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Luke Hill (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
sons it would be difficult to imagine. McCabe, page 9.The indulgences of the Virginian of the eighteenth century were not peculiar to him alone. They largely prevailed in New England. They were the natural reflex of the laxity of English morals under the Georges. However liable the Virginian may have been to the charge of intolerance, superstition seems not to have benighted his nature. His courts record but one instance of an arraignment for witchcraft. Upon the complaint of one Luke Hill and wife in 1795 Grace Sherwood was tried by the County Court of Princess Anne on the suspicion of witchcraft. She was first searched by an able jury of ancient women and then subjected to the water test—being cast into the river and she swiming w'n therein and bound, contrary to custom, was again committed to ye common goal of ye county to be brought to a ffuture tryall there. Collections of the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society, Volume I, 1833. pages 69-78. The court,
Quaker (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
kers were quite numerous in Nansemond, Norfolk, and Isle of Wight counties about the middle of the seventeenth century. John Pleasants, the ancestor of the worthy family of the name in this country, emigrated from Norwich, England, to Virginia in 1665, and settled in Henrico county in 1668. In the records of the county, of date October 1, 1692, appears the following: John Pleasants, in behalf of himself and other Quakers, did this day, in open court, p'sent ye following Acc't of ye Quaker places of public meeting in this county, viz.: Att our Public Meeting House. † Thomas Holmes [presumed to be the minister]; Att Mary Maddox's, a monthly meeting; Att John Pleasants'. These are directed to be committed to record as the Act of Parliament enjoins, they being the places of public worship. † John Pleasants, Henry Randolph, C. C. Record-book Henrico county, page 352. The Record-Book of the Henrico meetings of the Society of Friends from 1699 to 1746 is preserved. At a mo
Manchester (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 1.18
pendence. They are admitted to be whole-souled rebels. It is an old subject of complaint that Virginians devoted themselves too exclusively to agricultural and individual enterprises. The history of our colonial legislation is replete with acts to encourage the establishment of towns. To Virginia belongs the honor of inaugurating the manufacture of iron in America. In 1619, on Falling creek, a tributary of James river, Chesterfield county, about seven miles below the present city of Manchester, works for smelting iron were erected. The Indian massacre of 1622 unfortunately terminated the enterprise. There were early efforts for the cultivation of flax and hemp, and the breeding of silk-worms for the manufacture of fabrics. In 1657 premiums were offered for the production of silk, flax, and other staple commodities. Hening, Volume I, page 169. Mr. Meredith, whose able address I have referred to, conclusively refutes the charge of illiteracy and disregard for education in
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
d meetings in Virginia, the date being October, 1699, and the places his three houses at Pocomoke, Accomack town, and Onancock. Foote's Sketches, first series, pages 51-52. It is well known that the Quakers were quite numerous in Nansemond, Norfolk, and Isle of Wight counties about the middle of the seventeenth century. John Pleasants, the ancestor of the worthy family of the name in this country, emigrated from Norwich, England, to Virginia in 1665, and settled in Henrico county in 166est to note that the ancestors of the lamented Henry K. Ellyson, the late honored president of the Board of Trustees of this college, were members of the Henrico Meeting of Friends. If there was not an earlier house of worship of the Quakers in Norfolk, Nansemond, or Isle of Wight counties, with some it might be held that in this early licensed meeting-house in Henrico county rests the honor of the germ of Religious Liberty in Virginia. Sweet charity! how waywardly thy behests are sometime
Onancock (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
resting museum of this college a precious relic, a brick from the Chesterfield jail, a votive shrine of religious liberty, as the prison of Baptist apostles. Foote, the Presbyterian historian, asserts that under the provisions of the Act of Toleration—first William and Mary, 1689—the minister, Francis Makemie (who was also a merchant), was the first Dissenter licensed to hold meetings in Virginia, the date being October, 1699, and the places his three houses at Pocomoke, Accomack town, and Onancock. Foote's Sketches, first series, pages 51-52. It is well known that the Quakers were quite numerous in Nansemond, Norfolk, and Isle of Wight counties about the middle of the seventeenth century. John Pleasants, the ancestor of the worthy family of the name in this country, emigrated from Norwich, England, to Virginia in 1665, and settled in Henrico county in 1668. In the records of the county, of date October 1, 1692, appears the following: John Pleasants, in behalf of himsel
Rockbridge (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
