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PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY TIME LINE
1641-June-Walter Austin,
Rice Hoe, Joseph Johnson and Walter Chiles petitioned the General Assembly
"for leave and encouragement to undertake the discovery of a new river of
unknown lands bearing west southerly from Appomattox River." Petition
granted in 1642 with right to have all profit from the trade for fourteen
years.
1670-Governor Berkley sent a group of gentlemen under the
command of Major William Harris to explore the western territory which
included what is today Pittsylvania. John Lederer, a German, kept a diary of
the trip in Latin.
1716-Gov. Alexander Spotswood led his Golden Horse
Shoe Party of gentlemen exploreres across the state of Virginia to the Blue
Ridge mountains.
1720 As a result of this trip two counties were
formed, Spottsylvania in the north and Brunswick (present day Pittsylvania
lay in this vast county) in the south by Acts of Assembly in November 1720
1723 Lords of Trade of London upon the petition of the Virginia Council,
exempted the inhabitants of Spottsylvania and Brunswick from the payment of
quit rents and the purchase of land rights for seven years and limited land
grants to 1000 acres.
1728-Colonel William Byrd of Westover surveyed
the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina.
1730-40 The
Germans, the Quakers and the Scotch-Irish were moving in great numbers from
Pennsylvania into Virginia including what is to today Pittsylvania.
1732- Court for the county of Brunswick established. First justices were
Henry Fox, John Irby, George Walton, William Wynne,Richard Birch, Nathaniel
Edwards, Charles King, and William Maclin.
1738-Because Brunswick
County was developing slowly in its western lands and to encourage
settlement along the Roanoke , in November of 1738 the following was
enacted.-"Whereas the lands lying upon Roanoke River on the southern
boundary of this colony are for the most part unseated and unclutivated; and
a considerable number of persons, as well as his Majesty's natural born
subjects, as foreign protestants, are willing to import themselves with
their families and effects, and to settle upon the said lands,, be it
enacted that all persons whatsoever who within ten years next after the
passing this Act shall import themnselves into this colony, and settle upon
the Roanoke River, on the south branch (Dan) of the same above the fork; and
on the north branch of the said river, above the mouth of Little Roanoke,
and thre lands lying between them, deemed to be in Brunswick County shall be
exempted from the payment of all livies for ten years, and be at liberty al
all times hereaftre to pay the officers fees in money at the rate of three
farthings per pound of tobacco."
1735-June 11 Colonel William Byrd
petitioned the Council on June 11, 1735 for 100,000 acres along Roanoke
River, between waters of Birch Creek and Irwin River, to settle Switzers and
other foreign Protestants. Land lying between Birch Creek and Irwin River is
southern Pittsylvania County. In 1739 Colonel Byrd petitioned Council to
extend time to bring in settlers.
1745- Brunswick County divided and
the western part became Lunenburg County which included Pittsylvania County.
At the same time more and more settlers from Tidewater Virginia especially
from the peninsula between the James and York River.
On May 5th the
following took the oath of justice of the peace for the newly created
Lunenburg County-William Leonard, Matthew Talbott, Lewis Delony, John
Phelps, William Hill, John Caldwell, Cornelius Cargill, Abraham cooke, Hugh
Lawson, Thomas Lanier, and William Caldwell.
1752- Halifax County
created out of Lunenburg and included what is today Pittsylvania. The
justices of the peace were William Byrd, William Wynne, Peter Fontaine, Jr.,
William Irby, James Terry, Nathaniel Terry, Robert Hampton, Andrew Wade and
Sherwood Walton. In the next year the following were added fromthe area that
is today Pittsylvania-Thomas Dillard, Thomas Calloway, Samuel Harris,
Benjamin Clement, Peter Wilson and Robert Pusey.
1767-June 1
Pittsylvania County was cut off from Halifax County
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