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Chapter IV: Part 4

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|- Upshur
| 1851 (W. Va.)
|- Hampshire -------- Hardy |- Ran- -|
| 1754 (W. Va.) 1786 (W. Va.) | dolph |
| | 1787 |- Tucker
| | (W. Va.) 1856 (W. Va.)
|- Botetourt (See Chart 11) |
| 1770 |
| | |- Wirt
| | | 1848 (W. Va.)
|- Monon- -----------------------| |- Wood -|
| galia | | 1798 |
| 1776 | |(W. Va.)|- Pleasants
| (W. Va.) | | 1851 (W. Va.)
| |- Brooke -- Hancock | |
| | 1797 1848 | |
| | (W. Va.) (W. Va.) | | |-Gilmer -Calhoun
| | | | | 1845 1856
|- Ohio ---+- Tyler -- Wetzel | |-Lewis -|(W. Va.)(W. Va.)
| 1776 | 1814 1846 | | 1816 |
| (W. Va.)| (W. Va.) (W. Va.) | |(W. Va.)|- Brax- - Clay
Au- --| | | |- Harri- -| 1836 1858
gusta | | | | son | (W. Va.) (W. Va.)
1745 | |- Marshall | | 1784 |- Barbour
|- Yohogania 1835 (W. Va.) | | (W. Va.) | 1843 (W. Va.)
| 1776-1786 (Ex). | | |
| | | |- Ritchie
|- Rockbridge | | | 1843 (W. Va.)
| 1778 |-| |
| | |- Taylor
|- Rockingham ---- Page | | 1844 (W. Va.)
| 1778 1831 | |
| | |- Doddridge
|- Illinois | 1845 (W. Va.)
| 1778-1784 (Ex.) |
| |- Preston
| | 1818 (W. Va.)
|- Pendleton ------- Highland |
| 1788 (W. Va.) 1847 |
| |- Marion
| |---- Pocahontas 1842 (W. Va.)
| | 1821 (W. Va.)
|- Bath -------|
1791 |---- Alleghany
1822

CHART 11

(Continuation of Chart 10)

|--- Bourbon -- Mason
| 1786 (Ky.) 1789 (Ky.)
|
|-- Fayette -----|
| 1780 (Ky.) |
| |
| |--- Woodford
| 1789 (Ky.)
|
|---- Kentucky -----+-- Jefferson ------- Nelson
| 1777-1780 (Ex.) | 1780 (Ky.) 1785 (Ky.)
| |
| | |----- Madison
| | | 1786 (Ky.)
| | |
| |-- Lincoln -----------|
| 1780 (Ky.) |
| |
| |---- Mercer
| 1786 (Ky.)
|
| |- Gray- - Carroll |-- Buchanan
| | son 1842 | 1858
| | 1793 |
| |- Wythe -| |-------|
| | 1790 | | |
| | | | |
|- Fin- -| | |- Taze- ---| |-- McDowell
| castle | | well 1858
| 1772- | | 1800 (W. Va.)
| 1777 | |
| (Ex.) | | |- Fayette - Raleigh
| | | | 1831 1850
| | | | (W. Va.) (W. Va.)
| | | |
| | | |- Logan --|
| | | | 1824 |
| | | | (W. Va.) |
| | | | |- Wyoming
| | | | 1850
| | | | (W. Va.)
| |---- Montgomery ---|- Giles -|
| | 1777 | 1806 |
| | | |
| | | |- Mercer
| | | | 1837 (W. Va.)
| | | |
Bote- -| | |- Floyd |
tourt | | | 1831 |
1770 | | | |
| | | |- Bland |-- Scott ---- Smyth
| | | 1861 | 1814 1832
| | | |
| | |- Pul- |-- Lee --|
| | aski | 1793 |
| | 1839 | |
| | | |-- Wise
| | | 1856
| | |
| |---- Washington -- Russell --|
| 1777 1786 |
| |
| |-- Dickenson
| 1880
|
| |---- Mason --------- Jackson
| | 1804 (W. Va.) 1831 (W. Va.)
| |
| |---- Cabell -------- Wayne
| | 1809 (W. Va.) 1842 (W. Va.)
| |
| |---- Kanawha ---|
| | 1789 (W. Va.) |
| | |
| | |---- Boone
| | | 1847 (W. Va.)
| | |
|- Green- -| |
| brier | |
| 1776 | |
| (W. Va.)|---- Monroe |
| | 1799 (W. Va.) |
| | |
| | |---- Putnam
| | | 1848 (W. Va.)
| | |
|- Roanoke | |
| 1838 | |
| | |
| | |---- Roane
| | 1856 (W. Va.)
| |
|- Craig |
1851 |
|
|---- Nicholas -------- Webster
1818 (W. Va.) 1860 (W. Va.)

