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Envisaging the West: Thomas Jefferson and the Roots of Lewis and Clark

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Brunswick County

An Act, to encourage Settlements on the Southern Boundary of this Colony. Virginia's colonial government exempted from taxation for ten years those who settled "upon Roanoke river" above the mouth of "little Roanoke, otherwise called Licking Hole." The exemption lasted ten years.