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The Honorable Louis E. Epes is the present representa- tive of the county in the State Senate.
The present Board of Supervisors of the county are :
Buffalo District: W. W. Swan.
Farmville District : J. Ashby Armistead.
Hampden District: W. A. McCraw.
Leigh District : F. H. Kauffman.
Lockett District : W. B. Bruce.
Prospect District : R. W. Fuqua.
Samuel W. Watkins is the Treasurer of the county: E. L. Dupuy, Commissioner of Revenue; and Judge Asa D. Watkins, Commonwealth's Attorney.
REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES AND SENATE Allen, James, 1782.
Anderson, Samuel C., 1828-29, 1842-43, 1843-44, 1844-45, 1846-47.
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Bibb, Richard, 1783, 1784-85, 1785-86, 1786-87.
Bibb, William, 1779, 1780-81, 1784-85.
Booker, Edward, 1813-14, 1814-15, 1815-16, 1816-17, 1819-20.
Booker, John, 1803-04, 1804-05.
Booker, Richard A., 1861 (Jan.).
Booker, William, Convention 1776; House 1776-77.
Branch, Tazewell, 1874 (Jan.), 1874-75, 1875-76, 1876-77.
Burke, Samuel D., 1840-41.
Burton, R. M., 1891-92.
Carter, Samuel, 1805-06.
Champlin, N. H., 1881-82.
Clarke, John, 1784-85, 1785-86, 1786-87.
Clarke, John, 1817-18, 1818-19, 1821-22.
Dickinson, Asa D., 1857-58, 1859-60.
Dillon, James, 1829-30.
Dupuy, Asa, 1820-21, 1821-22, 1822-23, 1823-24, 1824-25, 1825-26, 1826-27, 1827-28, 1828-29, 1829-30, 1831-32, 1833-34, 1834-35.
Dupuy, W. P., 1885-86, 1887 (March), 1887-88, 1889-90.
Evans, W. D., 1877-78, 1879-80.
Ewing, W. H., 1910, 1912.
Farrar, Stephen C., 1827-28.
Flournoy, John J., 1817-18, 1818-19.
Flournoy, Thomas, 1777, 1779, 1781-82. Flournoy, William C., 1850-51, 1852 (Jan.). Griggs, N. M., 1883-84, 1884 (Aug.).
Henry, Patrick, Convention 1788; House 1787-88, 1788, 1789, 1790.
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Holcombe, John, 1782.
Jackson, Thomas P., 1869-70, 1870-71.
Johnston, Peter, 1792, 1793, 1798-99, 1799-1800. 1800-01. 1801-02, 1802-03, 1803-04, 1804-05, 1805-06, 1806-07, 1807-08, 1810-11.
Jorgenson, Joseph, 1871-72, 1872-73.
Lawson, Robert, Convention 1788; House 1778, 1780-81, 1782, 1783, 1787-88.
Lindsay, William, 1813-14, 1814-15, 1815-16, 1816-17.
M'Dearmon, Samuel D., 1845-46.
McIlwaine, Richard, Convention 1901-02.
Madison, James, 1835-36.
Molloy, Thomas, 1795.
Moore, Joseph, 1781-82.
Morton, John, 1777.
Nash, John, 1778.
Owen, John, J., 1899-1900, 1901-02, 1904, 1906, 1908.
Purnall, (Purnell), John, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1798-99, 1806-07, 1807-08, 1808-09, 1809-10, 1810-11, 1811-12, 1812-13.
Scott, Charles, 1797-98, 1799-1800.
Southall, Stephen, O., 1852, 1853-54.
Stokes, Colin, 1893-94, 1895-96.
Thornton, John T., Convention 1861.
Tredway, Thomas T., 1855-56, 1861-62, 1862, (April), 1862, (Sept.), 1863 (Jan.), 1863-64, 1864-65.
Venable, Abraham, B., 1800-01, 1801-02, 1802-03, 1803-04.
Venable, Nathaniel E., 1836-37, 1838 (Jan), 1839 (Jan.), 1839-40.
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Venable, Richard N., Convention, 1829-30; House 1797- 98, 1820-21, 1830-31.
