1697 Will of Thomas Womack- Richard's brother

Henrico County Deeds, Wills 1688-1697

From Thomas' will, it is shown that Abraham Womack (also Richard and John) were his brothers

Pucketts- brother (inlaw) Thomas Puckett, cousin Elizabeth Puckett, godson Thomas Puckett, Mary-dtr of Will Puckett, Frances dtr of Thomas Puckett

Baughs- goddaughter Catherine Baugh

John Granger (2nd husband of Richard Womack's widow, Mary Puckett Womack)

Witnessed by Henry Walthall and James Baugh

In the name of god Amen
 Know all Christian people that I Thomas Womack of the County of Henrico and parish of Bristoll being Weak of body but of Sound Memory & under Standing doe here make my last will and Testament Revoaking all others formerly be me made bequathing of my personall Estate in manner and forme following.
 Item I Bequath my Sole to god that gave it mee trusting in the meritts of Jesus Christ my Saviour and Redeemer that at the General resurrection of the Last day my Soul and body Shall be united to gether and to rest with my redeemer in Glory amen.

21y I doe give to my godson Thomas Puckett my new four foot Chest

Item I doe give to my Couzen Elisabeth Puckett one Cow Browing Shee being great with Calfe

Item I doe give to my god Daughter Catherine Baugh one heifer of two yeares old

Item I doe give to my godson Thomas Puckett one heifer of four years old

I doe give to my Brother Thomas Puckett one Steer of three years old and a two
years old heifer and my hoggs like wise I give to my brother Thomas Puckett

Item I give to my Brother Thomas Puckett my Mare Colt

Item I give to my godson Thomas Puckett my fether bed with all its furniture

Item I give to my Brother Abraham Womack my long gun

Item I give to my godson Thomas Pucket my Small Gunn

Item I give to John Granger one Muskett

I give to my godson Thomas Puckett one old pewter dish one new plate

Item I give to Cuzo: Eliz: Puckett one old pewter dish and one new plate

Item I give to Mary Puckett daughter of Will Puckett one new Small pewter dish & two new plates

Item I give to my Brother Abraham Womack two old Pewter dishes two old plates one new large pewter bason

Item I give to John Granger one pewter bason one old pewter Dish one old plate

Item I give to Frances Puckett daughter of Thomas Puckett one new Tankard two new plates

Item I give to my brother Abraham Womack one Suite of Stript Serge

Item I give all my Linnen and Wollen that is in my new Chest I Say all that is not bequeathed I doe give to Abra: Womack Will Puckett Tho: Puckett & John Granger to be Equally Shared amongst them

Item all my goods & Chattles not bequeath I give to Thomas Puckett & William
Puckett whome I leave Execrs of this my last will to pay my debts and make a
Deacent Buriall for testimony of the Same I have hereunto Set my hand &

Seale this 21st of jannuary 1697 Thm his marke
Testis Henry Walthall Seale of red wax
James Baugh Thomas Womack

Henrico County August 2d 1697 Proved in Court by the oaths of ye Subscribed
Wittnesses and farther confirmed by verdict of a jury Entred in ye other
book of Records Test James Cocke Cl Cur."

Mean John Womack- Richard's brother

Mean John Womack- Richard's brother

This website says it all!

Mean John Womack- brother of Richard

Womack wills and inventories in colonial Virginia

Richard Womack was killed by Indians in 1684. He left a wife, Mary Puckett (who later married John Granger) and son Richard Womack born in 1674/6, William born 1679, and ?

Henrico County Records, 1677-1692, Part 2, page 185 or 285:
Inventory of Richard Womack 1684

Augt: the 19th. 1684:
An Acct. of ye Appraisal: of ye estate of Mr. Richd. Womeck, the Apprizers Sworn before Fran. Epes: (Appraised value listed in casks of tobacco)
p. tobo. & cask

Two Steers 6 yrs old 1000
Two Steers 5 yrs growth 800
one Steer of 3 years 200
Seven Cowes 2300
Three yearling Heifers 450
Four yearling Calves 280
One horse Saddle & bridle 450
One Mare & Colt 500

one pr of old belts: 10
Two joynter Stocks & joynter 60
 1 pcell (parcel?) of old Coopr tools 130

 Eight trading knives, 2 tomahauks 20
three old guns 400
1 old tent, saw 30
1 sword and belt and form 300

 Two pds (pounds) of beads, 1 plow chain, 62
one ditto 60
330 pcell (parcels) skins 100
one small do 50

