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Henry Randolph I was the uncle of William Randolph of Turkey Island in Colonial Virginia, whom Henry sponsored to emigrate to Colonial Virginia [5] following a visit to England and Ireland in 1669 or 1670. [3] [9] He was also the half brother of Thomas Randolph, the poet of England. [4] [9] Henry died in Henrico County, Virginia in 1673.
In 1749, the British Crown, via the colonial government of Virginia, granted the Ohio Company a great deal of this territory on the condition that it be settled by British colonists. [89] Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia was an investor in the Ohio Company, which stood to lose money if the French held their claim. [90]
Washington County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 53,935. [1] Its county seat is Abingdon. [2] Washington County is part of the Kingsport–Bristol–Bristol, TN-VA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area, commonly known as the "Tri-Cities" region ...
Morrisonville is an unincorporated community in northern Loudoun County, Virginia. It is located on Morrisonville Road (Virginia Secondary Route 693). It is notable as being the birthplace of the Pulitzer Prize winning author Russell Baker
Morrison post office was established February 2, 1883, and a public school was recorded in a deed dated August 16, 1906. [1] During World War I, Camp Morrison was located nearby about one mile from the James River. With 24 supply warehouses, Camp Morrison was used for the U.S. Army Air Corps and Balloon Corps personnel. [2]
The Walpole Company, Indiana Company, and members of the Ohio Company reorganized, and on December 22, 1769, formed the Grand Ohio Company. [14] In 1772, the Grand Ohio Company received from the British government a grant of a large tract lying along the southern bank of the Ohio as far west as the mouth of the Scioto River . [ 15 ]
Shrine to the annual Thanksgiving mandated by the London Company charter establishing the Berkeley Hundred in Charles City County, Virginia, 1619. During the Indian massacre of 1622, nine of the settlers at Berkeley Hundred were killed, as well as about a third of the entire population of the Virginia Colony. The Berkeley Hundred site and other ...
Belle Grove is a historic plantation located on U.S. Route 301 in Port Conway, Virginia.The present plantation house was built in 1790. [1]James Madison, a Founding Father and the fourth President of the United States, was born on March 16, 1751, at Belle Grove plantation in an earlier house which no longer stands.