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Re: request for materials on colonial surveyors
I just finished reading "Surveyors and statesmen: land measuring in colonial
Virginia" by Sarah S. Hughes. published by Virginia Surveyors Foundation :
Virginia Association of Surveyors, Richmond, VA c1979.
The book looks at the technical aspects and the political aspects (which had a
profound effect). Many of the Surveyors mentioned worked in other
states/colonies, and of course, back then Virginia covered a lot of territory.
Dry reading at times, but "must" reading on this topic.
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Would you have enjoyed surveying the Dismal Swamp?
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