Kentucky and Virginia and with said line to its intersection with the
line of Wise county, to the top of the dividing ridge between the waters
of Sandy and Clinch and with said ridge eastwardly to the head of
Dismal, a branch of the Lavica fork of Sandy river; then with the
dividing ridge between the waters of Dismal and the waters of the Dry
fork of Sandy and with the ridge between the waters of the Lavica fork
and the Dry fork to the ridge between Knox creek and Bull creek to Tug
river and down Tug river to the beginning."
1860-1870 RECESSION, TWO COUNTIES
In 1860, an Act was passed to create the new county of Webster from
portions of the counties of Nicholas, Braxton and Randolph, all to be
later in West Virginia. The name honored Daniel Webster, the prominent
statesman who had died only a few years previously.
In March 1861, the new county of Bland, taken from portions of Giles,
Wythe and Tazewell and named for Richard Bland of Revolutionary War fame
came into being. Its bounds are thus set forth: "beginning at the top of
Walker's Little mountain at the line between Wythe and Pulaski and
running northwards with said line of Pulaski, to the top of Walker's Big
mountain; thence eastward along the top of said last mentioned mountain
to a point opposite the mouth of Kimberling creek; thence by a line
northward passing through the mouth of said Kimberling creek to a point
on the top of the mountain which lies south of Wolf creek, three miles
east of the present county line between Giles and Tazewell counties;
thence to a point on the top of East river mountain two miles east of
the present county line between Giles and Tazewell so as to include the
homestead of Madison Allen and his lands adjoining thereto; thence with
the top of the said East River mountain westward to a point two miles
west of George Steel's house on Clear fork; thence across and by a line
as near as may be at right angles to the course of the valley between to
the top of Rich mountain and westward along the top of said Rich
mountain so far as to include the settlement of Wolf creek, thence
across the top of Garden mountain; thence along the top of Garden
mountain to a point through which the line between Wythe and Smyth would
pass if prolonged; thence by said prolonged line to the said line
between Wythe and Smyth and by the last mentioned line to the top of
Walker's Big mountain; thence eastward with the top of said Walker's Big
mountain to a point opposite the headwaters of Walker's Little creek;
thence across to the top of Walker's Little mountain, thence to the top
of said mountain eastward to the beginning."
Hardly was the ink dry on the Act quoted above when war precluded
further settlements and expansion. Not for nearly twenty years would
another and the last county be established.
FINIS--ONE COUNTY
In March 1880, out of the counties of Russell, Wise, and Buchanan was
formed the new county of Dickenson, named for a prominent member of the
Readjuster Party, then dominant in Virginia.
Its bounds noted in great detail are as follows: "beginning at Osborn's
gap in Cumberland mountain on the state line; thence a straight line to
the top of George's Fork mountain at a point where the road crosses said
mountain; thence with the top of the mountain to the head of Lick
branch, a tributary of Crane's nest creek; thence a straight line to the
mouth of Birchfield creek; thence up Crane's Nest creek to the mouth of
Lion's fork; thence up said creek to the forks of said branch; thence
up the Fork spur to the top of Crane's Nest bridge; thence a straight
line to Sandy Ridge meeting-house in the county of Wise on the top of
Sandy Ridge; thence with the top of Sandy ridge to the James Porter farm
at the head of Nancy's ridge; thence a straight line to Trammel gap on
Sandy ridge, thence with the top of Sandy ridge with a line of Russell
county to the James P. Kiser farm, thence a straight line to Henry
Kiser's farm on the top of Sandy ridge at the Russell county line;
thence with the Russell county line to James Rasnaker's farm, including
said farm in the new county; thence down the Cany ridge to the mouth of
Cany creek; thence down Indian creek to its mouth; including J. H.
Duly's farm; thence down Russell's fork of Sandy river to the mouth of
Panpan creek, including Andrew Owen's dwelling house; thence a straight
line to the mouth of Greenbrier creek, a tributary of Prater creek;
thence a straight line to the Big meadow gap; thence down a branch to
Gressy creek; thence down said creek to the mouth of Russell's fork of
Sandy river; thence down said river to the state line of Virginia and
Kentucky; thence with the state line to the beginning."
The formation of Dickenson County in 1880 completed all the local
organizations authorized by the Virginia Assembly from 1634 up to the
present, though in many counties minor changes in bounds have been
enacted from time to time.
We have seen the little feeble settlements along the James River extend
like a rising tide now east, now south, now north and finally with great
impetus to the west. Each settlement as it was established proceeded to
put into effect the concepts of law and order as practiced at Jamestown,
and handed down from father to son. The principle of representative
constitutional government as evidenced in the first General Assembly of
1619 may be called the sacred fire each settlement took with it and
carefully tended. It was the one thing all shared whether they lived by
the James River or high on the Blue Ridge. A settlement, a county, a
state, each one must have law, order, ready justice, representative
government. That is the theme underlying the development of Virginia
which we have traced step by step. It is the theme underlying the
development of our nation. Every American is a debtor to Jamestown for
his heritage of representative constitutional government.