INDEX

Aaron's creek, 28

Abb's valley, 74

Abingdon, 59

Abrell, Robert, 13

Accomack (Accawmack) county, 3, 6, 8, 10, 15

Accomack Indians, 6

Admiralty, Courts of, _see_ Courts, admiralty

Agee family, 27

Albemarle, William Anne Keppel, 2d Earl of, 26

Albemarle county, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 38, 61, 63, 67

Albemarle parish, 30

Albemarle sound, 42

Alexandria county, 15, 68, 69

Alleghany county, 48, 55, 56, 71, 72

Allegheny mountains, 36, 39, 43, 44, 47, 56, 69

Allegheny river, 55

Allen, Madison, 75

Amelia, Princess, 24

Amelia county, 24, 26, 29, 45, 46

Amherst, Sir Jeffrey, 33

Amherst county, 33, 52

Amherst parish, 33, 52

Anchrom, Richard, 68

Anderson, James, 65
Sterling C., 68

Andros, Sir Edmund, 10

Annapolis, Md., 27

Anne, Queen, 17, 18, 39

Anthony's creek, 47

Antrim parish, 28, 33

Appomattox county, 29, 67, 68

Appomattox river, 6, 20, 24, 26, 29, 46, 67, 68

Argall, Sir Samuel, 1

Arlington county, 15, 69

Armentrout, 71

Ashby's gap (or bent), 25

Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales, 25

Augusta county, 25, 30, 31, 34, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 45, 47, 69

Augusta parish, 25, 30, 39

Back creek, 42, 69

Bacon's Rebellion, 16

Bailey, Joseph, 66

Barbecue run, 60

Barber's creek, 72

Barbour, Philip, 66

Barbour county, 66, 72

Barnes, Thomas, 64

Bartlett, Samuel, 66

Bath county, 47, 48, 55, 69

Bean, William, 66

Beard, John, 29

Beckford parish, 35

Bedford, John Russell, 4th Duke of, 30

Bedford county, 29, 42, 43, 64

Bell, Thomas, 33

Bennett (Mr.), 14

Berkeley county, 35, 50, 54, 55

Bever, Charles, dams of, 19

Big Birch river, 61

Big Buffalo river, 61

Big Meadow gap, 77

Big Reedy island, 46

Birchfield creek, 76

Black, Samuel, 66

Blackstone, Sir William, 46

Blackwater river, 28, 30, 38, 43

Bland, Richard, 75

Bland county, 75, 76

Blanford, 29

Blue mountains, 33

Blue Ridge mountains, 19, 24, 25, 34, 36, 40, 49, 58, 59, 60, 61,
62, 63, 64, 77

Blue Stone river, 46

Bollings point, 29

Bonsack, John, 64

Boone, Daniel, 68

Boone county, 68

Boroughs _see_ Settlements

Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, Lord, 34, 35, 36

Botetourt county, 34, 35, 36, 40, 47, 52, 55, 56, 64, 71

Bourbon, family of, 45

Bourbon county, 44, 45, 49

Branch, Samuel, 68

Brandon, 18

Braxton, Carter, 60

Braxton county, 60, 61, 74, 75

Bristol parish, 7, 24

Broad run, 31

Brooke, Robert (Governor of Virginia), 49
Robert (Surveyor, Knight of Golden Horse Shoe), 49