One Canvas tick fether bed 14,
blankets and rug, old 450
blankets and rug 550
One old feather bed blanketts 550
6 wooden? the half of a feather bed, rug, chairs 42, 92
blankett
1 warming pan
1 chamber pot
old press 80 (his JE mark- James Ekins senior)
one chest 30
one long table
one box of iron

16 old pewter Spoons 20

seven pewter dishes 130
1 pewter flagon 35
1 qrt pot 165
one brass ladle: 6 16 old
 Two old water pails 20
 Two Small Iron potts 80
1 pr of pot racks
1 dripping pan (JB his mark- John Baugh), 1 spit 35
One old brass kettle 380
 One fryeing pan, 1 Square

 Sworn to in Henco (Henrico) County Court ye first day of October 1684
 p. by me Fran. Epes (appraiser) by Mary Womack admn

Carryed over 7662
Test H Randolph Cl Cur p whom it recorded."

This Francis Epes (Known as  was the son of Col. Francis Eppes (below) and step son of Elizabeth Worsham Epes of Bermuda Hundred.  He married Anne Isham  (dtrof Henry Isham and Katherine Royall) He was justice of the peace in Henrico in 1683.

 Francis Epes in 1658 married Elizabeth Worsham, widow of Wm Worsham of Henrico. Her dtr. Elizabeth was the wife of Richard Kennon.

Col. Francis Eppes was a justice in Henrico County in 1664/5 and served in the House of Burgesses in 1670-6. In 1673 he was granted 927 acres on the north side of the Appomattox River on Swift Creek. He and the Henrico Militia with 46 horsemen acted in August 1678 when 150-200  Indians came down the James River in Henrico- Maj. Wm. Harris was killed and two militia wounded during this encounter. Col. Francis Eppes died of wounds. His father owned Hopewell farms which is now a Nat. Historical Park at City Point in Hopewell on the Appomattox.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poythress/Epes.html


 http://www.martinosworld.com/Genealogy/WomackDocuments.htm

Homes in Henrico in the 1600's

http://eppington.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/06/A-Documentary-History
-of-Eppington-Part-1.pdf

Homes were built of wood, with roofs having chestnut shingles. Finer homes had snow white lime on the walls, and windows. Homes generally had only two rooms on the ground floor and two rooms in the  attic. The kitchen was separate from the main house.

Outbuildings provided homes for white indentured servants and negro slaves.

Sheds were built to dry tobacco. The raising of tobacco was labor intensive, and as fewer indentured servants came from Europe, more slaves were brought in from Africa. At first they were also indentured, but eventually laws were passed (the Black Code of 1705) which introduced slavery.

The History of Swift Creek- other landowners

1620-

Charles Magnor-650 acres known as Conjurer's Field- west of Swift Creek bordered on the south by the Appomattox River

Samuel Sharp- east of Magnor, inland across the creek

Abraham Piercey-head of Ashen Swamp

1638-

John Baugh- 250 acres on the Appomattox from Swift Creek to Ashen Swamp- eventually increased his lands, selling to:

William Walthall- bought 750 acres from John Baugh

Ambrose Cobbs- east of Baugh, near the Point of Rocks

Abraham Wood- east of Cobbs- extensive land on both sides of the Appomattox- thousands of acres by mid 1600's, including the trading post known as Fort Henry established on Wood's land on the lower side of the Appomattox in 1644. By 1646 Fort Henry was the legal site of all Indian trade south of the James River.

South of the Appomattox-

Francis Eppes I- 1980 acres- Francis served as the Charles City County's burgess

1677- Francis Eppes II- 927 acres on the north side of the Appomattox on Swift Creek

1690- Francis Eppes III patented 580 acres of swampy land in Henrico known as Capt. Martin's Swamp (with 3 other landowners)

1690- Frances Eppes III, Richard Kennon, Joseph Royall and George Archer patented 2,827 acres on the north side of the Appomattox in Bristol Parish, Henrico County- on Worapock (Winterpock) Creek.

1703- Eppes, Archer, and their offspring patented 4,000 acres at the mouth of Winterpock Creek. (444 acres each)

1725- Thomas Jefferson (grandfather of the president) purchased 250 acres called Wintopock that had originally belonged to Richard Womack (Henrico County Deeds 1706-1737 p 16)


1646

A treaty with the Indians ceded land from the fall line of the James as far south as the Blackwater River- the land on the south of the James between the head of the Blackwater River and Old Manakin Town was reserved for Virginia planters. Eppington was within the land that was left to the Indians.

