Economic development and political authority: Norfolk, Virginia merchant-magistrates, 1736-1800
Colonial Norfolk, Virginia, developed a more diversified economy than much of the rest of the tobacco-growing Chesapeake. Through a vigorous trade to the West Indies in agricultural products, local merchants prospered, and in 1736 a group of the leading local traders received a charter incorporating...
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W&M ScholarWorks
1991
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623807 https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3717&context=etd |