1771 Antique COLONIAL DEED Culpeper Va SIGNED JOHN JAMESON Colonel Am Rev




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1771 antique COLONIAL DEED culpeper va SIGNED JOHN JAMESON colonel am rev
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This listing is for the original 3 page handwritten indenture from Culpeper, Virginia from 1771 signed by John James.

Between Stephen LOUTHER and Wife Mary and Francis Nowker and William Reiker, parish of Bromfeld in the County of Culpeper a...nd Colony of Virginia...

- 60 pounds current currency of Virginia ...
- parcel of land siutation within?? of the Stanton and Conway rivers and borded as followeth..   begining at a white oak in a small brance thence north one hundred and ten pole to three white oaks coner to William Keatley's ??? ....etc. 

From Widipedia: John Jameson was a graduate of The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, the second oldest college in the country. American Revolution - In Culpeper, Virginia (what was then called Fairfax, Virginia) under an old Oak tree during the spring of 1775, he volunteered with other men from Culpeper, Orange and Fauquier counties forming the Culpeper Minutemen. He was a Captain and company commander in the Culpeper Minutemen battalion. Making use of popular symbols and phrases of the period, the battalion's flag featured an obverse field containing an emblem of a snake (a symbol of the colonies) and the American Revolutionary mottoes "Liberty or Death" and "Don't Tread on Me." Jameson and John Marshall were a leading spirit amongst the famous Culpeper minute-men. These were the first soldiers raised in Virginia. Together, he and the Minutemen fought in the Battle of Great Bridge, the first Revolutionary War battle on Virginia soil, where the minutemen defeated British troops under John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, temporarily ending British control of Virginia. Jameson was elected June 13, 1776, by the Virginia Convention, captain of the Third Troop of Horse. He had six competitors for the position, and received forty-eight vote, while his competitors received respectively 17, 15, 9, 4, 3, 2 votes. One of his competitors was Henry Lee. Jameson took command June 16, 1776 as captain in a Virginia regiment of dragoons; promoted March 31, 1777, major 1st Continental Light Dragoons, and transferred April 7, 1777, to 3rd Continental Light Dragoons. He fought at the Battle of Brandywine. While staying with George Washington at Valley Forge, Major Jameson was wounded in a skirmish nearby on January 21, 1778. Throughout that year and the next he remained at Washington's side, engaged at the Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey in June, and promoted to Colonel in August 1779. As a Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War he was instrumental in exposing the treason of Benedict Arnold. In 1780, General George Washington placed key commanders in strategic areas around West Point, New York, and Colonel Jameson was placed in Tarrytown, New York under the supervision of General Benedict Arnold. A man calling himself "John Anderson" was intercepted by militamen and found to be in possession of documents that included information regarding the defenses of West Point and the movements of the American army. Since the papers were found in an odd place, "under the feet of his stockings", Colonel Jameson became alarmed, arrested Anderson, and alerted General Arnold, since he did not yet suspect Arnold. Anderson was carrying a pass signed by the General, and Arnold was noted to be "very desirous of the Papers and everything being sent with him." Jameson followed orders and had sent Anderson and the papers but was dissuaded by Major Benjamin Tallmadge, head of Continental Army Intelligence, who had just arrived at the headquarters. Because of the serious nature of the papers Jameson wrote to General Washington, enclosing the papers taken from Anderson. However he still insisted on notifying Arnold who promptly fled. Upon examining the papers, Washington called for Anderson, who then confessed that he was British major John André, envoy to the British commander in chief, Sir Henry Clinton. The investigation further revealed that Benedict Arnold, as commandant of West Point, agreed in 1780 to surrender the fort to the enemy in return for a royal commission in the British army and a large sum of money. Because of Jameson's intuition, Arnold's plot was foiled, but on balance, his misjudgment also allowed Arnold to escape. In any case, the attempt to pass control of West Point to the British was thwarted. Jameson was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, in Virginia, and was present at their meeting held December 13, 1802, in Richmond, Virginia, when it was voted to appropriate some of their funds, to the amount of $25, 000, to found Washington College in Maryland. He was described as being 6 feet tall, blue-eyed and fair-complexion with black hair. After the war he was awarded over 416 acres (1.68 km2) of land some of which was located in Green Co., Ohio. He owned many thousands acres of land throughout Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky. Jameson was a member at the Freemasonry chapter in Alexandria, Virginia. He is buried at the Culpeper Masonic Cemetery in Culpeper, Virginia. Colonel John Jameson’s uncle was Lieutenant Governor David Jameson (governor) of Yorktown, Virginia who served from 1780-81 under the Governorship of Thomas Nelson, Jr., signor of the United States Declaration of Independence and served as Governor briefly in August 1781[1] when Nelson took ill. He was elected as a State Senator in 1783. He also served in the Senate during the War in 1776-1777, serving on Patrick Henry's Privy Council.
   
CONDITION:  see description and supersized photos; yellowed paper; some tears at fold; stains; some lightening of ink but still legible...











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