The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832

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Index Abingdon Church, Gloucester Co., Va., 55 abolitionism, 227—28 Adams, John, 215 Afro­Americans: in present­day Lunenburg, 6—7; in early Southside, 19; in prerevolutionary Lunenburg, 110—11; inpostrevolutionary Lunenburg, 207—11. See also Free blacks; Slavery agriculture, in early Lunenburg, 34—35, 257 n.3. See also Tobacco; Livestock American Revolution: in Virginia, 120— 21; in Lunenburg, 121—39; and Lunenburg power structure, 141—42 Amherst Co., Va., 155 Amoss, James, 68 Anglican church: in early Southside, 19— 20; in prerevolutionary Lunenburg, 7, 52­56, 101­2, 116­17; religious forms of, 97—98; in South Carolina backcountry, 101;and militia service, 141. See also Cumberland Parish; Episcopal church; Religion Anson Co., N.C., 12 Anti­Federalists, 215 Appomattox River, 11 Asbury, Francis, 218­19 assault and battery, in Lunenburg, 84 backcountry, Southern: denned, 10,12— 13; Southside a part of, 14­24; state of religion in, 100—101; and American Revolution, 120­21, 132.See also Southside Backus, Isaac, 195 Bacon, Lydall: economic standing of, 68, 71—73; original Lunenburg justice, 81, 246 n.5 Baker, Elijah, 107,113­15, 196 Baptist church: rise of in Lunenburg, 99, 100, 104—8; beliefs and practices, 108­13; conflict with Anglicans, 113­ 19; social characteristics of, 114­18, 188­90, 194­97; attitudes toward slavery, 109­11, 190­91,221; success among black population, 106, 208; attitude toward Revolution, 140­ 42; and disestablishment, 143­46, 152­53; relations with Methodists, 193; in nineteenth­century Lunenburg, 194­97; declining zeal of, 199; mentioned, 7, 229. See also Evangelical religion Barrott, William, 173 Bedford Co., Va., 191,205 Betty, John, 19 Bill for Religious Freedom, 198 Billups, Christopher, 221,249 n.10 blacks. See Afro­Americans; Free blacks; Slavery Blagrave, Henry: economic standing of, 73, 75, 76, 183­84; member of Meherrin Baptist Church, 114, 250 n.35, 252 n.7; justice of the peace, 81; and contested elections, 89, 92—94; and Townshend Acts, 122­24 Bluestone Creek Baptist Church, 106, 208 Bohannon, Joseph, 138 Bohannon, Margaret, 137, 138 Booz, Catherine, 137 Botetourt Co., Va., 191 Bouldin, Thomas, 46 Braudel, Fernand, 160 Brickland, 180­81 Briery Presbyterian Church, 103­4, 249 n.10 Bristol Parish, 19 Brodnax, Edward, 221 266 Index Brodnax, William, 216­17 Brunskill, Rev.John, 53 Brunswick Co., Va.: divided, 27; proslavery petition of, 220;mentioned, 19, 50 Buffaloe Creek Presbyterian Church, 103­4 Burnes, James, 127 Burwell, Lewis, 46, 133 Byrd, William, II: symbol of gentry world, 8, 11, 12, 39; tours Southside, 14­19, 49, 54; on Scots­Irish immigration, 22; wealth and economic activity of, 31, 33, 37­38, 40, 71, 92, 184, 237 n.5, 241 n.42, 244 n.36,245 n.3; and patriarchy, 77, 79; and Bluestone Church, 106, 208; and militia service, 134 Byrd, William, III,burgess from Lunenburg, 51, 125 Byrdie's Store, 201 Caldwell, David: in election of 1758, 92; as Byrd's agent, 241 n.42, 244n.36 Caldwell, John: and founding of Cub Creek settlement, 56­58, 68, 213­14; as justice and vestryman, 104 Caldwell, William, 57­58 Calhoun, John C., 213 Campbellites, 197 Candidates, The. See Munford, Robert Cargill, Cornelius, 15, 45 Carter, Jimmy, 8 Carter, Landon, 44, 48 Carter, Landon, III,185 Carter, Robert, 79 Carter, Robert "King," 79 Cash, Wilbur J., 82, 159, 212­13 Catawba Indians, 17 cattle. See Livestock Chambliss, Millicent, 137, 138 Charles City Co.,Va., 12,51 Charles Parish, 69 Charlotte Co., Va., 56 Church of England. See Anglican church churches, construction of in Lunenburg, 54,87 Claiborne, Richard, 72, 126 clergy, debate on support of, 145—49. See also Religion and entries under separate denominations Cockerham, Henry, 70 cockfighting, in Lunenburg, 85­86 Coercive Acts, 125 Coke, Thomas, and antislavery, 218­19 Cole, James, 85 College of William and Mary, 50 Columbian Grove, 201 Commonwealth Tobacco Co., 4 community: search for in contemporary Lunenburg, 3—8; historical study of, 8—13; in early Southside, 16; among Presbyterians, 56­58; in prerevolutionary Lunenburg, 61—63; among Baptists, 108­13; in postrevolutionary Lunenburg, 200­207; among Afro­Americans, 207­11 Concord, Mass., 121 Connell, Ann, 137, 138 constitutional reform, in 1829, 216­18 Constitutional Whig (Richmond, Va.), 224 Continental Congress, and Meherrin resolutions, 140—41 Cook, Abraham, 29, 240 n.26 Cook, Charles, 108, 110 Cooper, John, 47 Cornwallis, General Charles, 131, 145 county court: traditional functions of, 43; operation in early Lunenburg, 43—49; in Richmond County, 44—45; construction of Lunenburg courthouse, 46­47, 201...