Virginia: the Old Dominion / As seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time
Frank W. Hutchins; Cortelle Hutchins
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  • Carter, Anne Hill, of Shirley, wife of "Light Horse Harry" Lee
    and mother of General Robert E. Lee
  • Carter, Charles, portrait at Shirley
  • Carter, Elizabeth Hill, of Shirley, daughter of the third Edward Hill,
    and wife of John Carter of Corotoman
  • portrait at Shirley
  • Carter family acquire Corotoman
  • reach greatest prominence in days of "King" Carter
  • cousins to all the rest of Virginia
  • Carter, John, son of "King" Carter of Corotoman, was secretary of the colony
  • married Elizabeth Hill of Shirley in 1723
  • portrait at Shirley
  • Carter, Robert, of Corotoman on the Rappahannock,
    one of the wealthiest and most influential colonials
  • his possessions
  • called "King" Carter
  • portrait at Shirley
  • Carter, Robert Randolph, of Shirley
  • Carter, Mrs. Robert Randolph, of Shirley
  • Carter, Miss Susy
  • Chickahominy River, The
  • Chippoak Creek
  • Chuckatuck Creek
  • City Point
  • Claremont
  • Colonial river trade
  • Constant, Sarah
  • Cornick, Reverend John, rector of Westover Church
  • Corotoman, Carter family acquire
  • Cotton, Mrs. An.
  • Court House Creek
  • Curie's Neck
  • Cuyler, Randolph
  • Cuyler, Mrs. Randolph, of Brandon
  • Dale, Sir Thomas
  • Dancing Point
  • Delaware, Lord
  • ownership of Shirley
  • Discovery, ship
  • Douthat family of Weyanoke
  • Douthat, Fielding Lewis
  • Douthat, Mrs. Mary Willis Marshall, granddaughter of Chief-Justice Marshall,
    and present mistress of Weyanoke
  • Dutch Gap Canal
  • Eppes Creek
  • Eppes family, home at City Point
  • Faffing Creek
  • Fleur de Hundred
  • Ford, Paul Leicester
  • Fort Powhatan
  • "Friggett Landing"
  • Goodspeed, ship
  • Gordon family of Aberdeenshire
  • Gordon, William Washington
  • Grant, U.S., Grant's army crossed the James
  • Hampton Roads
  • Harrison, Mrs. Anne, of Berkeley
  • Harrison, Miss Belle, of Brandon
  • in court gown of her colonial aunt, Evelyn Byrd
  • Harrison, Benjamin, the emigrant
  • Harrison, Benjamin, of Berkeley, treasurer of the colony
  • Harrison, Major Benjamin, of Berkeley, member of the House of Burgesses
  • Harrison, Benjamin, of Berkeley, member of the Continental Congress
    and signer of the Declaration of Independence
  • Harrison, Benjamin, of Brandon, member of the Council
  • Harrison, Colonel Benjamin, of Brandon, portrait by Peale
  • Harrison, Mrs. Benjamin. See Mistress Anne Randolph of Wilton
  • Harrison, Benjamin, grandson of William Henry Harrison of Berkeley,
    and twenty-third President of the United States
  • Harrison, George Evelyn, of Brandon
  • Harrison, Mrs. George Evelyn, present mistress of Brandon
  • Harrison, Nathaniel, of Brandon
  • Harrison, William Henry, of Berkeley, ninth President of our country
  • Harvard College
  • Harwood, Joseph
  • Henrico or Henricopolis, founded four years after James Towne
    site of proposed college which would have been oldest in America
  • Henry, Patrick
  • Herring Creek
  • Hill family acquire Shirley
  • Hill, Edward, the second, built present mansion at Shirley
    about the middle of the seventeenth century
  • his portrait at Shirley
  • Hill, Mrs. Edward, portrait of, at Shirley
  • Hollingshorst, Elizabeth Gordon
  • Hollingshorst, Thomas
  • Indian massacre of 1622
  • caused abandonment of Henrico
  • Irving, Washington
  • James River, The
  • width
  • depth
  • historical importance
  • colonial life upon
  • colonial water life
  • Grant's army crossed
  • colonial river trade
  • sturgeon in
  • buoy-tender on
  • narrow and crooked from Shirley to Richmond
  • site of Richmond on
  • the Falls of the.
  • James Towne
  • settlement of
  • development, decline, and abandonment of
  • Captain Edward Ross
  • the typical village
  • streets
  • buildings
  • "alehouses"
  • abandonment of
  • re-settlement
  • final abandonment
  • ancient site not lost
  • unearthing the buried ruins
  • Jamestown Island
  • settlement of
  • appearance
  • the way across
  • isthmus
  • width of
  • battle upon
  • church
  • churchyard
  • mysterious tomb
  • Confederate Fort
  • historic sites
  • where Pocahontas and John Rolfe were married
  • coining of "the maids"
  • beginnings of American self-government
  • the colonists' first landing-place
  • the colonists' first fort
  • the colonists' first village
  • the story of the "Starving Time"
  • the "Lone Cypress"
  • Jefferson, Thomas
  • Kittewan Creek
  • Kittewan house
  • Kneller, Sir Godfrey
  • Lee, General Robert E.
  • Lee, Miss Mary
  • Lee, "Light Horse Harry," married at Shirley
  • Lee, Mrs. Henry. See Anne Hill Carter of Shirley
  • Lewis family