• About Mahockney
    • A Historical Timeline
    • About the Name
  • Art and Architecture
    • Historic Preservation, Restoration & Renovation
      • English Basement North
      • English Basement South
    • Mahockney’s John Tyler Portrait
      • Artist King and Subject Tyler
      • A Comparison of Charles Bird King’s Work 
      • Identifying the Mahockney portrait’s subject as John Tyler, 10th President of the United States
    • The Bricks of Mahockney
  • Spencer Roane
    • Spencer Roane
    • Spencer Roane & Patrick Henry
  • The Grounds
    • Sights along the Underwood Trail
  • Who Lived Here
    • The Civil War Era

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25 Saturday Dec 2010

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  • A 1960s Rediscovery of Mark Bannerman
  • The Brickwork of Mahockney
  • Buckles and History at Mahockney
  • Killer Kitty makes the front page
  • Killer Kitty
  • Planning a trip to UVA’s Alderman Library, the Latane Papers
  • A look at some modern secession blogs and sites
  • Touring the Internet battlefields
  • Touring the Internet battlefields
  • The Internet: Democracy, Controlled Anarchy, or Technofascism « Second Vermont Republic
  • New Congress Reads the Constitution: Charles Krauthammer on Constitutionalism
  • Created a Timeline of Mahockney in History
  • Archives
  • Gov. Perry’s Texas secession comments open the media’s eyes to other state movements
  • Gov. Perry: “Of course, I have never advocated for secession and never will”
  • Huffington Post commenter says “Good Riddance” to seceding states
  • CNN: Texas Governor Says Secession Possible
  • Governor of Texas calls federal government “Oppressive,” pushes 10th Amendment
  • Toni Morrison explores 17th Century Virginia
  • Second Secessionist Convention Report « Second Vermont Republic
  • Kirkpatrick Sale wants to establish Hudsonia
  • A landmark reassessment of the Colonial-Indian Encounters in the 17th Century
  • Architectural historian Camille Wells on “The Multistoried House”
  • The Day the Flag Went Up in Modern South Carolina
  • Spencer Roane profile in 1953 Harvard Law Review
  • Richmond Times Dispatch on Nathaniel Bacon
  • Colonial Dames decide Bacon needs to be in the House
  • Early photograph of the new roof (roofs) on the house
  • “At the mercy of the lawless and vicious”: Richmond under Reconstruction
  • The House in 1898
  • LG Tyler on politics in America
  • Postscript to the Capitol Disaster: Court rules that Richmond can govern itself
  • “Oh God what a day of horror, blood, and death it has been” – An eyewitness account of the Capitol Disaster
  • “The court-room snapped in twain”
  • Depicting the calamity in the Capitol
  • Background and details on the Capitol Disaster
  • The Capitol Disaster!
  • Tensions building in Richmond over Mayoralty
  • The 1870 Richmond Mayoralty Case: bloodiest election in American history
  • Draper’s Raid and the Invasion of Tappahannock
  • Born at the midpoint of the Civil War, Santayana captures the Confederate legacy in a line
  • Ann Burwell Latane Ware writes to sister of battle south of Tappahannock
  • Tappahannock civilian to (briefly) occupying Yankees: “If I were able I would kill every damn one of you where you stand”
  • 1861, May 23: Virginia’s Decline and Fall in light of Gibbon, Spengler, Wilde and Waugh
  • Election Day results
  • Lincoln splits no rails in Essex County.
  • John Bell plays the Slavery card
  • 1859 April 13 Cousin John Latane at UVA before the War
  • Where Lincoln was Wrong: The “House Divided” Speech by Abraham Lincoln
  • The death and legacy of the Richmond Junto
  • Virginia’s new “Reform Constitution” passes
  • Mahockney Slaves in the 1850 Federal Census Slave Schedule
  • Ann Waring Latane marries A.J. Clopton
  • William Catesby Latane born at Mahockney
  • Thomas Ritchie moves to Washington, transforms Journalism
  • Jannette Roane Ritchie Latane born at Mahockney
  • Janett Roane Latane born at Mahockney
  • William H. Roane speaks his mind, pro-slavery
  • 1831, August 21: Nat Turner leads a Virginia slave revolt
  • Patrick Henry Aylett born, his life to echo the history of Virginia’s decline and fall
  • Thomas Latane, son of Henry Waring Latane, born at The Meadows
  • Henry W. Latane builds his own house, The Meadow
  • Washington paper runs an expose on the Richmond Junto, featuring Spencer Roane
  • Anne Waring Latane, daughter of William Catesby Latane, born
  • Spencer Roane dies, and will lie forever next to cousin and ally John Brockenbrough
  • Death of Spencer Roane
