The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia. C. Malcolm Watkins
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C. Malcolm Watkins
The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066236229
Table of Contents
The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia
I Official Port Towns in Virginia and Origins of Marlborough
II John Mercer’s Occupation of Marlborough, 1726-1730
III Mercer’s Consolidation of Marlborough, 1730-1740
IV Marlborough at its Ascendancy, 1741-1750
V Mercer and Marlborough, from Zenith to Decline, 1751-1768
VII The Site, its Problem, and Preliminary Tests
X Mansion Foundation (Structure B)
XI Kitchen Foundation (Structure E)
XII Supposed Smokehouse Foundation (Structure F)
XIII Pits and Other Structures
XIV Stafford Courthouse South of Potomac Creek
Appendix A Inventory of George Andrews, Ordinary Keeper
Appendix B Inventory of Peter Beach
Appendix C Charges to Account of Mosley Battaley for Goods Sold by Mercer
Appendix D “Domestick Expenses”
Appendix E Mercer’s Reading 1726-1732
Appendix F Credit side of Mercer’s account with Nathaniel Chapman
Appendix G Overwharton Parish Account
Appendix H Colonists Identified by Mercer According to Occupation
Appendix I Materials Listed in Accounts with Hunter and Dick, Fredericksburg
Appendix J Account of George Mercer’s Expenses while Attending the College of William and Mary
Appendix K John Mercer’s Library
Appendix L Botanical Record and Prevailing Temperatures
Appendix M Inventory of Marlborough, 1771
Preface
A number of people participated in the preparation of this study. The inspiration for the archeological and historical investigations came from Professor Oscar H. Darter, who until 1960 was chairman of the Department of Historical and Social Sciences at Mary Washington College, the women’s branch of the University of Virginia. The actual excavations were made under the direction of Frank M. Setzler, formerly the head curator of anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution. None of the investigation would have been possible had not the owners of the property permitted the excavations to be made, sometimes at considerable inconvenience to themselves. I am indebted to W. Biscoe, Ralph Whitticar, Jr., and Thomas Ashby, all of whom owned the excavated areas at Marlborough; and T. Ben Williams, whose cornfield includes the site of the 18th-century Stafford County courthouse, south of Potomac Creek.
For many years Dr. Darter has been a resident of Fredericksburg and, in the summers, of Marlborough Point on the Potomac River. During these years, he has devoted himself to the history of the Stafford County area