The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-24

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of the breadth of the river. At the mouth
the Potomac is six miles wide, and with
forty feet of water almost anywhere and
good water in the Yeocomico and Cone
rivers, and "a feet of water four miles up
st. Mary's river. The following are nota
BILE lighthouses on the Potomac: Jones
Point, IS feet high; Fort Washington /;
Smiths Point, 80 feet; Point Lookout, 81
feet; Piney Point, 35 feet high.
THE VIRGINIA SHORE OF THE POTOMAC.
Some running notes of the Virginia
shore will be in order, vagarious and here
and there, as they will be Hound:
1907. May l3, the English settlers land at
jamestown.
1908. June 16, John Smith DISCOVERIES
the Potomac and ascends it. The tomb
stone of Lieutenant William Harris, who
who died 1908, was till recently extant in
Fairfax county, the Oldest in the United
States.
| 1884. Catholic settlement of Mary land.
| 1913. The English in Virginia number
$4,000; the negroes, 800; horses, 200 !;
asses, so; cattle 10000; goats. 5000 !;
sheep, 5000. Thirty vessels year came
to trade. $1,000 colonists on the Acco-
mac shore.) There were IL counties and
20 churches. Fruit and gram were raised,
and cider exported. This year the Puri.
tans emigrate from Virginia to Maryland,
and King Charles is beheaded.
1867. The Washington family settle on
the lower Potomac.
1862. Captains Charles Brent, George
Mason and others Cypress the Potomac In
dams under the chief Wahangonoche, and
are fined and suspended from Office.
1865. The Doeggs and other Potomac
Indians becoming offensive, fort is built
at 9eohocomico, on the lower Poto-
mac, and on the Rappahannock at Coroto-
man. near the bay. About 5000 Indians
in all Virginia.
1870. Sir William Berkeley explores west
from the Appomattox to the mountains.
Forty thousand people in Virginia, Of which
5000 were slaves and servants.
1878. The Northern Neck granted as a
| court favor to Henry Burnett, the Earl of
| Arlington, and Lord Thomas Culpeper.
1876. A fort occupied at the Falls of the
Rappahannock. Stafford county estab-
lished. The Susquehannocks, joining the
| Piscataways, with the Doegg and other In
dians massacre along all the headwaters of
the Potomac, Rappahannock and York,
and descend upon the James. Bacon's
rebellion grows out of this war and Colo
mel Brent marches from the Potomac with
| 200 men to attack the insurgents army.
/ 1851. About s, 900 men capable of bear.
ing arms IN the train bands of Virginia.
1854. "The burgesses in behalf of the
Northern Neck, then called the Potomac
Neck, prayed the governor to secure them
by patent in their titles to their land, which
had been invaded by Culpeper's charter"
| 1856. Many persons implicated in Mon
mouths rebellion sent to Virginia "to
serve their masters for the space of ten
years at least"
/ 1887. Meditated instruction of blacks
discovered in the Northern Neck.
1859. April: William and Mary pro-
claimed at James City.
i 1898. Governor Nicholson POUNDS Will
liamsburg William and Mary College has
the first grand commencement in 100.
| 1902. Population 10000. Many Hugue-
nots arrive fleeing at the revocation of the
Edicu Of Nantes. Twenty-nine counties
) and seventy houses Of worship in Virginia,
Seven years later the Lords Baltimore
abandoned Roman Catholicism.
i ITO. Colonel and Governor Alexander
Spotswood arrives, aged 81, a Scotch ma
tive of Tangier, Africa, and an officer at
Blenheim under Marlborough, bringing to
Virginia for the first time the right OF ha-
beas corpus. He settles on the Rapidan,
POUNDS colony Of German Protestants
there, and in 1714 announces the success
sion of George l., maternal grandson Of
James |.
IT'S. Population of Virginia $4,000.
With Maryland, the two colonies had
145, 900 souls, of which 10000. were ne
groes-more than overbalanclng IN produc.
, ton all the rest of the colonies together.
} 1716. Spotswood. first discovers a com
, plete pass over the Blue Ridge, at the
head of fifty persons, OF Swift Run gap
September 16. Sees. perch, club, deer
, turkeys, and elk and buffalo tracks on thu
, Shenandoah.
/ 1920. The Virginia frontier extended t.
. the Blue Ridge. and Spotsylvanja. Bruins
D wick, King George and Hanover COUNTIES
j established.
) 1922. September The Five Nations
! bound themselves by treaty at Albany no
} to go south of the Potomac nor to the cas-
, of the Allegheny chain without permission
from the Governor of New York nor wer,
a the Indians of the lower Chesapeake t.
t pass north Of the same river and west Q
: the mountains --without passport from
a the Governor of Virginia. Spotswood dis
: placed; the first iron maker and postmas
/. ter general in North America.
Q 1872. Joist Hlte, of Pennsylvania, set
ties near Harper's Ferry, while Fredercks
burg is a hamlet around the estate of Colo
!. mel Willis, founded 1727. Spotswood die
e in 1870 at Annapolis. leaving progeny 70
q the Revolutionary army of Washington, tn
: greatest colonial governor for the country
# good. On his son Robert, slain near Gun
e berland, Nd, in 1856, a London POI
o wrote:
is courageous youth were now thine honor'
l. sire
: To breathe again and rouse his wonted ire,
Nor French nor Shawnee dare his rage provoke
From Great Potomac's spring to Roanoke
II 1734-3s. The Shenandoah Valley Sc
ID tied at Staunton. Woodstock and Winche
r ter. Orange county established.
% l740. Troops raised in the upper P
: tomac country by Lawrence Washingt'
ID to proceed to the West Indies to conqu
h, the Spanish colonies. The Scotch lri
I'd settle rapidly on Fairfax's grant. In IL
en- the six nations make treaty at Lancast'
ed Pa, giving up all the land from Virgin
to the Ohio. About this time the last b
he falo seen in our region.
OF 1742. Fairfax county established.
ly 1749. The Washington and Mason FAM
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