Killer Kitty makes the front page
Our local Rappahannock Times published a story on the rabid-cat attack this week. Certain phrases still have me laughing: “antique …
Category Archives: Farm
Killer Kitty
2011, Nov. 19: Back in the spring of ’11, cute little black-and-white kittens were discovered playing at the side of …
Ann Burwell Latane Ware writes to sister of battle south of Tappahannock
1863, March 6: Letter from Ann Elizabeth Burwell (Latane) Ware to Jannette Roane (Latane) Campbell (sisters born at Mahockney). Mahockney …
Mahockney Slaves in the 1850 Federal Census Slave Schedule
The unnamed slaves listed for James H. Latane of Mahockney number 44 in total. Below is one example of the …
Bannerman Gets a Hoe from Parson Latane
In the University of Virginia Rare Books Library, the Latane Family Papers collection contains a priceless treasure: the Parson’s Journal …
Francis Gouldman conveys 300 acres of Mehockney to William Winston, widower of Martha Tomlin Gouldman who owned it
May 19, 1725: William Winston II, the second husband of Martha (Tomlin) Gouldman of Essex, married her sometime after January 1710 but …
Mahockney plantation tied up in lawsuits
August 1718: The legal situation of Edward Gouldman’s and Robert Tomlin’s inheritances was rather messy, in part perhaps due to …
Early 1660s Map of Rappahannock River parishes
This modern map detailing the sequential parish churches of the 17th and 18th century in “Old Rappahannock County” (now Richmond …
History of Gilson’s Mill
1663: Gilson’s Mill was standing “before 1663.” Here’s a history of it:
