acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Geo. 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. Aliens, Johnstons and others, came and settled about the Opequon Curry, Richard Orr. However, the act that created West Virginia was signed in 1862, two years before Lincoln's re-election. If you are using a computer in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, you may use this database by clicking here. In 1661, King Charles II of England had granted a company of gentleman the land between the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers, known as the Northern Neck. In limited facilities of late 1956, "Goldy" had spawn with a few Rainbow trout. Attention: This site does not support the current version of your web browser. 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). It met at Wheeling on July 1, 1861, filled the remainder of the state offices, completed the reorganization of the state government, and elected two United States senators who were quickly seated in Washington. Governor of Virginia in 1710, founded the first Germanna Colony in 1714. 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. 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. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Israel Frond, 300 West Virginia is a state now, and the Industrial Revolution is taking place. Nonetheless, West Virginia was considered the frontier for quite some time. Grant to Robert McKay, jr., with the above clause therein, which designates the same as Soon, the N&W was also shipping from its own new coal piers on Hampton Roads at Lamberts Point outside Norfolk. Today, the zoological facility is of 338-acre (1.37km2) modern Wildlife Center under the direction of the Division of Natural Resources. All give reference to Virginia. By 1900, only a large area of the most rugged terrain of southern West Virginia was any distance from the existing railroads and mining activity. 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. Ashby, October 3, 1734, Grant to Richard Paulson, 834 Family tree maker's family archives. Reasons why microfilms may not yet be available digitally on FamilySearch.org include: FamilySearch Terms of Use (Updated 2021-09-27) | Privacy Notice (Updated 2021-04-06), 2023 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. October 3. acres, dated October 3, 1734, Grant to David Perkins, 519 Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia (p. 22). A little over one month later, Kanawha was renamed West Virginia. Locals forced him to take refuge in the Armory firehouse, later called "John Brown's Fort"; a unit of U.S. Marines led by Robert E. Lee stormed the firehouse and took Brown prisoner, almost killing him. Though the Iroquois made little effort to settle the region themselves, they made war throughout the area with their enemies, following the Great Indian Warpaths through the region and, some time between 17251750, contracted a large group of the Saponi-Tutelo warriors the Iroquois had living on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania to fight alongside them in the region. sixteen families went into the Shenandoah Valley and from that 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. Remnants of the Mound Builder's civilization have been found throughout West Virginia, with many artifacts found in . On May 13, 1862, the state legislature of the reorganized government approved the formation of the new state. It extended the vote to all white males 21 years or older. note: The 3 articles, Early Land Grants, Frederick FamilySearch makes every effort to enable access dependent on decisions of record custodians and applicable laws. The Second Wheeling Convention met as agreed on June 11, 1861, and adopted "A Declaration of the People of Virginia". recorded in Orange County, before the county of Frederick was This unique collection of family and local histories, marriage records, military records, and court records references approximately 200,000 individuals. They now proposed a division when it was impossible for one-fourth of even the counties included in the boundaries proposed to give even an expression upon the proposition." There has Frustrated by bad economic conditions and what they perceive to be neglect from the Charleston government, this movement has gained at least some momentum. the West Virginia Historical Society and there may be more. Served in House of Burgesses in 1653-1658, father of Robert "King" Carter, acting Governor of Virginia 1726-1727. Counties in the east and south were settled mostly by eastern Virginians. On April 27, 1738, dated to Nisoranger, Thos. 