Alice Granbery Walter Genealogy Collection, 1600-1975 | Sargeant Memorial Collection

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Collection Overview

Title: Alice Granbery Walter Genealogy Collection, 1600-1975

ID: 001/01/MSS 0000-049

Primary Creator: Walter, Alice Granbery

Extent: 58.0 Boxes

Arrangement: Arranged in original order: papers were initially housed by Alice Granbery Walter in three-ring binders. Arranged by surname or subject.

Date Acquired: 04/11/1991

Subjects: Genealogy--Research, Hampton Roads (Va. : Region), Norfolk (Va.), Norfolk (Va.)--Genealogy, Princess Anne County (Va.), Tidewater (Va. : Region)--Maps, Warwick County (Va.)

Forms of Material: Clippings (information artifacts), Genealogies (histories), Geological maps, Indexes (reference sources), Manuscripts, Maps (documents), Negatives (photographs), Pedigrees, Photocopies, Photographs, Silhouettes

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection contains genealogical research gathered by Alice Granbery Walter. The material includes photocopied documents, newspaper clippings, pedigree charts, notes, manuscripts, photographs, negatives, and maps spanning from the 1600s to the 1970s. Prominent surnames include Boush, Nimmo, Cornick, Herbert, Hoggard, Hogwood, Haggard, Ivy, Argent, Langley, Thelaball, Nash, Powell, Robins, Shepherd, Tatem, Thurmer, Mackentosh, Mallicote, Ransha, Woodhouse, Moseley, Thorowgood, and Willoughby.

Biographical Note

Alice Granbery Walter was born on August 2, 1908 in Norfolk, Virginia. She was a long-time resident of the Norfolk area. Walter was a descendant of the Hoggard family of Poplar Hall in Norfolk, Virginia. She was an artist, historic preservationist, and genealogist. She was a recipient of the Garden Club of America Historic Preservation award. Walter led the fight to save the Old Coast Guard Station. She published eight books of historical and genealogical records, 50 genealogical pedigree charts, and several maps. Walter died on May 30, 2003 at Westminster Canterbury in Virginia Beach, Virginia and was buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk, Virginia.

Subject/Index Terms

Genealogy--Research
Hampton Roads (Va. : Region)
Norfolk (Va.)
Norfolk (Va.)--Genealogy
Princess Anne County (Va.)
Tidewater (Va. : Region)--Maps
Warwick County (Va.)

Administrative Information

Repository: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Access Restrictions: This collection is open to all researchers.

Use Restrictions: The status of copyright for these materials is governed by Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U. S. C.). Copyright restrictions may apply.

Acquisition Source: Purchase; Alice Granbery Walter and Christina Brown by donation

Preferred Citation: Alice Granbery Walter Genealogy Collection, MSS 0000-049, Sargeant Memorial Collection, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Virginia.

Box and Folder Listing

Box 25: Oversized Materials: Maps

Folders 5-16 are located in SMC Vault Drawer 14.

Folder 1: Published Maps, 1956, undated

Item 1: The Historic Virginia Peninsula: "Birthplace of English-Speaking America", 1956: Brochure. Featuring the Red Tour. Published by the Chamber of Commerce, Newport News, Virginia.
Item 2: The City of Chesapeake Virginia: fifth largest in area in the United States!, undated: Brochure.
Item 3: Virginia Beach, Virginia, Accommodation Directory, undated: Brochure. Published by the Virginia Beach Chamber of Commerce.
Item 4: Norfolk Resort Area, undated: Colorful map drawn by Day Lowry, published by the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce.
Item 5: Map of Saint Paul's Church in detail, undated

Folder 2: Negative Photocopies of Articles, 1884, 1950

Item 1: Narrative and Critical History of America, Volume 3, Justin Winsor, 1884: Pages 166-168, plus Smith's map of Virginia, plate 27, De Bry, Grand Voyages Part 1, Frankfort, 1590, page 464, and Farrera Map.
Item 2: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1950 January: "The First Maps of Virginia, 1590-1673" by Coolie Verner, pages 3-15.

