The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People   By: Miriam Haynie

A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People

By MIRIAM HAYNIE

The Dietz Press, Incorporated Richmond, Virginia 1959

Copyright by MIRIAM HAYNIE 1959

Second Printing July, 1960 Third Printing September, 1964

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE DIETZ PRESS, INCORPORATED

TO MY HUSBAND WILLIAM HAROLD HAYNIE AND TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER AND FATHER: OLIVIA FRANCES JETT WILLIAMS, AND THOMAS JACKSON WILLIAMS, OF "PLEASANT GROVE" NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA

Acknowledgements

References have been given for each chapter so that in this way the persons who so kindly gave personal interviews could be recognized specifically.

I wish to express my appreciation to the personnel of the Reference and Circulation Section, General Library Division, of the Virginia State Library, for their splendid service. Without the books from the Library it would have been impossible for me to have accumulated the material for this book.

I wish to thank the Richmond Times Dispatch , the Fredericksburg Free Lance Star and Virginia and The Virginia County Magazine , for their kind permission to use any material which might be needed from articles written by myself and previously published in those publications.

M. H.

Reedville, Virginia, June, 1959.

CONTENTS

PART I SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

Tidewater

" Ye Northerne Neck "

The People

Indians and Early Explorers

Captain John Smith

Powhatan's Empire

Captain Smith Visits the Neck

" A Plaine Wildernes "

" Wild Beastes "

" Birds to Vs Unknowne "

The Nominies

The Discoverers

The River of Swans

Mother of Waters

Quick Rising Water

Henry and Pocahontas

Henry and King Patowmeke

Henry's Relation

Betrayed

Kidnapped

The Indian Trader

A Petition

From North of the Potomac

The First Settler

Coan Hall

Neighbors

The "Kids"

Indian Servants

Money

A Paradise Discovered

A Visit to Jamestown

Frances

Forever Lost

Ursula

The Yard

Kittamaqund

The Gift

The Cavaliers

" Charlie Over The Water "

The Legacy

The Indian Deed

A Summons to Jamestown

The Oath

County Officers

Epraphrodibus's Will

The Challenge

Trade

The Colonial Sailor

John Carter

Fleet's Point

George Mason

Mary Calvert

He Lived Bravely

Witchcraft

Seahorse of London

" Tenn Mulberry Trees "

Roads

Markets

The Old Dominion

The Proprietary

A First Lady of Jamestown

Land

Processioning

" The Banquetting House "

The Land Agent

Hanna and the Horseshoe

Muster

The Store

The Wolf Drive

The Indians and Robert Hen

The Royal Cavalcade

The King of the Northern Neck

Kith and Kin

The Fieldings

Pirates

Christmas at Colonel Fitzhugh's

Indian Visitors

Horse Racing

Manufacture

The Potomac Rangers

PART II EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Murders in Stafford

Free Schools

The Home in the Forest

Cherry Point

Sandy Point

Augustine

Popes Creek

The War Path

Falmouth

Burnt House Field

Stratford Hall

George Washington

Epsewasson

Ferry Farm

Fredericksburg

School Days

The Indians

The Pow Wow

Mount Vernon

Washington Washed Here

The Ordinary

Nelly

Miss Betsy

The Proprietor of the Northern Neck

The Marshalls

The Leedstown Resolutions

Fithian

The School in the Wildwood

James and John

Captain Dobby

Pedlars

Seven Satin Petticoats

Phi Beta Kappa

Light Horse Harry

A Band of Brothers

The Divine Matilda

Madam Washington

After the Revolution

Mantua

PART III NINETEENTH CENTURY