This is a plan of the line between Virginia and North Carolina, which was run in the year 1728, in the spring and fall from the sea to Peter's Creek by the honourable William Byrd, William Dandridge and Richard Fitzwilliams esquires commissioners and Mr. Alexander Irvine and Mr. William Mayo surveyo

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This is a plan of the line between Virginia and North Carolina, which was run in the year 1728, in the spring and fall from the sea to Peter's Creek by the honourable William Byrd, William Dandridge and Richard Fitzwilliams esquires commissioners and Mr. Alexander Irvine and Mr. William Mayo surveyors ; and from Peter's Creek to Steep Rock Creek was continued in the fall of the year 1749 / by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson. 1749.

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1 facs. ms. map in 5 sheets ; 28.4 x 244 cm.

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Fry, Joshua, approximately 1700-1754

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Colonial Virginia educator, landholder, and surveyor. From the description of Bill, 1753. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 443060771 ...

Jefferson, Peter, 1708-1757

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Peter Jefferson (1708-1757), Virginia planter, cartographer and surveyor, father of Thomas Jefferson, married Jane Randolph 1739. In the 1740s, the family moved to Shadwell Plantation in Albemarle County. In 1744 Jefferson became the Goochland County surveyor. In 1745, he was appointed guardian of the children of his friend and kinsman, Col. William Randolph of Tuckahoe (1712-1745). The Jefferson family soon moved to Tuckahoe, in Goochland County, returning to Shadwell in 1752. Peter Jefferson d...