Twelve Virginia Counties: Where Western Migration Began

Where the Western Migration Began

BY JOHN H. GWATHMEY

AUTHOR OF

LEGENDS OF VIRGINIA COURTHOUSES, LEGENDS OF

VIRGINIA

LAWYERS, JUSTICE JOHN, THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF

CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH.

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Contents

Albemarle County

Architecture of Courthouses

Augusta County

Caroline County

Cornwallis in Virginia Court Clerks

Curious Military Punishments

Essex County

Gloucester County

Goochland County

Hanover County

King William County

King and Queen County

Knights of the Golden Horseshoe

Louisa County

New Kent County

Officers of the Revolution

Orange County

Transportation to the West

Virginia Chief Executives

York River Basin Westward

Index:

Abrahall, Abraham, Abrell, Acree, Adams, Alcock, Alderman, Alexander, Alexanders, Allen, Allens, Allensworth, Almond, Ambler, Ambrose, Amherst, Anderson, Andrews, Andros, Anthony, Antrim, Arbuckle, Argall, Armistead, Arnaud, Arnold, Ash, Ast, Athey, Atkins, Atkinson, Austin, Aylett, Ayletts, Bacon, BAGBY, Bagwell, Bailey, Baird, Baker, Baldwin, Ball, Ballard, Ballou, Balthis, Bankhead, Barbour, Barclay, Barnett, Baron, Barret, Barrett, Bartley, Barton, Baskins, Bassett, Basye, Bates, Battaile, Battaill, Bayless, Baylor, Baynham, Baytop, Beadle, Beadles, Beal, Beale, Beall, Beau, Beazley, Beck, Bell, Bennett, Bentley, Benton, Berkeley, Berkley, Bernard, Berry, Beverley, Beverly, Bias, Bibb, Bickley, Bigger, Billups, Bird, Black, Blackburn, Blacke, Blackwell, Blair, Blakey, Bland, Blands, Blanton, Bogart, Boggs, Bohanan, Bohannon, Boiling, Boisseau, Bolling, Bonaparte, Bondurant, Booker, Boone, Booth, Booths, Borkey, Bosher, Boswell, Bott, Bottetourt, Botts, Boucher, Boughan, BOULWARE, Boutwell, Bowcock, Bowe, Bowen, Bowie, Bowman, Bowyer, Boyd, Boynham, Brackenridge, Bracketts, Bradburn, Braddock, Bradley, Bradshaw, Brady, Brame, Bramham, Bratton, Braxton, Bray, Breckinridge, Breman, Brickerton, Brisco, Britt, Broaddus, Broadhead, Brockenbrough, Brockman, Broky, Brooke, Brooks, Broun, Brown, Browne, Brownes, Browning, Brownlee, Bruce, Brumley, Bryan, Buchanan, Bucher, Buckner, Bueford, Buford, Bullock, Bumgardner, Burch, Burden, Burgess, Burke, Burnett, Burnley, Burnleys, Burnside, Burr, Burrus, Burruss, Burton, Burwell, Bush, Button, Byrd, Cabell, Calbraith, Calhoun, Callis, Cameron, Cammack, Camp, Campbell, Cannon, Caperton, Cardiff, CARDWELL, Carey, Carpenter, Carr, Carrington, Carter, Cartmill, Cary, Caslett, Caswell, Catlett, Cauthorn, Cave, Chabanas, Chamberlayne, Chambers, Chandler, Chapman, Chastain, Chatham, Chew, Chewning, Chicheley, Chichester, Chief Powhatan, Childs, Chiswell, Christian, Christian., Churchill, Churchman, Claiborne, Claibornes, Clark, Clarks, Clay, Clayton, Clemons, Cleveland, Clifton, Clinton, Clopton, Clouder, Cluverius, Coalter, Cobb, Cobbs, Cochran, Cockburn, Cocke, Coger, Coghill, Cole, Coleman, Coles, Collins, Colson, Colter, Conduit, Conner, Connor, Conway, Cook, Cooke, Cookes, Coolidge, Corbin, Corbins, Cornelius, Cornstalk, Cornwallis, Cosby, Cottrell, Coulter, Council, Courtney, Covington, Cowan, Coward, Cowherd, Cox, Craig, Craven, Crawford, Crawfords, Crenshaw, Critcher, Crittenden, Croshaw, Crouch, Crow, Croxton, Croxtons, Crozet, Crump, Crutchfield, Cullen, Culpeper, Cunningham, Curd, Currance, Curtis, Custer, Custis, Dabney, Dahlgren, Daingerfield, Dale, Dandridge, Dandridges, Daniel, Davie, Davies, Davis, Dawson, Day, De, De Grasse, de