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Miscellaneous

Fred Anderson in his Crucible of War The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 hardback published Feb 11, 200

This is big. Quick listing of all the Founders:

https://founders.archives.gov/content/volumes

Sketches of Virginia : historical and biographical  by Foote, William Henry, 1794-1869, Published 1856, pages 17-18

La guerr La guerre sauvage: The Seven Years' War on the Virginia and Pennsylvania frontier

Cherokee

The Cherokee Frontier, Conflict and Survival 1740-1762, by David H Corkran, published by the University of Oklahoma Press 1962).

50,000 deerskin trade annually

Page 6, The Cherokee Frontier, Conflict and Survival 1740-1762, by David H Corkran, published by University of Oklahoma Press 1962, paperback published 2016

Cherokee in New Year's London Parade

 

https://visitcherokeenc.com/blog/entry/255-years-in-the-making-cherokee-warriors-perform-in-the-london-new-years-d/

 

https://theonefeather.com/2018/03/08/warriors-of-anikituhwa-to-represent-tribe-in-london-parade/

Cherokee Townhouse

Pages 90-91 Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American .Southeast 1756-1763 By Daniel J. Tortora, published by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2015.

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/cherokee-townhouse

Braddock Expedition details

There were a lot of Keppels

This is the one who escorted Braddock

from Cobh Bay, Cork Ireland to Hampton Roads VA

https://morethannelson.com/officer/hon-augustus-keppel-1st-viscount-keppel/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Keppel,_1st_Viscount_Keppel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Norwich_(1745)

https://www.britishbattles.com/french-indian-war/general-braddocks-defeat-on-the-monongahela-in-1755-v/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_battle_at_the_Battle_of_the_Monongahela

Forbes Expedition

Forbes Expedition

 

1 Dec 1758 is when Forbes officially dubbed Raystown as Fort Bedford and Loyalhannon as Fort Ligonier.

Prior to that all correspondence by officers referred to both places only as Raystown or Loyalhannon.

 

Page 179

The British Defeat of the French in Pennsylvania, 1758: A Military History of the Forbes Campaign Against Fort Duquesne: by Douglas R. Cubbison. More on this author here. And a review here.

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/reas-town-loyalhanna-later-forts-bedford-ligonier

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/little-carpenter-attakullakulla-gets-around-maybe

 

 

George Washington Bio

Letter images:

Letter written by Colonel Henry Bouquet (1719-1765) to George Washington (1732-1799). Camp near Reas Town

https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735066244397/viewer#page/1/mode/2up

https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/ford-the-writings-of-george-washington-14-vols

Douglas Southall Freeman on GW:

 

The Writings of George Washington, vol. I (1748-1757)

The Writings of George Washington, vol. II (1758-1775)

From Douglas Southall Freeman's Young George Washington, Volume 1, published 1948, Charles Scribner's Sons:

From Douglas Southall Freeman's Young George Washington, Volume 2, Pages 239-240, published 1948, Charles Scribner's Sons:

From Douglas Southall Freeman's Young George Washington, Volume 2, Pages 239, published 1948, Charles Scribner's Sons:

 

A MEMORIAL, containing a summary Account of Facts, in Answer to the Observations of the English Ministry,addressed to the Courts of Europe.” "

Washington Irving's biography of George Washington:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89077178143&view=2up&seq=294

MAPS

Historical County Boundaries of all Colonies and States

Great topo map for reference on the contour of this land

Handley Archives Pictures

https://handley.pastperfectonline.com/

Type search string in quotes: "North Loudoun Street"

https://handley.pastperfectonline.com/photo?page=6&search_criteria=%22North+Loudoun+Street%22&utf8=%E2%9C%93

https://www.handleyregional.org/services/departments/archives

Records of the American Colonies

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listsrch;q1=Connecticut;c=855228657;sort=title_a;pn=37;sz=15

Virginia House of Burgesses all years

On this website:

