Records, 1763-1879; (bulk 1830-1871).

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Records, 1763-1879; (bulk 1830-1871).

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Letter books, accounts, shingle records (1795-1843); bankbooks (1837-1853); check stubs (1840-1863); lists of stockholders and contemporary copies of their wills; and other records. Stockholders include David Meade, Richard K. Meade, Thomas Walker, George Washington, the College of William and Mary, and members of many leading Virginia families. The correspondence consists largely of letters to and from the presidents and executive agents, with a few from Thomas Walker. The records include accounts of low profits in the 1780s and in the panic of 1837, labor problems during the early years, trespassers, transportation problems, difficulties in arranging stockholders' meetings, and the subdivision of shares during prosperous years. The company was originally interested in agricultural expolitation (including rice cultivation), but the sale of cypress shingles and staves proved more profitable. The company went under as a result of post-Civil War economic conditions and concurrent decrease in the shingle trade.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Washington, George, 1732-1799

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George Washington (b. Feb. 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Va.-d. Dec. 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, VA) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Washington came from a family of farmers and landowners. He had little education but showed an aptitude for mathematics. He used this talent to become a surveyor. At 15, Washington took a job as assistant surveyor on a team sent to map the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia. In his early 20s, Washington joined the Virgin...

Meade, R. K. 1803-1862.

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Dismal Swamp Land Company.

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A Suffolk, Va., enterprise founded in 1763 by George Washington, Thomas Walker, William and Thomas Nelson, Robert Burwell, John Robinson, Fielding Lewis, Anthony Bacon, John Lyme, Samuel Gist, Robert Tucker, and William Walters. Dissolved in 1879. From the description of Records, 1763-1879; (bulk 1830-1871). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19536404 ...

College of William and Mary.

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Walker, Thomas, 1715-1794

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Virginia state legislator. From the description of Letter to Reuben Lindsay [manuscript], 1775 December 2. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647857784 ...

Meade, David (American garden designer, 1744-1829)

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David Meade was born in Virginia in 1744 to a wealthy planter of the same name. He went abroad for schooling at Harrow in England. At age seventeen he returned to Virginia to become a young gentleman planter. He married Sarah Waters of Williamsburg in 1768. The following year he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. Meade was an ardent supporter of the American Revolution. He suffered, however, significant financial losses in the war. This eventually prompted him to send his son, David...