Where the Scotch-Irish Settled in Virginia
during the 18th century Scotch-Irish emigrants from Northern Ireland landed in Philadelphia and traveled the old Indian trails across the Colony of Virginia, as far west as the Shenandoah Valley. They settled in Augusta, Culpeper, Rockingham, and Shenandoah Counties. These county records may be viewed for surnames in the interest in locating the ancestors https://virginiapioneers.net/counties/augusta/ […]
Settlers to the Northern Neck of Virginia 1700-1730
In 1673 King Charles II of England granted all proprietary rights to the territory between the Rappahannock and the Potomac Rivers to Lords Arlington and Cooper. It became known as “the Northern Neck.” Near the end of the seventeenth century, Virginia colonists on the Northern Neck began to move inland from the tidal rivers and […]
