Historical Files

Historical Files

This section includes articles covering the history of the New River area from the earliest European settlers in the what became the United States up to recent events. They are grouped by the historical time periods in the headings below.

• Early Settlers 17th Century until Revolutionary Period

  • William Herbert Company Roster 1771
  • Lord Dunmore's War 1774
  • 18th Century North Carolina New River Settlers

• Revolutionary Period

  • The Draper Papers - Upper New River Valley References
  • The Burning of Kingston, New York
  • Diary of Captain Benjamin Warren at Massacre of Cherry Valley
  • William Preston Letter
  • List of Tories and Quakers
  • Revolutionary War Soldiers of the Upper New River Valley
  • The Destruction of Richmond, Virginia
  • Revolutionary War Pension Roll Ashe County, North Carolina

• Federal and Antebellum Periods (1800 - 1860)

  • Republican Party Committee of Correspondence, in Virginia 1800
  • Selena Booker's War of 1812 Pension Application
  • Appeal For Manhood Suffrage - by T. E. Burch
  • 56th Virginia Militia - 1814-1816
  • Henry Walker Affidavit for Revolutionary War Pension Application
  • Deposition of James Keys
  • 1835 Map of the New River Valley
  • North Carolina Volunteers Participating in the Indian Removal, April 7, 1838
  • Investigation into the Justice of the Mexican War
  • A Biographical Sketch of Henry A. Wise, With a History of the Political Campaign of 1855
  • Virginia County Vote on the Secession Ordinance, May 23, 1861

• Reconstruction and the Victorian Era (1866 - 1900)

  • Company H, 124th Virginia Militia, 1867
  • Southern Claims Commission

• Twentieth Century

  • Virginia Constitutional Convention Directory 1901