Gold Doubloons, Pistoles and Silver Spanish Dollars
Gold Doubloons and Silver Spanish Dollars lasted in the American currency for a long, long time. Spanish coin was not outlawed in the...
Goodbye King George II
King George II died 25 Oct 1760 , aged 76. As of Thursday 11 Dec 1760, the last day of House of Burgesses session, there is no mention...
Selma Winchester VA
See this link for more connections between the Masons, the Mercers and George Washington https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/selma-winchester-v...
The colonial British used a Spanish Pieces of Eight
Mike Robinson, author of Winchester Tales recently found in Frederick County Virginia a 1797 Spanish coin, minted in Mexico. These and...
The World in Transition in December 1760
Russian troops enter Berlin. A leader of the english speaking world dies. Sounds like World War II, but this is really the first world...
Cherokee War Epilogue 1760-1762
In here are excerpts from Virginia's upper chamber, The Council. Sometimes called the Board in its journals, this body had different...
The Spanish "Real" or "Royal" coin aka the Dollar
The Spanish coins were widely used in British colonial America. In fact Spanish coin was the World's Reserve Currency. The Spanish new...
The Point
Winchester's early growith as one of the largest "Backcountry" towns in the colonies is diue to the French Fort Duquesne located at what...
GW finds two of the largest Sycamores on the Planet
Here is a picture of a Sycamore close to the dimensions George Washington found. Close, but no cigar. This one is 24' 7" George...
Postmortem by Forbes: The Indian Ohio country for the 1760s
Forbes predicts the future. Would have been able to stop the western migration juggernaut? Everything he warns about, comes to pass in...
