Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-12


Wh1e the German and English i'm
migration was flowing in there was
also tide of Quaker immigration
from PENNSYLVANIA which came into
this territory, and it is recorded that
many members of the Society of
Friends came directly to this part OF
Virginia from England and Ireland
They generally settled in the central
portion of the county southwest OF
Waterford and west of LeesburS, and
that part of the county came to be
known as the Quaker Settlement
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On the separation of Loudoun from
Fairfax the most prominent citizens OF
Loudoun in a political sense seem to
have been Francis Lightfoot Lee, James
Hamilton, Francis Payton, Thomas Ma
son and Josiah Chaplain. Francis
Lishtfoot Lee and James Hamilton
We're the representatives of l.oudoun IN
the Virginia assemblies of l75S-6l, li6l-
e., 1865 -6S. and about 1870 the names OF
Francis Peyton, Josiah Chaplain and
Thomas Mason became prominent as
Loudoun county delegates to the gen
eral assembly and to the numerous
re-revo1utionary conventions. Lou
doun, like all the other counties OIL
Virginia. adopted patriotic resolutions
and lat Il meeting OF the freehoideTs
ana Otner ifna OF the tcuh'S VI
Loudoun, in the colony of Virginia,
held at the courthouse in LeeSburS
the 18th of June, 1174. +. Peyton, ESQ
in the chair. to consider the most Ell
fectual method to preserve the rights
and liberties of North America, and
relieve our brethren of Boston suffer-
ing under the most oppressive and ty-
ranncal act of the British parliament,
made in the fourteenth year of hls
majestys reign. whereby their harbor
is blocked up, their commerce totally op-
structed. their property rendered useless,
etc. the usual resolutions of non Inter
course with England We're adopte6-
1t was resolved that Thompson Mason
and Francis Peyton he appointed to rep
resent the county a a general meeting TO
be held at Williamsburg on the last day
OF August next Ito take the sense OF THIS
colony at large on the subject OF the
preceding resolves, and that they, to-
gether with Leven Powell, William
Ellzey. John Thornton. George Johii-
ston and Samuel Levi. or any three OF
them, be committee to correspond
with several committees appointed for
this purpose.
The names appended to the Loudoun
resolutions furnish a line on the promi-
nent patriots of the country. and tie
names follow: John Morton, Thomas Ray.
Thomas Drake. William Booram Benja-
min Issac Humphrey, Samuel NILS JOSH
ia Singleton, Jonathan Drake. Matthew
Rust Barney Sims. Samuel Butler,
Thomas Chinn, Appolios Cooper, Lima
Hanconk. John McVicker, Simon Trip
lett. John Wildey, Joseph BayleE. lssac
Sanders Thomas Williams. John Will
liams, William Finnekin, Richard Han
son, John bunker. James Nolan, Samuel
Peugh. William Normal, Thomas Luttreli,
James Briar, Poins Owsiey, John Ken
drick Edward O'Neal, Francis Tripiet,
Joseph Combs, John Peyton Harrison.
Robert Combs, Stephen Combs, Samuel
Henderson, Benjamin Overfield, Adam
Sangster, Bazzell Roads, James Graydey,
OyrSleV Edward Miller. Richard
Hirst, James Davis and Jasper Grant.
Loudouns county committee for the
years 1114-1175 was composed of
Thomas Lewis, Anthony Russell, John
Thomas George Johnston. Thomas
Shore. Jacob Reed, Leven Powell, VIII
liam Smith, Robert Jamison. Hardage
Lane, John Lewis and James Lane.
George Johnston was the clerk of the
committee.
Loudoun county played large part
in the affairs of the revolution. II
was one of the populous counties of
Virginia. A great many names of the
revolutionary Inhabitants OF Loudoun
may be read in the list of militia Off
GERS which the justices Of the county
court recommended to the governor o.
the state as worthy of commissions.
and also in the court orders directing
that supplies be furnished TO the needy
families of revolutionary soldiers
The names Of the militia officers
recommended for commission may be
interesting 10 very many persons, and
many of the descendants of these men
are still living in the county and are
scattered over all parts Of Virginia and
throughout the Union. The names are
as follows:
James wtaley IT,, william CaFman. Daniel
Lewis Josas Miles Tomas King. Hugh Doug
lass, Isaac NaHdr'entcr. John D2dl. Ge"s;e Sam
mrrs. Charles q. EsEr!dS william Mcclellan
Robert Me- Gain. join IirnrS, samuel OK. Franz
Russell, James I"aNcrs. S'asIet Bdrklc3; Moses
iavus ElglH tDGH Miller, samuel butcher, Joshua
Bolts. John Williams. George TtIeg. Nathaniel
er. william Elliott Eie1ari shore. Peter Ben
nam. Thomas Marks. william Robinson lo,"nn
Butler, John Linton. Joseph Wildnian, fFan"ls
Elsn. jr. ';eorg. hilgour. JACOB eaton. joan
Depeii, William Hmchison, Francis Russell,
James Cleveland. Thomas MILAN Nethers smith.
Joel Wnite, John Spinfa tHeii. Thomas Thomas,
Hichoas Minor Mattne,S E9St David hGp
Bennett James Coleman, George West, James
McIlhaney John Alexander. John Taylor, Thomas
Beatty, Ignatius Burns: Join ,ornelson, ioslih
Mafett, John Binns. Charles Binns, jrr, joseph
Hoagh, Trammeii SPen ,,e WisS linton
Abraham Dehaven Enoch Thomas. Thomas Vince,
Thomas Kennan. John EaSlcy, Enoch FUR, With
f[ rw BeFIi Trcy Matias smiley a and
SIlas Gilbert.
Loudoun county is named for Lord
don, a Scotchman OF considerable note,
or notoriety. i'll his time. In 1886 he
was appointed Governor cher OF
Virginia and con- ma nderin- chief OF
the British forces in America, but with
in a year after his arrival at New ork
lie was recalled to England, and in
Hardesty's Historical Cyclopedia, IT is
written that he was recalled because
he proved inefficient, yet it is also writ
ten that after returning to England
he was made lieutenant general IN
1853 and general in 1910. 1t Is not
known that Lord Loudoun ever came
to Virginia, and it is believed that he
did not.
The area of Loudoun county as given
by the United States geological survey
is $40 square miles, but II Would seem
that the exact area of the county Is
matter of disagreement, though one Oh
no particular Importance here. fardley
Taylor, who was surveyor Tor the
county during a number of years in the
middle of the nineteenth century, ana
who wrote an interesting Httle DOCK
ca He'd Memoir of Loudouh "hlch
was published at LeeSburS IN 1898,
fixed the area as 52J square miles. The
western boundary line or FAIRFAX
county was carefully described III the
article on that county and the western
line of Fairfax county is the eastern
line of Loudoun county. On the north
Ioudoun county is bounded by the Pc
tomac river on the south by Prince
William and Fauquier counties and on
the west by Clarke county. Va, ana