373
Ohio, District of
W. A'g'ta, 1776 375 15,590 1,968
Preston, Monongalia, 1818 601 5,144 441
Pendleton, Augusta, Hardy
and Rockingham, 1788 999 6,271 1,120
Pocahontas, Bath, Pendleton
and Randolph, 1821 794 2,542 405
Randolph, Harrison, 1787 2061 5,000 644
Russell, Washington, 1786 1370 6,717 739
Rockingham, Augusta, 1778 833 20,663 5,056
Rockbridge, Augusta &
Botetourt, 1778 680 14,244 3,276
Scott, Lee, Russell and
Washington, 1814 624 5,712 503
Shenandoah, Frederick, 1772 767 19,750 4,922
Tyler, Ohio, 1814 855 4,308 757
Tazewell, Russell & Wythe, 1799 1305 5,573 727
Washington, Fincastle, 1777 1754 15,614 2,918
Wythe, Montgomery, 1790 1998 12,163 2,178
Wood, Harrison, 1799 1223 6,418 1,257

Total, 378,293 76,848

[14] Little and Big Sewell mountains, dividing Fayette and
Greenbrier counties, seem to perpetuate the name and memory of
this early and adventurous pioneer. Col. John Stuart states,
that Sewell's final settlement was forty miles west of his
primitive one, and on a creek bearing his name originating in
Sewell mountain, and flowing into Gauley. Col. Preston, in his
_Register_, gives September, 1756, as the date of Stephen
Sewell's death by the Indians, and Jackson's River as the
locality.

Mrs. Anne Royall, in _Sketches of the History, Life and Manners
of the United States_, (New Haven, 1826), p. 60, who visited
the Greenbrier country in 1824, gives the name of Carver as
Sewell's companion. "These two men," says Mrs. Royall, "lived
in a cave for several years, but at length they disagreed on
the score of religion, and occupied different camps. They took
care, however, not to stay far from each other, their camps
being in sight. Sewell used to relate that he and his friend
used to sit up all night without sleep, wit