Wade, James, 1795, 1796.
Watkins, Asa D., 1897-98.
Watkins, Henry E., 1812-13, 1819-20, 1820-21, 1822-23, 1823-24, 1824-25, 1825-26, 1826-27, 1832-33.
Watts, William, Convention 1775; House 1776.
Wilson, James H., 1841-42, 1852 (Jan.).
Winston; Peter, 1914, 1916, 1918.
Womack, Archer, 1809-10.
Womack, Benjamin W., 1847-48.
Woodson, Charles, 1811-12.
Woodson, Tarlton, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1794, 1808-09.
Wootton, William T., 1848-49, 1849-50.
Bondurant, E. T., 1920.
PRINCE EDWARD AND APPOMATTOX Watkins, F. N., 1865-66, 1866-67.
SENATE
Paul Carrington, 1776, 1777-78, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794. Walter Coles, 1778, 1779, 1780-81.
Nathaniel Venable, 1781, 1781-82, 1782. William Hubard, 1783, 1784-85, 1785-86, 1786-87. John Coleman, 1787-88, 1788-89, 1789, 1790. David Clarke, 1795, 1796, 1797-98.
George Carrington, 1798-99.
Gideon Spencer, 1799-00, 1800-01, 1801-02, 1802-03.
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Isaac H. Coles, 1803-04, 1804-05, 1805-06, 1806-07, 1807- 08, 1808-09, 1809-10, 1810-11.
Joseph Wiatt (Wyatt), 1811-12, 1812-13, 1813-14, 1823- 24, 1824-25, 1825-26, 1826-27, 1827-28, 1828-29, 1829-30, 1830- 31, 1831-32, 1832-33.
William Rice, 1813-14, 1814-15.
. John Hill, 1815-16, 1816-17, 1817-18, 1818-19.
Howson Clark, 1819-20, 1820-21, 1821-22, 1822-23.
Henry E. Watkins, 1833-34, 1834-35.
Archibald A. Campbell, 1835-36, 1836-37.
Louis C. Bouldin, 1838, 1839, 1839-40, 1840-41, 1841-42, 1842-43.
William H. Dennis, 1843-44, 1844-45, 1845-46, 1846-47. 1847-48, 1848-49, 1849-50, 1850-51.
Thomas H. Campbell, 1852-53, 1853-54, 1855-56, 1857-58. .
William C. Knight, 1859-61.
Asa D. Dickinson, 1859-61, 1861-63, 1863-65.
Christopher C. McRae, 1865-67.
James D. Bland, 1869-71 (Negro).
John T. Hamlett, 1869-71.
John Robinson, 1871-73 (Negro).
Edgar Allan, 1874-75, 1875-77.
Calvin H. Bliss, 1877-79, 1879-80, 1881-82, 1883-84, 1885- 87.
N. M. Griggs, 1887-88, 1889-90 (Negro).
Joseph W. Southall, 1891-92, 1893-94, 1895-96, 1897-98.
Asa D. Watkins, 1899-00, 1901-04.
Wiliam Hodges Mann, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1910.
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Robert K. Brock, 1912, 1914-15.
George E. Allen, 1916, 1918. Louis E. Eppes, 1920.
Prince Edward County Senatorial representatives have served two or more counties, changing with various re-dis- tributions.
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Chapter Hour The Court House
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THE COURT HOUSE
The site of the first Court House of Prince Edward coun- ty, was at the village of Worsham, near to the location of Hampden-Sidney College. The first courts were held in private residences in that immediate vicinity. A Public Square was purchased and suitable buildings erected thereon in due course. This place was named for the Worsham fam- ily, the most conspicuous of them, in the affairs of the coun- ty being Branch G. Worsham, who became County Clerk in 1825 and continued till after the Civil War.
At the February Court, February 12, 1754, Charles An- derson offered the use of his kitchen as a temporary lockup until such time as a suitable prison could be erected, which offer was declined, doubtless with thanks.
