The revised constitution was adopted on March 26, 1863, and on April 20, 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation admitting the state at the end of 60 days, on June 20, 1863. During the late 19th and early 20th century, West Virginia saw its population grow, due in large part to the economic job opportunities provided by the coal and logging industries. Join the community of family history enthusiasts and FamilySearch employees to ask questions and discuss potential product enhancements. All give reference to Virginia. The first European settlers started arriving about 1730. It is known that in 1732, that Jost Hite with Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia (p. 22). That Convention had offered the people of the State at least the form of a vote, and the Northwest at least had a full and free expression; and now they proposed to cut off Eastern Virginia without even the form of a vote. [Webmasters ", "If they proceeded now to direct a division of the State before a free expression of the people could be had, they would do a more despotic act than any ever done by the Richmond Convention itself. By the spring stocking of 1963, the West Virginia Centennial year, Evans and Mace had supervised the spawning of good color and quality brood stock of the Mountain State's Centennial Golden Trout.[47]. The first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory was the New Englander's town of Marietta, established in 1788. 520, High Density: {{copy.hd_shelf}}, {{copy.hd_shelfmark}}. 1734, Grant to Thomas Johnson, 150 The Film/Digital Notes contain a description of the microfilm or microfiche numbers. A protg of Dr. Ansted was William Nelson Page (18541932), a civil engineer and mining manager based at Ansted in Fayette County. ; no. in Council, to take up the same, upon certain conditions therein Farming to them was not only a means of earning a living, but also a way of life" a way of living.. When the United States Bureau of Mines was given more authority to regulate mine safety in the 1960s, safety awareness improved, and West Virginia coal mines became less dangerous.[44]. Morgan Morgan. sixteen families went into the Shenandoah Valley and from that of Militia in Accomack County, a contemporary of. part of the same article. Grant to Peter Woolf, 600 Well-engineered and highly efficient with all new infrastructure, it operated very profitably. After a failed attempt to include woman suffrage as a state constitutional amendment in 1916, pro-suffrage Governor John J. Cornwell included the ratification of the federal amendment for woman suffrage in the agenda for a special legislative session in February 1920. Many such early settlers in Virginia were called Second Sons. Enjoy the work of our webmasters, provide a link, do not copy their work. Arrived in Jamestown in 1608, Served in House of Burgesses for Elizabeth City County. certain conditions therein expressed, which orders were made the Also in 1725, Pearsall's Flats in the South Branch Potomac River valley, present-day Romney, was settled, and later became the site of the French and Indian War stockade, Fort Pearsall. In the postwar years, he continued his militancy; his miners went on strikes or "work stoppages" annually. A master at competitive "warfare", Henry Rogers did not like to lose in his endeavors, and also had "deep pockets". Noe, Kenneth W. "Exterminating Savages: The Union Army and Mountain Guerrillas in Southern West Virginia, 18611865." [20] In secessionist counties where a poll was conducted it was by military intervention. The first native settlers in West Virginia's Potomac Highlands (Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Randolph, and Tucker counties) were the Mound Builders, also known as the Adena people. that so many names of the early settlers of any region can be Lewis Stephens. The people of the expedition consisted of 'gentlemen' and farmers. [22] The May Convention resolved to meet again in June 1861 should the Ordinance of Secession be ratified by public poll on May 23, 1861, which was the case. West Virginia was officially admitted as a U.S. state on June 20, 1863. Generally, catalog entries are written in the same language as the original record they describe. Served as Deputy Governor of the Colony of Virginia 1627-1629. [13], The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 185051, the Reform Convention, addressed a number of issues important to western Virginians. Locals forced him to take refuge in the Armory firehouse, later called "John Brown's Fort"; a unit of U.S. Marines led by Robert E. Lee stormed the firehouse and took Brown prisoner, almost killing him. As the war went on, many citizens began to turn against the conflict. Elizabeth Cometti, and Festus P. Summers. A considerable part of this land was surveyed by George Washington, especially the South Branch Potomac River valley between 1748 and 1751. A number of riverside locations were used for early Industrial Revolution production. West Virginia is a state now, and the Industrial Revolution is taking place. acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Samuel Morris, 378 The vote was further compromised by the presence of an undetermined number of non-resident soldier votes.[36]. Among its many products, the shipyard began building ocean-going ships, known as colliers, to transport coal to other eastern ports (notably in New England) and overseas. first settlers, yet the full names he is able to give, or does Following this conflict, known as Dunmore's War, the Shawnee and Mingo ceded their rights south of the Ohio, that is, to West Virginia and Kentucky. Genealogical records. The West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association under the leadership of President Mrs. John L. Ruhl and WVESA Ratification Committee chair Lenna Lowe Yost created a "living petition" of suffragists who greeted and personally lobbied each legislator as they prepared to vote. The composition of the General Assembly was changed. Johnson, 298 Fairfax's daughter Anne married Warner Washington, 1st cousin of President George Washginton, Served as Governor of Virginia from 1727 until 1749, named, Father of Patrick