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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KTA_colonial-grace-church_Yorktown-VA.html
"A national shrine at the cradle of the Republic" Erected 1697 · Burned 1814 · Partially rebuilt 1823 · Rebuilt 1926 These are the original walls, built of marl. The bell was cast in London in 1725. Broken during f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KT8_swan-tavern_Yorktown-VA.html
"The Taverns are many here, and much frequented, and an unbounded Licentiousness seems to taint the Morals of the young Gentlemen of this Place...amiable Hospitality...seems...to have found no great Footing: Schemes of Gain, or Parties of Gam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KT7_site-of-the-home-of-nicolas-martiau_Yorktown-VA.html
The adventurous Huguenot who was born in France 1591 Came to Virginia 1620 and died at Yorktown 1657 He was a captain in the Indian uprising A member of the House of Burgesses Justice of the County of York In 1635 a leader in the thrusti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JPT_the-great-valley_Yorktown-VA.html
I desired you to send the Things you used annually to send me ... I ... shall not import any more necessaries till the hateful acts are repealed. The Ministry promised to get a Repeal of that imposing the Duties on Glass Paper & Colours; But, tell…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J9U_custom-house-circa-1720_Yorktown-VA.html
...collectors are hereby impowered to demand, secure, and receive all...the duties, customes and imposts...with full power to go on board any boat, ship or other vessel, or into any house...where he shall have just cause to suspect any fraud...col…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J9T_medical-shop-reconstructed_Yorktown-VA.html
Dr. Corbin Griffin was a prominent Yorktown physician active in the American Revolutionary War, serving as a surgeon with Virginia forces. During the siege of Yorktown, he was imprisoned by the British on a ship anchored in the York River. During …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J9S_an-archer-house_Yorktown-VA.html
Yorktown had a "great fire" in 1814. This destroyed all but the foundations of this house, thought to be one of Thomas Archer's "Houses under the Hill." The present restoration is the nineteeth century dwelling built on the older stone foundations.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ILQ_grace-church-circa-1697_Yorktown-VA.html
"The pews and windows of the Church all broke & destroyed. The church was used as a magazine." York County Records, Claims for Loses of York County Citizens in the British Invasion, Claim No. 31, 1783. Grace Church, a religious centerpiece in Y…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HF0_cornwallis-headquarters_Yorktown-VA.html
"?Lord Cornwallis has built a kind of Grotto at the foot of the secretary's Garden where he lives under Ground?" - St. George Tucker, October 11, 1781 On the level plain above you stood the home of Thomas Nelson, former secretary of the royal go…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HCB_tobacco-road_Yorktown-VA.html
"An act for Ports, &c. That from and after the first day of October (1692), all shipps, barques, and other vessells whatsoever, arriveing into, or sayling out of this country for trayd, shall unload and put on shoare, and take from shoar to load …
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