This Brief History identifies and interprets the rich cache of surviving archival and primary records relating to the Virginia colonial Plantation that came to be called Belle Isle.
In 1692, a Huguenot-Anglican immigrant clergyman named John B. 1670) as English settlers were pouring into this part of Virginia in 1650.
After a long History as a Native American settlement visited by Captain John Smith in 1607 and 1608, this Rappahannock River Plantation was first patented by Thomas Powell (d.
This Brief History identifies and interprets the rich cache of surviving archival and primary records relating to the Virginia colonial Plantation that came to be called Belle Isle