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OAKHILL. Two miles northeast of Gordonsville, was the home of Francis Cowherd, of Point Pleasant fame, who was a captain in the Revolution. Present owners, his descendants of the same name.
PLEASANT VIEW. In the lower part of the County, not far from the Spotsylvania line. It was built for Mr. Jonathan Graves about 1830, and is now owned by Mr. W. G. Crenshaw, Jr., his grandson. It was long the residence of Capt. R. Perrin Graves.
ROCKLANDS. Near Gordonsville. The first resi- dence on this plantation was built for Mr. Edmund Henshaw, near the middle of the last century. He soon sold to Mr. Richard Barton Haxall, who gave it the name "Rocklands," and greatly enlarged and improved both the house and farm. The present owner, Mr. Thomas Atkinson, had about completed many improvements of the mansion when it was burned down in 1905.
The present mansion is one of the handsomest houses in the County, and, as the illustration shows, is in the colonial style of architecture. The "outlook" from
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the front portico is pleasing, near and far; beautiful greensward, ornamental hedges, an artificial water view and undulating fields constitute the nearer land- scape; to the left the highest reaches of the Southwest Mountains in full view, and in front the inspiring hori- zon of the Blue Ridge-a moral and a mental tonic to any lover of nature.
Well did Sir Walter say that if he could not see the Scotch heather once a year he would die. So feel those whose occasional view of the Blue Ridge has become almost a necessary part of their enjoyment of life.
ROSE HILL. Near Rapidan; the home of Law- rence Taliaferro, first colonel of the "Culpeper" Minute Men, whose grave there is in a sad state of neglect and almost if not quite unknown. The fine mansion, built by Mr. Lewis Crenshaw and enlarged by Mr. Bresee, is not the simple story-and-a-half colonial structure with dormer windows and without a porch in which Col. Taliaferro lived; but the place is historic, as having been his home.
SOLDIER'S REST. Near Raccoon Ford ; not Kelly's Ford (which is on the Rappahannock,) as stated in the genealogy of the Bruce family in the Virginia His- torical Magazine, Vol. II. 328. It was built prior to the Revolution by Charles Bruce, a captain in that war, and was later the residence of his son-in-law, James Williams, captain in the Revolution and major- general in the war of 1812; and then of Dr. George Morton, who married General Williams's daughter.
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The place is now owned by Judge James W. Morton, of Orange. The house, as reproduced herein from a cut in the above named magazine, was burned down in 1857.
SOMERSET. Near the railroad station named for it. Probably no house in the county occupies such a commanding site as this, blending in one prospect the water view of the Rapidan and Blue Run, the latter stream running quite through the plantation, and both ranges of mountains in all their convolutions.
The mansion was erected in 1803 for Mr. Thomas Macon, who married a sister of President Madison. Shortly after its completion there came an unprecedent- ed windstorm which lifted the massive roof and slightly changed its position. The same storm struck "Tetley", near the mouth of Blue Run, and left not a fragment of a barn nearly completed, but swept every piece of timber across the river into Madison. Such is the tra- dition, as narrated to me by the "elders."
This plantation, one of the finest in the County, has long been owned by the Goss family, and the beauty of the surroundings of the mansion is wholly due to the taste and energy of Mrs. Ann Goss, the mother of the present owners.
WOODLEY. Near Madison Run; the colonial part built by Ambrose Madison, brother of James, Jr., who was a captain in the Revolution. The commodious. wings were added by his daughter, Mrs. Nelly Willis, and it is now a handsome home, owned by Mr. W. W.
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Sanford, who has greatly improved this naturally fine estate.
WOOD PARK. Near Rapidan. The first building was erected by Mr. Baldwin Taliaferro, son of Col. Lawrence Taliaferro of "Rose Hill," of which estate this was a part.
This is a composite building of many architects, but to Col. George Willis, the grandfather of the present owner, Dr. Murat Willis, belongs the credit of its embel- lishment, the drawing-room especially being of very fine porportions, and notably handsome. It is a delight- ful and charming old country home in one of the most fertile and beautiful sections of the County.
