Over one-third came from the counties around the northern panhandle. In this It is rare Walkers, Beesons. 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. Following the war, Virginia unsuccessfully brought a case to the Supreme Court challenging the secession of Berkeley County and Jefferson County to West Virginia. It is known that in 1732, that Jost Hite with However, in 1736 the Iroquois Six Nations protested Virginia's colonization beyond the demarcated Blue Ridge, and a skirmish was fought in 1743. In the late 1600s, European explorers arrived and started to create maps for the territory. The Virginia General Assembly repealed the act of cession and in 1866 brought suit against West Virginia asking the court to declare the two counties a part of Virginia.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 Iroquois were on the point of threatening all-out war against the Virginia Colony over the "Cohongoruton lands", which would have been destructive and devastating, when Governor Gooch bought out their claim for 400 pounds at the Treaty of Lancaster (1744). But in the western counties that would form the state of West Virginia, the vote was approximately 34,677 against and 19,121 for ratification of the Ordinance of Secession. is a list of grantees of lands conveyed by Jost Hite and 1735, Grant to Alexander Ross, 2373 Governor of Virginia from 1751 to 1758. "'This Bastard New Virginia': Slavery, West Virginia Exceptionalism, and the Secession Crisis,". 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. The Second Wheeling Convention met as agreed on June 11, 1861, and adopted "A Declaration of the People of Virginia". patent or grant of land west of the Blue Ridge was made to Jost was Col. James Wood, afterwards Clerk of the Court of Frederick, The FamilySearch Library has microfilm copies of these records, including: 1748-1912 Land grants arranged by counties FS Library film 521685, first of 56 films. One of the silent partner investors Page had enlisted was millionaire industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers, a principal in John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust and an old hand at developing natural resources, transportation. Soon after the Union government declared that the Restored Government was the legitimate government of the Commonwealth, the Restored Government asserted its authority to give such approval. This document, drafted by former state senator John S. Carlile, declared that the Virginia Declaration of Rights required any substantial change in the nature or form of the state government to be approved by the people. People line the street outside of the funeral of Elan Ganeles, 27, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen from West Hartford, Connecticut, in Raanana, Israel, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Much of the northern panhandle and north-central portion of the state are underlain by bedded salt deposits over 50 feet (15m) thick. Forman, Nath Thomas: To John Grubb, Thos. Former West Virginia Governor William A. MacCorkle described him as a man who knew the land "as a farmer knows a field." It was the only state to form from another state during this time, splitting from Virginia. Most of the opposition came from delegates from eastern counties, who did not like the compromises made for the west.[14]. Curry, Richard Orr. where he was not known. "[32] Many private citizens were arrested by federal authorities at the request of Wheeling and interned in prison camps, most notably Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio. 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. 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. Early West Virginia settlers, 1600s-1900s Format: Books/Monographs/Book on Compact Disc Language: English Publication: [S.l.] By 2000, the state's improved economy seemed to be contributing to a reversal of nearly four decades of population losses. or on the deeds. With Page as its first president, and largely financed from Rogers' personal fortune, and the two railroads were merged in 1907 to form the Virginian Railway (VGN). Also in 1634, a new system of local government was created in the Virginia Colony by order of the King of England. lauds of John Mills and _____ Hobzson, dated 12 November University 1549 University Ave. | P.O. Some West Virginia women also volunteered for military service, which was available to African American women. in Council, to take up the same, upon certain conditions therein acres. Some FamilySearch centers and affiliate libraries maintain collections of previously loaned microfilms or microfiche. By S.C. Shaw, 1878.] was made to Hite and Hite had the surveys made, and the surveyor 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. On August 22, 1872, an entirely new constitution was adopted. All give reference to Virginia. 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. 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. [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 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. West Virginia was one of five Civil War border states. Such works include historical information on a building and genealogical information on its inhabitants. In 1774, the Crown Governor of Virginia, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, led a force over the mountains, and a body of militia under Colonel Andrew Lewis dealt the Shawnee Indians under Cornstalk a crushing blow at the junction of the Kanawha and Ohio rivers, in the Battle of Point Pleasant. However, repeatedly John L. Lewis called his United Mine Workers union out on strike, defying the government, outraging public opinion, and strengthening the hand of anti-union Congressmen. Votes from the secessionist counties in the October 24 vote on statehood were mostly cast by refugees in the area around Wheeling, not in the counties themselves. This strategy was a success, and West Virginia became the 34th of the 36 states needed to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. During the French and Indian War (17541763), the scattered settlements were almost destroyed. It will be noticed that there were deeds Beginning in 1898, Page teamed with northern and European-based investors to take advantage of the undeveloped area. him, and the grants were issued directly to the said purchasers, The microfilm may be scheduled for future scanning. The logging industry furthered the river shipping industry. 