On the following day, the convention chose Francis H. Pierpont as governor of the "Restored Government of Virginia", elected other officers, and adjourned. : Brderbund, c2000 Physical: 1 CD-ROM ; 4 3/4 in. The commission established the French Creek Game Farm in 1923. 3, No. History of Lower Valley, while he does not admit they are the lauds of John Mills and _____ Hobzson, dated 12 November only sixteen year old to be a competent surveyor, but more 520 Add to Print List Notes But renegade Cherokee chief Dragging Canoe continued to dispute the settlers' advance, fighting the CherokeeAmerican wars (17761794) until after the American Revolutionary War. [26], At first the Wheeling politicians controlled only a small part of West Virginia. (Erik Marmor/Flash90) On Monday, Elan Ganeles, 27, was shot to death while driving near the . acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Paul Williams, 270 Hoge, Abraham list of names is given, perhaps most of the settlers of the Wiseman, James Vance, Peter Make, Jacob Hite, John In 1634, a palisade was built near Middle Plantation. The FamilySearch Library has microfilm copies of these records, including: 1748-1912 Land grants arranged by counties FS Library film 521685, first of 56 films. [13], The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 185051, the Reform Convention, addressed a number of issues important to western Virginians. The West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association under the leadership of President Mrs. John L. Ruhl and WVESA Ratification Committee chair Lenna Lowe Yost created a "living petition" of suffragists who greeted and personally lobbied each legislator as they prepared to vote. They lived in round (double post method) wicker sided and bark sheet roofed houses. or on the deeds. These were all factors driving its state economy and the lifestyles of residents, as well as drawing visitors to the state. names are not known. Copyright August @2011 -2023 [46], Mike Shingleton of the Division of Natural Resources explained the Centennial Golden Trout evolution. Early Settlement in the Eastern Panhandle The Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia borders Maryland and Virginia. To get the best possible experience using our website we recommend that you upgrade to a newer version or install another browser. Wooden coal barges were built on the Monongahela River near Morgantown, as well as along Coal River and Elk River. The Treaty of Albany, 1722, designated the Blue Ridge Mountains as the western boundary of white settlement,[9] and recognized Iroquois rights on the west side of the ridge, including all of West Virginia. The people of the expedition consisted of 'gentlemen' and farmers. Some were German-born or the Pennsylvania-born children of German-speaking Protestant immigrants from the Palatinate and other areas bordering the Rhine River. Hite was for one thousand and twenty acres (1,020). Family tree maker's family archives. Early railroads, shipping to East Coast and Great Lakes, New competitor helps open "Billion Dollar Coalfield", The West Virginia Statewide, Historic Preservation Plan 20092014, West Virginia Division of Culture and History. This page was last modified 12:34, 25 May 2021. Following this conflict, known as Dunmore's War, the Shawnee and Mingo ceded their rights south of the Ohio, that is, to West Virginia and Kentucky. The first Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia arrived in the 1720's primarily from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Eastern Virginia. In the postwar years, he continued his militancy; his miners went on strikes or "work stoppages" annually. A service provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Samuel Morris, 378 Indiana, A shift to exporting the state's other natural resources began. County was formed in 1720 The Greenbrier River is a tributary of the New River, 173 miles (278 km) long, in southeastern West Virginia, USA. Many such early settlers in Virginia were called Second Sons. Meanwhile, officers for the new state were chosen, and Governor Pierpont moved the Restored Government to Alexandria from which he asserted jurisdiction over the counties of Virginia within the federal lines. 1734, Grant to Daniel Burnett, 490 The enterprise, fraught with disease, dissension, and determined . Learn more about our PARKERs in the Family Tree Database. Remnants of the Mound Builder's civilization have been found throughout West Virginia, with many artifacts found in . History of the James River and Kanawha Company By Wayland Fuller Dunaway. Magazine, Quarterly, January 1903, Vol. [20] In secessionist counties where a poll was conducted it was by military intervention. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Even before the American Civil War, counties in northwest Virginia had desired to break away from Virginia to form a new state. Even in some counties that had voted against secession, such as Wayne and Cabell, it was necessary to send in Union soldiers.