Providing a documentary history of a Virginia Burned County from the Colonial Era through the early Twentieth Century
Virginia's Timeline to Revolution- 1773-1774
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17th Century Land Grants - A Work in Progress
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The Blisland Grievances- 1677
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The Civil War in New Kent
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Roster of New Kent Cavalry
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Roster of Barhamsville Greys
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Roster of Pamunkey Heavy Artillery, Ellet's Battery (Co.) later Jones' Battery (Co.)
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Historical Gazetteer of New Kent County
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Monday, December 24, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
The Enemy in New Kent
The enemy in New Kent.
We learn that a raid was made by about one hundred Yankee cavalry from Williamsburg, in the neighborhood of Barhamsville, New Kent county, where they shot two of our pickets and captured four or five others.
. . . Richmond Daily Dispatch, November 25, 1862
Arrival of prisoners.--Forty-five Abolition prisoners arrived at the Libby Prison yesterday morning from Tennessee, and yesterday evening four Yankee deserter from the White House.
. . .Richmond Daily Dispatch, November 29, 1862
-The war of the rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. ; Series 1 - Volume 18