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| | Major James Boughan |
 | | On 10 October 1701, James Boughan of the County of Essex sold to Henry Boughan of Gloucester County. | | | Granted James and John Boughan, 20 Apr. 1684, deserted and now granted by order, andc." [Virginia Patent Book 7, page 279.] | | | On 7 November 1706, a case brought by James Boughan of the County of Essex against William Norcut of Richmond County was dismissed, James Boughan not prosecuting. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/thomas_moore/genealogy/ps02/ps02_145.html
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| | Orange County [Virginia] 1734-1934 |
| | The Virginia Bill of Rights and the United Mates Constitution were influenced very definitely by statesmen from Orange County. | | | Orange County citizenship, whether within the former large confines or within the present limits, has had a fine, progressive point of view and has produced men whose leadership has been of the finest type, and whose influence has been far-reaching. | | | The claim to this vast area was the result of the aggressiveness of Governor Alexander Spotswood, who was probably the greatest imperialist ever sent to Virginia by the English government. |
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http://members.tripod.com/%7Ejweaver300/va/oran1934.htm
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| | Dillards of Culpeper County, Virginia and Related Families of South Carolina, by Dorothy Dillard Hughes |
| | The Henry County, Virginia, marriage bonds record the marriage of William Hogans and Nancy Dillard on 19 January 1780 and indicate she was "daughter of James Dillard." Howard Jones said that he found James Dillard as a militia captain in Henry County during the Revolution. | | | Culpeper County was roughly triangular in shape, its northern point where the Rappa- hannock River, which forms its eastern boundary, joins the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the western boundary. | | | In 1694 he, or another George Dillard if he was no longer living, patented 139 acres in King and Queen County, created from New Kent in 1691 and located in the Middle Peninsula in the Virginia Tidewater. |
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http://www.dillardfamilyassociation.com/dannuals/da1998/da98dd19.htm
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| | Area Overview - The News Leader - www.newsleader.com |
| | WARM SPRINGS- A Virginia Historical Marker located in Bath County commemorates the Rev. William Henry Sheppard, who died in 1927, and was a native of Waynesboro. | | | In 1780 and 1781, British prisoners captured at the Battle of Saratoga and being held in Albemarle were marched through the gap to Winchester because of fears that the British were coming. | | | Augusta County historian Joseph Waddell described him thus: "His hair was usually combed back from his forehead, and ended in a queue, and till a short time before his death he wore breeches that buckled at the knee, and fair-top boots." Judge Stuart died in 1832 and is buried at Trinity in Staunton. |
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http://www.newsleader.com/communities/overview/marking.html
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| | RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: George Lewis of Prince George/Amelia Cos., VA & some descendants |
| | Deed from Matthew Ornsby of Amelia Co. to Hans Steger of Amelia Co., for 32 pounds 5 shillings, a certain tract of land of 510 acres in Amelia Co., bounded by Lewis, Ornsby, Frederick Ford, Peter Clarke, Henry Jones, Peter Williams line(which was laid off for him), Hudson. | | | SOURCE: "Amelia County Surveys* and Their Corresponding Patents" compiled by Dennis Ray Hudgins in Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. | | | SOURCE: "Amelia County Surveys and Their Corresponding Patents" compiled by Dennis Ray Hudgins in Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. |
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http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=patmck&id=I244
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| | InDixie ~ Some History of the State of Alabama |
| | Pioneers by the thousands left Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia seeking fertile land for growing cotton. | | | Of the lands lying to the north and west of the Alabama and Coosa rivers, but little has been surveyed, and consequently but little of them is known. | | | Huntsville is a flourishing town in Madison county, on Indian creek, 10 miles north of Tennessee river. |
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http://www.indixie.com/genealogy/history/Alabama/history_of_alabama.htm