Folder 3: Property Maps, 1745-1960s

Item 1: Barker and Joel Land Division, 1745 January 18: Photocopies. Rebeccah Barker, Hannah Joel, and Susannah Joel, division of their land on Broadcreek, their guardian was Alex McPherson.
Item 2: Plan of W. Vaughan's Land - Broad Creek, undated: Photocopies.
Item 3: Plan of Dennis Whitehurst Plantation, 1800 October 28: Photocopy.
Item 4: Petition of JOHN WILLIAMS with sketch of "Lovett's Orphans Plantation Line", 1763: Photocopies. Princess Anne County Loose Papers, 1763-1764, Box 3 Subdivision A-5 Folder marked Loose Papers, 176(3).
Item 5: Land of Thomas Haynes bordering on Tom Hunter, James Griffin, and Wm Colley, Princess Anne Co., Parish of Lynnhaven, 1758 October 23: Photocopy. Surveyed by G. Nimmo.
Item 6: Division of land between John P. and Jaromine Hunter and Jas and Mary Nimmo, circa 1950s-1960s: Photocopy. Princess Anne County, Deed Book 6, page 663, division of 799 acres surveyed March 3, 1746/7, presented in court May 20, 1747 by John. P. Hunter and Jaromine his wife cmptts. with Jas Nimmo and Mary his wife defts. Drawn by Alice Granbery Walter.
Item 7: Virginia Beach Sun-News, "The soil of Princess Anne began the history of the United States", 1954 November 11: Photocopies. Map of the Dudlies - Keeling 1823 Survey pp. 264,2 #1, Princess Anne County. Lists the division of Adam Keeling's land between Solomon Keeling, John T. Keeling, Adam Keeling, and a John Lovett is also mentioned.
Item 8: Names mentioned in this survey are: James Nimmo, James Hutchings, McClanahan, and Thomas Dorento, 1760-1761: Photocopies. Princess Anne County, Loose Papers, Box A-2 62-512 (1760-61). Names mentioned in this survey are: James Nimmo, James Hutchings, McClanahan, and Thomas Dorento.
Item 9: Plat of the Land whereon Miss Prudence Thelaball lives with the division lines agreeable to the Report of the Commissioners, 1794 July 1: Photocopies. Princess Anne County, Deed Book 35, page 90a. Also mentioned: Mr. Shelton, Mrs. Elizabeth Hunter, and Capt. Frederick Boush.
Item 10: Shenstone Green by Sadie Scott Kellam (Mrs. V. Hope Kellam), circa 1935: Photocopy. On page three, a map shows the Tully E. Moseley land and the John I. Nimmo land which had a brick house on the property.
Item 11: Princess Anne County Maps, Capt. Joseph White - White Plantation, 1771 May 21: Photocopy.
Item 12: Plat for Laurel Green (Keeling Property), 1849 October: Photocopy. Other names mentioned: James Gaskins and Capt. Kemp.
Item 13: Road proposed from Kempsville to Mr. Murdens, 1784 July 8: Photocopy. Survey of the land where a road is proposed from Kempsville to Mr. Murdens. Names mentioned: John Hayne Plantation, John Gornto Plantation, and Robert Holmes Plantation.
Item 14: Map of Rolleston, circa 1811: Hand-drawn by Alice Granbery Walter. Newton on Hoskins Creek on which borders White's Land - Baxter's Land Morses Bridge at tip end of creek (N. on Hoskins Creek).
Item 15: Land adjoining Wilson Whitehurst near the line of Princess Ann and Norfolk County, 1865 May 8: Photocopy. A Plan of a Tract of land situated in swamp near the line of Princess Anne and Norfolk County adjoining the land of Wilson Whitehurst containing 50 acres lately purchased by W. R. Steam & Co. and surveyed by A. V. Hennicke.

