Survey book, 1736 October 12-December 14.

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Survey book, 1736 October 12-December 14.

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Concerns a survey of the Potomac River from the mouth of the Shenandoah River to the head spring to determine the northern boundary of the Northern Neck Proprietary of Virginia. Also bears lists of persons on the survey, and accounts. Representing Lord Fairfax were John Savage and Benjamin Winslow (as surveyors) and William Beverley, Charles Carter, and William Fairfax (as commissioners); representing the Crown were Robert Brooke and William Mayo (as surveyors) and William Byrd II, John Grymes, and John Robinson (as commissioners).

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Byrd, William, 1674-1744

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William Byrd II resided at Westover in Charles City County, Virginia. From the guide to the William Byrd Papers, 1728-1729., (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) Virginia planter William Byrd served as a member of the Virginia Council of the State (1709-1744); he determined the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina. From the guide to the The history of the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina, 1728, 1728, (...

Brooke, Robert, d. 1745.

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Carter, Charles, 1707-1764.

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Robinson, John, 1704-1766.

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Grymes, John, 1692-1748.

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Savage, John, 1690-1700 fl.

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Fairfax, William, 1691?-1757

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Epithet: of Add MS 36996 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000818.0x000183 Epithet: of Add MS 33735 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000818.0x000181 Epithet: cousin of Thomas 6th Baron Fairfax of Cameron British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000622.0x000109 ...

Beverley, William, 1696-1756

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Virginia planter and political figure. From the guide to the William Beverley papers, 1737-1748, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Winslow, Benjamin, of Falmouth, Me.

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Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Lord, 1692-1782

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This land grant was issued in 1741 by Thomas, 6th Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, to Richard Brown (d. 1745), descendent of Quaker minister William Brown. The grant was one of five that Richard Brown had received in Virginia's Northern Neck; at the time of his death, he owned a total of 2,774 acres in Loudoun County. Furthermore, his extensive plantation included a house, malthouse, mill, millhouse, saw, sawmill, brewhouse, outhouses of all sorts, and sundry accessories. The 634-acre tract of la...

Mayo, William, 1684-1744.

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