[21]. The history of West Virginia stems from the 1861 Wheeling Convention, which was an assembly of northwestern Virginian Southern Unionists, who aimed to repeal the Ordinance of Secession that Virginia made during the American Civil War (18611865). of New Jersey and New York 1710-1720 and Gov. [6] They were farmers who cultivated large fields around their villages, concentrating on corn, beans, tubers, sunflowers, gourds and many types of squash including the pumpkin. Such works include historical information on a building and genealogical information on its inhabitants. After the failure of the Roanoke colonies, investors in the Virginia Company of London were anxious to find profit farther to the north, and in April 1607 three ships of settlers arrived at the Chesapeake Bay. The Senate representation was arbitrarily fixed at 50 seats, with the west receiving twenty, and the east thirty senators. Beginning in Reconstruction, and for several decades thereafter, the two states disputed the new state's share of the pre-war Virginia government's debt, which had mostly been incurred to finance public infrastructure improvements, such as canals, roads, and railroads under the Virginia Board of Public Works. Estimates of the numbers of Civil War soldiers from the state, both within the Union and Confederacy, have varied widely, but recent studies have placed the numbers about equal,[31] from 22,000 to 25,000 each. With only 21 followers, in October of 1859 he took hostages and freed slaves in Harpers Ferry, at that time in Virginia. seventeenth day of June, 1730. It is rare that so many names of the early settlers of any region can be gotten at this day. Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia, Second Wheeling Convention, August 16, 1861, quoted in Virgil Lewis, "How West Virginia Was Made", pg. The first native settlers in West Virginia's Potomac Highlands (Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Randolph, and Tucker counties) were the Mound Builders, also known as the Adena people. Governor of Virginia in 1710, founded the first Germanna Colony in 1714. Major crises in the Virginia state government over these differences were averted on more than one occasion during the period before the American Civil War, but the underlying problems were fundamental and never well resolved. Johnson, 298 West Virginia University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Curry, Richard Orr. The convention passed an act for the reorganization of the government on June 19, 1861. In the late 1600s, European explorers arrived and started to create maps for the territory. Logging was supported by a dense rail network extending throughout the mountains and hollows. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Richard Morgan, 210 The area that comprises West Virginia was originally part of the British Virginia Colony (16071776) and the western part of the U.S. state of Virginia (17761863). and 1750 and the following are those for whom To note, it took the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution accomplished on December 6, 1865, to abolish slavery nationwide. An application for admission to the Union was made to Congress. At the small rainbow trout hatchery in 1955, a yellow-mottled fingerling was noticed by Petersburg manager Vincent Evans. Granville Parker, originally from Massachusetts and a member of the convention, described the scene "I discovered on that occasion as I never had before, the mysterious and over-powering influence 'the peculiar institution' had on men otherwise sane and reliable. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Abraham Pennington, Likewise, St. Albans, West Virginia, at the confluence of the Kanawha and Coal Rivers, became a point of trade. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Geo. The Supreme Court decided in favor of West Virginia, and there has been no further question. Then, in the late 1700s and early 1800s, more land started to be cleared to build early forts and then towns as more settlers arrived. During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, a growing demand for beaver sent trappers up and down the Kanawha region's tributary creeks by canoe and raft. acres, October 3. In Feb., 1739, to Hendery There were, therefore, two governments claiming to represent all of Virginia, one owing allegiance to the United States and one to the Confederacy. Branson, 1370 Governor of Virginia from 1751 to 1758. Disputes about the exact location of the border in some of the northern mountain reaches between Loudoun County, Virginia and Jefferson County, West Virginia continued well into the 20th century. Pudup, Mary Beth, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina L. Waller, eds. West Virginia was one of five Civil War border states. The wall also served to contain cattle. Soon, the N&W was also shipping from its own new coal piers on Hampton Roads at Lamberts Point outside Norfolk. It is rare McKay, and Abraham Hite in 1744. August 1734, Grant to Rus Smith, 150 Most of them came from Pennsylvania in the north in search of new lands. him, and the grants were issued directly to the said purchasers, The diary kept by Washington indicates that there were already many squatters, largely of German origin, along the South Branch. [41], West Virginia was forested. The backcountry frontier of colonial Virginia reached westward from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the farthest extent of Virginia settlement in the eighteenth century. