Historical collections of Virginia containing a collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, &c., relating to its history and antiquities, together with geographical and statistical descriptions : to which is appended, an historical and descriptive sketch of the District of Columbia : illustrated by over 100 engravings, giving views of the principal towns, seats of eminent men, public buildings, relics of antiquity, historic localities, natural scenery, etc., etc. |
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Academy, the first in the valley of Va. | 454 |
Allen's Cave | 497 |
Anecdotes, revolutionary | 290 359 |
Ann, Mad, notice of | 173 |
Archer, Col. Wm. | 173 |
Archer, Dr. B.T. | 431 |
Arnold | 243 305 399 |
Ashley, Gen. Wm. H. | 431 |
Austin, Stephen, birthplace of | 515 |
Bacon's Castle | 486 |
Baptist, warrior parson | 258 |
Baptist, preacher confined at Fairfax | 239 |
Baptists, history and persecutions of | 379 |
Baptists, college of | 312 487 539 |
Banks, Linn | 360 |
Barbour, Gov. | 424 |
Barbour, Judge | 424 |
Baylor, Col. | 293 |
Blackburn, Gen. | 186 |
Blannerhasset, notice of | 516 |
Bland, Col. Theodorick | 440 |
Bland, Richard | 441 |
Blind Preacher | 350 |
Blind, institution for the | 179 |
Blowing Cave | 185 |
Boatmen, life of | 496 |
Booker, Wonder, longevity of | 435 |
Bottetourt, Lord | 326 |
Brady, Capt. Samuel | 200 |
Braxton, Carter | 348 |
Burk, the historian | 248 |
Buffalo Knob | 270 |
Bursted Rock, the | 428 |
"Campbellites," sketch and college of | 193 |
Campbell, Col. Arthur, biography of | 503 |
Campbell, Gen. Wm. | 504 505 |
Carrington, Judge Paul | 220 |
Carr, Dabney | 358 |
Caudy's Castle | 292 |
Catholic Colleges | 312 542 |
Census of 1840 | 160 |
Certificates, revolutionary | 240 |
Church, the Established, abolition of | 142 |
Church, ancient | 234 247 255 311 315 317 342 381 395 |
Champe, Sergeant | 352 |
City, ancient, relics of an | 209 |
Clay, Henry | 293 |
Clarke, Gen. Geo. Rogers | 234 |
Clarke, Gen. Wm. | 234 |
Coal Mines of Eastern Va. | 230 |
Columbian College | 539 |
Convention, troops of | 165 |
Convention of 1788 and 1829-30 | 312 |
Cornstalk, murder of | 364 |
Country, description of, on the Big Sandy | 506 |
Craney Island, attack on | 403 |
Crawford, Col. | 193 |
Cunningham, Capt. Wm. | 251 |
Culpeper minute-men | 237 |
Cyclopean Towers | 180 |
Dale, Commodore | 403 |
Dan, the passage of | 427 |
Darke, Gen. | 340 |
Davies, Rev. Samuel | 293 |
Davison, J., anecdote of | 435 |
Deaf and Dumb | 179 |
Declaration of Independence at Richmond | 313 |
Dick Pointer, heroism of | 287 |
Dismal Swamp | 401 |
Dodridge, Philip, anecdotes of | 197 |
Dodridge, Rev. J., work of | 198 |
Dunmore's palace | 328 |
Early settlers, customs of in NW. Va. | 198 372 |
Eastern shore described | 404 |
Eastern shore monumental inscription on | 405 |
Eggleston, Major | 174 |
Emory and Henry College | 498 |
Emigration to Va. from the North | 254 |
Episcopal church, first in valley of Va. | 273 |
Episcopal Theological Seminary | 543 |
Eulen's leap | 366 |
Fairfax, Lord | 235 275 |
Fairfax, stone | 300 |
Foreman, Capt., defeat of | 368 |
Forsyth, Hon. John | 484 |
Fort Donnally, attack on | 287 |
Fort Henry, siege of | 409 |
Fort Loudon | 274 |
Fort Nelson, abandoned | 399 |
Fort Rice, attack of | 201 |
Fort Savannah | 285 |
Fort Seybert, massacre at | 428 |
Fort Young | 172 |
Fort at Point Pleasant | 366 |
Forts of early settlers described | 201 |
Fortification, ancient | 270 |
Francisco, Peter | 207 |
Garden, the Devil's | 300 |
Gates, Gen. | 192 |
German settlers, customs of | 461 |
Germanna, ancient town of | 475 |
Giles, Gov. | 170 |