OTHER HISTORIC HOUSES. Beginning at the upper end of the County, and not including houses specially mentioned, the following ought to be named ; and doubt- less others also, about which the writer is not informed. He does not, purposely, omit any that are entitled to mention, but names all that he has knowledge of, either personally or on the information of friends. He was promised information that has not been furnished, and the book must come to an end without further waiting :
The residence of the Barbours at Gordonsville was a famous hostelry and relay house in the stagecoach days, being on the main line to Philadelphia and New York, the former Federal capitals, where the statesmen of that day stopped, going and coming. Some apocry- phal stories of John Randolph, Henry Clay and others are still told in connection with this house. From its porch LaFayette addressed an enthusiastic assemblage
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of citizens from Orange and the surrounding counties, who came to bid him welcome on his triumphal tour in 1826. It belonged to the Gordon family, and, indeed, with the two houses nearly opposite, constituted Gor- donsville for many years.
Bloomingdale, near Somerset, was the home of Thomas Barbour, whose house stood several hundred yards northeast of the present mansion. "Tetley," near- by, was the home of a Capt. William Smith, but was so named by Mr. Charles J. Stovin, who owned it for many years. Bloomfield is the old Newman home, now owned by Judge Newman, and greatly improved. Hazel- hurst is the handsome home of Mr. Frank Nalle, near Somerset. The old Winslow house, near Poplar Run, burned down six years ago, was a genuine type of the colonial period. Walnut Hills, near Madison Mills, was the Orange home of Governor Kemper. Green- field, now owned by Mr. Richard Booten, was one of the old Taylor homes; the present house was built for Mr. Thomas Scott; some of the oldest tombstones in the county are there. Yatton, so named by Mr. Lewis B. Williams who lived and died there, was for- merly "Midland," another of the Taylor homes, as is also Meadow Farm, which is still in the Taylor family. Selma was the home of the "beloved physician," Dr. Peyton Grymes. Retreat, formerly Willis Grove, now owned by the heirs of Dr. Charles Conway, was the home of "Gentleman Billy" Willis, and a merry place in days of yore. Chestnut Hill, now owned by Mr. W. G. Crenshaw Jr., was the home of Dr. Uriel Terrell, famous in old days as a favorite hostlery of Henry
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Clay and other statesmen; the old Taliaferro home, near Rapidan, a Crown grant in 1726, now owned by Mr. John Taliaferro; Morton Hall, Lessland, former homes, of Hon. Jeremiah Morton; Vaucluse, of the ancient and aristocratic Grymes family; another Somerset, near Germanna-these are all old, and in a sense, historic homes.
CHAPTER XXIV.
Being a Personal Retrospect.
After more than five years of research and endeavor, this book is submitted to the indulgence of the public in the confidence of work conscientiously done; yet not without misgivings.
In writing history the personal note may never be sounded, and this chapter, not intended to be a part of the "history," is added, that some things not conso- nant with dignified narrative may be said.
Imprimis, it would be ungrateful not to acknowledge with genuine cordiality the encouragement received at the hands of gentlemen not native to the County and therefore not intimately interested in its history, yet without whose public spirit and liberality it is more than doubtful whether this book could ever have attained the dignity of type. He is an indifferent philos- opher who is ashamed of being poor; he is none at all who does not recognize the limitations of that con- dition. So, let it be said at once and once for all, that its publication is due to the liberality of those who have contributed to the illustrations; which, in the writer's judgment, constitute a very valuable historical feature.
Some of these have been contributed by personal friends who have, perhaps, denied themselves in order to perpetuate cherished historical memories; others
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by gentlemen who know the writer casually, or not at all, and who have taken on trust his promise to write a history of the County.
He can not forbear to thank both friends and stran- gers, nor to hope that they will think he has at least tried to keep faith.
And now comes the inevitable and irrepressible Ego, being a summary of the reasons that induced me to attempt this book. I knew many of the old people of the County-Dr. Uriel Terrell, who died aged 94; Mr. James Barbour Newman, a kinsman, who died aged 97; Mr. Johnson Barbour, my kinsman and my Mæcenas, whose mind was stored and saturated by his father and mother with the history and traditions of Orange.
Only suppose that I had collected from them, and had preserved in this book, all they could and gladly would have told me! What a book it might then have been, which now it can never be!
History ought to be a picture of the time it attempts to describe, a picture held up in substance, as it were, before the eyes of the reader; as Hamlet says it should "hold the mirror up to nature, and show the very age and body of the time his form and pressure."
I came to the age of immature observation shortly after the Reform Constitution of 1850-51 was ratified.
