1Memorandum, 15–30 May 1755 (Washington Papers)
Claiborne’s ferry, located on the Pamunkey River several miles upstream from West Point, was owned and operated by Nathaniel Claiborne (died c.1756) of nearby Sweet Hall. The name changed to Ruffin’s ferry in 1769 when Robert Ruffin acquired both Sweet Hall and the...
2To George Washington from John Martin, 30 August 1755 (Washington Papers)
GW left Williamsburg on 3 Sept. 1755. Taking his usual route north, he stopped at Thomas Dansie’s ordinary on the Pamunkey River that night and the next day reached Todd’s Bridge on the Mattaponi apparently by way of King William Courthouse. There is no record of his visiting John Martin, however.
3To George Washington from William Fairfax, 4 May 1756 (Washington Papers)
Thomas Dansie by an act of the Virginia Assembly in August 1754 secured the right to build a causeway “through the marsh opposite to his wharf” in King William County and to operate a ferry across the Pamunkey
River to New Kent County (6
4Cash Accounts, December 1758 (Washington Papers)
miles from Williamsburg and less than that from the residence of Martha Custis at the White House plantation on the Pamunkey River.
5Cash Accounts, March 1759 (Washington Papers)
...Bernard Moore (c.1720–1775), who was an early importer and breeder of race horses; but it may have been his brother Col. Thomas Moore (died c.1796). The two men were near neighbors on the Pamunkey River. See
6Cash Accounts, April 1759 (Washington Papers)
), and the ferry was at Thomas Claiborne’s landing on the Pamunkey River in New Kent County. “Exps.” appears to be the abbreviation GW uses for expenses.
7III-A. Schedule A: Assignment of the Widow’s Dower, c.October 1759 (Washington Papers)
Called Claiborne’s, this plantation on the Pamunkey River came into Daniel Parke Custis’s possession in 1750 when he bought it from the estate of William Claiborne (d. 1746). John Roan was the overseer. Surveys of the plantation dated 14–18 April 1789 and 25–...
8Cash Accounts, October 1759 (Washington Papers)
Thomas Dansie ran an ordinary and ferry on the Pamunkey River.
9Cash Accounts, December 1759 (Washington Papers)
Newcastle (New Castle) was a village on the Pamunkey River in Hanover County.
10[January 1760] (Washington Papers)
Burwell Bassett (1734–1793), husband of Mrs. Washington’s sister Anna Maria, lived at Eltham on the Pamunkey River, where the Washingtons usually stayed when visiting Williamsburg. The two families were close,
...Bristol, Eng. Langbourne’s home, in King William County, was about three miles up the Pamunkey River from Williams’ Ferry. The bill of lading, for tobacco from a Custis estate in...