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_Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia_, 1808-1880.
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Hening, William Waller, _The Statutes at Large_, Being _a
Collection of All the Laws of Virginia_, 1619-1792, Richmond,
1809-1823, 13 Vols.
Robinson, Morgan P., _Virginia Counties, Bulletin of the Virginia
State Library_, Vol. 9, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 1916.
Shepherd, Samuel, _Statutes at Large_, 1793-1806. Continuation of
Hening.
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Virginia._ Williamsburg, 1747.
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KEY TO CHARTS
No.
Accawmack, 1634 (Ex.) 1
Accomack, 1663 1
Albemarle 5
Alexandria (Ex.) 9
Alleghany 10
Amelia 2
Amherst 5
Appomattox 5
Arlington 9
Augusta 9, 10
Barbour (W. Va.) 10
Bath 10
Bedford 2
Berkeley (W. Va.) 9
Bland 11
Boone (W. Va.) 11
Botetourt, 10 11
Bourbon (Ky.) 11
Braxton (W. Va.) 10
Brooke (W. Va.) 10
Brunswick 2
Buchanan 11
Buckingham 5
Cabell (W. Va.) 11
Calhoun (W. Va.) 10
Campbell 2
Caroline 9
Carroll 11
Charles City 2
Charles River (Ex.) 3
Charlotte 2
Chesterfield 5
Clarke 9
Clay (W. Va.) 10
Craig 11
Culpeper 9
Cumberland 5
Dickenson 11
Dinwiddie 2
Doddridge (W. Va.) 10
Dunmore (Ex.) 9
Elizabeth City (Ex.) 4
Essex 9
Fairfax 9
Fauquier 9
Fayette, 1780 (Ky.) 11
Fayette, 1831 (W. Va.) 11
Fincastle (Ex.) 11
Floyd 11
Fluvanna 5
Franklin 2
Frederick 9
Giles 11
Gilmer (W. Va.) 10
Gloucester 3
Goochland 5
Grayson 11
Greenbrier (W. Va.) 11
Greene 9
Greensville 2
Halifax 2
Hampshire (W. Va.) 10
Hancock (W. Va.) 10
Hanover 3
Hardy (W. Va.) 10
Harrison (W. Va.) 10
Henrico 5
Henry 2
Highland 10
Illinois (Ex.) 10
Isle of Wight 7
Jackson (W. Va.) 11
James City 6
Jefferson, 1780 (Ky.) 11
Jefferson, 1801 (W. Va.) 9
Kanawha (W. Va.) 11
Kentucky (Ex.) 11
King and Queen 3
King George 9
King William 3
Lancaster 9
Lee 11
Lewis (W. Va.) 10
Lincoln (Ky.) 11
Logan (W. Va.) 11
Loudoun 9
Louisa 3
Lower Norfolk (Ex.) 4
Lunenburg 2
McDowell (W. Va.) 11
Madison, 1786 (Ky.) 11
Madison, 1793 9
Marion (W. Va.) 10
Marshall (W. Va.) 10
Mason, 1789 (Ky.) 11
Mason, 1804 (W. Va.) 11
Mathews 3
Mecklenburg 2
Mercer, 1786 (Ky.) 11
Mercer, 1837 (W. Va.) 11
Middlesex 9
Monongalia (W. Va.) 10
Monroe (W. Va.) 11
Montgomery 11
Morgan (W. Va.) 9
Nansemond 4
Nelson, 1785 (Ky.) 11
Nelson, 1808 5
New Kent 3
New Norfolk (Ex.) 4
Nicholas (W. Va.) 11
Norfolk 4
Northampton 1
Northumberland 9
Nottoway 2
Ohio (W. Va.) 10
Orange 9
Page 10
Patrick 2
Pendleton (W. Va.) 10
Pittsylvania 2
Pleasants (W. Va.) 10
Pocahontas (W. Va.) 10
Powhatan 5
Preston (W. Va.) 10
Prince Edward 2
Prince George 2
Prince William 9
Princess Anne 4
Pulaski 11
Putnam (W. Va.) 11
Raleigh (W. Va.) 11
Randolph (W. Va.) 10
Rappahannock, 1656 (Ex.) 9
Rappahannock, 1833 9
Richmond 9
Ritchie (W. Va.) 10
Roane (W. Va.) 11
Roanoke 11
Rockbridge 10
Rockingham 10
Russell 11
Scott 11
Shenandoah 9
Smyth 11
Southampton 7
Spotsylvania 9
