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| Histories |  | Beverly Manor, from The Tinkling Spring, Headwater of Freedom Notes about a book (The Tinkling Spring, Headwater of Freedom, by Howard McKnight Wilson, 1954) that presents information about Beverly Manor, a mid-18th-century housing development in Augusta County, that was heavily promoted in Pennsylvania and New England as a place to leave the increasing crowded towns and cities, and find a home on the frontier. |
| Death of Humphrey Madison Indian attack in Bath Co., VA in September 1756. John Byrd/Bird killed by Shawnee; son John Jr., wife, and 5 other children abducted. After truce with Indians in 1763, mother and John Jr. returned. |
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