54 VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY. 



There being but few towns in Virginia at that time, the planta- 

 tions of distinguished gentlemen are all laid down. 



Tracing the north side of James river from " Point Comfort," 

 we come to Hampton, Newport News, Roscow, Blunt Point, 

 Burrell's Bay, Burrell's, Jamestown, Green Spring, Row, Ken- 

 non, Weeke, Westover, Taylor's Ferry, Shirley, Ry. Randolph, 

 Col. Cocke's, R. Randolph, Woodson's, Selden's, Cocke's, 

 Verino, Younghusband's, W. Randolph's, Mayo, Richmond, 

 Belvidere, T. M. Randolph, Goods, Woodsons, Goochland 

 Court House, Boiling's Islands, Woodson's, these being the 

 plantations on the north side of James river. 



On the south side we find no plantations marked until we 

 come to Cobham in Surry County, then Cocke, Wakefield, City 

 Point; crossing the Appomattox we find Eppes, Bermuda, 

 Hylton, Archer, Woodson, Wathall, Osburn's, Col. Ward's, 

 Warwick, Gary's, Dr. Nevin's, R. Goode's, Falls Plantation 

 opposite Richmond, Rocky Ridge, Tabb's Island, J. Nicholas' 

 opposite the Seven Islands, W. John, Peter Salley at the junc- 

 tion of North and Fluvanna rivers, as the James is called. 



The Rappahannock river has all the plantations legibly 

 marked. Beginning on the north side, we find in Lancaster 

 County, Carter, Grossman, Fairwather's, Burger's, Ball, Griffin, 

 Tarpley, Hornby, Bowler's, Tomlin, Sabine Hall, Fauntleroy, 

 Tayloe, Weeks', Leeds, Doraphon, Falmouth, Germanna at the 

 junction of the Rapidan river and Ground Fork. At the bottom 

 of the map is found the "concise account," as follows: 



" In the colony of Virginia are 131,000 tithables — 55,958 of 

 which number are white men, and the residue consists of negro 

 men and women. It will, I suppose, be reckoned a very mod- 

 erate computation, to allow three children for every pair of negro 

 tithables; if so, the number of negro slaves will amount to 187,- 

 606; and as none but white men are listed as tithables, we must 

 suppose that there are 50,863 women, the proportion between the 

 sexes being commonly stated as 11 to 10; and allowing three 

 children to every woman, there will be 152,589 children. Con- 

 sequently, the number of inhabitants, white and black, in Vir- 

 ginia, will amount to 447,008 — a number greatly exceeding any 

 of the colonies in America. As to the value of this great number 

 of slaves, we can only make a probable computation, founded on 



