It is rare that so many names of the early settlers of any region can be gotten at this day. The governor, lieutenant-governor, the judiciary, sheriffs, and other county officers were to be elected by public vote. Forman, Nath Thomas: To John Grubb, Thos. Indiana, 600 acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Isaac Garrison, 1000 The Adena provided the greatest cultural influence in the state. John Brown (18001859), an abolitionist who saw slavery as a sin against God, led a successful anti-slavery movement in Kansas (see Bleeding Kansas), and hoped to strike a decisive blow against Southern slavery, creating a massive "underground railroad"type project, in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains, that would assist the enslaved in running away and becoming free. Some were German-born or the Pennsylvania-born children of German-speaking Protestant immigrants from the Palatinate and other areas bordering the Rhine River. In the late 18th century, the steel trap increased efficiency, and beaver became scarce. acres, dated 3 October 1734, Grant to Isaac Pennington, Neither the land grant or the Swiss colony ever materialized. Chester, In 1863, General John D. Imboden, with 5,000 Confederate soldiers, overran a considerable portion of the state. 828 acres, October 3, 1734. 1863-1889 Plats and surveys FS Library film 462959. This, perhaps, will be sufficient to show that after 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. Governor of Virginia in 1710, founded the first Germanna Colony in 1714. It will be noticed that there were deeds West Virginia's history has been profoundly affected by its mountainous terrain, spectacular river valleys, and rich natural resources. The Virginia General Assembly repealed the act of cession and in 1866 brought suit against West Virginia asking the court to declare the two counties a part of Virginia. Learn more about our PARKERs in the Family Tree Database. Mr. Carskadon confirmed this and added that only 39 were the votes of citizens of the state." The first European settlers started arriving about 1730. [28][29] The convention was reconvened on February 12, 1863, and the demand was met. They also raised domestic turkeys and kept dogs as pets. A horse-drawn logging "tram" with a special block and tackle for hill-side harvesting was brought into use, allowing expansion of Crooked Creek and the opening of a wooden barrel plant at the creek's mouth. Therefore, since the Secession Convention had been called by the legislature and not the people, all its acts were illegal. Philip Doddridge of Brooke County championed the cause of western Virginians who sought a more democratic frame of government. acres, on the _____ branch of the Opeckon, between the In a referendum on May 23, 1861, secession was ratified by a large majority in the state as a whole. give, are as follows: There were United States, West Virginia, Cabell - Genealogy, United States, West Virginia, Cabell - History, United States, West Virginia, Hampshire - History, United States, West Virginia, Hampshire - Genealogy, United States, West Virginia, Preston - Vital records, United States, West Virginia, Preston - Genealogy, United States, West Virginia, Greenbrier - History, United States, West Virginia, Greenbrier - Description and travel - Guidebooks, United States, West Virginia, Roane - History, United States, West Virginia, Roane - Genealogy, United States, West Virginia, Mason - Vital records, United States, West Virginia, Hampshire - Vital records, United States, West Virginia, Hampshire - Probate records, United States, West Virginia, Hampshire - Military records, United States, West Virginia, Hampshire - Land and property, United States, West Virginia, Hampshire - Census, United States, West Virginia - Probate records, United States, West Virginia - Land and property, United States, West Virginia - Military records, FamilySearch Terms of Use (Updated 2021-09-27), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory was the New Englander's town of Marietta, established in 1788. 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". Their railroad was renamed Norfolk and Western (N&W), and a new railroad city was developed at Roanoke to handle planned expansion. Six followers were also tried, convicted, and executed. After the war, with the new railroads came a practical method to transport large quantities of coal to expanding U.S. and export markets. The Jamestown settlement, established in 1607, was the seat of England's first permanent colony in North America. 15, page 276. Enjoy the work of our webmasters, provide a link, do not copy their work. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Benjamin Harden, l The first permanent English colony in North America was founded at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. The qualifying FIRST SETTLER ancestor needed for FSSV membership is a person who resided in an area that is located in present-day Shenandoah Valley before 31 December 1799. build up several Western States, especially Ohio. The earliest visits to the area were conducted primarily by English and Spanish explorers. 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. George Washington. During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, a growing demand for beaver sent trappers up and down the Kanawha region's tributary creeks by canoe and raft. This database is comprised of fourteen books. Most of them came from Pennsylvania in the north in search of new lands. The Senate representation was arbitrarily fixed at 50 seats, with the west receiving twenty, and the east thirty senators. Served in House of Burgesses for New Kent County, son of. Early Settlement in the Eastern Panhandle The Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia borders Maryland and Virginia. him, and the grants were issued directly to the said purchasers, It became one of two American states that formed during the American Civil War the other being Nevada in 1864. About 1714, Morgan met and married Catherine Garretson, with whom he had nine children. Elk Branch Presbyterian Church 1790 Hampshire County Militia Opequon Creek is tributary of the Potomac River. [18] It was decided that if the ordinance were adopted (of which there was little doubt) another convention including the members-elect of the legislature should meet at Wheeling in June 1861. After the failure of the Roanoke colonies, investors in the Virginia Company of London were anxious to find profit farther to the north, and in April 1607 three ships of settlers arrived at the Chesapeake Bay. acres, on South side of the Cohongolulu, dated 3 October Within the Mountain State, these tribal villages can be characterized as rather small and scattered as they moved about the old fields every couple of generations. Served as Colonial Governor of Virginia 1635-1637. 