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 A TOPOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, COMPILED FOR THE YEARS 1790--1, ^hnohifj tU eostent and relative situation of tJte sevei-al Countim ; tJieir distance from tU Seat of Government; Pojndation, Force, County Lieutenants, Representatives, &c.; also, the District ami County Courts; the Civil List of the CommonwrnWi <^c carefuUu collected from Pulr- ff - 7 n ? /I - authorities. To heconiinued annually. > •■> J J J itc nccoraa ana ome?' Jlis Excellency Be EXECUTIVE. bWooJ, Lioutenaot G«i Carter Braxton, llobert Qoodo, John n. BriggB, Charles Cnrter, John DawHon, Hardin Burnley, (n) Er|., Clerk of Iho Council. LEGISLATIVE. COURT OF APPEALS. John Brown, Esq., Clerk. Hian COURT OF CHASCERT. Honorable Oeobgk Wythe, Chancellor. Willinm Hny, Esq., Master Commissioner. I'cter Tinsley, Esq., Clerk. GENERAL COURT. Honorablo IIe'v Taieitell, Joseph Prentis, "l St. Goorgo Tuoker, Richard P«J- kcr, Edmund Winston, Jomcs [ ., Henry, John Tyler, Cuthbott j '""' BuUtit, Joseph Jones, and Spon- 1 John Brown, Esq., Clerk. PUBLIC OFFICES. John Pendleton, Esq., Auditor of Publio Accounts. Leightou Wood, Esq., Solicitor. King CbarlcR the L Queen Chnrlotte, P. 1». Stnnbipc Lord Choaterficld, River Fluvanna, Doctor Bonjnmin Franlilin, Frederick Lewis, [Prince of Walei,] Duke of Gloucester, Sir Willium Gooch, [Ooicr'r of Firi/mia,] Jnmti Cifi/, King Otorgt, Kins Wiltiam, Xw,moJ iforihiiniuion. r, [.-.. E.>,,1<*"<'.] Louisa, [f> Dukcdoi IB Mndi Hon. George Miison,' " " • •' bowa. jklenburg, Middie8cx,"[i'" */ 3f<im/,] " - ngalift Bivor, ral Montgomery, Indian Ori e George and Brunairick, Albomnrli Bedford, Essex, K. & Queen and K. Wm Originally so called, Goochland, Princo Georgs, Originally so colled. Lunenburg, Frederic and Augusta, New Kent, Hampshire, Monongalia, Originally so called. Originally so called, Kentuckie, Worrafiqueak County, Diiki J.,m.. Clly, 1051 Jiiehinond, 1779 Northampton, and counties in Maryland. Orange, Augusta, Rockingham, Amberst, £c. Buckingham, Campbell, i Campbell, Botetourt, Franklin, ko. Albemarle, Fluvanna, Amherst, Cumberland, Prince Edward. City, Henrico, New Kent, Prince George ipbell, ituekinghara. Prince Edward. rico, Prince George, Dinwiddie, Amelia, Powhat Orange, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Fauquier, ka. bland, Powhatan, Buckingham) kv. ijja, Brunswicli, Princo George, Chesterfield,, Princo William. Loudoun, Frederick, Ac. , Mercer, Woodford aud Bourbon. 'Ic, Louisa, Goochland. Bedford, Botetourt, Montgomery, Henry, Pittsylvi lenandoah, Berkley, Hal King k Queen, York and Middlesex. Frederick, Berkley and Hnrdy. CO, Guochlnnd, Louisa, King (Tilliam, Chesterfield, Goochland, ~' Ivanio, Patrick, Montgomery, & Wythe, Greenbrier, Harris. Stafford, Westmoreland, Caroline Essex, King William, Caroline, i Caroline, King k Queen, Hanov( Mercer, Fayette and Bourbon. Kanhaway, Bourbon and Woodford. Gloucester and Middlesex. Halifax, Charlotto, Lunenburg, Brunswick. Nelson, Jefferson, Madison and Lincoln. Gloucester, Essex and Lancaster. Randolph, Harrison, Ohio, Pittsylvania and Wythe, Botetourt ond Honry. Isle of Wight, Norfolk, Southampton. Albemarle, Louisa, Culpe; and Amelia. Nottoway, Charlotte, d, Charles City. Monongalia, Hardy, Pendl Froderiok, Rockingham, Culpeper and Hardy. Nansemond, Sussex, " I, Culpeper, Orange, Loi, Isle of Wight, Southampton, Sussex, Prince George. KingOoorgo, 4o. Surry, Dinwiddie. 