McKay, and Abraham Hite in 1744. According to historian Anne Wallace Effland, conservative social and religious beliefs together with the campaigns by anti-suffragists kept up a solid defense against them. Within the Mountain State, these tribal villages can be characterized as rather small and scattered as they moved about the old fields every couple of generations. In this Soon, the N&W was also shipping from its own new coal piers on Hampton Roads at Lamberts Point outside Norfolk. 3000 acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Morgan Morgan, 1000 15, page 276. Branson, 1370 In 1863, the western region was admitted to the Union as a new separate state, initially planned to be called the State of Kanawha, but ultimately named West Virginia. You must also have either version 3.02 or higher of Family Tree Maker for Windows or Macintosh, or, version 3.02 or higher of the Family Archive Viewer. first settlers, yet the full names he is able to give, or does 3, No. Trading posts were established at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers at Point Pleasant, West Virginia where, in the mid 1780s, Daniel Boone resided for several years. and 1750 and the following are those for whom Raleigh County 320 in favor of statehood, Clay 760, Braxton 220, and some gave no returns at all. 270. In 1863, General John D. Imboden, with 5,000 Confederate soldiers, overran a considerable portion of the state. In 1774, the Crown Governor of Virginia, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, led a force over the mountains, and a body of militia under Colonel Andrew Lewis dealt the Shawnee Indians under Cornstalk a crushing blow at the junction of the Kanawha and Ohio rivers, in the Battle of Point Pleasant. This document, drafted by former state senator John S. Carlile, declared that the Virginia Declaration of Rights required any substantial change in the nature or form of the state government to be approved by the people. One of the silent partner investors Page had enlisted was millionaire industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers, a principal in John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust and an old hand at developing natural resources, transportation. acres, on the _____ branch of the Opeckon, between the It was set up to be the center of the Virginia Colony's government and commerce. [49], During the Vietnam War a total of 36,578 West Virginians served, with most beginning as teenagers. In October 1748, the Virginia General Assembly passed an act establishing a ferry across the Potomac River from the landing of Evan Watkin near the mouth of Conococheague Creek in present-day Berkeley County to the property of Edmund Wade in Maryland. Early railroads, shipping to East Coast and Great Lakes, New competitor helps open "Billion Dollar Coalfield", The West Virginia Statewide, Historic Preservation Plan 20092014, West Virginia Division of Culture and History. The Film/Digital Notes contain a description of the microfilm or microfiche numbers. With only 21 followers, in October of 1859 he took hostages and freed slaves in Harpers Ferry, at that time in Virginia. Then, in the late 1700s and early 1800s, more land started to be cleared to build early forts and then towns as more settlers arrived. The 1744 Treaty of Lancaster had left ambiguous whether the Iroquois had sold only as far as the Alleghenies, or all their claim south of the Ohio, including the rest of modern West Virginia. Their descendants, who were legion, acres, on Turkey Spring of Opeckon, dated October 3, In addition, the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 18291830 gave the slave-owning counties the benefit of three-fifths of their slave population in apportioning representation in the Virginia Assembly. Cars burned by Jewish settlers during riots in Hawara, in the West Bank, near Nablus, February 27, 2023. In a referendum on May 23, 1861, secession was ratified by a large majority in the state as a whole. Contents: Genealogies of West Virginia families : from the West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarterly, 1901-1905 -- Cabell County annals and families / George Selden Wallace -- Capon Valley : its pioneers and their descendants, 1648 to 1940 / by Maud Pugh (vols. recorded in Orange County, before the county of Frederick was The area that comprises West Virginia was originally part of the British Virginia Colony (16071776) and the western part of the U.S. state of Virginia (17761863). As those mines were playing out by the end of the 19th century, these men were among investors and industrialists who focused new interest on the largely untapped coal resources of West Virginia. Hite was for one thousand and twenty acres (1,020). ; no. Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia, Second Wheeling Convention, August 16, 1861, quoted in Virgil Lewis, "How West Virginia Was Made", pg. Since the mid-20th century, West Virginia has experienced population declines due in large part to its citizens leaving for opportunities elsewhere. Salt mining had been underway since the 18th century, though that which could be easily obtained had largely played out by the time of the American Civil War, when the red salt of Kanawha County was a valued commodity of first Confederate, and later Union forces. The enterprise, fraught with disease, dissension, and determined . People line the street outside of the funeral of Elan Ganeles, 27, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen from West Hartford, Connecticut, in Raanana, Israel, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Forman, Nath Thomas: To John Grubb, Thos. A most remarkable thing, for a boy Early Settlers of Southwest Virginia-Chronological List Watchers Quolla6 Cwatan Share Southwest Virginia Project Return to Southwest Virginia Project Main Page ___________________________________________________________ Category: Southwest Virginia Project Don't want ads? The grant eventually came into the possession of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron and in 1746 a stone was erected at the source of the North Branch Potomac River to mark the western limit of the grant. "[32] Many private citizens were arrested by federal authorities at the request of Wheeling and interned in prison camps, most notably Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio. Descendancy for John Hurst: Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties West Virginia Division of Culture and History, West Virginia Memory Project, A detailed list of delegate names and votes are located in Virgil Lewis'. The same year German settlers from Pennsylvania founded New Mecklenburg, the present Shepherdstown, on the Potomac River, and others soon followed. of New Jersey and New York 1710-1720 and Gov. 1726 - German settlers build the settlement of New Mecklenburg. 536 acres, in Spottsylvania, Grant to Peter Stephen, 600 The Adena provided the greatest cultural influence in the state. In spite of sexism, racism, and class distinctions that women faced in volunteering, thousands responded to the national war effort. The area that comprises West Virginia was originally part of the British Virginia Colony (1607-1776) and the western part of the U.S. state of Virginia (1776-1863). Genealogical records. In 1748, Thomas, Lord Fairfax sent or on the deeds. Despite local support for Virginia, residents who actually filled out ballots voted overwhelmingly to place both counties in West Virginia. McCormick, Samuel Walker, Chas. In 1861, as the United States itself became massively divided over slavery, leading to the American Civil War (18611865), the western regions of Virginia split with the eastern portion politically, and the two were never reconciled as a single state again. of Jamaica 1728-1734. West Virginia University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action By royal charter, the extreme western boundaries of Virginia at this time extended to the Pacific Ocean, but the terms "backcountry" or "back settlements" specifically refer to new settlements in the eastern Appalachian . Although WEST VIRGINIA is used on this webpage for convenience, Much of the northern panhandle and north-central portion of the state are underlain by bedded salt deposits over 50 feet (15m) thick. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Samuel Morris, 378 Efforts to block Page and Rogers through many legal tactics and even several violent confrontations ultimately failed. overflowed to the Ohio and Kanawha Valleys, and went to help Dorarfe, Geo. Appointed Lt. Other significant rail carriers of coal were the Western Maryland Railway (WM), particularly notable was a latecomer, the Virginian Railway (VGN), built in an extraordinary manner to the latest and highest standards and completed in 1909. The constitutionality of the new state was achieved when the Unionist government of Virginia approved the division. 