I love history... Did you know that George Washington tried to cheat a VanMeter out of some land/property, known as Fort Pleasant, originally Fort VanMeter? The area around Fort Pleasant was first settled by Isaac Van Meter (ca. 1692-1757), his wife Annetje Wynkoop, and their four children[5][6] in 1744, at which time the family constructed a fortified log cabin there.[5][6][7] George Washington first visited the Indian Old Fields (as the area was called) as a teenager and conversed with Isaac Van Meter there in 1747-48 while he was surveying Lord Fairfaxs land grant.[8] Washington recorded in his journal that he met with Mr Vanmetrise on behalf of Fairfax, who asserted that the Van Meter tract was part of his own South Branch Manor (a part of the Northern Neck Proprietary). Van Meter insisted that he had the land on the authority of the Virginia Council grants of 1730 and that they had nothing to do with Fairfaxs grant. (Subsequent litigation played out until well after the Revolution, at which time the Van Meter heirs finally prevailed.)[9]
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 00:35:00 +0000
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