They were adopted into the Seneca as a reward and settled in Randolph County, calling themselves the Blackfoot Senecas, though a great many Saponi stayed behind and were later incorporated into the Iroquois by other means. The first [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". During the American Revolution, the movement to create a state west of the Alleghenies was revived and a petition for the establishment of "Westsylvania" was presented to Congress, on the grounds that the mountains presented an almost impassable barrier to the east. Even in some counties that had voted against secession, such as Wayne and Cabell, it was necessary to send in Union soldiers.[21]. Served as Lt. Lieutenant-Governor, in council, to take up the same upon Meter. 600 acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Isaac Garrison, 1000 [38] Slavery was officially abolished by West Virginia on February 3, 1865. The addition of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution caused a reaction, the Democratic Party secured control in 1870, and in 1871, the Constitutional Amendment of 1866 was abrogated. A number of riverside locations were used for early Industrial Revolution production. Philip Doddridge of Brooke County championed the cause of western Virginians who sought a more democratic frame of government. On June 19, 1861, the Wheeling convention enacted a bill entitled "Ordinance to Authorize the Apprehending of Suspicious Persons in Time of War" which stated that anyone who supported Richmond or the Confederacy "shall be deemed subjects or citizens of a foreign State or power at war with the United States. As of 2009[update], over 12,500 archaeological sites have been documented in West Virginia.[1][2]. Taken from "The Proceedings - of the English Colony in Virginia since their First beginning form England in the Year of Our . Among its many products, the shipyard began building ocean-going ships, known as colliers, to transport coal to other eastern ports (notably in New England) and overseas. Nisoranger, Thos. [41], West Virginia was forested. [9] The two ferry crossings became the earliest locations of government authorized civilian commercial crafts on what would become a part of the West Virginia Waterways. You must also have either version 3.02 or higher of Family Tree Maker for Windows or Macintosh, or, version 3.02 or higher of the Family Archive Viewer. This unique collection of family and local histories, marriage records, military records, and court records references approximately 200,000 individuals. The First Settlers. Elk Branch Presbyterian Church 1790 Hampshire County Militia Opequon Creek is tributary of the Potomac River. Early West Virginia Settlers, 1600s-1900s This database is comprised of fourteen books. The "capital" of the Pocahontas coalfield, this city would remain the largest city in the southern portion of the state for several decades. Institution. The question of the addition of two counties came before the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Virginia v. West Virginia, 78 U.S. 39 (1871). Hite. Jefferson in 1801. Over one-third came from the counties around the northern panhandle. Remnants of the Mound Builder=s civilization have been found throughout West Virginia, with a high concentration of artifacts located at Moundsville, West Virginia, in Marshall County. ", "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. For the western areas, problems included the distance from the state seat of government in Richmond and the difference of common economic interests resultant from the tobacco and food crops farming, fishing, and coastal shipping to the east of the Eastern Continental Divide (waters which drain to the Atlantic Ocean) along the Allegheny Mountains, and the interests of the western portion which drained to the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Gulf of Mexico. Early Settlers of Southwest Virginia-Chronological List Watchers Quolla6 Cwatan Share Southwest Virginia Project Return to Southwest Virginia Project Main Page ___________________________________________________________ Category: Southwest Virginia Project Don't want ads? During the French and Indian War (17541763), the scattered settlements were almost destroyed. 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. In secret, but lawful collusion (in an era before U.S. antitrust laws were enacted), each declined to negotiate favorable rates with Page, nor did they offer to purchase his railroad, as they had many other short-lines. A compromise was reached known as the Willey Amendment which was approved by Unionist voters in the state on March 26, 1863. The opening statement on the Early Land Grant page, is from the Enjoy the work of our webmasters, provide a link, do not copy their work. that so many names of the early settlers of any region can be As the war went on, many citizens began to turn against the conflict. Generally, catalog entries are written in the same language as the original record they describe. Even before the American Civil War, counties in northwest Virginia had desired to break away from Virginia to form a new state. A shift to exporting the state's other natural resources began. Walkers, Beesons. The first European settlers started arriving about 1730. The first steps toward this change had been taken, however, by the Republicans in 1870. 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. [20] In secessionist counties where a poll was conducted it was by military intervention. Daniel Polsley, Lt. In 1829, a constitutional convention met in Richmond to consider reforms to Virginia's outdated constitution. In this At the Constitutional Convention on December 14, 1861, the issue of slavery was raised by Rev. Later in 1624, Virginia was created as a royal colony that included the original Jamestown settlement, when King James I revolked the charter of the bankrupt Virginia Company and the colony transferred to royal authority as a crown colony, but the elected representatives in Jamestown continued to exercise a fair amount of power. This push, however, would soon provoke conflict, both with Native Americans already living in the area and with the French who also believed they held claim to the land. ISBN: 1579442528 Series: Family tree maker's family archives. a large number of other grants to others, "designed to be Edwards (2008) explores the roles of women volunteers in West Virginia during World War II. [19] However, most of the pro-Confederate elements no longer considered themselves citizens of the United States; they saw themselves as citizens of another country (the Confederacy) and did not vote in elections sponsored by the United States. The composition of all three Wheeling Conventions, the May (First) Convention, the June (Second) Convention, and the Constitutional Convention, was of an irregular nature. Enjoy the work of our webmasters, provide a link, do not copy their work. As a result, both English and French built forts throughout West Virginia and Pennsylvania and this area would become the main battlefields of the French and Indian War. 