Dismal Swamp Canal Company records
Dublin Core
Title
Dismal Swamp Canal Company records
Date
1792-1834
Description
Virginia’s General Assembly authorized several joint-stock companies for projects to link separated
crop producing areas during the late eighteenth century. Among these was connection of the
Chesapeake Bay with North Carolina’s Currituck Sound by a waterway through the Great Dismal
Swamp. Efforts were disrupted by the Revolution and, eventually, canals were superceded by
railroads. This collection includes a map of the canal as well as indentures, warrants and inquisitions,
land valuations, and surveys. Most of the collection pertains to the acquisition of land by the Canal
Company or its subsequent leasing of the land to private individuals. Names mentioned in the collection
include: Robert Andrews, Daniel Berdinger, Donald Campbell, John Cowper, and Thomas Newton, Jr.
crop producing areas during the late eighteenth century. Among these was connection of the
Chesapeake Bay with North Carolina’s Currituck Sound by a waterway through the Great Dismal
Swamp. Efforts were disrupted by the Revolution and, eventually, canals were superceded by
railroads. This collection includes a map of the canal as well as indentures, warrants and inquisitions,
land valuations, and surveys. Most of the collection pertains to the acquisition of land by the Canal
Company or its subsequent leasing of the land to private individuals. Names mentioned in the collection
include: Robert Andrews, Daniel Berdinger, Donald Campbell, John Cowper, and Thomas Newton, Jr.
Identifier
MS1976.3
Warrant and inquisition by court clerk of Camden Co., NC for condemning lands for use by Dismal Swamp Canal Company
Cross-Canal land valuation order
Inquisition of land valuation for Cross-Canal
Cross-Canal survey notes
List of witnesses' signatures
Indenture between Dismal Swamp Canal Company and Marshall Parks.
Memo relative to leases of land along canal route, 1823-1834.
Indenture between Joseph A. Fairless and Fruzy Stallings, Gates County, N.C.
[Map of the Great Dismal Swamp Canal from South Mills, North Carolina to Gilmerton, Chesapeake, Virginia]