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Colonel William Preston (December 25, 1729 – June 28, 1783) was an Irish-born American military officer, planter and politician who founded a political dynasty. [1] [2] After service in the French and Indian War, Preston served five years in the House of Burgesses before becoming one of the fifteen signatories of the Fincastle Resolutions, then a colonel in the Virginia militia during the ...
Smithfield is a plantation house in Blacksburg, Virginia, built from 1772 to 1774 by Col. William Preston to be his residence and the headquarters of his farm. It was the birthplace of two Virginia Governors: James Patton Preston and John B. Floyd. The house remained a family home until 1959 when the home was donated to the APVA.
Captain William Preston established one of the first of these Virginia Rangers companies. [3] In September, 1755, Dinwiddie wrote to him: "I approve of Y'r Intentions to range the Woods w'th Detachments from three Compa's, and by no means continue in one Place, but proceed wherever You think the Indians may come to annoy our back settlem'ts ...
Another significant secondary source is an 1843 letter by Letitia Preston Floyd, wife of Virginia Governor John Floyd and daughter of Colonel William Preston, who survived the Draper's Meadow massacre. Her account, written when she was 63, is based on Preston family lore and oral tradition. [6]
The first plantation established by surveyor, militia officer and burgess William Preston (1729-1783) and which used enslaved labor beginning with his purchase of 16 Africans from the ship True Blue on August 28, 1759 in Nanjemoy, Maryland for 752pounds (to avoid a 5% Virginia sales tax), Greenfield became one of Botetourt County's largest ...
The Fincastle Resolutions was a statement reportedly adopted on January 20, 1775, by fifteen elected representatives of Fincastle County, Virginia.Part of the political movement that became the American Revolution, the resolutions were addressed to Virginia's delegation at the First Continental Congress, and expressed support for Congress' resistance to the Intolerable Acts, issued in 1774 by ...
William Ballard Preston (November 25, 1805 – November 16, 1862) was an American politician who served as a Confederate States Senator from Virginia from February 18, 1862, until his death in November.
William B. Preston (Mormon) (1830–1908), Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1884–1907; William Ballard Preston (1805–1862), U.S. politician from Virginia; William C. Preston (1794–1860), U.S. politician from Pennsylvania who was a U.S. senator for South Carolina; William G. Preston (1842–1910 ...