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Loyal Company of Virginia or Loyal Land Company was a land speculation company formed in Virginia in 1749 for the purpose of recruiting settlers to western Virginia. The company continued operations until May 15 1776, when Virginia declared independence from Great Britain though litigation on behalf of and against the company continued until 1872.

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Independent Company Loyal Virginians was an infantry company that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 1st Independent Company was organized...

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University Press of Kentucky, 1985), conflict in the coal industry to the 1980s. John E. Stealey III, West Virginia's Civil War-Era Constitution: Loyal Revolution...

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Peter Jefferson

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others, established the Loyal Company of Virginia, and were granted 800,000 acres (3,200 km2) in present-day Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. In the...

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The Loyal Order of Moose is a fraternal and service organization founded in 1888 and headquartered in Mooseheart, Illinois. Moose International supports...

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study of the folklore of a mountainous section in Southwestern Virginia" (PDF). Virginia Polytechnic Institute: 14–41. Jones, Loyal (2017). My Curious and...

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Virginia. Beginning in 1749, Fry also became involved with the Loyal Company of Virginia, which received grants across the Appalachian Mountains conditioned...

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2nd West Virginia Cavalry Regiment

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First Families of Virginia

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members were loyal to Britain, others were Whigs who not only supported, but led the Revolution. Most First Families remained in Virginia, where they flourished...

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List of Virginia Civil War units

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Independent Company Loyal Virginians 1st West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment 2nd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment 3rd West Virginia Volunteer...

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Virginia Weidler

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died of a heart attack.[citation needed] While not the box-office draw of Fox's Shirley Temple or Jane Withers, Virginia Weidler still has a loyal following...

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Pocahontas

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colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tsenacommacah...

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Army of Northern Virginia

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Devil's Den at the Battle of Gettysburg. Although created as a loyal Union state in 1863 from Virginia's western counties West Virginia contributed between...

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List of West Virginia Civil War Union units

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creation of the state of West Virginia were often known as, "loyal Virginians," who formed the Restored government of Virginia in Wheeling, West Virginia in...

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Northern Virginia

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Northern Virginia, locally referred to as NOVA or NoVA, comprises several counties and independent cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United...

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The Teaching Company

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is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. In 1990, the company was founded by Thomas M. Rollins, former Chief Counsel of the United States Senate Committee...

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History of Virginia

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in present-day Virginia with Jamestown, which would become the first permanent English settlement in North America. The Virginia Company colony was looking...

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House of Burgesses

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freeman of a borough, a self-governing town or settlement in England. The Colony of Virginia was founded by a joint-stock company, the Virginia Company, as...

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List of British units in the American Revolutionary War

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part of the British Legion in 1778) Locke's Independent Company Loyal American Rangers (1780–1783) Loyal American Regiment Loyal Foresters Loyal New Englanders...

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Virginia dynasty

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to assist another Virginian who had remained loyal to him and the party, James Monroe, to be elected president in 1816. By the end of Monroe's first term...

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