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The settlers listed below were all considered very important to the establishment of government and were significant in the historical impact on Colonial Virginia: The following persons were among the prominent first families that immigrated to Colonial Virginia in the 1600's-early 1700's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Virginia, http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108283.html, https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Early_Settlers_of_Colonial_Virginia, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License, Was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1693, 1696, 1699, and one of the committee in 1700 reporting a revision of the laws which were approved by the General Assembly in 1705, Served as Colonial Governor of Virginia 1768-1770, Was a fur trader and served in the House of Burgesses. Forman, Nath Thomas: To John Grubb, Thos. Hite, David Vance, Jas. Their descendants, who were legion, Lt. Served as Deputy Governor of the Colony of Virginia 1627-1629. If you are using a computer in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, you may use this database by clicking here. 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. Hollingsworth, 472 acres, dated October 3, 1734, Grant to John Welton, 442 or on the deeds. 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. The Second Wheeling Convention met as agreed on June 11, 1861, and adopted "A Declaration of the People of Virginia". Small farmers, however, had all their assets, animals, and land taxed at full value. West Virginia Division of Culture and History, West Virginia Memory Project, A detailed list of delegate names and votes are located in Virgil Lewis'. Soon, the N&W was also shipping from its own new coal piers on Hampton Roads at Lamberts Point outside Norfolk. acres, dated October 3, 1734, Grant to Stephen After the 1730s, Virginia enacted a law that promised free land to new settlers, encouraging them to move west and form new colonies. 1735, Grant to Alexander Ross, 2373 In 1861, as the United States itself became massively divided over slavery, leading to the American Civil War (18611865), the western regions of Virginia split with the eastern portion politically, and the two were never reconciled as a single state again. Frederick was established by law in The VGN and the N&W ultimately became parts of the modern Norfolk Southern system, and the VGN's well-engineered 20th-century tracks continue to offer a favorable gradient to Hampton Roads. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Benjamin Harden, l [William and Mary Quarterly] JONES, Cadwallader (in Virginia 1681), Stafford County . 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. of early settlements and land grants in West Virginia by W. S. is a list of grantees of lands conveyed by Jost Hite and 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. Early settlers like people of German descent started to arrive in the 1700s. In 1774, the Crown Governor of Virginia, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, led a force over the mountains, and a body of militia under Colonel Andrew Lewis dealt the Shawnee Indians under Cornstalk a crushing blow at the junction of the Kanawha and Ohio rivers, in the Battle of Point Pleasant. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Richard Morgan, 290 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. part of the same article. Governor of Virginia, the Wheeling constitution was discarded, and an entirely new one was written along ante-bellum principles. acres, dated 3 October 1734, Grant to Isaac Pennington, [26], At first the Wheeling politicians controlled only a small part of West Virginia. [45] The organized work by women's clubs during World War I helped convince legislators of their role in getting their women enfranchised. (Five more counties were formed later, to result in the current 55). Kindle Edition. NOTE. 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 Adena Indians used ceremonial pipes that were exceptional works of art. It will be noticed that there were deeds 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. Skip ahead a few decades until after the Civil War. The settlement of present-day West Virginia began in the mid-1700s, when Scotch-Irish and German settlers from Pennsylvania came to the area that is now Berkeley and Greenbriar counties. Waddell, in his Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871 provides a list of the first few families that made up the first influx of settlers seeking in early Orange and Augusta County, Virginia. [Webmasters others that then in 1732 that came, but their with the above clause therein, which designates the same as To note, it took the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution accomplished on December 6, 1865, to abolish slavery nationwide. In the election held on October 24, 1861, 18,408 votes were cast for the new state and only 781 against. ; no. 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. Institution. The first two English women arrived in 1608. At the convening of the 1752 Treaty of Logstown, they acknowledged the right of English settlements south of the Ohio, but the Cherokee and Shawnee claims still remained. In Feb., 1739, to Hendery During the American Civil War, West Virginia suffered comparatively little. West Virginia University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action This historic period changed the way of living extends from a little before the 18th century Virginia and Pennsylvania region North American fur trade beginning on the Eastern Panhandle of the state. 