred acre on Te...
... the Hites went to Isaac Hite, grandson of Joist Hite. Isaac was a veteran officer of the Revolutionary War, married James Madison's sister and was a friend of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson, in fact, helped to design a new mansion for Isaac Hite, which was built of native limestone...
...barred from the group but became prominent in the ngli an hurch and later died during the Revolutionary War when Thoma a ju~ t a child (Jeff. County Hi t. Soc. 1990 Dandridge 1910). In additi n t admini t ring hi family e tate young Worthington had be n orking r ently in hepherd ...
... it wa , uppo~ edly int1·oduced by traw brought in to New York by He ian troop during the Revolutiona1·y War made it fir t appearance in irginia. By th following year the fly almo t completely de troyed the wh at crop in the vicinity of the Potomac River (Kercheval 1833). It r ma...
...ew village of Chillicothe, Ohio. The area was being surveyed for Virginia soldiers of the Revolution, and was fo1·1nerly a large Shawnee Indian town site that would become famous in archeological circles for the large Hopewell Culture I Adena burial mounds. Eleanor was Mrs. Thoma...
...ng to find, in the list of Candidates, the names of such as were valuable officers in our Revolutionary war. They will meet with due attention, and among them your letter will not be forgotten. I am etc.* 1800 -Abraham Shepherd and his wife had the last of their 8 children this y...
...n Terrapin ck were c n .. id red ictim of legal maneuver l ath r irfa a t in the ak of th Revolutionary War. Abraham h ph rd him elf a qu t d a a ing by , e eral there that at ome point ,. t/1 b,,. i 11 e.. i1'£1.. .. o ri\'e ted thcLt it c .. ottld r1ot be gone into again '. h p...
...o. Inc, Baltimore. A. Glenn Crother , n.d. Public Culture and Economic Liberalism in Post-Revolutionary Northern Virginia, 1780-1820. Paper presented at the Brunel/Cambridge Conference on Early American Hi tory and Culture. http: //http2.brunel.ac.uk:8080/-asstddr/eahconf/ crothe...
...ed in web site www.rootsweb.com/-indian/panhandle. Anne Waller Reddy, 1930. West Virginia Revolutionary Ancestors -Whose Services were non-military and whose names, therefore, do not appear in Revolutionary indexes of soldier and sailors. First published in Richmond Virginia, lat...
...two daughter ; however, the fa1·1r1 was bequeathed to his youngest on, Andrew. During the Revolutionary War, Andrew McCor1nick and his wife Nancy housed Washington's troops, as well as providing them with horses. After the
...34), p. 364. Richmond VA. Note -.spellir1g has been standardized. WE CAN GET A GLIMPSE OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA FARMING PRACTICES IN BERKELEY COUNTY, VIRGINIA FROM THE DIARY OF A THOMAS CRESWELL: April 13th, 1777 ...... 1 have been brought up to no trade therefore have no prospec...
...al citizens had raised concern about the project 's impact because Bedford, home of local Revolutionary War hero Daniel Bedinger, had once been located in the proposed project area. Bedford is well known to local Civil War historians a one of several homes in Jeffer on County to ...
...eneral was the right man to be The President. Relying on his experience from the American Revolution, Washington surrounded him elf with advisor who would complement his leadership tyle. He selected men who had divergent opinions about how best to govern this new country. But eac...
...Neville. Neville was a distingui h ed officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Neville' home wa '"Bower Hill'' near Pitt burgh. Pennsylvania. 16 Major General Arthur St. Clair was born in S cotland. Following service in the Briti h Army during the French an...
... presidential nomination. ''The signs of victory are everywhere. Just before the American Revolution Patrick Henry -in his famou 'liberty 01 4 death' peech -exhorted his fellow Virginians to action by telling them that the next wind from the North will bring to our ear the cla h ...
...mployment problem, Senator Kennedy said the State of Massachusett had a imilar industrial revolution several years ago and came through it. He said he was sure West Virginia can do the same if the Federal and state governments will accept their full responsibility and don't take ...
...l a dozen year ·ince the Unit d States a~ erted it. Declaration of Independence, national revolutionarie~ depo ed the rule of mo11,1rch f'o]]owing viol nt bloody upri ing . a .. hingto11 l1ad e11t an en o Chief Ju tice John Jay of the Supreme urt" to ng]and to negotiate a rapproc...
...cy of timber to build huts in the conventional manner prescribed by Washington during the Revolutionary War. He report going to Frederick to inspect the Maryland State Militia barracks. 17 Camp near Harpers ferry 31st Oct,--1799 ... You Can Hardly Conceive how this Country has be...
...ration irginian of Briti. h ance try, Battaile Mu e 1 wa a r1ote orthy figure in the po t-Revolutionary hi tory of what i now Jef'fer~on ount . a 1 oung man, he mo ed to the county where he orked for man year. a. ar1 agent for George Wa hington and ~eve1 .. al (>tl1e1,. Tidewater...
...d others as tenancies. 14 George Washington and Battaile Muse. At the end of the American Revolution, George Washington returned to Mount Vernon and resumed active management of his properties. He turned to Muse to reverse the decline in income from tenancies established years ea...
...r the boiler he , ubmitted in a dr,1v.ri11°: tl1e .. "'tate ref·u, ed to patent Rum C)' • revolutionary new boiler dc,1e11. Ru111 cy be ccch d mba .. ador Jeff'er on: •4. ••• Cau e them to triIJ tl1e \vorld in ,U1 , ceing and kno\. 1ling 1ou Could throw great light on th1 ubjc t ...
