During his life Captain Harry managed to acquire a great deal of land. In 1716 before Harry departed on his ill-fated treasure voyage, Lt. Governor Alexander Spotswood took a group of 62 men on a westward tour through some of the most beautiful land in Virginia. They traveled through the Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge Mountains. After the trip, Spotswood is reputed to have given each of the eight officers of the group a gold horseshoe-shaped pin, and the men became known as “Knights of the Golden Horseshoe.” In 1722 King George gave Spotswood 24,000 acres of land in Virginia that pretty well coincided with the same area the men had hiked over in 1716. Spotswood in turn gave this land to the eight men who had been officers of the expedition: Harry Beverley, John Robinson, (who would become Harry’s daughter Agatha’s father-in-law), Christopher Robinson, Bartholomew Yates, Lewis Lane, William Stanard, (who would later marry Harry’s daughter Elizabeth as his second wife and whose own daughter Anne from his first marriage would marry Harry’s son, Robert), Jeremiah Clowder, and Edwin Thacker. The land was known as the Octonia Grant.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 23:44:00 +0000
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