Plan of the line between Virginia and North Carolina as surveyed in 1728 and 1749 [manuscript], 1750 (ca.).

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Plan of the line between Virginia and North Carolina as surveyed in 1728 and 1749 [manuscript], 1750 (ca.).

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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."

1 map; 31 x 191 cm. folded to 31 x 95 1/2 cm.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Fitzwilliams, Richard, d. 1732?

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Virginia. Commission on Boundary Lines.

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Irvine, Alexander

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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, (...

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 ...

Mayo, William

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Dandridge, William, d. 1743.

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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...