Paul Froman – German Immigrant – Lived in Orange/Frederick County, Virginia – Cumberland County, Pennsylvania – Lincoln County, Virginia, Later Mercer County, Kentucky

My post today is taken from one of the early wills of Lincoln County, still Virginia at the time it was written.  If you remember, Kentucky County, once a part of Fincastle County, Virginia, became Kentucky County in 1777.  In 1780 Kentucky County was divided into Jefferson County, […]

Captain John ‘Jack’ Jouett – His Ride Saved Thomas Jefferson and other Virginia Legislatures – After the War Lived in Mercer County

I wanted to share the following article with you about the heroics of Jack Jouett and the saving of Thomas Jefferson and members of the Virginia Legislature in 1781.  This occurred at the end of the Revolutionary War.  General Charles Cornwallis brought his troops to Virginia from North […]