1670's- Nathaniel Bacon of Curles neck on the upper side of the James across from Bermuda Hundred claimed that the settlers near the head of the river were being harrassed by Indians. The people of Henrico county claimed that the forts built by Sir William Berkeley in 1676 were useless and that Indian attacks were not being addressed.  They felt that the Indian trade was being monopolized by high ranking government officials. They claimed they could not distinguish friendly Indians from foes and demanded a war against all Indians.

Bacon's Laws of 1676 allowed planters to occupy any land vacated by Indians- encouraging settlers to drive off existing tribes. A new treaty in 1677 allowed for peaceful relations, with a market for Indian trade at Manakin town on the south side of the James, and forts at the head of the four main rivers.

http://eppington.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/06/A-Documentary-History-of-Eppington-Part-1.pdf

The History of Swift Creek- Abraham Piersey

Swift Creek, where the Womack's settled in Henrico County, was originally settled by Abraham Peirsey.

Abraham was an investor for the Virginia Company. He came to Virginia from his home in Maidstone, Kent, England, in 1616, on the "Susan" the first magazine ship for the Virginia Colony. He was authorized to trade freely, with expectations that he would sell the goods from his ship in exchange for tobacco and sassafras. After a successful voyage on the "Susan", he returned the following year on the "George" and stayed in Virginia.  By 1618 he was the "Cape Merchant" or Treasurer of the Virginia Colony. In 1619, the London Company gave him 200 acres for his service to the colony, the start of what became "Peirsey's Toile"- 1,150 acres on the upper side of the Appomattox River near Swift Creek and the Bermuda Hundred. He renamed this "Peirsey's Hundred." Peirsey traded with John Rolfe of Jamestown, among others.

On March 22, 1622, the Peirsey plantation on the Appomattox was attacked by Indians and four people were killed. At this point Peirsey was 45 years old. He testified in England that year regarding several charges against him. He returned to Virginia on July 31, 1622, on the "James." He was a member of the House of Burgesses in 1622 and the Council from 1624 until his death. However, he was not in Virginia when the census was made in February 1624.

Peirsey also owned the 1,000 acre Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, bought from Sir George Yeardley by 1624, and Weyanoke, 2,200 acres across the James.  By 1626 he had 1,150 acres on the Appomattox. He also had property in Jamestown. He was known as the second wealthiest man in Virginia at the time- with only Gov. Sir George Yeardley being wealthier. Besides his land, he had 29 bonded servants and 7 negroes.

Abraham died in Jamestown in 1628. The plantation went to his 2nd wife, Frances Greville, who later married Samuel Matthews. At her death in 1633, the plantation went to his daughter, Mary Peirsey Hill, who renamed it Flowerdieu Hundred. Abraham's daughter, Elizabeth Piercy, married  Capt. Richard Stephens, who died in 1636. They had  4 sons. After Stephen's death, Elizabeth married Gov. Harvey.

Abraham Piersey's will (proved 10 May 1633) allows for paying his debts in full, including land patents for persons imported by him since March 1620.




The Majors and their marriages by James Branch Cabell

https://www.geni.com/people/Abraham-Piersey-Sr/295308277430002260

• Virginia immigrants and adventurers, 1607-1635: a biographical dictionary By Martha W. McCartney

https://books.google.com/books?id=orDbMGpInaQC&pg=PA215&lpg=PA215&dq=Elizabeth+Cole+1618&source=bl&ots=WG-9bdo0XK&sig=MuuEo7JkyuotFzvO6QSpvPYhGIE&hl=en&ei=1XHETLPNHYe-sAPx2Ii5BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result#v=onepage&q=pierce&f=false

Colonial Virginia resources and readings

Cultural Overview of City Point Petersburg

Indentured Servants in the Virginia Colony

Thomas Jefferson Papers Virginia 1600's Timeline

Wentopock Creek

Richard Womack the Adventurer
Old Richard Womack
Richard Womack Georgian 1710-1785

The name Wentopock, which evolved to Winterpock, was thought to be derived from the Indian word "Win-to-poak-ke."