At the next court, the same Anderson was awarded the contract for the building of a Court House, Stocks, Pillory, and Whipping Post, at or near his house in the county, the jail building to be of logs, twelve feet by sixteen feet in the clear, and to bring in his account at the laying of the next levy. He was later, at the May Court, 1755, paid fifty- two pounds and fifteen shillings for the same.
At the October Court of the same year, arrangements were made for the painting of the Court House, the tarring of the roof, and for changing the character and the place of the windows.
Many entries are to be found in the minute books of the Court respecting the Court buildings, providing for their upkeep, renewal, etc., in the century and a quarter, or there- abouts that the Court House remained at Worsham. High hopes had been entertained as to the prospective growth of the little village, but they remained unfulfilled; the place did not grow.
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A persistent agitation had grown up for the removal of the county seat to the larger and more convenient neighbor- ing town of Farmville, which would not down. This agita- tion culminated in a decision of the people in favor of such a removal. The following order apears in "County Court Orders," under date of April 18, 1871: "The Council of the Town of Farmville having represented to the Court that the Corporation had contracted with James B. Eley, for the purchase of a lot of land containing not less than one-half acre, situated in the Town of Farmville, on the East side of the Main Street of said Town, between the Baptist and the African Baptist Churches, and desiring the Court to enter on record, its approval of said land as a location for a Court House, Clerk's Office, and Jail, it is ordered that the said location be hereby approved," etc.
This order was signed by the Hon. F. N. Watkins, then serving as County Judge.
The following entry of the 'County Court Orders,' on page 282, under date of February 12, 1872, shows progress:
"It being suggested to the Court that the Council of the Town of Farmville will, in a short time, tender to the Court a Court House, Jail, and Clerk's Office, built in Farmville in pursuance of the provisions of the Act of General Assembly, Approved 4th November 1870, and of March 4th, 1871, in relation thereto, it is ordered that R. B. Berkeley, H. R. Hooper, and E. Wiltse be Commissioners on the part of the Court to confer with the Corporation of Farmville, and re- port to the Court whether said buildings are suitable for the use of the county, what stoves and other furniture will be necessary therefor, and the probable cost thereof, together with any other matter concerning the same, deemed perti- nent thereto."
The final consummation of all these plans for removal to Farmville are attested in an Order of the Court, under date
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of March 19, 1872, and appearing on Page 287, 'County Court Orders' as follows :
"A Deed, bearing date of February 1872, from the Town of Farmville to the County of Prince Edward, with certifi- cate of acknowledgment annexed, was presented in Court and ordered to be recorded. And, it appearing to the Court that the deed conveyed according to law, the lot in Farmville on which the Court House, and other Public Buildings are erected, it is ordered that the said Deed be accepted and ap- proved.
Commissioners Berkeley, Wiltse, and Hooper, appointed at the February Term to examine the new Court House, made a report, which was Ordered Filed.
The Court doth Order that it be certified on the records of the Court as follows, to wit:
That the General Assembly of Virginia did (by an Act entitled, 'An Act to Authorize the Qualified Voters of the County of Prince Edward to vote on the Question of remov- ing the County Court House to the Town of Farmville' Ap- proved, 2nd November, 1870, and by an Act Amending the third section thereof, Approved 4th March, 1871) provide for the vote indicated in the Tables of said Acts. That said vote has been taken; that from the returns and abstracts of the votes so cast upon the Question of the removal of the Court House of Prince Edward, it appeared that a majority of the Votes were "For the Town of Farmville." That the Council of the Town of Farmville have caused to be erected a Court House, Jail, and Clerk's Office, in the corporate limits of said Town, on a lot of land not less than one-half or more than two, acres, and have tendered the same this day to the Court by an Order of the Council of the Town of Farmville, and have agreed to complete unfinished parts of buildings by Orders of the Council, herewith filed. That the fee simple title thereto has been made to the County of
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Prince Edward by a conveyance of General Warranty, which conveyance has been this day approved by this Court, and en- tered of record (See sep Acts, 69, 70. pa 550, and of 70, 71 pa 150) it is thereupon Ordered :-
FIRST: That the conveyance and Buildings herein men- tioned be accepted and approved.
