Fort Loudoun Winchester Virginia
Designed & built by Colonel George Washington
1756-1758
Also related events 1752-1764 before and after French & Indian War
1759
Byrd takes over Virginia Regiment
Goodbye George Washington, Hello William Byrd III
Actually first minted in 1965 as a sample to reduce silver in coins
Martha Washington 1759 Silver Half Dollar
Jan 6, 1759
George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis marries on 3 Kings Day
GW's Slaves and Slavery - Full Dose
George Washington did buy slaves while building of Fort Loudoun continued. And now after marriage to Martha 6 Jan 1759, he inherited even more. Chernow states, "During the frosty first winter of his marriage, he grew alarmed by the death of four slaves by late January [1759], three of them dower slaves from the Custis estate."
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/gw-s-slaves-and-slavery-full-dose
Jan 10, 1759
George Washington thanks his officers in this letter
Byrd takes over Virginia Regiment
Goodbye George Washington, Hello William Byrd III
Jan 19, 1759
Little Carpenter and his group was in Winchester VA 9 Jan 1759. They arrive in Williamsburg 19 Jan 1759. They have an audience with the Governor Fauquier and his Executive Council (a sort of combo upper chamber to the House of Burgesses and a state Supreme Court).
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/little-carpenter-s-frequent-flyer-miles
Feb 10, 1759
George Washington had bought a horse from George Mercer in 1755. George Washington then sold the horse, recording his profit 10 Feb 1759. A grey flea bitten horse isn't really flea bitten. The descriptive term for the horse arose from maybe looking as if they were flea bitten.
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/white-grey-phlea-bitten-horse
Feb 26, 1759
Washington recognized for his service in the House of Burgesses
Feb 28, 1759
Lord Fairfax expands Winchester VA
July Small Pox in Winchester, Court moves to Stephensburg (Stephens City
Fairfax Addition to Winchester
Monmouth Street Winchestr VA comes from this ghastly event:
It is said that before laying his head to the block Monmouth specifically bade
Jack Ketch finish him at one blow, saying he had mauled others before. Disconcerted, Ketch did indeed inflict multiple blows with his axe, the prisoner rising up reproachfully the while - a ghastly sight that shocked the witnesses, drawing forth execrations and groans. Some say a knife was at last employed to sever the head from the twitching body. Sources vary; some claim eight blows, the official Tower of London fact sheet says it took five blows..."
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2016/09/06/winchester-va-streets-monmouth
Sept 13, 1759
Battle of Quebec
Why Soldiers Why Song
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2018/10/16/why-soldiers-why
Nov 8, 1759
Virginia Goods for the Cherokees sitting in Salisbury
Those supplies and gifts are sitting in Salisbury NC, Yadkin River country, a place where many settlers came to from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
Different looks to "Pittsburg" 8 Nov 1759
House of Burgesses moves some troops out of Pittsburg to the southern borders of Virginia because of Cherokee attacks in NC and SC. Different images of Pittsburg are shown here.
Petitions of Soldiers 8 Nov 1759
Here are various petititions of Virginia Regiment, Militia, and Rangers. George Washington is on the committee who investigate Virginia.
Nov 9, 1759
This story about Alexander Finnie refurbishing the Braddock Road was posted first in July 2023, since we are covering 1759. But we repeat this story again because although this story occurred in July 1759, the principals of the story didn't get paid until Nov 1759. By November 9, 1759 Burgess George Washington is tasked in a committee to reimburse Finnie for his services.
Braddock Road improved by Alexander Finnie needs paid 9 Nov 1759
Nov 19, 1759
Remember Stobo? He is awarded £1000 ! 19 Nov 1759
Robert Stobo is not only being awarded on 19 Nov 1759 £1000 but that is in ADDITION to his backpay salary whle he was in prisoner. Did he ever get all the money? It looks like he did in 21 Nov 1759. But neverthess for now, his story of accomplishments needs a look again.
Nov 20, 1759
Slaves - Seller pays vs Buyer pays? 20 Nov 1759
1760
1761
May George Washington 1761 Election House of Burgesses - DIRTY POLITICS?
.
.
1763
February TREATY OF PARIS ending the French and Indian War
Lord Bute - This Jack Boot ended the war
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/lord-bute-this-jack-boot-ended-the-war
10 February
Lord Bute and Dunkirk - The War is Over
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/lord-bute-and-dunkirk-the-war-is-over-1
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/lord-bute-and-dunkirk-the-war-is-over
10 February
Start and End of Seven Years War
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/start-and-end-of-seven-years-war
Interesting warning about a sellout peace in Nov 1759
.
.
1770
October 5 to December 1 Washington's trip out West to Ohio Country once more.
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2016/08/23/they-were-looking-backwards-too
.
March 5 Boston Massacre. John Adams Defense Attorney for the British.
1772
Washington's first known portrait
by Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827).
Washington poses in his Virginia Regiment uniform for the French and Indian War, two years after the Boston Massacre.
.
From Founders Online Footnote:
Peale “came to Mount Vernon on 18 May 1772, and GW finished sitting for his portrait in his uniform as colonel of the Virginia Regiment on 22 April 1773……before setting out for Leesburg where he joined Bryan Fairfax. Peale remained at Mount Vernon to paint miniatures of Martha Washington and of John Parke and Martha Parke Custis. GW charged Martha Parke Custis’s miniature to her account, and those of John Parke Custis and Martha Washington to Custis’s account. “
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2018/11/18/get-the-picture
1774
Chief Cornstalk's Earring in Winchester VA
1776
February 10, 1776
A Young Poet and a future President
July 1776
Rough Draft - more ways than one
Thomas Jefferson writes how the British created the slavery problem. Now the British are freeing the slaves to fight the "Patriots." This rough draft to the Declaration of Independence never makes it into the final cut.
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/rough-draft-more-ways-than-one
Frontier vs Backcountry
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/backcountry-vs-frontier
Christmas Day 1776
“Der Feind, Heraus! Heraus!” - is what Lt Andreas Wiederholdt may have heard on Christmas Day 1776. The Hessian, Lt Andreas Wiederholdt, saw Adam Stephen's men coming at him.
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2018/12/30/-der-fiend-heraus-heraus
1777
Dec 30
The French and Washington - Lafayette's letter about the Conway Affair
1779
Jacob Sperry, one of Daniel Morgan's "Dutch Mess" bought this place that became known as a tanyard
1782
June 11, 1782
William Crawford, lifelong friend of George Washington, is bured at the stake
July 9, 1782
After Cornwallis Defeat at Yorktown and before the Feb 1783 Paris Peace treaty ending the war, what is Horatio Gates and Adam Stephen talking about? Not the Rev War. They're remembering July 9, 1755, the massacre of Braddock's forces in the French and Indian War.
1785
Frontier vs Backcountry:
See John Adams demanding British to withdraw their garrisons from the frontier posts to respect the Paris 1783 Peace Treaty ending the Revolutionary War:
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/backcountry-vs-frontier
1789
15 December 1789 - First class held on the Constitution
.
