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Oral History interview between Aaron Moorer and Alphonso O'Neil-White, conducted on April 30, 2021.

Philadelphia; Coolie Verner has proposed that this map is most likely "the first separate map of Virginia to be drawn, printed, and published in America." Most earlier maps had been engraved and published in Europe where the best craftsman plied…

Leiden, ca. 1708-1728; A prolific publisher, editor, and bookseller, Peter vander Aa included the arrival of John Smith to America in his map of Virginia. He published a similar map in his Atlas Nouveau Et Curieux (1714), but with a French title and…

From the collection of Henry and Kaye Spalding.

Class of 1791. Son of Capt. John Morton of Morton Hall. Born in Prince Edward County, VA in Nov. 18, 1772. Died Bordeaux, France about 1840. Sent by Mr. [unintelligible] P. Morton Jr. 1936.