Early Adventurers on the Western Waters, Vol I

(Only a few volumes remain)

Family sketches for early settlers of what is now the Western part of Montgomery County (New River settlements) and eastern part of present Pulaski County).

• The beginning of the Southwest Virginia or Western Waters
• Competing Land Companies
• Getting settled, roads, officers of the court, all Augusta County records pertaining to SWVA
• French and Indian War, surveys, warrants and service records
• Fort Chiswell
• Hunters, early churches, and deaths on the frontier
• New counties formed: Botetourt and Fincastle.
• The beginning of Montgomery County, officers, merchants, ministers, ferries and roads, militia, and deaths.
• Towns of Christiansburg, Blacksburg, Radford, Dublin.
• The Revolutionary War: claims, pensions, and service records
• Disaffection: Tories and Oaths of Allegiance
• Life on the Frontier; cabins and their contents.
• Blacksburg area to include roads, creeks, settlements, and land records from Augusta, Botetourt, Fincastle and Montgomery counties.

Family sketches for early settlers of what was the Western part of Montgomery County (New River settlements) and eastern part of present Pulaski County).