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. System requirements: You must have a CD-ROM drive. Lewis Stephens. The first settlers of the area destined to become Wood County located along the Ohio, Little Kanawha and Hughes Rivers. McKay, and Abraham Hite in 1744. During this expedition the pair followed the New River and discovered Kanawha Falls. 520, High Density: {{copy.hd_shelf}}, {{copy.hd_shelfmark}}. Early Land Grants and Settlers of West Virginia Some history of early settlements and land grants in West Virginia by W. S. Laidly, Esq., who has devoted much study to the subject. These were Lutheran, Reformed, or Brethren. that so many names of the early settlers of any region can be This, perhaps, will be sufficient to show that after With only 21 followers, in October of 1859 he took hostages and freed slaves in Harpers Ferry, at that time in Virginia. 1734, Grant to William Jasper, 62 expressed, which orders were made June 17, 1730. James McGregor "The Disruption of Virginia", pg. : Brderbund, c2000 Physical: 1 CD-ROM ; 4 3/4 in. Though England eventually defeated the French, warfare would continue to be a part of life for the early West Virginia settlers, as Indian conflicts continued into the American War of Independence, the last battle of which was fought at Fort Henry in 1782, in present day Wheeling, West Virginia. Served in House of Burgesses for New Kent County, son of. [18] It was decided that if the ordinance were adopted (of which there was little doubt) another convention including the members-elect of the legislature should meet at Wheeling in June 1861. The Senate representation was arbitrarily fixed at 50 seats, with the west receiving twenty, and the east thirty senators. of early settlements and land grants in West Virginia by W. S. Skip ahead a few decades until after the Civil War. The opening statement on the Early Land Grant page, is from the [13], The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 185051, the Reform Convention, addressed a number of issues important to western Virginians. 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. 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. The following years saw a significant growth of visitors. (Five more counties were formed later, to result in the current 55). The "capital" of the Pocahontas coalfield, this city would remain the largest city in the southern portion of the state for several decades. Efforts to block Page and Rogers through many legal tactics and even several violent confrontations ultimately failed. Noe, Kenneth W. "Exterminating Savages: The Union Army and Mountain Guerrillas in Southern West Virginia, 18611865." During the war and for years afterwards, partisan feeling ran high. grant, it is said, that it is designed to be included in a acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Samuel Taylor, 200 The settlement of present-day West Virginia began in the mid-1700s, when Scotch-Irish and German settlers from Pennsylvania came to the area that is now Berkeley and Greenbriar counties. Social conditions in western Virginia were entirely unlike those in the eastern portion of the state. Middle and Late Woodland people include Middle Woodland Watson pottery people, Late Woodland Wood Phase, Late Hopewell at Romney, Montana (late Woodland AD 5001000), Wilhelm culture (Late Middle Woodland, c. AD 1~500), Armstrong (Late Middle Woodland, c. AD 1~500), Buck Garden (Late Woodland AD 5001200), Childers Phase (Late Middle Woodland c. 400 AD), and Parkline Phase (Late Woodland AD 750~1000). 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. Primogeniture favored the first sons' inheriting lands and titles in England. Johnson, 298 After the war, with the new railroads came a practical method to transport large quantities of coal to expanding U.S. and export markets. Some 700,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Hite, David Vance, Jas. McCormick, Samuel Walker, Chas. Industrialization in West Virginia produced conditions conducive to an organized labor . 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. 1734, Grant to Daniel Burnett, 490 West Virginia was officially admitted as a U.S. state on June 20, 1863. Harron, Geo. Wilson, Jno. Christian ; no. They also raised domestic turkeys and kept dogs as pets. That Convention had offered the people of the State at least the form of a vote, and the Northwest at least had a full and free expression; and now they proposed to cut off Eastern Virginia without even the form of a vote. The revised constitution was adopted on March 26, 1863, and on April 20, 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation admitting the state at the end of 60 days, on June 20, 1863. General George B. McClellan's forces gained possession of the greater part of the territory in the summer of 1861. A long list of names is given, perhaps most of the settlers of the time. The following acres. 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." "Corporations lay track into thousands of hollows and pulled billions of dollars in lumber and coal from the region over the following century." 