Author: Jeff Roberts

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vapittsy/Oaths.html copy done by Cynthia Hubbard Headen source: The Magazine of VA Genealogy, v.23, #1 (Feb.1985), transcribed by Marian Dodson Chiarito These lists were taken from a typewritten copy found in the Clerk’s Office, Pittsylvania County, at Chatham, Virginia.  The two following affidavits found attached to the copy are...

Originally posted at http://www.danielboonetrail.com/historicalsites.php?id=80. AN EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK ON THE WILDERNESS ROAD  BY THE AUTHOR copyright November 2006 All rights reserved Lawrence J. Fleenor, Jr. Big Stone Gap, Va. The site of the 1773 massacre of the son of Daniel Boone and of the son of William Russell...

Originally posted at http://www.danielboonetrail.com/historicalsites.php?id=46. The Revolutionary War was fought on two fronts; from its beginning in 1775, until the treaty of peace in 1783, it was fought on the western front against the Indians, chiefly by the pioneers of Kentucky and frontiersmen of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and the Carolinas. It...

Originally posted at http://www.danielboonetrail.com/historicalsites.php?id=85. Written by Sally Kelly The site of Fort Blackmore can be reached from Gate City, Virginia. At the Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail sign in front of the Scott County Courthouse, proceed East (right) on Jackson Street/Rt. 71. After approximately two miles, turn left onto Rt....

This is the 1850 Federal Census for Lee County, Virginia Year: 1850   State: Virginia   County: Lee   Sheet No: 319B Reel No: M423-955   Division: District 31   Page No: 35 Enumerated on: August 1st, 1850 by: Stephen Crockett Transcribed by Ellen Finley-Johnson for USGenWeb, LINE | Dwell Famil | Firstname       Lastname        ...

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