The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia

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C. Malcolm Watkins. The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia

The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia

Table of Contents

Preface

The Cultural History. of. Marlborough, Virginia

HISTORY

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

VI. Dissolution of Marlborough

ARCHEOLOGY. AND. ARCHITECTURE

VII. The Site, its Problem, and Preliminary Tests

VIII. Archeological Techniques

IX. Wall System

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

ARTIFACTS

XV. Ceramics

XVI. Glass

XVII. Objects of Personal Use

XVIII. Metalwork

XIX. Conclusions

GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

XX. Summary of Findings

Appendixes

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

Index

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C. Malcolm Watkins

Published by Good Press, 2019

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[2] Ibid., vol. 2, pp. 471–478.

[3] William Fitzhugh was founder of the renowned Virginia family that bear his name. As chief justice of the Stafford County court, burgess, merchant, and wealthy planter, he epitomized the landed aristocrat in 17th-century Virginia. See “Letters of William Fitzhugh,” Virginia Magazine of History & Biography (Richmond, 1894), vol. 1, p. 17 (hereinafter designated VHM), and William Fitzhugh and His Chesapeake World (1676–1701), edit. Richard Beale Davis (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, for the Virginia Historical Society, 1963).

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