I remember well the old County Courts before they became field-days for fakirs and horse-traders. Though now but little past three-score, I remember people who wore queues and short breeches-not many but a few. I remember when the usual apparel of
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country gentlemen consisted of blue broadcloth "swallow tail" coats with brass buttons, nankeen waist- coats and trousers; and becoming apparel it was. "Vests" and "pantaloons" are modern, and the cut of the trousers is wholly different from what it used to be. The Rev. Dr. Philip Slaughter told me that he wore the first pair of trousers without the old fash- ioned "flap" ever seen in Orange; and Mr. Johnson Barbour told a story of an old family servant who asked his mother, "please not to let the sempstress make any of them blackguard breeches for him."
I remember Henry A. Wise and the great Know Nothing Campaign of 1856.
On the court green at Orange, I have seen Mr. John- son Barbour, Mr. James Barbour Newman, Mr. Wood- son Campbell, Mr. Benjamin Johnson, Mr. John S. Cowherd, Mr. Robert Taylor, Dr. James L. Jones, Col. James Magruder, Mr. Barton Haxall, Mr. E. Goss, Mr. Charles Stovin, Dr. James Madison, Col. John Willis, Major John H. Lee, Messrs. James, Reuben, Thomas and John F. Newman, Col. Garrett Scott, and his broth- ers John and Charles, Mr. David Meade Bernard, Mr. Thomas Scott, Dr. Peyton Grymes, Mr. Lewis B. Wil- liams, Mr. Richard Henry Willis, Col. George Willis, Mr. Philip B. Jones, Mr. Joseph Hiden, Mr. Ferdinand Jones, Hon. Jeremiah Morton, Mr. George Morton, of Pamunkey, Col. John Woolfolk, Mr. Travers Daniel, Mr. William C. Moore, Col. Elhanan Row, Mr. Lancelot Burrus, Dr. David Pannill, Mr. George Pannill, Mr. Philip S. Fry, Dr. Thomas Slaughter, Dr. Horace Talia- ferro, Dr. Edmund Taliaferro, Captain Dick Chapman,
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Mr. John F. Taliaferro, Capt. William G. Crenshaw, Col. B. F. Nalle, and many more of the like kind. They were mostly past the military age in 1861, but though not "the men behind the guns," they were behind the men who were behind them, from 1861 to 1865. Court days were court days in those times; a real educational influence.
I remember the John Brown raid in 1859, and the wild excitement it occasioned, and the apprehension of an insurrection, and the nightly patrols.
I saw Gen. Robert E. Lee, when he passed through Orange, April 22, 1861, and I ran off the next day and joined the Montpelier Guard, then at Harpers Ferry.
In a log schoolhouse, on the plantation now owned by Mr. Thomas Atkinson, I went to school with all the Magruder boys but the eldest, and I was in the same company with the Burrus boys, whose tragic history is narrated in the chapter on the war period.
I served throughout the world famous "Valley Cam- paign," and while a member of the V. M. I. Cadet Bat- talion, fired a farewell shot over the grave of Stonewall Jackson, the prelude to Appomattox.
The night before the battle of Winchester, September 19, 1864, one of the most fateful battles of the war to Orange soldiers, I slept in a tent with Wilson S. New- man, then commanding the Montpelier Guard, Lieut. Martin S. Stringfellow, and Phillip H. Scott, my brother. Our reveille the next morning was the bursting of shells in the camp. Newman was left for dead on the field. Stringfellow was twice wounded during the day, and
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Scott, after the surging lines had twice passed over him, was taken off the field on the shoulders of John Noland, a comrade, the son of his father's tenant, as Early's army began its final retreat. He was carried to a hospital where Dr. Grymes barely had time to amputate his leg near the hip; leaving him on the opera- ting table to avoid capture himself.
Nearly all day long, Christmas, 1864, then a mem- ber of the Black Horse Cavalry, I was on the enemy's flank while they were at Mr. Barton Haxall's stables, now Mr. Atkinson's, their object being the destruction of the railroad at Gordonsville. Our people at Gordons- ville fired up an old disabled locomotive which they would take very quietly down the road to Trevillian, and then reversing it would rush back, the whistle . screeching as if the world were about to come to its end. The raiders thought that infantry reinforcements were being rushed from Richmond, and after a slight skirmish with the home guards, stationed on the crest of the mountain near Col. Alexander Cameron's gate, retired across the Rapidan.
