Papers of Robert Anderson and Alexander Macaulay, 1770-1858.

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Papers of Robert Anderson and Alexander Macaulay, 1770-1858.

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Legal, and personal correspondence of Alexander Macaulay and Robert Anderson. There are a few letters relating to Alexander Macaulay shipping business at Norfolk, Va., lawsuits against Dismal Swamp Canal Company and documents and plats relating to the property at Navy Hill (Richmond, Va.), including a plat of Navy Hill (Richmond, Va.) with a "Proposed Academy" whose "object is to introduce graduallyV a thousand or more elementary schools j in every part of the State."

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Macaulay, Alexander, 1745-1798

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Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914

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Wirt County was named for William Wirt, who gained fame in Virgtinia as a lawyer and perhaps is best known for his role in the prosecution of Aaron burr for treason. It was created in 1848 from sections of Wood and Jackson Counties. Wirt County was one of the fifty western Virginia counties to form the state of West Virginia in 1863. From the guide to the Wirt County (W. Va.) plat and land survey, 1860, (The Library of Virginia) Northumberland County was formed in 1645 from ...

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Dismal Swamp Canal Company

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The Dismal Swamp Canal, which connects Chesapeake Bay and Albemarle Sound, was proposed as early as 1763 when George Washington and five associates formed the "Adventurers for Draining the Great Dismal Swamp." This company abandoned the project as economically unfeasible. In 1784, the Dismal Swamp Canal Company was created. On December 1, 1787, the Virginia Assembly passed an "Act for cutting a navigable canal ..." Digging of the canal finally began in 1793. Most of the work was don...

Anderson, Robert, b. 1781.

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Robert Anderson (b. 1781) was son of James Anderson of Gloucester Co., Va. In 1814, he married Helen Maxwell Macaulay Southall, widow of Peyton Southall and daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth Macaulay. Alexander Macaulay (1754-1798) was a tobacco merchant Yorktown, Va. a manager of the Dismal Swamp Land Company in 1794-1812. Robert Anderson administered the estate of his father-in-law and his brother, which resulted in prolonged litigation. From the description of Papers of Robert A...