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Edward Hill (Virginian Politician)
Colonel Edward Hill (died c.1663) was a Virginia planter, soldier and politician. In addition to representing Charles City County for many terms in the House of Burgesses, fellow members three times selected him as its Speaker (1644–45, 1654–55, and 1659). Burgesses also sent Hill to Maryland to put down Richard Ingle's 1646 rebellion, and he acted as that colony's temporary governor before ceding to the proper governor, Leonard Calvert, but later contested nonpayment of monies promised to him and Virginia militia troops for that action. He also led the Charles County and Henrico County militia and Pamunkey native Americans against other tribes in Hanover County in 1656, with less success. Early and family life Probably the son of "Master Edward Hill" of Elizabeth City County who distinguished himself defending his home against Native Americans in the uprising of 1622, and who died either in the uprising or shortly thereafter. Career Hill established Shirley Plantation in Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smith (Virginia Burgess)
Francis Dade (1621 – May 1, 1662), was a Virginia soldier, politician and landowner. An English Royalist who emigrated to Virginia some time after the death of Charles I. In Virginia he officially used the name "John Smith" when he served as one of the two delegates representing tiny Warwick County and as Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1658. He died at sea in 1662 or 1663. Early and family life The seventh son of William Dade, Esq. (1579 - February 22, 1660), Francis immigrated from Tannington, county Suffolk, England and settled in Virginia about 1650. He used the name "John Smith", so historians believe he was involved in some royalist plot against Oliver Cromwell. Smith/Dade married Behethland Bernard, daughter of Captain Thomas Bernard, who thrice served as Burgess for Warwick County in the 1640s. Her grandfather was Capt. Robert Behethland. Francis and Behethland had one son, Francis Dade II (d. 1698), who married Frances Townshend, one of the co-heir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth City County, Virginia
Elizabeth City County was a county in southeastern Virginia from 1634 until 1952 when it was merged into the city of Hampton. Originally created in 1634 as Elizabeth River Shire, it was one of eight shires created in the Virginia Colony by order of the King Charles I. In 1636, it was subdivided, and the portion north of the harbor of Hampton Roads became known as Elizabeth City Shire. It was renamed Elizabeth City County a short time later. Elizabeth City was originally named Kikotan (also spelled Kecoughtan and Kikowtan), presumably a word for the Native Americans living there when the English arrived in 1607. They were friendly to the English, but Sir Thomas Gates either worried about safety (including potential attack by the Spaniards and the Dutch) or coveted their corn fields after the "starving time" of the 1609–10 winter. The English seized their land while the men were out hunting, and for some reason, the natives never attacked the settlement in response. The shir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts. For most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. Its goals are to help property owners and inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Hill (burgess)
Edward Hill may refer to: * Edward Hill (Virginian politician) (died c. 1663), Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses * Edward Hill, Jr. (1637–1700), son of Edward Hill (Virginian politician), also planter, burgess and briefly Speaker * Edward Rowley Hill (1795–1878), British Army officer * Edward Smith Hill (1818–1880), Australian politician * Sir Edward Stock Hill (1834–1902), English politician, MP for Bristol South 1886–1900 * Edward Hill (Medal of Honor) (1835–1900), American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient * Edward Hill (painter) (1843–1923), American artist * Edward H. Hill (1844–1904), physician who founded Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston, Maine * Edward Burlingame Hill (1872–1960), American composer * Ted Hill, Baron Hill of Wivenhoe (Edward James Hill, 1899–1969), British trade unionist * Edward Hill (New Zealand politician) (1907–2001), English-born New Zealand politician * Ted Hill (Australian communist) (Edward Fowler Hill, 1915â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totopotomoi
Totopotomoi (c. 1615–1656) was a Native American leader from what is now Virginia. He served as the chief of Pamunkey and as ''werowance'' of the Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom for the term lasting from about 1649-1656, when he died in the Battle of Bloody Run. Name ''Totopotomoi'' is also spelled ''Totopotomoy'' and pronounced "To-to-POT-omy." English colonists of his time often spelled his name ''Totopotomy''. Totopotomy Creek in Hanover and Stafford counties memorializes his name. Personal life Totopotomoi was possibly the son but more likely the younger brother of the Necotowance. His exact parentage and date of birth are not known. Many assume he is the son of Necotowance because he succeeded him as chief. However, the Pamunkey and other tribes of Tidewater, Virginia were matrilineal societies. The right to become chief was passed down through the mother, not the father, and often from one brother to another, sons of the same mother. This is why Totopotomoi is believed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algonquian Peoples
