The settlement at Cuttyhunk in 1602 is depicted in the banner for this page taken from a painting by Albert Bierstadt.  Bartholomew Gosnold sailed from Falmouth, England in the Concord with 32 on board.  They intended to establish a colony in New England which they did at Cuttyhunk Island.  They had insufficient provisions to overwinter and the settlers decided to return to England.  Bartholomew Gosnold, after his return to England, obtained an exclusive charter from King James I for  the Virginia Company.  Gosnold served as vice-admiral of the expedition and captain of the Godspeed, one of three ships on the voyage in 1607 to establish the colony of Jamestown.  

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Timeline of Events
    "Not to know what took place before one is born is to remain 
                    forever a child."     
                                                            Cicero

Jamestown Colony, 1607 - 1700
    Bartholomew Gosnold, Adventurer and Privateer
    Sir Samuel Argall, Adventurer and Naval Officer
    John Claye, Ancient Planter
    Thomas Farmer, Ancient Planter
    Robert Beheathland, Ancient Planter
    Mary Beheathland, Ancient Planter     
   Nicolas Martiau, Huguenot and Military Engineer
   Augustine Warner, Merchant
   George Reade, Secretary of Jamestown Colony
   Nathaniel Pope, Merchant and Planter 
   Colonel John Washington, Planter and Statesman
   Captain Lawrence Washington, Planter 

Plymouth Colony, 1620
    John Tilley and Joan Hurst Rogers
    Elizabeth Tilley and John Howland

Pennsylvania German Pioneers, 1680-1776
    Religious Freedom in the Land of William Penn
    Christoph von Schlegel, Immigration 1697-1700
    Hans Adam Büdinger, The good ship Samuel, 1737
    Jacob Mathias Schowalter, The ship Brotherhood, 1750
   The Journey from Alsace to Pennsylvania

Virginia Frontier, 1650-1760
     Surveyors and Pioneers
      Hites
          Morgans
          Rutherfords
          Swearingens
          Washingtons
      
   French and Indian War
      Col. George Washington
           Capt. Robert Rutherford
 
     Settlers of the Shenandoah Valley
           Washingtons
                 Col. Samuel Washington (w4)
           Bedingers 
               Henry Bedinger (1)
                 Will of Henry Bedinger (1)
                 Mary Magdalena von Schlegel Bedinger (s1)
                 Americanization of the Bedingers      
       
British Colony to Independent Republic,  1775-1793 
        Westmoreland Resolves
        Virginia Conventions and Declaration of Independence     
        Brothers of the Revolution
          Bee Line March
                 Siege of Boston
                 Holding Staten Island
                 Declaration of Independence
                 Battle of Fort Washington
                 A Boy in Prison
                 Battles of Piscataway and Germantown
                 War on the Frontier
                 Southern Campaign
                 Siege of Yorktown and Final Battles
                 Reunion at Stephenson's Spring
New Republic and New Frontiers, 1790-           1860
        Henry Bedinger (4)
          George Michael Bedinger (5), Kentucky Pioneer
          Daniel Bedinger (7)
                     Journey to the Gulph of Mexico
                             [ Daniel Bedinger's journal has been removed and is pending
                                         publication in the Magazine of the Jefferson County                                                          Historical society]
                      "The Cossack Celebration"
        War of 1812
             James Terrell, Cavalry Officer with Old Hickory
        ​Daniel Bedinger (7), "The Cossack Celebration"
       Lawrence Berry Washington (107)
          Youth and Early Aspirations
          Attorney and Counselor at Law
          Mexican War, 1846-1848, Part I
          Mexican War, 1846-1848, Part II
          Gold Rush                  
                   Sojourn in Cuba
                   A Tale to be Told Some Fifty Years Hence
                   The Missouri-Kansas Border War
           Henry Bedinger III (45) 
                 Journal of a Law Student
                 The Eagle from Harper's Ferry
                 Journey to Canaan
                 First U. S. Minister to Denmark
                                 
Adventure,  War and Settlement of Western Lands, 1780-1860 
             The Gold Rush and the Charlestown Mining
​              Company 
             John Gilbert Love, Tennessee to Texas
             Bedingers and Washingtons, Settle in Missouri
             Sallie Eleanor Washington, We are Scattered
             Lawrence Berry Washington, Soldier of Fortune

Civil Strife and a Tragic War, 1850-1865
       George Michael Bedinger (6), Emancipationist 
    Bedingers in Kentucky during Slavery
       Edwin Gray Lee,  General, CSA
       The Burning of Bedford,  Memories of
             Henrietta Bedinger Lee (44)
       Everett Wade Bedinger (93), Confederate with a 
             Conscience
       William Augustine Morgan (65), Cavalry Colonel, CSA
       George Rust Bedinger (351), Lost to a Dreadful War
            First Battle of Manassas
            Rockbridge Artillery
            The Emerald Guard
            Lee's Invasion of Maryland
            Antietam and a Woman's Recollection of the Battle
            Battle of Fredericksburg
            Battle of Gettysburg
            Appomattox
    Mary Bedinger Mitchell (140)
       Daniel Bedinger Lucas (130), Poet. Lawyer, Jurist
        Solomon Singleton Bedinger (  )
        George Washington (117)
        Robert Adams Terrell (  )
        John Thornton Washington (  )

Reconstruction and Recovery, 1865-1920
      Solomon Singleton Bedinger and Mildred Berry Washington
      Henry Clay Bedinger and Susan Ellsworth Washington
      Henrietta Gray Bedinger
      Singleton Berry Bedinger
      John Love Terrell 
      Caroline Dane (Danske) Bedinger
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Jamestown Colony, 1607 - 2007

Mayflower

Hite Fort, near Shepherdstown

Entler Hotel, Shepherdstown

Fraktur Art of Pennsylvania Germans

Oxen driven Conestoga Wagon

Panning for gold

River Flatboat

Soldier's canteen left on battlefield

Civil War Ambulance

Henry Bedinger's Mill at Bedington, West Virginia

Mill of George Michael Bedinger and James Rumsey

Bedford burned

Horseshoe Bend

Reelfoot Lake