• James Innes (1754 – August 2, 1798) was an American attorney, officer in the American Revolutionary War and politician. The second Attorney General of...
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  • politician James Innes (British Army officer, died 1759) (1700–1759), British provincial officer James Innes (Virginia) (1754–1798), Virginia attorney general...
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    Smith Thornton James Innes Thornton Jr. Fitzgerald Thornton Katherine Marshall Thornton Innes Thornton Butler Brayne Thornton Harry Innes Thornton Thornton...
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  • James Innes Randolph, Jr. (October 25, 1837 – April 29, 1887) was a Confederate army officer, lawyer, and poet. Randolph was born in Winchester, Virginia...
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    Guy David Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe (18 November 1954 – 29 August 2019), was a British aristocrat. Guy David Innes Ker was born on 18 November...
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  • commission in 1756, Innes retired to his home on the Cape Fear River. A bequest made by Innes upon his death lead to the establishment of Innes Academy in Wilmington...
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    Calvert. On November 1, 1796, George Calvert, James Jett Jr., and James Wheeler petitioned the Virginia General Assembly to "establish a town by the name...
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    society. Henry James, George Henry Lewes, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Edward Burne-Jones, and Virginia's honorary godfather, James Russell Lowell...
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    younger brother James Innes, Harry Innes supported independence of the United States and Virginia as tensions mounted between the Virginia General Assembly...
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    The Inn at Little Washington is a luxury country inn and restaurant located in Washington, Virginia. Patrick O'Connell and Reinhardt Lynch founded the...
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    The Virginia Company was an English trading company chartered by King James I on 10 April 1606 with the objective of colonizing the eastern coast of America...
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    1762 when he was 11, future president James Madison was sent to a boarding school run by Donald Robertson at the Innes plantation in King and Queen County...
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  • Virginia Tech (VT), officially the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI), is a public land-grant research university with its main...
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  • In 1956, he transferred to a base in Virginia and married Peoples shortly thereafter. Their first child, son James Ronald "Ronnie" Jr., was born the following...
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    accomplished baseball player in the precursor to the Negro leagues James Innes Randolph (1837–1887), Confederate Army officer, lawyer, and poet Heyward...
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    Patrick O'Connell (chef) (category James Beard Foundation Award winners)
    American chef and proprietor of the Inn at Little Washington, a country inn and restaurant in the town of Washington, Virginia. O'Connell was born in Washington...
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    Anthony Johnson (colonist) (category People enslaved in Virginia)
    received into the Roman Catholic Church. He sailed to Virginia in 1621 aboard the James. The Virginia Muster (census) of 1624 lists his name as "Antonio...
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    Natural Bridge is a geological formation in Rockbridge County, Virginia, United States, comprising a 215-foot-high (66 m) natural arch with a span of 90...
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    built in 1833 by James Innes Thornton. The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 10, 1984. James Innes Thornton was born...
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    side of the James River. The Native Americans knew this area as Warascoyak, also spelled Warrosquoyacke, meaning "point of land." The Virginia colony officially...
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     154. Nisbet's Heraldry. pp. iii, ii, 65. Innes, Thomas (1938). Scots Heraldry. W. & A.K. Johnston. p. 20. Innes, Thomas (1956) [1938]. Scots Heraldry (2nd ed...
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    nephew, William Randolph, later came to Virginia as an orphan in 1669. He made his home at Turkey Island along the James River. Because of their numerous progeny...
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    County is a county located in the Hampton Roads region of the U.S. state of Virginia. It was named after the Isle of Wight, England, south of the Solent, from...
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    Spenden (1907). "Origin and History of English Inns of Chancery". The Virginia Law Register. 13 (8). Virginia Law Review: 585–593. doi:10.2307/1103274. ISSN 1547-1357...
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    exile across the Atlantic. Upon arriving in Virginia, Nathaniel Bacon bought two frontier plantations on the James River. Since his cousin and namesake Nathaniel...
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    Revolution (1985) Breen, T. H., and Stephen D. Innes. "Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640–1676 (1980) Brown, Kathleen...
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    Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming. In September 2015, Village Inn operated 212 restaurants. This was reduced...
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    Virginia City is a census-designated place (CDP) that is the county seat of Storey County, Nevada, and the largest community in the county. The city is...
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    McConnel Guy David Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe (1954–2019) Charles Innes-Ker, 11th Duke of Roxburghe (b. 1981) Lord Robert Anthony Innes-Ker (b. 1959)...
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    Abingdon is a town in Washington County, Virginia, United States, 133 miles (214 km) southwest of Roanoke. The population was 8,376 at the 2020 census...
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