History of this Area

Soon after the founding of Jamestown in 1607, the Virginia Company became interested in making other settlements on the James River. 50 miles upriver, the Appamattuck Indians, part of the Powhatan confederacy, had a village at Swift Creek, and another at Bermuda Hundred Point. Lt. Gov. Thomas Dale destroyed the Bermuda Hundred village in 1611 and planned a town at Henricus. In 1613, he tried another site at Bermuda Hundred at the confluence of the James and Appomattox rivers. This colony survived. Between 1611 and 1615, Henricus and Bermuda Hundred were the focus of settlement in the Virginia Colony. But in 1622, the Powhattan Confederacy attacked the settlements, killing many of the settlers. In 1624, Virginia was made a royal colony due to the lack for profits from the Virginia Company. Rather than the previous communal company land, the land was privatized, and headrights of 50 acres were given for each person transported to the new colony. Plantations began to develop along the rivers and main creeks in the area of the James and Appomattox.

In his last will and testament, Old Richard Womack left some of his land at Wentopock Creek, on the north side of the Appomattox River,  to his son Richard Womack (Deeds 1725-1736 p 16 Henrico Va) and also some to George Carter.

George Carter sold 250 acres of this land to Thomas Jefferson in 1726. Originally the plantation was know as Winterpock.

The Eppes Family and Winterpock Plantation

Later the Eppes family later added on to the land and constructed Eppington Plantation in about 1768. Francis Eppes was closely related to Martha Jefferson, the wife of Thomas Jefferson. After Martha's death, Francis and his wife raised Jefferson's two daughters while Jefferson was minister to France. One daughter, Lucy, died in 1784 and is buried at Eppington. The other daughter, Mary "Polly" married her cousin John Eppes and spent a great deal of time at Eppington.

In 1703, Francis Eppes III, a resident of Bermuda Hundred and justice of Henrico (who signed the inventory of Richard Womack the Adventurer in 1684 and was a founder of the college of William and Mary in 1693) was granted 4000 acres at the mouth of Winterpock Creek for transporting 80 people to Virginia. He and his son Francis IV continued buying land near Swift Creek. This was the most desirable land in the area, and wealthy planters vied to buy tracts.

His son, Francis IV (1683-1734) acquired more land in the area and eventually had over a dozen plantations, making him one of the wealthiest men in the colony. While the previous generation had lived simply, this generation (beginning in 1700) began to buy slaves to work the tobacco fields, and their wealth was reflected with ornate brick homes, fine furniture, and fine coaches and horses.

Eppington was built by Francis V, and lived there beginning in about 1773.





Historical paper on the area of Eppington/Winterpock

Eppington Plantation

article on Winterpock



http://www.chesterfieldobserver.com/news/2008-04-09/family/015.html

http://eppington.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/06/A-Documentary-History-of-Eppington-Part-1.pdf

http://virginiahistoricaltidbits.blogspot.com/2013/05/abraham-piersey.html

Maps showing how very differently we see states from the way they actually looked in our ancestor's time!

When I imagine the places where our ancestors lived, my point of reference is always the current map of the United States. I was taught this as a child, I even had a puzzle to practice learning the shapes of the states. So it is ingrained in my brain. Maybe yours too. We assume this map in our heads when we think about where our ancestors lived.

But it wasn't quite like that. In fact, it wasn't ANYTHING like that. This is something I have to constantly pound into my brain, which is very attached to my childhood map puzzle.

Today I found "The Atlas to Historical County Boundaries" online, which has some fascinating interactive maps which show how the states (and their counties) looked at various periods of time in our history. I think that if you take a few minutes to play with this tool, you will make some surprising discoveries, as I did.

The earliest record we have of a Womack ancestor is for Richard Womack (I) in 1655. Richard lived in Henrico County, Virginia. This is Virginia in 1654.

Henrico County and Virginia 1654

The Womack's stayed in Henrico County for quite a while. In 1730, our ancestor Richard Womack (II - the son of Richard Womack (I) above) left 250 acres of his land at Winterpock (Wintopock) Creek to George Carter, who later sold it to Thomas Jefferson. In 1737, his son, Richard Womack (III)  (again our ancestor) received a deed for land called "Sapponey" on the Appomattox River in Henrico County.


By 1749, the part of Henrico County where the Womack's had lived, near what is now Petersburg, was made into Chesterfield County. Just south of Chesterfield was Amelia County. We know that our Womack ancestors had land in Amelia County by 1739. By 1749, the colony of Virginia had claimed all of what is now Kentucky.

Chesterfield County and Amelia County 1749

We know that our ancestor Richard Womack (III- the grandson of Richard Womack I) was living in what became Lunenburg County by 1747. He sold 870 acres of land in adjoining Halifax County in 1757 and 400 acres in adjoining Prince Edward County in 1759. The vast lands west of the Shenandoah Valley, stretching into what is now Illinois, was called Augusta County.