ers of Virginia, pages 261-318. McCabe, among the sources of education in the Colony, cites the Parsons' Schools; that of Rev. Devereux Jarratt, in Fluvanna county; the classical school of Rev. John Todd, in Louisa, in 1750; Augusta Academy, in Rockbridge, in 1774—the germ of the present Washington and Lee University; Prince Edward Academy, in 1776—now Hampden—Sidney College; Washington—Henry Academy, in Hanover, founded a few years later by John D. Blair—the Parson Blair, of Richmond, of revereneral Hugh Mercer, who fell at Princeton in 1777, and our own Richmond pioneers, James McClurg and William Foushee, both of whom rendered excellent service in the Revolution. I may mention also Ephriam McDowell, son of James McDowell, of Rockbridge county, who was the first surgeon on record to successfully perform, in Kentucky, in 1809, the operation for extirpation of the ovary.. The list of Virginia-born physicians graduated from Edinburgh and Glasgow is a lengthy one. The earliest
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
in 1611, and Dr. John Pott in 1624. Contributions to the Annals of Medical Progress in the United States, Joseph M. Toner, M. D., Washington, 1874. The last was Governor of the colony in 1628. The（Virginia furnished also Madison and Harrison, as you are aware.) There have been fifteen United States Cabinet officers, a chief and three associate justices of the United States Supreme Court, one lieutenant-general United States army, fourteen United States envoys and ministers, eighty-four United States senators and representatives in Congress, sixty judges of the United States District, United States senators and representatives in Congress, sixty judges of the United States District, Circuit and State Courts, three presidents of colleges, and twenty-three governors of States. New York, 1890, reprinted from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Dr. Thomas NelsonUnited States District, Circuit and State Courts, three presidents of colleges, and twenty-three governors of States. New York, 1890, reprinted from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Dr. Thomas Nelson Page, in his able address on The History of the South, delivered before the Alumni Society of the University of Virginia in Louisville, Ky., April 13th last, thus eloquently invokes the coming expos
York (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
ainments of the Virginia colonists, from the earliest period, compared favorably with such average acquirements in Old England or New England. My friend, President Tyler, of William and Mary College, who has carefully examined the records of York county from 1645, informs me that they sustain this conclusion. He found, however, at the conclusion of the seventeenth century evidences of a marked improvement in education and in material circumstances. Possessions were more valuable, and includThe last was Governor of the colony in 1628. There was no deficiency onward of such ministrants. I find Chirurgeon John Brock, with others, in 1640, and a little later Drs. Daniel Parke, Robert Ellison, Francis Haddon, and Patrick Napier, in York county. Dr. John Mitchell, F. R. S., eminent, as a botanist as well as physician, located in Middlesex in 1700. Another alike doubly distinguished in science was John Clayton, son of the Attorney-General of the same name, and who settled in Glouc
Chesterfield (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
the exemplification of Virginians in the struggles for independence. They are admitted to be whole-souled rebels. It is an old subject of complaint that Virginians devoted themselves too exclusively to agricultural and individual enterprises. The history of our colonial legislation is replete with acts to encourage the establishment of towns. To Virginia belongs the honor of inaugurating the manufacture of iron in America. In 1619, on Falling creek, a tributary of James river, Chesterfield county, about seven miles below the present city of Manchester, works for smelting iron were erected. The Indian massacre of 1622 unfortunately terminated the enterprise. There were early efforts for the cultivation of flax and hemp, and the breeding of silk-worms for the manufacture of fabrics. In 1657 premiums were offered for the production of silk, flax, and other staple commodities. Hening, Volume I, page 169. Mr. Meredith, whose able address I have referred to, conclusively ref
Jamestown (Virginia) (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
anced both by Smith and Wingfield. In Bagnall's narrative in the Historie of the first General Historie, pages 55-65. it is noted that order was daily to haue prayer with a Psalme; and Wingfield notes that when their store of liquors was reduced to two gallons each of sack and aqua vitae, the first was reserued for the communion-table. Wingfield's Narrative, quoted by Anderson in his History ofhe Church of England in the Colonies, Volume I, page 77. The Virginia Assembly which met at Jamestown, July 30, 1619, the first representative legislative body convened in America, enjoined the religious instruction of the natives. It also enacted that all persons whatsoever upon the Sabbath days shall frequent divine service and sermons both forenoon and afternoon. Colonial Records of Virginia (Senate Document, 1874), pages 20-27-28. Drunkenness, gaming and blasphemy were rigorously punished. The requirement of church attendance, the interdiction of travelling on the Sabbath, and
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