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. Arthur Laidley, elected to the General Assembly from Cabell County, attended the June Convention but refused to take part. Hite. The Adena Indians used ceremonial pipes that were exceptional works of art. Early West Virginia Settlers, 1600s-1900s This database is comprised of fourteen books. Of the 49 delegates from the future state of West Virginia, 17 voted in favor, and 30 voted against, and two abstained. All give reference to Virginia. 19th century steamboats were built and repaired in Wheeling, Parkersburg, Point Pleasant and Mason City. 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. The opening statement on the Early Land Grant page, is from the 1738 but was not organized until 1743 Contemporaneously to Fort Ancient Tradition southerly of the state, the sister culture called Monongahela is found on the northerly of the Mountain State stemming from the Drew Tradition. Although the Deepwater plan should have provided a competitive shipping market via either railroad, leaders of the two large railroads did not appreciate the scheme and sought to discourage competition in an area they considered theirs for expansion plans. Some history 1738 the Varices, Glasses, Hoges, Wilsons, Frys, 1748 - George Washington surveyed land in West Virginia. Many men absent in the Confederate army when the vote was taken refused to acknowledge the transfer upon their return. Representation in the house of delegates was apportioned on the basis of the census of 1850, counting whites only. deeds recorded to Stephen Hunsonbeller. 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. West Virginia enthusiastically supported World War II, with 67,000 men and about 1,000 women donning uniforms. where he was not known. county to be called Orange, being part of the forty thousand Given these differences, many in the west had long contemplated a separate state. In Noe and Shannon H. Wilson, Riccards, Michael P. "Lincoln and the Political Question: The Creation of the State of West Virginia", Stealey III, John E. "The Freedmen's Bureau in West Virginia,", Zimring, David R. "'Secession in Favor of the Constitution': How West Virginia Justified Separate Statehood during the Civil War. 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. 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. Governor of Virginia from 1751 to 1758. Orange in 1734 It further declared the pro-secession government in Richmond void and called for a reorganization of the state government, taking the line that all who adhered to the Ordinance of Secession had effectively vacated their offices. As the war went on, many citizens began to turn against the conflict. Paleo-Indian culture appears by 10,500 BC in West Virginia passing along the major river valleys and ridge-line gap watersheds. 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. West Virginia's mines were considered so unsafe that immigration officials would not recommend them as a source of employment for immigrants, and those unskilled immigrants who did work in the coal mines were more susceptible to death or injury. It was the only state to form from another state during this time, splitting from Virginia. Original Home of Col. John Evans, Morgantown, W. Va. Group Poses with Fairfax Stone, Tucker County, W. Va. WVU Libraries West Virginia Activities, lesson plans, and other resources for teachers using the collections of the West Virginia & Regional History Center, https://libguides.wvu.edu/wvrhcteacherresources. Second or third sons went out to the colonies to make their fortune, or entered the military and the clergy. 1726 - German settlers build the settlement of New Mecklenburg. In limited facilities of late 1956, "Goldy" had spawn with a few Rainbow trout. The addition of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution caused a reaction, the Democratic Party secured control in 1870, and in 1871, the Constitutional Amendment of 1866 was abrogated. Enjoy the work of our webmasters, provide a link, do not copy their work. 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 addition to differences over the abolition of slavery, he and allies felt the Virginia government ignored and refused to spend funds on needed internal improvements in the west, such as turnpikes and railroads.[15]. In 1872, under the leadership of Samuel Price, former Lt. Soon after the Union government declared that the Restored Government was the legitimate government of the Commonwealth, the Restored Government asserted its authority to give such approval. The first 520 Add to Print List Notes 270. ", The assignment of the said "orders" ", "If they proceeded now to direct a division of the State before a free expression of the people could be had, they would do a more despotic act than any ever done by the Richmond Convention itself. Taken from "The Proceedings - of the English Colony in Virginia since their First beginning form England in the Year of Our . Via the New, Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 1,656 square miles (4,290 km2). County Voters, Property Surveyed by George Washington were all an 1863 Copperhead editorial condemning the US Congress for accepting West Virginia as a state. Building the Virginian Railway cost $40 million by the time it was completed in 1909. A protg of Dr. Ansted was William Nelson Page (18541932), a civil engineer and mining manager based at Ansted in Fayette County. The Proclamation of 1763 again confirmed all land beyond the Alleghenies