Georgia

By 1763, Richard Womack (III) had left Virginia, and patented land in St. George Parish, Georgia. He added 700 acres on to this land in 1766, and more in 1768. His land was about 4.5 miles from the current town of Louisville- which was to become the capital of Georgia. During the revolution, in 1777, St. George Parish was renamed Burke County.

St. George Parish 1765
Burke County Georgia 1777

In 1784, Washington County Georgia was formed. We know that Richard's son, our ancestor Jesse Womack, received land in Washington County, Georgia, for his service in the Revolutionary War. At this point in time, the state of Georgia claimed land from the Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi River!

Georgia 1784 -from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi River


Mississippi Territory

However, Jesse did not settle in Washington County, Georgia. Instead, he took his family to settle on the Tombigbee River in a different Washington County- this one in the newly created Mississippi Territory. In 1800, the Mississippi Territory stretched across the southern portions of what is now Alabama and Mississippi.

Washington County, Mississippi Territory 1800

By 1817, when the Alabama Territory was created from the Mississippi Territory, Washington County was just a fraction of its former size!

Washington County, Alabama Territory, 1817

Jesse's son Richard, the father of Abraham James Womack, would move his family from Washington County, Alabama, to Mississippi, settling first in Simpson County, and then in Rankin County. This move likely occurred around 1829, after the Choctaw ceded their native lands to the U.S. government.

Simpson and Rankin County, Mississippi 1829

Texas

Richard's son, Abraham James Womack, was married in Rankin County, Mississippi in 1837, but by 1850 was looking to move west to the new state of Texas. You might be surprised by the way Texas looked in 1850!

Texas in 1850

Abraham Jame's first land patent was recorded in Houston County, Texas, in an area that was to become Trinity County. Trinity County was formed from Houston County in 1850. By 1852, when we know that the family was settled in Trinity County, Texas had a different look.

Texas 1852

A visit to Petersburg, Virginia- in 1655-1685 Richard Womack set out from this fort to trade with the Indians

We drove to Petersburg, Virginia on our way to North Carolina. This is the area, just south of Richmond, where the Womack's lived in the 1600's. We wanted to see the ruins of the fort and trading post where Richard Womack set out from to trade with the Indians in the mid 1600's. The path from here followed south along the Occaneechi Trail.

We stopped at the visitor's center, and found out that the courtyard there was the setting for the washing area scene in "Mercy Street" in case you are a fan (we are!) I remembered the gate to the street vividly as that is where the young slave boy had to decide whether to remain with his mistress or make a break for freedom.

Nearby was the trading post, now known as "Peter Jone's Trading Post" which had originally been called Fort Henry. It was commanded by Abraham Wood in Richard Womack's time. Later it was left to Abraham's son-in-law, Peter Jones, for whom Petersburg was named. The ruins stood near the banks of the Appomattox River.

350 years after Richard Womack set off from here on trading expeditions!

Connected Blog Posts:
1655-1685 Richard Womack- Trading Paths 1600's
1655-1685- Richard Womack- Fellow Traders

Further information:
Historical Marker for Peter Jone's Trading Station
Abraham Wood
1673 Abraham Wood's letter describing a trading expedition

Rankin County 1850- Family and Friends

1850 Map of family and friends in Rankin County

1852- The Route to Texas- Maps

We have very few clues as to which roads our ancestors actually traveled. 

We can see where they had relatives along the way- likely spots to stop, rest, visit, and learn about the way ahead (separate post)

 We can also look and see where there were ferries available to cross the larger rivers (separate post)

Luckily there are also some old maps of the time. From these we can see which modern roads follow the original roads, and try and chart possible paths west. (After you click on the link, you can click again on each map to zoom in and see more details.) I had always thought of these 1852 pioneers to Texas traveling through the wilderness, but from what we see of these maps, this was not the case. For the most part, they would have followed an existing route which passed through established towns along the way.

1845 Map of Mississippi

1852 Map of Mississippi

1850 Map of Louisiana

1853 Map of Louisiana

Using the location of our ancestors homes in Mississippi and Texas, their relatives homes in 1850, and the possible routes from the old maps and information on routes west at the time, I came up with a couple of possibilities for their journey. Of course, this is just a guess! They may have gone a different way- but this gives me some idea of what their journey MAY have looked like!

