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Table of Contents

Introduction. Page v
Contents. Page ix
Illustrations. Page xiii
I. An Historical Digest Page 15 II. Norfolk's First White Man--Billy Smith Page 23 III. Dr. Troyer and his Big Witch Trap Page 29 IV. Walsingham's Second Settler--LucasDedrick Page 33 V. First White Burial in Old Charlotteville--Frederick Mabee Page 37 VI. Boxed Up by his Wife--Abraham Smith Page 43 VII. The Town of Charlotteville Page 49 VIII. The Father of Norfolk Presbyterianism--Jabez Culver Page 56 IX. Ryerson and Ryerse Page 62 X. A Pioneer Wheatfield Page 72 XI. A Pioneer Who Lived in the Executive Log Mansion--The Austin Family Page 76 XII. The Double Culver Quartette Page 84 XIII. Two Highland Lads Page 91 XIV. The Clan McCall Page 94 XV. Two Marylan Dutchmen Page 101 XVI. Comforts of Old Age Page 105 XVII. A Young Pioneer Who Brought the Old Family Bible--Price Family Page 109 XVIII. Norfolk's Gallows Page 114 XIX. Neil's Corners and Cope's Landing Page 120 XX. The Old Gustin Mill Page 123 XXI. A Strict Family Disciplinarian Page 127 XXII. Lieutenant Teeple's Mistake Page 131 XXIII. "The Good Old Times" Page 134 XXIV. Jake Sovereign, the Pioneer Tavern-Keeper Page 137 XXV. The Earl of Mar, and the Marrs and Lemons of Norfolk Page 143 XXVI. A Family of French Huguenots Page 149 XXVII. A Peioneer " Meetin' " at Father Abraham Powell's Page 154 XXVIII. The Sons of Old Hendrick Slacht Page 158 XXIX. Our Fair Daughters Page 164 XXX. A Pioneer Murdered On His Way to Norfolk--Barber Family Page 170 XXXI. A U. E. Loyalist Ranger--Haviland Family Page 176 XXXII. Captain Edward McMichael Page 181 XXXIII. A Veteran Educator and Judge Page 185 XXXIV. Whiskey a Medium of Exchange Page 190 XXXV. Pioneer Chickens Hatched in Transit Page 194 XXXVI. A Young Mother's Grave Page 200 XXXVII. A Pioneer Mother who Weighed Three Hundred Pounds Page 204 XXXVIII. A Jolly Old Pioneer Page 207

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Norfolk's foundation builders and their family genealogies.

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