Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . w^ ^3 re IT. o 2o LYNCHBURG, VA. MOTTO:—OuicK Sales, Fair Dealincis and Small Profits. ITS PEOPLE AM) ITS TRADE. 87 and published in a neat volume, containing also a good deal of valua-ble extraneous information. The following extracts from the intro-duction to this work will be found interesting, as hearing directly uponthe municipal history of the Cit\ : The Legislature of Virginia, in October, 1786, vested in certaintrustees forty-five acres of the land of John Lynch, lying contiguousto Lynchs Ferry, in the county of Campbell. The vi
Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . w^ ^3 re IT. o 2o LYNCHBURG, VA. MOTTO:—OuicK Sales, Fair Dealincis and Small Profits. ITS PEOPLE AM) ITS TRADE. 87 and published in a neat volume, containing also a good deal of valua-ble extraneous information. The following extracts from the intro-duction to this work will be found interesting, as hearing directly uponthe municipal history of the Cit\ : The Legislature of Virginia, in October, 1786, vested in certaintrustees forty-five acres of the land of John Lynch, lying contiguousto Lynchs Ferry, in the county of Campbell. The village thus laidout was named Lynchburg, after the owner of the soil. The trus-tees sold this land in half-acre lots, at public auction at first, and sub-sequently at private sale, for the benefit of John Lynch. The lotsbrought an average of ^^53, in the Virginian currency of that RESIDENCE oF MK. .lOilN \V. FAULKNER.(on fifth avenue.) The first meeting of this Board of Trustees was held on the 8thof May. 1787, at which John Clarke, Jesse Burton, Joseph Stratton,William Martin, Micajah Moorman and Achilles Douglas were pres-ent. Richard Stith was appointed to survey and lay off the to his map, the eastern boundary of the town was LynchStreet ; the western, Court Street; the northern, a line running be-tween Sixth and Seventh Streets, at right angles to Lynch and CourtStreets ; and the southern, a line running between Eleventh andTwelfth Streets, parallel to the northern boundary. The trustees had no control of the town, except over the legaltitles of the unsold lots ; the money they received for the lots waspaid over to John Lynch. They met from time to time from 1786to 1817. The Town of Lynchburg was first incorporated by an Act of the 88 SKETCH BOOK OF LYNCHBURG, VA. ; HILLSMAH & MYERS, The + Reliable + Clothiers, Merchant Tailors and Gents
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