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. George Washington. After the 1730s, Virginia enacted a law that promised free land to new settlers, encouraging them to move west and form new colonies. The first Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia arrived in the 1720's primarily from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Eastern Virginia. The members of the May Convention were chosen by groups of Unionists, mostly in the far Northwestern counties. ], This page was last updated Tuesday, 16-Jun-2015 10:52:10 EDT. By S.C. Shaw, 1878.] After the 1730s, Virginia enacted a law that promised free land to new settlers, encouraging them to move west and form new colonies. settlement of Quakers in another vicinity, viz: the Perkinses, Orange in 1734 It shares a sister city with the same name, Bluefield, in Virginia. Hite was for one thousand and twenty acres (1,020). Van Meter, Thos. of Jamaica 1728-1734. Original Home of Col. John Evans, Morgantown, W. Va. Group Poses with Fairfax Stone, Tucker County, W. Va. WVU Libraries West Virginia Such works include historical information on a building and genealogical information on its inhabitants. Remnants of the Mound Builder=s civilization have been found throughout West Virginia, with a high concentration of artifacts located at Moundsville, West Virginia, in Marshall County. But the east also gave itself a tax advantage in requiring a property tax at true and actual value, except for slaves. 19th century steamboats were built and repaired in Wheeling, Parkersburg, Point Pleasant and Mason City. Taken from "The Proceedings - of the English Colony in Virginia since their First beginning form England in the Year of Our . Those not voting were Thomas Maslin of Hardy County and Benjamin Wilson of Harrison County. In the late 1600s, European explorers arrived and started to create maps for the territory. Via the New, Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 1,656 square miles (4,290 km2). Former West Virginia Governor William A. MacCorkle described him as a man who knew the land "as a farmer knows a field." A camera icon indicates items that are digitally available online. [Webmasters They grew sunflowers, tubers, gourds, squash and several seeds such as lambsquarter, may grass, sumpweed, smartweed and little barley cereals. And later, other small splintered clans were attracted to, among others, James Le Tort, Charles Poke and John Van Metre trading houses within the state. Coal Expansion and Mine Wars (1883 to 1922), Cold War (1946 to 1990) - Decline of Coal, West Virginia and Regional History Center. Many settlers crossed the mountains after 1750, though they were hindered by Native American resistance. Why, when Mr. Battelle submitted his resolutions, a kind of tremor a holy horror, was visible throughout the house! 3000 acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Morgan Morgan, 1000 an 1863 Copperhead editorial condemning the US Congress for accepting West Virginia as a state. There were, therefore, two governments claiming to represent all of Virginia, one owing allegiance to the United States and one to the Confederacy. Paleo-Indian culture appears by 10,500 BC in West Virginia passing along the major river valleys and ridge-line gap watersheds. [5] Little is known about the housing of Paleo-Indian and Archaic periods, but Woodland Indians lived in wigwams. Governor Alexander Spotswood is sometimes credited with taking his 1716 "Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition" into what is now Pendleton County, although according to contemporary accounts, Spotswood's trail went no farther west than Harrisonburg, Virginia. The governor, lieutenant-governor, the judiciary, sheriffs, and other county officers were to be elected by public vote. By 1739, Thomas Shepherd had constructed a flour mill powered by water from the Town Run or the Falling Springs Branch of the Potomac River in present-day Shepherdstown. Served as Deputy-Governor of the Virginia Colony from 1616-1617, 1625 & 1627. acres, dated 3 October 1734, Grant to Isaac Pennington, Jefferson in 1801. Many of the first settlers were wealthy English gentlemen, but the list of first settlers also included laborers, bricklayers, carpenters, a blacksmith, barber, tailor, and a preacher. A few months later in 1957, the Petersburg hatchery moved these yellow-mottles to the larger Spring Run hatchery. 1748 - George Washington surveyed land in West Virginia. A considerable part of this land was surveyed by George Washington, especially the South Branch Potomac River valley between 1748 and 1751. McDowell and James The Proclamation of 1763 again confirmed all land beyond the Alleghenies as Indian Territory, but the Iroquois finally relinquished their claims south of the Ohio to Britain at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768. "[37] Instead of Rev. 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. County was formed in 1720 "Crisis Politics in West Virginia, 18611870," in Richard O. Curry ed., Engle, Stephen D. "Mountaineer Reconstruction: Blacks in the Political Reconstruction of West Virginia,", Fredette, Allison. organized: We have endeavored to not repeat the names either on the grants Early Settlement in the Eastern Panhandle The Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia borders Maryland and Virginia. The first permanent English colony in North America was founded at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. They lived in round (double post method) wicker sided and bark sheet roofed houses. Also are the Buffalo Phase, Transitional Archaic Phase, Transitional Period Culture and Central Ohio Valley Archaic Phase. On June 19, 1861, the Wheeling convention enacted a bill entitled "Ordinance to Authorize the Apprehending of Suspicious Persons in Time of War" which stated that anyone who supported Richmond or the Confederacy "shall be deemed subjects or citizens of a foreign State or power at war with the United States. deeds recorded to Stephen Hunsonbeller. 