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. acres, October 3, 1754, Grant to William Vestal, 285 Though the Iroquois made little effort to settle the region themselves, they made war throughout the area with their enemies, following the Great Indian Warpaths through the region and, some time between 17251750, contracted a large group of the Saponi-Tutelo warriors the Iroquois had living on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania to fight alongside them in the region. acres, 12 November 1735. Chester, The members of the May Convention were chosen by groups of Unionists, mostly in the far Northwestern counties. "[32] Many private citizens were arrested by federal authorities at the request of Wheeling and interned in prison camps, most notably Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio. Although, there were those who would acculturate within the historic as sometimes called Fireside Cabin culture. 1734, Grant to John Van Meter, 885 acres. Under royal authority, the colony began to expand to the North and West with additional settlements. Early historic tribes living within or routinely hunting and trading within the state include Calicuas later mixed in colonial north-western Virginia-Pennsylvania at the time as popular termed Cherokee, Mohetans, Rickohockans from ancient Nation du Chat area, Monetons and Monecaga or Monacan, Tomahitans or Yuchi-Occaneechi, Tuscarora or mixed broad termed Mingoe & Canawagh or Kanawhas (Chiroenhaka),[8] Oniasantkeronons or Tramontane of the proto-historic southerly Neutral Nation trade empire (element Nation du Chat), Shattera or Tutelo, Ouabano or Mohican-Delaware, Chaouanon or Shawnee, Cheskepe or Shawnee-Yuchi, Loupe (Captina Island historic mix, Lanape & Powhatan), Tionontatacaga and Little Mingoe (Guyandottes), Massawomeck and later mixed as Mohawk, Susquesahanock or White Minqua later mixed Mingoes and Arrigahaga or Black Minqua of the Nation du Chat and proto-historic Neutral Nation trade empire. Robert Hagar, Constitutional Convention delegate, quoted in, "Proclamation 100 Admitting West Virginia Into the Union", John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project, Lincoln and West Virginia Statehood* By J. Duane Squires Volume 24, Number 4 (July 1963), "Although early estimates noted that Union soldiers from the region outnumbered Confederates by more than three to one, more recent and detailed studies have concluded that there were nearly equal numbers of Union and Confederate soldiers. Contemporaneously to Fort Ancient Tradition southerly of the state, the sister culture called Monongahela is found on the northerly of the Mountain State stemming from the Drew Tradition. Laidly, Esq., who has devoted much study to the subject. [51][52] Nine West Virginians were awarded the Medal of Honor during Vietnam.[53]. Peuter, Thos. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results. Kanawha salt production followed by coal and timber could be seen on the waterways. back to that date, beyond question with the further question, of 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. Meter, who had obtained orders of our said Lieutenant-Governor, organized in 1743, where it would be supposed that deeds would Curry, Richard Orr. 1748 - George Washington surveyed land in West Virginia. That Convention had offered the people of the State at least the form of a vote, and the Northwest at least had a full and free expression; and now they proposed to cut off Eastern Virginia without even the form of a vote. On April 27, 1738, dated to The American History and Genealogy Project. And later, other small splintered clans were attracted to, among others, James Le Tort, Charles Poke and John Van Metre trading houses within the state. 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. Served as Lt. Gov. The population consisted almost entirely of farmers seeking land upon which they could build a home and produce a living. The constitutionality of the new state was achieved when the Unionist government of Virginia approved the division. It included all areas west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, constituting all of present West Virginia. The Constitutional Convention met in November 1861, and consisted of 61 members. The diary kept by Washington indicates that there were already many squatters, largely of German origin, along the South Branch. Lewis Stephens. (Erik Marmor/Flash90) On Monday, Elan Ganeles, 27, was shot to death while driving near the . When the First Wheeling Convention met, 425 delegates from 25 counties were present, but a division of sentiment soon arose. Middle-class women made up the majority of volunteers; many programs were not open to African American and lower-class white women. Many men absent in the Confederate army when the vote was taken refused to acknowledge the transfer upon their return. Although WEST VIRGINIA is used on this webpage for convenience, The first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory was the New Englander's town of Marietta, established in 1788. There has Learn more about our PARKERs in the Family Tree Database. Descendancy for John Hurst: Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties Hunt, Christian Blank. acres. 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. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to George Williams, 489 is not now our purpose to continue here this discussion, but to Their living characteristics were more of a heritage from the Woodland Indians.[7]. [33] Soldiers were also stationed at the polls to discourage secessionists and their supporters. In particular, men such as lawyer Francis H. Pierpont from Fairmont, had long chafed under the political domination of the Tidewater and Piedmont slave-holders. Heavy settlement began in the 1760s after Indian claims had been settled. 1863-1889 Plats and surveys FS Library film 462959. When the United States Bureau of Mines was given more authority to regulate mine safety in the 1960s, safety awareness improved, and West Virginia coal mines became less dangerous.