Virginia-North Carolina Boundary

Fry-Jefferson credit to 1728 surveyors.
Fry-Jefferson map - eastern section of VA/NC boundary

Fry-Jefferson map - western section of VA/NC boundary
In 1749, Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson's father) were Virginia's two commissioners overseeing the survey of 90 miles of the Virginia-North Carolina border. Daniel Weldon and William Churton were their equivalents from North Carolina.
Fry-Jefferson credit to 1749 surveyors
They started on Peters Creek (a tributary of the Dan River in modern Patrick County), where William Byrd had stopped his survey of the "dividing line" 20 years earlier. They stopped at Steep Rock Creek, southeast of modern-day Damascus:
Steep Rock Creek

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Boundaries of Virginia
Neighboring States
Mapping Virginia
Geography of Virginia