The Virginia magazine of history and biography . able for Led-erer, may not be the real one. It is possible that debt may have beenthe cause of his flight to Maryland. See Virginia Magazine of Historyand B ography, VIII, 324, for a suit, 1673, against the estate of a Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Vols. I-XXX, inclusive Pre-sented by the Pennsylvania State Library. The Ohio Valley in Colonial Days. By Berthold Fernow. Albany,N. Y., 1892. Rev. Thomas Bray, His Life and Selected Works Relating to Mary-land. Edited by Bernard C. Steiner. Maryland Historical Society FundPublicat
The Virginia magazine of history and biography . able for Led-erer, may not be the real one. It is possible that debt may have beenthe cause of his flight to Maryland. See Virginia Magazine of Historyand B ography, VIII, 324, for a suit, 1673, against the estate of a Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Vols. I-XXX, inclusive Pre-sented by the Pennsylvania State Library. The Ohio Valley in Colonial Days. By Berthold Fernow. Albany,N. Y., 1892. Rev. Thomas Bray, His Life and Selected Works Relating to Mary-land. Edited by Bernard C. Steiner. Maryland Historical Society FundPublication. Baltimore, 1901. Presented by the Maryland HistoricalSociety. Harpers Ferry Invasion. U. S. Senate Report, i860. Cromwells Policy in Its Economic Aspects. By George L. , 1902. Chronology of the Origin and Progress oi~ Paper Making. By JoelMunsell. Albany, 1876. Brother Jonathan. By Albert Matthews. Cambridge, 1892. The Trim Indian Summer. By Albert Matthews. Colonial Times on Buzzards Bay. By W. R. Bliss. Boston and N. Y., [ TH E Virginia Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. Vol. X. OCTOBER, 1902. No. 2. THE GERMANS OF THE VALLEY. By John Walter Wayland. (concluded) During the whole period of the Revolution, only one case isknown in which a Virginia German was disloyal to the Americancause—the Tories were mainly of English descent. In 1781, atthe time when Lord Cornwallis was invading Virginia, JohnClaypole, a Scotchman by birth, who lived within the presentlimits of Hardy county, West Virginia, succeeded in drawingover to the British side a number of the settlers on Lost riverand the South Fork * of the Potomac. They refused to paytaxes and to furnish their quota of militiamen. Among themwas John Brake, an old German of considerable wealth, beingin possession of a fine farm, a mill, a distillery, and a large num-ber of fat hogs and cattle. He was an exception in his politi-cal course to his countrymen, says Kercheval, as they werealmost to a man true Whigs
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