Folder 4: Miscellaneous Maps, 1776-1967

Item 1: Maps of Norfolk and Princess Anne County Parishes, undated: Photocopy. Letter to Alice Granbery Walter from Alice E. Ball. One copy of map colored with crayon.
Item 2: Settlements and year of establishment, 1957: Photocopies. Jamestown 350th Anniversary Booklet #19.
Item 3: Duplicate of C.W. Sams, Park Place Annexation and Atlantic City Annexation, undated: Photocopy.
Item 4: Duplicate of C.W. Sams, Huntersville Annexation, Kensington, up to Tanners Creek, undated: Photocopy.
Item 5: Map of the Early Settled Parts of Virginia, undated: Photocopies.
Item 6: Relative Positions of the Virginia Indian Tribes Seventeenth Century, 1957: Photocopies. Jamestown 350th Anniversary Booklet #18.
Item 7: Albemarle Sound, 1957: Photocopy. Jamestown 350th Anniversary Booklet #7.
Item 8: A View of the Great bridge near Norfolk in Virginia where the Action happened between a Detachment of the 14th Regt: and a body of Rebels, circa 1776: Photocopies. William L. Clements Library, Clinton Map #281.
Item 9: Town of Great Bridge boundaries taken from "History of Norfolk County, Virginia", 1962 June 24: Photocopy. Written by Col. William H. Stewart.
Item 10: Yorktown, Virginia and the surrounding area, 1967 July 19: Photocopy. A finished pen and ink drawing showing the principal towns within about a 30-mile radius of Yorktown. Counties are also indicated. Simcoe Papers.
Item 11: Hand drawn map of Princess Anne Co. from Lynnhaven Inlet to Pungo to Kemps, undated: Photocopies. Listing some of the land owners: A. Keeling, J. Thorogood, W. Atcheson, Col. Elligood, Mayo, H. Cornick, Woodhouse, J. Keeling, Wishard, Brock, Edw. James, Henley, Dauge, Fentress, and Williamson.
Item 12: Plan des Environs de Williamsburg, York et Portsmouth, undated: Photocopy. Map Division, Library of Congress.
Item 13: Portsmouth: [a copy of] a colored, topographical map of the town and the Elizabeth River from Craney Island to the South Branch, undated: Photocopy. Indicates "ruins of Norfolk" and the roads to Great Bridge and Suffolk. William L. Clements Library. Clinton Map #279.
Item 14: Portsmouth Map in French, map division of the Library of Congress, undated: Photocopy.
Item 15: Geographic Position of Old Virginia Parish Churches by Francis Marion Wigmare, 1923: Photocopies. Positive and negative copies.

Folder 5: Property Maps, (size 20" X 16"), 1762-1802

Item 1: Plate of Rolleston, undated: Photocopy, sketch. Hoggard, Whitehead, and Hancock's land mentioned.
Item 2: Division of land between Jacob and Frances Nimmo - Mary White Infant, 1762 December 31: Photocopies. Princess Anne County, division of land Jacob Nimmo and Frances his wife complainants against Mary White an infant by Dennis Danley, Gentleman her guardian. One positive and one negative.
Item 3: Plat of land: Nancey, Patsey, and Charity Hare, undated: Photocopies. Plat also mentions: Callahan, Mrs. Abrnathy, Mrs. Carney, Lenard, and Thomas Taylor's land. Two negative copies.
Item 4: Plan of land near Kempsville (Peter Whitehurst), 1782 December: Photocopy. The plan was surveyed by John Matthias. Names contained: Lemeul Williamson, William Whitehurst, and Kemps.
Item 5: Plan of Capt. William Hancock's Land in Princess Anne County, 1802 April 30: Photocopy. Names mentioned: John Taylor, Alex Moseley, Simon Hancock, John Hancock the lawyer, Colonel Moseley, Thomas Moran, and R. H. L. Lawson.
Item 6: Plan of Charles Sayer's Land, undated: Photocopy.
Item 8: Tract of land surveyed, Princess Anne County, at the request of Benjamin E. Johnson for Mr. Tully Mosely Senior, 1798 February 26: Photocopy.

Folder 6: Miscellaneous Maps, (20" X 16"), 1670-1785

Item 1: C. W. Sams Duplicate, showing U.S. Navy yard, Prentis Park, and Truxtun, undated: Photocopy.
Item 2: Confluence of the James River, York River and Chesapeake Bay, undated: Photocopy. Clinton Maps #265. William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Item 3: A map of Virginia and Maryland, 1630s: Photocopy. Sold by Thomas Basset in Fleetstreet and Richard Chiswell in St. Paul's Church yard.
Item 4: Map of Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties, Virginia and Currituck County in North Carolina, 1785: Photocopies. One negative and one positive.
Item 5: Williamsburg, from the confluence of the Chickahominy and the James to Hampton, undated: Photocopy. Clinton map #264. From the William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Item 6: Virginia and Maryland Map, 1670: Photocopy. Negative of a portion of the Augustin Herrman map.
Item 7: A section of the 1673 map entitled: Virginia and Maryland as it is planted and inhabited this present year 1670, by Augustin Herrman, 1673: Photocopy. This section is reproduced from a facsimile of the original map in the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, Lawrence C. Wroth, Librarian, 1941. The marks along the river banks, and in other places on the map indicate the location of plantations. Negative and positive copy.
Item 8: Map of the Early Settled Parts of Virginia, 18th Century, undated: Photocopy. New York Public Library.
Item 9: Topographical map showing Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Norfolk in ruins, 1779: Photocopy. Clinton map #282. Roads and plantations up the branches are shown as far as Great Bridge. An inset of the Rebel Fort near Portsmouth.
Item 10: Duplicate of C. W. Sams, undated: Photocopies. Three copies of various duplicates.
Item 11: Survey of the Town of Portsmouth, requested by Col. William Crawford, 1752 February: Photocopy.

