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Annals of Bath County, Virginia

Annals of Bath County, Virginia

Morton, Oren Frederic

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ISBN10: 1150206322
ISBN13: 9781150206320
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.46 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1918 Original Publisher: The McClure co, inc. Subjects: Bath County (Va.) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT T IS an established fact that in 1671 a party sent out from Fort Henry -- now Petersburg -- penetrated to the Falls of New River and found on the way several letters cut into the bark of the trees. These markings were by still earlier prospectors of whom nothing else is known. But the journal kept by this party, and the journal written about the same time by John Lederer, were scarcely supplemented during the next half century by any further authentic information as to the country west of the Blue Ridge. That mountain barrier presents from the east a rather rugged and lofty outline. It was thought impassible. The country on the farther side was uninhabited by Indians and was believed to be very uninviting. During the first century after the settlement at Jamestown, the eight original counties grew into 25, yet they were tenanted by only a fifth of the half million inhabitants of the English colonies in America. In Virginia the area of actual settlement had not spread two-thirds of the way from the Atlantic coast to the Blue Ridge. In 1716 the governor of Virginia was Alexander Spottswood, a man of energy and foresight. He believed in making good the claim of the British to the region beyond the mountains. Geographical knowledge concerning the interior of the American continent was very foggy, and the governor believed the Blue Ridge to lie much nearer the Great Lakes than is really the case. He wished to find a way to those lakes, so that forts might be established on them, these forts to be linked with ...

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