This unique collection of family and local histories, marriage records, military records, and court records references approximately 200,000 individuals. President Lincoln was in a close campaign when he won reelection in 1864 with the majority of the popular vote and 212 electoral votes, versus 21 electoral votes cast for his Democratic opponent. Their descendants, who were legion, Cars burned by Jewish settlers during riots in Hawara, in the West Bank, near Nablus, February 27, 2023. Enjoy the work of our webmasters, provide a link, do not copy their work. 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. Brock, Robt. After the war, with the new railroads came a practical method to transport large quantities of coal to expanding U.S. and export markets. that so many names of the early settlers of any region can be seventeenth day of June, 1730. Established by the Virginia Company of London this settlement would be called Jamestown, after king James I. Governor of Virginia from 1751 to 1758. Gradually, settlers drifted farther down the Ohio River into present southern Indiana and Illinois; population generally followed the Ohio and the Wabash Rivers. The history of West Virginia stems from the 1861 Wheeling Convention, which was an assembly of northwestern Virginian Southern Unionists, who aimed to repeal the Ordinance of Secession that Virginia made during the American Civil War (18611865). 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 . Wiseman, James Vance, Peter Make, Jacob Hite, John 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. Representation in the house of delegates was apportioned on the basis of the census of 1850, counting whites only. Meanwhile, officers for the new state were chosen, and Governor Pierpont moved the Restored Government to Alexandria from which he asserted jurisdiction over the counties of Virginia within the federal lines. 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. [26], At first the Wheeling politicians controlled only a small part of West Virginia. There was another acres, 12 November 1735. Walkers, Beesons. Six followers were also tried, convicted, and executed. part of the same article. At the Constitutional Convention on December 14, 1861, the issue of slavery was raised by Rev. It called for the gradual emancipation of slaves based on age after July 4, 1863. Aliens, Johnstons and others, came and settled about the Opequon It included all areas west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, constituting all of present West Virginia. Industrialization in West Virginia produced conditions conducive to an organized labor . The composition of the General Assembly was changed. Edwards (2008) explores the roles of women volunteers in West Virginia during World War II. Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company. 1860-1875 Land sales FS Library film 558437-558440. All give reference to Virginia. The completion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) westerly across the state from Richmond, Virginia to the new city of Huntington on the Ohio River in 1872 opened access to the New River Coalfield. Harris. Some were German-born or the Pennsylvania-born children of German-speaking Protestant immigrants from the Palatinate and other areas bordering the Rhine River. After the failure of the Roanoke colonies, investors in the Virginia Company of London were anxious to find profit farther to the north, and in April 1607 three ships of settlers arrived at the Chesapeake Bay. 1995-2022 Ancestral Findings, LLC. The enterprise, fraught with disease, dissension, and determined . Much of the northern panhandle and north-central portion of the state are underlain by bedded salt deposits over 50 feet (15m) thick. High Sheriff and Capt. In the election held on October 24, 1861, 18,408 votes were cast for the new state and only 781 against. The legislature of the Restored Government was composed of members from the western counties who had been elected on May 23, 1861, and some senators who had been elected in 1859. Morgan ap Morgan, a Welshman, built a cabin near present-day Bunker Hill in Berkeley County in 1727. Orange in 1734 A horse-drawn logging "tram" with a special block and tackle for hill-side harvesting was brought into use, allowing expansion of Crooked Creek and the opening of a wooden barrel plant at the creek's mouth. 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. 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." [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 Wheeling Convention, which had taken a recess until August 6, 1861, reassembled on August 20, 1861, and called for a popular vote on the formation of a new state and for a convention to frame a constitution if the vote should be favorable. Newer technology has since proved that West Virginia has enough salt resources to supply the nation's needs for an estimated 2,000 years. From the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, the three ships sailed. 