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. [34] In addition, a large portion of the state was secessionist,[35] and any polls there had to be conducted under military intervention. [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. Paul H. Rakes, "West Virginia Coal Mine Fatalities: The Subculture of Danger and a Statistical Overview of the Pre-enforcement Era,", Rob Silvester, West Virginia State Wildlife Center: A Century of Conservation and Education, WVDNR, 2010, Pamela Edwards, "West Virginia Women in World War II: The Role of Gender, Class, and Race in Shaping Wartime Volunteer Efforts,", Sam F. Stack, Jr., "Implementing 'Brown' V. 'Board Of Education' In West Virginia: The 'Southern School News' Reports,", Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition, Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, Virginia Constitutional Convention of 18291830, Virginia Constitutional Convention of 185051, List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union. This, perhaps, will be sufficient to show that after "'This Bastard New Virginia': Slavery, West Virginia Exceptionalism, and the Secession Crisis,". 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. Returns from some counties were as low as 5%, e.g. ", Corbin, David Alan. Survey of Early Settlers on Patterson Creek; Wilmer L. KERNS' Early Settlers of Patterson's Creek - Map and List; Early Religious Migration, Additional Sources Latest update: Monday, October 8, 2012. The first settlers at the English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia hoped to forge new lives away from Englandbut life in the early 1600s at Jamestown consisted mainly of danger, hardship . West Virginia was officially admitted as a U.S. state on June 20, 1863. [3] Within the greater region of and neighboring the Mountain State, the Riverton Tradition includes Maple Creek Phase. Brock, Robt. In the late 18th century, the steel trap increased efficiency, and beaver became scarce. He made surveys in 1748 More women, children, and family groups began arriving in 1609. "Betrayal in the West Virginia Coal Fields: Eugene V. Debs and the Socialist Party of America, 19121914,", Edwards, Pamela. Also in 1725, Pearsall's Flats in the South Branch Potomac River valley, present-day Romney, was settled, and later became the site of the French and Indian War stockade, Fort Pearsall. Most of the opposition came from delegates from eastern counties, who did not like the compromises made for the west.[14]. Mine accidents were considered inevitable, and mine safety did not appreciably improve the situation because of lax enforcement. The first settlement in what became known as the Virginia Colony was Jamestown, which was founded in 1607. first settlers, yet the full names he is able to give, or does After an early expedition in 1584 to the "New World" by Sir Walter Raleigh, many other expeditions from England were sent to explore and colonize, including three ships that set sail on April 30, 1607, which were funded by "The Virginia Company". Various game animals and now protected birds were raised for conservation repopulating or control reasons throughout the state. Six followers were also tried, convicted, and executed. Members of the Carpenter family were among the first white people to settle in what is now central West Virginia, and their descendants populate a wide area today. 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. Beginning in 1898, Page teamed with northern and European-based investors to take advantage of the undeveloped area. was made to Hite and Hite had the surveys made, and the surveyor But renegade Cherokee chief Dragging Canoe continued to dispute the settlers' advance, fighting the CherokeeAmerican wars (17761794) until after the American Revolutionary War. Including accounts of its Soils, Timber, Minerals, Water, and Material Wealth. The West Virginia Archives and History Library has custody of these records. Later in 1624, Virginia was created as a royal colony that included the original Jamestown settlement, when King James I revolked the charter of the bankrupt Virginia Company and the colony transferred to royal authority as a crown colony, but the elected representatives in Jamestown continued to exercise a fair amount of power. In 1863, General John D. Imboden, with 5,000 Confederate soldiers, overran a considerable portion of the state. Skip ahead a few decades until after the Civil War. 270. Served as Colonial Governor of Virginia 1635-1637. Institution. The enterprise, fraught with disease, dissension, and determined . The VGN and the N&W ultimately became parts of the modern Norfolk Southern system, and the VGN's well-engineered 20th-century tracks continue to offer a favorable gradient to Hampton Roads. is a list of grantees of lands conveyed by Jost Hite and The American History and Genealogy Project. expressed, which orders were made June 17, 1730. 