I got home from Appomattox April 12, 1865, and my brother, one legged and on crutches, met me at the door, and, for a few anguished moments, refused to believe that Lee had surrendered. I saw and endured Reconstruction, including the Black Crook Convention of 1867-68, negroes, aliens and all.
I remember this old Commonwealth in her tranquil happiness, before the war; in her majesty during the war; in her defeat and humiliation afterwards. Thank God! I see her in 1907, peaceful, prosperous,
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hopeful, recalling with proud emotions the memory of Pocahontas and John Smith at Jamestown, and celebrating with joyous acclaim the three-hundredth anniversary of her settlement.
APPENDICES.
APPENDIX A. (No Appendix is Indexed.)
Importations.
A list of persons who imported themselves, or were imported as servants by others, and who afterwards proved their importation in order to obtain their "head rights" to land in the colony. The date shows the year in which proof of importation was made and recorded. This list was kindly furnished by Mr. Philip H. Fry, for many years clerk of the County and Circuit Courts.
1736. ABEL, JOSEPH
1746. BUNTINE, WM.
1740. ANDERSON, JOHN
1747. BROWN, JOHN
1740. ANDERSON, GEORGE
1741. BRADY, WM.
1741. APPLEBY, ROBERT
1749. BIRD, SAML.
1753. ANDERSON, HANNAH
1755. BAILEY, ROBT.
1735. AMBURGER, CONRADE
1755. BEASLEY, BENNET
1756. BRAMHAM, FRANCIS
1735. BICKERS, ROBERT
1740. BRACKENRIDGE, ALEX.
1735. BOURKS, JOHN
1740. BELL, JAMES
1735. BRYAN, DENNIS
1740. BROWN, WM.
1735. BILLINGSLEY, FRANCIS
1739. BLAIR, ALEX.
1739. BUTLER, JOHN
1740. BLACK, THOS.
1740. CAMPBELL, PATRICK
1740. CALDWELL, JAMES
1740. BAMBRIDGE, ANN
1740. COLE, WM.
1741. BRYNE, HENRY
1740. CALDWELL, GEO.
1741. BRADSTREET, FRANCIS
1740. CRAWFORD, PATRICK
1741. BANKS, WM.
1739. CATHEY, JAMES
1741. BROWN, THOS.
1736. CAVENAUGH, PHILEMON
1740. CROCKET, ROBT.
1740. BRAWFORD, SAML.
1740. BASKINS, W. M.
1740. CARDHAUT, JOHN
1739. CAMBLE, JOHN
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1736. BUTLER, JOHN
1756. BROWN, ANNE
1735. BOURKS, MARTIN
1735. BURK, THOMAS
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1739. CROSS, RICHD.
