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 threats from without and within. Executive orders coming from the President of the United States are forcing some museums and institutions, […]
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 any thing but 20. and odd Negroes”. The slaves dropped off at Jamestown came from Angola. African slavery in this first […]
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 became an Anglican minister. On June 2, 1760, Skyren was appointed by John Lincoln, the Lord Bishop of London, the office […]
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 turn a profit by finding gold and other precious metals and find a path to Cathay (what China was called in […]
Chelsea is one of the best preserved and, for the most part, unchanged colonial era homes in Virginia. In about 1705, Colonel Augustine Moore purchased land in King William County, Virginia from the Graves Family. He named his plantation and home Chelsea, after the home of his supposed ancestor, Sir Thomas More. Chelsea is located […]