The American History and Genealogy Project. Notwithstanding the competitive fears of the C&O and N&W, soon all three railroads were shipping ever-increasing volumes of coal to export from Hampton Roads. High Sheriff and Capt. Wiseman, James Vance, Peter Make, Jacob Hite, John acres, dated October 3, 1734, Grant to Stephen acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Samuel Morris, 378 be recorded after that date. As those mines were playing out by the end of the 19th century, these men were among investors and industrialists who focused new interest on the largely untapped coal resources of West Virginia. Frustrated by bad economic conditions and what they perceive to be neglect from the Charleston government, this movement has gained at least some momentum. acres, on the _____ branch of the Opeckon, between the included in a county to be called the county of Orange, being Wooden coal barges were built on the Monongahela River near Morgantown, as well as along Coal River and Elk River. A long list of names is given, perhaps most of the settlers of the time. 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. grant, it is said, that it is designed to be included in a lauds of John Mills and _____ Hobzson, dated 12 November Fairfax's daughter Anne married Warner Washington, 1st cousin of President George Washginton, Served as Governor of Virginia from 1727 until 1749, named, Father of Patrick Henry, American Founding Father. Arrived in Jamestown in 1608, Served in House of Burgesses for Elizabeth City County. It is known that in 1732, that Jost Hite with 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. In 2011, West Virginia state delegate Larry Kump sponsored legislation to allow Morgan, Berkeley, and Jefferson counties to rejoin Virginia by popular vote. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to George Williams, 489 Major crises in the Virginia state government over these differences were averted on more than one occasion during the period before the American Civil War, but the underlying problems were fundamental and never well resolved. above brings us down to about 1750. 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. Served as Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Cometti, and Festus P. Summers. The enterprise, fraught with disease, dissension, and determined . The history of West Virginia stems from the 1861 Wheeling Convention, which was an assembly of northwestern Virginian Southern Unionists, who aimed to repeal the Ordinance of Secession that Virginia made during the American Civil War (18611865). Established by the Virginia Company of London this settlement would be called Jamestown, after king James I. Join the community of family history enthusiasts and FamilySearch employees to ask questions and discuss potential product enhancements. 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. 116117, "Union troops were stationed outside polling places to intimidate those who might vote for Virginia. The first native settlers in West Virginia's Potomac Highlands (Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Randolph, and Tucker counties) were the Mound Builders, also known as the Adena people. Such works include historical information on a building and genealogical information on its inhabitants. 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 Constitutional Convention began on November 26, 1861, and finished its work on February 18, 1862. Social conditions in western Virginia were entirely unlike those in the eastern portion of the state. overflowed to the Ohio and Kanawha Valleys, and went to help However, in 1736 the Iroquois Six Nations protested Virginia's colonization beyond the demarcated Blue Ridge, and a skirmish was fought in 1743. Estimates of the numbers of Civil War soldiers from the state, both within the Union and Confederacy, have varied widely, but recent studies have placed the numbers about equal,[31] from 22,000 to 25,000 each. McDowell and James ; no. Remnants of the Mound Builder's civilization have been found throughout West Virginia, with many artifacts found in . Although WEST VIRGINIA is used on this webpage for convenience, [25] The large number of Northerners in this convention caused great distrust over the new Constitution during Reconstruction years. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. In 1671, General Abraham Wood, at the direction of Royal Governor William Berkeley of the Virginia Colony, sent the party of Thomas Batts and Robert Fallum into the West Virginia area. acres, October 3, 1734. Early West Virginia settlers, 1600s-1900s Format: Books/Monographs/Book on Compact Disc Language: English Publication: [S.l.] Stoll, Steven. Many ancient earthen mounds constructed by various mound builder cultures survive, especially in the areas of Moundsville, South Charleston, and Romney. Johnson, 298 The convention passed an act for the reorganization of the government on June 19, 1861. Family stories recount the arrival in the late 1700s of brothers Benjamin and Jeremiah, who, along with their mother, were the first settlers on the upper waters of the Elk River . In the early 20th century, West Virginia coal was also under high demand at Great Lakes ports on Lake Erie. ", Virgil Lewis "How West Virginia Was Made", pgs. Youll also find an exhaustive compilation of the states earliest marriages and, in an interesting twist on genealogical record keeping, two volumes of genealogical and architectural histories. 