1750. EVE, JOSEPH
1740. CARR, JOHN
1741. FINK, MARK
1740. CHRISTOPHER, NICHOLAS
1745. FRAZIER, ALEX.
1740. CARR, JACOB
1746. FORESTER, JOHN
1741. CRAWFORD, JOHN
1753. FINLEY, PATRICK
1745. CRAWFORD, WM.
1745. CHAMBERS, ELIZABETH
1740. Fox, JAMES
1750. COLLINS, ANN
1749. FERRELL, HONNER
1751. CARNEY, TIMOTHY
1740. FRAZER, ROBT.
1752. CARNEY, EASTER
1751. CHANEY, JOSEPH
1744. COLEMAN, JOHN
1744. COLEMAN, MARGARET
1750. COOK, GEO.
1749. COLLINS, JAMES
1736. GRANT, JOHN
1751. COLE, EDWARD
1740. GILASBY, JAMES
1747. COOK, JAMES
1743. CROSS, ELLIONER
1740. GAY, SAML.
1743. COOPER, WM.
1739. GIVINS, SAML.
1739. GRADY, MARY
1735. COTTON, JOSEPH
1746. GIBSON, ABEL
1735. DRAKE, SAMUEL
1746. GIBBINS, WM.
1735. DEALMORE, JOHN
1752. GRANT, ALEX.
1740. DALEY, JAMES
1750. GULLY, THOS.
1740. DAVIDSON, JOHN
1742. GIBSON, MARGARET
1740. DAVIS, JAMES
1743. GREEN, EDWARD
1740. DANNING, ELIZABETH
1747. GAHAGAN, THOMAS
1743. DUNGAN, MARGARET
1757. GOLDER, JOHN
1752. DOOLING, THOMAS
1746. GRACE, ANN
1749. DURHAM, JOHN
1735. GREEN, ROBT.
1751. DRAKE, HANNAH
1735. GRAY, WM.
1755. DAVIS, JOHN
1740. HAYS, JOHN
1746. DUFF, ARTHUR
1740. HAYS, PATRICK
1746. DUFF, MARY
1740. HOOK, ROBT.
1746. DULING, JOHN
1740. HARRELL, JOHN
1735. DYER, JAMES
1740. HALL, EDWARD
1735. DUNN, ARTHUR
1740. HUTCHESON, WM.
1740. EDMISTON, DAVID
1740. HENDERSON, THOMAS
1745. EDGEAR, WM.
1740. HUTCHESON, GEO.
1738. CUMMINS, ALEX.
1740. GILASBY, MARGARET
1740. GILASBY, MATTHEW
1756. CUSSINS, RICHD.
1745. GAINES, JAMES
1746. CAMPBELL, DOUGALD
1735. FINLASON, JOHN
1735. FLOYD, CHARLES
1740. GELASBY, JESSE
1755. COCKE, CHAS.
1735. FLOYD, JOHN
1750. FIELDS, MARY
1755. FLANDERS, WM.
1746. FRAZER, JOHN
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1740. HOPKINS, ELIZABETH
1749. LAMB, RICHD.
1741. HANEY, JOHN
1746. LERNAY, THOMAS
1741. HART, HENRY 1735. LATHAM, JOHN
1741. HARRIS, JOSEPH 1740. MCONNAL, ANDREW
1746. HOWSIN, THOMAS
1740. McDOWELL, ROBT.
1749. HUSSEE, EASTER
1740. MCCOWIN, FRANCIS
1750. HERRENDON, JOHN
1740. MCCLURE, JAMES
1743. HOPKINS, JAMES
1740. MAXWELL, JOHN
1755. HENDERSON, ALEX.
1739. McCADDAN, PATRICK
1756. HANEY, DARBY
1739. MCKAY, AGNES
1735. HOME, GEORGE
1739. MCKAY, WM.
1735. HUMPHREYS, GEORGE
1739. MCKAY, JAMES
1750. IRWIN, ANTHONY
1739. MORPHET, JOHN
1738. JONES, THOMAS
1739. McDOWELL, ROBT.
1740. JOHNSTON, WM.
1739. MITCHELL, DAVID
1740. JOHNSTON, WM.
1739. MCDOWELL, JOHN
1746. JENNINGS, EDWARD
1739. McMURRIN, MARGARET
1751. JOHNSON, PETER
1739. McDOWELL, EPHRAHIM
1750. JOHNSON, PETER
1739. MCALEGANT, JAMES
1750. JERMAN, THOMAS
1739. MCCANLESS, WM.
1741. JOHNSON, ARCHIBALD
1739. McCANLESS, ELIZABETH
1746. JONES, THOS.
1739. MULHALAN, JOHN
1735. JOHNSON, WM.
1739. MCLEAN, WM.
1735. LAMBOTTE, EDWARD
1739. McLEAN, MARGARET
1740. KING, ROBT.
1739. McDANIEL, WM.
1740. KING, WM.
1741. MCPHERSON, ROBT.
1740. KINDLE, THOMAS
1741. McPHERSON, MARGARET
1741. KINES, JOHN
1741. McPHERSON, ALIX.
1746. KELLY, WM.
1741. McPHERSON, SUSANNA
1752. KELLY, MICHAEL
1741. MILLS, JAMES
1737. KENDALL, HENRY
1745. McNIEL, PATRICK
1755. KENDALL, HENRY
1745. MCKENSEY, JOHN
1735. KELLY, WM.
1746. MCCULLOCK, ANN
1735. KERCHLER, MATHIAS
1740. LOGAN, DAVID
1752. McFIELD, JOHN
1740. LONG, WM.
1748. MASON, MARGARET
1750. MULHOLLAND, OWEN
1744. MORGAN, JOHN
1744. MORGAN, MARY
1735. MCCAN, JOHN
1746. LYNCH, JOHN
1750. LYON, MICHAEL
1748. MORRIS, WM.
1739. LEDGERWOOD, WM.
1739. LEPPER, JAMES
1739. LAMPART, EDWD.
1740. LEONARD, PATRICK
1735. McMURRIN, DAVID
1750. MCGINNIS, JAMES
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1749. MONROE, WM.
