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An 1864 county map of Virginia and West Virginia following their separation. Much as counties were subdivided as the population grew to maintain a government of a size and location both convenient and of citizens with common interests (at least to some degree), as Virginia grew, the portions that remained after the subdivision of Kentucky in ...
Having served his period of indenture, Adam returned to England, only to return to Virginia with a wife and 105 men. He was granted a large landholding and became a leading citizen of the area. He was elected to the House of Burgesses in 1629, 1629–1630 and 1632, [ 2 ] to the Governor's Council, and as a Justice of the Court.
Newtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Newtown, King and Queen County, Virginia, United States.About 45 miles northeast of Richmond on the Middle Peninsula, Newtown took the name of the plantation of Captain John Richards, who had a store and ordinary (tavern/inn) on the post road (or King's Highway) between Williamsburg, Virginia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in King William County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Although Leonard Claiborne (1649–1694) both received Virginia land from his father and patented 3000 acres in what became King William County, he settled in Jamaica and served in that island's assembly in 1693. [48] Several lines of American Claibornes claim emigrant William as their ancestor.
A map from 1736 map of the Northern Neck Proprietary. The Northern Neck Proprietary – also called the Northern Neck land grant, Fairfax Proprietary, or Fairfax Grant – was a land grant first contrived by the exiled English King Charles II in 1649 and encompassing all the lands bounded by the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers in colonial Virginia.
The Virginia Colony became a royal colony and so it continued until the Revolutionary War. But the change had little effect on the colony, for King Charles I was so occupied with troubles at home that he gave less attention to the government of Virginia than the company had done, and popular government continued to flourish. Of the 6,000 people ...
Shepherdstown, West Virginia (estab. 1762) MD-34: Duke St + Kearneysville Pike (WV-380) + Leetown Rd + Queen St: 13 miles (21 km) Middleway, West Virginia (estab. 1734) Settlement was originally called Smithfield Queen St + Box Factory Rd + Leetown Rd + Summit Point Rd: 5.4 miles (8.7 km) Virginia State Line; Clarke County: VA-672: Swimley Rd ...