1738 but was not organized until 1743 Youll find a list of all Revolutionary War soldiers who ever lived in West Virginia and an index to civilians who participated in the War effort. During the war, the settlers in western Virginia were generally active Whigs and many served in the Continental Army. System requirements: You must have a CD-ROM drive. James McGregor "The Disruption of Virginia", pg. Coincidentally, it was similar to an indigenous species open zoo of today and became a place of family outings visitation. When the First Wheeling Convention met, 425 delegates from 25 counties were present, but a division of sentiment soon arose. Nonetheless, West Virginia was considered the frontier for quite some time. After a failed attempt to include woman suffrage as a state constitutional amendment in 1916, pro-suffrage Governor John J. Cornwell included the ratification of the federal amendment for woman suffrage in the agenda for a special legislative session in February 1920. All give reference to Virginia. They were: These counties served as the primary foundation for governing for many years in early Colonial Virginia, until the colonies agreed many years later to form what now is the United States of America. Beginning in Reconstruction, and for several decades thereafter, the two states disputed the new state's share of the pre-war Virginia government's debt, which had mostly been incurred to finance public infrastructure improvements, such as canals, roads, and railroads under the Virginia Board of Public Works. Luptons. Notwithstanding the competitive fears of the C&O and N&W, soon all three railroads were shipping ever-increasing volumes of coal to export from Hampton Roads. 1748 - George Washington surveyed land in West Virginia. Jno. [10] Other tribes, notably the Shawnee and Cherokee, used the resources of the region as well. Daniel Polsley, Lt. acres, October 3. The Iroquois were on the point of threatening all-out war against the Virginia Colony over the "Cohongoruton lands", which would have been destructive and devastating, when Governor Gooch bought out their claim for 400 pounds at the Treaty of Lancaster (1744). Other Early Settlers [Source documents noted] ADAMS, Ebenezer (d. 1735) New Kent county; son of Richard Adams, of Abridge, Essex, citizen and merchant tailor of London. Institution. There, city founder Collis P. Huntington also developed what would become the largest shipbuilder in the world, Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. [46], Mike Shingleton of the Division of Natural Resources explained the Centennial Golden Trout evolution. Social conditions in western Virginia were entirely unlike those in the eastern portion of the state. There were, therefore, two governments claiming to represent all of Virginia, one owing allegiance to the United States and one to the Confederacy. West Virginia's mines were considered so unsafe that immigration officials would not recommend them as a source of employment for immigrants, and those unskilled immigrants who did work in the coal mines were more susceptible to death or injury. Indiana, Why, when Mr. Battelle submitted his resolutions, a kind of tremor a holy horror, was visible throughout the house! Within 10 years, the C&O was building tracks east from Richmond down the Virginia Peninsula to reach its huge coal pier at the new city of Newport News, Virginia on the large harbor of Hampton Roads. Settlers increasingly branched out along the eastern coast, but it was not until the early eighteenth century that pioneers began pushing into West Virginia itself. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to George Williams, 489 In particular, men such as lawyer Francis H. Pierpont from Fairmont, had long chafed under the political domination of the Tidewater and Piedmont slave-holders. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Geo. acres, on Stony Lick and dated August 21, 1734, Grant to Thomas Shepherd, 220 A considerable part of this land was surveyed by George Washington, especially the South Branch Potomac River valley between 1748 and 1751. There has They also raised domestic turkeys and kept dogs as pets. It Spotsylvania There was another After the war, with the new railroads came a practical method to transport large quantities of coal to expanding U.S. and export markets. Western Virginia became sharply divided over the issue of secession from the Union, leading to the separation from Virginia, and formalized by West Virginia's admittance to the Union as a new state in 1863. Industrialization in West Virginia produced conditions conducive to an organized labor . Governor of Virginia, the Wheeling constitution was discarded, and an entirely new one was written along ante-bellum principles. Attention: This site does not support the current version of your web browser. In addition to differences over the abolition of slavery, he and allies felt the Virginia government ignored and refused to spend funds on needed internal improvements in the west, such as turnpikes and railroads.