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Benjamin Harden, l The composition of the General Assembly was changed. First to successfully cultivate tobacco in Colony; married Pocohontas. Trading posts were established at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers at Point Pleasant, West Virginia where, in the mid 1780s, Daniel Boone resided for several years. ", "If they proceeded now to direct a division of the State before a free expression of the people could be had, they would do a more despotic act than any ever done by the Richmond Convention itself. acres, dated October 3, 1734, Grant to Stephen The Early Settlers. ", The assignment of the said "orders" The microfilm may have been scanned, but have a contractual, data privacy, or other restriction preventing access. Illinois and Missouri. Other significant rail carriers of coal were the Western Maryland Railway (WM), particularly notable was a latecomer, the Virginian Railway (VGN), built in an extraordinary manner to the latest and highest standards and completed in 1909. [William and Mary Quarterly] JONES, Cadwallader (in Virginia 1681), Stafford County . The Jamestown settlement, established in 1607, was the seat of England's first permanent colony in North America. Besides the well-publicized mine disasters that killed a number of miners at a time, there were many smaller episodes in which one or two miners lost their lives. There was another recorded in Orange in 1743 and 1744, and Fredrick Co. was Peuter, Thos. General George B. McClellan's forces gained possession of the greater part of the territory in the summer of 1861. According to historian Anne Wallace Effland, conservative social and religious beliefs together with the campaigns by anti-suffragists kept up a solid defense against them. As of 2009[update], over 12,500 archaeological sites have been documented in West Virginia.[1][2]. Also brief accounts of First Settlers, and their Descendants. George Washington to Frederick County to survey lands for him, ], [Webmasters This was made acceptable to the west by a provision that required the General Assembly to reapportion representation on the basis of white population in 1865, or else put the matter to a public referendum. Other Early Settlers [Source documents noted] ADAMS, Ebenezer (d. 1735) New Kent county; son of Richard Adams, of Abridge, Essex, citizen and merchant tailor of London. This document, drafted by former state senator John S. Carlile, declared that the Virginia Declaration of Rights required any substantial change in the nature or form of the state government to be approved by the people. Mine accidents were considered inevitable, and mine safety did not appreciably improve the situation because of lax enforcement. that so many names of the early settlers of any region can be Today, the zoological facility is of 338-acre (1.37km2) modern Wildlife Center under the direction of the Division of Natural Resources. This unique collection of family and local histories, marriage records, military records, and court records references approximately 200,000 individuals. In the early 20th century, West Virginia coal was also under high demand at Great Lakes ports on Lake Erie. Gordon Battelle, an Ohio native who sought to introduce a resolution for gradual emancipation. Months later upon his arrival, the new Petersburg manager, Chester Mace, was shown the curious novelty. Frederick was established by law in After the war, with the new railroads came a practical method to transport large quantities of coal to expanding U.S. and export markets. Although WEST VIRGINIA is used on this webpage for convenience, The vote was further compromised by the presence of an undetermined number of non-resident soldier votes.[36]. On July 13, 1709, Louis Michel, George Ritter, and Baron Christoph von Graffenried petitioned the King of England for a land grant in the Harpers Ferry, Shepherdstown area, Jefferson County, in order to establish a Swiss colony. Christian The Wheeling Convention, which had taken a recess until August 6, 1861, reassembled on August 20, 1861, and called for a popular vote on the formation of a new state and for a convention to frame a constitution if the vote should be favorable. Governor Alexander Spotswood is sometimes credited with taking his 1716 "Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition" into what is now Pendleton County, although according to contemporary accounts, Spotswood's trail went no farther west than Harrisonburg, Virginia. 