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Economic Development And Political Authority: Norfolk, Virginia Merchant-Magistrates, 1736-1800, Thomas Costa
Economic Development And Political Authority: Norfolk, Virginia Merchant-Magistrates, 1736-1800, Thomas Costa
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Colonial Norfolk, Virginia, developed a more diversified economy than much of the rest of the tobacco-growing Chesapeake. Through a vigorous trade to the West Indies in agricultural products, local merchants prospered, and in 1736 a group of the leading local traders received a charter incorporating Norfolk town as a borough. From that time until the Revolution, through the offices of mayor and aldermen, who corresponded to county magistrates elsewhere in Virginia, the founding merchants and their hand-picked successors governed the town.;Norfolk's merchant-magistrates retained their grip on the town's political and economic life until after the Revolution, despite competition from new …
The Monetary Material Culture Of Plantation Life: A Study Of Coins At Monticello, Cynthia Ann Whitley
The Monetary Material Culture Of Plantation Life: A Study Of Coins At Monticello, Cynthia Ann Whitley
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A Republican Abroad: John Adams And The Diplomacy Of The American Revolution, Robert Wilmer Smith
A Republican Abroad: John Adams And The Diplomacy Of The American Revolution, Robert Wilmer Smith
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Town Development In The Colonial Backcountry: Virginia And North Carolina, Christopher E. Hendricks
Town Development In The Colonial Backcountry: Virginia And North Carolina, Christopher E. Hendricks
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The backcountry of colonial Virginia and North Carolina saw a process of urbanization during the third quarter of the eighteenth century uniquely shaped by a large-scale migration from colonies to the north, aided by the westward extension of local government. This rapid development did not lead to the creation of a hierarchical economic system of central places, but rather linear networks shaped by the geography of the region. Ironically, this phenomenon occurred in an area of two American colonies usually considered to be devoid of towns.;This dissertation is a study of twenty-eight towns established from 1744 to 1776 in the …
The Equipment Of The Virginia Soldier In The American Revolution, Andrew John Gallup
The Equipment Of The Virginia Soldier In The American Revolution, Andrew John Gallup
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Senator Harry F Byrd And The New Deal Reform Policy In Virginia, 1933-1938, Chitose Sato
Senator Harry F Byrd And The New Deal Reform Policy In Virginia, 1933-1938, Chitose Sato
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