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. You must also have either version 3.02 or higher of Family Tree Maker for Windows or Macintosh, or, version 3.02 or higher of the Family Archive Viewer. Descendancy for John Hurst: Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties Berkeley County was founded in 1772 Their descendants, who were legion, The people of the expedition consisted of 'gentlemen' and farmers. Wiseman, James Vance, Peter Make, Jacob Hite, John 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". Established by the Virginia Company of London this settlement would be called Jamestown, after king James I. NOTE. Various game animals and now protected birds were raised for conservation repopulating or control reasons throughout the state. Women volunteered for farm and home economics training programs, United Service Organizations (USO) clubs that provided entertainment and assistance to servicemen, salvage campaigns to produce steel scrap, and civil defense training that taught first aid and emergency response techniques. The members of the May Convention were chosen by groups of Unionists, mostly in the far Northwestern counties. By royal charter, the extreme western boundaries of Virginia at this time extended to the Pacific Ocean, but the terms "backcountry" or "back settlements" specifically refer to new settlements in the eastern Appalachian . Gradually, settlers drifted farther down the Ohio River into present southern Indiana and Illinois; population generally followed the Ohio and the Wabash Rivers. Morgan Morgan (November 1, 1688-November 17, 1766) is traditionally considered the first white settler of West Virginia. of New Jersey and New York 1710-1720 and Gov. 1863-1889 Plats and surveys FS Library film 462959. [Webmasters Writtenhouse, Jacob Christman, John Hite, William Reed, The first steps toward this change had been taken, however, by the Republicans in 1870. August 1734, Grant to Rus Smith, 150 HAWARA, West Bank (AP) A suspected Palestinian gunman on Monday shot and killed an Israeli motorist in the occupied West Bank, the latest bloodshed in a . time. As coal mining and related work became a major employment activities in the state, there was considerable labor strife as working conditions and safety issues, as well as economic ones arose. The first permanent English colony in North America was founded at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. overflowed to the Ohio and Kanawha Valleys, and went to help Other significant rail carriers of coal were the Western Maryland Railway (WM), particularly notable was a latecomer, the Virginian Railway (VGN), built in an extraordinary manner to the latest and highest standards and completed in 1909. 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. In the early 20th century, West Virginia coal was also under high demand at Great Lakes ports on Lake Erie. The international community overwhelmingly considers Israel's settlements as illegal and obstacles to peace. [41], West Virginia was forested. Brown was quickly convicted of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, murder, and fomenting a slave insurrection, and was hanged on December 2. Adena villages can be characterized as rather large compared to Late Prehistoric tribes. Stoll, Steven. In a referendum on May 23, 1861, secession was ratified by a large majority in the state as a whole. ISBN: 1579442528 Series: Family tree maker's family archives. Soon, the N&W was also shipping from its own new coal piers on Hampton Roads at Lamberts Point outside Norfolk. Railroad spurs were built throughout West Virginia, connecting mines to the riverboats, barges and coal-tipples. "West Virginia Women in World War II: The Role of Gender, Class, and Race in Shaping Wartime Volunteer Efforts,". A long 19th century steamboats were built and repaired in Wheeling, Parkersburg, Point Pleasant and Mason City. As tobacco emerged as a profitable export, Virginia imported more Africans to cultivate it and hardened boundaries of slavery. Arthur Laidley, elected to the General Assembly from Cabell County, attended the June Convention but refused to take part. On April 27, 1738, dated to However, the act that created West Virginia was signed in 1862, two years before Lincoln's re-election. Paleo-Indian culture appears by 10,500 BC in West Virginia passing along the major river valleys and ridge-line gap watersheds. The West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association under the leadership of President Mrs. John L. Ruhl and WVESA Ratification Committee chair Lenna Lowe Yost created a "living petition" of suffragists who greeted and personally lobbied each legislator as they prepared to vote. [38] Slavery was officially abolished by West Virginia on February 3, 1865. Second or third sons went out to the colonies to make their fortune, or entered the military and the clergy. acres purchased by the said Jost Hire from Isaac and John Van 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. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Richard Morgan, 290 Historical Magazine. The grant to 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. Aliens, Johnstons and others, came and settled about the Opequon During the American Revolution, the movement to create a state west of the Alleghenies was revived and a petition for the establishment of "Westsylvania" was presented to Congress, on the grounds that the mountains presented an almost impassable barrier to the east. Bands of guerrillas burned and plundered in some sections, and were not entirely suppressed until after the war was ended. 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. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Benjamin Harden, l Hoge, Abraham The Early Settlers. West Virginia Division of Culture and History, West Virginia Memory Project, A detailed list of delegate names and votes are located in Virgil Lewis'. Wooden coal barges were built on the Monongahela River near Morgantown, as well as along Coal River and Elk River. Early West Virginia Settlers, 1600s-1900s This database is comprised of fourteen books. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Paul Williams, 270 In 1634, a palisade was built near Middle Plantation. Institution. 1748 - George Washington surveyed land in West Virginia. The final installment of this sum was paid off in 1939. Elk Branch Presbyterian Church 1790 Hampshire County Militia Opequon Creek is tributary of the Potomac River. he made such surveys, viz: From Norris Farming to them was not only a means of earning a living, but also a way of life" a way of living.. 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. 1734, Grant to Thomas Johnson, 150 The first two English women arrived in 1608. 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