SECOND : That as soon as practicable the Clerk of this Court remove the Books, Papers, and Furni- ture in the Clerk's Office, and in the existing Court House, and Jail, to the Clerk's Office, and Court House, and Jail, in Farmville, and thereafter the Court shall be held in Farmville.
THIRD :
That the real estate and other corporate prop- erty of the County of Prince Edward, be, and the same is hereby delivered to the Supervis- ors of Prince Edward, to be used for public purposes, and managed and controlled by them according to law. This Court neither abandoning or compromising any right of, or title to the said property, or any part there- of, at any time held by the County.
That R. S. Hines, the present keeper of the old Court House and Jail, hold and take care of, according to law, the Public Property at, or near the old Court House, subject to the Orders of the Court or Supervisors; that he receive, hold, and deliver the keys of the Court House, Jail, and Clerk's Office to said Supervisors, and that the Clerk, without de- lay, certify this Third Section to the Super- visors.
FOURTH: That a 'Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds' be appointed, who shall, till other-
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wise Ordered, keep the keys and take care of the Public Buildings and Grounds under the Orders of the Court, who shall cause fires to be made, and other conveniences provided for the Courts, who shall cause the Court and Jury rooms to be swept and kept clean. He shall prevent all pasting of advertisements on the walls of the buildings and enclosures, and shall give information of all violations of "The Act to Prevent Certain Offenses Against Public Property" passed 21st January, 1867. Pro- vided, however, that this Order shall not apply to that portion of the Court House in which is situated the Clerk's Office and public room adjoining thereto, which rooms shall be under the care of the Clerk of the Courts.
FIFTH:
In-as-much as the Council of Farmville hav- ing, without expense to the County, erected the Public Buildings and conveyed the lot to this County, and have added a large room adjoin- ing the Clerk's Office, for the use of the Coun- ty, the Corporate Authorities of Farmville may, till further orders, use the said room for meetings of the Council, and for the Mayor's Court free of charge for rent, provided, how- ever, that the cost of furnishing and keeping said room and supplying it with fires and at- tending the same, shall be supplied by the Town of Farmville.
SIXTH:
That Henry J. Crute be appointed Superin- tendent of Public Grounds and Buildings.
SEVENTH : That the Clerk cause brief notice of the change in the County Seat to be printed, and that he deliver 50 copies to the Sheriff, who is directed
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to post not less than 4 copies thereof in each Township, and that he append thereto, notice of the Post Office addresses of the Officers of the County, and that a copy of the same be published weekly for four weeks in the "New Commonwealth."
The Hon. F. N. Watkins, was Judge, and F. H. Armi- stead Deputy Clerk, at the time of this change of the County Seat.
The first sitting of the Court at the new County Seat was held on "Tuesday, the 26 day of March, 1872, in the 96th year of the Commonwealth," the Hon. F. N. Watkins, Judge, presiding.
Wiltshire Cardwell qualified as the first jailor of the new Jail, March 26, 1872, and the following served as the Grand Jury at that first term : R. H. Carter, foreman; N. H. Champ- lin; J. B. Dupuy ; C. C. Taliaferro; R. H. Walker; and Rich- ard Burton.
And the Court House has remained at Farmville to the present day.
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FARMVILLE: THE COUNTY SEAT
FARMVILLE, the principal town of Prince Edward Coun- ty, and the County seat, is a thriving place of some 5,000 population, inclusive of suburbs. It occupies a position of considerable importance as a tobacco manufacturing center, being the fifth largest in the State.
The State Female Normal School, with an average en- rollment of over six hundred students, is located here. A splendid Training School, and an excellent High School are also located within the corporate limits of the municipality, while a good colored school is situated just outside the town on the Hampden-Sidney Road. Hampden-Sidney College, a Presbyterian institution, founded in 1775, is about seven miles distant, and is reached by a fine cement and macadam road.
