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Middlesex County
Just 35 years after Jamestown was settled, Virginia colonists planted tobacco in nearby Middlesex County, an area strategically located between two major rivers and the Chesapeake Bay. Middlesex life has been closely tied to both land and water. From the commerce of the early steamboats to the modern oyster-farming industry, the waterways have provided an avenue for business and a bountiful harvest of crabs, fish, and oysters. The county's modern boating industry grew from a 19th-century wooden boatbuilding tradition. The center of that industry, Deltaville, is known today as the "Boating Capital of the Chesapeake Bay." From the county's oyster heritage came Virginia's most famous celebration, the Urbanna Oyster Festival, which annually draws 60,000 people to the small waterfront town. Stately homes and churches that predate the Revolutionary War include Colonial Christ Church, which annually attracts hundreds of marines to the gravesite of Lt. Gen. Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller, the most decorated marine in the history of the United States Marine Corps, who retired to the county in 1955.
Account Book and Papers of the Berkeley Family
Farm account book of Carter Burwell Berkeley, along with a bundle of letters and other papers of the Berkeley family of "Barn Elms," Middlesex County, Virginia, and "Aldie," Loudon County, Virginia, 1840-1860.
Lewises, Meriwethers and Their Kin
Robert Lewis (b.1607) and his family immigrated from Wales to Gloucester County, Virginia in 1635. Descendants lived in Virginia, West Vir- ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas and elsewhere. Includes some data on ancestry in England.
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit
Lorena Walsh offers an enlightening history of plantation management in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland, ranging from the founding of Jamestown to the close of the Seven Years' War and the end of the "Golden Age" of colonial Chesapeake agriculture. Walsh focuses on the operation of more than thirty individual plantations and on the decisions that large planters made about how they would run their farms. She argues that, in the mid-seventeenth century, Chesapeake planter elites deliberately chose to embrace slavery. Prior to 1763 the primary reason for large planters' debt was their purchase of capital assets--especially slaves--early in their careers. In the later stages of their careers, chronic indebtedness was rare. Walsh's narrative incorporates stories about the planters themselves, including family dynamics and relationships with enslaved workers. Accounts of personal and family fortunes among the privileged minority and the less well documented accounts of the suffering, resistance, and occasional minor victories of the enslaved workers add a personal dimension to more concrete measures of planter success or failure.
Lucy and the Governor
An historical fiction based on a true story about Governor Francis Nicholson (1655-1728), a British military officer and colonial governor, who became the governor of five different colonies in America at different times from 1690 to 1725. While Nicholson overcame ordeals as a young military officer and achieved success as a colonial governor in America, he suffered set-backs and a re-call to England as he rose to prominence. His rise to fame was interrupted at the age of forty four years old in 1698 by his pursuit of the lovely Lucy Burwell who was sweet sixteen and courted by Edmund Berkeley, who succeeded in marrying her in 1702 to the dismay of Governor Nicholson. After his re-call to En...
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