If you google images for "colonial ports in Virginia" you will find a map
that shows the ports. (It is a .png image file). I'm not certain it is very
accurate. It is from the familysearch.org website.
Regards,
LHB
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Michael Nicholls <
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> Thank you Bland. I took a look at the LC website but had no success
> finding anything. Not the easiest of sites to use for that kind of search.
> I will look at the Treasury records and I think I will contact John
> McCusker who seems to have a handle on all aggregations of economic data.
> Again, my thanks--Mick
> Michael L. Nicholls
> Professor of History, Emeritus
> Dept. of History
> Utah State University
> Logan, UT 84322-0710
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> On Mar 4, 2014, at 8:44 AM, William B. Whitley wrote:
>
> > I don't know of any records specific to individual ports in Virginia.
> You might have some luck, though probably not, with Treasury records in the
> National archives (which should be available on microfilm). Customs
> collectors would have been required to send their returns to the Treasury
> Department. In addition to Richmond, Petersburg, and Norfolk, the three
> ports in your search area that had a collector, there were some smaller
> ports that had federally appointed surveyors--for example, Smithfield,
> which reported to Norfolk. It is probably unlikely that there would be any
> more of the information you seek than you've found in newspapers, but it
> might be worth a shot.
> >
> > Bland Whitley
> > Papers of Thomas Jefferson
> >
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> > I am tracing the work of some free men of color, owners or operators of
> watercraft on the James and lower Appomattox Rivers. I have found some
> arriving and departing from Petersburg, Norfolk and Richmond through the
> shipping news sections of newspapers, especially after about 1810. Does
> anyone know if anyone has created a databank of shipping to and from VA
> ports in the early national era; or if there are records extant of Virginia
> ports, either at the state or national level? Thanks--Mick
> >
> > Michael L. Nicholls
> > Professor of History, Emeritus
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> > Utah State University
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