Malinda,
If you are looking for Mutual Assurance policies for a mill in Brunswick
County, you could try the index created by Mary Washington College's Center
for Historic Preservation at:
http://departments.mwc.edu/hipr/www/masfp3.htm
The Library of Virginia has an index to policies for Richmond and Henrico.
Look in the Digital Library project, then under electronic card indexes and
then business records.
Keep in mind that the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia stopped insuring
rural properties about 1820.
Gregg
-----Original Message-----
From: malinda jones [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 11:09 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: David Ross's Plantation
Thank you Gregg,
My Parhams also had some sort of Mill in Brunswick Co VA (maybe other
counties
too). Would you mind posting the URL ? I've never been able to find anything
in
the Library of VA d'base...can't navigate it at all.
thanks,
malinda
Gregg Kimball wrote:
> Thomas S. Berry's article "The Rise of Flour Milling in Richmond" VMHB 78,
> n. 4 (Oct. 1970), has some information on Ross; he was one of the first
mill
> owners in the city. Ross' corn mill is shown in one of the early Latrobe
> watercolors of Richmond, and the mill complex is described on Policy #
172,
> 13 June 1796, (vol. 12, microfilm reel 1), Mutual Assurance Society of
> Virginia Declarations, Library of Virginia.
>
> Gregg Kimball
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. H. Brothers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 8:34 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: David Ross's Plantation
>
> Ross has been the subject of a number of papers and articles. You might
> want to
> look at:
>
> Dew, Charles B.
> 1974 David Ross and the Oxford Iron Works: A Study of Industrial slavery
in
> the
> Early Nineteenth-Century South. William & Mary Quarterly, Vol.
> 31(2):189-224.
>
> Salmon, John S.
> 1986a The Washington Iron Works of Franklin County Virginia 1773-1850.
> Virginia State Library, Richmond.
>
> The State Library also has some archival material-
>
> Ross, David
> 1776a Letter, David Ross, Oxford Iron Works, to John Hook, New London, 20
> October 1776. Virginia State Library, Personal Papers collection, #19904.
> 1776b Letter, David Ross, Oxford, to John Hook, New London, 30 November
> 1776.
> Virginia State Library, Personal Papers collection, #19906.
>
> My interest is in Ross' involvement in the iron industry. By 1776 Ross
was
> living at the Oxford IW, at least part of the time. Although I have
looked
> at
> the Grantor/Grantee files, I have been unable to establish when he bought
> the
> property. Part of the problem is that the deeds are registered in a
number
> of
> different counties. some of them "burned". If you are interested, I have
a
> considerable amount of data in terms of deeds and Virginia Gazette
articles
> that
> are related. I have not worked with Ross' other land holdings, which are
> extensive.
>
> James H. Brothers IV
>
> "W. Scott Smith" wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am looking for the location of David Ross's Plantation on the James
> River.
> >
> > His office is in the town of Columbia, at the Point of Fork, on the
North
> > Bank of the James.
> >
> > I was under the impression that his house was on the North Bank as well,
> > but after speaking with someone in Columbia this weekend, I have heard
> that
> > it might have been on the South Bank, just across the river.
> >
> > Any information would be appreciated.
> >
> > Scott Smith
> > Gaskins' Virginia Battalion of 1781
> > www.lynchburg.net/gaskins
> >
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