NOTTOWAY COUNTY, VA - NEWSPAPER –  Randolph & Greenhill Shooting, 1816

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, A shooting in 1816:
                  1936 Apr. 13
                  Research made by A. L. Cole

Location:         Nottoway County, Virginia



HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

On May 29, 1816, a militia officer, a member of the House of Delagates at the 
time and owner and keeper of a tavern at Nottoway Court House, shot and 
dangerously wounded Peter Randolph, judge of the fifth circuit of the supreme 
court and Colonel William C. Greenhill, commander of the Militia Regiment of 
Nottoway County.

He shot them after sunset for entering his yard.  They both fell in the open 
space north of the Court House square in front of the tavern, which stood where 
Fuqua’s tavern stood, and may have been the same.  Judge Randolph was carried 
to William Verser’s, somewhere between the present Deane’s Store and post 
office, and Goodwin’s house, where he lay for six weeks.  Colonel Greenhill, 
after falling, got up and walked to the home of Dr. B.B. Jackson.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Walter A. Watson and W. R. Turner

Old Nottoway Parish.


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