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In May 2022, I wrote an article on my 6th great grandfather, Benjamin Temple of King William County, Virginia. He was a veteran of the French and Indian War, having served with George Washington...
An act concerning servants and slaves: Virginia’s Slave Codes of 1705 With the establishing of Virginia as a slave society through laws that eliminated enslaved peoples rights, colonial officials next sought to condense these...
In the lead up to Ken Burns’ new documentary, The American Revolution, I have continuously been seeing advertisements for the premier this coming weekend. Inspired by the advertisement that quotes Benjamin Franklin from his...
About the latter end of August [1619], A Dutch man of Warr of the burden of a 160 tunnes arrived at Point-Comfort, the Comandors name Capt. Jope, his Pilott for the West Indies...
Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions of myself, the author, are my own and do not represent Patrick Henry’s Red Hill. We are living in a time when historic interpretation, preservation, and stewardship are facing...
Slavery has it roots in the earliest days of the colonial history of Virginia. Slavery was first introduced into the colony in 1619, when a captured slave ship arrived at Jamestown that “brought not...
It was Spring of 2003, my senior year in high school. For my English class that year, we had to do a family history type of project. So, I went to my dad to...
Henry Skyren was born about 1729 in Whitehaven, England. Not much is known about his upbringing, home, or family life. It is likely that he grew up in a strongly religious household as he...
In the colonial era, documents mentioning enslaved persons are hard to come by, and even rarer are documents with details about the slaves themselves. Newspaper advertisements for runaway enslaved persons would often mention slaves...
On 6 August 1694, Richard Kennon of Conjurer’s Neck (what was then Henrico County, in present-day Colonial Heights, Virginia), either wrote or dictated to another his will. Around this time, the bridge between the...
Colonial Virginia history has many women who hold a place in this Commonwealth, some well-known, but many who are not. One such woman who holds an important place among Virginia’s colonial history was Anne...
Tobacco is one of the main reasons that the colony of Virginia became successful and survived past its turbulent early years at Jamestown. Since its founding in 1607, the Jamestown colony had sought to...
The Year was 1676. There was much unrest in the colony as supporters of Governor Berkeley, those of Bacon, and natives were going around killing one another. Much of the hubbub was the result...
