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Preferred Citation

Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Plat Map and Land Survey by William Paxton for James Willson, WLU Coll. 0544, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA

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Scope and Contents

A survey and small map, dated 1818, of 115 acres of land in Rockbridge County, Virginia, which belonged to James Willson. The survey includes the names William Cunningham, Jonathan Poague, Rueben Grigsby, and Thomas McFarland, whose lands border the Willson property. The North Fork of the James River and Mill Creek are also mentioned in the survey.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Cunningham, William
• Grigsby, Reuben
• Land use surveys
• Maps
• McFarland, Thomas
• Poague, Jonathan
• Virginia -- James River
• Willson, James