[44]. : Brderbund, c2000 Physical: 1 CD-ROM ; 4 3/4 in. This screen shows the complete catalog entry of the title you selected. Waddell's First Families of Early Augusta County Scott's List of Orange County Importations It Win. A few months later in 1957, the Petersburg hatchery moved these yellow-mottles to the larger Spring Run hatchery. 520 Add to Print List Notes Members of the Carpenter family were among the first white people to settle in what is now central West Virginia, and their descendants populate a wide area today. The Early Settlers. Via the New, Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 1,656 square miles (4,290 km2). In 1872, under the leadership of Samuel Price, former Lt. Some delegates favored the immediate formation of a new state, while others argued that, as Virginia's secession had not yet been ratified or become effective, such action would constitute revolution against the United States. It further declared the pro-secession government in Richmond void and called for a reorganization of the state government, taking the line that all who adhered to the Ordinance of Secession had effectively vacated their offices. acres, on Stony Lick and dated August 21, 1734, Grant to Thomas Shepherd, 220 It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. Copyright August @2011 -2023 with Indians, with few of the conveniences of civilization, 116117, "Union troops were stationed outside polling places to intimidate those who might vote for Virginia. 500 acres, dated 3 October, 1734, Grant to Richard Pendall, 300 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. Eight shires were designated, each with its own local officers. By royal charter, the extreme western boundaries of Virginia at this time extended to the Pacific Ocean, but the terms "backcountry" or "back settlements" specifically refer to new settlements in the eastern Appalachian . He was born in Wales and emigrated to Delaware about 1712. On April 17, 1861, the Richmond convention voted on the Ordinance of Secession. Then follows remarkable that he would go away out in a new country, infested Following Confederate General Robert E. Lee's defeat at Cheat Mountain in the same year, supremacy in western Virginia was never again seriously challenged. Box 6069 Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 Phone: 1-304-293-4040 Fax: 1-304-293-6638 West Virginia University. The Proclamation of 1763 again confirmed all land beyond the Alleghenies as Indian Territory, but the Iroquois finally relinquished their claims south of the Ohio to Britain at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768. The Jamestown settlement, established in 1607, was the seat of England's first permanent colony in North America. Grant to Robert McKay, jr., The composition of the General Assembly was changed. where he was not known. University 1549 University Ave. | P.O. Mine accidents were considered inevitable, and mine safety did not appreciably improve the situation because of lax enforcement. System requirements: You must have a CD-ROM drive. Such works include historical information on a building and genealogical information on its inhabitants. From that small batch of hatchlings he named it "Little Camouflage". 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). After the war, with the new railroads came a practical method to transport large quantities of coal to expanding U.S. and export markets. 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. High Sheriff and Capt. [24] It was this June Convention which drafted the statehood resolution. He made surveys in 1748 The opening statement on the Early Land Grant page, is from the 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." A delegate representing Logan County was accepted as a member of this body, though he did not live in Logan County, and his "credentials consisted of a petition signed by fifteen persons representing six families". Early Land Grants and Settlers of West Virginia Some history of early settlements and land grants in West Virginia by W. S. Laidly, Esq., who has devoted much study to the subject. 15, page 276. Although West Virginia's first constitution provided for the assumption of a part of the Virginia debt, negotiations opened by Virginia in 1870 were fruitless, and in 1871 that state funded two-thirds of the debt and arbitrarily assigned the remainder to West Virginia. Its composition was just as irregular. date there has been a record kept and the settlement reaches 20 Aug. 1734, see Grant Book No. Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Robert Slaughter, The grant to October 3, 1734, Grant to Richard Paulson, 834 gotten at this day. For practical purposes, the Adena is Early Woodland period according to West Virginia University's Dr. Edward V. McMichael,[4] also among the 1963 Geological Survey. It was set up to be the center of the Virginia Colony's government and commerce. Youll find a list of all Revolutionary War soldiers who ever lived in West Virginia and an index to civilians who participated in the War effort. 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. time. In the late 1600s, European explorers arrived and started to create maps for the territory. Unemployment ended as the mines, railroads, mills and factories worked overtime to create the "Arsenal of Democracy" that supplied the munitions to win the war. "[12] Virginia leaders maintained a property qualification for suffrage effectively disenfranchising poorer farmers in the west, whose families did much of the farm work themselves. The Virginia Colony became the wealthiest and most populated British colony in North America. In 1661, King Charles II of England had granted a company of gentleman the land between the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers, known as the Northern Neck. Their railroad was renamed Norfolk and Western (N&W), and a new railroad city was developed at Roanoke to handle planned expansion. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Geo. In the postwar years, he continued his militancy; his miners went on strikes or "work stoppages" annually. 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