Andrew Gilson gets another patent, 4000 acres

1654 September 7: Andrew Gilson and several others granted a patent to 4000 acres on South side of the Rappahannock …

Gilson gets 450 acres

1654, July: Andrew Gilson gets 450 acres more.

May 30, 1654: Robert Tomlin patented 350 acres of land on the south side of the Rappahannock, along Lawson’s Creek – …

1650, May 22: Andrew Gilson patents 600 acres, at North side of Tigners Creek (later called Gilson’s Creek, now Mount …

1624: Capt. John Smith wrote that for their music, the Virginia Indians used as their “chief instruments or Rattles… small …

From the 1612 “Strachey’s Dictionary of Powhatan,” the predominant language of the tribes of the Powhatan Nation, including the Rappahannock …

From the excellent National Park Service 2005 reconsideration of Indian-English Contacts in the Seventeenth Century (http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/jame1/moretti-langholtz/contents.htm), with Native American commentary: …

1608, January 2: Captain John Smith is freed by Powhatan. From the National Park Service’s excellent reconsideration of Anglo-Indian encounters …

From the National Park Service’s reexamination of Anglo-Indian encounters in the Seventeenth Century, a look at the very first and …