November 16, 2025

Harpers Ferry Temperance Convention

THE HARPERS-FERRY TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.On Wednesday morning, December 1st, 1841, a number of Delegates from the Temperance Societies of Jefferson and Loudoun Counties, assembled in this village, to hold a Convention, previously called by the Total Abstinence […]
October 23, 2025

Naturalization: John Morgan

John Morgan, a native of Ireland, this day applied to the Court to be admitted a citizen of the United States, and it appearing to the Court that more than two years ago, to wit: at […]
October 19, 2025

Marriages: Barrett & Lay, Schley & Towner, Windham & Hess.

MARRIED.At Shepherdstown, on the 14th instant, by the Rev. Alexander Jones, JOHN E. SCHLEY, Esq. of Frederick City, Md., to Miss ANN F. TOWNER, daughter of Benjamin T. Towner, Esq. of the former place. On Sunday […]
June 27, 2025

Wm. Flanagan, Jury For W. Flood

(abst W. P. Flood.Joseph Shewalter assec: of C. Beckham vs. Wm. P. Flood, a jury to wit. Minor Hurst, James Clothier, Wm. Flanagan, Joseph Crane, Saml Wright, Edward Lucas, jr., James Moore, Joseph Shanton, James A. […]
December 3, 2023

An Honorable Roll (Company F, First VA Cavalry)

An Honorable Roll. Robert L. Billmyer, of this vicinity, has handed us the following list of the surviving members of Company F, First Virginia Cavalry, commanded by the late Captain M. J. Billmyer, and we print […]