Diary of Thomas Lewis [manuscript] 1746-1747.

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Diary of Thomas Lewis [manuscript] 1746-1747.

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Diary, kept while Lewis was surveying the southwest boundary of the Fairfax grant of Northern Neck of Va.

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Lewis, Thomas, 1718-1790

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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...