Folder 7: A New and Accurate Map of Virginia (20" X 16"), 1770

Item 1: A New and Accurate Map of Virginia, 1770: Photocopies, eight sheets. A New and Accurate Map of Virginia, wherein most of the Counties are laid down from Actual Surveys With a Concise account of the Number of Inhabitants, the Trade, Soil and Produce of that Province by John Henry.

Folder 8: Published Maps, (size 24 3/4" X 18 1/2"), 1562-1961

Item 1: Episcopal Churches in the Diocese of Southern Virginia, 1955: By Robert H. Thomas III.
Item 2: The Oldest Map of the New World, circa 1950s: A reproduction of the 1500 map by Juan De la Cosa.
Item 3: A Mariner's Guide to the New World, circa 1950s: A reproduction of the 1546 map by Pierre Descelier.
Item 4: The Dutch Dream of American Empire, circa 1950s: A reproduction of the 1635 map by Willem Janszoon Blaeu.
Item 5: The Known Globe, circa 1950s: A reproduction of the 1667 map by Pieter Goos.
Item 6: Bermuda Shipwrecks explored by diver Teddy Tucker, circa 1950s
Item 7: Map of Colonial Williamsburg, 1957: Guide to the Jamestown Festival, April 1 to November 30, 1957. Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown.
Item 8: Outer Banks Vacation Map, North Carolina, before 1957
Item 9: The Sea of China and the Indies by Virginia Ferrer, 1651: A reproduction with information sheet by Alice Granbery Walter.
Item 10: Virginiae Item et Floridae Ameriue Provinciarum, nova Descriptio, circa 1562: Reproduction from the Center for Virginia History.
Item 11: State of North Carolina, 1957: United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey.
Item 12: North Carolina, Highway System, 1961

Folder 9: Maps and Plats, (size 24 3/4" X 18 1/2"), 1670-1955

Item 1: Plat of the Wise Farm, Princess Anne County, 1871 May: Photocopy. Additional names mentioned: Scott, Hoggard, and Lee along with Morse Bridge and (New) Town Creek.
Item 2: Granbery Lands at the Head of Bennetts Creek, 1955 February 21
Item 3: Portion of the Virginia and Maryland Augustin Herrman Map, 1670: Photocopy. Showing the York River down to Lower Norfolk and down to the Carolinas.
Item 4: Map #11 with Mill Dam Creek at the center, North Carolina to the South, and Black Water River to the North, undated: Photocopy.
Item 5: Gray's New Map of Portsmouth and Berkley, 1877: Photocopy.
Item 6: Map of Part of Province of Virginia, circa 1779: Photocopy.
Item 7: Modern Counties of Princess Ann, Norfolk and Nansemond, undated: Photocopy. Clinton map #280. William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Item 8: Survey of proposed road from Kempsville to Mr. Murden's, 1784: Photocopy.
Item 9: George Rogers Private Land and Lynnhaven Bay, undated: Photocopy.
Item 10: Town of Great Bridge, 1729 January 29: Photocopy. Taken from the "History of Norfolk County, Virginia" written by Col. William H. Stewart.
Item 11: Province of North Carolina, 1733: Photocopy. By E. Moseley. National Archives, RG 77 Part of H-47.
Item 12: Parts of modern counties of Princess Anne, Norfolk and Nansemond, Virginia, and Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank, Gates, Bertie, Perquimans, Martin, Beaufort, Washington, Hyde, Tyrrel, Dare, Craven and Pamlico, North Carolina, undated: Photocopy. Clinton Map #283.

Folder 10: Maps of England, (size 24 3/4" X 18 1/2"), 1822, 1858, undated

Item 1: Domesday Map of Devonshire, by Oswald J. Reichel, undated: Photocopies. Hundreds, 1086 and modern name. Positive and negative copies.
Item 2: The Victoria History of the Counties of England, Devonshire, 1822 February 1: Photocopies. Positive and negative copies.
Item 3: Handbook Map of Devon and Cornwall, 1858: Photocopies. Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London. Positive and negative copies.