An organized table of contents and handy description of links

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/copy-of-sources

This link may break at some time but it was originally set up for the French and Indian war Foundation website which is undergoing a website reconstruction and is eliminating a lot of content:

House of Burgesses table of contents (all years) here

Executive journals of the Council of colonial Virginia​

Colonial Governors

Virginia House of Delegates

Journal of the House of Delegates of Virginia. Anno Domini, 1776.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102120284

1777-1930

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000638646

1807 to 1922

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008603397

 

Founders Online

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Founders online beginnings

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Founders Online

Diaries of GW colonial ages

COLONIAL GOVERNORS

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Virginia Lt Governor Robert Dinwiddie

The official records of Robert Dinwiddie

lieutenant-governor of the colony of Virginia, 1751-1758,  Yales’s Volume I, U of Cal Volume I, Yales’s Volume II

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The official records of Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1751-1758,
now first printed from the manuscript in the Collections of the Virginia historical society, with an introduction notes by R. A. Brock.

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https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008728898

https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:31735054779586

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Volume 1  Table of Contents – letter  July 5, 1754, from Dinwiddie at Captain Cock’s 

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Dinwiddie letters March 17, 1755  to November 1758

Maryland Governor Horatio Sharpe
 
https://ia802709.us.archive.org/20/items/colonialgovernor00edga/colonialgovernor00edga.pdf
Rhode Island Governors
Full text of "The correspondence of the colonial governors of Rhode Island, 1723-1775"
https://archive.org/details/correspondenceof02rhoduoft/page/n9/mode/2up
 
Massachussetts Governor William Shirley
Correspondence of William Shirley :
governor of Massachusetts and military commander in America, 1731-1760

published New York : The Macmillan Company, 1912.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000361728

South Carolina laws

 

9 volumes

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008607543

 

VOLUME FIRST ,

CONTAINING ACTS , RECORDS , AND DOCUMENTS OF A CONSTITUTIONAL CHARACTER , ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY .

COLUMBIA , S. C. PRINTED BY A. S. JOHNSTON 1836

 

example: The fundamental Constitutions of Carolina - Drawn up by

John LOCKE , March 1 , 1669

 

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433090745104&view=1up&seq=9&skin=2021

 

VOLUME SECOND ,

CONTAINING THE ACTS FROM 1682 to 1716 , INCLUSIVE .

ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY .COLUMBIA , S . C .PRINTED BY A . S . JOHNSTON 1837

 

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433007185279&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021

 

 

VOLUME THIRD ,

CONTAINING THE ACTS from 1716 , EXCLUSIVE , TO 1752 , INCLUSIVE .

ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY .COLUMBIA , S. C.PRINTED BY A , S. JOHNSTON 1838 .

 

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433007185295&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021

 

 

VOLUME FOURTH,

CONTAININGTHEACTSPROM1752,EXCLUSIVE,TO1786,INCLUSIVE.ARRANGEDCHRONOLOGICALLY.

 

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433007185287&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021

 

 

VOLUME FIFTH ,

CONTAINING THE ACTS FROM 1786 , EXCLUSIVE , TO 1814 , INCLUSIVE .

ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY .COLUMBIA , S. C.PRINTED BY A. S. JOHNSTON 1839 .

 

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433007185261&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021

 

 

VOLUME SIXTH ,

CONTAINING THE ACTS FROM 1814 , EXCLUSIVE , TO 1838 , INCLUSIVE .

ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY . WITH AN APPENDIX . io .

COLUMBIA , S. C.PRINTED BY A. S. JOANSTON , 1839 .

 

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433007185253&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021

 

 

 

VOLUME SEVENTH ,

CONTAINING THE ACTS RELATING TO CHARLESTON , COURTS , SLAVES , AND RIVERS . COLUMBIA , S. C.PRINTED BY A. S. JOHNSTON .1840 .