Brooke county, 49, 67, 70

Brook's mill, 26

Brown, John, raid of, 51

Brunswick, Duchy of, 21, 26

Brunswick county, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 42

Brunswick stew, 23

Brush mountain, 71

Brushy mountain, 50

Buchanan, James, 74

Buchanan county, 74, 76

Buchanan river, 61

Buckingham, Duke of, 33

Buckingham county, 29, 32, 33, 67

Buffalo creek, 42

Bugg's run, 60

Bull creek, 75

Bull run, 25, 31

Bull Run mountains, 31

Bullock, Francis, 11

Bunker Hill, Battle of, 62, 70

Burden's March run, 63

Bush creek, 48

Byrd, Andrew H., 69
James, 39
Colonel William, 2nd, 22

Cabell, William H., 52, 53

Cabell county, 52, 56, 66, 68, 70

Cabin branch, 68

Calf-pasture river, 40, 47

Calhoun, John Caldwell, 73

Calhoun county, 73

California, West Va., 73

Camden parish, 33

Camp rock, 73

Campbell, Thomas, 69
William, 42

Campbell county, 38, 42, 67

Canterbury, England, 9

Cany creek, 77

Cany ridge, 77

Cape Capon mountains, 30

Caperton, Hugh, 51

Caroline of Anspach (Queen of George II), 20, 21

Caroline county, 20, 21, 45

Carper, John, 71

Carroll, Charles, 65

Carroll county, 65

Carrollton, 65

Carr's creek, 34

Cartagena, Colombia, 27

Castle Hill, 67

Catawba road, 36

Catawba valley, 64

Cave's old mill, 63

Cedar creek, 35, 41, 62

Cedar gap, 73

Chancery courts _see_ Courts, chancery

Chapman's ford, 42

Chapman's mill, 31

Chapultepec, Mexico, 53

Charles I, 5

Charles II, 18

Charles City corporation, 1, 2, 3

Charles City county, 3, 5, 6, 8, 13, 18, 54

Charles river, 13, 19

Charles River county, 3, 5, 6
_see also_ York county

Charleston, S. C., 33, 42

Charleston, West Va., 42, 54, 68, 70

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Queen of George III), 33

Charlotte county, 33, 42, 67

Charlottesville, 33

Charters of Virginia, 2, 5, 44

Cheat river, 47

Cherry's run, 55

Chesapeake bay, 18, 51

Chesterfield, Philip D. Stanhope, 4th Earl of, 28

Chesterfield county, 27, 28, 39

Chester's gap, 35

Chestnut creek, 65

Chickacoan, 12

Choppawomsick creek, 21

Christ Church parish, Lancaster county, 15, 16

Christ Church parish, Middlesex county, 16

Chuckatuck creek, 6

Chumley's branch, 20

Cities (political division), 2

Claiborne, William, 3, 13, 14

Clark, George Rogers, 41, 44, 61

Clarke county, 61, 62

Clay, Henry, 74

Clay county, 74

Clear fork, 52, 75

Clem, Daniel, 58

Clinch, 75

Clinch mountain, 45, 48, 50, 53

Clinch river, 38, 50, 53, 73, 75

Clinton, Henry, Sir, 42

Clover Lick fork, 61

Coal (Cole) river, 57, 70

Cole, Richard, 12

Cole (Coal) river, 57, 70

College, at Henrico, 28

Common Pleas courts _see_ Courts, common pleas

Compasses, mariners', 3

Convention, 1775 and 1776, 36, 37

Conway river, 27

Cooper, John, 57

Coppohawk river, 30

Corbin, Anderson, 66

Corley (Mrs.), 66

Cornstalk (Indian), 54

Cornwall parish, 33

Cornwallis, Charles, 2nd Earl, 1st Marquis, 42, 43

Corporations, 1, 2

Cotton, in Southampton county, 28

Council, 2, 9, 20
_Minutes_, 9

Counties (political division), 2
division of Colony into, 3

County courts _see_ Courts, county

"Court Party", 5

Courts, admiralty, in England, 8;
in Virginia, 10
chancery, in England, 8
common pleas, in England 8
county, in Virginia, 2, 7, 8, 10
ecclesiastical, in England, 8
general court, in Virginia, 8, 9
inferior, in Virginia, 2, 7
king's bench, in England, 8
magistrate's or justice, in Virginia, 7, 8
monthly, in England, 8, 9;
in Virginia, 7, 8, 9, 10
of exchequer, in England, 8
parish, in Virginia, 7
prerogative, in England, 9

Cove branch, 71

Cove creek, 50

Cow-pasture river, 40, 47, 55, 56, 69

Cowpens, Battle of, 55

Crab bottom, 69

Crab orchard, 73

Craig, Robert, 72

Craig county, 71, 72

Craig's creek, 56, 64, 71

Crane creek, 52

Crane's nest bridge, 76

Crane's nest creek, 73, 76

Crane's nest river, 72, 73

Crany point, 11

Crayford, England, 13

Cripple creek, 48

Crooked run, 49

Crosses in Fairy Stone Park, 47

Culberson's creek, 36

Culloden, Battle of, 21

Culpeper, Thomas, Lord, 27

Culpeper county, 27, 35, 49, 53, 58, 59, 60

Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke of, 21, 27

Cumberland county, 27, 39

Cumberland mountains, 37, 45, 53, 72, 76

Cunningham's branch, 39

Cunningham's run, 58

Currituck, 17

Cutbanks, 68

Dan river, 28, 33

David's creek, 67

Davis, Hiram, 65

Davisson, Rueben, 66

Deep creek, 21

Deep run, 21

Delaware Indians, 55

Dews, Achilles, 71

Dickenson, William J., 76

Dickenson county, 76, 77

Difficult run, 31

Dilly, Abraham, 74

Dinwiddie, Robert, 29, 31, 36

Dinwiddie county, 29, 46

Discovery, (_Ship_), 1

Dismal branch, 75

District of Columbia, 68, 69

Doddridge, Philip, 67

Doddridge county, 67

Doss, Lilburn, 71

Dragon run, 15

Droop mountain, 47

Drout, Richard, 17

Dry fork, 75

Dry run, 69

Duly, J. H., 77

Dunlap's creek, 47

Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 35, 36, 54

Dunmore county, 35

East river mountain, 75

Eastern branch, Elizabeth river, 17

Eastern Shore, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, 15

Eastern waters, 40

Ecclesiastical courts, _see_ Courts, ecclesiastical

Edward, Duke of Gloucester, 29

Eighteen Mile creek, 51

Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, 5

Elizabeth City corporation, 1, 2, 3

Elizabeth City county, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 23

Elizabeth river, 5, 11, 17

Elk river, 61

England, civil war in, 7, 12, 16;
immigrants from, 20;
names for Virginia counties from, 5;
unrest in, fosters immigration, 7

Essex county, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23

Ewing mountain, 48

Fairfax, Thomas, 6th Lord of, 23, 25, 27, 30

Fairfax county, 15, 25, 31, 69

Fairy Stone mountain, 46, 47

Fairy Stone State Park, 46

Fall run, 60

Falling river, 29, 68

Falling Spring valley, 56

Falls of James river, 20, 39

Fauntleroy's mill run, 62, 63

Fauquier, Francis, 31, 32, 33

Fauquier county, 15, 31, 35, 60, 61,62

Fayette county, Ky., 41, 42, 44, 45, 49

Fayette county, West Va., 57, 70

Federal City, _see_ Washington, D. C.