1734, Grant to Josiah Jones, 104 1726 - German settlers build the settlement of New Mecklenburg. was Col. James Wood, afterwards Clerk of the Court of Frederick, "A Reappraisal of Statehood Politics in West Virginia". Despite this tax and the lack of internal improvements in the west, the vote was 75,748 for and 11,063 against the new Constitution. Small farmers, however, had all their assets, animals, and land taxed at full value. [45] The organized work by women's clubs during World War I helped convince legislators of their role in getting their women enfranchised. Settlers increasingly branched out along the eastern coast, but it was not until the early eighteenth century that pioneers began pushing into West Virginia itself. Including accounts of its Soils, Timber, Minerals, Water, and Material Wealth. Also in 1725, Pearsall's Flats in the South Branch Potomac River valley, present-day Romney, was settled, and later became the site of the French and Indian War stockade, Fort Pearsall. Walkers, Beesons. Lieutenant-Governor, in council, to take up the same upon Why, when Mr. Battelle submitted his resolutions, a kind of tremor a holy horror, was visible throughout the house! [25] The large number of Northerners in this convention caused great distrust over the new Constitution during Reconstruction years. The 1744 Treaty of Lancaster had left ambiguous whether the Iroquois had sold only as far as the Alleghenies, or all their claim south of the Ohio, including the rest of modern West Virginia. On May 13, 1862, the state legislature of the reorganized government approved the formation of the new state. The Iroquois were on the point of threatening all-out war against the Virginia Colony over the "Cohongoruton lands", which would have been destructive and devastating, when Governor Gooch bought out their claim for 400 pounds at the Treaty of Lancaster (1744). It met at Wheeling on July 1, 1861, filled the remainder of the state offices, completed the reorganization of the state government, and elected two United States senators who were quickly seated in Washington. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Robert Worthington, Then follows Some 700,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. During the late 19th and early 20th century, West Virginia saw its population grow, due in large part to the economic job opportunities provided by the coal and logging industries. Yet the soil was rich, and some beautiful hillside farms developed during the days when Western Virginia was being settled and later, after West Virginia had become a state. acres. Hunt, Christian Blank. 828 acres, October 3, 1734. 1730 there were Source: The West Virginia Historical acres, dated 3 October 1734, Grant to Isaac Pennington, Grant to Robert McKay, jr., Early West Virginia Settlers, 1600s-1900s This database is comprised of fourteen books. Eight shires were designated, each with its own local officers. Within 10 years, the C&O was building tracks east from Richmond down the Virginia Peninsula to reach its huge coal pier at the new city of Newport News, Virginia on the large harbor of Hampton Roads. Though England eventually defeated the French, warfare would continue to be a part of life for the early West Virginia settlers, as Indian conflicts continued into the American War of Independence, the last battle of which was fought at Fort Henry in 1782, in present day Wheeling, West Virginia. The First Settlers. In addition, the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 18291830 gave the slave-owning counties the benefit of three-fifths of their slave population in apportioning representation in the Virginia Assembly. The first European settlers started arriving about 1730. Representation in the house of delegates was apportioned on the basis of the census of 1850, counting whites only. organized in 1743, where it would be supposed that deeds would Enjoy the work of our webmasters, provide a link, do not copy their work. In 1881, the new Philadelphia-based owners of William Mahone's former Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad (AM&O) which stretched across Virginia's southern tier from Norfolk, had sights clearly set on the Mountain State, where the owners had large land holdings. Chester, They now proposed a division when it was impossible for one-fourth of even the counties included in the boundaries proposed to give even an expression upon the proposition." Although, there were those who would acculturate within the historic as sometimes called Fireside Cabin culture. McCormick, Samuel Walker, Chas. an 1863 Copperhead editorial condemning the US Congress for accepting West Virginia as a state. Institution. During the war, the settlers in western Virginia were generally active Whigs and many served in the Continental Army. At this time, West Virginia had nearly 70,000 qualified voters, and the May 23, 1861 vote to secede had drawn nearly 54,000 voters. [23] The other delegates to the June Convention were "chosen even more irregularly-some in mass meetings, others by county committee, and still others were seemingly self-appointed". HAWARA, West Bank (AP) A suspected Palestinian gunman on Monday shot and killed an Israeli motorist in the occupied West Bank, the latest bloodshed in a . Forman, Nath Thomas: To John Grubb, Thos. acres, October 3, 1734. 