William Preston the Surveyor and the Great Virginia Land Grab
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2013
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Smithfield Preston Foundation
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of History
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of History
Abstract
A description of how William Preston became a county surveyor in Fincastle County in 1772 and again in Montgomery County in 1776.
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History, Southwest Virginia, Blue Ridge