Gilmer, F.W. | 165 265 |
Gigantic race, relics of a | 469 |
Girardin, the historian | 248 |
Glass windows, the | 444 |
Grundy, Hon. Felix | 193 |
Greenbrier, early settlements in | 285 |
Grayson, Hon. Wm. | 442 |
Graham, Rev. W., anecdotes of | 455 |
Great Bridge, battle of | 397 |
Gwyn's Island, battle at | 376 |
Harrison, President | 218 |
Harrison, Hon. Benj. | 218 |
Hanging Rocks, battle near | 292 |
Hampden Sidney College | 433 |
Henry, Patrick | 213 220 295 |
Helphistine, Major | 275 |
Henrico, origin of its name | 302 |
Hoge, Rev. M. | 434 |
Houston, President | 455 |
Horses, wild | 163 |
Hughs, Jesse, anecdotes of | 301 |
Huguenot settlement | 431 |
Ice Mountain | 291 |
Indian incursions | 173 204 278 286 468 |
Indian graves | 426 |
Indian mounds | 350 456 |
Indian relics | 300 |
Indians, ancient, of Va. | 135 |
Indians, relics of in eastern Va. | 349 470 |
Indians, skirmish with | 300 |
Insane and idiotic persons, number of in Va. | 179 |
James City, battles in | 319 |
Jefferson, President | 168 214 |
Jefferson's Rock | 335 |
Joe Logston, anecdotes of | 445 |
Johnsons, intrepidity of | 416 |
Johnson, Judge Peter | 505 |
Kanawha, falls of | 267 |
Kanawha, salt works | 344 |
Kanawha, gas wells | 346 |
Kanawha, pictured rocks at | 346 |
Kenton, Gen. Simon | 267 |
Laws, ancient | 150 |
Law, Lynch, origin of | 212 |
Lead Mines of Wythe | 515 |
Lee, Gen. Charles | 191 |
Lee, Francis Lightfoot | 511 |
Lee, Gov. | 511 |
Lee, Richard Henry | 510 |
Lewis, Meriwether | 171 |
Lewis, Gen. Andrew | 204 |
Lewis, Charles | 182 362 |
Lewis, family | 181 |
Lewis, Colonel Fielding | 482 |
Life in western Va. | 152 |
Life in eastern Va. | 156 |
Longevity, list of remarkable cases of | 148 |
Long Island, battle of | 501 |
Littlepage, Lewis | 483 |
Lucas family | 279 |
Lunatic Asylum | 178 321 |
Luray, cave at | 425 |
M'Nutt, Gov. | 456 |
Mad Ann. | 172 |
Mason, George | 260 |
Marshall, John | 262 275 |
Marshall's Pillar | 268 |
Massie, Gen. N. | 283 |
Marriages, poetical notices of | 332 |
Madison, D. D., James | 333 |
Madison, President | 356 |
Mammoth mound | 370 |
Matoaca, inscriptions at | 229 |
Medical Colleges | 312 539 |
Mercer, Gen. H. | 480 |
Meredith, Capt. | 251 |
Monumental Inscriptions at Hampton | 249 |
Monumental Inscriptions oldest in Virginia | 261 |
Monumental Inscriptions at Turkey Island | 312 |
Monumental Inscriptions at Norfolk | 396 |
Monumental Inscriptions at York | 521 523 |
Monumental Inscriptions at Washington | 540 |
Morgan, Gen. D. | 233 276 |
Morgan, anecdote of | 515 |
Moore family, captivity and murder of | 489 |
Moore's Lamentation, a song | 495 |
Moore, Hon. A. | 456 |
Moore house | 530 |
Mountain scenery | 488 |
Muhlenburg, Gen. P. | 468 |
Natural Pillars | 278 |
Natural Bridge | 457 |
Natural Tunnel | 464 |
Negro duel | 351 |
Nelson family, seat of | 295 |
Nelson Gov. | 522 |
Newspapers, first in Va. | 331 |
Norfolk, burning of | 398 |
Obituary | 148 |
Old Church | 520 |
Old Capitol | 305 329 |
Old Dominion, origin of the name | 131 |
Old magazine | 328 |
Old Raleigh tavern | 330 |
O'Hara, Gen., anecdote of | 245 |
Opechancanough's residence | 349 |
Page, Gov. | 281 |
Parson Cummings, anecdote of | 499 |
Pass of the James | 176 |
Peter Wright, the hunter | 172 |
Peaks of Otter | 189 |
Petersburg volunteers | 145 |
Pendleton, Edmund | 215 |
Philips, the tory | 438 |
Philips, Gen., death of | 244 |
Pocahontas basin | 248 |
Pocahontas place where she rescued Capt. Smith | 282 |
Poes, the bravery of | 414 |
Point Pleasant, battle of | 361 366 |
Point Pleasant, song on | 366 |
Powell's Fort Valley | 426 |
Point of Fork, invasion of | 271 |
Pleasants, Gov. | 283 |