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. Even before the American Civil War, counties in northwest Virginia had desired to break away from Virginia to form a new state. recorded in Orange County, before the county of Frederick was Bronson, Samuel Glass, David Logan, Fred It is rare that so many names of the early settlers of any region can be gotten at this day. West Virginia was officially admitted as a U.S. state on June 20, 1863. The Film/Digital Notes contain a description of the microfilm or microfiche numbers. Settlements established in present-day Virginia by 1799: Grant to Peter Woolf, 600 In this Arthur Laidley, elected to the General Assembly from Cabell County, attended the June Convention but refused to take part. Skip ahead a few decades until after the Civil War. 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. County Voters, Property Surveyed by George Washington were all West Virginia's history has been profoundly affected by its mountainous terrain, spectacular river valleys, and rich natural resources. Descendancy for John Hurst: Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties However, repeatedly John L. Lewis called his United Mine Workers union out on strike, defying the government, outraging public opinion, and strengthening the hand of anti-union Congressmen. 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 first native settlers in West Virginia's Potomac Highlands (Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Randolph, and Tucker counties) were the Mound Builders, also known as the Adena people. [39], In recent years, there has been serious talk about the possibility of certain counties in the Eastern Panhandle rejoining the Commonwealth of Virginia. It included all areas west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, constituting all of present West Virginia. In 1742, Robert Allen, Jno. In 1634, a palisade was built near Middle Plantation. Their neighbors in the northerly of the state, the Monongahela houses were generally circular in shape often with nook or storage appendage. The first settlers at the English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia hoped to forge new lives away from Englandbut life in the early 1600s at Jamestown consisted mainly of danger, hardship . acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Thos. deeds recorded to Stephen Hunsonbeller. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Robert Slaughter, Six followers were also tried, convicted, and executed. acres, on South side of the Cohongolulu, dated 3 October [46], Mike Shingleton of the Division of Natural Resources explained the Centennial Golden Trout evolution. Served as Lt. By S.C. Shaw, 1878.] In October 1748, the Virginia General Assembly passed an act establishing a ferry across the Potomac River from the landing of Evan Watkin near the mouth of Conococheague Creek in present-day Berkeley County to the property of Edmund Wade in Maryland. Lt. Within this area west of the New River Coalfield in Raleigh and Wyoming counties lay the Winding Gulf Coalfield, later promoted as the "Billion Dollar Coalfield.". On June 15, 1607 the fleet commander Captain Christopher Newport will return to England leaving 104 settlers. After the 1730s, Virginia enacted a law that promised free land to new settlers, encouraging them to move west and form new colonies. Daniel Polsley, Lt. Following this conflict, known as Dunmore's War, the Shawnee and Mingo ceded their rights south of the Ohio, that is, to West Virginia and Kentucky. 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. 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. [28][29] The convention was reconvened on February 12, 1863, and the demand was met. [26], At first the Wheeling politicians controlled only a small part of West Virginia. Early West Virginia Settlers, 1600s-1900s This database is comprised of fourteen books. acres, on Opeckon Run, dated October 3, 1734, Grant to Neil Thompson, 139 Waddell's First Families of Early Augusta County Scott's List of Orange County Importations acres, dated October 3, 1734, Grant to David Perkins, 519 It authorized the creation of the State of Kanawha, consisting of most of the counties that now comprise West Virginia. The composition of all three Wheeling Conventions, the May (First) Convention, the June (Second) Convention, and the Constitutional Convention, was of an irregular nature. Middle and Late Woodland people include Middle Woodland Watson pottery people, Late Woodland Wood Phase, Late Hopewell at Romney, Montana (late Woodland AD 5001000), Wilhelm culture (Late Middle Woodland, c. AD 1~500), Armstrong (Late Middle Woodland, c. AD 1~500), Buck Garden (Late Woodland AD 5001200), Childers Phase (Late Middle Woodland c. 400 AD), and Parkline Phase (Late Woodland AD 750~1000). 1776 - People in the region petition the Congress to create a 14th state called Westsylvania, but it is denied. 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. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Robert Worthington, From that small batch of hatchlings he named it "Little Camouflage". "The View from the Border: West Virginia Republicans and Women's Rights in the Age of Emancipation,", Gerofsky, Milton. The people of the expedition consisted of 'gentlemen' and farmers. 142 acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Thos. This database is comprised of fourteen books. Institution. in Council, to take up the same, upon certain conditions therein Battelle's resolution a policy of "Negro exclusion" for the new state was adopted to keep any new slaves, or freemen, from taking up residence, in the hope that this would satisfy abolitionist sentiment in Congress. 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. During the late 19th and early 20th century, West Virginia saw its population grow, due in large part to the economic job opportunities provided by the coal and logging industries. Noe, Kenneth W. "Exterminating Savages: The Union Army and Mountain Guerrillas in Southern West Virginia, 18611865." This unique collection of family and local histories, marriage records, military records, and court records references approximately 200,000 individuals. Months later upon his arrival, the new Petersburg manager, Chester Mace, was shown the curious novelty. ", Corbin, David Alan. It is rare 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. 