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The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America from 1606 to 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years. In 1590, the colony was abandoned.
John Mathews (died 1757) was an early American pioneer in Augusta County, Virginia, where he served as an officer in the county militia, a vestryman for Augusta Parish, and a justice of the peace. He was the progenitor of the Mathews political family from Virginia and the American South .
He settled in Augusta County, Virginia on the Shenandoah River, some distance from the town of Staunton. At the age of twenty, John Stuart was a member of the 1769 survey by citizens of Augusta County, Virginia, which explored the wilderness of the Greenbrier Valley to the west in preparation for European settlement.
Archer Mathews was born in 1744 in Augusta County, Virginia, to Ann (Archer) and John Mathews.His parents were among the first European settlers of Augusta County, likely having immigrated to America during the Scotch-Irish immigration of 1710–1775. [3]
It is possible to reach Augusta by continuing west on SC-49, but it is a considerably longer alternate route. Instead, turn left onto SC-215 to reach Augusta via the Saluda River ford at Columbia, then through Leesville and Johnston, South Carolina as described below. SC-215: Monarch Hwy + Santuc Carlisle Hwy: 12 miles (19 km) US-72: Carlisle ...
John Buchanan (died 1769) was colonial Virginia landowner, magistrate, colonel in the Virginia Militia, deputy surveyor under Thomas Lewis, and Sheriff of Augusta County, Virginia. As a surveyor, Buchanan was able to locate and purchase some of the most desirable plots of land in western Virginia and quickly became wealthy and politically ...
Responsible government was first granted to Nova Scotia in 1848, and was soon extended to the other British North American colonies. With the passage of the British North America Act, 1867 by the British Parliament, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia were formed into the confederation of Canada. [128]
Peyton's History of Augusta County, Virginia (1882) Archived July 14, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, searchable online edition of the 1882 edition by J. Lewis Peyton. Waddell's Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871 Archived August 17, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, searchable online edition of the 1902 second edition by Jos. A ...