1738. RAMSEY, ROBT.
1749. MORRIS, JANE
1741. ROSSE, ALEX.
1751. MANNEN, ANDREW
1755. RAKESTRAW
1755. MORGAN, THOMAS
1755. ROUSE, FRANCIS
1755. MITCHELL, JOHN
1756. RIGBY, JOHN
1756. MCDONALD, JOHN
1756. RYAN, JOHN
1735. MCCULLEY, JAMES
1735. ROUSE, EDWARD
1735. MCCOY, JOHN
1735. ROBINSON, CHARLES
1735. MCKENNY, JOHN
1747. Ross, DAVID
1735. MITCHELL, WM.
1735. READ, JOHN
1735. NICHOLLS, WM.
1735. ROBERSON, JAMES
1741. NEWPORT, JOHN
1740. STEVENSON, THOS.
1740. OFRAIL, MORRIS
1740. SCOTT, SAMUEL
1752. OGG, JOHN and wife
1740. SCOTT, ROBERT
1750. ONATON, MARY
1740. STEAVENSON, JOHN
1735. PARSONS, RICHARD
1740. SMITH, JOHN
1736. PARKS, JOHN
1740. SKILLIM, WM.
1740. PATTERSON, ROBERT
1739. STEAVENSON, DAVID
1746. PAGE, JOHN
1739. STANTON, ELIZABETH
1746. PINER, THOMAS
1740. SMITH, WM.
1746. PRICE, EDWARD
1753. SHEETS, JOHN
1746. PARSONS, GEORGE
1750. SIMS, JOANNA
1752. PARSONS, MARY
1750. SMITH, OWEN
1752. POOR, MICHAEL
1744. SCALES, RICHARD
1754. PHILLIPS, JOSEPH
1749. SIMS, WM.
1755. PEACOCK, THOS.
1749. SCOTT, JAMES
1741. PARKS, THOMAS
1742. SEVIER, VALENTINE
1741. PHILLIPS, EDMUND
1743. SEARS, JOSEPH
1735. PITCHER, THOMAS
1738. STEWART, GEORGE
1735. PHILLIPS, JOSEPH
1750. SLEET, JAMES
1736. RYLY, MICAL
1750. SMITH, THOMAS
1741. RALSON, ROBERT
1755. SMITH, ELIZABETH
1740. RAY, JOSEPH
1756. STOKES, ELIZABETH
1740. READS, JOSEPH
1736. ROOD, JAMES
1740. REED, AGNES
1735. STACKALL, JOHN
1735. STANTON, MATTHEW
1746. RANEY, JOHN
1740. TRIMBLE, JOHN
1751. RICHE, PATRICK
1740. THOMPSON, WM.
1740. THOMASON, MOSES
1737. RYAN, SOLOMON
1741. SUTHERLAND, WM.
1735. SMALL, OLIVER
1740. ROBINSON, JAMES
1739. SMITH, WM.
1740. POAGE, ROBERT
1740. PICKENS, JOHN
1739. SMITH, ELIZABETH
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1740. THOMASON, ALEX. 1735. WEAVER, PETER
1739. TURK, ROBT.
1740. WILSON, DAVID
1752. TERRET, NATHANIEL
1739. WILSON, RICHARD
1751. TIBBIT, MATTHEW
1740. WALSH, PATRICK
1743. THOMPSON, ROBT.
1740. WILLIAMS, THOMAS
1743. THURSTON, SARAH
1740. WILSON, JOHN
1749. TERRILL, HONNER
1740. WALKER, JOHN
1738. THOMSON, JOHN
1745. WALSH, JOSEPH
1755. THOMPSON, ALEXANDER
1746. WOOD, THOS.
1735. THOMAS, JOSHUA
1746. WALLACE, HUMPHREY
1747. UPTON, HENRY
1750. WILLSON, MARY
1747. UPTON, MARY
1738. WHITE, JOHN
1735. VAUGHT, JOHN PAUL
1751. WHITMAN, WM.
1744. WHEELER, JOHN
1735. VAUGHT, MARY CATH- ERINE, wife,
1756. WALKER, THOMAS
1735. WOOD, JAMES
1735. VAUGHT, JOHN ANDREW, JOHN CASPER, sons
1735. WELCH, JOHN
1735. WARFIN, RICHARD
1735. WALKER, JOHN
1735. WILHITE, MICHAEL
1735. VINYARD, JOHN
1735. WARTHAN, JAMES
1740. YOUNG, ROBT.
These importations were almost without exception from "Great Britain," though in many cases Ireland is given specifically as the place whence imported.
