NEW KENT — The 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry and his Hanover County volunteer militia’s march through New Kent County en ...

as well as punishments such as hanging, shooting, breaking on the wheel, and even being burnt alive. The Virginia Company was dissolved in 1624. Virginia then became a royal colony.

Alexander Spotswood, the lieutenant governor of the Colony of Virginia, ran out of patience ... Spotswood provided Robert ...

After the “shot heard round the world” started the Revolutionary War, Williamsburg found itself on the threshold of its own ...

In 1662, Virginia decided all children born in the colony to a slave mother would be ... slave trade as the King of England chartered the Royal African Company, encouraging it to expand the ...