Washington spent much of his boyhood at Ferry Farm in Stafford County near Fredericksburg.

* Hudson, Kansas, town in Stafford County

These remained Westmoreland until 1664, when Stafford County, Virginia was formed.

Stafford County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and just across the Rappahannock River from the City of Fredericksburg.

The former small tribe, still centered in Stafford County, was recognized by the state of Virginia in 2010.

This occurred in the eastern part of Stafford County, from where they took her to a secondary English settlement, known as Henricus ( or Henrico Town ).

In 1664 it established Stafford County from territory previously part of Westmoreland County.

As originally delineated, Stafford County included a much larger area than its current borders, and in fact encompassed what would later become Arlington, Fairfax, and Prince William, and the City of Alexandria.

Stafford County industry and resources were important to the colony and early nation.

Stafford County today is considered part of the Washington, D. C. metropolitan area.

Aquia Creek empties into the tidal segment of the Potomac River at Brent Point in Stafford County.

The magisterial districts each elect one supervisor to the Board of Supervisors which governs Stafford County.

Stafford County is represented by Congressman Rob Wittman in the U. S. House of Representatives.

It is bounded on the north by the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers, the independent city of Fredericksburg ( all of which were part of the area's early history ), and the counties of Stafford and Culpeper ; on the south by the North Anna River and its impoundment, Lake Anna, and by the counties of Hanover and Louisa ; on the west by Orange County and Culpeper County ; and on the east by Caroline County.

* Stafford County, Virginia-northeast

Prince William County was created by an act of the General Assembly of the colony of Virginia in 1731, largely from the western section of Stafford County as well as a section of King George County.

It is bounded on the north by Loudoun and Fairfax counties ; on the west by Fauquier County ; on the south by Stafford County ; and on the east by the Potomac River ( Charles County, Maryland lies across the river ).

* Stafford County, Virginia-South

" Make Love to Me ", a 1954 pop song by Jo Stafford, using the New Orleans Rhythm King's music from the 1923 jazz standard " Tin Roof Blues ", became a no. 1 hit.

A group of 30 Stafford enthusiasts gathered there and devised the standard, as well as electing the club's first secretary, Joseph Dunn, a well-known figure connected with the breed.

" Prisoner of Love " is a standard that has been recorded by Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, Art Tatum, Perry Como, the Ink Spots, Mildred Bailey, Teddy Wilson with Lena Horne on vocals, Bing Crosby, Billy Eckstine, and James Brown.

Stafford is divided into two separate regimes, half for standard prisoners and half for vulnerable prisoners. The vulnerable prisoners are housed on E, & F wings.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

* one of five federal programs promoted under the umbrella organization Citizen Corps, which is funded in part by the Stafford Act ;

* 1965 – Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida.

Glorantha is the Fantasy world created by Greg Stafford and since used as the background for several role-playing games, including RuneQuest ( 1st ed.

The HeroQuest game system, written by Robin Laws in collaboration with Greg Stafford, is radically different from RuneQuest in that it emphasises narrativist aspects of role-playing ; in contrast, RuneQuest emphasised simulationist aspects.

* 1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.

* The 1986 book " Camp X " by David Stafford is the most accurate account of the activities and personnel of Camp X the secret agent training camp for sabotage and guerrilla warfare at Ajax near Oshawa Ontario, Canada, that was administered by the British Special Operations Executive.

Dr. Kimble, who was born on March 27, 1927 in Stafford, Indiana, is a respected pediatrician in Stafford.

He is under a sacred obligation with regard to all that he consents to spend ... I am bound to say hardly ever in the six years that Sir Stafford Northcote has been in office have I heard him speak a resolute word on behalf of economy.

* May 18 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 ( Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan, John Young ) is launched, on the full dress-rehearsal for the Moon landing.

* May 17 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.

This is the second time this has occurred ; Stafford Northcote lived in Number 10 at one point, while Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli occupied Number 11.