 

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433090745146&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021

 

 

VOLUME EIGHTH ,

CONTAINING THE ACTS RELATING TO CORPORATIONS AND THE MILITIA .

COLUMBIA , S. C.PRINTED BY A , S. JOHNSTON .1840 .

 

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433007186301&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021

 

 

 

VOLUME THE NINTH ,

CONTAINING THE Acts RELÁTING '10 " Roads , Bridges AND FERRIES , WITH'ANAPPENDIX ,CONTAINING THE MILLTIA ACTS PRIOR TO 1794 ..

COLUMBIA , S. C.PRINTED BY A. S. JOHNSTON 1841 .

 

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433007186319&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021

 

JOURNAL OF THE Commons House of Assembly OF South Carolina

January 8 , 1765 - - August 9 , 1765 

Edited by A . S . SALLEY State Historian of South Carolina

Printed for the HISTORICAL COMMISSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA

By the State Commercial Printing Company

Columbia , S . C .1949

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x000734376&view=1up&seq=5&skin=2021

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South Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22%20South%20Carolina%20History%20Colonial%20period,%20ca.%201600-1775.%22&type=subject&inst=


South Carolina--Politics and government--To 1775

Journal of the Grand council of South Carolina 
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001718458
 Full view v.1 1671-1680  Indiana University
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000046895295&view=1up&seq=2
https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/data/32139187
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Historical%20Commission%20of%20South%20Carolina
https://newspaperarchive.com/search/location/us/sc/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=148266615&utm_content=30045004575&utm_term=south%20carolina%20historical%20society&gclid=CjwKCAjwrpOiBhBVEiwA_473dJDXfm8ZPBf7HQulNH5hp9K0_TjCU427hpcOwlI3DD_Of-2yVZb7MxoCfx8QAvD_BwE

The Colonial Records of South Carolina: Series Two. Documents Relating to Indian Affairs, May 21, 1750–August 7, 1754. Edited by William L. McDowell, Jr. (Columbia: South Carolina Archives Department, 1958. xxii + 592 pp. Facsimile, calendar of documents, notes, and index. $12.50.) 

Get access 

Wilbur R. Jacobs

Journal of American History, Volume 46, Issue 1, June 1959, Pages 115–116, https://doi.org/10.2307/1892393

Published: 01 June 1959

https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/46/1/115/709899?redirectedFrom=fulltext

COLONIAL RECORDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA SERIES 2: DOCUMENTS RELATING TO INDIAN AFFAIRS MAY 21, 1750-AUGUST 7, 1754 (COLONIAL RECORDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, VOLUME 1)

South Carolina Archives Department, 1958-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #SKU1036063
ISBN: B008D7SZK4

B008D7SZK4 Friendly inscription by the editor William McDowell is written on the half title page. Dark red cloth boards. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. [xxii], 592 pp.

Price: $450.00

https://www.edseditions.com/pages/books/SKU1036063/unknown/colonial-records-of-south-carolina-series-2-documents-relating-to-indian-affairs-may-21-1750

Documents Relating to Indian affairs, 1754-1765 (South Carolina Archival Indian Journals) Paperback – March 7, 2021

by Mr. William McDowell (Author)

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Part of: South Carolina Archival Indian Journals (3 books)

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Nationally recognized archival administrator William L. McDowell Jr., in the 1950s, produced three volumes in the Colonial Records of South Carolina series based on never-before mined early South Carolina colonial records. This is the third volume of McDowell’s three volumes, The Colonial Records of South Carolina: Documents Relating to Indian affairs, 1754-1765. The massive volumes’ significance today is even greater than when they were first published. For genealogists searching for early settler and Native American connections, these volumes are invaluable. The volumes contain names and activities of white Indian traders, record "talks" between Native Americans and the colonists, provide intelligence reports from traders, their locations, and information on treaties, marriages, document the impact of colonization, and early South Carolina commerce, and international political relations.They are only rivaled for genealogical value for settler and Indian connections, to Genealogist Emeritus Theresa Hicks and her South Carolina Indians, Indian Traders, and other Ethnic Connections beginning in 1760. Hick’s massively detailed book won rave reviews from Southern historians and archivists. A significant contribution is made through her research on Indian traders and their progeny, and the 104-page index contains over 17,700 entries, the mass majority being individual names (softcover, illustrated, 503 pages, Amazon.com).Noted historian Wilbur R. Jacobs in the Journal of American History, June 1956, called the volumes “of vital significance” and “fascinating.” In 1971, McDowell won the American Association for State and Local History Award of Merit, for the volumes.

