Surveyors and statesmen : land measuring in colonial Virginia / Sarah S. Hughes.

Main entry:

Hughes, Sarah S.

Title & Author:

Surveyors and statesmen : land measuring in colonial Virginia / Sarah S. Hughes.

Publication:

Richmond, Va. : Virginia Surveyors Foundation : Virginia Association of Surveyors, [1979]
©1979

Description:

x, 196 pages : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm

Notes:
Endpapers are maps.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. The era of the surveyor generals : 1621-1709. Politicians and statesmen -- A strange endowment -- pt. 2. The science of surveying in the seventeenth century. The mystery of surveying -- Thence into the woods -- The duties of surveyors -- The costs of science -- pt. 3. The eighteenth-century county surveyors. The edge of the piedmont -- Chains to new wealth in the interior -- Fieldwork and officework on the frontier -- Old lines and new boundaries -- Gentlemen surveyors.

ISBN:

09604076

Subject:

Surveying Virginia History.
Land use Virginia History.
Utilisation du sol Virginie Histoire.
Surveying and mapping coverage. [Literature].
Land use.
Surveying.
Virginia. [Literature] 1979.
Virginia.
United States, Virginia Land and property History.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 20600
Call No.: PO8993; ID:87-B7694
Status: Available

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