Albemarle County in Virginia giving some account of what it was by nature, of what it was made by man, and of some of the men who made it |
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INDEX.
Agricultural Society, 101.
Albemarle Academy, 91.
Declaration of Independence,
365.
Emigrants, 386.
Necrology, 395.
Rangers, 363.
Representatives, 384.
Alcock, William, 198, 242.
Aldermen, 89.
Alexander, Hugh, 246.
Anbury, Travels of, 33.
Area of County, 14.
Army allowances, 54.
Attorneys for Commonwealth, 80.
List of, 380.
Bache, Dr. William, 62.
Ballou, Solomon, 106.
Bankhead, Charles L., 302, 305.
Banks, 106.
Baptist Churches, 132.
Barboursville Road, 65.
Barracks Prison, 31.
Road, 65.
Supplies for, 54.
Barterbrook, 61.
Batesville, 6, 22.
Bear Creek, 23.
Beaverdam, 18, 21.
Belle Grove, 98, 222.
Bible Society, 102.
Birdwood, 4, 174, 244.
Black's Call, Rev. Sam, 362.
Blaetterman, Prof., 288.
Blair, Justice John, 62.
Bland, Col., 36.
Blue Ridge, 14, 19.
And Rivanna Turnpike, 70.
Bolling, John, 201.
Boundaries of County, 14.
Breckinridge, John, 230.
Brimmer Road, 68.
British ravages, 25.
Broad Mossing Ford, 65.
Brown's Gap Road, 66.
Turnpike, 69.
Buck's Elbow, 15, 19.
Buck Island, 17, 21.
Mountain Road, 64.
Burnt Mills, 65, 161, 181.
Cabell v. Wilkinson, 57.
Camp near Rockfish Gap, 30.
Camping Branch, 21, 24.
Capital Punishment, 75.
Carr's Old Ford, 65, 73.
Carter's Bridge, 71.
Road, 68.
Cartersburg, 22.
Castle Hill, 2, 271, 335.
Central College., 91.
Charlottesville, 26, 105.
Hospital, 118.
Chestnut Mountains, 2, 19.
Chiles, Micajah, 276, 324.
Chiswell, John, 7, 214.
Church Erection, 136.
Circuit Court, 79.
Clark, Gen. G. R., 50.
Clear Mount, 11, 163.
Collins' Team, 73.
Colonization Society, 102.
Committee of Nine, 120.
Commissioners at Rockfish Gap, 91.
County Court System, 78.
County Officers, 8, 375.
Court House Building, 80.
First, 9.
Court Proceedings, 9, 54, 74, 110.
Cow Branch, 21.
Crockett, Maj. Joseph, 284, 356.
Currency, deranged, 53, 118.
Davidson's patent, John, 7.
David Wood's old place, 65.
Davis, Prof. J. A. G., 114.
Dawson's Meeting House, 134.
Row, 94.
Dean, Adam, 247.
Debating Society, 103.
Districts, 25.
District Court, 79.
No. 1, 118.
Divers, George, 25, 48, 335.
Divisions of County, 24.
Doyle, John, 53.
Drafts of servants, 117.
D. S., 4, 11, 63, 158, 320.
Early, W. T., 117.
Edge, Atwell, 171.
Edge's Creek, 21.
Edgemont, 3, 61, 77.

Education, 85.
Elk Run, 23.
Emigration, 55.
Episcopal Churches, 124.
Epperson's Mountain, 20.
Eppes Creek, 3, 18, 168.
Escheats, 47.
Estes, Capt. T. T., 96.
Families, alphabetically arranged,
137.
Farm, The, 5, 70, 45, 252.
Farmington, 5, 47, 54.
Fish, 23.
Flood of 1771, 71.
Forge Church, 56, 125.
Fortune, 188.
Forty-Sixth Virginia, 117.
Franklin, Benjamin, 62.
Franklins, 82.
Fredericksburg Road, 65.
Fredericksville Parish, 124.
Free Bridge, 72.
Schools, 89.
Frenchmen, 360.
Gallatin, Albert, 9.
Cambell's Grant, Matt., 7.
Gambling, 110.
Game, 22.
Garland, James, Jr., 44.
Garlick, Samuel, 7.
Gazetteer of Virginia, 101.
Giles, Nathaniel, 56.
Gilmer, Dr. John, 76.
Papers, 363.
Glebes, 125, 127.
Glendower, 10, 185, 238.
Glover, John A., 114.
Goochland County, 1.
Grier, Andrew, 247.
Grills, Eleanor, 52.
Gymnasium, 88.
Haggard's Road, 68.
Hammock's Gap, 15, 58, 330.
Hanover, Presbytery of, 131.
Hardin's Tavern, 60, 217.
Harrisonburg Turnpike, 71.
Hatch, Rev. F. W., 127.
Harvie, Col. John, 35, 225.
Hebrews, 359.
Henderson's Branch, 21.
Warehouse, 58.
Hening, W. W., 228.
Henry, John, 5, 322.
Patrick, 46.
Hickman, Edwin, 4, 9, 255.
Hodge, Dr. Charles, 62.
Holt, Joseph, 233.
Hopkins, Dr. James, 75.
Hudson's Creek, 18.
Hunton, Charles B., 299.
Inglis, Thomas, 51.
Indians, 23.
Indian Grave, 5, 23, 286.
Irish Road, 68.
Iron manufacture, 56.
Island Ford, 73.
Italians, 360.
Ivy Creek, 21.
Depot, 22.
Jailors, 380.
Jameson's Gap, 20.
Mountain, 20.
Jarman's Gap, 20.
Jefferson on Barracks, 31.
Jerdone, Francis, 47, 201.
Jones, George, 261.
Jones' Plantation, 33, 238.
Johnson, Benjamin, 286.
Michael, 256, 346.
Jouett, John, 45, 240.
Joyner, Philip, 206.
Judges, 79.
Keppel, Earl of Albemarle, 8.
Key, Nelson, 188.
Key's Meeting House, 135.
Mill Creek, 20.
King, Martin, 12, 68.
Kinney, Jacob, 287.
Kosciusko's Will, 361.
Lafayette's Visit, 104.
Legislature in Charlottesville,
45, 46.
Leigh, William, 54, 276.
Leitch, James, 82, 139, 253.
Lewis's Creek, 3.
Ferry, 72.
Meeting House, 132.
Mountain, 5, 15.
Library, Public, 103.
Lick Run, 23.
Limestone, 17, 18, 257.
Little D. S., 67.
Eppes Creek, 18.
Egypt, 209.
Mountain, 19.
River, 20, 85.
Lumpkin, Rev. Thomas, 131.
Lynch's Ford or Ferry, 10, 258.
Lynchburg Road, 68, 70.
Magistrates, 77, 375.
Map of Virginia, 97.
Marches to Williamsburg, 364.
Market House, 106.
Marks, John, 56, 263.