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. The population consisted almost entirely of farmers seeking land upon which they could build a home and produce a living. West Virginia's nickname is known as the "Mountain State" due to its landscape being largely covered by the Appalachian Mountains. 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. Hoge, Abraham only sixteen year old to be a competent surveyor, but more In 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. 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. Writtenhouse, Jacob Christman, John Hite, William Reed, Bands of guerrillas burned and plundered in some sections, and were not entirely suppressed until after the war was ended. Harris. part of the same article. "Charles Ambler's Sectionalism in Virginia: An Appreciation,". Governor Alexander Spotswood is sometimes credited with taking his 1716 "Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition" into what is now Pendleton County, although according to contemporary accounts, Spotswood's trail went no farther west than Harrisonburg, Virginia. 1738 the Varices, Glasses, Hoges, Wilsons, Frys, After a failed attempt to include woman suffrage as a state constitutional amendment in 1916, pro-suffrage Governor John J. Cornwell included the ratification of the federal amendment for woman suffrage in the agenda for a special legislative session in February 1920. The opening statement on the Early Land Grant page, is from the was made to Hite and Hite had the surveys made, and the surveyor Many would join other tribes and remove to the midwest regions as settlers arrived in the state. 1762 - The oldest town in West Virginia, Shepherdstown, is founded. General George B. McClellan's forces gained possession of the greater part of the territory in the summer of 1861. According to historian Anne Wallace Effland, conservative social and religious beliefs together with the campaigns by anti-suffragists kept up a solid defense against them. 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. Women volunteered for farm and home economics training programs, United Service Organizations (USO) clubs that provided entertainment and assistance to servicemen, salvage campaigns to produce steel scrap, and civil defense training that taught first aid and emergency response techniques. A master at competitive "warfare", Henry Rogers did not like to lose in his endeavors, and also had "deep pockets". In 1872, under the leadership of Samuel Price, former Lt. In the postwar years, he continued his militancy; his miners went on strikes or "work stoppages" annually. Soon after this, white settlers began moving into the Greater Shenandoah-Potomac Valley making up the entire eastern portion of the state. 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 . Barretts, Neets, Dillons, Fawcetts As a result, every county west of the Alleghenies except one voted to reject the constitution, which nevertheless passed because of eastern support. Contents: Genealogies of West Virginia families : from the West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarterly, 1901-1905 -- Cabell County annals and families / George Selden Wallace -- Capon Valley : its pioneers and their descendants, 1648 to 1940 / by Maud Pugh (vols. note: The 3 articles, Early Land Grants, Frederick Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 3000 acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Morgan Morgan, 1000 The artifacts uncovered in these give evidence of a village society having a tribal trade system culture that practiced the cold working of copper to a limited extent. ISBN: 1579442528 Series: Family tree maker's family archives. 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. A shift to exporting the state's other natural resources began. 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". [6] They were farmers who cultivated large fields around their villages, concentrating on corn, beans, tubers, sunflowers, gourds and many types of squash including the pumpkin. Farming to them was not only a means of earning a living, but also a way of life" a way of living.. Meanwhile, Congress on March 10, 1866, passed a joint resolution recognizing the transfer. In the 1850s, geologists such as British expert Dr. David T. Ansted (18141880), surveyed potential coal fields and invested in land and early mining projects. They acquired large tracts of land in the area, and Page began the Deepwater Railway, a short-line railroad which was chartered to stretch between the C&O at its line along the Kanawha River and the N&W at Matoaka, a distance of about 80 miles (130km). Hite was for one thousand and twenty acres (1,020). Ashby, They were: These counties served as the primary foundation for governing for many years in early Colonial Virginia, until the colonies agreed many years later to form what now is the United States of America. The Wheeling Convention, which had taken a recess until August 6, 1861, reassembled on August 20, 1861, and called for a popular vote on the formation of a new state and for a convention to frame a constitution if the vote should be favorable. Edwards (2008) explores the roles of women volunteers in West Virginia during World War II. The Virginia General Assembly repealed the act of cession and in 1866 brought suit against West Virginia asking the court to declare the two counties a part of Virginia. Lieutenant-Governor, in council, to take up the same upon While the increase continued into the early 21st century, West Virginia lost 3.2 percent of its population between 2010 and 2020. 