A 4May1756 plat by William Parry, Surveyor for King William County, for
John Waller [Jr.], located Walkerton Town between Walker Mill Creek and
Mattaponi River, directly across the River (north), on Walker land in King &
Queen County.  The current VDOT map of King & Queen County locates Walkerton
a mile and a half further upriver from the 1756 identification.

       Has the site of the town been moved during the intervening two and a
half centuries, or has the town shrunk northwestward, or did Parry take
license in laying out the King & Queen side "over against" the John Waller
King William plantation and enterprises?

       Parry's survey showed a Waller Ferry to Walkerton, a wharf, two
warehouses (presumably tobacco), "a little house for use of the Inspectors,"
and "Tom Adams' house" in a cluster on the South bank of the Mattaponi.
Adams and John Waller, Jr. [III], carried the chains for the survey.  Adams
appears to have been the Ferry man and a Waller employee.

John Scott Davenport
Holmdel, NJ

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