https://www.amazon.com/Documents-Relating-1754-1765-Carolina-Archival/dp/B08YS6252T/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1FE041LMXP29W&keywords=South+Carolina+Documents+Relating+to+Indian+Affairs%3A+1754-1765&qid=1682293083&s=books&sprefix=south+carolina+documents+relating+to+indian+affairs+1754-1765%2Cstripbooks%2C70&sr=1-1

The Colonial Records of South Carolina (3 Vols) - Journals of the Commissioners of the Indian Trade 1710-1718; Documents Relating to Indian Affairs 1750-1754; Documents Relating to Indian Affairs 1754-1765

by William L. McDowell | Jan 1, 1992

Paperback

Currently unavailable.

https://www.amazon.com/Colonial-Records-South-Carolina-Vols/dp/B00CPR83YQ/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1FE041LMXP29W&keywords=South+Carolina+Documents+Relating+to+Indian+Affairs%3A+1754-1765&qid=1682294387&s=books&sprefix=south+carolina+documents+relating+to+indian+affairs+1754-1765%2Cstripbooks%2C70&sr=1-3

North Carolina

The Online Books Page

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=North%20Carolina

Records of the Moravians in North Carolina

https://historicbethabara.org/research/

Volumes I-VII were translated by Adelaide Fries and are available online through Archive.org:

Volume I (1752-71)

Volume II (1771-75)

Volume III (1775-79)

Volume IV (1779-83)

Volume V (1783-92)

Volume VI (1793-1808)

Volume VII (1809-1822)

Records of the Moravians in North Carolina. Volume II: 1752-1775

by  Fries, Adelaide L. (Adelaide Lisetta), 1871-1949.

https://archive.org/details/recordsofthemora02frie/page/524/mode/2up

https://historicbethabara.org/the-stories-of-bethabaras-enslaved/

While trumpets were sounding from the roof of the Single Brothers’ House in Bethlehem on October 8, 1753, a group of fifteen single men set out on foot for North Carolina. Their goal was to start a new Moravian settlement on the Wachovia tract that had been purchased earlier that year for the Moravian Church. The Wachovia tract measured almost 100,000 acres and covered the area of the contemporary city of Winston-Salem. After almost six weeks of travel, the settlers reached their destination on November 17. They took refuge in an unused hunting cabin and immediately began to clear the land and construct necessary buildings. Their settlement was soon named Bethabara. It was the beginning of a Moravian presence in North Carolina. This year the Bethabara Moravian congregation celebrates its 260th anniversary. The travel diary of the group of first settlers is well known and gives interesting details about their 500-mile journey from Bethlehem to Bethabara and about their first attempts to survive in the woods of North Carolina. Another, lesser known source provides additional details. The Moravian Archives in Bethlehem holds an account book in which all expenses relating to the new colony during the years between 1753 and 1756 are listed. On the first six pages of the account book we find an exhaustive overview of items the men took with them on their journey to Bethabara
http://www.moravianchurcharchives.org/thismonth/13_11%20Bethabara.pdf
 
https://www.mesdajournal.org/2019/andreas-hoger-and-the-first-moravian-maps-of-wachovia/
https://www.ancestraltrackers.net/nc/forsyth/bicentennial-bethania-moravian-church-1759-1959.pdf
Lord Loudoun
Absentee Governor of Virginia and
Commander of all North American forces

 

Is GW a spy?