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 Supreme Court decided in favor of West Virginia, and there has been no further question. It will be noticed that there were deeds acres purchased by the said Jost Hire from Isaac and John Van After the war, with the new railroads came a practical method to transport large quantities of coal to expanding U.S. and export markets. 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. When the United States Bureau of Mines was given more authority to regulate mine safety in the 1960s, safety awareness improved, and West Virginia coal mines became less dangerous.[44]. Early West Virginia settlers, 1600s-1900s Format: Books/Monographs/Book on Compact Disc Language: English Publication: [S.l.] Jno. Served as Lt. Gov. The rugged nature of the country made slavery unprofitable, and time only increased the social, political, economic, and cultural differences .mw-parser-output div.crossreference{padding-left:0}(see Tuckahoe-Cohee) between the two sections of Virginia. Efforts to block Page and Rogers through many legal tactics and even several violent confrontations ultimately failed. They were adopted into the Seneca as a reward and settled in Randolph County, calling themselves the Blackfoot Senecas, though a great many Saponi stayed behind and were later incorporated into the Iroquois by other means. Isaac and John Van Meter, who had obtained orders from our said Likewise, St. Albans, West Virginia, at the confluence of the Kanawha and Coal Rivers, became a point of trade. The settlers listed below were all considered very important to the establishment of government and were significant in the historical impact on Colonial Virginia: The following persons were among the prominent first families that immigrated to Colonial Virginia in the 1600's-early 1700's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Virginia, http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108283.html, https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Early_Settlers_of_Colonial_Virginia, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License, Was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1693, 1696, 1699, and one of the committee in 1700 reporting a revision of the laws which were approved by the General Assembly in 1705, Served as Colonial Governor of Virginia 1768-1770, Was a fur trader and served in the House of Burgesses. At the Constitutional Convention on December 14, 1861, the issue of slavery was raised by Rev. The issue was finally settled in 1915, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that West Virginia owed Virginia $12,393,929.50. 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. The B&O developed coal piers in Baltimore and at several points on the Great Lakes. Following are the traditional Archaic sub-periods; Early (80006000 BC), Middle (60004000 BC), and Late (40001000 BC). Luptons. Daniel Polsley, Lt. [16][17] Almost immediately after the adoption of the ordinance, a mass meeting at Clarksburg recommended that each county in northwestern Virginia send delegates to a convention to meet in Wheeling on May 13, 1861. The Late Prehistoric (c. AD 9501650) phases of the Fort Ancient Tradition include Feurt Phase, Blennerhassett Phase, Bluestone Phase, Clover Complex followed by the Orchard Phase (c. AD 15501650) with a Late Proto-historic arrival of a Lizard Cult from the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex. All give reference to Virginia. Some are early historic documented seeking protection closer, moving to the easterly colonial trade towns. The Class 1 railroad came to be known as the "Richest Little Railroad in the World.". Robert Hagar, Constitutional Convention delegate, quoted in, "Proclamation 100 Admitting West Virginia Into the Union", John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project, Lincoln and West Virginia Statehood* By J. Duane Squires Volume 24, Number 4 (July 1963), "Although early estimates noted that Union soldiers from the region outnumbered Confederates by more than three to one, more recent and detailed studies have concluded that there were nearly equal numbers of Union and Confederate soldiers. Arthur Laidley, elected to the General Assembly from Cabell County, attended the June Convention but refused to take part. The Constitutional Convention began on November 26, 1861, and finished its work on February 18, 1862. build up several Western States, especially Ohio. overflowed to the Ohio and Kanawha Valleys, and went to help Heavy settlement began in the 1760s after Indian claims had been settled. The first steps toward this change had been taken, however, by the Republicans in 1870. They also raised domestic turkeys and kept dogs as pets. General George B. McClellan's forces gained possession of the greater part of the territory in the summer of 1861. 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In the 1850s, geologists such as British expert Dr. David T. Ansted (18141880), surveyed potential coal fields and invested in land and early mining projects. Large Landowner Gloucester Richmond Stafford Counties. Contemporaneously to Fort Ancient Tradition southerly of the state, the sister culture called Monongahela is found on the northerly of the Mountain State stemming from the Drew Tradition. 