I'd say Portsmouth or Norfolk. Alexandria was still pretty small late
18th c.
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Subject: [VA-HIST] largest city in 1800
Which was the largest city in Virginia in the late 18th C./early 19th
C.? (I'm thinking it was Alexandria, but a colleague thinks it was
Williamsburg). Or are we both wrong?!
R Gabriel
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