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/loudoun-wonders-if-gw-is-a-traitor

 

Lord Loudoun Jan 1757

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/lord-loudoun-and-the-war-january-1757

Lord Loudoun Feb 1757

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/lord-loudoun-and-the-war-february-1757

Lord Loudoun March 1757

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/gw-s-time-in-philly-1757

 

Lord Loudoun July 1757

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/where-s-our-namesake-lord-loudoun

Good Bye Lord Loudoun Aug to Dec 1757

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/good-bye-lord-loudoun

 

Lord Loudoun and Rogers Rangers

The Loudoun Manuscripts in the Huntington Library were the chief source for this volume. Every one of the 10,000 manuscripts have been gone through by the author for items on Rogers Rangers.

ROGERS RANGERS VOLUME I THE BEGINNINGS JAN 1755 to APRIL 6, 1758 By BURT GARFIELD LOESCHER With Colored Plates By HeIene Loescher  San Francisco - 1946 Copyright, 1946, by the Author. . All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the Author - Publisher Set up and printed by the Author San Francisco California

In closing this introduction the author would like to state that if this volume is well received he will go ahead and publish the other two which only lack a few missing links to complete them. The second volume should complete the History and the third volume will give the names and services of every officer and man that served in the Corps with a biographical sketch of every officer and certain men. This should be of special value to New England Geneologists, So please write giving your opinion of this volume and send any historical or biographical information that would amplify these volumes, March 21, 1946. Burt Garfield Loescher , 134 Appleton Ave, San Francisco, 10, California, U.S.A.

https://ia800204.us.archive.org/32/items/historyofrogersr01loes/historyofrogersr01loes.pdf

More Roberts Rogers references:

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/counterfeit-money-led-to-rogers-rangers

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/good-bye-lord-loudoun

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/goodbye-lord-loudoun-again

MILITIA

Title

Colonial Soldiers of Frederick County, Virginia

 

Creator

Wayland, John Walter, 1872-1962

 

Date

1939-1940

 

Description

This book contains copies of court martial records of the French and Indian War period compiled by John Walter Wayland from the back pages of Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 18. An index is available on pages 115 to 126

Biographical Note

Dr. John Walter Wayland was born on Dec. 8, 1872 to John Wesley and Anna Kagey Wayland in Shenandoah County, Virginia. From 1890 to 1893, he was a teacher in the public schools. He received a B.S. degree from Bridgewater College in Virginia and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia in 1907. From 1899 to 1931, he taught at several institutions including the University of Virginia and Madison College in VA, now known as James Madison University. In 1931, Wayland retired to do more writing and research. During his life he wrote over 40 books and hundreds of articles concerning Virginia history. His major focus was the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Wayland died in 1962.

https://cdm17303.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17303coll5/id/1768

INDIAN AFFAIRS

GEORGE CROGHAN

“ALL THE NATIONS TO THE SUN SETTING” GEORGE CROGHAN, EXTENDING THE LIMITS OF EMPIRE IN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA Jeffrey Michael Zimmerman, MBA Chair: Ronald M. Johnson, PhD ABSTRACT George Croghan was a mid-eighteenth-century British Indian agent. Born in Ireland, he came to America and settled in Pennsylvania in 1741.

https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/1042900/Zimmerman_georgetown_0076D_13384.pdf?sequence=1

A century of dishonor : a sketch of the United States government's dealings with some of the Indian tribes

by  Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885  Publication date 1881

https://archive.org/details/bp_977375/page/404/mode/2up

Stories you didn't associate with the French and Indian War period

LIBERTY BELL

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YANKEE DOODLE DANDY

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JOIN OR DIE SNAKE

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GOODY TWO SHOES

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Provenance

The Jeffery Amherst papers

were part of the Thomas Gage papers that came to the Clements Library from William L. Clements' estate in 1937.

