. A history of Rockingham County, Virginia . ourscore yards wide in thenarrowest part. We drank some healths on the other side, and returned;after which I went a swimming in it. We could not find any fordable place,except the one by which we crossed, and it was deep in several got some grasshoppers and fished; and another and I, we catched a dishof fish, some perch, and a fish they called chub. The others went ahunting, and killed deer and turkeys. The Governor had graving irons,but could not grave any thing, the stones were so hard. I graved myname on a tree by the river side; and th
. A history of Rockingham County, Virginia . ourscore yards wide in thenarrowest part. We drank some healths on the other side, and returned;after which I went a swimming in it. We could not find any fordable place,except the one by which we crossed, and it was deep in several got some grasshoppers and fished; and another and I, we catched a dishof fish, some perch, and a fish they called chub. The others went ahunting, and killed deer and turkeys. The Governor had graving irons,but could not grave any thing, the stones were so hard. I graved myname on a tree by the river side; and the Governor buried a bottle with apaper inclosed, on which he writ that he took possession of this place inthe name and for King George the First of England. We had a gooddinner, and after it we got the men together, and loaded all their arms,and we drank the Kings health in Burgundy, and fired a volley, and allthe rest of the Royal Family in claret, and a volley. We drank theGovernors health and fired another volley. We had several sorts of. ROCKINGHAM COUNTY liquors, viz., Virginia red wine and white wine, Irish usquebaugh, brandy,shrub, two sorts of rum, champaign, canary, cherry, punch, water, cider,etc. —From John Fontaines Journal of Sept. 6, 1716. In 1724 Hugh Jones wrote of the Spotswood expeditionas follows: Governor Spotswood, when he undertook the great discovery of thePassage over the Mountains, attended with a sufficient guard, and pioneersand gentlemen, with a sufficient stock of provision, with abundant fatiguepassed these Mountains, and cut his Majestys name in a rock upon thehighest of them, naming it Mount George; and in complaisance the gen-tlemen, from the Governors name, called the mountain next in heightMount Alexander. For this expedition they were obliged to provide a great quantity ofhorse shoes, (things seldom used in the lower parts of the country, wherethere are few stones;) upon which account the Governor, upon their return,presented each of his co
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