Author: David Wolfe Eaton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Contains history of the Westmoreland County, poll list for 1821, list of burgesses and clerks, biographical sketches of prominent men of the county, the patentees and maps.
Historical Atlas of Westmoreland County, Virginia
Author: David Wolfe Eaton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Contains history of the Westmoreland County, poll list for 1821, list of burgesses and clerks, biographical sketches of prominent men of the county, the patentees and maps.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Contains history of the Westmoreland County, poll list for 1821, list of burgesses and clerks, biographical sketches of prominent men of the county, the patentees and maps.
Journals
Author: Virginia. General Assembly. House of Burgesses
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The History of Truro Parish in Virginia
Author: Philip Slaughter
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Category : Truro Parish (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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Category : Truro Parish (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia
Author: William Meade
Publisher:
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Forced Founders
Author: Woody Holton
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807899860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule. The Virginia gentry's efforts to shape London's imperial policy were thwarted by British merchants and by a coalition of Indian nations. In 1774, elite Virginians suspended trade with Britain in order to pressure Parliament and, at the same time, to save restive Virginia debtors from a terrible recession. The boycott and the growing imperial conflict led to rebellions by enslaved Virginians, Indians, and tobacco farmers. By the spring of 1776 the gentry believed the only way to regain control of the common people was to take Virginia out of the British Empire. Forced Founders uses the new social history to shed light on a classic political question: why did the owners of vast plantations, viewed by many of their contemporaries as aristocrats, start a revolution? As Holton's fast-paced narrative unfolds, the old story of patriot versus loyalist becomes decidedly more complex.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807899860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule. The Virginia gentry's efforts to shape London's imperial policy were thwarted by British merchants and by a coalition of Indian nations. In 1774, elite Virginians suspended trade with Britain in order to pressure Parliament and, at the same time, to save restive Virginia debtors from a terrible recession. The boycott and the growing imperial conflict led to rebellions by enslaved Virginians, Indians, and tobacco farmers. By the spring of 1776 the gentry believed the only way to regain control of the common people was to take Virginia out of the British Empire. Forced Founders uses the new social history to shed light on a classic political question: why did the owners of vast plantations, viewed by many of their contemporaries as aristocrats, start a revolution? As Holton's fast-paced narrative unfolds, the old story of patriot versus loyalist becomes decidedly more complex.
Legends of Loudoun: An Account of the History and Homes of a Border County of Virginia's Northern Neck
Author: Harrison Williams
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465513752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465513752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia
Author: Robert Baylor Semple
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871
Author: Joseph Addison Waddell
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Category : Augusta County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
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Category : Augusta County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The Diaries V. 6; Jan. , 1790-Dec. 1799
Author: George Washington
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War, in which Washington commanded a Virginia regiment. By the 1760s when Washington's diaries resume, he considered himself retired from public life, but George III was on the British throne and in the American colonies the process of unrest was beginning that would ultimately place Washington in command of a revolutionary army. Even as he traveled to Philadelphia in 1787 to chair the Constitutional Convention, however, and later as president, Washington's first love remained his plantation, Mount Vernon. In his diary, he religiously recorded the changing methods of farming he employed there and the pleasures of riding and hunting. Rich in material from this private sphere, The Diaries of George Washington offer historians and anyone interested in Washington a closer view of the first president in this bicentennial year of his death.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War, in which Washington commanded a Virginia regiment. By the 1760s when Washington's diaries resume, he considered himself retired from public life, but George III was on the British throne and in the American colonies the process of unrest was beginning that would ultimately place Washington in command of a revolutionary army. Even as he traveled to Philadelphia in 1787 to chair the Constitutional Convention, however, and later as president, Washington's first love remained his plantation, Mount Vernon. In his diary, he religiously recorded the changing methods of farming he employed there and the pleasures of riding and hunting. Rich in material from this private sphere, The Diaries of George Washington offer historians and anyone interested in Washington a closer view of the first president in this bicentennial year of his death.
The Cabells and Their Kin
Author: Alexander Brown
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description