Loudoun County, Colony of Virginia

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Loudoun County, Colony of Virginia was an 18th-century administrative division of colonial Virginia that encompassed a largely rural, plantation-based region in the northern part of the colony.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf colonial administrative division
county
former subdivision
administrativeCenter Leesburg NERFINISHED
borderedBy Blue Ridge Mountains NERFINISHED
Potomac River NERFINISHED
colonialPower Kingdom of Great Britain NERFINISHED
country Colony of Virginia NERFINISHED
createdFrom Fairfax County, Colony of Virginia NERFINISHED
currencyUsed British pound sterling NERFINISHED
Virginia colonial currency
demographicsIncluded artisans and tradesmen
enslaved Africans
planter elite
small farmers
economyBasedOn mixed grain farming
plantation agriculture
tobacco cultivation
establishedInYear 1757
geographyCharacterizedBy Piedmont region NERFINISHED
fertile agricultural land
governedBy Governor of the Colony of Virginia
House of Burgesses of Virginia NERFINISHED
hadJudicialUnit county court
hadMilitia Loudoun County colonial militia NERFINISHED
hadParishes Anglican parishes
hadSettlementPattern rural plantations
small villages
hasCapital Leesburg NERFINISHED
legalSystem English common law
locatedIn British America NERFINISHED
Colony of Virginia NERFINISHED
Northern Virginia
locatedOn North American continent NERFINISHED
namedAfter John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun NERFINISHED
participatedIn American Revolutionary era politics
partOf British colonies in North America
Province of Virginia NERFINISHED
primaryLanguage English
religiousEstablishment Church of England NERFINISHED
succeededBy Loudoun County, Virginia NERFINISHED
taxationSystem colonial Virginia tax laws
timePeriod 18th century
transportationRoutes colonial roads to Alexandria and Winchester
ferries across the Potomac River
usedLaborSystem enslaved African labor
indentured servitude
wasSubjectTo British imperial authority

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Fairfax County, Colony of Virginia borderedBy Loudoun County, Colony of Virginia