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| | Gloucester County, Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Named for Henry, Duke of Gloucester, third son of Charles I, Gloucester County figured prominently in the history of the colony and the Commonwealth of Virginia. | | | Gloucester County is an historical Chesapeake county located on the Middle Peninsula of the U.S. state — officially, "Commonwealth" — of Virginia. | | | According to legend, his daughter, the Princess Pocahontas saved the gallant Captain John Smith from death at the hands of the Indians, and thus, entered the pages of Virginia's history. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucester_County,_Virginia
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| | Washington County, Virginia Genealogical Records Information |
| | A history of Washington County, Virginia might include all the territory originally encompassed in Augusta County, formed by the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1738; Botetourt County in 1770; Fincastle County in 1772; and Washington County established on December 7, 1776. | | | Named for Bishop John Emory of the Methodist Church and Patrick Henry, the famed Virginia patriot and political leader, the college was planned by the Rev. Mr. | | | Each of the subsequent counties split from the Washington County of 1776: Russell County in 1786, Lee County in 1793, Tazewell County in 1800, Scott County in 1814, Smyth County in 1832, Wise County in 1836, Buchanan County in 1858, Dickenson County in 1880. |
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http://www.myvirginiagenealogy.com/va_county/was.htm
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| | Solomon Trower Biography |
| | JOHN and HENRY are clearly identified in two deeds recorded in Louisa County, Virginia, both dated 8 April 1799. | | | The writer suspects that Mercer County was the intended destination when the whole family group left Virginia. | | | In this case, however, the writer is persuaded that the Princess Anne County origin for the family is not correct and that the trail of JOHN and HENRY of Mercer County clearly leads back to Louisa County. |
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http://www.shawhan.com/solomon.htm
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| | Henry Chiles - Albemarle County, VA |
| | I have recently discovered that my ancestor, Henrietta Chiles Wilson, was the daughter of Henry Chiles and Sophia Davis who were married in 1820 in Albemarle County, Virginia. | | | Does anyone know if Henry Fleming, so of Micajah Chiles, and Henry Chiles who married Sophia Davis are on eand the same? | | | Re: Henry Chiles - Albemarle County, VA Tavia Chiles 4/22/04 |
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http://genforum.genealogy.com/chiles/messages/807.html
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| | Henry County, Tennessee Queries Q2 1998 |
| | BEASLEY (1788-1859), natives of Virginia and pioneers of Henry County. | | | Craig was born in 1835 in Henry County. | | | Son Elbert D. SINCLAIR lived in Henry County until 1845, when he migrated to Mississippi. |
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnhenry/henrq298.htm
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| | Tucker County, West Virginia Genealogical Records Information |
| | The 1856 act creating the county specified that the county court was to be held on the lands of Enoch Minear on the east side of Cheat River, and that the land was to be called Saint George (the area had been known as Westernford) in honor of Henry Saint George Tucker, Jr. | | | Tragedy struck the county's early settlers in April 1781 when three of its leading citizens, John Minear, Daniel Cameron, and Jacob Cooper, were killed by Indians in present-day Barbour County as they returned to their homes from Clarksburg to obtain legal patents for their lands. | | | West Virginia Archives and History, The Cultural Center; |
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http://www.mywestvirginiagenealogy.com/wv_county/tu.htm
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| | UVa Special Collections Library: Jackson Davis Collection |
| | "Henry Carter Stuart in Virginia Politics, 1855-1933." Thesis. | | | "Second Annual Report of the Industrial Work of the Colored Schools of Sussex County Virginia for Session 1910-11." Richmon: J.W. Fergusson and Sons, Inc. 1911. | | | Virginia: Monacan Indian Nation, Office of Historical Research, n.d. |
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| | Pleasants County, West Virginia Genealogical Records Information |
