Lord Fairfax is a Recusant, not taking the Oath
Time to take a side. Staying neutral? Not allowed. No silent majority here. Time to smoke out the Tories. Time to nail down the wobbly....
Rutherford tries to stop a Jail Break
That jail sat right where Rouss City Hall resides now. There was a mob who showed up there. According to Kercheval, Robert Rutherford...
Conrad Weiser dies 13 July 1760
Conrad Weiser is buried near Womelsdorf in Berks County Pennsylvania, on the Conrad Weiser homestead. George Washington was very aware...
Byrd's Expedition towards the Cherokees July 1760 Timetable
William Byrd III doesn't want to do this. He'd rather help the commander at Pittsburg, Monckton, then go into the wilderness facing the...
Rockingham Co and Dunmore Co VA - what is in a name?
October 27, 1775 is an interesting day and night for the Lord Rockingham. On that day King George III rode in a parade watched by 60,000...
Meet Thomas Waggener
That last reference we can find of Captain Thomas Waggener is in the executive council of Virginia journal. The journal states that...
George William Fairfax can "stand the utmost screwing"
"I can stand the utmost screwing, and have enough for me and my wife ["Sally" Sarah Cary - the woman George Washington...
Meet Thomas Bryan Martin and his loneliness
All we got left of Thomas Bryan Martin is a town named after him -- Martinsburg. But back then this man was big. If you wanted land, you...
Promised Land? Oh no. Not yet.
On 11 June 1760 the Virginia Council receives letters all saying no to the land promised in Lt Gov Dinwiddie's 1754 Proclamation. The...
The theatres of War in June 1760 . . . the South, the North, the West and "Pittsburg"
We've been tracking the Cherokee wars down south, where 2 expeditions are bound. Byrd expedition June 11, 1760 ". . . . a Letter from...
