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 license 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.)

List of Surveyors

The following is a list of surveyors arranged alphabetically by last name and 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.

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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
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

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