The following list is wholly of "German Protestants," the importations having been all proved, and the par- ties naturalized, January 28, 1743.
BLANKENBACKER, ZACHARIAH BOMGARDNER, FREDERICK
GRAYS, LAWRENCE THOMAS, JOHN
CHRISTLE, DUVALD
UHLD, CHRISTOPHER
FLESHMAN, PETER
VALLICK, MARTIN
GARR, ANDREW, JOHN ADAM,
ZIMMERMAN (alias Carpenter), JOHN
and LAWRENCE.
And on February 24, 1743 :
BROYLE, COURTNEY MANSPILE, JACOB MILLER, JACOB
WILHITE, JOHN WILHITE, TOBIAS
1735. VAUGHT, CATHERINE, MARGARET and MARY CATH- ERINE, daughters
1735. WILHITE, JOHN
1735. WALKER, JOHN
APPENDIX B.
Census, 1782.
The Number of People Taken in Orange County by Catlett Conway, Gent., October, 1782. White Black White Black
WILLIAM HUNTER. 7 39
JOHN COOKE. 5
2
MARY MOTHERSHEAD. 9
9
DANIEL JAMES. 8
2
CHARLES BRUCE
II
30
HENRY COOKE
9
WILLIAM MORTON . .
3
30
RICHARD LONG 3
JESSE F. CLARK. 8
JOHN LONG. 3
WILLIAM STROTHER . 3
4
ROBERT BRADLEY 7
WILLIAM THORNTON. 7
ZACHY. COGHILL 9
RICHARD REYNOLDS .. 7
6 WILLIAM LANCASTER 7
4
THOMAS MORRISON ... 6
4
JOHN MILLER. 7
4
JAMES BARKER 5
JAMES TINDER IO
JOHN HANSFORD. IO
ANN SCOTT. 4
JOSEPH HILMAN. 8
REUBEN SCOTT .. 3
WILLIAM PANNELL. . II
19
THOMAS SUMMERS. 6
JOHN CHAMBERS. . . .
II
2
THOMAS WELCH. 6
6
JONATHAN GIBSON .. . 5
8 JAMES WETHERSPOON 6
JOHN BRAMHAM. .. 5
ADAM GOODLET .. 2 I
6
BENJAMIN MARTIN.
II
2
JOHN FAULCONER 6
6
JOHN KING.
2
I
JOHN DAWSON IO
JOHN CHISHAM 8
I
GEO. STUBBLEFIELD . 5
3
LEWIS PERRY. 4
3
CATLETT CONWAY 7
27
- CALEB ABELL
4
I
FRANCIS HUGHS. 8
2
URIEL MALLORY ..
9
I7
Total
335 267
The Number of People Taken in Orange County by Johnny Scott, Gent., October, 1782.
White Black
White Black
WILLIAM ACRE
9
I ELIJAH CRAIG. .
9 20
JOHN ACRE
6
2
JONATHAN COWHERD. 8
14
FRANCIS BUSH.
6
2
JOSEPH DAVIS. 9
7
JOHN BOSWELLS. I3
16 ROBT. DEARING, JR. . 5
2
JOHN BELL
8
20
JONATHAN DAVIS
5
WILLIAM BUCKNER. .
JOHN DEARING. 4
I
RICHARD GRAVES .. IO
II
JAMES ROBB. 1
I7
RICHARD ABELL 8
I
1
230
23I
APPENDIX -- CENSUS, 1782.
White Black
White Black
EDWARD DEARING ... 4 II
ANN MARTIN. 8 3
JAMES DAVIS.
4
I
GEORGE SMITH.
7
8
JOHN DANIEL.
3
8
JOSEPH SMITH .. I2 27
ELIZABETH EASTIN ... 6
IO
JOHN SUTTON, JR .. 3
2
NANCY EVE 6
I
JOHNNY SCOTT. 5
20
DAVID GELLASPY. II
9
JOSEPH SILVESTER. 3
I
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