  • Thomas Jefferson calls Spencer Roane “the bulwark of our political state”
  • “Roane comes forward as the champion of Virginia” – John Quincy Adams
  • Jefferson to Roane: Time produces corruption of principles
  • Jefferson: Tolerate any error, so long as reason left free to combat it
  • Mahockney house expanded in 1820
  • Thomas Ritchie rails against the Missouri Compromise, “the bitterest disappointment”
  • Spencer Roane to Madison: Virginians are “averse to be damned up in a land of Slaves”
  • James Henry Latane born at Mahockney
  • Henry Clay: the words Civil War and Disunion are uttered almost without emotion
  • Mahockney’s Four-Foot Mountain of Conceit
  • The political power of Virginia in the nation wanes, as the state’s agriculture declines
  • Mahockney gets a new wing
  • Richmond Junto core group finally moves into hard-core state rights column
  • Jefferson to Spencer Roane, “the revolution of 1800”
  • Spencer Roane as “Hampden” publishes essays on state rights
  • JQA felt that Roane was a potential rival for the presidency
  • John Quincy Adams: The Richmond Junto treats James Monroe “like a master to his slave”
  • Spencer Roane’s cousin John Brockenbrough builds his Richmond mansion
  • 1814, April: The Randolph family implodes, a metaphor for Virginia’s decline
  • 1814, February 1: Spencer Roane’s youngest son Patrick Henry Roane dies at 20
  • 1810, Jan 18: John Roane of Newington murders his wife
  • During the Burr Trial, Marshall and Spencer Roane in the Capitol
  • 1801, March 19: Spencer Roane marries second wife, Eliza Hoskins
  • Election of 1800 « Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
  • 1800, August 30: Gabriel’s Revolt
  • Spencer Roane was a good friend of John Tyler, Sr. and Jr.
  • Anne Roane dies, at the Aylett house
  • 1799, May 22: Anne Roane, wife of Spencer, dies.
  • Spencer Roane and John Tyler Sr., Allies against the Constitution
  • William Henry Roane born at Mahockney, grandson of William Roane and Patrick Henry
  • Judge Spencer Roane marries Patrick Henry’s daughter
  • Spencer Roane marries Annie Henry over at Salisbury
  • 1786, September 7: Spencer Roane marries Ann Henry
  • Spencer Roane graduates from William and Mary
  • Thomas Ritchie born in Tappahannock
  • Essex County forms County Committee of Correspondence
  • Richard Henry Lee and John Sears: “We evince our attachment to the cause of liberty by supporting its generous asserters”
  • William Roane and Robert Wormley Carter do some business
  • Robert Wormley Carter’s account of Tappahannock Demonstration
  • Who were these incipient rebels of the Tidewater?
  • William Roane opens his law practice in Essex County
  • William Winston sells old Seayres land to Waring, Bagge
  • Col. Francis Waring marries Lucy Cocke
  • William Aylett born – colleague to William Roane and George Washington
  • Bannerman: Scottish Rebel, Poet, Cavalier
  • Bannerman Gets a Hoe from Parson Latane
  • Francis Gouldman conveys 300 acres of Mehockney to William Winston, widower of Martha Tomlin Gouldman who owned it
  • 591
  • Mahockney plantation tied up in lawsuits
  • Francis Waring, son of Thomas Waring & Elizabeth Gouldman Waring, born
  • Francis Gouldman’s Will, mentions sister Martha Gouldman
  • Martha Tomlin Gouldman and her late husband’s 21 slaves
  • Bishop Meade on early Essex gentlemen: “Intelligence and a high state of morals for the time”
  • Bacon’s Northern Force at War
  • Bacon Mobilizes his “Northern Force”
  • “A warr be declared and effectually prosecuted against all such Indians”
  • A stirring account of the murderous menace of the “red man”
  • A Pro-Bacon account of the run-up to and events of Bacon’s Rebellion
  • The Warrs against the Indians, and the roots of Bacon’s Rebellion
  • Early 1660s Map of Rappahannock River parishes
  • The evidence of Mahockney’s 1663 patent
  • The Original Mahockney Patent, by Thomas Rason
  • History of Gilson’s Mill
  • Mahock Tribe fights in the Battle of Bloody Run
  • Andrew Gilson gets another patent, 4000 acres
  • Gilson gets 450 acres
  • Robert Tomlin patents some land
  • Andrew Gilson patents 600 acres
  • Mahcawq, the Pumpeon Gourd, used commonly for music by Indians
  • Mahockney is an Indian word…
  • John Smith attacked by the Rappahannocks. Why? Amoroleck knows…
  • Did John Smith actually need to be rescued by Pocahontas?
  • Colonial National Historical Park: A Study of Virginia Indians and Jamestown-The First Century (Chapter 7)
  • Where is Mahockney?

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