Bacon Mobilizes his “Northern Force”

June 5, 1676: Rebel Nathaniel Bacon orders up a Northern Force, including Rappahannock County men (the site of Mahockney). And it …

The evidence of Mahockney’s 1663 patent

1663, November 19: The name Mahockney was used very early. The plantation was referred to as such in a 1721 …

1663 November 18/19: See here the original Mahockney Patent! Thomas Rason, (variously Rawson, Roson, Rosson), a Patent of 518 acres, 200 …

1663: Gilson’s Mill was standing “before 1663.” Here’s a history of it:

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

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 …

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