The famous Farmville Lithia Springs are situated just outside the corporate limits, on the Cumberland County side of the Appomattox river. This water is noted for its cura- tive properties, and is shipped to all points of this, and other countries. "The analysis of these waters is essentially the same as that of the celebrated Carlsbad Springs of Germany, but the Farmville Lithia contains more different kinds of salts, and is superior in consequence. The Farmville Lithia Springs, strictly speaking, is only a part of a straggling cluster of mineral springs which constitute one of Nature's greatest phenomena, some explored and some unexplored." Those springs explored outside of the Lithia are: Magnesia, for dyspepsia; Iodine, for blood troubles; Sulphur and Iron, for bony formations between the joints; Iodine, Iron and Sulphur, for complicated blood troubles; Alum, for chronic intestinal troubles, and internal piles; and Arsenous Chaly- beate, for the nervous system. These wonderful Springs were known to the Red Man, as is evidenced by unearthing relics of
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the Stone-age and charcoal from their fires, in the work of excavation; also, living land-marks of the Indian Trail in the shape of large trees arranged to form an arrow pointing to a ford across the Appomattox river. To the White Man they have only been known for about half a century. Un- fortunately, these wonderful Springs have never been intelli- gently and energetically developed and exploited. In their financial, as well as in their curative properties, they present a most alluring prospect.
To the south of the municipality, on the Hampden-Sid- ney Road, is to be found the almost equally celebrated Pickett Springs of almost pure water, used as a specific for various form of Kidney Disease. This water possesses radio-activity to approximately the following amount: 240 x 10-11 grams Radium per U. S. gallon. It is sodic and calcic bicarbonated alkaline (silicious) water of value, according to an analysis made by Mr. O. E. Sheppard of the University of Missouri.
In Farmville, where a majority of the homes are supplied with these waters, not a single case of Typhoid has occurred for years, except by foreign contraction.
Farmville is situated about seventy miles south-westerly from the City of Richmond. It was established in 1798, on the property of Judith Randolph. Charles Scott, Peter John- ston, John Randolph, Jr., Philip Holcomb, Jr., Martin Smith, Blake B. W. Woodson and Creed Taylor, were appointed Trustees to lay off the town in half-acre lots, on which the purchaser was required to build within seven years. The new town prospered from the very beginning and, in 1872, be- came the County-seat.
The community boasts two newspaper printing offices; . the "Herald" and the "Leader"; three banks, one Baptist, one Episcopal, one Methodist Episcopal, and one Presbyterian Church, for white people, and two Baptist, and one Methodist Episcopal Church, for colored people; one Conservatory of Music; a fine Motion Picture Treatre; and the educational
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institutions above noted. It possesses two fine grist mills. The "Farmville Mill," established in 1838, is the oldest in the county. It has a fine re-inforced cement elevator, with a capacity of 50,000 bushels, erected in 1921 at a cost of $30,- 000, which compares most favorably with any of its kind in the State.
The "Prince Edward Mill," operated by the Prince Ed- ward Milling Company, composed of Thomas Asbury Gray, William S. Gray, and Leland H. Green, began operations in 1914. This mill has a capacity of 50 barrels of flour, 500 bushels of meal, 5,000 pounds of chop, and 2,000 pounds of mill feed, per day. In connection with the mill, the same company, operating under the name of the Prince Edward Ice Company, conducts an up-to-date ice plant and cold stor- age warehouse, with a capacity of 15 tons of ice per day, and separate storage facilities for eggs, poultry, apples, ice cream, and ice. This entire plant has a valuation of $60,000.
The Farmville Ice Plant, owned and managed by Wil- liam C. Newman, was opened for business in 1909. The plant has a capacity of forty tons of ice per day, but specializes in ice cream, and, besides enjoying a large local patronage, ships its product to many outside points. The plant, with its equipment, represents an investment of about $50,000.
Four automobile concerns minister to the automotive necessities of the people.
In the matter of hotel accommodation, the traveling pub- lic is well cared for: The historic "Prince Edward Hotel" is owned and managed by Mr. Charles T. Chick. The "Con- tinental Hotel," managed by Mr. J. O. Hardaway, is also owned by Mr. Chick. The third hotel, the "Ingersoll," is presided over by the Ingersoll Brothers.