Fincastle, Lord, 36

Fincastle, England, 36

Fincastle county, 36, 37, 38, 56

Fisher's peak, 65

Flag pond, 53

Flat-top mountain, 52

Fleisher, Andrew, 69

Flourmoy family, 27

Floyd, John, 57

Floyd county, 56, 57, 65

Fluvanna county, 17, 39

Fluvanna river, 32, 33, 38, 39

Fork lick, 61

Fork spur, 76

Fort Duquesne, 36

Fort mountain, 58, 62

Fort Pitt, 36

Fourqurean family, 27

France, Huguenot settlers from, 27

Franklin, Benjamin, 43

Franklin county, 43, 46, 57, 64

Frascati, 66

Frederick, King of Bohemia, 5

Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 25, 29

Frederick county, 24, 25, 30, 31, 34, 35, 55, 61, 62

Frederick parish, 24, 30, 34, 35

Fredericksburg, 29

French and Indian war, 29, 32, 36

Fridley, 71

Gap mountain, 52

Garden mountain, 50, 76

Garwood (Mrs.), 64

Gauley mountain, 51

Gauley river, 57

General courts _see_ Courts, general

George I, 18, 19, 21

George II, 20, 24, 25, 26

George III, 25, 29, 33

George, Consort of Queen Anne, 18

George's Fork mountain, 76

Germanna, 20

Germany, immigrants from, 19, 20, 23

Giant's castle, 60

Giles, William B., 52

Giles county, 48, 51, 52, 56, 63, 64, 65, 71, 75

Gilmer, Thomas Walker, 67

Gilmer county, 67, 73

Glade creek, 64

Gladesville, 73

Gloucester county, 13, 15, 23, 48

Gloucester county, England, 13

Glovers' tavern, 68

Godspeed (_Ship_), 1

Goff, William, 70

Gooch, Sir William, 20

Goochland county, 20, 24, 26, 27

Goose creek, 42

Grayson, William, 48

Grayson county, 48, 57, 65

Greasy creek, 48

Great Kanawha river, 38, 54

Great Laurel ridge, 37

Great North mountains, 30

Great Nottoway river, 24

Great Sandy creek, 37

Green creek, 33

Greenbrier county, 40, 45, 47, 50, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57

Greenbrier Court House, 47

Greenbrier creek, 77

Greenbrier mountain, 47

Greenbrier river, 40, 47

Greene, Nathanael, 42, 63

Greene county, 63

Greensville county, 42

Greenway, Charles City, 54

Greenway Court, 25

Gressy creek, 77

Griever, Philip, spring branch of, 59

Griffin, William, 56

Grose, Strother B., 74

Guerrant family, 27

Guese's river, 53

Guest's river, 73

Guilford Court House, N. C., Battle of, 42

Gunston Hall, 25, 45, 51

Guyandotte river, 52, 57, 70

Haies, Richard, 11

Hale, Nathaniel C. _Virginia Venturer_, 3

Halifax, George Montagu Dunk, 2d Earl of, 28, 29

Halifax, Nova Scotia, 29

Halifax county, 28, 33, 38, 42

Hamilton parish, 25

Hamilton's creek, 47

Hamlin's fork, 24

Hampshire county, 30, 35, 39, 43, 54, 55

Hampshire county, England, 30

Hampton, 28

Hampton river, 28

Hampton Roads, 3, 6, 10

Hancock, John, 70

Hancock county, 70

Hanover county, 19, 20, 23, 25

Hardy, Samuel, 44

Hardy county, 43, 44, 45, 74

Harman's mill, 52

Harper's Ferry, 50

Harrison, Benjamin, 43

Harrison, county, 42, 45, 49, 50, 54, 65, 66

Harrodsburg, Ky., 42

Hart, Silas, 39

Harvey, William, 68

Hay, James, 62, 63

Hays, Richard, 11

Hazel's river, 60

Hedgman river, 24

Henrico corporation, 1, 2, 3

Henrico county, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 20, 24, 28

Henry, Prince of Wales, 5

Henry, Patrick, 38, 46, 70

Henry county, 22, 38, 39, 43, 46

Hensley, Samuel, 53

High Knob, 69, 73

Highland county, 69, 70

Hite, James M., 62, 63 Jost, 23

Hiver, Jacob, 69

Hoffman's ford, 62

Holleway creek, 67

Holstein river, 38

Holston river, 36

Horner's mill, 60

Horse ford, 26

Horseshoe farm, 27

Hughes's river, 67

Hugh's river, 49, 60

Huguenots in Virginia, 20, 27

Hunter's old tavern, 68

Hutchinson, R. M., 71

Hyde, Anne, wife of James II, 17

Illinois county, 41, 44

Immigration, to Virginia, 20

Indian creek, 65, 77

Indians, 7, 11, 15, 16, 54

Iron mining and works, 19, 28

Iron mountain, 38, 48

Irvine, John, 22

Isle of Wight county, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 14, 22, 28, 44

Isle of Wight Island, England, 5

Ivy, Thomas, 17

Jackson, Andrew, 57, 58
James, 63

Jackson county, 57, 70, 73

Jackson's mountain, 69

Jackson's river, 47, 55, 56, 69

James I, 5

James II, 5, 16, 17, 20

James, son of James II, 20

James City corporation, 1, 2, 3

James City county, 3, 5, 6, 8, 14

James river, 6, 14, 18, 20, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 34, 39, 40, 42,
55, 67, 68, 77

