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Surveying Collection

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Survey accounts prepared by individual surveyors for Virginia Counties. Collection also includes licenses, bonds and correspondence. Most of the reports include the name of the purchaser, the amount of acreage surveyed, the fee charged, and the date.

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Accomac County - Thomas Evans Box 1, Folder 1

Surveying account from Thomas Evans, Surveyor of Accomack County to the College of William & Mary for January 1785, January 1786 and January 1787, dated December 8, 1787. Includes columns with date of survey, for whom made, number of acres, division lines, legal fee amount and explanatory notes. Names include Ayres Stockley, T. Jacobs and E. Hancock, William Barclay, Henry Fletcher, Sr, E. Costin and B. Clemons, T. Bundell(?), Meshach(?) Meers, Ralph Justice, George Hope, John Allen, W. Drummond, Jabez Pitt (or Pith), Americus Watson, William Garrison, Thomas Bayley, Bartholomew Meers, and John and Southey Simpson.

Amelia County - Thomas Mumford Box 1, Folder 2

"Account of Publick Surveys... and lines in Amelia County by Thomas Mumford, as sworn to John Prentis, Wmburgh, May 11, 1771." Columns include date of survey, name of client, Paid and Unpaid. Names are difficult to read, but they include James Clark, James Roberson, Francis Eppes, Charles Stewart, John Hall, W. Samuel Meridith, Robert Cofin (?), Henry Anderson, Thomas Whitworth, Henry Porvill(?), James Studavan (son of Daniel), James Studavan (son of James), James Parramore, Edmund Booker, John Penick, Isham Vaughan, William Watson, Capt. Bafo (?), William Thompson, Rubin Palmore, Henry Robertson, Thomas Boocher (?), Samuel Whitworth, W. Everd Mead, William Wa?, James and Ward Hutson, John Win and George Warton.

Amherst County - William Cabell Box 1, Folder 3

"A list of fees received for surveys in Amherst County by William Cabell, Jr., Surveyor," dated 1766. Columns: for whom surveyed, acres, when surveyed and gross tobacco (?). Names include John Roberts, Daniel Aaron, Isham Davis, John Edmonds, George McDaniel, Richard Peter, Ambrose Rucker, Joseph Frost, John Spears, Charles Tuly, Joseph Higginbotham, James Smith, James Colbard Blair, Benjamin Higginbotham, Thomas Powell, Henry McGuffy, Rachal Morrison, John Key, Isaac Mayfield, John Sutton Field, Jacob Brown, Nathaniel Woodruff, Francis Meriwether, James Brown, Zacharias Taliaferro, Samuel Marksbury, Edward Ware, Robert Davis, Josiah Ellis, John Brown, Solomon Carter, Rowland Atkins, William Bibb, Angus Forbes, John Montgomery, David Montgomery, Jr., and Nathaniel Woodruff.

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