1 Nortbumboriand. Eliiabalh City, I[Gnrlco and Chcslerlleld. Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Fluvanna and Rivunna rivers, I, Rockfish and Tye riv James and Stauntoi Patowmac River, Roanoak, James and Kanhawny ri Stoner's Pork, Licking and Red ri Ronnoak and James rivers, Rappahannock and Pamunkey rivi and Cbickahominy, Rappahannock River, Fluvanna and Rivanna, (a hranchof Jam York, Piankctank rivers and Chesapeake Bay, James River, Greenbrier and Kanhaway rivers, Meherrin rivers, Dan, Staunton and Banister rivers, Patowmac River, Pamunkey and Cbickahominy rivers, South Branch of Patowmac, Little Kanhaway, Monongalia and Ohio rivers, James and Cbickahominy rivers, Waters of Roanoak, James and Cbickahominy rivers, Ohio, Kentuckie and Salt rivers, James River, Pagan Creek and Black Water, Kanhaway River and its branches to Ohio, Rappahannock and Patowmac rivers, Mattapony River and the Dragon Swamp, Pamunky and Mattaponv rivers, Rappahannock River and Chesapeake Bay, Greene, Cumberland and Dick's rivers, Patowmac River, Branches of famunkey River, Nottoway and Meherrin rivers. North River, Mobjack and Chesapeake bays, Roanoak and Meherrin rivers, Kentuckie, Salt and Dick's rivers, Rappahannock and Piankctank rivers, Monongalia and Cheat rivers. New River, or Kanhawoy, Nansemond, James River and Black Water, Ohio, Greene and Salt rivers, in. North and Northwest r Rappahannock Riv .hanock and Pamanky r James and Worv Philip IVndleton, George Skillron, John Edwards, John Jones, Charles Paterson, William Henderson, Anthony Thornton, J. Blackwell, Jr., ' 'i Todd,
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Douglass Wilkins, John Coleman, Andrew Woodrow, John P. Du-Vol, Turner Southnll, George Qnirston, Not yet appointed. 3d Monday. 4th Monday. 2d Tuesday. 1st Thursday, 1st Monday, lat Tuesday, lat Monday. Hd Monday. Last Tuesday. 4th 1 bureday. ■1th Monday. Last Alonday. 2d Monday. Tuesday. iMond ay. Accomack, Charlottesville, Petersburg, Bot'tALoivi'oalt.' Princo Edward, Now London, F' odorioksburg, District Cornt Days 15(A Ajiiilawl Septtii Ibth April and S<^l-im 16fA April antt Stptfti J. Cropper, Thomna Custis, F. Walker, W. Clarke, Joshua Chaffin, John Royal Hugh Rose, S. J. Cabell, Zach. Johnson, W. Bowyer, Nut yet reproaoiited, N. Cnholl, J. Pride, I N. Cnhell, I. Multhuws, j R. Clnrko. I R. Rutherford I. William Kussoll Geu, William KumoU T. Claiborne, White Ail Inu'ts. ""'«'■ sore 0S27 t21 S2S0 J2I •J2«0 5» Iiiolu. 111 KIMO 131 ■u a»!ll SDig 132 1|5 a. Dookor. W. Wtfstwooil, Lundoli, Winoliestcr, losburg, 2,>M ■iUTi 12tll OOS 7T« 0S9 «t> 19 1194 8 Hi m Till iss 11 IM g] ■ IIM 25 s?;is 31 II !JJ 210 1 2)7 20 212 220 3111 am 'til ■nli SIO 101 MO t Brunswiok, ■| 1 "■■- Hnrrodsburg, HarrodBburg, Williamsburg, Tuesday. narrodsburg, King k Qncei Morgiinlown, 1 .. ..