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  2. Anne Cannon Forsyth - Wikipedia

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    Anne Cannon Forsyth (August 23, 1930 – May 11, 2003) was a Cannon textiles and R.J. Reynolds tobacco families heiress, and education activist who created the Anne C. Stouffer Foundation in 1967, which was the first foundation to offer full scholarships for young African-American students to attend elite southern preparatory boarding schools.

  3. Tobacco in the American colonies - Wikipedia

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    Lorenz, Stacy L. " 'To Do Justice to His Majesty, the Merchant and the Planter': Governor William Gooch and the Virginia Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 108 (2000): 345–392. online; McCusker, John J., and Russell R. Menard. The Economy of British America, 1607–1789 (University of North Carolina ...

  4. Wolstenholme Towne - Wikipedia

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    Wolstenholme Towne was established around 1618 in Martin's Hundred, a plantation organized into a hundred, beginning with a population of about 40 settlers of the Virginia Company of London. The settlement was named for Sir John Wolstenholme (1562-1639), one of its investors, and housing consisted of rough cabins of wattle and daub woven on ...

  5. Tobacco colonies - Wikipedia

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    The development of tobacco as an export began in Virginia in 1614 when one of the English colonists, John Rolfe, experimented with a plant he had brought from the West Indies, 'Nicotania tabacum. In the same year, the first tobacco shipment was sent to England. The British prized tobacco, for it was a way to display one's wealth to the public.

  6. Varina Farms - Wikipedia

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    In 1612, English colonist John Rolfe introduced the cultivation of a special strain of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) in Jamestown for export to England, which was much better-liked by the Europeans than a harsher form which grew naturally in Virginia. [3] [a] As his tobacco became a cash crop for the struggling colony's economy, about 1615 he ...

  7. Beaver Creek Plantation - Wikipedia

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    Beaver Creek Plantation, under the ownership of George Hairston, was a large slave-holding tobacco plantation and the center of an empire in tobacco-growing and slave-trading built by the Hairston family, Scottish emigrants to Pennsylvania in the early 18th century.

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  9. Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet - Wikipedia

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    Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet (21 October 1681 – 17 December 1751) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Virginia from 1727 to 1749.

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