[TYPESCRIPT] RESEARCH NOTES ON SMITH’S FORT PLANTATION. SURRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA

This typescript provides detailed history of Smith’s Fort Plantation. The first 21 pages includes an outline of the Ownership,; a chronology; notes on Captain John Smith’s “New Fort”; John Rolfe; etc.; this is followed by notes on Thomas Rolfe, the son of John [3 pages]; the Settlement of the South Side of the James River (”Salisbury” or “Tappahanna” / “Tappahannock”) [3 pages]; Proofs of the Location of Thomas Warren’s Patented Land [2 pages]; Thomas Warren’s Land from Thomas Rolfe [2 pages]; Smith’s Fort in the Eighteenth Century” [6 pages]; APPENDIX: The Manor House at Smith’s Fort [15 pages, including such matters as Inventories for Estates]; followed by a kind of bilbiography of Supplementary Reading [2 pages].~~Ms. Schlesinger was the Director of the John Rolfe Branch of the APVA.