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A history of Caroline county, Virginia

from its formation in 1727 to 1924
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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EXTRACTS FROM THE GAZETTE (Williamsburg)
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EXTRACTS FROM THE GAZETTE (Williamsburg)

Issue of February 10, 1737-38—"Captain Robert Fleming, of
Caroline county, one of the representatives in Assembly, died
last week."

September 8, 1738—"Last Monday was se'ennight died, of
the gout, at his home in Caroline county, Mr. Benjamin Walker,
who had practiced in law several years in the County Courts,
in which he arrived to a degree of eminence and at the last General
Court was admitted to plead there."

—— 1766—Lawrence Taliaferro advertised for sale in the
Williamsburg Gazette of 1766, "A plantation on the Rappahannock
near Port Royal, upon which is a house with four rooms on the
first floor and two above, a twelve foot porch in front; and at
the rear, facing the river, a portico fifty-two feet long and eight
wide."