Ed Marsh <[email protected]> wrote June 29, 2000 Subject: Re: [VAMONTGO] NEW RIVER SETTLEMENT BROKE UP, 1755 (ARCHIBALD THOMPSON DIARY) Ed, Thanks so much. I would like to find a copy of Johnson's book. I am glad to learn Castlewood was in Russell. I do know just about everybody associated with Archibald shows up in Chalkley's, but it's difficult to match names and dates. Thanks, Jemima > The New River Settlements at the time of the so-called French& Indian War > were at Reed Creek, Dunkard Bottom, Drapers Meadow, a few settlements > along the Greenbrier, and a few scattered homesteads. Patricia Givens > Johnson, in her great book "The New River Early Settlement" goes into > great detail about this area, the order of settlement, the settlers and > their trades, and the Indian relations (both hostile and helpful). > > Present Castlewood, Russell County, VA used to be Castle's Woods -- named > for Jacob Castle who was an early New River settler who went up Wolf Creek > past Burke's Garden and down the streams of the Clinch River to begin an > early settlement in the "far west" of that time. Mentions of the exploits > of the early settlers around this area can be gleaned from the Chalkley's > "Chronicles of the Scotch Irish Settlement." > > I hope this is on point. > > Ed > > Jemima Gee Morse wrote: > > > [email protected] wrote June 28, 2000 > > Subject: [LONGHUNTERS] WATAUGA, HOLSTON, CASTLEWOODS & NEW RIVER > > SETTLEMENTS ca1775-1790 > > > > > Also, does anyone know the exact location of what was termed > > the "New River > > > Settlement" and "Castlewoods." In other words, where were they > > located > > > approximately and where can they be found on a present day map? > > > > Archibald Thompson gives a first-person account of events in the > > French and Indian War, and frontier attacks in his diary, index > > and transcript by Lula Hankins Hunter of which are posted at Doug > > Moore's web page http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/archibald/ > > > > PAGE 102 > > June 1755 New River Brokeup > > July 9th 1755 > > Brave Bradak Defatted > > Sertifyd (symbol) a true Copy > > (symbol) Me Archibald Thompson > > > > PAGE 103 > > June 1755 New River Broke up and > > was Drove By the french and Indians . . . > > > > The 9th day of July in the year 1755 > > Brave Bradock Defatted & Kild > > > > These dates, of course, are twenty years earlier than those > > posted by Mr. Perry. > > > > Archibald was the brother-in-law of Henry and Charles Skaggs. > > Although I've been unable to track Archibald before he shows up > > in the 1767 tithable list of Pittsylvania Co., Va., the year that > > county was formed from old Halifax, the Clan Thompson researchers > > have found that at least four sons of the Skaggs family > > (Archibald Skaggs, Henry Skaggs, William Skaggs, Hezekiah Whitt) > > were born in South Carolina 1759-1760. So did the families go to > > SC from Virginia following these attacks on the frontier? > > > > In a following post, I'll give references from the diary to other > > early events and hope someone will be able to identify the > > locations. > > > > ==== VAMONTGO Mailing List ==== > > This list is intended for the exchange of genealogical information and > > questions concerning Montgomery Co, VA, families. >