Folder 11: Norfolk Maps, (size 24 3/4" X 18 1/2"), 1802-1887

Item 1: Map of the City of Norfolk and the Town of Portsmouth, 1851: Photocopies. Published by Rolin & Keily, Philadelphia.
Item 2: Map of Norfolk County, Virginia, 1887: Photocopies. Copied in eight large sections, negative. Made for and Published by Authority of the Board of Supervisors, Surveyed and Drawn by Sykes and Gwalthney.
Item 3: Borough of Norfolk, 1802: Photocopies. Borough of Norfolk, 2 positive and 2 negative copies.

Folder 12: Newspaper Clippings, (size 24 3/4" X 18 1/2"), 1953-1976

Item 1: Norfolk Mayors, Virginian-Pilot, 1965 August 3
Item 2: Society Gets Pembroke Deed, Virginia Sun, 1965 July 15
Item 3: Around Wolf Snare Creek Villages Now are Growing Up, Belatedly, to Fulfill a Three-Century-Old Colonial Vision, Virginian-Pilot, 1953 August 2: By Louisa Venable Kyle.
Item 4: The Storms Came...and Tidewater ShoreLines Still Show results After Hundreds of Years, 1954 September 19: By Louisa Venable Kyle.
Item 5: Pungo-Blackwater Section of Princess Anne county Generous to Settlers With Rich Soil, Pine Forests, Virginian-Pilot, 1955 September 25: By Louisa Venable Kyle.
Item 6: Recent Princess Anne Housing Developments Are Often Built on Older Community Sites, Virginian-Pilot, 1955 September 11: By Louisa Venable Kyle.
Item 7: Old British Map of Princess Anne County Supplies Valuable Clues for Historians, Virginian-Pilot, 1957 February 10: By Louisa Venable Kyle.
Item 8: Parks Proffer Picnic Sites, History, Too, Virginian-Pilot, 1959 May 17
Item 9: Ship bones and Pirate Legends, New York Herald Tribune, 1965 June 20
Item 10: Extracts From 1772-1775 of the Virginia Gazette, 1975: Published by the Virginia Gazette Inc.
Item 11: Visitor's Guide to Williamsburg, 1976: Includes reprints of the Virginia Gazette.

Folder 13: Virginia's Cartographers and Their Maps, 1607-1881 (size 31" X 23"), 1976

E. M. Sanchez-Saavedra, Virginia State Library. Marked on the outside of the original packet, "Revised in the Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, July 1976, Vol. 84 #1".

Item 1: Virginia, 1607: Map #1. Facsimile of original in Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.
Item 2: Virginia Maryland and the Improved Parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1719: Map #2. Facsimile of original in Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.
Item 3: Virginia Containing the Whole Province of Maryland with Part of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and North Carolina, 1775: Map #3, in four parts. Facsimile of original in Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.
Item 4: Carte de la Baie de Chesapeake, 1778: Map #4. Facsimile of original in Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.
Item 5: Map of the United States in North America, 1783: Map #5. Facsimile of original in Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.
Item 6: Map of the State of Virginia, 1825: Map #6, in nine parts. Facsimile of original in Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.
Item 7: A Map of the Internal Improvements of Virginia, 1848: Map #7. Facsimile of original in Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.
Item 8: City of Richmond, during the Civil War, circa 1865: Map #8. Facsimile of original in RG 77 (Map G204, Nos, 51 and 55) Cartographic Archives Division National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D. C.
Item 9: Geological Map of Virginia and West Virginia, 1835-1841: Map #9. Facsimile of original in Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.