| | The land comprising St. Mary's, the County Seat, was originally owned by Henry Thomas and was chartered as a town by the Virginia General Assembly in 1815. | | | Pleasants County was created by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1851 from parts of Ritchie, Tyler and Wood counties. | | | James Pleasants Jr., was born in Goochland County, Virginia on October 24, 1769. |
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http://www.mywestvirginiagenealogy.com/wv_county/pl.htm
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| | Descendants of James Boaz |
| | 3 Abram Sandifer Boaz 1825 - 1910 b in Patrick County, Virginia d: February 28, 1910 in Ridgeway, Va. - Henry Co. | | | 4 Bertye A. Boaz 1878 - b in Henry County, Virginia | | | 4 James R. Boaz 1862 - 1949 b in Henry County, Virginia d: 1949 in Hillsville, Carroll County,Va. |
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http://home.texoma.net/~marbles/jamesboa1749.htm
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| | Richard Mullins I Descendants |
| | She married John BEHLER April 24, 1809 in Henry County, Virginia. | | | Franklin County, Virginia was formed in 1786 from portions of Henry and Bedford Counties. | | | In Henry County, Mathew Mullins is mentioned in the will of Mordecai Hord which was not dated, but the account was settled in 1789-1790 and shows he was due payment which was made to Henry Lyne (Layne) for Matthew. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~willpaz/Mullins/richard_mullins_i_descendants.htm
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| | West Virginia Civil War Medals |
| | Class III medal claimed from the West Virginia Archive, 2003, by Rena Sue Hensley Shampton for her Father, Lumis W. Hensley, who is the son of James Madison Hensley and grandson of Henry W. Hensley. | | | From HARDESTY'S HISTORY of WOOD County, WV: EVAN C. JENKINS - lives in Volcano, Walker district, Wood county, West Virginia; is the son of Jonathan and Mary A. (Cramer) Jenkins, and was born in Preston county, West Virginia, August 7, 1844, and he came to this county in 1866. | | | Isaac died in 1915 in Wetzel County, West Virginia and is buried there in Low Gap Cemetery, Center District. |
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http://www.lindapages.com/cwmedals.htm
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| | West Virginia Civil War Medals |
| | Class III medal claimed from the West Virginia Archive, 2003, by Rena Sue Hensley Shampton for her Father, Lumis W. Hensley, who is the son of James Madison Hensley and grandson of Henry W. Hensley. | | | Isaac died in 1915 in Wetzel County, West Virginia and is buried there in Low Gap Cemetery, Center District. | | | Virginia Simms Toney, gg-granddaughter, claimed medal in 1985. |
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http://www.lindapages.com/cwmedals.htm
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| | Nicholas County, West Virginia Genealogical Records Information |
| | Nicholas County was initially created by an act of the Virginia General Assembly on January 30, 1818 from parts of Greenbrier, Kanawha and Randolph counties. | | | Henry moved to the county during the spring of 1791, building a cabin for himself and his family along Peter Creek, named in honor of his father's slave. | | | West Virginia Archives and History, The Cultural Center; |
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| | Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations–Series M: |
| | Peyton Grymes (undated and 1849-1852), James L. Jones (1858-1859), Henry Grey Latham (1868), James Hunter Minor (1850, 1852, and 1854), Philip Clayton Slaughter (1854), Thomas Towles Slaughter (1849 and 1851), and Edmund P. Taliaferro (1861-1862); and Stribling's Springs, Augusta County, Virginia (1857). | | | Section 31 consists of five items, accounts, 1850-1867, of John Jaquelin Ambler (of Lynchburg, Virginia), Quintus Barbour, Sarah Catharine (Strother) Barbour, [otherwise unidentified] Chew, and Nathaniel J. Welch (of Madison County, Virginia). | | | Section 12 consists of eight items, notes, 1855-1859, of Frances Todd (Johnson) Barbour concerning Harriet T. (Stuart) Barbour and Bloomingdale, Orange County, Virginia; a notice, 1852, of Richard H. Field and newspaper clippings, 1859, concerning Bloomingdale, Orange County, Virginia; and notes, 1856, concerning Frances Todd (Johnson) Barbour and the Central Virginia Railroad Company. |
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http://lexisnexis.com/academic/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantm4.asp
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| | Essex County, Virginia Queries |
| | Evidently John was a grandson of William Beasley who died in 1719 in Essex County leaving five sons: William, Benjamin, Henry, John and Charles Beasley. | | | He is identified in various Culpeper Co Deeds as "Benjamin Bragg of St Ann's Parish in County of Essex", from 1774 thru 1784. | | | CATLETT --- Researching the history of the CATLETT family in Virginia. |