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-341amh?id=navbarbrowselink;view=text#Access%20and%20Use

https://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/holdings/Lord-Jeffery-Amherst-Research/primary-resources

https://fcaw.library.umass.edu/F/6U14KA1H757HMPQE3FJ94FCXTCH6IHDG8PKU6156RD5CQKHQPX-03854?func=find-acc&acc_sequence=031510902

The National Archives, Kew

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14243

The British, the Indians, and Smallpox:

What Actually Happened at Fort Pitt in 1763?

https://journals.psu.edu › phj › article › download

PDF

Loyalist Papers

https://loyalist.lib.unb.ca/node/4299

Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries

Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries

including numerous original letters,

chiefly from Strawberry Hill

1851, Warburton, Eliot 1810-1852, Walpole, Horace 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) University of Pittsburgh

https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735054861293/viewer#page/8/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/memoirsofhoracew02warb/page/n7/mode/2up

Memoirs of the reign of King George the Second 

Volume 1  

1751 TO 1754

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840

 

Publication date 1847  

https://archive.org/details/memoirsofreignof01walp/page/402/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/memoirsofreignof01walp/page/n5/mode/2up

Memoirs of the reign of King George the Second 

Volume 2

1755 TO 1757

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57851/57851-h/57851-h.htm#Page_378

Memoirs of the reign of King George the Second 

Volume 3

1757 TO 1760

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/58705/58705-h/58705-h.htm

https://archive.org/details/memoirsofreignof03walp/page/60/mode/2up

Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume II (of 4),

by Horace Walpole

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/57140/57140-h/57140-h.htm

Letters of Horace Walpole

https://europeanroyalhistory.wordpress.com/

The Spectator



in three volumes: volume 3
A New Edition Reproducing the Original Text  Both as First Issued  and as Corrected by its Authors with Introduction, Notes, and Index
edited by Henry Morley  1891

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12030/12030-h/SV3/Spectator3.html#section435

 

 

JAR JOURNAL OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION

 

 

https://allthingsliberty.com/archives/

​More modern links

West Virginia

West Virginia Senate and House Journals from 2003 to 2021

https://www.wvlegislature.gov/bulletin_board/Bulletin_Board_archive.cfm

 

The first appearance of the name Shepherdstown and not its original name of Mecklenburg

is in 1866

https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/publications/acts/Acts_1866.pdf

 

From 1863

https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Educational/publications.cfm#acts

Great article.

About Romney and Mecklenburg chartered 23 Dec 1762

https://wvpublic.org/a-discussion-on-who-the-oldest-town-in-w-va-is-and-how-much-it-actually-matters/

 

However it is interesting the House of Burgesses is still mentioning Shepherdstown as Mecklenburg  May 10, 1765 in a petition by Thomas Shepherd for a ferry, three years after the town was chartered.

 

According to the article both Romney and Shepherdstown were chartered on the same day

 ". . . each town was chartered on the same day, December 23, 1762. "

 

In fact even as late as 1767, five years after the 1762 charter, the House of Burgesses was still calling Shepherdstown the name of Mecklenburg.

 

1767 reference

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t3gx4ks23&view=1up&seq=150&q1=Meck

 

 

Even in 1770 the town Mecklenburg was still its name, eight years after its charter.

It's a fight between Swearingen's widow and Thomas Shepherd.  She doesn't want the ferry. He does.

 

1770 reference

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001603227&seq=83&q1=shepherd&start=1

 

 

I haven't found the exact date of the name change, but some time after the Civil War did the name of the town become Shepherdstown.

 

"After the Civil War, the name became Shepherdstown."

https://historicshepherdstown.com/2015/12/a-brief-history-of-shepherdstown/

 

 

 

1765 reference

 

 

source:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t4mk6m60r&view=1up&seq=415&q1=burg

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