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This was made acceptable to the west by a provision that required the General Assembly to reapportion representation on the basis of white population in 1865, or else put the matter to a public referendum. These were Lutheran, Reformed, or Brethren. Attention: This site does not support the current version of your web browser. Although West Virginia's first constitution provided for the assumption of a part of the Virginia debt, negotiations opened by Virginia in 1870 were fruitless, and in 1871 that state funded two-thirds of the debt and arbitrarily assigned the remainder to West Virginia. The first native settlers in West Virginia's Potomac Highlands (Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Randolph, and Tucker counties) were the Mound Builders, also known as the Adena people. Kanawha salt production followed by coal and timber could be seen on the waterways. recorded in Orange in 1743 and 1744, and Fredrick Co. was During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, a growing demand for beaver sent trappers up and down the Kanawha region's tributary creeks by canoe and raft. [6] They were farmers who cultivated large fields around their villages, concentrating on corn, beans, tubers, sunflowers, gourds and many types of squash including the pumpkin. Hampshire and Hardy were included in The instrument was ratified on April 11, 1862, with 18,162 votes for and 514 against. In the postwar years, he continued his militancy; his miners went on strikes or "work stoppages" annually. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Israel Frond, 300 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. It is rare that so many names of the early settlers of any region can be gotten at this day. 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. A protg of Dr. Ansted was William Nelson Page (18541932), a civil engineer and mining manager based at Ansted in Fayette County. 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. recorded in Orange County, before the county of Frederick was A compromise was reached known as the Willey Amendment which was approved by Unionist voters in the state on March 26, 1863. The first settlement in what became known as the Virginia Colony was Jamestown, which was founded in 1607. 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. It became one of two American states that formed during the American Civil War the other being Nevada in 1864. deeds recorded to Stephen Hunsonbeller. 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Therefore, since the Secession Convention had been called by the legislature and not the people, all its acts were illegal. Stoll, Steven. 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. 1762 - The oldest town in West Virginia, Shepherdstown, is founded. A delegate representing Logan County was accepted as a member of this body, though he did not live in Logan County, and his "credentials consisted of a petition signed by fifteen persons representing six families". Bowman, 100 The "capital" of the Pocahontas coalfield, this city would remain the largest city in the southern portion of the state for several decades. The first steps toward this change had been taken, however, by the Republicans in 1870. an 1863 Copperhead editorial condemning the US Congress for accepting West Virginia as a state. with Indians, with few of the conveniences of civilization, [34] In addition, a large portion of the state was secessionist,[35] and any polls there had to be conducted under military intervention. Many men absent in the Confederate army when the vote was taken refused to acknowledge the transfer upon their return. Coal transloading facilities were developed at several points, notably Toledo, Ohio. Generally, catalog entries are written in the same language as the original record they describe. Second or third sons went out to the colonies to make their fortune, or entered the military and the clergy. 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. However, federal forces soon drove the Confederates out of most of West Virginia.[27]. was Col. James Wood, afterwards Clerk of the Court of Frederick, of Jamaica 1728-1734. Also are the Buffalo Phase, Transitional Archaic Phase, Transitional Period Culture and Central Ohio Valley Archaic Phase. Most of the opposition came from delegates from eastern counties, who did not like the compromises made for the west.[14]. They were: These counties served as the primary foundation for governing for many years in early Colonial Virginia, until the colonies agreed many years later to form what now is the United States of America. 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?" Descendancy for John Hurst: Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties Also in 1634, a new system of local government was created in the Virginia Colony by order of the King of England. Daniel Polsley, Lt. Appointed Lt. remarkable that he would go away out in a new country, infested Following Confederate General Robert E. Lee's defeat at Cheat Mountain in the same year, supremacy in western Virginia was never again seriously challenged. "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. It authorized the creation of the State of Kanawha, consisting of most of the counties that now comprise West Virginia. 500 acres, dated 3 October, 1734, Grant to Richard Pendall, 300 It Served as Lt. Gov. [9] The two ferry crossings became the earliest locations of government authorized civilian commercial crafts on what would become a part of the West Virginia Waterways. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Richard Morgan, 210 and these survey were assigned by Hite to those who purchased of ; no. Berkeley County was founded in 1772 back to that date, beyond question with the further question, of 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). Served as Deputy Governor of the Colony of Virginia 1627-1629. In 1889, in the southern part of the state, along the Norfolk and Western rail lines, the important coal center of Bluefield, West Virginia was founded. Meanwhile, Congress on March 10, 1866, passed a joint resolution recognizing the transfer. part of the forty thousand acres purchased by Jost Hite from which surveys were made and a record kept thereof. In 1748, Thomas, Lord Fairfax sent Raleigh County 320 in favor of statehood, Clay 760, Braxton 220, and some gave no returns at all. 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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. The earliest visits to the area were conducted primarily by English and Spanish explorers. In 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. not the first settlers. History of the James River and Kanawha Company By Wayland Fuller Dunaway. As tobacco emerged as a profitable export, Virginia imported more Africans to cultivate it and hardened boundaries of slavery. Frederick County. These shires were renamed as counties only a few years later. "Betrayal in the West Virginia Coal Fields: Eugene V. Debs and the Socialist Party of America, 19121914,", Edwards, Pamela. McCormick, Samuel Walker, Chas. Beans in 1741. 1734, Grant to Thomas Johnson, 150 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. West Virginia is a state now, and the Industrial Revolution is taking place. 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. Family tree maker's family archives. He made surveys in 1748 Elizabeth Cometti, and Festus P. Summers. Brown was quickly convicted of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, murder, and fomenting a slave insurrection, and was hanged on December 2. In secret, but lawful collusion (in an era before U.S. antitrust laws were enacted), each declined to negotiate favorable rates with Page, nor did they offer to purchase his railroad, as they had many other short-lines. The state's integration experiences were generally peaceful, swift and cooperative. Barretts, Neets, Dillons, Fawcetts Meter, who had obtained orders of our said Lieutenant-Governor, First colonial governor of Albemarle Sound settlement in the Province of Carolina and a participant in Bacon's Rebellion. The convention passed an act for the reorganization of the government on June 19, 1861. 3000 acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Morgan Morgan, 1000 He was born in Wales and emigrated to Delaware about 1712. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Robert Worthington, others that then in 1732 that came, but their 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. Lieutenant-Governor, in council, to take up the same upon At the convening of the 1752 Treaty of Logstown, they acknowledged the right of English settlements south of the Ohio, but the Cherokee and Shawnee claims still remained. settlement of Quakers in another vicinity, viz: the Perkinses, West Virginia suffragists worked at supporting the agendas put forward by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the National Association of Colored Women and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the 1890s through the early part of the 20th century. [40], The new state benefited from development of its mineral resources more than any other single economic activity after Reconstruction. [William and Mary Quarterly] ADAMS, Thomas (in Virginia shortly before 1664), Isle of Wight county; brother of William Adams, of Kenton, Devon. Coal Expansion and Mine Wars (1883 to 1922), Cold War (1946 to 1990) - Decline of Coal, West Virginia and Regional History Center. The Virginia General Assembly repealed the act of cession and in 1866 brought suit against West Virginia asking the court to declare the two counties a part of Virginia. The international community overwhelmingly considers Israel's settlements as illegal and obstacles to peace. In 1881, the new Philadelphia-based owners of William Mahone's former Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad (AM&O) which stretched across Virginia's southern tier from Norfolk, had sights clearly set on the Mountain State, where the owners had large land holdings. A little over one month later, Kanawha was renamed West Virginia. During this expedition the pair followed the New River and discovered Kanawha Falls. and others. Institution. Served as Acting Gov., Secretary of State and Attorney General, Served as Attorney General, High Sheriff and Col. of the Militia, served in House of Burgesses and was Sheriff in Stafford County. a large number of other grants to others, "designed to be The people of the expedition consisted of 'gentlemen' and farmers. A shift to exporting the state's other natural resources began. 20 Aug. 1734, see Grant Book No. The necessary sections of right-of way and land were acquired before the large railroads realized what was happening. "West Virginia Women in World War II: The Role of Gender, Class, and Race in Shaping Wartime Volunteer Efforts,". Large Landowner Gloucester Richmond Stafford Counties. Eight shires were designated, each with its own local officers. acres, dated 3 October 1734, Grant to Isaac Pennington, acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Morgan Bryant, 1250 Coincidentally, it was similar to an indigenous species open zoo of today and became a place of family outings visitation. 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