Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-03-23

1910. Dir w ID. Bcrkley explores west from |
the AppomattoXto the mountains. Forty thou |
sand people IN Virginia, of which 5000 we're
slaves and servants.
1913. The Northern Neck granted as Il court
favor TO Henry Burnett, the Earl of Arlington,
and Lord Thomas CuIpeper.
;, 1919; fort occupied at the Falls of the
M:IGapp;ahannock. Stafford county established
The Su quchauuocks, j,iniug the Piscataways, |
with the Doegg and other Indians massacre
along all the headwaters of the Potomac Rap
pahann0ck and York, and descend upon the
James Bacon $ rebellion grows out of this |
war and Coouel Brent marches FROM the Poto.
| mac with ZOO men to attack the insurgent' s
army.
1851. About 5000 men capable of bearing
arms IN the train bands of Virginia
1854. The burgesses in behalf Of the North
err Neck, then called the Potomac Neck, pray
ed the Governor to secure them by patent in
their titles to their lands, which had been in.
vaded by Culpeper's charter"
$685. Many persons implicated in Mon
mouths rebellion sent to Virginia Ito serve
their masters for the space Of ten years al
least"
1857. Meditated instruction of blacks dis.
covered in the Northern Neck
1859 April: William and Mary proclaimed
at james City.
169S Governor Nicholson POUNDS Williams
bury; William and Mary College has the first
grand commencement 10 100.
1902. Population 60, 900. Many Huguenots
arrlvr fleeing at the revocation of the Edict of
| Nantes. Twenty-Five counties and seventy
houses Of worship in Virginia, three Quaker
and three Presbyterian. Seven years later the
Lrrds Baltimore abandon Roman Catholicism.
ITO. Colonel and Governor Alexander Spots
wood arrives, aged 81, Scotch Dative Of Tan
gier, Africa, and an officer at Bieudheim under
Marlborough, bringing to Virginia for the first
time the right of habeas corpus. He settles 90
the Rapidan, POUNDS colony Of German Prot
estauts there AID in TIA announces the sue
cession of George l., maternal grandson OF
James l.
IT'S Population of Virginia $4,000 With
Maryland the two colonies had 145, 900 souls,
OF which 80, 600 were negroes than over
balancing in production all the rest of the col
oules together.
l7l6. Spotswood first discovered complete
pass over the Blue Ridge, at the head OF fifty
persons, at Swift Run gaps ptember lG. Sees
perch, club, deer turkeys, and elk and buffalo
tracks on the Shenandoah.
l720 The Virginia frontier extended to the
Blue Ridge, and Spotsylvania, Brunswick,
Kug George and Hanover counties cstab-
llshed.
l722 September The Five Nations bound
themselves by treaty ut Albany not to 20 south
of the Potomac nor to the east Of the Altegha-
ny chain without permission from the Govern
or OF New York; nor were the Indians Of the
lower Chesapeake to pass north of the same
river and west OF the mountains Without pass.
port from the Governor of Virginia. Spots
wood displaccd the first iron maker and post
master general in North America
1872 JoSt Hite, of Pennsylvania, settles
near Harper'S Ferry, while Fredericksburg Is
hamlet around the estate of Colonel Willis,
founded 1927 Spo,swood dies in ITO at An
napoli$, leaving progeny for the revolutionary
army Of Washington, the greatest colonial gov
eruor for the couutry's good. On his son Rob
ert, slain near Cumberland, Md, in 1856,
London poet wrote:
Courageous youth were now thine honored
sire
To breathe again and rouse his wonte1 ire,
Nor French nor Shawnee dare his rage pro-
woke
From Great Potomacs spriog to Roanoke.
1884 80. The Shenanipah valley settled at
Stanton, Woodstock and Winchester. Orange
county established.
174O. Troops raised in the upper Potomac
country by LawIcDce Washington to proceed to
the West lujies to conquer the Spanish colo
nics The Scotch Irish settle rapidly on Fair
tax's grant. 10 l744 the six nations make
treaty al Lancaster, Pa, giving up all The land
from Virginia to the Ohio. About this time
the last buffalo seen 10 our region.
1742 Fairfax county established
l74g. The Washington aud Mason family
and others near Washington organize the Ohio
company, SIX years after Lawrence Washington
iuhabits the Mount Vernon estate. Lord Fair
fax employs George surveying.
1855. Culpepcr, Warreutou and Washington
settled.
Neesburg is "a miles from Washington and
was established 10 l75S on the lands of Nicho
las Minor, who owned sixty acres around the
court. house aud laid i, ntf into streets aud lots,
partly built upon already. The trustees named
10 the act of gi.laturc were Hon Philip Lud.
we'll LIE Thos. Mason, Francis Lghttoot Lee,
JAS Hamilton, Nicholas Minor, JoSias Clap
ham, Aencas Campbell, John Hugh, Francis
Hague and William West, gentlemen. This
was the year following the formation of the
county, and the Earl Of Loudon Braddock
and Washington are said to have been in the
vilIage.)
HIP. The Virginia Assembly passes an act
to improve the navigation of the Potomac.
l774. Washington presides at a meeting for
resistance held in Fairfax county Charles Lee
and Horatio Gates visit hin trom their estates
near Martinsburg.
l776. July: Lord Dunmore desolates the
upper Potomac, burning Wm. Brcut's house
at Aqua Creek.
l779 Alexandria incorporated.
1904. Occoquan town established by law.
1922. Prince William courthouse removed
from Dumtres to Breotsville. Virginia Theo-
logical Seminary established back of Al xaD,
dria - Wash. ,Stur.
CONGRESS- The Senate was not 10 session
Cd Saturday, and the House of Representa-