Thanks again, my instructors for correcting my errors. :-) I sorry. I'm
having surgery in 3 days and I'm a little scattered brained right now. I
should know better. I know the 1600's = the17th century. I don't know what I
was thinking. I guess I wasn't thinking. But anyway.....

One who would straddle the 1600's and the 1700's would be Robert Carter of
Corotoman Plantation. Known behind his back as Robert "King" Carter. I have
read that he did not like the nickname of "King" that people gave him.

There is an effort to put his diaries and papers online at this website:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/berkeley/

He was considered the richest man in Virginia at one time. So I suppose he
would be considered the greatest merchant or maybe the greatest "robber
baron" of his time? <wink> I also read somewhere he made a pretty good port.
Maybe that's why his gout was so bad in his later years. Too much of that
good port.

Lonny

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