General Andrew Lewis Indian Attacks during the Revolutionary War In 1776, problems with Indian attacks from the Shawnee and Cherokees continued and the militia was again called upon. An examination of county records in Chesterfield, Fincastle, and Montgomery Counties, Virginia reveals that throughout the Revolution, it was the frontiersmen who…

JOHN FITCH’S STEAMBOAT, 1788. By permission of Providence & Stonington Steamship Co. John Fitch made an engine to peddle the oars of his boat forward. People laughed at him, but he replied “When I shall be forgotten, steam boats will run up the rivers and across the seas.” That was…

“How wonderful that sunbeams absorbed by vegetation in the primordial ages of the earth and buried in its depths as vegetable fossils through immeasurable eras of time, until system upon system of slowly formed rocks have been piled above, should come forth at last, at the disenchanting…

Searching for ancestors is an avenue of many streets. Now that we are in an era where we can use DNA to attempt to find the origins of our ancestors, there are some general facts that should be noted. The largest influx of immigrants came from Ireland, Scotland and Germany, …

Gloucester County Wills, Estates, Marriages available to members of VirginiaPioneers.net Marriages Gloucester County Marriages to 1699 Licenses 1777 to 1778 Revolutionary War Roster for Gloucester County Surveyor Records 1704 Quit Rent Rolls Surveyor Book 1773–1806 List of Surveyors 1670–1866 Miscellaneous Wills and Estates Bernard, Robert Blacknell, Charles Leavit, Thomas Roane, Alexander Singleton, Robert, LWT…