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History of southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870
Summers, Lewis Preston (1868-1943)
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ERRATA.
INTRODUCTION.
I.
CHAPTER I.
II.
CHAPTER II
CHEROKEES.
SHAWNESE.
III.
CHAPTER III
IV.
CHAPTER IV.
SANDY RIVER EXPEDITION.
V.
CHAPTER V.
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA—BOTETOURT COUNTY.
TREATY.
HUNTING.
VI.
CHAPTER VI.
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA—FINCASTLE COUNTY.
BATTLE OF POINT PLEASANT.
BELFAST.
FINCASTLE TROOPS.
COMPANIES NOT KNOWN.
THE REVOLUTION.
Battle of Long Island Flats.
William Creswell entered this place July, 1776.
FINCASTLE COUNTY ORGANIZED UNDER THE STATE CONSTITUTION.
MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY COURT:
VII.
CHAPTER VII.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, 1777-1786.
BATTLE OF KING'S MOUNTAIN.
VIII.
CHAPTER VIII.
MEMORIAL.
REPORT.
A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS.
MESSAGE OF GOVERNOR PATRICK HENRY.
IX.
CHAPTER IX.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, 1787-1840.
THE WAR OF 1812-1815.
The 4th of July, 1812.
VOLUNTEERS.
X.
CHAPTER X.
Privates.
Electoral Ticket.
Assistant Elector.
County and Town Electors.
From Tennessee.
EVENING SESSION.
Secretaries.
War Between the States—1861-1865.
BATTLE OF SALTVILLE.
RECONSTRUCTION, 1865-1870.
EDUCATION.
ABINGDON MALE ACADEMY.
ABINGDON ACADEMY.
LANGUAGE AND SCIENCE.
Female Education.
MARTHA WASHINGTON COLLEGE.
STONEWALL JACKSON INSTITUTE.
EMORY AND HENRY COLLEGE.
LIBERTY HALL ACADEMY.
BARRACK INSTITUTE.
WHITE TOP MOUNTAIN.
NATURAL BRIDGE AND TUNNEL OF SCOTT COUNTY.
SALTVILLE VALLEY.
NEWSPAPERS.
"RAGS!
JUDICIARY.
County Courts.
District Courts.
United States Circuit and District Courts.
PRESBYTERIANISM IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Ebbing Spring.
Rock Spring Church.
Maple Grove Church.
Spring Creek Church.
Walnut Grove Church.
Green Spring Church.
METHODISM IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.
ABINGDON, VIRGINIA—ITS HISTORY.
Abingdon, Virginia.
An Act for Establishing a Town at the Courthouse in the County of Washington.
BRISTOL, VIRGINIA.
VILLAGES OF WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Glade Spring.
Meadow View.
Wyndale.
Wallace's Switch.
Mendota.
Damascus.
Greendale.
Boundaries of Washington County.
REPORT
SURVEYOR'S REPORT.
Biographical Sketches.
REV. CHAS. CUMMINGS.
COLONEL ARTHUR CAMPBELL.
COLONEL WILLIAM RUSSELL.
COLONEL WILLIAM COCKE.
MAJOR ANTHONY BLEDSOE.
CAPTAIN WM. EDMISTON.
COLONEL JOSEPH MARTIN.
GENERAL WM. CAMPBELL.
COLONEL WILLIAM PRESTON.
COLONEL JAMES KING.
GENERAL WM. E. JONES.
JAMES L. WHITE.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
ANDREW MOORE.
FRANCIS PRESTON.
ABRAM TRIGG.
DANIEL SHEFFEY.
ALEXANDER SMYTH.
JOSEPH DRAPER.
CHARLES C. JOHNSTON.
JOHN H. FULTON.
GEORGE W. HOPKINS.
ANDREW S. FULTON.
FAYETTE McMULLEN.
ELBERT S. MARTIN.
WALTER PRESTON.
JAMES KING GIBSON.
WILLIAM TERRY.
REES T. BOWEN.
