“Winchester, Virginian

Published by Robinson and Hollis

March 5, 1834

This paper contains a spirited correspondence between Col. Josiah W. Ware and citizens of Winchester, in relation to a division of the county, so that a county should be formed East of the Opecquon. This controversy was brought about by what was presented to the General Assembly in the form of petitions. The citizens of Winchester resented the action of Col. Ware, and published what they styled a manifesto. Col. Ware, in defending his position, charged the town justices with unlawfully and unjustly using the county levies to pave the market square and represents that the sections of the county remote from this market, should not be taxed to improve the town of Winchester; and that the section East of the Opecquon, where he lived, received no benefits. This culminated in bitter feeling, that increased; and that section waged a fight for the new county, and succeeded in having the county of Clarke taken from Frederick.”

Reference Data:

Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants, by Thomas Kemp Cartmell, 1909, page 150