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    Middle Plantation in the Virginia Colony was the unincorporated town established in 1632 that became Williamsburg in 1699. It was located on high ground...
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  • Middle Plantation may refer to: Middle Plantation (Davidsonville, Maryland) a plantation in Maryland near the South River Middle Plantation (Virginia)...
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    which in turn took the name of an 18th-century plantation that was located in Westmoreland County, Virginia. The name "Chantilly" originated in France with...
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    Lerty in Westmoreland County, Virginia. It was the plantation house of four generations of the Lee family of Virginia (with descendants later to expand...
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    of Virginia, where he lived in Middle Plantation and served as a member of the House of Burgesses from 1665 to 1677 and a member of the Virginia Governor's...
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    The history of Williamsburg, Virginia dates to the 17th Century. First named Middle Plantation, it changed its name to Williamsburg in 1699. Prior to...
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    Plantation in Gloucester County, Virginia, was for more than 100 years the home of a branch of the Page family, one of the First Families of Virginia...
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  • James Bray (councillor) (category People from colonial Virginia)
    using his wife for the headright. By 1671 Bray acquired 290 acres at Middle Plantation (the future Williamsburg) at the head of Archer's Hope (later College)...
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    Plantations that operated within the present-day boundaries of West Virginia were located in the counties of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians and in the...
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  • large numbers. The plantation owners then turned to enslaved Africans for labor. In 1665, there were fewer than 500 Africans in Virginia but by 1750, 85...
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  • Thomas Ballard Jr. (category People from York County, Virginia)
    Thomas Ballard, of the council of state born around 1654 at Middle Plantation, Virginia. He served as one of the justices of York Co. and was Colonel...
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    Belle Grove Plantation is a late-18th-century plantation house and estate in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, USA. It is situated in Frederick...
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    (also known as the Treaty Between Virginia And The Indians 1677 or Treaty of Middle Plantation) was signed in Virginia on May 28, 1677, between the English...
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    created by the Virginia Company. The first Charles City County courthouses were located along the James River at Westover Plantation on the north side...
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    a census-designated place (CDP) in Henrico County, Virginia, United States. It is an upper middle-class suburb to the west of Richmond. The population...
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    and a settlement named Middle Plantation as a primary guard-station along the palisade. Jamestown, the original capital of Virginia Colony, burned down during...
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    The proposal to move the capital of Virginia to higher ground (about 12 miles (20 km) away) at Middle Plantation was received favorably by the House of...
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    the age of 14. Located just outside Charlottesville, Virginia, in the Piedmont region, the plantation was originally 5,000 acres (20 km2), with Jefferson...
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    some called Middle Plantation until 1677--both when Governor Berkeley died in London and Thomas Ludlow died later in the year in Virginia. Ultimately...
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    leading to Virginia's nickname as the Old Dominion. Slaves from Africa and land from displaced native tribes fueled the growing plantation economy, but...
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    one of the first Virginia's colonial families, built Wilton House in Hartfield in 1763. Wilton House is a T-shaped Georgian plantation house near the Piankatank...
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    Bruton Parish Church (category Historic American Buildings Survey in Virginia)
    that they designate Middle Plantation (soon to be renamed Williamsburg in honor of King William III), as the new capital of Virginia, and a month later...
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    be the main residence and headquarters of a 5,500-acre (22 km2) slave plantation. The home is located not far from George Washington's home. The interior...
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    their own plantations. With the emancipation of slaves during the Civil War and the consequential loss of slave labor, Virginia plantations struggled...
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  • which also helped define the eastern Virginia accent. The split was also adopted in the Gulf, Appalachian, and plantation regions of the South, though with...
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    England. In 1679, the Treaty of Middle Plantation was signed between King Charles II and several Native American groups. Virginia was the most prominent, wealthiest...
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    to James City County. On high ground midway across the Virginia Peninsula, Middle Plantation was established in 1632 as a fortress in the ongoing conflicts...
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    James City County in the Virginia Peninsula area of the Hampton Roads region of Virginia in the United States. The plantation was built for Carter Burwell...
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    merchant from Middlesex who emigrated to Virginia with his wife Alice Lucken Page and settled in Middle Plantation. He was the brother of Mann Page III....
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    describe the 1,236-acre (500 ha) plantation he inherited from his father, Thomas Ludwell Lee II. A section of Farmwell plantation west of Ashburn Road, a 580-acre...
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