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Four hundred yards west of this spot stood The Red House, the home of Edward Beeson, where Berkeley County was founded from a part of Frederick County, Virginia, on May 19, 1772, and where the first county court was held after the following men had been chosen and commissioned by Lord Dunmore: Ralph Wormley, Van Swearingen, Robert Stephen, Jacob Hite, Thomas Rutherford, Hugh Lyle, Adam Stephen, Thomas Robinson, John Briscoe, John Nevill, Samuel Washington, James Strode, James Nourse, Robert Strogden, William Morgan, William Little, Thomas Swearingen, James Seaton, Robert Willis, and Will Drew as clerk.
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