Oddly enough, it’s a good thing that after young William was caught absconding with Mr Warren’s hat near the Inns of Court area of London that he did not receive “benefit of clergy”. For those not familiar with the term it refers to a little known facet of […]
While traipsing about the land of historical narrative I have stumbled upon a most unlikely hero. A hat thief from London who defied not only the odds of surviving a harrowing ordeal in prison and at sea but also the gaze upon his life in retrospect. And everything […]
I will preface that this post is part 2 of my previous article titled “What If …? “ Did he or didn’t he? That’s the question. Did William Longmire draw and/or write anything on the so-called 1728 “Plan of the Town of Fredericksburg” survey map below? And what […]
Was recently corresponding with a Longmire cousin who was inquiring about the grave site of William Longmire. I offered that he was probably buried at what was then called Strother’s Church but that you will not find his grave as it is long past gone. Swept away by […]
The Life and Times of William Longmire of London and Virginia 