James river falls, 20, 39

Jamestown, 1, 2, 3, 6, 14, 18, 55, 77

Jarrell, Jackson, 70

Jarvis, Thomas, Jr., 74

Jefferson, Thomas, 26, 42, 50, 51, 56

Jefferson county, Ky., 41, 42, 49, 50

Jefferson county, West Va., 50, 61

John's creek, 71

Johnson, Jacob, 17

Jordan, John, 56

Joshua's creek, 68

Judicial system, in Virginia, 7, 8, 9, 10

Judy's creek, 42

Kanawha county, 45, 46, 50, 51, 52, 54, 56, 57, 61, 67, 68, 70, 73

Kanawha river, 40, 45, 51, 57, 60, 61

Kanawha turnpike, 57

Kemp, James, 17

Kent, England, 13

Kent's ridge, 50

Kentucky, 38, 42, 44, 49, 53, 56, 72, 73, 75, 77

Kentucky county, 37, 38, 41

Kikotan (Kiccowtan, Kigwohtan, Kikotank, Kecoughtan), 1
_see also_ Elizabeth City corporation

Kimberling creek, 75

King, Sally, 65

King and Queen county, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23

King George county, 19, 21

King William county, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23

King's bench courts _see_ Courts, king's bench

King's Mountain, Battle of, 42, 45

King's salt wells, 59

Kiser, Henry, 77
James P., 77

Knox creek, 75

Lafayette, Marquis de, 42, 51, 57

Lancaster county, 12, 14, 15

Lancaster county, England, 12

Land grants, 3, 9

Land Ordinance, 1785, 44

Land's, 68

Laurel ridge, 57

Lavica fork, 75

Lawne's creek, 6, 11, 14

Lee, Francis Lightfoot, 13
Henry, "Light Horse Harry", 49
Richard Henry, 13
Robert E., 13, 49
Thomas, 21