A. L. PRIDEMORE.
JAMES BUCHANAN RICHMOND.
COLONEL ABRAM FULKERSON.
HENRY BOWEN.
CONNALLY F. TRIGG.
JOHN ALEXANDER BUCHANAN.
JAMES W. MARSHALL.
JAMES ALEXANDER WALKER.
WILLIAM FRANCIS RHEA.
CAMPBELL SLEMP.
UNITED STATES SENATOR.
JOHN WARFIELD JOHNSTON.
GOVERNORS OF VIRGINIA.
WYNDHAM ROBERTSON.
DAVID CAMPBELL.
JOHN BUCHANAN FLOYD.
JUDGES OF THE COURTS.
SUPERIOR COURT OF LAW.
CIRCUIT SUPERIOR COURT OF LAW AND CHANCERY.
JUDGE SAMUEL V. FULKERSON.
JOHN A. CAMPBELL.
JUDGE JOHN A. KELLY.
JUDGE JOHN PRESTON SHEFFEY.
JUDGE FRANCIS BEATTIE HUTTON.
COUNTY JUDGES.
REUBEN MURRELL PAGE.
JUDGE GEO. W. WARD, Jr.
JUDGE DAVID CAMPBELL CUMMINGS.
MEMBERS OF CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
EDWARD CAMPBELL.
COLONEL WM. BYARS.
CONNALLY F. TRIGG.
JOSEPH T. CAMPBELL.
BENJAMIN RUSH FLOYD.
THOMAS M. TATE.
PRESTON WHITE CAMPBELL.
JOHN C. SUMMERS.
COMMONWEALTH'S ATTORNEYS.
SAMUEL LOGAN.
GEORGE EAKIN NAFF.
JOHN HENRY ERNEST.
REES B. EDMONDSON.
JOHN L. ROWAN.
PETER JOHNSTON DAVENPORT.
STATE SENATORS.
WM. E. PETERS.
JOSEPH J. GRAHAM.
HIRAM A. GREEVER.
JAMES S. GREEVER.
DAVID FLOURNOY BAILEY.
E. L. ROBERTS.
B. F. BUCHANAN.
CHAS. W. STEELE.
J. CLOYD BYARS.
MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
JOHN GIBSON.
ROBERT E. GRANT.
JACOB LYNCH.
DR. ALEXANDER R. PRESTON.
DAVID B. CLARK.
DAVID CAMPBELL DUNN.
ARTHUR CAMPBELL CUMMINGS.
GEORGE GRAHAM.
SELDEN LONGLEY.
ISAAC CHAPMAN FOWLER.
CHARLES B. COALE.
JONAS S. KELLY.
DANIEL TRIGG.
CHAS. W. ALDERSON.
L. H. SNODGRASS.
JAMES CROW.
E. S. KENDRICK.
ANDREW F. RAMBO.
JOSEPH M. BUTT.
W. H. TOMNEY.
JOHN ROBERTS.
SAMUEL P. EDMONDSON.
CHAS. H. JENNINGS.
THOMAS J. CAMPBELL.
JOHN W. PRICE.
C. H. McCLUNG.
A. J. HUFF.
J. W. MORT.
CHARLES STUART BEKEM.
JOHN CAMPBELL.
COLONEL JOHN PRESTON.
COLONEL JOHN CAMPBELL.
COLONEL JAMES WHITE.
WILLIAM KING.
JOSEPH W. DAVIS.
ROBERT W. HUGHES.
REV. LEWIS F. COSBY.
APPENDIX.
JOURNAL OF DOCTOR THOMAS WALKER— 1749-'50.
First Lands Surveyed on the Waters of the Holston and Clinch Rivers of which Any Record is Preserved.
SURVEYOR'S RECORD OF FINCASTLE COUNTY.
Surveyed by John Floyd, Robert Doach, Robert Preston and Francis Smith.
MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES REPRESENTING WASHINGTON COUNTY FROM 1789-1904.
MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA FROM WASHINGTON COUNTY FROM 1777-1904.
VIRGINIA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS.
JUSTICES OF THE COUNTY COURT.
BOTETOURT COUNTY—1770-1774.
FINCASTLE COUNTY—1773-1777.
JUSTICES OF WASHINGTON COUNTY—1777-1870.
SHERIFFS AUGUSTA COUNTY, 1745-1770.
SHERIFFS AND DEPUTY SHERIFFS.
DEPUTY SHERIFFS BOTETOURT COUNTY, 1770-1773.
Attorneys and Date of Qualification.
Lawyers Practising in the Superior Court of Chancery for Washington County in the Years 1812-1831, Wytheville, Va.
Surveyors of Augusta County, 1745-1770.
Washington County.
Washington County Supervisors, 1870-1904.
Constables on Holston.
Botetourt County, 1770-1773.
Fincastle County, 1773-1776.
Washington County, 1777-1784.
ROADS.
MINISTERS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
LIST OF VICE-PRESIDENTS.
SUPREME COURT, CHIEF JUSTICES AND ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.
CENSUS OF VIRGINIA—1900.
CENSUS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY—1790-1900.
Population of Towns and Cities of Washington County—1900.
FINCASTLE COUNTY.
Militia Officers, 1770-1777.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Revolutionary Soldiers, 1776-1783.
NUMBER OF TROOPS FURNISHED BY THE STATES DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Officers in the Militia, 1812-1815.
Colonel 105th Regiment.
Preston, John.
Colonels 70th Regiment.
Major.
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WASHINGTON COUNTY CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS, 1861-1865. WASHINGTON MOUNTED RIFLES.
Company "L," Afterwards Company "D," First Regiment, Virginia Volunteer Cavalry.
Goodson Rifle Guards.
"MOUNTAIN BOYS."
Company "B," Thirty-seventh Virginia Regiment.
"WASHINGTON INDEPENDENTS," AFTERWARDS COMPANY K, THIRTY-SEVENTH VIRGINIA INFANTRY.
GLADE SPRING RIFLES.
Company F, Thirty-Seventh Virginia Regiment Infantry.
TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT VIRGINIA CAVALRY, COMPANY C.
Remarks.
TWENTY-FIRST VIRGINIA CAVALRY, COMPANY F.
COMPANY I, FORTY-EIGHTH VIRGINIA REGIMENT.
COMPANY H, THIRTY-SEVENTH VIRGINIA VOLUNTEERS.
COMPANY C, TWENTY-FIRST VIRGINIA CAVALRY (AT CLOSE OF WAR).
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, 1898.
Company K, Forty-third United States Infantry.
Company H, Third Regiment of Volunteer Infantry U. S. A.
Fourth Virginia Regiment.
TRUSTEES OF THE ABINGDON ACADEMY, WITH DATE OF APPOINTMENT.
MUSTER ROLL OF COMPANIES UPON THE EXPEDITION TO POINT PLEASANT, 1774.
Capt. Daniel Smith's Company.
Capt. Wm. Campbell's Company.
Capt. Shelby's Company.
Capt. James Harrod's Party.
Capt. Robert Doack's Company.
LIST OF WOUNDED MEN OCTOBER 23, 1774.
Capt. Shelby's Company.
Capt. Russell's Company.
Capt. Campbell's Company.
Major Robertson's Company.
Capt. Herbert's Company.
List of Men in Capt. Daniel Smith's Company at Elk Garden Fort, August 13th, 1774.
Sept. 12th, 1774.
List of Men at Glade Hollow Fort.
At Maiden Springs Station August 26, 1774.
Officers.
At the Upper Station.
(Return of) Troops From Fincastle on the Expedition Against the Ohio Indians September 9, 1774
INDEX.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
J.
K.
L.
M.
N.
O.
P.
Q.
R.
S.
T.
U.
V.
W.
X.
Y.
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History of southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870
Constables on Holston.
1755. George Stalnaker appointed Constable on Holston river.
History of southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870
