[429:B] The Grigsbys, from whom is descended Hugh Blair Grigsby, removed into the valley from Eastern Virginia, having originally come into the colony at the time of the restoration.
[430:A] Ruffner.
[431:A] So called, being a high strip of timber in an open prairie, at the first settlement.
[431:B] Kercheval's Hist. of the Valley of Virginia, 69; Foote's Sketches, second series, 14.
[432:A] Foote's Sketches, ii. 36.
CHAPTER LVII.
1744-1747.
Treaty with the Six Nations—Death and Character of Rev. James Blair—Colonel William Byrd—The Pretender's Rebellion—Governor Gooch—Dissent in Virginia—Whitefield—Origin of Presbyterianism in Hanover—Morris—Missionaries—Rev. Samuel Davies—Gooch's Measures against Moravians, New Lights, and Methodists.