1734, Grant to Thomas Johnson, 150 This database is comprised of fourteen books. 142 acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Thos. Then follows Genealogical records. This push, however, would soon provoke conflict, both with Native Americans already living in the area and with the French who also believed they held claim to the land. Governor of Virginia from 1751 to 1758. Within this area west of the New River Coalfield in Raleigh and Wyoming counties lay the Winding Gulf Coalfield, later promoted as the "Billion Dollar Coalfield.". Box 6069 Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 Phone: 1-304-293-4040 Fax: 1-304-293-6638 West Virginia University. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Abraham Pennington, 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. acres, on Turkey Spring of Opeckon creek, dated 21 This wall stretched across the peninsula between the York and James rivers and protected the settlements on the eastern side of the lower Peninsula from Indians. Kanawha salt production followed by coal and timber could be seen on the waterways. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Samuel Taylor, 200 1762 - The oldest town in West Virginia, Shepherdstown, is founded. Ambler, Charles H. "If it required a military force to hold an election, if Cabell County, which borders on the Ohio River, had to have a military force to hold an election there; if Boone had to have a military force to hold an election at two points; if a detachment went up and held an election there, and got into a corner of Raleigh and held an election there, with what difficulty are the counties represented?" When the statehood bill reached Congress, however, the lack of an emancipation clause prompted opposition from Senator Charles Sumner and Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio. [33] Soldiers were also stationed at the polls to discourage secessionists and their supporters. 1860-1875 Land sales FS Library film 558437-558440. Orange County, Virginia was formed in 1734. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. They acquired large tracts of land in the area, and Page began the Deepwater Railway, a short-line railroad which was chartered to stretch between the C&O at its line along the Kanawha River and the N&W at Matoaka, a distance of about 80 miles (130km). Bands of guerrillas burned and plundered in some sections, and were not entirely suppressed until after the war was ended. 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? Some 700,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. It was set up to be the center of the Virginia Colony's government and commerce. [24] It was this June Convention which drafted the statehood resolution. 500 acres, dated 3 October, 1734, Grant to Richard Pendall, 300 The first European settlers started arriving about 1730. In the Fort Ancient period, Indians lived in much larger poled rectangular shaped houses with walls hide covered. Served in House of Burgesses for New Kent County, son of. Representation in the house of delegates was apportioned on the basis of the census of 1850, counting whites only. In combination, all of the records collected here will help you put the lives of your early West Virginia ancestors in historical context. Johnson, 298 In 2011, West Virginia state delegate Larry Kump sponsored legislation to allow Morgan, Berkeley, and Jefferson counties to rejoin Virginia by popular vote. During the American Civil War, West Virginia suffered comparatively little. 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. 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. Also brief accounts of First Settlers, and their Descendants. Established by the Virginia Company of London this settlement would be called Jamestown, after king James I. [11] However, western reforms were rejected by leaders from east of the Alleghenies who "clung to political power in an effort to preserve their plantation lifestyles dependent on enslaving blacks. and others. It is rare that so many names of the early settlers of any region can be gotten at this day. During the period 1870 to 1920 most of the old-growth forest was logged. 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. acres, dated October 3, 1734, Grant to Stephen During the late 19th and early 20th century, West Virginia saw its population grow, due in large part to the economic job opportunities provided by the coal and logging industries. The recorded History of Virginia began with settlement of the geographic region now known as the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States, previously settled thousands of years ago by Native Americans. ; no. acres, October 3, 1734. In Feb., 1739, to Hendery acres, on the _____ branch of the Opeckon, between the Presbyterian Church, above Winchester. Meter. time. ], [Webmasters It was set up to be the center of the Virginia Colony's government and commerce. 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