Talk:Cheat River

message: I really doubt that the image is of the Cheat River.  I kept it for now.  --ChristopherM 01:55, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
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message: The Cheat Valley was named for the Escheatus Law according to an article in Wonderful West Virginia Magazine in the early 1970s issue.  I also learnt this in West Virginia High School History class some 5 decades ago. The teacher understood that some of her students had ancestors here during this period and asked us some, otherwise, personal family history questions concerning the "Bloody Sevens" and the Tygart Valley masseqres. Not to go into rather long tellings with diffiicult documentaions for citations reasons, I'm looking for that issue for citation as to how historians of the 19th century declared how the Cheat Valley got its name, Escheatus Law as print in old West Virginia printings (Escheat)). In brief, it was Governor (LT) Robert Dinwiddie authorized farmsteads beyond the Potomac after Orange County Colonial Virginia was established. Not only does Wonderful West Virginia Magazine article mentions this, but, other earlier regional historians touch on the topic. The phrase most often cited by these is called the "Field of Corn & Hack on a Tree" land rights. Accordingly, the reason was that there was not enough surveyors in the Colony to keep up with frontier settlement. The Fairfax survey was one of the earliest of this period and the Wonderful West Virginia Magazine goes into details of this legit survey. The Cheat Valley lay just west of the "Fairfax Stone" corner survey as I figure you folks already know about this. It was here at that period the surveyors had not reached, yet, before the French and Indian War. There are document massecres on the Lower Cheat area of the period about a few white arrivals dressing as Indians and later using the Escheatus Law to acquire the "Hack & Corn Field" homesteads. The court case of one small group is somewhere in my old papers collection. These are also in print in a book as well as mentioned in the magazine mentioned refer to this. It's an rather ugly time leading to the "Bloody Sevens" (1777 massecres & retailiations that Mr Atkinsons just barely touches on in the quote used) I've used on the article, not to confuse this with the "Yellow Creek Massecre" in the spring of 1774. I'll not go into details in the main article without solid citatrions and quotes, apologies. But, this is what the earliest historians of "West Virginia" had recorded and apperantly forgotten the past several decades. Perhaps not being famous enough for today's "main-stream history books" or beyond general broad-scope history books today. There is an economy of how many pages should a book contain, I suppose. Volumes can then be written and have been. And ofcoarse, the older local history books back then would only fill the pages with that period's and earlier history, for, history since then has amassed more pages and perhaps less important paragraphs needed to be removed to make room for more important recent history, in today's school books. Perhaps you to will stumble onto these old printed history books. Thankyou for your attention, kindly Conaughy (talk) 19:12, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've enjoyed many issues of Wonderful West Virginia magazine over the years. However, there were times when its editors made some foolish decisions. It's not always to be considered the most reliable publication. I recall a time when they went hook, line and sinker for the pseudo-archeology of Barry Fell. Just sayin'. Valerius Tygart (talk) 19:33, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
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