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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: first settled, or when they acquired a distinct existence as counties. For a long time - Names of such personal names were chiefly taken Virginia from the royal household. Thus, while Charles City County bears the name of Charles I., bestowed upon the region before that king ascended the throne, the portion of it south of James River, set off in 1702 as Prince George County, was named for George of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne. So King William County on the south bank of the Mattapony, and King and Queen County on its north bank, carry us straight to the times of William and Mary, and indicate the position of the frontier in the days of Charles II.; while to the west of them the names of Hanover and the two Hanoverian princesses, Caroline and Louisa, carry us on to the days of the first two Georges.1 At the time with which our narrative is now concerned, all that region to the south of Spottsylvania was unbroken wilderness. In 1670 a careful estimate was made of the number of Indians comprised within the immediate Neighbourhood of the colony, and there were counted up 725 warriors, of whom more than 400 were on the Appomattox and Pamunkey frontiers, and nearly 200 between the Potomac and Rappahannock. 1 The following list of Virginia counties bearing royal names, founded between 1689 and 1765, is interesting: King and Queen, 1691, after William and Mary. Princess Anne, 1691, the princess who was afterwards Queen Anne. King William, 1701, William III. Prince George, 1702, the Prince Consort King George, 1720, George I. Hanover, 1720, one of the king's foreign domin ions. Brunswick, 1720, do. do. Caroline, 1727, the queen of George II. Prince William, 1730, William, Duke of Cumberland. Orange, 1734, the Prince of Orange, who in that ...
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