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, March 11, 2013
A Petition, 1790
Jan. 18th New Kent Co. Petition for the pardon of slave Phil.
BARTLETT WILLIAMS, ATTORNEY FOR THE COUNTY AND THE MEMBERS OF THE COURT TO THE GOVERNOR AND THE HONORABLE, THE COUNCIL OF STATE.
Petition for the pardon of Phil., negro slave of Wm. Tyree, tried & convicted of felony, and sentenced to be hung. The court declare that the Commonwealth's attorney showed them a law for hanging the said negro, and that upon their afterwards Coming in the Tavern, they were informed by the Hon. Edmund Randolph that the law under which they were led to act was not in force, and the offence was punishable by branding in the hand. The attorney & court all unite in the prayer for pardon.
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