Reidesei, Deans, Deering, Dejarnet, DeJarnette, Denny, DEW, Dewberry, Dickenson, Dickey, Dickinson, Dicks, Digges, Dillon, Dimmocks, Dinwiddie, Divers, Dixon, Doake, Dobyns, Doddridge, Donahoe, Donovan, Dooley, Dorsey, Doswell, Douglas, Douglass, Downer, Downs, Doyle, Drummond, Drysdale, Dudley, Duer, Duff, Duke, Dunlap, Dunmore, DuPont, Durrett, Durritt, DuVal, Dyer, Early, Easley, Echols, Eddins, Eddleton, Edmondson, Edmundson, Edwards, Eels, Eheart, Elder, Ellerson, Ellett, Elliott, Ellis, Ellsworth, Elwood, Emmett, Enos, Eppes, Estes, Eubank, Evans, Ewell, Ewing, Farinholt, Farland, Farrar, Fauntleroy, Fauquier, Featherstone, Ferrier, Field, Finley, Fitzhugh, Fleeman, Fleet, Fleisher, Fleming, Flemming, Fletcher, Flournoy, Floyd, Fontaine, Fontaines, Ford, Forloynes, Forston, Foster, Fountaine, Fowler, Fox, Francisco, Franklin, Frayser, Frazier, Fry, Funk, Gaines, Galbraith, Gale, Gamble, Garber, Garland, Garlick, Garlicks, Garner, Garnett, GARRETT, Garth, Gates, Gaury, Gayle, Geiger, George, Gibbs, Gibson, Giles, Gill, Gilliam, Gilmer, Given, Givens, Glassel, Glenn, Goldsby, Gooch, Goodall, Goodman, Goodrich, Goodwin, Goolsby, Gordon, Gordons, Gossage, Gouldman, Govers, Graham, Gravatt, Graves, Gray, Grayson, Green, Greene, Greenwood, Gregory, Gresham, Griffon, Grills, Grimsley, Grinnan, Grymes, Guerrant, Guy, Gwathmey, Gwin, Gwinne, Gwynn, Hackett, Haight, Haile, Hall, Hamilton, Hammer, Hammond, Hamor, Hampton, Hancock, Handford, Hanger, Hanley, Hansford, Hardin, Harding, Hargis, Harman, Harper, Harris, Harrison, Hart, Hartsook, Hartswell, Harvey, Harvie, Harwood, Hastings, Hatcher, HAW, Hawes, Hawkins, Haxall, Hay, Hayes, Haynes, Hays, Haywood, Head, Hempenstall, Henderson, Hening, Henley, Henleys, Henry, Henshaw, Henson, Herndon, Hewitt, Heyward, Hibble, Hibbs, Hicklin, Hickman, Higgin, Hill, Hoard, Hobson, Hockaday, Hockley, Hogg, Hogshead, Holladay, Holland, Holliday, Holloway, Holman, Holmes, Holt, Hood, Hoomes, Hooper, Hope, Hopkins, Hord, Hoskins, Hottle, Houser, Houston, Howard, Hubard, Hudgin, Hudgins, Hudson, Huger, Hughes, Hull, Humphreys, Hundley, Hunter, Hunton, Hurt, HUTCHINSON, Imboden, Irvin, Irving, Israel, Iversonn, Jackson, James, Jameson, Jarman, Jefferson, Jeffreys, JEFFRIES, Jeifries, Jenings, Jenyngs, Jerdone, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Jouett, Kay, Kean, Keeling, Keith, Kelly, Kemp, Kemper, Kenny, Kent, Kenton, Keppel, Kerr, Key, Kidd, Kilby, Kilpatrick, Kimbrough, King, King Powhatan, Kinkead, Kinney, Kinsolving, Kirke, Kline, Knight, Koiner, Kriete, Lacey, Lacy, Lafayette, Lancaster, Landram, Landsdowne, Lane, Langborne, Langhorne, Larew, Large, Latane, Latané, Laughlin, Lawson, Leak, Leake, Leavitt, Lee, Leek, Leigh, Letcher, Levy, Lewis, Lewises, Lightfoot, Lilley, Lincoln, Lindsay, Lipscomb, Lipscombs, Littlepage, Littlepages, Littleton, Lively, Llewellyn, Lockridge, Logan, Lomax, Long, Lovall, Loveless, Lowderson, Lowry, Lowther, Lucas, Ludwell, Lumpkin, Lumsden, Lyddall, Lyde, Lyle, Lynch, Lyne, Lyon, Lyons, Mackemie, Macon, Madison, Magruder, Mallory, Mann, Manns, Mariott, Marks, Marshall, Martin, Marye, Mason, Massie, Mathews, Matthews, Maupin, Maury, Maxwell, May, Mayo, McCaul, McClanahan, McClayland, McClellan, McClenachan, McClenahan, McClures, McCormick, McCoy, McCreery, McCue, McCulloch, McCune, McCutchen, McDowell, McDowells, McGuire, McHenry, McKee, McKennie, McKinney, McKittrick, McLaughlin, McMahon, Meade, Mercer, Meredith, Merediths, Meriwether, Merritt, Merriwether, Merry, Michaux, Michie, Micou, Midlothian,, Miles, Miller, Millers, Mills, Miner, Minor, Mitchell, Moffett, Moncure, Monroe, Montague, Montgomery, MOOKLAR, Moon, Moore, Moores, Moorman, Morgan, Morris, Morrow, Morson, Morton, Moryson, Mosby, Mosco, Moseley, Mosely, Moss, Mossom, Motley, Munday, Munford, Murray, Muscoe, Muse, Myers, Nalle, Nelson, Nevill, New, Newman, Newmans, Newport, Newton, Nicholas, Nicholson, Noel, Noland, Nolting, Norment, Norton, Nunn, O'Ferrall, Old, Oliver, Overstreet, Overton, Owen, Page, Pages, Palmer, Pannill, Parker, Parkinson, Parmentier, Parran, Parrish, Parsons, Pate, Patrick, Patterson, Paul, Paulet, Payne, Peatross, Peck, Peebles, Peers, Peery, Pemberton, Pence, Pendleton, Penn, Pennill, Percy, Perkins, Perrin, Perry, Petis, Pettit, Pettus, Peyton, Peytons, Phelps, Phillips, Pickett, Pierpont, Piper, Pitt, Pleasants, Pledge, Plummer, Poage, Pocahontas, Poe, Poindexter, Pollard, Poor, Porter, Porterfield, Porteus, Pott, Potts, Powell, Power, Powers, Pratt, Preston, Prevost, Price, Pringle, Proctor, Prossers, Pryor, Purcell, Quarles, Quesenberry, Ragland, Raine, Ramsey, Randolph, Rankin, Ransom, Ransone, Ratcliffe, Rawlings, Rawlins, Read, Reade, Reader, REDD, Redford, Reed, Reid, Rennolds, Rey, Reynolds, Rhodes, Rice, Richards, Richardson, Richeson, Ricks, Riddle, Ridley, Ritchie, Rives, Roach, Roane, Roanes, Robards, Roberts, Robertson, Robins, Robinson, Rockefeller, Rodes, Rodman, Rogers, Rolfe, Rollins, Rootes, Ross, Routledge, Rouzie, Row, Rowe, Rowland, Roy, Royster, Rucker, Ruffin, Ruffins, Russell, Rutherfoord, Rutherford, Ryland, Sadlet, Sale, Sallee, Sampson, Samuel, Samuels, Sanders, Sandridge, Sandy, Sanford, Saunders, Schooler, Scott, Sears, Seawell, Seay, Seddon, Segar, Selden, Seldens, Semple, Sergeant, Shackelford, Shackleford, Shaddock, Shaw, Sheffey, Sheffield, Shelby, Shelton, Sheltons, Sheridan, Sherman, Shirley, Silvette, Simms, Simpson, Sims, Sinclair, Singleton, Sisson, Skelton, Skidmore, Skinner, Slater, Slaughter, Sleet, Smith, Snead, Southall, SOUTHGATE, Southworth, Sowers, Spears, Spencer, Sperry, Spotswood, Spriggs, St. Clair, Stanhope, Stanup, Staples, Starke, Steel, Steele, Stephenson, Stern, Sterns, Sterrett, Steuben, Stevens, Stevenson, Stewart, Sthreshley, Sthreshly, Stith, Stonar, Stone, Stoneman, Storey, Stovin, Street, Streshly, Stribling, Stringfellow, Stuart, Stubblefleld, Stubbs, Suit, Sully, Sumter, Sutton, Swann, Swanson, Swift, Sydnor, Syme, Symes, Tabb, Tabbs, Taliafero, Taliaferro, Taliaferros, Talley, Tardieu, Tarleton, Tate, Tayloe, Taylor, Taylor,, Tazewell, Tebbs, Tecumseh, Temple, Temples, Tennent, Terrell, Terrells, Terrill, Terry, Thacker, Thawley, Thilman, Thistler, Thomas, Thompson, Thornton, Throckmorton, Throckmortons, Thruston, Thurston, Tilghman, Timberlake, Timble, Tindall, Tinsleys, Todd, Todkill, Toler, Tompkins, Tooley, Towles, Trevillian, Trevy, Tribble, Trible, Trice, Trimble, Trinkle, Trueheart, Truman, Tucker, Tunstall, Tunstalls, Tupman, Turner, Twiner, Twyman, Tyler, Underwood, Upshaw, Upshur, Vaiden, Valentine, Van Lew, Vance, VAUGHAN, Venable, Verrazano, Vest, Waddell, Waddey, Waddy, Wade, Waid, Walden, Walker, Wallace, Wallaces, Waller, Walter, Walton, Ward, Ware, Waring, Warner, Warwick, Washington, Wasley, Waters, Watkins, Watson, Wauchub, Waugh, Wayles, Wayne, Wayt, Webb, Webber, Weddell, Welch, Well, Wells, Wertenbaker, West, Westfall, Wests, Wetzel, White, Whitehead, Whites, Whiting, Whitings, Whitlocke, Wiatt, Wickham, Wickhams, Wier, Wiglesworth, Wilkinson, Williams, Williamson, Willis, Wilroy, Wilson, Wingfield, Winn, WINSTON, Winstons, Wirt, Wise, Wood, Woodford, Woods, Woodson, Woodsons, Woolfolk, Wortham, Wren, Wright, Wyatt, Wythe, Yancey, Yancy, Yeardley, Yeardly, Yeatman, Young, Zane,