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About A History Of The Valley Of Virginia
"It is from Kercheval that we get the first pictures of the Valley...stories of forts, Indian raids and the customs of the Germans and Scotch-Irish." -Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia (2021)"Kercheval rode from one end...to the other...wrote down the experiences of these aged participants of Virginia's last frontier days." -Times Dispatch (Richmond), June 27, 1937"The story of these bloody combatants...by Samuel Kercheval is rich in romance, tragedy, and exhibition of the coolest courage." -Orleans County Monitor, May 22, 1876"Kercheval recounted...the Southern Indians exterminated a tribe called the Senedos." -Strange Tales from Virginia's Mountains (2021) What race of people were responsible for the gigantic skeletons found by early Virginia pioneers in burial mounds located in the Shenandoah Valley? Who was responsible for pushing mostly peaceful Native American tribes into a war of extermination against the settlers of the Valley? In 1833, Samuel Kercheval (1767-1845) who rode up and down the Shenandoah Valley interviewing its aging pioneers, published his important historic book "A History of the Valley of Virginia." In introducing his book, Kercheval writes: "From the best evidence the author has been able to obtain, and to this end he has devoted much time and research, the settlement of our fine and beautiful valley commenced in the year 1732, about 125 years from the first settlement of Virginia….Tradition relates that the Delaware and Catawba tribes were engaged in war at the time the Valley was first known by the white people, and that the war was continued for many years after our section of country became pretty numerously inhabited by the white settlers." About the author: Samuel Kercheval was born March 1767 in Frederick County, Virginia and died 14 November 1845 in Middletown, Virginia. He was a Virginia lawyer and author. His A History of the Valley of Virginia (1st edition, 1833) provides important primary information on the earliest white settlements of the Shenandoah Valley and South Branch Potomac River and their encounters with local Indians.
