Download or read book Botetourt County Virginia Early Settlers written by and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Places Near the Mountains written by Helen R. Prillaman and published by Genealogical Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The areas covered in this book fall in Botetourt and Roanoke counties, Virginia.
Download or read book Related Families of Botetourt County Virginia written by John William Austin and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive work on Americans taken prisoner during the Revolutionary War. The bulk of the book is devoted to personal accounts, many of them moving, of the conditions endured by U.S. prisoners at the hands of the British, as preserved in journals or diaries kept by physicians, ships' captains, and the prisoners themselves. Of greater genealogical interest is the alphabetical list of 8,000 men who were imprisoned on the British vessel The Old Jersey, which the author copied from the papers of the British War Department and incorporated in the appendix to the work. Also included is a Muster Roll of Captain Abraham Shepherd's Company of Virginia Riflemen and a section on soldiers of the Pennsylvania Flying Camp who perished in prison, 1776-1777.
Download or read book History of Southwest Virginia 1746 1786 Washington County 1777 1870 written by Lewis Preston Summers and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Highland County Virginia written by Oren F. Morton and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginia Frontier written by Frederick Bittle Kegley and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Botetourt County written by Debra Alderson McClane and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named for a Colonial governor and created in 1770 from Augusta County, Botetourt County lies in the southern end of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. At the time of its establishment, Botetourt's boundaries stretched westward from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes. This area now encompasses 23 counties in Virginia as well as portions of West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Located at the fork of the Great Valley Road and the Wilderness Road, Botetourt served as the last outpost for many settlers moving into the western territories. Settled predominantly by Scots-Irish, German, and English immigrants, the county still reflects the influences of these strong cultures, and many original family names remain prominent. Botetourt is known for its agricultural production, as well as its natural resources: over the centuries, visitors have been drawn to the area's scenic beauty, healing springs, and trout-filled streams. This volume contains images of the towns, farms, homes, industries, people, events, and institutions that have contributed to the rich tapestry of the county's history.
Download or read book Genealogy of the Dodson Dotson Lucas Pyles Rochester and Allied Families written by Silas E. Lucas and published by Southern Historical Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Settlement of the Greater Greenbrier Valley West Virginia written by Fred Ziegler and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study combines the names of settlers from the original 1772-1775 Botetourt County courthouse records with the latest thinking on the conditions and events in the contemporary counties of Monroe, Summers, Greenbrier, and southern Pocahontas,West Virginia.This first permanent settlement included 583 families on an average 200 acre tract, and these were arrayed in 19 diffuse communities along 60 miles of the Greenbrier Valley. These adventurous souls found arable land, conditioned by thousands of years of Native American occupation, but vacated because the original populations were decimated by European diseases. The remaining Native Americans were defeated in Dunmore's War, which included 288 militia troops from this area who performed thediverse functions of ranging, fort-building, as well as fighting at the Battle of Point Pleasant.Contemporary accounts of life on the frontier are also discussed and 132 products available at the Mathews Trading Post are listed, as are the 24 natural remedies used to treat the afflictions experienced on the frontier.The Greenbrier Valley is special because it was a gateway through the rugged Allegheny Mountains. Many descendants of these early settlers are now dispersed across the country but return here to discover their roots.
Download or read book Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County Virginia written by Benjamin Floyd Nuckolls and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annals of Southwest Virginia 1769 1800 written by Lewis Preston Summers and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsome two-volume set is one of the most thorough works on early Southwest Virginia and contains the journals of Colonel Thomas Batts, Dr. Thomas Walker, and Colonel Christopher Gist—three of the region's earliest explorers to record their journeys. The volumes also include lists of soldiers who served in the Revolutionary War, the French-Indian War, and the Indian wars prior to 1800. Also compiled are the early records of most of the land surveys and marriages, briefs of deeds and wills, and the court minutes of Botetourt, Fincastle, Montgomery, Washington, and Wythe counties. In addition, the set includes reprints of George Bickley's 1856 History of Tazewell County and Charles B. Coale's Wilburn Waters.
Download or read book The Peopling of Virginia written by Robert Bennett Bean and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annals of Bath County Virginia written by Oren F. Morton and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bath has a small number of people, and a considerable share of this small number is a new element. To many individuals of the latter class a history of the county will appeal very little. For the above reasons we confine ourselves to a presentation of the more striking and important features in the story of this county. But if, in a commercial sense, this county seemed only a moderately promising field for a local history, it remains very true that Bath is one of the best known counties of the Old Dominion. It is one of the older counties in the Alleghany belt, and it lies on a natural highway of travel and commerce. The story of its evolution is one of much interest. -- Foreword.
Download or read book History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia 1748 1920 written by William C. Pendleton and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume has long been recognized as the definitive history of the area from 1748 to 1920. Divided into six distinct periods, it begins with the Aboriginal Period and ends with the Postbellum or Development Period, which details the immense growth in the Tazewell County area and other parts of Southwest Virginia. Numerous illustrations and photographs of early settlers, outstanding citizens of later periods, houses built when the county was young, and scenic views of Tazewell's beautiful landscape add interest and color to the outstanding work. This edition also includes an index with approximately 3,000 names.
Download or read book Botetourt County Virginia Heritage written by and published by S. E. Grose. This book was released on with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Early Southern Settlers written by Billie Redding Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family history and ancestors of William Arch Lewis born 1921 in Madison, W. Va. He is the son of George Jefferson Lewis (1881-1978) born in Peytona, Boone Co., W. Va., a son of Hansford Umberson Lewis and Nancy Jane Harless, and Blanche Eunice Nelson (1886-1957), daughter of Andrew Jackson Nelson and Mary Frances Jane Holstine of Winifred Junction. The progenitor of this Lewis family, Andrew E. Lewis, was born 1801 in North Carolina according to 1850 and 1860 U.S. Census of Washington County, Virginia. He married in 1822/23 Elizabeth Kaylor (1804-1846), the daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Weeks Kaylor of German descent. Elizabeth Kaylor died in Washington Co., Ill. He married (2) ca. 1849/50 Sarah Smiley (1820-1881). He died between 1860/1870. He had thirteen children.
Download or read book A Centennial History of Alleghany County Virginia written by Oren F. Morton and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the history and families of Alleghany County and the independent city of Clifton Forge. Also includes a list of men who served in the military from the French and Indian War to World War I.