Stafford 9
Surry 6
Sussex 6
Taylor (W. Va.) 10
Tazewell 11
Tucker (W. Va.) 10
Tyler (W. Va.) 10
Upper Norfolk (Ex.) 4
Upshur (W. Va.) 10
Warren 9
Warrosquyoake (Ex.) 7
Warwick (Ex.) 8
Warwick River (Ex.) 8
Washington 11
Wayne (W. Va.) 11
Webster (W. Va.) 11
Westmoreland 9
Wetzel (W. Va.) 10
Wirt (W. Va.) 10
Wise 11
Wood (W. Va.) 10
Woodford (Ky.) 11
Wyoming (W. Va.) 11
Wythe 11
Yohogania (Ex.) 10
York 3
CHART 1
Accawmack ---------- Northampton ---------- Accomack
1634-1642/3 (Ex.) 1642/3 1662
CHART 2
|- Hali- -- Pittsyl- -- Henry -- Patrick
| fax vania 1777 1791
| 1752 1767
|
| |-- Campbell
| | 1782
|- Bedford ---|
| 1754 |
|- Lunen- -| |-- Franklin
| burg | 1786
| 1746 |- Charlotte
| | 1765
|- Bruns- -| |
| wick | |
| 1732 | |- Mecklenburg
| | 1765
| |- Greenville
| 1781
Charles Prince |
City -- George -| |-- Prince Edward
1634 1703 | | 1754
|-- Amelia ----------------------|
| 1735 |-- Nottoway
| 1789
|
|-- Dinwiddie
1752
Abbreviations:
Ex.--Extinct
Ky.--Kentucky
W. Va.--West Virginia
CHART 3
|-- Gloucester ---- Mathews
| 1651 1791
Charles -- York --|
River 1642/3 |
1634-1642/3 | |-- King and Queen ---- King William
(Ex.) | | 1691 1702
|-- New Kent ----|
1654 |
|-- Hanover ---- Louisa
1721 1742
CHART 4
|-- Norfolk
| 1691
|-- Lower Norfolk ---|
| 1637-1691(Ex.) |
| |-- Princess Anne
| 1691
Elizabeth City -------- New Norfolk ---|
1634-1952(Ex.) 1636-1637(Ex.) |
|-- Upper Norfolk ---- Nansemond
1637-1646(Ex.) 1646
CHART 5
|-- Amherst ------- Nelson
| 1761 1808
|
|-- Albemarle -------|-- Buckingham ---- Appomattox
| 1744 | 1761 1845
| |
|-- Goochland ---| |-- Fluvanna
| 1728 | 1777
| |
Henrico ---| |-- Cumberland --------- Powhatan
1634 | 1749 1777
|-- Chesterfield
1749
CHART 6
James City -------- Surry -------- Sussex
1634 1652 1754
CHART 7
Warrosquyoake -------- Isle of Wight -------- Southampton
1634-1637(Ex.) 1637 1749
CHART 8
Warwick River -------- Warwick
1634-1642/3(Ex.) 1642/3-1952(Ex.)
CHART 9
|-- Caroline |- Augusta (See Chart 10)
| 1745 | 1745
| | Jeffer-
| | |-- son
| | | 1801
| | Ber- | (W. Va.)
|- Essex -| | |- keley -|
| 1692 | | | 1772 |
| | | Frede- | (W. Va.)|
| | |- rick -| |- Morgan
| | | 1743 | 1820
| | Spotsyl- | | (W. Va.)
| |- vania - Orange -| |
| 1721 1734 | |
Rappa- | | |
|- hannock -| | |
| 1656-1692 | | |
| (Ex.) | | | Dun- Shenan- War-
| | | |- more -- doah -- ren
| | | |1772-1778 1778 1836
| | | | (Ex.)
| |- Richmond -- King George | |
| 1692 1721 | |
Lan- | | |
|- caster | | |
| 1651 | | |-- Clarke
| | | 1836
| | |
| |-- Middlesex |
| 1669 |
| |
| | |-- Madison
| | | 1793
| | Cul- |
| |- peper -|
| | 1749 | Rappa-
| | |-- hannock
| | 1883
| |
Northum- | |
berland--| |
1645 | |
| |
| |-- Greene
| 1838
|
| |-- Loudoun
| | 1757
| |
| |- Fairfax -|
| | 1742 |
| | | Alexan-
| | |- dria --- Arlington
| | 1847-1920 1920
| West- Staf- Prince | (Ex.)
|- moreland -- ford -- William ---|
1653 1664 1731 |
|-- Fauquier
1759
Chart 10
(Continuation of Chart 9)
|- 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