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The younger of two sons born to the former Alice Townley (1675–1710) of Gloucester County and her husband John Grymes (1660–1709). He had an elder brother also John Grymes (1691–1749) and sisters Anne (1689–1730; who never married) and Elizabeth Lucy Grymes (1692–1750) who married John Holcomb, and whose son (also John Holcombe) would twice serve in the Virginia House of Delegates ...
A Confederate signal station existed on the property during the Civil War; in May, 1864, U.S. troops raided the property before continuing upriver toward Richmond, according to James Hoge Tyler, a Confederate soldier assigned to the unit who later served as governor of Virginia (1898–1902).
The color of their skin: Education and race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954–89 (U of Virginia Press, 1993) Randolph, Lewis A. Rights for a season: The politics of race, class, and gender in Richmond, Virginia (U. of Tennessee Press, 2003) Saunders, Robert M. "Crime and Punishment in Early National America: Richmond, Virginia, 1784–1820."
Byrd was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1677 and later served many years on the Governor's Council. [ 1 ] In 1688, Theodorick Bland Jr. and his brother Richard conveyed 1,200 acres of their Westover Plantation property to William Byrd I in 1688 for £300 and 10,000 pounds of tobacco and cask. [ 5 ]
Bounded by 2nd St., northern limit of CSX right-of-way (now the northern limit of the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority), historic property line and former stream courses. 37°33′05″N 77°25′46″W / 37.5514°N 77.4294°W / 37.5514; -77.4294 ( Shockoe Hill Burying Ground Historic
The suspect in the Richmond, Virginia high school graduation shooting has been identified as 19-year-old Amari Ty’Jon Pollard. ... Police ask public to submit tips, videos and photos.
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James Monroe Tomb, prior to 2016. The James Monroe Tomb is the burial place of U.S. President James Monroe in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, United States.The principal feature of the tomb is an architecturally unusual cast iron cage, designed by Albert Lybrock and installed in 1859 after Monroe's body was moved from Marble Cemetery in New York City.