Lee county, 49, 53, 72, 73

Legislative assembly, first, 1, 2

Legrand family, 27

Letcher, John, 43

Lewis, Andrew, 54
Charles, 54
Thomas, 51

Lewis county, 54, 60, 61, 66, 67, 72

Lexington, Ky., 42

Lexington parish, 52

Lick branch, 76

Lick creek, 57, 73

Lincoln, Benjamin, 42

Lincoln county, 42, 44, 49

Lion's fork, 76

Litterell, Mrs., 57

Little Birch river, 61

Little creek, 17

Little Guyandotte river, 51

Little Hurricane creek, 51

Little Kanawha river, 60, 61, 73

Little Powell's mountain, 73

Little river, 36, 57, 65

Little Rockey creek, 26

Little Walker's creek, 65

Logan (Indian chief), 54, 56

Logan county, 56, 57, 68, 71

London, England, 14

London, Diocese of, 9

Long Shoal run, 61

Loudoun, John Campbell, 4th Earl of, 31

Loudoun county, 15, 31, 34, 35, 61

Louis XVI, 45

Louisa, daughter of George II, 26

Louisa county, 26, 38

Louisville, Ky., 42

Lower Manachin creek, 20

Lower Norfolk county, 11, 17

Luneburg, Duchy of, Germany, 26

Lunenburg county, 26, 28, 29, 33

Luray cavern, 58

Lynchburg road, 68

M'Clintick, William, Jr., 69

M'Daniell, James, 66

McDowell, James, 74

McDowell county, 74

Machoatoke river, 12

M'Kinney's store, 68

Mack's mountain, 57

McLure (McClure) river, 73

Madison, James, 44, 49

Madison county, Ky., 44, 49

Madison county, Va., 49, 59, 63

Magistrate courts _see_ Courts, magistrate's

Maiden Spring fork, 50

Manakintown, 27

Manassas, 21

Mann's gap, 50

Marion, Francis, 65

Marion county, 65, 66

Marshall, John, 60

Marshall county, 60

Martin, Rueben, 68

Mary II, Queen, 16, 17, 18

Mary of Modena, 20

Maryland, 15

_Maryland Archives_, 12

Mary's creek, 34

Mason, George, 25, 45, 51
Seth, 62

Mason county, Ky., 45, 49, 51

Mason county, West Va., 51, 57, 70

Massacres, 1622, 13, 28
1644, 13
1778, 71
in Abb's valley, 74

Massanutten mountain, 58

Massie, Henry, 56

Mathews, Thomas, 48

Mathews county, 48

Mattaponi (Mattopony) river, 14, 18

Maukason gap, 49

Mayo, William, 22

Mayo river, 22

Meadow river, 57

Mecklenburg county, 33, 42

Meherrin river, 42

Mercer, Hugh, 44, 63

Mercer county, Ky., 44, 49

Mercer county, West Va., 63

Merchants Hope Church, 7, 18

Merryman's, 68

Mexico City, Mexico, 53

Michaux family, 27

Middle Mountain, 71

Middlesex county, 15, 16

Middlesex county, England, 16

Militin's fork, 52

Mill creek, 47, 57

Mill mountain, 47

Miller, Adam, 23

Mississippi river, 23, 41, 44

Mississippi valley, 41

Mitchell's rock, 55

Monongahela (Monongalia) river, 47, 60, 67

Monongalia county, 37, 42, 54, 65

Monroe, James, 50

Monroe county, 50, 51, 55, 71

Monroe doctrine, 50

Monterey, 69

Monterey, Battle of, 69

Montgomery, Richard, 38

Montgomery county, 37, 38, 40, 45, 46, 48, 50, 51, 52, 56, 57, 64,
65, 71

Monthly courts _see_ Courts, monthly

Monticello, 26

Morattico creek, 14

Morgan, Daniel, 54, 55

Morgan county, 54, 55

Morris, Joshua, 51

Morriss, Archibald, 56

Moseley, William, Sr., 17

Mount Vernon, 25

Mountain Lake, 52

Muddy creek, 48

Naemhock, 14

Naked creek, 39, 58

Namozene (Namozain) creek, 24, 45

Nancy's ridge, 76

Nansemond (Nansimum) county, 8, 11

Narrows, 48

Nations Spring run, 61

Natural bridge, 41

Natural tunnel, 53

Necostins town, 12

Nelson, Thomas, 43, 52

Nelson county, Ky., 43, 49

Nelson county, Va., 52

New Kent county, 13, 16, 19

New Kent county, England, 13

New Norfolk county, 10, 11

New Orleans, Battle of, 58

New river, 36, 40, 51, 52, 57, 65, 70

Newport, England, 5

Newport News, 6

Newport parish, 5

Nichol, William, Sr., 74

Nicholas, Wilson Cary, 54

Nicholas county, 54, 57, 60, 61, 74, 75

Niday, William, 71

Nineveh, 62

Norborne parish, 34, 35

Norfolk borough, 48

Norfolk county, 17

Norfolk county, England, 10

North Anna river, 17, 19, 26

North Carolina, 17, 22, 26, 37, 38, 42, 58, 65

North mountain, 39, 40

North river, 17, 39, 48

North River Gap road, 69

Northampton county, 8, 15

Northern Neck, 12, 13, 14, 18, 25, 27, 30, 31

Northumberland county, 11, 12

Northumberland county, England, 12

Northwest territory, 43, 44, 61

Northwestern turnpike, 67

Nottoway county, 45, 46

Nottoway Indians, 46

Nottoway river, 24, 26, 29, 42, 46

Nowell, William, 11

Occoquan river, 25

Ohio, 43

Ohio county, 37, 49, 51, 60

Ohio river, 36, 37, 40, 41, 51, 53, 54, 55, 57, 60, 66, 70, 72

Ohio valley, 44

Oil creek, 61

Opequon creek, 61

Orange county, 23, 24, 27, 49, 58, 63, 66

Osborn's gap, 76

Owen, Andrew, 77

Pacific ocean, 44

Pad's creek, 47

Page, John, 58

Page county, 58, 62

Pamunkey neck, 16, 18

Pamunkey river, 6, 14, 16, 17, 18

Panpan creek, 77

Panther's gap, 40

Parkersburg, West Va., 57, 70, 72

Passage creek, 35

Patrick county, 22, 46, 57, 65

Paul, Audley, 40

Peck creek, 46

Peden (Paden), James, 68

Pembroke, William Herbert, 3rd, Earl of, 59

Pembroke river, 59

Pendleton, Edmund, 45

Pendleton county, 45, 47, 55, 69, 74

Pennsylvania, 37

Persinger, Andrew, 72

Peter's mountain, 40, 56, 71

Philadelphia, Pa., 23

Philippi, 66

Piankatank river, 48

Pigeon fork, 73

Pine run, 65

Pine's plantation, 51

Piracy, in Virginia, 10

Pitt, Robert, 11
William, Earl of Chatham, 33, 34

Pittsburgh, Pa., 36, 37, 53

Pittsylvania county, 33, 38, 43, 46

Pleasants, James, Jr., 72

Pleasants county, 72

Pocahontas, 55

Pocahontas county, 55, 69

Pocatallico creek, 51

Pocomoke river, 15

Pohick church, 25

Point mountain, 61

Point Pleasant, 51, 54

Point Pleasant, Battle of, 54

Popular Camp mountain, 48