1852- Possible routes from Rankin Co. Miss to Trinity Co. Tx

* Although it is a later date, this 1880 railroad map of Mississippi and Louisiana still gives us a good idea of what might have been a good route from Rankin County; surely the railroad followed a practical route accessing major towns of the time...you can see Cato, the Rankin County home of the Franklin's, on this map, as well as Flowery Mound, the home of the Campbell's in Concordia Parish. The railroad follows from Jackson, Miss. south paralleling the Natchez Trace to Natchez, then straight westward, going north of the lake in Catahoula Parish, then down to Alexandria, and branching at Burkeville Tx. with the southern branch going to Woodville in Tyler Co. Tx. (which would have passed through Wood Bluff.)

1882 Railroad map Miss and La.

1770 Virginia Map- Account of Colonial Virginia at base of map

             

"A concise account of the number of inhabitants, the trade, soil, and produce of Virginia"

“In the Colony of Virginia, are 131,000 Tithables, 55, 958 pf which are white Men, and the residue consists of Negro Men and Women; It will I suppose be reckoned a very moderate computation to allow three Children for every pair of Negros Thithable, if so the Number of Negro slaves will amount to 187,606, and as none but White Men are listed as Tithables, we must suppose there are 50,863 women, the proportion between the Sexes being commonly stated as 11 to 10, and allowing three Children to every Woman there will be 152,589 Children; consequently the number of Inhabitants White and Black in Virginia will amount to 447,008, a number greatly exceeding any of the Colonies in America. As to the Value of this great number of Slaves, we can only make a probably computation founded on Principles well known and admitted in the Colony; A Negro Man or Woman between 16 and 40 Years of Age is reckoned now worth Fifty Pounds, tho 3 or 4 Years ago they went at double that Price, reckoning then the above number of Negro Thithables but at 40 Pounds each they will amount to 3,001,680 Pounds Virginia Currency, and as to the residue valuing them but at 30 Pounds each they will amount to 3,376,890 Pounds and all of them to 6,378,570 Pounds. 

 As to the Trade of the Colony, its Staple is Tobacco; and tho it does not yield much to the Planter; notwithstanding that- between 50 and 60,000 Hogsheads are commnibus Annis, exported to Great Britain, yet as 17,000 Tons of Shipping are employed, and many thousand British Inhabitants supported thereby, it is very valuable to the Subjects and may also be said to be a Jewel to the Crown as so large a sum arises out of the Duties. 

The Country indeed is very capable of improvement and some attempts have been made to raise Hemp though not considerable, the Soil however is very proper for such production. As to the Drink chiefly used in the Colony, it is generally Cyder, every Planter having an Orchard, and they make from 4,000 to 5 or 6,000 Gallons annually, in proportion according to their Rank and Fortune. As to the Soil it is very different in different Parts, that which lies upon the Rivers and their Branches is generally a black deep soil and produces the largest Tobacco, and all other Plants, and as the Country abounds in large Navigable Rivers a great proportion of the Land is of this kind the produce of which is very easily brought to Market, but the Land that lies distant from the Rivers is generally of a middling Quality yet produces Maize or Indian Corn sufficient for the supply of the Inhabitants who chiefly use Bread made from this Grain and the very meanest and hilly Lands are very properly for the Peach Tree, every Planter having an Orchard of those Trees the Brandy made from that Fruit being excellent, and indeed might be made in sufficient Quantities for the supply of the People, was there not so much Rum imported from the Sugar Islands.

 As to the Manufactories of Virginia, they consist chiefly of Cotton, for very little Woollen and Linnen Cloth is made in the Province, there being but few Sheep, and as but little Land is spared from Tobacco and Grain, so few of the Inhabitants understand the management of Flax most of the Men as well as Women of the lower Classes wear Cotton Cloth, both in Summer and Winter and it has been computed that there has been Manufactured for one or two Years past of this kind of Cloth to the amount of 250,000 Pounds Annually. Altho’ this necessarily lessens the Importation of European Goods, it is not wholly of choice, the People being obliged to it, as the Balance of Trade has for many Years been against them, the Colony being much indebted to Great Britain,, even in the opinion of good Judges to the amount of 1,500,000 Pounds.

In regard to the Stocks of Horses, Cattle, and Hogs, they are very considerable especially the first, there being a great Number of the best English breed now among us, and as to Plate and Household Furniture this Colony exceeds all the others upon the Continent, so that upon the whole it is much the richest as well as the greatest Importance to Great Britain and therefore well deserves its Encouragement and Protection.”

                                              

 At the top right of the map is a symbolic Indian maiden holding a portrait of King George III and a cornucopia of plenty representing the main products of the colony; tobacco and fruits.