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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.
Seal of Virginia following the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660. Virginia Cavaliers were royalist supporters (known as Cavaliers) in the Royal Colony of Virginia at various times during the era of the English Civil War and the Stuart Restoration in the mid-17th century.
Sir William Berkeley (/ ˈ b ɑːr k l iː /; 1605 – 9 July 1677) was an English colonial administrator who served as the governor of Virginia from 1660 to 1677. One of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, as governor of Virginia he implemented policies that bred dissent among the colonists and sparked Bacon's Rebellion.
Charles City County, Virginia - King Charles II of England. Charleston County, South Carolina - King Charles II of England. Charlotte County, Florida - The Bay of Charlotte Harbor, which was named after Queen Charlotte. Cumberland County, Maine - Prince William of Great Britain, Duke of Cumberland
Berkeley also invited the king to Virginia. The issue of which side Maryland stood on was finally settled, at least in appearance, when Thomas Greene, deputy to Stone and a Roman Catholic, declared on November 15, 1649, that Charles II was the "undoubted rightfull heire to all his father's dominions". All acts taken by the Maryland Assembly ...
In the period following the English Civil War, the exiled King Charles II hoped to shore up the loyalty of several of his supporters by granting them a significant area of mostly uncharted land to control as a proprietary in Virginia (a claim that would only be valid were the king to return to power). While under the jurisdiction of the ...
William Berkeley, who was governor at the time of the execution of King Charles I, remained in office until the arrival of a Commonwealth fleet in 1651 led to his removal. Berkeley was returned to office by votes of the Virginia assembly and by appointment of the restored King Charles II in 1660. Governor Sir Francis Wyatt (1624–1626)
Virginia was the most loyal of King Charles II's dominions. It had, according to the eighteenth-century historian Robert Beverley Jr., been "the last of all the King's Dominions that submitted to the Usurpation". [24] Virginia had provided sanctuary for Cavaliers fleeing the English republic.