Population, 1634, 3, 7
1640, 7
1649, 12
1654, 12

Poropotank creek, 14

Porter, James, 76
John, 17

Potomac river, 6, 7, 11, 12, 18, 21, 24, 30, 31, 32, 35, 39, 50,
51, 55

Potowoc river, 24

Potts' creek, 71

Potts' mountain, 56

Pound fork, 71, 72

Powell, Ambrose, 53

Powell's mountain, 49, 53

Powell's river, 53, 73

Powell's fort, 62

Powhatan, 39

Powhatan county, 39

Prater creek, 77

Preston, James Patton, 54

Preston, Battle of, 20

Preston county, 54, 74

Preston's and King's salt wells, 59

Priam, Joseph, 61

Price's turnpike, 71

Prince Edward county, 29, 46, 67

Prince Edward street, Fredericksburg, 29

Prince George county, 18, 21, 24, 29, 30

Prince William county, 15, 21, 25, 31

Princess Anne county, 17

Princeton, 63

Princeton (_Ship_), 72

Pulaski, Count Casimir, 64

Pulaski county, 64, 65, 75

Puritans, in Nansemond county, 11

Putnam, Israel, 70

Putnam county, 70

Quakers, in Nansemond county, 11

Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 70

Raleigh county, 70

Raleigh parish, 24

Randolph, Edmund, 45

Randolph county, 45, 47, 54, 55, 61, 66, 72, 74, 75

Randolph Court House, 55

Rapidan river, 17, 20, 27

Rappahannock county (1656-1692), 14, 15, 17, 18

Rappahannock county (1833), 59, 60, 62

Rappahannock Indians, 59

Rappahannock river, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 27, 59

Rasnaker, James, 77

Ravenswood and California turnpike, 73

Reconstruction, in Virginia 44

Red house, Appomattox county, 68

Red springs, 56

Redman, John, 47

Reed island, 65

Reedy creek, 53, 68

Representative government, origin of, in U. S., 77

Rich, Robert, Sir, 5

Rich creek, 51

Rich mountain, 76

Rich Patch mountain, 56

Richmond, 32, 39

Richmond county, 18, 19

_Richmond Enquirer_, 66

Ritchie, Thomas, 66

Ritchie county, 66, 72

Rivanna river, 17, 26

Roane, Spencer, 73, 74

Roane county, 73

Roanoke (Indian money), 64

Roanoke county, 63, 64, 71

Roanoke river, 22, 24, 26, 36, 42, 64

Robinson river, 49

Rock-camp fork, 61

Rockbridge county, 40, 41, 47, 56

Rockfish river, 33

Rockingham, Marquis of, 40

Rockingham county, 39, 40, 45, 49, 58, 63

Rocky run, 31

Rogers, James, 74

Rolfe, John, 55

Ronceverte, 40

Rose, 71

Rosegill, 16

Rose's mill, 48

Rotterdam, Holland, 23

Round bottom, 52

Rowan, Boston, 71

Royal Marriage Act, 1772, 29

Ruffner, Charles, 74

Russell, William, 45

Russell county, 45, 48, 50, 53, 59, 72, 74, 76, 77

Russell parish, 30

Russell's fork, 77

Sail's creek, 29

St. Andrew's parish (Brunswick county), 24

St. Anne's parish, 33

Saint George, 74

St. James parish, 33

St. John's parish (New Kent county), 16

St. Mark's parish, 23

St. Memin, Julien F. de, 59

St. Paul's parish (New Kent county), 19

St. Peter's parish (New Kent county), 16

Salt works road, 60

Sand fork, 61

Sandy creek, 38

Sandy Point, 6

Sandy ridge, 76, 77

Sandy river, 72, 74, 75, 77

Sandys, Edwin, Sir, 5

Savannah, Ga., 64

Sayers, John T., 65

Scotland, immigrants from, 20

Scott, Winfield, 53

Scott county, 53, 72, 73

Scott's branch, 68

Seacock swamp, 30

Seaward, John, 11

Seneca creek, 39

Shenandoah county, 35, 49, 58, 62

Shenandoah (Sherrendo) river, 23, 35, 50, 62, 63

Shenandoah valley, 23, 51, 64

Shepherd, David G., 65
Harvey, 65

Shires, (political division), 3, 5

Shock, Jacob, 61

Shooting creek, 43

Showlands, John, 17

Shuler's island, 58

Shuler's run, 58

Simpson's creek, 17, 47

Sinking creek, 64

Sinking creek valley, 71

Sizer, Daniel, 71

Skiffe's (Keith's) creek, 6

Skimeno (Skimino) creek, 14

Skinquarter creek, 20

Sleepy creek mountain, 55

Smith's river, 46

Smyth, Alexander, 58, 59

Smyth county, 58, 59, 76

Snow creek, 19

Sonners, Isaac, 70

South Anna river, 17

South branch, 47

South mountain, 39

South river, 34, 58

Southam parish, 39

Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 2d Earl of, 5, 28

Southampton county, 27, 28, 30

Southwark parish, 30

Spencer, West Va., 73

Spessard, John, 64

Spotswood, Alexander, 18, 19, 20, 27, 49, 64

Spotsylvania county, 19, 20, 21, 23

Stafford county, 15, 21, 31

Stafford county, England, 15

Stanard, William Glover, 37

Staunton, 37

Staunton and Parkersburg turnpike, 72

Staunton river, 28, 33, 38, 42, 43

Steel, George, 75

Steele's mill, 40

Steer creek, 61

Stephens, John, Jr., 70

Stephenson, Adam, 69

Stith, William. _History of Virginia_, 2, 7

Stock creek, 49, 73

Stone Coal gap, 71

Stott's ferry, 38

Stover, Jacob, 23

Strait Stone creek, 33

Strasburg, 62

Stratford Hall, 13, 21

Surrey county, England, 14

Surry county, 14, 22, 29, 30

Surveyors of land, 3

Susan Constant (_Ship_), 1

Susquehanna river, 71

Sussex county, 30

Sussex county, England, 30

Sweedland hill, 39

Sweet Springs, 40, 56

Swift Run gap, 63

Sydney (or Sidney), Philip, Sir, 59

Sydnor, F. W., 15

Tarleton, Banastre, 55

Tate, David, Sr., 47

Taylor, Creed, 65
William, 73
Zachary, 66, 69

Taylor county, 66

Tazewell, Henry, 50

Tazewell county, 50, 51, 52, 56, 63, 74, 75

Teaze's valley, 51

Tennant's church, 49

Tennessee, 38, 49, 53

Tennessee river, 38

Thomasson, John P., 70

Thompson, John W., 64

Thompson's mill, 42

Thrasher, John, 57

Three Lick fork, 61

Three Top mountain, 62

Ticonderoga, N. Y., 33

Tidewater, 11, 13

Tillotson parish, 33

Tobacco, 22, 23
as a medium in court cases, 2, 7
as a medium of exchange, 32
effect of, upon Virginia migration, 13
in Brunswick county, 22, 23
in Lunenburg county, 26
taxes, fees, etc. on, 32