Henry, American Founding Father. It shares a sister city with the same name, Bluefield, in Virginia. Luptons. Meanwhile, officers for the new state were chosen, and Governor Pierpont moved the Restored Government to Alexandria from which he asserted jurisdiction over the counties of Virginia within the federal lines. Other Early Settlers [Source documents noted] ADAMS, Ebenezer (d. 1735) New Kent county; son of Richard Adams, of Abridge, Essex, citizen and merchant tailor of London. Newer technology has since proved that West Virginia has enough salt resources to supply the nation's needs for an estimated 2,000 years. Win. Rakes (2008) examines coal mine fatalities in the state in the first half of the 20th century before safety regulations were strictly enforced in the 1960s. He was born in Wales and emigrated to Delaware about 1712. The necessary sections of right-of way and land were acquired before the large railroads realized what was happening. History of the James River and Kanawha Company By Wayland Fuller Dunaway. Box 6069 Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 Phone: 1-304-293-4040 Fax: 1-304-293-6638 West Virginia University. Frederick was established by law in These were Lutheran, Reformed, or Brethren. The property of Confederates might be confiscated, and, in 1866, a constitutional amendment disfranchising all who had given aid and comfort to the Confederacy was adopted. The constitutionality of the new state was achieved when the Unionist government of Virginia approved the division. The Virginia Colony became the wealthiest and most populated British colony in North America. Ashby, For the western areas, problems included the distance from the state seat of government in Richmond and the difference of common economic interests resultant from the tobacco and food crops farming, fishing, and coastal shipping to the east of the Eastern Continental Divide (waters which drain to the Atlantic Ocean) along the Allegheny Mountains, and the interests of the western portion which drained to the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Gulf of Mexico. University 1549 University Ave. | P.O. In 1889, in the southern part of the state, along the Norfolk and Western rail lines, the important coal center of Bluefield, West Virginia was founded. The Constitutional Convention met in November 1861, and consisted of 61 members. Ambler, Charles H. "If it required a military force to hold an election, if Cabell County, which borders on the Ohio River, had to have a military force to hold an election there; if Boone had to have a military force to hold an election at two points; if a detachment went up and held an election there, and got into a corner of Raleigh and held an election there, with what difficulty are the counties represented?" In 1861, as the United States itself became massively divided over slavery, leading to the American Civil War (18611865), the western regions of Virginia split with the eastern portion politically, and the two were never reconciled as a single state again. Most of the Cherokee claim within West Virginia, the southwestern part of the state, was sold to Virginia in 1770 by the Treaty of Lochaber. Nonetheless, West Virginia was considered the frontier for quite some time. This push, however, would soon provoke conflict, both with Native Americans already living in the area and with the French who also believed they held claim to the land. "A Reappraisal of Statehood Politics in West Virginia". Magazine, Quarterly, January 1903, Vol. It is rare that so many names of the early settlers of any region can be gotten at this day. (Erik Marmor/Flash90) On Monday, Elan Ganeles, 27, was shot to death while driving near the . In the election held on October 24, 1861, 18,408 votes were cast for the new state and only 781 against. He made surveys in 1748 acres, October 3, 1734, Grant to Samuel Taylor, 200 Failure of the eastern planter elite to make constitutional reforms exacerbated existing eastwest sectionalism in Virginia and contributed to Virginia's later split. For practical purposes, the Adena is Early Woodland period according to West Virginia University's Dr. Edward V. McMichael,[4] also among the 1963 Geological Survey. Isaac and John Van Meter, who had obtained orders from our said Spotsylvania By 2000, the state's improved economy seemed to be contributing to a reversal of nearly four decades of population losses. [34] In addition, a large portion of the state was secessionist,[35] and any polls there had to be conducted under military intervention. Branson, 1370 Votes from the secessionist counties in the October 24 vote on statehood were mostly cast by refugees in the area around Wheeling, not in the counties themselves. 500 acres, dated 3 October, 1734, Grant to Richard Pendall, 300 Barretts, Neets, Dillons, Fawcetts Orange in 1734 The Supreme Court decided in favor of West Virginia, and there has been no further question. [46], Mike Shingleton of the Division of Natural Resources explained the Centennial Golden Trout evolution. Genealogical records. Waddell, in his Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871 provides a list of the first few families that made up the first influx of settlers seeking in early Orange and Augusta County, Virginia. Illinois and Missouri. After its new President Frederick J. Kimball and a small party journeyed by horseback and saw firsthand the rich bituminous coal seam (which Kimball's wife named "Pocahontas," the N&W redirected its planned westward expansion to reach it. A few months later in 1957, the Petersburg hatchery moved these yellow-mottles to the larger Spring Run hatchery. Robert Hagar, Constitutional Convention delegate, quoted in, "Proclamation 100 Admitting West Virginia Into the Union", John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project, Lincoln and West Virginia Statehood* By J. Duane Squires Volume 24, Number 4 (July 1963), "Although early estimates noted that Union soldiers from the region outnumbered Confederates by more than three to one, more recent and detailed studies have concluded that there were nearly equal numbers of Union and Confederate soldiers. [6] They were farmers who cultivated large