Marriage licenses, 55.
Marshall C. J. John, 63.
Martin, Capt. John, 45, 264.
Meade's Election, Bishop, 129.
Mechum's Depot, 22.
Meriwether's Bridge, 73.
Merritt, Nicholas, 317.
Methodist Churches, 134.
Military of County, 372.
Miller's Branch, 21.
Milton, 3, 57.
Mine, Betsy Martin, 57.
Monticello, 45, 141, 250.
Bank Specie, 108.
Moore's Creek Bridge, 72.
Ford, 20, 72.
Morgautown, 60.
Mosby, Col. John S., 115.
Mountain Falls Creek, 21.
Mount Ed Church, 87, 134.
Names, 19.
Negroes, teaching, 111.
New Haven, 61.
Newspapers, 99.
New York, 59.
Nicholas' Warehouse, 58.
Nineteenth Virginia, 117.
Nixville, 22.
Norris, Opie, 70, 106, 243.
North Milton, 59.
Nutter, George, 115.
Offices, Court Square, 82.
Old's Forge, 57, 68, 291.
Oliver's Store, 22.
Ordinaries, 10, 39.
Organization, County, 8.
Pantops, 4, 88, 139.
Partition of County, 26.
Patents, Early, 2.
Personal Collisions, 110.
Petersburg, 22.
Phillips, Gen., 35.
Pigeon Top, 15, 20.
Pillory, 9, 82.
Piney Mountain, 5, 15, 20.
Pinch-'em-slyly, 61.
Plank Road, 69.
Pleasant Grove, 59.
Plum Orchard Branch, 21.
Plum Tree Branch, 21.
Poindexter, George, 77.
Poindexter's Mountain, 20.
Population, 11.
Presbyterian Churches, 129.
Prison Spring, 28.
Punishments, 12.
Railroads, 115.
Rea's Ford Road, 67.
Reconstruction, 119.
Records, 13, 25.
Red Bank Falls, 3.
Revolution, 29.
Richard Woods Road, 67.
Riedesel, Madame, 37.
Rio Bridge, 73.
Rivanna Navigation Co., 84.
River Road, 64.
Roads, 10, 63.
Rock Spring, 71.
Rockfish Gap, 20, 64, 91.
Rodes's Road, 66.
Round Top Mountain, 22.
Salmon, John H., 122.
Scales Creek, 21.
School Commissioners, 86.
Scottsville, 97.
Secretary's Road, 68.
Settlement of Virginia, 1.
Shelby, Letitia, 49.
Sheriffs, 379.
Short, William, 24, 217.
Signs of War, 116.
Simpson's Tanyard, 67.
Slaughter, John, 329.
Smith, Ambrose Joshua, 7.
Soapstone Works, 18.
Soldiers of Revolution, 367.
South River, 20.
South West Mountain, 14, 19.
Spencer, John, 189.
Sprouse, Hudson, 112.
St. Anne's Parish, 124.
Staunton and James River Turnpike,
69.
Still House Mountain, 66.
Stockton's Creek, 17, 319.
Stony Point, 22.
Swan Tavern, 46, 240.
Tarleton's Raid, 44.
Taylor's patent, William, 6, 324.
Teachers, 85.
Temperance Society, 94, 103.
Three Notched Road, 63.
Todd, Rev. John, 233.
Tom's Mountain, 17, 171, 328.
Tooley's Creek, 332.
Topography, 14.
Tories, 47.
Towns, 57.
Townships, 25.
Travellers' Grove, 59.
Tufton, 5, 260, 310.
Turkey Run, 22.
Turk's Gap, 20.

Underwood Convention, 119.
University of Virginia, 92.
Wade's Spring, 66.
Walker, Dr. Thomas, 51, 334.
War of 1812, 96.
Ware, Peter, 113.
Warren, 58.
Washington, Gen., 70.
Henry, 299.
Wayland, Jeremiah, 301.
Webb's Mountain, 7, 20.
Webster, John Lee, 56.
West's Saw Mill Run, 68.
Wheeler Road, 68.
Whitehall, 22.
Wilkinson, John, 56, 344.
Wirt, William, 207.
Wolf Pit, 22.
Wolf Trap Branch, 22.
Wolves, 13.
Woodridge, 68.
Woods' Gap, 11, 20, 63.
Woods', Meeting at James, 30.
Yellow Mountain, 20.
Yergain, John, 358.
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