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A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People
_The Dietz Press, Incorporated_ _Richmond, Virginia_ _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
References have been given for each chapter so that in this way the persons who so kindly gave personal interviews could be recognized specifically.
I wish to express my appreciation to the personnel of the Reference and Circulation Section, General Library Division, of the Virginia State Library, for their splendid service. Without the books from the Library it would have been impossible for me to have accumulated the material for this book.
I wish to thank the _Richmond Times-Dispatch_, the _Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star_ and _Virginia_ and _The Virginia County Magazine_, for their kind permission to use any material which might be needed from articles written by myself and previously published in those publications.
John Smith in the shallop exploring the waters of Northern Neck, Virginia
Pocahontas is traded for a copper kettle and becomes an hostage to Captain Argall
The infant, George Washington at Wakefield, his birthplace
Young Washington helping in the handling of "seine" on the Potomac
Young George Washington becomes a friend of Lord Fairfax, Proprietor of Northern Neck
Skirmish between the Virginia Militia and the British during the War of 1812 at Farnham Church
I have read with a great deal of pleasure the book called _The Stronghold_, which relates the history of the Northern Neck of Virginia in story form and was written by my good friend, Miriam Haynie of Reedville, Virginia. Mrs. Haynie is a native of the Northern Neck of Virginia, her family on both sides having settled there in the seventeenth century, and her direct ancestors having remained there until this day. She is the author of a number of articles dealing with the history and traditions and customs of the peninsula between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers that have appeared in the _Richmond Times-Dispatch_, the Washington papers and national publications. She is devoted to this section of Virginia and has spent a large part of her life in accumulating an enormous fund of historical data of the region.