Williamsburg, VA

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Originally Middle Plantation, a 1632 fortified settlement located on high ground on the Peninsula between the James and York rivers, it was renamed Williamsburg after the capital of the Virginia Colony was moved there from Jamestown in 1698. The town received a royal charter as a city in 1722, and was the center of political events in Virginia leading to the American Revolution.

From the guide to the Deed, 1783 September1, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)

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