Cartmell's History Page 26 ---------------The following surveys were along the Shenandoah River;------------------------------------------John Newton--------- Page 183 -------------:Morgan Morgan in the year 1726, removed to what is now Berkly County and built the first log Cabin on the South Side of the Potomac West of the Blue Ridge; and that in the year 1740 "he associated with Dr. John Briscoe and Mr. Hite, and erected the first Episcopal Church in the Valley of Virginia."------------------------------------------------------- As will be shown later on, neither Dr. Briscoe nor Mr. Hite could possibly have been associated with Morgan in 1740, and no such Grants were or could have been made in 1726 and 1730. -------------------------------------------------------------The church records show no minister in charge until 1785, when the new Vestry, ----------------------------------Girard Briscoe---------------- Page 232 -----------------"Be it remembered that at the house of Edward Beeson the 19day of May, 1772, a Commission of the Peace and a Commison of Oyer and Terminer, from his excellency Lord Dunmore, dated the 17th day of April in the aforesaid, directed to---------------------------------------John Briscoe---------------------. The justices were duly sworn, and proceeded with the duties of their first term. (This happened in Martinsburg). (Cloverdale) The tract was divided into several farms when Gerard Briscoe became the owner. He never lived there, however. His heirs, Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes, Mrs. Alex. G. Baldwin and others, sold their undivided interests to Abraham Miller. Juliett Wood, married Dr. Thomas Briscoe, Thos., born 1805, died 1883. ----------The Court was composed of ---------Gerrard Briscoe.-------------- "This Indenture made the second day June in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and One Between James M. Marshall of the City of Washington in the District of Columbia in the USA and Hatty, his wife, of the one part, and ------------------------------------------------------Goviard Briscoe-------------------Gentlemen Justices now in the commission of the peace in and for the County of Frederick in the Commonwealth of Virginia---------------- -------------Revolutionary War-----------Company 6.-June 1, '77 Thomas Blackwell, Capt. (Apl 1, '78, Reuben Briscoe, Capt.----------------------------------------------------------the enlistment for this Company was from East of Blue Ridge.