File:Map of William Farrar's Patent for Farrar's Island and Environs.jpg
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English: This map depicts the land acquired by William Farrar as described in the 1637 Patent. The map is based on the description of the land's boundaries as described in the Patent. The area abuts the glebe lands of Varina and includes both Farrar's Island and Henrico. Patent boundaries taken from Bannister 1996,Mapping 17th Century Patents on the north side of James River, between Varina and World's End in Henrico.
Map was created from Plate LXXVII map of the 1864 Bermuda Hundred Campaign from the War of the Rebellion Atlas. Military dispositions and most place names were removed, and descriptions of boundaries from patent were added. |
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| Author | Wtfiv |
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I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:    This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
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| current | 06:31, 22 June 2020 | | 903 × 889 (1,008 KB) | Wtfiv | Replaced map with this version that didn't have place names. |
| 18:19, 14 June 2020 |  | 903 × 889 (1,012 KB) | Wtfiv | Slight adjustment of boundaries. | |
| 18:28, 17 May 2020 |  | 903 × 889 (1,009 KB) | Wtfiv | Map slightly adjusted for Glebeland of Varina boundaries based on [http://web.archive.org/web/20200516232355/http://www.sas.rochester.edu/bio/bannister/PatentMaps/Henrico_VA/mtland/MTLAND.TXT Bannister's (1996)] reading of the [ http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/drawer?retrieve_image=LONN&dir=/LONN/LO-1/006/006&image_number=0438&offset=%2B11&name=Patents+No.6+1666-1679+(PartI+%26+PartII)&dbl_pgs=no&round=1666 Henrico Glebe Parish Patent]. | |
| 20:59, 16 May 2020 |  | 903 × 889 (1,009 KB) | Wtfiv | Removed one position still on original map. | |
| 19:42, 16 May 2020 |  | 903 × 889 (1,009 KB) | Wtfiv | Removed 1864 place names from map. Kept Dutch Gap, Varina and Three Mile Run for reference. | |
| 19:21, 16 May 2020 |  | 903 × 889 (1,013 KB) | Wtfiv | Northern end of patent boundaries modified to better match Bannister 1996 | |
| 00:16, 16 May 2020 |  | 903 × 889 (1,010 KB) | Wtfiv | Two major changes: •Patent boundaries updated based on work of Bannister, 1996. •Map used was from the War of the Atlas Rebellion, Plate VXXVII. ••Map landmarks are from 1864 when the Island was still relatively intact. ••Civil war military references were removed via Photoshop. | |
| 18:27, 23 February 2020 |  | 498 × 377 (121 KB) | Wtfiv | Slightly updated, river uncolored as it is not part of patent, a few marks fixed, border slightly straightened | |
| 17:27, 21 February 2020 |  | 498 × 377 (120 KB) | Wtfiv | Changed capitalization to be consistent. Changed font size to fit on map more aesthetically. | |
| 07:49, 21 February 2020 |  | 498 × 377 (120 KB) | Wtfiv | Slightly cleaned up original 1848 map. |
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