They were the 18th-century equivalent of buying a Lamborghini. The garden in Williamsburg belonged to John Custis IV, a tobacco plantation owner who served in Virginia’s colonial legislature. He is ...

This latest study investigated traces of the colonial occupation at the site and revealed details of plantation life not available in ... By 1630, Claiborne was one of the 10 largest tobacco exporters ...

click image for close-up A Tobacco Plantation was the title page for the 1788 publication The Federalist. Authored by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, The Federalist is a ...

Merchants in Parliament and on the Council of State intended to funnel all colonial trade through English merchants ... Throughout the region, plantation revenues rose, and tobacco revenues were often ...

The Marriage of Washington to Martha Custis • The Washinton Family • Washington's Letter to Robert Morris Though only 25% of the colonial ... and not just in the plantation economy of the ...

The garden in Williamsburg belonged to John Custis IV, a tobacco plantation owner who served in Virginia’s colonial legislature. He is perhaps best known as the first father-in-law of Martha ...

The garden in Williamsburg belonged to John Custis IV, a tobacco plantation owner who served in Virginia's colonial legislature. He is perhaps best known as the first father-in-law of Martha ...