And, if they did build a bridge over the Pamunkey at  Newcastle in the 1740's, that would have presumably cut off vessels from making it to Hanovertown about two decades before the latter was chartered by the assembly? Is it possible that Hanovertown was never a port for ocean going vessels?  Mick Nicholls
On Jul 28, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Bruce Terrell wrote:

> Sea-going vessels were able to sail to Hanovertown in the 18th c and to
> Newcastle up until the 1830s.  There is an interesting article with sketch
> maps in "The Port Towns of the Pamunkey" by Malcom H. Harris. William and
> Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, 2nd Ser., Vol. 23, No. 4. (Oct.,
> 1943), pp. 493-516. I obtained it through JSTOR.
> 
> I went up there by john-boat about 8 years ago and it is heavily silted-in.
> Hard to imagine a schooner making it up (much less turning around). 
> 
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