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Thomas Jefferson compiles these notes in response to inquiries from a foreign official regarding the geography and state of Virginia. The text provides detailed descriptions of the region's boundaries, dimensions, and physical landscape as understood in the late eighteenth century.

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Query XXII.

parts. Tit, in Amer, library 90. 5. No date. But seems by the neighbouring articles to ha^ue been in 1644.

1644, June 20. An act for charging of tobacco brought Car. 2. from New-England with custom and excise. Title in American library, 99.8.

1644, Aug. I. An act for the advancing and regulating ^^'^^ ^' the trade of this com?nonwealtb. Tit. Amer. libr. 99. 9.

Sep. 18. Grant of the Northern neck of Virginia ^ c^""" 2to Lord Hopton, Lord Jermyn^ Lord Culpepper, Sir John Berkley, Sir Wil- liam Moreton^ Sir Dudly JVyatt, and Thomas Culpepper.

1650, oa. 3. An act prohibiting trade with the Barba- does, Virginia, Bermudas atid Antego ScobeWs Acts. 1027.

z Car. 2.

A declaration of Lord JVilloughby^ goiter1650, Car. 2.

nor of BarbadoeSy and of his council^ against an act of parliament of 2>d of October \650. 4. Polit, register, 2. cited from 4 Neal. hist, of the Puritans, App. No. 12 but not there. A final settlement of boundaries between 1650, car. 2.

the Dutch New Netherlands and Con- necticut.

Instructions for Captain Robert Dennis, i65i,Sept.26. Mr. Richard Bennet, Mr. Thomas 3 Car. 2.

Stagge^ and Captain William Clai- bourn, appointed commissioners for the reducing of Firginia and the inhabit- ants thereof to their due obedience to the commonwealth of England. 1 Thurloe^s state papers^ \^7. An actfor increase ofshipping andencour16^1, oa. 9. agement of the na'uigation of this na3 Car. 2.

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