Condition: Very Good: Very good condition for a used book! Minimal wear. See images for the condition of this book.
Blurb: Published by the University Press of Virginia for the Virginia Historical Society. Nelson (1711-1772) was an American planter and colonial leader from Yorktown, Virginia. In the interim between the royal governors Norborne Berkeley and Lord Dunmore, he served as governor of colonial Virginia in 1770 and 1771. In the early stages of the American Revolution he was an active supporter of the colonial cause, and his son Thomas Nelson, Jr. (Major General) went on to sign the Declaration of Independence.