Williamsburg Sentence Examples

The public records of the state were removed thither in 1777 from Williamsburg, and in May 1779 Richmond was made the capital.

Two days later McClellan's advanced troops fought a sharp combat at Williamsburg and the Army of the Potomac rendezvoused on the Chickahominy with its base at White House on the Pamunkey (May 7).

John Tyler the younger entered the grammarschool of the College of William and Mary, at Williamsburg, in 1802, and graduated in 1807.

Among his publications, besides Letters and Times of the Tylers, are Parties and Patronage in the United States (1890); Cradle of the Republic (1900); England in America (1906) in the "American Nation" series, and Williamsburg, the Old Colonial Capital (1908).

He was re-elected to Congress in March 1775, and on the 10th of May was again chosen to preside, but on the 24th he left to attend a meeting at Williamsburg of the Virginia Burgesses.

The settlement was in a low marshy district which proved to be unhealthy; it was accidentally burned in January 1608, was almost completely destroyed by Nathaniel Bacon in September 1676, the state house and other buildings were again burned in 1698, and after the removal of the seat of government of Virginia from Jamestown to the Middle Plantations (now Williamsburg) in 1699 the village fell rapidly into decay.

He entered the Confederate army as a colonel, became a brigadiergeneral (April 16, 1862), and took part in the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, second Bull Run and Antietam.

In April 1862 the count took part in the siege of Yorktown, and was present at the action of Williamsburg on the 5th of May.

Jefferson carried with him from the college of William and Mary at Williamsburg, in his twentieth year, a good knowledge of Latin, Greek and French (to which he soon added Spanish, Italian and Anglo-Saxon), and a familiarity with the higher mathematics and natural sciences only possessed, at his age, by men who have a rare natural taste and ability for those studies.

Brooklyn is connected with Manhattan by three bridges across the East river - the lowest, known as the Brooklyn, opened in 1883; another, known as the Williamsburg or East River bridge, opened in 1903; and a third, the Manhattan, was opened in 1909.

Of the other towns which were later united to form the borough, New Utrecht was settled about 1650, Flatbush (at first called Medwoud, Midwout or Midwood) about 1651, Bushwick and Williamsburg in 1660.

In 1855 Williamsburg, which had been incorporated as a city in 1851, and the town of Bushwick were annexed.

The College of William and Mary (1693), at Williamsburg, became a state institution in 1906 and is likewise governed under a board appointed by the governor.

Even the accession of William and Mary scarcely affected the fortunes of the "fifth kingdom," though Middle Plantation, a hamlet not far from Jamestown, became Williamsburg and the capital of the province in 1691, and the clergy received a head, though not a bishop, in the person of James Blair (1656-1743), an able Scottish churchman, who as commissary of the bishop of London became a counterpoise to the arbitrary governors, and who as founder and head of the College of William and Mary (established at Williamsburg in 1693) did valiant service for Virginia.

When the Burgesses undertook in May 1769 to declare in vigorous resolutions that the right and power of taxation, direct and indirect, rested with the local assembly, the governor hastily dissolved them, but only to find the same men assembling in the Raleigh tavern in Williamsburg and issuing forth their resolutions in defiance of executive authority.

A year afterwards Fort Pitt was occupied by a company of Virginia soldiers by order of the Virginia Provincial Convention (assembled at Williamsburg in August 1775), but this move apparently was more for the defence of the frontier in the coming war than an expression on the Pennsylvania-Virginia boundary dispute; and, in November, Connolly was arrested at Fredericksburg, Maryland, on the charge of furthering Dunmore's plans for invading the western frontier.

The Smith Charities is a peculiar institution, endowed by Oliver Smith (1766-1845) of Hatfield, who left an estate valued at $370,000, to be administered by a board of three trustees, chosen by electors representing the towns of Northampton, Hadley, Hatfield, Amherst and Williamsburg in Hampshire county and Greenfield and Whately in Franklin county - the beneficiaries of the will.

He was educated at Eton, studied medicine at Edinburgh, practised as a physician in Williamsburg, Virginia, read law at the Temple, London, in 1766-1770, and practised law in London in 1770-1776.

A small Herb garden based on Colonial Williamsburg gives an impression of the medicinal, culinary and perfumed plants used by 18th century herbalists.

Specialties abound, but include many of those mentioned above as well as styles, such as Mediterranean, Federalist, 19th century, or Williamsburg.

Newburyport Blue is deep and rich, similar to a Williamsburg Blue.

Stewart majored in psychology at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

As anyone who's been to Colonial Williamsburg or studied American history knows, colonial men's clothing for both rich and poor was radically different from modern dress.

Colonial Williamsburg and other organizations dedicated to history have extensive resources for studying the fashions of the period.

You can get either patterns or ready-made clothing of excellent quality from the Colonial Williamsburg Web site.

The park was later named Busch Gardens Williamsburg before changing to the current name, Busch Gardens Europe, in 2006.

The Griffon roller coaster is located at Busch Gardens Europe in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Busch Gardens Christmas Town is a winter celebration that transforms the Williamsburg, Virginia, amusement park into a holiday experience for the whole family.

The holidays are a great time for family visits to popular amusement parks, and Busch Gardens in Williamsburg is no different.

Busch Gardens is located off Interstate 64 (Exit 243A) just a few miles east of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.

The most popular destination is Colonial Williamsburg, in Virginia.

At Colonial Williamsburg, the goal since 1934 is to give visitors a real education in the nation's history.

These are not generally provided at Colonial Williamsburg's rental shop, though!

Since Williamsburg is not convenient for most people, it's better to shop online and there are a number of choices.

A woman who was drawn to the colonial period of America spent a week in Historic Williamsburg and had many spontaneous past life recalls of that time period.

At the age of sixteen he entered the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, but in 1776 he left college to take part in the War for Independence.

At his own request he was ordered east, and on the 23rd of September 1861 was made brigadier-general of volunteers and assigned to command a brigade in the Army of the Potomac. He took part in the Peninsula campaign, and the handling of his troops in the engagement at Williamsburg on the 5th of May 1862, was so brilliant that McClellan reported "Hancock was superb," an epithet always afterwards applied to him.