fields around their villages, concentrating on corn, beans, tubers, sunflowers, gourds and many types of squash including the pumpkin. Appointed Lt. Governor Alexander Spotswood is sometimes credited with taking his 1716 "Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition" into what is now Pendleton County, although according to contemporary accounts, Spotswood's trail went no farther west than Harrisonburg, Virginia. Mine accidents were considered inevitable, and mine safety did not appreciably improve the situation because of lax enforcement. John Van Metre, an Indian trader, penetrated into the northern portion of West Virginia in 1725. Soon after this, white settlers began moving into the Greater Shenandoah-Potomac Valley making up the entire eastern portion of the state. was made to Hite and Hite had the surveys made, and the surveyor West Virginia University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action The "capital" of the Pocahontas coalfield, this city would remain the largest city in the southern portion of the state for several decades. others that then in 1732 that came, but their Some delegates favored the immediate formation of a new state, while others argued that, as Virginia's secession had not yet been ratified or become effective, such action would constitute revolution against the United States. Wooden coal barges were built on the Monongahela River near Morgantown, as well as along Coal River and Elk River. The first native settlers in southern West Virginia were the Mound Builders, also known as the Adena people. Remnants of the Mound Builder=s civilization have been found throughout West Virginia, with a high concentration of artifacts located at Moundsville, West Virginia, in Marshall County. In 1863, General John D. Imboden, with 5,000 Confederate soldiers, overran a considerable portion of the state. High Sheriff and Capt. It called for the gradual emancipation of slaves based on age after July 4, 1863. Over one-third came from the counties around the northern panhandle. Industrialization in West Virginia produced conditions conducive to an organized labor . FamilySearch makes every effort to enable access dependent on decisions of record custodians and applicable laws. They now proposed a division when it was impossible for one-fourth of even the counties included in the boundaries proposed to give even an expression upon the proposition." acres, dated 3 October 1734, Grant to Isaac Pennington, The West Virginia Archives and History Library has custody of these records. The first native settlers in West Virginia's Potomac Highlands (Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Randolph, and Tucker counties) were the Mound Builders, also known as the Adena people. West Virginia's nickname is known as the "Mountain State" due to its landscape being largely covered by the Appalachian Mountains. The diary kept by Washington indicates that there were already many squatters, largely of German origin, along the South Branch. The first two English women arrived in 1608. The Wheeling Convention, which had taken a recess until August 6, 1861, reassembled on August 20, 1861, and called for a popular vote on the formation of a new state and for a convention to frame a constitution if the vote should be favorable. Virginians led by former Confederate General William Mahone formed a political coalition based upon this theory, the Readjuster Party. time. Activities, lesson plans, and other resources for teachers using the collections of the West Virginia & Regional History Center, https://libguides.wvu.edu/wvrhcteacherresources. Served in House of Burgesses for New Kent County, son of. recorded in Orange County, before the county of Frederick was Within this area west of the New River Coalfield in Raleigh and Wyoming counties lay the Winding Gulf Coalfield, later promoted as the "Billion Dollar Coalfield.". They lived in round (double post method) wicker sided and bark sheet roofed houses. After the 1730s, Virginia enacted a law that promised free land to new settlers, encouraging them to move west and form new colonies. It speak by the records of those that were among the earliest, if But the east also gave itself a tax advantage in requiring a property tax at true and actual value, except for slaves. They were: These counties served as the primary foundation for governing for many years in early Colonial Virginia, until the colonies agreed many years later to form what now is the United States of America. 19th century steamboats were built and repaired in Wheeling, Parkersburg, Point Pleasant and Mason City. The population was not homogeneous, as a considerable part of the immigration came by way of Pennsylvania and included Germans, Protestant Scotch-Irish, and settlers from the states farther north. Soon, the N&W was also shipping from its own new coal piers on Hampton Roads at Lamberts Point outside Norfolk. Among the numerous investors were Charles Pratt and New York City mayor Abram S. Hewitt, whose father-in-law, Peter Cooper, had been a key man in earlier development of the anthracite coal regions centered in eastern Pennsylvania and northwestern New Jersey. It will be noticed that there were deeds Served as Lt. : Brderbund, c2000 Physical: 1 CD-ROM ; 4 3/4 in. The Greenbrier River is a tributary of the New River, 173 miles (278 km) long, in southeastern West Virginia, USA. ], [Webmasters Settlements established in present-day Virginia by 1799: 536 acres, in Spottsylvania, Grant to Peter Stephen, 600 The issue was finally settled in 1915, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that West Virginia owed Virginia $12,393,929.50. With only 21 followers, in October of 1859 he took hostages and freed slaves in Harpers Ferry, at that time in Virginia. On July 13, 1709, Louis Michel, George Ritter, and Baron Christoph von Graffenried petitioned the King of England for a land grant in the Harpers Ferry, Shepherdstown area, Jefferson County, in order to establish a Swiss colony. The same year German settlers from Pennsylvania founded New Mecklenburg, the present Shepherdstown, on the Potomac River, and others soon followed. 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