[15]. The company sought to have a fourteenth colony established with the name Vandalia. Battelle's resolution a policy of "Negro exclusion" for the new state was adopted to keep any new slaves, or freemen, from taking up residence, in the hope that this would satisfy abolitionist sentiment in Congress. [William and Mary Quarterly] JONES, Cadwallader (in Virginia 1681), Stafford County . acres. Also within the region is the Laurentian Archaic Tradition, which includes Brewerton Phase, Feeley Phase, Dunlop Phase, McKibben Phase, Genesee Phase, Stringtown/Satchel Phase, Satchel Phase and Lamoka/Dustin Phase. On March 24. acres, on Turkey Spring of Opeckon creek, dated 21 Most of the opposition came from delegates from eastern counties, who did not like the compromises made for the west.[14]. Neither the land grant or the Swiss colony ever materialized. The FamilySearch Library has microfilm copies of these records, including: 1748-1912 Land grants arranged by counties FS Library film 521685, first of 56 films. part of the same article. Logging was supported by a dense rail network extending throughout the mountains and hollows. In 1889, in the southern part of the state, along the Norfolk and Western rail lines, the important coal center of Bluefield, West Virginia was founded. Disputes about the exact location of the border in some of the northern mountain reaches between Loudoun County, Virginia and Jefferson County, West Virginia continued well into the 20th century. was Col. James Wood, afterwards Clerk of the Court of Frederick, It authorized the creation of the State of Kanawha, consisting of most of the counties that now comprise West Virginia. sixteen families went into the Shenandoah Valley and from that The governor, lieutenant-governor, the judiciary, sheriffs, and other county officers were to be elected by public vote. Hoge, Abraham 520 Add to Print List Notes be recorded after that date. 600 acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Isaac Garrison, 1000 230, "Mr. Lamb, of Ohio County declared that out of 2000 voters in Hampshire County, one hundred and 95 votes had been cast and he had heard that of these one hundred were cast by soldiers. The first native settlers in West Virginia's Potomac Highlands (Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Randolph, and Tucker counties) were the Mound Builders, also known as the Adena people. In 1742, Robert Allen, Jno. With Page as its first president, and largely financed from Rogers' personal fortune, and the two railroads were merged in 1907 to form the Virginian Railway (VGN). The members of the May Convention were chosen by groups of Unionists, mostly in the far Northwestern counties. Therefore, since the Secession Convention had been called by the legislature and not the people, all its acts were illegal. I-II) -- Genealogy of some early families in Grant and Pleasant districts, Preston County, West Virginia -- Greenbrier pioneers and their homes / by Ruth Woods Dayton -- Roane County, West Virginia families / by William H. Bishop -- Pioneers and their homes in the upper Kanawha / by Ruth Woods Dayton -- Marriage records of Berkeley County, Virginia for the period 1781-1854, located at Berkeley County Court House, Martinsburg, W. Va. / compiled and edited by Guy L. Keesecker -- Mason County, West Virginia, marriages, 1806-1915 / compiled and edited by Julie Chapin Hesson, Sherman Gene Hesson & Jane J. Russell -- Early records, Hampshire County, Virginia, now West Virginia / compiled by Clara McCormack Sage and Laura Sage Jones -- West Virginia estate settlements : an index to wills, inventories, appraisements, land grants, and surveys to 1850 / compiled by Ross B. Johnson -- West Virginia revolutionary ancestors : whose services were non-military, and whose names, therefore, do not appear in Revolutionary indexes of soldiers and sailors / compiled by Anne Waller Ready -- West Virginians in the American Revolution / compiled by Ross B. Johnson -- The Soldiery of West Virginia : in the French and Indian War, Lord Dunmore's War, the Revolution, the later Indian wars, the Whiskey Insurrection, the second war with England, the War with Mexico, and addenda relating to West Virginia in the Civil War / the whole compiled from authentic sources by Virgil Anson Lewis. But the east also gave itself a tax advantage in requiring a property tax at true and actual value, except for slaves. Morgan ap Morgan, a Welshman, built a cabin near present-day Bunker Hill in Berkeley County in 1727. Great Grandfather of Pres. deeds recorded to Stephen Hunsonbeller. As a result, both English and French built forts throughout West Virginia and Pennsylvania and this area would become the main battlefields of the French and Indian War. A delegate representing Logan County was accepted as a member of this body, though he did not live in Logan County, and his "credentials consisted of a petition signed by fifteen persons representing six families". Served