Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . of the militia. In this capacity he became aconspicuous actor in many of the tragic events of the Bacon rebellion during the yearof 1665-6 which followed the harrassing retaliations of the Indians on the colonistsupon their domains of forest and stream. After the murder of the herdsman, Henn, in 1776, by the Dogue Indians, in Truroparish, near the Occoquan river, and the prompt pursuit of the murderers by themounted rangers of the co
Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . of the militia. In this capacity he became aconspicuous actor in many of the tragic events of the Bacon rebellion during the yearof 1665-6 which followed the harrassing retaliations of the Indians on the colonistsupon their domains of forest and stream. After the murder of the herdsman, Henn, in 1776, by the Dogue Indians, in Truroparish, near the Occoquan river, and the prompt pursuit of the murderers by themounted rangers of the county of Stafford to their town of Assaomeck twenty miles upthe Potomac, where they were overtaken and massacred at the doors of their wigwams,all the other tribes on both sides of the river, up and down, took refuge with the Piscata-ways, a powerful tribe dwelling on the heights now occupied by the battlement^ ofFort Washington ; and here in alliance they proceeded to fortify themselves b\ n-bankments, ditches and palisades against the advance of the colonists. To dish .,ethis force of savages, two thousand troops of the Maryland and Virginia militia v re. CAVE CASTLE, ENGLAND. By courtesy of Mr. Henry Dudley Teeter. 44 SOME OLD HISTORIC LANDMARKS speedily raised and placed under the command of Col. John Washington, who hadunder him Majors Mason, Brent and other military notables of the time. After a pro-tracted siege of six weeks the small number of the besieged who had escaped bulletsand starvation, capitulated to their assailants. The destruction was complete and ven-geance was satisfied. Three years before this siege Col. John as elsewhere related had been engaged withNicholas Spencer in bringing into the province one hundred immigrants, for which theyobtained a royal patent for 5000 acres now included within the bounds of MountVernon. At the time of this patent, Stafford was the uppermost county, stretching intermin-ably beyond the Alleghanies and to the Mississippi valley
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