Records, 1792-1834.

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Records, 1792-1834.

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Collection concerns acquisition of land by the Dismal Swamp Canal Company or its subsequent leasing of the land to private individuals. Included are indentures, warrants, and inquisitions, land valuations, surveys and a map of the canal. Names mentioned include Robert Andrews, Daniel Berdinger, Donald Campbell, John Cowper, and Thomas Newton Jr.

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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library

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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library

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Fairless, Joseph A.

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Cowper, John, fl. 1794.

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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...

Stallings, Fruzy.

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Berdinger, Daniel.

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Andrews, Robert, fl. 1794.

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Campbell, Donald, fl. 1794.

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Newton, Thomas, 1742-1807.

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