The Stronghold

A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People

By MIRIAM HAYNIE

The Dietz Press, Incorporated
Richmond, Virginia
1959

Copyright by
MIRIAM HAYNIE
1959

Second Printing July, 1960
Third Printing September, 1964

Printed in the United States of America by
The Dietz Press, Incorporated

TO MY HUSBAND
William Harold Haynie
AND
TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER AND FATHER:
Olivia Frances Jett Williams, and
Thomas Jackson Williams, of
"PLEASANT GROVE"
NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY,
VIRGINIA

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Acknowledgements

References have been given for each chapter so that in this way thepersons who so kindly gave personal interviews could be recognizedspecifically.

I wish to express my appreciation to the personnel of the Reference andCirculation Section, General Library Division, of the Virginia StateLibrary, for their splendid service. Without the books from the Libraryit would have been impossible for me to have accumulated the materialfor this book.

I wish to thank the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Fredericksburg FreeLance-Star and Virginia and The Virginia County Magazine, for theirkind permission to use any material which might be needed from articleswritten by myself and previously published in those publications.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

PART I—Seventeenth Century