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| | Resources on Native Americans at the Library of Virginia |
| | The public life of the county was recorded in detail—births, deaths, and marriages were registered, claims and counter claims were brought, depositions were taken, judgments were rendered, and oaths were made. | | | Correspondence concerning the defense of southwestern Virginia from Loyalists and Indian allies of the British. | | | The county clerk had refused to grant a marriage license, arguing that Sorrells was not of “pure white race.” State records (provided by Walter A. Plecker, the registrar of the Bureau of Vital Statistics) referred to her family as “free colored,” when in fact they were of Indian descent. |
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| | The HIDE/HYDE Line |
| | John Thomas conveyed unto William Murray a tract of land containing 5 acres in Davidson County on the waters of John Thomas' branch north side of Cumberland River adjoining Henry Hides' corner. | | | August 21, 1635, to be embarked on the George for Virginia: Richard Hide, age 24 | | | Cheatham County was erected on February 28, 1856, out of parts of Davidson, Robertson, Dickson and Montgomery counties and was named in honor of Nathaniel Cheatham, speaker of the Senate at this time. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7590/Hyde.htm
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| | Peterson and Eleanor Willis Underwood appeared with their very large family in the 1830 Sussex County, Virginia Federal Census. | | | At the time of his enlistment, he gave his age as 31 years, with his birthplace as Greensville County, Virginia. | | | Benjamin F. Underwood was born in Virginia on August 7, 1839, the fourth son of Peterson and Louisa Sledge Underwood. |
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http://www.wideopenwest.com/~underwoods/ancestors.htm
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| | Patrick County, Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Patrick County is a county located in the state of Virginia. | | | Patrick County was formed in 1791, when Patrick Henry County was divided into Patrick County and Henry County. | | | Patrick Henry County was named for Patrick Henry. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_County,_Virginia
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| | Henry Jones West Virginia Genealogy Page |
| | Henry Jones was born 7 December 1751 in King George Co., Va died 6 February 1838 in Hardy Co., Va. (now West Virginia) (W4249); Va. service and Agcy.; Cert. | | | Rachel Jones, widow of Henry Jones, pensioner, applied 12 Mar 1840 from Hardy Co., Va.; born 19 Apr 1758, she married said Jones 17 Sept 1776, (Maiden name not given.) Family Bible Record: Henry Jones, born 7 Dec 1751 and married his wife Rachel 17 Sept 1776. | | | Edited and Published by Jim Comstock Richwood, West Virginia 1974. |
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| | Cleydael, King George County, Virginia |
| | Henry Stuart Foote's father's sister, Sarah Foote, was the wife of Rev. William Stuart of St. Paul's Parish, King George County and grandmother of Dr. Richard Henry Stuart of Cleydael and Cedar Grove. | | | Stuart's family in that their daughter Julia's husband, Dr. Eusebius Jones, was the brother of Catesby ap Roger Jones, second in command of the Virginia, formerly the US ship Merrimack. | | | His family was originally from Virginia and most of his relatives fought for the Confederacy. |
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| | Descendants of Christian Bowman |
| | was born in 1873 in Shenandoah County, Virginia and died on October 14, 1954 in Albin, Virginia. | | | was born in 1733 in Frederick County, Virginia and died in 1828 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. | | | was born in 1726 in Frederick County, Virginia. |
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| | Henry Draper Biography |
| | Yet without the push given to celestial photography by Henry Draper and others of his day, modern astronomy, and the view it has provided of our place in the universe, would not be possible. | | | His wife later established the Henry Draper Memorial to support photographic research in astronomy. | | | The Memorial funded both the Henry Draper Catalog, a massive photographic stellar spectrum survey carried out by Annie Jump Canon and Edward Charles Pickering which is still in wide use today, and the Henry Draper Medal, which continues to be awarded for outstanding contributions to astrophysics. |
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