The Algonquian are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups. Historically, the peoples were prominent along the Atlantic Coast and into the interior along the Saint Lawrence River and around the Great Lakes. This grouping consists of the peoples who speak Algonquian languages. Before Europeans came into contact, most Algonquian settlements lived by hunting and fishing, although quite a few supplemented their diet by cultivating corn, beans and squash (the " Three Sisters"). The Ojibwe cultivated wild rice. Colonial period At the time of the first European settlements in North America, Algonquian peoples occupied what is now New Brunswick, and much of what is now Canada east of the Rocky Mountains; what is now New England, New Jersey, southeastern New York, Delaware and down the Atlantic Coast through the Upper South; and around the Great Lakes in present-day Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa. The homeland of the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siouan
Siouan or Siouan–Catawban is a language family of North America that is located primarily in the Great Plains, Ohio and Mississippi valleys and southeastern North America with a few other languages in the east. Name Authors who call the entire family ''Siouan'' distinguish the two branches as '' Western Siouan'' and '' Eastern Siouan'' or as ''Siouan-proper'' and ''Catawban''. Others restrict the name "Siouan" to the western branch and use the name ''Siouan–Catawban'' for the entire family. Generally, however, the name "Siouan" is used without distinction. Family division Siouan languages can be grouped into the Western Siouan languages and Catawban languages. The Western Siouan languages can be divided into Missouri River languages (such as Crow and Hidatsa), Mandan, Mississippi River languages (such as Dakotan, Chiwere- Winnebago, and Dhegihan languages), and Ohio Valley Siouan branches. The Catawban languages consist only of Catawban and Woccon. Proto-Siouan Previou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Bloody Run (1656)
The Battle of Bloody Run was fought in March or April of 1656 near Richmond, Virginia. In 1654, the expansion of the Iroquois Nation (during the Beaver Wars) displaced several tribes from their homelands around Lake Erie. One tribe moved south into Virginia, settling temporarily around the James River. Records of the time refer to these people as the "Richahecrians", while James Lederer said they were " Mahocks and Nahyssans". The colonists in nearby Richmond were uneasy with the proximity of a potentially hostile force. Within two years, the Virginia General Assembly had given permission to Colonel Edward Hill to remove the Indian presence. His orders specifically stated that he was not to use force unless necessary. The General Assembly also specifically sent messages to Chief Totopotomoi and the Chichahominy Indians, requesting their assistance. Colonel Hill led the Colonial Rangers, reinforced by 100 Pamunkey warriors under Chief Totopotomoi. When five "Richahecrian" c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Kent County, Virginia
New Kent County is a county in the eastern part the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States Census, its population was 22,945. Its county seat is New Kent. New Kent County is included in the Greater Richmond Region. History New Kent County was established in 1654, as the Virginia General Assembly with the governor's consent split York County. The county's name originated because several prominent inhabitants, including William Claiborne, recently had been forced from their settlement at Kent Island, Maryland, by Lord Baltimore upon the formation of Maryland. Claiborne had named the island for his birthplace in Kent, England. Chickahominy and Pamunkey Native Americans frequented this area, as well as nearby Charles City County and King William County, and both tribes remain well-established in this area. The county had two parishes in the colonial era, initially called Blisland (which also included the older James City County as well as York County) and St. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond, Virginia
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Nansemond County, Virginia
Nansemond is an extinct jurisdiction that was located south of the James River in Virginia Colony and in the Commonwealth of Virginia (after statehood) in the United States, from 1646 until 1974. It was known as Nansemond County until 1972. From 1972 to 1974, a period of eighteen months, it was the independent city of Nansemond. It is now part of the independent city of Suffolk. English colonists named it for the Nansemond, a tribe of Native Americans who had long been living along the Nansemond River, a tributary of what the English later named as the James River. They encountered the English colonists after they began arriving in 1607 at Jamestown. Although disrupted by being forced off their land and through armed confrontation with colonists, the Nansemond Indian Nation continues to be based in Virginia and was granted state (1985) and federal recognition (2018). History 17th century Under the Virginia Company of London, in 1619, the area which became Nansemond Count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Brent
Margaret Brent (c. 1601 – c. 1671), was an English immigrant to the Colony of Maryland, settled in its new capitol, St. Mary's City, Maryland. She was the first woman in the English North American colonies to appear before a court of the common law. She was a significant founding settler in the early histories of the colonies of Maryland and Virginia. Leonard Calvert, Governor of the Maryland Colony, appointed her as the executrix of his estate in 1647, at a time of political turmoil and risk to the future of the settlement. She helped ensure soldiers were paid and given food to keep their loyalty to the colony,"Notable Maryland Women: Margaret Brent, Lawyer, Landholder, Entrepreneur" Winifred G. Helms, PhD, Editor, Margaret W. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