Preaching, the first in western Va. | 192 |
Presbyterian clergyman, the first in America | 293 |
Princess Ann, skirmish in | 438 |
Prince William, military events in the vicinity | 442 |
Quakers, persecution of | 151 354 |
Randolph, John of Roanoke | 223 440 |
Randolph, Edmund | 313 |
Randolph, Peyton | 333 |
Randolph, Macon College | 378 |
Reminiscences, revolutionary | 243 |
River, the lost | 300 |
Richmond Theatre, the burning of | 309 |
Richmond invasion of | 305 |
Roberdeau, Gen. D. | 275 |
Rice, Dr. J. H. | 434 |
Rumsey, the first steamboat inventor | 336 |
Salt, fossil | 469 |
Scotch-Irish, settlements of | 451 |
Scott, Gen. Charles | 244 |
Scott, Major Joseph | 242 |
Scott, Gen. Winfield | 248 |
Scenery of the valley of Va. | 456 |
Settlements, early, in NW. Va. | 189 382 444 |
Settlements, early, in SW. Va. | 499 |
Simcoe, skirmishes of | 217 271 290 306 319 |
Sheffey, Daniel | 179 |
Spring, Augusta | 177 |
Spring, Alum | 450 |
Spring, Blue Sulphur | 289 |
Spring, Bottetourt | 448 |
Spring, Dagger's | 203 |
Spring, Fauquier | 262 |
Spring, Grayson | 216 |
Spring, Holston | 464 |
Spring, Hygeian | 278 |
Spring, Howard | 430 |
Spring, Jordan | 272 |
Spring, Orkney | 467 |
Spring, Red | 385 |
Spring, Salt Sulphur | 384 |
Spring, Shannondale | 342 |
Spring, Sweet | 384 |
Spring, White Sulphur of Greenbrier | 288 |
Slavery and tobacco | 133 |
Slaughter, Capt. | 237 |
Southampton insurrection | 471 |
Spotswood, Gov., visit to the family of | 476 |
Statistics of 1840 | 160 |
Stephens, Gen. | 191 |
Stevens, Gen. E. | 240 |
Stockton, Isabella, romantic courtship of | 192 |
Suffolk, burning of | 387 |
Superstition, anecdotes illustrating it at the present day |
500 |
Summers, Judge | 347 |
Stone structure, ancient, on Ware creek | 391 |
Tarleton, Col. | 166 212 |
Taylor, Col. John | 215 |
Taylor, Geo. Keith | 440 |
Tea-table, the | 292 |
Thruston, Col., the warrior parson | 234 283 |
Tories, the hanging of | 358 |
Tories, insurrection of | 301 |
Trough-Hill, battle of | 300 |
Tyler, Judge | 219 |
Tyler, President | 219 327 |
University of Virginia | 165 |
Uncle Jack, the negro preacher | 174 |
Union Theological Seminary | 434 |
Upshur, Hon. A. P. | 405 |
Van Bebbers, anecdotes of the | 366 |
Virginia, general view of | 128 |
Virginia, Governors | 145 |
Virginia, Military Institute | 449 |
Virginians in high official stations under the United States |
146 |
Virginians, Jones's description of | 330 |
Waddel, James, the blind preacher | 417 |
Washington, marriage and courtship of | 389 |
Washington, his office at Soldier's Rest | 233 |
Washington, entry of as surveyor | 237 |
Washington, anecdotes of | 241 543 |
Washington, residence of at Mt. Vernon | 257 |
Washington, statue of | 308 |
Washington, modesty of | 329 |
Washington, mother of | 483 |
Washington, college | 449 |
Washington, farm | 482 |
Washington, likeness of at Harper's Ferry | 335 |
Washington, his recommendation of Volney | 261 |
Washington, aged servant of | 184 |
Washington, fac-simile of his writing | 509 |
Washington, fac-simile of the entry of his birth | 509 |
Washington, birthplace of | 507 |
Washington, Lord Brougham's sketch of the character of |
508 |
Washington, Judge Bushrod | 513 |
Washington, Col. William | 484 |
Weyer's Cave | 183 |
Weddings of early settlers | 198 |
Westover, the seat of Col. Byrd | 217 |
Weems, Parson | 255 256 |
Wetzel, Lewis | 413 |
Weedon, Gen. | 480 |
Wirt, William | 171 |
William and Mary College | 324 |
Witchcraft, trial for | 436 |
Woodford, Gen. Wm. | 215 |
Wolf-pits, construction of | 206 |
Wythe, George | 352 |
Zane, Elizabeth, heroism of | 411 |
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