Folder 14: Published Maps, (size 42" X 30"), 1948-1979

Item 1: Dolph's Street Map of Virginia Beach and Princess Anne County, Virginia, circa 1950s: Published and copyrighted by Frank B. Dolph Co., Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Item 2: Index to Topographical Maps of Virginia, 1965 September
Item 3: Virginia Farrer Map of Virginia, 1651, 1954: Facsimile printed on parchment, #90 of 100, copyright 1954, Alice Granbery Walter.
Item 4: Virginia, 1602-1622, Showing the most remarqueable parts thus named in the Ancient Records, 1955: Map by Doris VanDien Davis and Katherine Payne Adams, copyright 1955.
Item 5: Geological Survey, Morrison Quadrangle, Virginia, 1955
Item 6: Geological Survey, Benns Church Quadrangle, Virginia, 1957
Item 7: Geological Survey, Mulberry Island Quadrangle, Virginia, 1957
Item 8: Geological Survey, Hampton Quadrangle, Virginia, 1955
Item 9: Geological Survey, Chuckatuck Sheet 5657 SE, 1948
Item 10: A Map of Royal Britain, undated: Issued by the British Travel and Holidays Association.
Item 11: A Pictorial Map of Life in Colonial America, from Landing at Jamestown to the Revolution, 1957: General Drafting Co., Inc., Convent Station, New Jersey.
Item 12: Street and Vicinity Guide of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1979: Copyright 1979, Alexandria Drafting Company, Alexandria, Virginia.

Folder 15: Miscellaneous Maps, (size 42" X 30"), 1682-1972

Item 1: Plat from fragments of a map of Kempsville Canal, 1869

Landowners: Baxter, Ingram, Selden, McNan, Brown, Dozier, and Greenfield.

Item 2: Illustrated Map of Historic Norfolk, Virginia, 1944

Item 3: Borough of Norfolk, 1736, 1972

References:

SAM's Index in the Clerk's Office, Chesapeake, Virginia. Many of the Plats cited by Mr. Sams have long since disappeared, although the court Records are intact.

George Nicholson's Map of Norfolk in 1802 (the Original is in the Clerk's Office of Corp. court in Norfolk, Virginia.

The Boush Plan by Gershom Nimmo - Original in the Norfolk, Virginia Museum.

The County and City Records as indicated & also some Published sources.

Item 4: Original Town of Norfolk, VA 1682, 1972

Item 5: Norfolk Draft #1, undated

Item 6: Norfolk Draft #2, undated

Item 7: Norfolk Draft #3, undated

Item 8: Norfolk Draft #4, undated

Item 9: Norfolk Draft #5, undated

Drafts of Norfolk drawn by Alice Granbery Walter showing additional information on ownership and notes on areas. These maps were possibly drawn in preparation of Original Town of Norfolk, VA 1682 (Box 25, Folder 15, Item 4) and Borough of Norfolk, 1736 (Box 25, Folder 15, Item 3). This draft contains some chains of titles for: Captain Thomas Willoughby and the tract of Boush land. Also mentions Abraham Ellet, John Watkins, Daniel Porten, Nick Wise, Charles Wilder, and Samuel Smith.

Item 10: Norfolk Draft #6, undated

Drafts of Norfolk drawn by Alice Granbery Walter showing additional information on ownership and notes on areas. These maps were possibly drawn in preparation of Original Town of Norfolk, VA 1682 (Box 25, Folder 15, Item 4) and Borough of Norfolk, 1736 (Box 25, Folder 15, Item 3). Names mentioned: William Ship, Charles Sayer Boush, Thomas Newton, George Newton, John Watkins, John Gater, William Portens, and Thomas Lambert.

Item 11: Norfolk Draft #7, undated

Item 12: Norfolk Draft #8, undated

Drafts of Norfolk drawn by Alice Granbery Walter showing additional information on ownership and notes on areas. These maps were possibly drawn in preparation of Original Town of Norfolk, VA 1682 (Box 25, Folder 15, Item 4) and Borough of Norfolk, 1736 (Box 25, Folder 15, Item 3). Mentions: John Gater, Thomas Willoughby, Thomas Lambert, Sarah Ellet Lenier, John Adams, John E. Richard, John Watkins, and Abraham Ellet.

Item 13: Original Norfolk, compiled by Conway Whittle Sams, 1682

Photocopy. Map shows chain of title for: Boush's Pasture, John Adams, Walke Property, Wilson Newton, and Capt. Thomas Willoughby.

Item 14: Original Norfolk, compiled by C. Whittle Sams, With Early Additions, 1682

Photocopy. Notations written on this map by Alice Granbery Walter. Shows Algonquin Indians to the North and the Elizabeth River to the Southwest and Newton's Creek to the East. New names are mentioned: Anthony Lawson, John Freeman, Samuel Farmer, George Abyvon, John Pool, William Berkley, and Nathaniel Bacon.

Item 15: Maps of the Parishes and of the Magisterial Districts of Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties by Conway Whittle Sams, undated

Photocopy. The twin maps are filled with detailed notes. C.W. Sams produced these maps. 2 copies.

Item 16: Sam's County Maps Draft #1, undated