Town creek, 46

Trammel gap, 77

Treaty of 1783, 44

Truro parish, 25

Trussell, John, 12

Tuckahoe creek, 20

Tucker, St. George (Clerk of House of Delegates), 74
St. George (Jurist), 74

Tucker county, 74

Tug river, 75

Turkey Island creek, 6

Turkeycock mountain, 43

Twenty Mile creek, 57

Tyler, John, (President of U. S.), 54, 72
John, (Governor of Virginia), 53, 54
Lyon G. _Cradle of the Republic_, 6

Tyler county, 53, 68, 72

Upper Chippokes creek, 6, 14

Upper Norfolk county, 8,11

Upshur, Abel P., 72, 73

Upshur county, 72

Valley of Virginia, 23, 50, 51, 57, 58, 64

Valley pike, 57

Van Metre, John, 23

Vaughan's creek, 68

Vernon, Edward, 27

Virginia, boundary dispute with Maryland, 15
ceding of territory in 1781, 44
Charter of 1609, 44
Charter of 1612, 44
division into counties, 3
divided into political divisions, 2
economic conditions, 32
emigration to, 20
fight against French power, 31
formation of West Virginia, 43
land cheap in, 24
loss of coal fields, 44
loss of territory, 43, 44
population of 1634, 3, 7
population of 1640, 7
population of 1649, 12
population of 1654, 12
territorial claim, 44
unrest in, 16
wills probated in, 9

Virginia, unrest in, 16

Virginia, University of, 52

Virginia company, 2, 5, 28, 59

_Virginia Magazine of History and Biography_, 15, 37

Virginia militia, 29, 41, 43, 44, 54

Virginia State Library. _Minutes of Council and General Court_, 9

Walker, Thomas, 53, 67

Walker's Big mountain, 75, 76

Walker's Creek mountain, 52

Walker's Little creek, 76

Walker's Little mountain, 75, 76

Ward's ford, 29, 46

Warm Spring mountain, 30

Warm Springs, 47, 48

Warren, Joseph, 62

Warren county, 61, 62, 63

Warrosquyoake county, 3, 5, 6, 11, 14
_see also_ Isle of Wight county.

Warwick (Warrick), Robert Rich, Earl of, 5

Warwick county, 3, 5, 6, 8

Warwick River county, 3, 6

Washington, George, 25, 29, 38, 50, 64

Washington, D. C., 69

Washington county, 37, 38, 45, 48, 53, 58, 59

Watkins' point, 15

Wayne, Anthony, 66

Wayne county, 66

Webb, Edmond, 17

Webster, Daniel, 72, 75

Webster county, 75

Wells, Zachariah N., 73

Wells bridge, 45

West Augusta district, 36, 37

West fork, 73

West Union, West Va., 60

West Virginia, 43, 44

Western branch, Elizabeth river, 11

Western waters, 40

Westmoreland county, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 33, 50

Weston, West Va., 72

Wetzel, Louis, 68

Wetzel county, 68

White Oak hunting path, 24

White Post, Clarke county, 63

Whitelow's mill run, 63

Wilderness road, 53

William III, 16, 18, 23

William and Mary College, 34, 46

Williams' gap, 34

Williamsburg, 18, 23, 31, 34

Wills, Probating of, in England, 9;
in Virginia, 9

Winchester, 50

Winchester and Staunton stage road, 62

Wirt, William, 70

Wirt county, 70

Wise, Henry A., 72

Wise, 73

Wise county, 72, 73, 75, 76

Wolf creek, 52, 75, 76

Wolf Creek mountain, 52

Wood, James, (Governor of Virginia), 49
James, (Colonel), 49

Wood county, 49, 50, 51, 57, 66, 70, 72

Woodford, John H., 66
William, 45

Woodford county, 45, 49

Wormeley family, 16

Wright's branch, 61

Wyatt, Francis, Sir, 2

Wyoming county, 71

Wyoming Valley, 71

Wythe, George, 46

Wythe county, 46, 48, 50, 52, 58, 59, 64, 65, 75, 76

Wythe Court House, 59

Yardley, Benjamin, 39

Yeardley, George, Sir, 5

Yohogania county, 37

York, Duke of, 5

York, England, 9

York county, 3, 5, 6, 8, 13, 23
_see also_ Charles River county

York river, 6, 13, 16

Yorktown, 42, 43, 52

Young's bottoms, 61

Zion meeting-house, 62

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Transcriber's note:

(1) All apparent typographical errors, misspellings and
punctuation errors have been corrected without comment.

(2) In some instances, "cowpasture" was so spelled; these
have now been hyphenated to conform with "calf-pasture".

(3) "Boroughs" and "Settlements" have been deleted from the
index, as neither is in the text.

(4) "Federal City" has been linked directly in the index,
as it is not mentioned under "Washington D.C.".

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