-H-, Wasbington, Hnrrodsburg, John H. Cocke, David Mason, Arthur Caoipboll, Ed'd Thoreughgo Flenry Leo, Robert Johnson, Walter Crockett, Thomas NolBon, Jr 1th Tuesday. 12115 I-.-su I Lftj; Thursday. lOili 170(1 2,1 Thursday. Mo'yafradTh'y. Northumberland, I*' ^U"" a,l Mai/, 20lh SrpKmbn Nflrlhuioberiand, Ul April ..mlS^I'ltmber. ]«r April and S'pumhtr. U Moi, ami OcloUr. Ifilh April ami Sn'tfAxr. 12M J/..V'""'"''"6«"'. (I April awl Sipltmltr. •t Jf'm'y, JfarA, Junt. Stp'r, Xov !(/ JAiyont/ Oelubn'. SfA April 'iml StpUmbtr. I2th Jfau ana Uetobtr. Ut April and Stptmbtr. 21IM April and Stplttnlfr. J. Koiirncfl, Goiionil ItuMoII, It. Bnisctt, Pope. P. I)u-V»ll. I Gonornl Ituiioll, e. Mntlliowa, T. ntdloy. K Htovoni. r."fl."wlp'lli, ' HIdloy. lonoral RumdII, lugh Nolion, .. (Jomplioll, «" IS ut urio 3 8B0 ■IMT IBB 14 81) 3aoi) Inolu, (I'Ufi 41(1 u 6 7-16 7 .1 11(13 n Vim
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4 ni;t .(80 as 3.S..I J -IS am 311 i&ii %m 83 3 0SJ Tlionin* Malliowi, Spoakei IkoW [ (ft) ^o}^ idrin. Petersburg, Winoheslor, FrodorloVsburg and York, are Incorporated, but not yet rcprcientod ; the chye. r Tbot imw arc. Tb« great ohartor of laws and ordois on whlcb our Govommont ac'otnsto hnvo boon first 'permanently established, bcors date at London ISi and wiTo »»i lu tho owatlon of Shonandoab and Montgomery in 1776 and 177? The Kentuckie counties Lincoln and Nelson, have a settlement on Green In ComiuouweaUb thcro was a county callod Yohogania, created in Oolobor 1770, but on' a,o extension of Ibo Pennsylvania lino this became thereby onnihibitcd. NoTi: [n.] Hardin BurnUy waa eloetod thli liut scmIou in Uio room of Thomas Madison, who resigned his scot in council. | Note [6.] The City of WiUinmsburg i DtKTiUct or ViHnisi., to wit :— Bo it remembered, that on the second day of Angnsl, iu tbo sixteenth year of the Independence of tho United States of Atner • t acquainted, nnd tbo length i jeonlinKly, nnd I las Hothorsall in I added to thoobovt iscmoud I Mil in the Land C iDtj wu ciiablisbed y, 1621, hoing the 11 il,l33 white*, 114 mixed pervom extreme dixlonco ; the mllltla relunx are tu abort of Iho real t Denbeigh. tho only romolnlng Iraco iccnu to bo a crant of land to bed in J0.10, and ii now Vork Countr; TPtr and lower Norfulk 2,130 ilsTOS. The d do for Ibo yenra i Iho Oiler Dainiii { In I0», and wero >« crealo.1 out of I iy from ifa« Ctpllol U compiiUd (« (ho Court 'v.^'lrflJ/BeoklNo'. I Land i)$tt tualod wbir* ierlo^ (idJI iifo. On lb« "'5*h'."'ii^"" in JuQcs Cily and Tort, but if auporatcd ct I tko district and county conrts; tho ciTii list of tho CouunonireolUi, Ac., whit.., 40 mixed pcnon., o^fi ^I.vcf. or.ch.rt. Iho ii.H.i.mf ho clolm. u .illhoror prepriclor, In Iho »«nli follo.tof. lo «11: * TOPOailAPniOAL AXAU'SIS of ll. OOMMOXWKAITII f VlmmU, ff';' t' Hl'il- "'■'. ^ "l^ °"„ui from pobllo noocdj Ind oll.r .nthoriUM, to b. contlon.d .ntoJI?. In oonrotmllj to Ih. kI of th. Conjr.u of ll« United But.., o„iIllld " """, II. H. V.^ Wd.MAAf M,I(S)T.I,I., '■■/'/•/• of lliij DlHhirl „/ Vhyi'"'"- KicUMOXD : J'niiltd l,y THOMAS XICUOLSOX, mlus!tt Printer JM llic axiA.,r al ihul flact — lU-fuUMtd hji ./. H' l!A.hOLI'll, llirhmoml, 111., »f>S.
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