as Deputy-Governor of the Virginia Colony from 1616-1617, 1625 & 1627. ], [Webmasters others that then in 1732 that came, but their acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Morgan Bryant, 1250 Although the Deepwater plan should have provided a competitive shipping market via either railroad, leaders of the two large railroads did not appreciate the scheme and sought to discourage competition in an area they considered theirs for expansion plans. It is rare that so many names of the early settlers of any region can be gotten at this day. Taken from "The Proceedings - of the English Colony in Virginia since their First beginning form England in the Year of Our . Likewise, St. Albans, West Virginia, at the confluence of the Kanawha and Coal Rivers, became a point of trade. They grew sunflowers, tubers, gourds, squash and several seeds such as lambsquarter, may grass, sumpweed, smartweed and little barley cereals. ; no. Buffalo were included in 1954 and attracted additional visitors. The first steps toward this change had been taken, however, by the Republicans in 1870. [42] Small pockets of virgin forest remain at Gaudineer Scenic Area and Cathedral State Park.[43]. date there has been a record kept and the settlement reaches Noe, Kenneth W. "Exterminating Savages: The Union Army and Mountain Guerrillas in Southern West Virginia, 18611865." of early settlements and land grants in West Virginia by W. S. Such works include historical information on a building and genealogical information on its inhabitants. acres, October 3. Lieutenant-Governor, in council, to take up the same upon Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia (p. 22). [19] However, most of the pro-Confederate elements no longer considered themselves citizens of the United States; they saw themselves as citizens of another country (the Confederacy) and did not vote in elections sponsored by the United States. Peuter, Thos. James Wood, and to William Williams, Jacob Neswanger, Various game animals and now protected birds were raised for conservation repopulating or control reasons throughout the state. In Noe and Shannon H. Wilson, Riccards, Michael P. "Lincoln and the Political Question: The Creation of the State of West Virginia", Stealey III, John E. "The Freedmen's Bureau in West Virginia,", Zimring, David R. "'Secession in Favor of the Constitution': How West Virginia Justified Separate Statehood during the Civil War. Meanwhile, officers for the new state were chosen, and Governor Pierpont moved the Restored Government to Alexandria from which he asserted jurisdiction over the counties of Virginia within the federal lines. Also in 1634, a new system of local government was created in the Virginia Colony by order of the King of England. Meter, who had obtained orders of our said Lieutenant-Governor, The following A service provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Source: The West Virginia Historical Frederick County. 1734, Grant to Daniel Burnett, 490 acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Thos. West Virginia's nickname is known as the "Mountain State" due to its landscape being largely covered by the Appalachian Mountains. "Corporations lay track into thousands of hollows and pulled billions of dollars in lumber and coal from the region over the following century." During the period 1870 to 1920 most of the old-growth forest was logged. Six followers were also tried, convicted, and executed. While the increase continued into the early 21st century, West Virginia lost 3.2 percent of its population between 2010 and 2020. FamilySearch makes every effort to enable access dependent on decisions of record custodians and applicable laws. certain conditions therein expressed, which orders were made the Granville Parker, originally from Massachusetts and a member of the convention, described the scene "I discovered on that occasion as I never had before, the mysterious and over-powering influence 'the peculiar institution' had on men otherwise sane and reliable. of Militia in Accomack County, a contemporary of. Barretts, Neets, Dillons, Fawcetts John Brown (18001859), an abolitionist who saw slavery as a sin against God, led a successful anti-slavery movement in Kansas (see Bleeding Kansas), and hoped to strike a decisive blow against Southern slavery, creating a massive "underground railroad"type project, in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains, that would assist the enslaved in running away and becoming free. But renegade Cherokee chief Dragging Canoe continued to dispute the settlers' advance, fighting the CherokeeAmerican wars (17761794) until after the American Revolutionary War. Harris. 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