as Indian Territory, but the Iroquois finally relinquished their claims south of the Ohio to Britain at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768. Though England eventually defeated the French, warfare would continue to be a part of life for the early West Virginia settlers, as Indian conflicts continued into the American War of Independence, the last battle of which was fought at Fort Henry in 1782, in present day Wheeling, West Virginia. acres, on Turkey Spring of Opeckon creek, dated 21 In Feb., 1739, to Hendery Waddell, in his Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871 provides a list of the first few families that made up the first influx of settlers seeking in early Orange and Augusta County, Virginia. This historic period changed the way of living extends from a little before the 18th century Virginia and Pennsylvania region North American fur trade beginning on the Eastern Panhandle of the state. Great Grandfather of Pres. Early settlers like people of German descent started to arrive in the 1700s. The logging industry furthered the river shipping industry. date there has been a record kept and the settlement reaches acres purchased by the said Jost Hire from Isaac and John Van Served as Lt. The issue was finally settled in 1915, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that West Virginia owed Virginia $12,393,929.50. In 1632, the Virginia legislature voted to build a fort to link Jamestown and the York River settlement of Chiskiack and protect the colony from Indian attacks. By the spring stocking of 1963, the West Virginia Centennial year, Evans and Mace had supervised the spawning of good color and quality brood stock of the Mountain State's Centennial Golden Trout.[47]. A most remarkable thing, for a boy 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. ", Corbin, David Alan. of New Jersey and New York 1710-1720 and Gov. James McGregor "The Disruption of Virginia", pg. Much of the northern panhandle and north-central portion of the state are underlain by bedded salt deposits over 50 feet (15m) thick. It was set up to be the center of the Virginia Colony's government and commerce. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. of Jamaica 1728-1734. In 1748, Thomas, Lord Fairfax sent It is known that in 1732, that Jost Hite with a large number of other grants to others, "designed to be The enterprise, fraught with disease, dissension, and determined . As a result, every county west of the Alleghenies except one voted to reject the constitution, which nevertheless passed because of eastern support. Ambler, Charles H. "If it required a military force to hold an election, if Cabell County, which borders on the Ohio River, had to have a military force to hold an election there; if Boone had to have a military force to hold an election at two points; if a detachment went up and held an election there, and got into a corner of Raleigh and held an election there, with what difficulty are the counties represented?" Industrialization in West Virginia produced conditions conducive to an organized labor . Frederick was established by law in The "capital" of the Pocahontas coalfield, this city would remain the largest city in the southern portion of the state for several decades. Though the Iroquois made little effort to settle the region themselves, they made war throughout the area with their enemies, following the Great Indian Warpaths through the region and, some time between 17251750, contracted a large group of the Saponi-Tutelo warriors the Iroquois had living on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania to fight alongside them in the region. [11] However, western reforms were rejected by leaders from east of the Alleghenies who "clung to political power in an effort to preserve their plantation lifestyles dependent on enslaving blacks. "Charles Ambler's Sectionalism in Virginia: An Appreciation,". acres, October 3, 1734. acres, on Stony Lick and dated August 21, 1734, Grant to Thomas Shepherd, 220 been some discussion on this subject through the publications of This unique collection of family and local histories, marriage records, military records, and court records references approximately 200,000 individuals. 1762 - The oldest town in West Virginia, Shepherdstown, is founded. Meanwhile, Congress on March 10, 1866, passed a joint resolution recognizing the transfer. others that then in 1732 that came, but their of Colonial Virginia 1707-1709, Gov. During the French and Indian War (17541763), the scattered settlements were almost destroyed. West Virginia suffragists worked at supporting the agendas put forward by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the National Association of Colored Women and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the 1890s through the early part of the 20th century. Failure of the eastern planter elite to make constitutional reforms exacerbated existing eastwest sectionalism in Virginia and contributed to Virginia's later split. ; no. 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. West Virginia was officially admitted as a U.S. state on June 20, 1863. The constitutionality of the new state was achieved when the Unionist government of Virginia approved the division. Instead of giving up, Page (and Rogers) secretly planned and had surveyed a route to provide a new, third major railroad, all the way to new coal pier facilities at Sewell's Point on the harbor of Hampton Roads, fully 440 miles (710km) away from the railhead on the Kanawha River. Harron, Geo. "A Reappraisal of Statehood Politics in West Virginia". Unemployment ended as the mines, railroads, mills and factories worked overtime to create the "Arsenal of Democracy" that supplied the munitions to win the war. They grew sunflowers, tubers, gourds, squash and several seeds such as lambsquarter, may grass, sumpweed, smartweed and little barley cereals. [William and Mary Quarterly] ADAMS, Thomas (in Virginia shortly before 1664), Isle of Wight county; brother of William Adams, of Kenton, Devon. The state's integration experiences were generally peaceful, swift and cooperative. 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