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...
England pays Virginia
England promised the colonies it would pay something back for the upfront war expenses of the colonies. At a Council held June 25th...
Byrd is supposed to save this other Fort Loudoun in today's Tennessee
All these men were stationed in Fort Loudoun Winchester VA many times over 1758 to 1760. But now they are on an expedition to save...
Cherokees push back Montgomery
Montgomery destroyed the Lower Towns in early June 1760. In those towns were all the plunder taken from the white settlements earlier...
Winchester VA to Salisbury and Yadkin NC Connection
Salisbury and Yadkin were the "go to" areas of Daniel Boone and his dad Squire Boone. So too was it for thousands coming down the valley...