Two large lumber concerns are located here; the Taylor Manufacturing Company, organized to succeed the Buffalo Mills Company, in 1919, and specializing in building mate- rials; and the Farmville Manufacturing Company, organized
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in 1878 in succession to a concern originally located in Amelia county, and specializing in plow handles and building mate- rials. The officers of the Farmville Manufacturing Company are, George M. Robeson, President; Floyd B. Gilbert, Vice- President, and Erna L. Perrow, Secy .- Treas. The officers of the Taylor Manufacturing Company are, Bennett T. Taylor, Prospect, Va., President; Edward S. Taylor, Prospect, Va., Vice-President, and H. Carl Holesapple, Farmville, Secty .- Treas.
The Post Office, completed in 1920, is modern in all its appointment and is an adornment to the town.
Farmville is the center of the tobacco business for the county. Four tobacco factories are in regular operation, while five other factories are used for the hanging of tobacco. There are in addition, three warehouses and four storage houses. The property investment is well over the quarter million mark. An average of over 7,000,000 pounds of the weed are handled annually, for which approximately $1,000,- 000 is paid out every year.
A strong and flourishing Chamber of Commerce, of which Mr. W. Clyde Duvall is President; Mr. E. Waller Sanford, Secretary, and Mr. J. Barrye Wall, Treasurer, is in operation, and doing good work.
The officers of the municipality are :
James A. Davidson, Mayor.
N. B. Davidson; Dr. R. L. Hudgins; E. Lee Morris; E. Scott Martin; W. Clyde Duvall; W. C. Newman; H. A. Barrow; R. B. Cralle; E. Southall Shields, Councilors.
C. Booker Cunningham, Clerk.
Horace B. Warriner, Treasurer.
Leslie Fogus, Supt. of Public Utilities.
E. D. Lipscomb, Chief of Police.
J. W. Crute; T. S. Whitlock, and J. L. Sublett. police officers.
Dr. William E. Anderson, Public Health Officer.
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Dr. William E. Anderson; Dr. J. H. Cocks, and Mrs. Roberta Large are the members of the Public School Board.
On March 1, 1912, an election of qualified voters was held in order to ascertain their will respecting the issue of school bonds for $25,000 to be used for the erection and furnishing of a new school house. The proposed issue was approved and, in process of time the present splendid school building was erected and put in use. The grounds cost $3,300. The present valuation of the entire property and equipment is in the neighborhood of $60,000.
The present teaching staff is as follows:
M. Blair Dickinson, A. B., M. A., Principal.
Herman Levy, A. B., B. S., Assistant Principal.
Miss Hannah Crawley, Danville College and University of Virginia.
Mrs. L. P. Davidson, L. I., Peabody College.
Miss Grace Beard, B. S., Farmville.
Mrs. Brazeal Hobson, State Normal, Farmville.
Mrs. John Lancaster, State Normal, Farmville.
Miss Ruth Woodruff, Averett College, Danville, Va.
Miss Virgie Bugg, State Normal, Farmville; Cornell and Columbia.
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Chapter Six
Prince Edward County in the Revolutionary Period
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PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD
Owing to the rather remarkable absence of data rela- tive to this period as affecting the part that Prince Edward county had in that stormy controversy, but little by way of connected narrative can be given.
The Royalist Governor, Lord Dunmore, because of the antagonistic spirit shown by them against the Crown, often dissolved the Council of the Burgesses of Virginia, during the period from 1773 to 1776. After these successive dissolu- tions, instead of going to their homes as directed by the Governor, the Burgesses began, in 1774 to assemble at the Raleigh Tavern, at Williamsburg, the then Capital of the Colony, and resolved themselves into Revolutionary Con- ventions. One of these Conventions was convened in 1774, two in 1775, and finally into the famous Convention of 1776. Thus the very end that he strove to avert was really hastened by the ill-starred course of the Governor.
So odious indeed, did the name of Dunmore become, that a county that had been named in his honor, was re- christened "Shenandoah."
While these Conventions were being held the people gen- rally bcame greatly aroused, and began to organize for the conflict that was more or less generally expected. They chose Committees of Safety, and put the militia on a war footing. Prince Edward county was quite as active as any in the Commonwealth in pressing forward these precaution- ary measures.
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