List of Surveyors for William and Mary

In the 18th century, the College of William and Mary served as the Surveyor-General of the Colony of Virginia and its faculty were given the right to examine and license surveyors. United States Presidents George Washington and alumnus Thomas Jefferson received licenses to survey in Virginia from William and Mary. After the American Revolution, the rate at which William and Mary granted surveying licenses began to decline drastically and ceased entirely by around 1810 (Surveying, University Archives Subject File Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.)

Material in the Special Collections Research Center

• The University Archives Subject File Collection contains reference files related to surveying at William and Mary as well as examples of surveyor's licenses.

List of Surveyors

The following is a list of surveyors arranged alphabetically by last name, year they received their license, and the counties they were allowed to survey. Surveyors for companies and counties that would later become states, such as areas in Kentucky and Ohio, are also included. The list is not complete at this time. From Surveying--Lists of Surveyors, University Archives Subject File Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Name	Year	County
Allen, Arthur	1704	Isle of Wight, Surry
Anderson, Richard C.	1784	Henrico
Baker, Henry	1716	Nansemond
Baker, Richard	1754	Isle of Wight
Ball, Joseph	1751	Lancaster; Northumberland
Ball, William	1718	Lancaster; Northumberland
Barrow, Henry	1795	Southampton
Bland, William	1764	Prince George
Bolling, Robert	1702	Charles City
Brooke, Robert	1745	Caroline, Essex
Buckner, William	1709	(Surveyor General)
Cabell, William	1746, 1761, 1783	Albermarle, Amherst, Amherst
Carrington, George	1734, 1749	Goochland, Cumberland
Cary, Miles	1699	(Surveyor General)
Claiborne, Nathaniel	1729	Spottsylvania
Clark, George Rogers	1784	(Virginia State Line)
Cloyd, Gordon	circa 1800	Montgomery
Cocke, Hartwell	1749	Surry
Cooke, Thomas	1707	Gloucester; Middlesex
Cooper, George	1707	Northumberland
Crawford, William	1773	(Ohio Company)
Currie, George	1749	Prince George
Donelson, John	1767	Pittsylvania
Eastham, James	circa 1791	Halifax
Edmunds, John	1754	Sussex
Evans, Thomas	circa 1785	Accomack
Ewell, Bertrand	1751	Prince William
Fontaine, Peter, Jr.	1748, 1748, 1752	Charles City, Lunenburg, Halifax
Fry, Robert	1753	Nansemond
Garland, Griffin	circa 1772	Richmond
Garland, Samuel	1772	Lunenburg
Garland, William	1746	Richmond
Gray, William	1749	Southampton
Greenway, James	1770	Dinwiddie
Gregg, THomas	1707	Stafford
Hardyman, James	circa 1767	Charles City
Harmanson, John	1755	Northampton
Harris, Tyree	1753	Louisa
Hawkins, Jonathan	1748	Hanover
Herring, Alexander	1792	Rockingham
Higginbotham, James	1776, 1788	Amherst, Amherst
Hume, George	1723	Spottsylvania
Jackson, Christopher	1717	James City
Jefferson, Peter	1744, 1756	Goochland, Albermarle
Jefferson, Thomas	1773	Albermarle
Jennings, Daniel	circa 1749	Fairfax
Jones, Robert	1749	Southampton
Kemper, Charles	1800	Fauquier
Kenny, James	1752	King George
Lee, Henry	1750	Culpeper
LeNeve, Jonathan	1752, 1754	Amelia, Prince Edward
Lewis, Thomas	1744, circa 1775	Augusta and Rockingham, Botetourt
Loury, Jonathan	1743	Elizabeth City and Warwick
Markham, John	1756	Henrico
Martin, William Peters	circa 1767	King William
Mauzy, Jonathan	1744	Stafford
May, George	circa 1780	(Jefferson County, Kentucky)
May, William	circa 1785	(Jefferson County, Kentucky)
Monroe, Spence	1743	Westmoreland
Mumford, Thomas	circa 1764	Amelia
Nedderton, Henry	1716	Westmoreland
Nimmo, Gershom	1756	Norfolk and Princess Anne
Parry, William	1749, 1750, 1751, 1723	Charles City and New Kent, James City and York, King and Queen, Middlesex
Pettit, William	circa 1772	Louisa
Poage, John	circa 1790	Augusta
Presson, Zorobabel	1716	Northampton
Preston, Robert	1774	Washington
Preston, William	1769	Botetourt
Price, Meredith	circa 1772	Goochland
Read, Clement	1754	Lunenburg
Scarburgh, Edmund	circa 1755	Accomack
Sclater, John	1718	York
Sclater, Richard	1716	York
Smith, John	1708	Gloucester
Smith, John	1757	Goochland
Stewart, Andrew	1778	Norfolk
Stith, Buckner	1754	Bedford
Stith, Drury	1740	Brunswick
Stith, Richard	circa 1770	Bedford
Stone, Joshua	circa 1785	Pittsylvania
Syme, John	1717	New Kent
Taylor, Edmund	circa 1765	Mecklenburg
Taylor, James	circa 1785	Caroline
Taylor, Zachery	1751	Orange
Thomly, Aaron	circa 1775	King George
Thompson, James	1781	(Lincoln County, Kentucky)
Thompson, William	1773	Fincastle
Tomson, Thomas	1707	Westmoreland
Thornton, William	1707	Richmond
Throckmorton, Jonathan	1753	Gloucester
Tunstall, Richard, Jr.	circa 1765	King and Queen
Tyler, Francis	1754	Hampshire
Vaiden, Joseph	circa 1786	Charles City
Waller, George, Jr.	circa 1795	Henry
Washington, George	1782	Culpeper
Watkins, Benjamin	1752	Prince George
Watkins, William	1752	Dinwiddie
Weeks, Benjamin	1755	Westmoreland
Wesson, John	circa 1774	Surry
West, George	1754	Fairfax and Loudoun
West, John, Jr.	1749	Fairfax
Whitesides, Thomas	circa 1775	Henrico
Wood, James	1734, 1745	Orange, Frederick
Woods, Robert	circa 1785	(Ohio)

A Note About The Contents Of This Wiki

The information available in this wiki is the best available from known documents and sources at the time it was written. Unfortunately, many of the early original records of William & Mary were destroyed by fires, military occupation, and the normal effects of time. Information in this wiki is not complete as new information continues to be uncovered in Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center and elsewhere. Researchers are strongly encouraged to use the Special Collections search tools for their research as the information contained in this wiki is by no means comprehensive.