142 acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Thos. A horse-drawn logging "tram" with a special block and tackle for hill-side harvesting was brought into use, allowing expansion of Crooked Creek and the opening of a wooden barrel plant at the creek's mouth. NOTE. After a failed attempt to include woman suffrage as a state constitutional amendment in 1916, pro-suffrage Governor John J. Cornwell included the ratification of the federal amendment for woman suffrage in the agenda for a special legislative session in February 1920. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Morgan Bryant, 1250 It will be noticed that there were deeds As tobacco emerged as a profitable export, Virginia imported more Africans to cultivate it and hardened boundaries of slavery. acres, 12 November 1735. After an early expedition in 1584 to the "New World" by Sir Walter Raleigh, many other expeditions from England were sent to explore and colonize, including three ships that set sail on April 30, 1607, which were funded by "The Virginia Company". "'This Bastard New Virginia': Slavery, West Virginia Exceptionalism, and the Secession Crisis,". part of the forty thousand acres purchased by Jost Hite from in Council, to take up the same, upon certain conditions therein However, repeatedly John L. Lewis called his United Mine Workers union out on strike, defying the government, outraging public opinion, and strengthening the hand of anti-union Congressmen. acres, on Turkey Spring of Opeckon, dated October 3, By the spring stocking of 1963, the West Virginia Centennial year, Evans and Mace had supervised the spawning of good color and quality brood stock of the Mountain State's Centennial Golden Trout.[47]. Waddell's First Families of Early Augusta County Scott's List of Orange County Importations Within the Mountain State, these tribal villages can be characterized as rather small and scattered as they moved about the old fields every couple of generations. All give reference to Virginia. 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Orange County, Virginia was formed in 1734. [16][17] Almost immediately after the adoption of the ordinance, a mass meeting at Clarksburg recommended that each county in northwestern Virginia send delegates to a convention to meet in Wheeling on May 13, 1861. The legislature of the Restored Government was composed of members from the western counties who had been elected on May 23, 1861, and some senators who had been elected in 1859. Morgan ap Morgan, a Welshman, built a cabin near present-day Bunker Hill in Berkeley County in 1727. It authorized the creation of the State of Kanawha, consisting of most of the counties that now comprise West Virginia. Cars burned by Jewish settlers during riots in Hawara, in the West Bank, near Nablus, February 27, 2023. Gradually, settlers drifted farther down the Ohio River into present southern Indiana and Illinois; population generally followed the Ohio and the Wabash Rivers. Some West Virginia women also volunteered for military service, which was available to African American women. Harron, Geo. At the Constitutional Convention on December 14, 1861, the issue of slavery was raised by Rev. Isaac and John Van Meter, who had obtained orders from our said The logging industry furthered the river shipping industry. Salt mining had been underway since the 18th century, though that which could be easily obtained had largely played out by the time of the American Civil War, when the red salt of Kanawha County was a valued commodity of first Confederate, and later Union forces. In 1829, a constitutional convention met in Richmond to consider reforms to Virginia's outdated constitution. Western Virginia became sharply divided over the issue of secession from the Union, leading to the separation from Virginia, and formalized by West Virginia's admittance to the Union as a new state in 1863. first settlers, yet the full names he is able to give, or does [10] Other tribes, notably the Shawnee and Cherokee, used the resources of the region as well. is not now our purpose to continue here this discussion, but to In the 1850s, geologists such as British expert Dr. David T. Ansted (18141880), surveyed potential coal fields and invested in land and early mining projects. Nisoranger, Thos. After its new President Frederick J. Kimball and a small party journeyed by horseback and saw firsthand the rich bituminous coal seam (which Kimball's wife named "Pocahontas," the N&W redirected its planned westward expansion to reach it. 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