Compiled by Sara E. Lewis
From an index to the Virginia Gazette, produced in 1950 by Lester J. Cappon and Stella F. Duff of the Institute of Early American History and Culture (Omohundro Institute) with additional Gloucester material not captured by the indexers. Kingston Parish (Mathews) was part of Gloucester County when the Virginia Gazette was published in Williamsburg. Occasional posts about world and local events that captured the bloggers fancy are included to put local listings in context. Please review primary source material before citing.

Saturday, August 18, 2018

August 15, 1766 - Marlow, Whiting, Boswell

To be SOLD, on Thursday the 25th of September next, in Gloucester county,
A TRACT of LAND, containing 423 acres, known by the name of Marlow’s land, part of which is rich low grounds, and the whole very kindly, suitable for any kind of grain, hemp, flax, or tobacco, well watered, convenient to church and mill, being within two miles of each, within half a mile of Pianketank river, a proper place for a store, one having been kept there before. Any person inclinable to purchase before the day of sale, by applying to Capt. Thomas Whiting in Gloucester town, who has a legal authority to sell the same, and will show the plot, may know the terms; or to the subscriber, who will show the land. 
THOMAS BOSWELL.