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Jon, great lead. The book is available on line
at http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=3969369
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From: Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tue, February 8, 2011 8:45:35 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Hobbe's Hole port
You might want to check Arthur Pierce Middleton's classic Tobacco Coast: A
Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era -- pp 210-211
describe use of small craft carrying hogsheads of tobacco.......
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> On Feb 7, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Bill Crews wrote:
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> > Does anyone have any info/sources of info on the port at Hobbe's (Hobbes,
> Hobbs)
> > Hole on the Rappahannock River?
> >
> > Specifically, were the merchant ships that delivered goods there from
> England
> > warped along wharves extending out into the river or did they anchor in
> deep
> > water and were unloaded/loaded by/from lighters?
> >
> > Bill
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> >
> >
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