828 acres, October 3, 1734. A long Morgan Morgan. [10] Other tribes, notably the Shawnee and Cherokee, used the resources of the region as well. The Class 1 railroad came to be known as the "Richest Little Railroad in the World.". If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results. The first European settlers started arriving about 1730. 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. Morgan Morgan (November 1, 1688-November 17, 1766) is traditionally considered the first white settler of West Virginia. Nisoranger, Thos. 20 Aug. 1734, see Grant Book No. that so many names of the early settlers of any region can be It became one of two American states that formed during the American Civil War the other being Nevada in 1864. Small farmers, however, had all their assets, animals, and land taxed at full value. At this time, West Virginia had nearly 70,000 qualified voters, and the May 23, 1861 vote to secede had drawn nearly 54,000 voters. 1748 - George Washington surveyed land in West Virginia. 230, "Mr. Lamb, of Ohio County declared that out of 2000 voters in Hampshire County, one hundred and 95 votes had been cast and he had heard that of these one hundred were cast by soldiers. list of names is given, perhaps most of the settlers of the 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. In March 1761, Robert Harper obtained a permit to operate a ferry across the Shenandoah River at present-day Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County. Christopher Gist, a surveyor for the first Ohio Company, which was composed chiefly of Virginians, explored the country along the Ohio River north of the mouth of the Kanawha River in 1751 and 1752. [33] Soldiers were also stationed at the polls to discourage secessionists and their supporters. acres, on Stony Lick and dated August 21, 1734, Grant to Thomas Shepherd, 220 West Virginia University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action One of the silent partner investors Page had enlisted was millionaire industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers, a principal in John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust and an old hand at developing natural resources, transportation. of Jamaica 1728-1734. In 1748, Thomas, Lord Fairfax sent [22] The May Convention resolved to meet again in June 1861 should the Ordinance of Secession be ratified by public poll on May 23, 1861, which was the case. acres, dated 3 October 1734, Grant to Isaac Pennington, After an early expedition in 1584 to the "New World" by Sir Walter Raleigh, many other expeditions from England were sent to explore and colonize, including three ships that set sail on April 30, 1607, which were funded by "The Virginia Company". However, the act that created West Virginia was signed in 1862, two years before Lincoln's re-election. Laidly, Esq., who has devoted much study to the subject. Much of the northern panhandle and north-central portion of the state are underlain by bedded salt deposits over 50 feet (15m) thick. Despite this tax and the lack of internal improvements in the west, the vote was 75,748 for and 11,063 against the new Constitution. It Well-engineered and highly efficient with all new infrastructure, it operated very profitably. Heavy settlement began in the 1760s after Indian claims had been settled. the West Virginia Historical Society and there may be more. AHGP The American History and Genealogy Project. Berkeley County was founded in 1772 Aliens, Johnstons and others, came and settled about the Opequon "'This Bastard New Virginia': Slavery, West Virginia Exceptionalism, and the Secession Crisis,". Presbyterian Church, above Winchester. Original Home of Col. John Evans, Morgantown, W. Va. Group Poses with Fairfax Stone, Tucker County, W. Va. WVU Libraries West Virginia Second or third sons went out to the colonies to make their fortune, or entered the military and the clergy. 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. The grant to In a referendum on May 23, 1861, secession was ratified by a large majority in the state as a whole. Family tree maker's family archives. 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. The logging industry furthered the river shipping industry. The 'Discovery', the 'Godspeed' and the 'Susan Constant' sailed for 4 months to reach the shores of the New World. Some were German-born or the Pennsylvania-born children of German-speaking Protestant immigrants from the Palatinate and other areas bordering the Rhine River. Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia, Second Wheeling Convention, August 16, 1861, quoted in Virgil Lewis, "How West Virginia Was Made", pg. During this expedition the pair followed the New River and discovered Kanawha Falls. is a list of grantees of lands conveyed by Jost Hite and The population was not homogeneous, as a considerable part of the immigration came by way of Pennsylvania and included Germans, Protestant Scotch-Irish, and settlers from the states farther north. The first native settlers in southern West Virginia were the Mound Builders, also known as the Adena people. not the first settlers. After the 1730s, Virginia enacted a law that promised free land to new settlers, encouraging them to move west and form new colonies. West Virginia was officially admitted as a U.S. state on June 20, 1863. This wall stretched across the peninsula between the York and James rivers and protected the settlements on the eastern side of the lower Peninsula from Indians. Salt mining had been underway since the 18th century, though that which could be easily obtained had largely played out by the time of the American Civil War, when the red salt of Kanawha County was a valued commodity of first Confederate, and later Union forces. 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. Industrialization in West Virginia produced conditions conducive to an organized labor . 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