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Lunenburg County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 12,914.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/51/51111.html )〕 Its county seat is Lunenburg.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 ==History== Lunenburg County was established on May 1, 1746, from Brunswick County. The county is named for the former Duchy of Brunswick-Lunenburg in Germany, because one of the titles also carried by Britain's Hanoverian kings was Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburg. It is nicknamed "The Old Free State" because during the buildup of the Civil War, it let Virginia know the county would break off if the state did not join The Confederacy.〔''The Old Free State: A Contribution to the History of Lunenburg County and Southside Virginia''. Landon Covington Bell. 1927. Pp. 578ff. (Reprint: 1974, 2005, Genealogical Publishing Company ). ISBN 9780806306230. (Google Books ).〕 Among the earliest settlers of the county was William Taylor, born in King William County, Virginia. He was the son of Rev. Daniel Taylor, a Virginia native and Anglican priest educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University〔(Admissions to the College of St. John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, Part III, Robert Forsyth Scott, The University Press, Cambridge, 1903 )〕 in England, and his wife Alice (Littlepage) Taylor. William Taylor married Martha Waller, a daughter of Benjamin Waller of Williamsburg, Virginia.〔(Listing: "Rev. Daniel Taylor" ), ''Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,'' Vol. VIII, Virginia Historical Society, Printed by William Ellis Jones, Richmond, Va., 1901〕 In 1760 Taylor purchased three adjoining tracts of land in Lunenburg County totaling . Taylor soon became one of the county's leading citizens, representing Lunenburg in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1765 until 1768.〔(Lyon Gardiner Tyler, ''Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography'', Vol. I ), Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1915〕 In that capacity, Taylor voted in 1765 to support statesman Patrick Henry's Virginia Resolves in 1765.〔At his death in 1820, a Richmond newspaper noted in its obituary of William Taylor that he was the last man known to be alive who had heard Patrick Henry's famous "Give me liberty or give me death" speech in the Virginia House of Burgesses.()〕 Taylor served as County Clerk for 51 years (1763–1814). Taylor was succeeded as County Clerk by his son William Henry Taylor, who held the office for another 32 years—from 1814 until 1846. Another son, General Waller Taylor, represented Lunenburg in the Virginia legislature, then moved to Vincennes, Indiana. There he became a judge and subsequently Adjutant General of the United States Army under General William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812. General Waller Taylor later served as one of the first United States Senators from the newly created state of Indiana from 1816 to 1825. He died on a visit home to see his relatives in Lunenburg County in 1826.〔(Pattie B. Seay, ''Survey Report, The Taylor Cemetery'' ), Library of Virginia Digital Collection〕 During much of the American Civil War, the family of Missionary Bishop Henry C. Lay lived in Lunenberg County, where Mrs. Lay (the former Eliza Withers Atkinson) grew up. Both of Bishop Lay's brothers served as Confederate colonels, and Mrs. Lay's uncle, Thomas Atkinson was bishop of North Carolina. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lunenburg County, Virginia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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