There is also an avenue of lime trees in Stafford Orchard ( the village park ) in remembrance of those American soldiers that died, together with a plaque.

The reality of Juan Diego's existence has been questioned by a number of experts on the early religious history of New Spain including Bernardino de Sahagun, Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta, Stafford Poole, Louise Burkhart and David Brading, who argue that there is a complete lack of sources about Juan Diego's existence prior to the publication of the Nican Mopohua a century later, in 1649 ( they do not accept the validity of the Codex Escalada as historical evidence ).

The Debenhams department store is said to be haunted by Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham-the store is on the site where he was beheaded in 1483.

As of the 2000 census, the population was 92, 446, increasing to 128, 961 in 2010 .. Its county seat is Stafford.

Stafford is represented by William J. Howell in the Virginia House of Delegates.

It is bounded on the south by the Rappahannock River across which lie Caroline and Essex Counties ; on the east by Westmoreland County and on the west by Stafford County.

In 2006, and again in 2009, Stafford was ranked as the 11th highest income county in America by Forbes magazine.

The county seat Stafford received almost 2 feet of snow both times.

The county is named in memory of Lewis Stafford, captain of Company E, First Kansas Infantry, who was killed at the Battle of Young's Point, Madison Parrish, Louisiana, June 7, 1863.

The boundaries of Stafford County were defined by the Kansas Legislature of 1870 but for several years, the county remained unorganized.

The Legislature of 1875, with the intention of obliterating the county from the map, gave the territory in Stafford County to other counties.

Although the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 to allow the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with the approval of voters, Stafford County has remained a prohibition, or " dry ", county.

St. John is a city in and the county seat of Stafford County, Kansas, United States.

By 1879, Zion Valley had grown into a small town, and the residents renamed it St. John, after then governor John P. St. John, in order to gain favor in winning the county seat of Stafford County.

Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire.

The Town of Stafford is the only interior town in Genesee county, lying in the eastern part of the county, east of Batavia, New York.

Originally located within King George County, Falmouth became part of Stafford County when county lines were redrawn in 1776.

Be it enacted by the general assembly, that one hundred and thirty-nine acres of land, in the county of Hampshire, the property of John Kellar, and laid off by him into in and out lots, with convenient streets, shall be, and the same is hereby established, a town by the name of Frankfort, and that John Mitchell, Andrew Cooper, Ralph Humphries, John Williams, Sen. James Clark, Richard Stafford, Hezekiah Whiteman, and Jacob Brookhart, gentlemen, be trustees thereof, who, or the major part of them, shall have power, from time to time, to settle and determine all disputes concerning the bounds of said lots, and to establish such rules and regulations for the regular building of houses thereon, as to them shall seem best.

An Act of Parliament received the Royal Assent on 30 April 1792, entitled " An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from, or from near, Wyrley Bank, in the county of Stafford, to communicate with the Birmingham and Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, at or near the town of Wolverhampton, in the said county ; and also certain collateral Cuts therein described from the said intended Canal ".

Some claim that Barnfield now married and withdrew to his estate of Dorlestone ( or Darlaston ), in the county of Stafford, a house romantically situated on the River Trent, where he henceforth resided as a country gentleman.

Newcastle-under-Lyme is about 17 miles ( 27 km ) north of the county town of Stafford.

All of the state's school districts, with only one exception ( Stafford Municipal School District ), are independent of any municipal or county control.

: Other titles: Viscount Trentham, of Trentham in the county of Stafford ( 1746 ) and Baron Gower ( 1703 )

: Other titles: Earl Gower and Viscount Trentham, of Trentham in the county of Stafford ( 1746 ) and Baron Gower ( 1703 )

: Other titles ( 1st Duke onwards ): Marquess of Stafford ( 1786 ), Earl Gower and Viscount Trentham, of Trentham in the county of Stafford ( 1746 ) and Baron Gower ( 1703 )