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Title Updated: Augusta County on the Frontier
Updated: January 4, 2026
Created at the Staunton Public Library, Web site.
Copyright 2023-2026 Antony Frame
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Augusta County Historical Society Bulletins are filled with knowledge to introduce the stories link.
Among the prominent arrivals are the members of Dr. Cornelius Baldwin, physician of the Revolutionary Period, whose family first landed in Connecticut and moved to Winchester, Virginia.
Dr. William Fleming, from Scotland, arriving in Staunton; news article link.
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In Augusta County, there conveys the legal profession--seated at the Court House in Staunton--to calm the west by civilizing influences that only constitutional temperaments bring to the frontier; many attain the reaches of the Supreme Court of Virginia, like Judge and General Briscoe Baldwin who refuses the governorship or with the venerable name that Marshall suggests at the Federal Bench.
Briscoe's son, Col John, is tutored by the father while days before the Civil War Among the US States, he with a Committee of Nine, meets Lincoln to offer a timely observation; unable to persuade, soon after, the Virginia Assembly sways its mixed verdict towards independence as unable to stand against Virginia while being for the Federal System (as I remember reading in the Augusta County Historical Bulletins link).
Attributed to Briscoe Baldwin when America was not yet a global power and can readily look to the four corners now with a sense of the responsibilities attained and won:
"Let us realize the fact after all that has passed we have still a country to make the most of, to make the bet of; and that is is indeed our country to be defended, if need be against a world of arms."
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