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Subject:	Re: Hobbe's Hole port
From:	Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 8 Feb 2011 08:45:35 -0500
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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.......


>
> On Feb 7, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Bill Crews wrote:
>
> > 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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