...hans. After nearly nine years' absence, George Washington returned to Mt. Vernon from the Revolutionary War on Christmas Eve, 1783. A letter from Nourse on January 11, 1784 info1·1r1ed him of the condition of his brother Samuel's estate. By letter dated January 22, 1784 Washingto...
.... You will see by the papers that the authorities of our State have already inaugurated a revolution by the seizure of public property, vessels in our harbours, Gosport Navy Yard & Ex Gov. Wise told me to day a dispatch had been sent for the seizure of the armory at Harper's Ferr...
...intimate, objective picture of American back-country society in the opening months of the Revolution ... He took a lively interest in the men and women whom he met, and his descriptive powers and his sense of humor have saved for us details of their mode of life which might other...
...y mall back tory played for a few day~ on th larg canvaL of the beginning of the American Revolutionary ar. m re .. i month before h came, the famou Bee Line March' had mo"ed out from h pherd town to meet with George Wa hington in ambridg . Ju .. t on month before Fithian arrived...
...er the wing of th ir uncle, General Wa. hington, who had rett11·11ell to t. emon fron1 th Revolutionary War in December, 1783. Tl1e t o boy 'were educated at their uncle' expense at private academie~ i11 Georgeta n a11d le a11dria and then tra eled with hi111 to Philadelphia \ 1 ...
...: You will see by the papers that the authorities of our State have already inaugurated a revolution by the seizure of public property, vessels in our harbours, Gosport Navy Yard & Ex Gov. Wise told me to day a dispatch had been sent for the seizure of the armory at Harper's Ferr...
...until 1848, wa born to tl1e Hou e of Bourbo11 in 1773. He wa barely 16 ,,,he11 the French Revolution began in 1789. n ard nt upp rter initially, he ,,va ultimately , --- fi re d to fle France in April, 1793, after hi involvement in the plot led by Gen. Dumouriez t o, 1erthrow th...
..... [ ee below]; (2) William Cooke; (3) Margaret ooke, who married Gen. Cato Moore, of the Revolutionary Arn1 .... ( 4) Mary ooke, married John Willi , and their daughter Margaret married Hezekiah Beall, of Jeffer on county and left numerou de cendant . (5) E ther, daughter of Gil...
... another tract in Frederick County, Virginia. He wa hortly to er,,e a a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army during which he agreed, in 17 0, ,vith Thoma Ma ie, a Captain of the 6th irginia Regiment, to exchange hi Frederick ounty tract for Ma ie' Wind or Fore t Tract in New Kent...
...h River, from Isaac Beall, 28 who was later to lead a Berkeley County regiment during the Revolution. Cattail Run begins on the east end of Charles Town and flows southeast, entering the Shenandoah River around the old Keyes Ford and Keyes Ferry. After Nathaniel Littleton Savage ...
...ieutenant under Capt. Richard Ransom. See also J. T. McAllister, «Virginia militia in the Revolutionary War,, (1913): Giles Cook Jr., Lt., 15 May 1781 under R. Ransom. Richard Ransom came from Gloucester County Virginia. The name is also spelled Ranson and Ransone. He was an orig...
...ughter Lucy Cooke married amuel Davenport who e father had moved from t. Mary' during the Revolution. Gile of Glaue ter Jr. married Bet y Forre t, who e father Zachariah had al o come from t. Mar)'' ounty. aptain John Abell who married Bet y Forre t' i t r and occupied the Elk Wo...
...iven a commission to attend to claims of Maryland against the United States following the Revolution, and died at Annapolis in 1784 .. 67 The home was in the Briscoe family until 1979. The descendants of Dr. John Briscoe married into the William Darke famil y. Mrs. T. P. O,Connor...
...ove under John Cooke). 78 75 Cato Moore was an officer in a Shepherdstown unit during the Revolution. From Dandridge, "Historic Shepherdstown" (1910) (reprinting an 1850 Charles Town newspaper article): Lieut. Cato Moore was born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and settled in S...
...ch, Martindale arrived at Bedford, a retireme11t home built in the early 1800 by American Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Bedinger. On the day Martindale arrived, Bedford wa Henrietta Berlinger Lee occupied by the fa1nily of Edmund J. Lee. Mr. L , "'riD , Henrietta Bedinger Lee,...
40 The Magazine of the root after the Revolution, but it is not probable that there was any organized church in Charlestown ... owing to the population being largely either Episcopal or Presbyterian. 43 In 1794 Bishop Francis Asbury found there a good house of worship and a local...
...y had a son Michael born in that year. Michael Bye rly, born about 1758, petitioned for a Revolutionary War pension in 183 5. He had lived in Sl1epherdstown and served under William Darke. 20 ' The Catarina Beierlin Story ," JCHS, vol. 23, 43-44 (1957).
...r the U.D.C and as a charter member of the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She composed her biographical address using the info1·1nation she gathered about Augustine when she was a delegate to the annual convention in Charles Town in September 1924. Mrs...
...ompensation office . He was also an author. His 1933 novel, Princess Ma/ah creates a pre Revolutionary Virginia where pageantry is front and center. The story revolves around George and Martha Washington and a free, charismatic mixed-race beauty, Malah, who is proud of her herit...
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