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The namesakes of some NoVA towns and counties are John Campbell, Francis Fauquier, Robert E. Simon, Thomas Fairfax, and John Roll McLean.

<p>The author hoped to write a biography of William Small, the Scottish polymath whose mentorship linked the political revolution of Thomas Jefferson and the industrial one of James Watt. Learning that another researcher had beaten him to the punch didn&#39;t diminish the author&#39;s admiration for the story in the least.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The author hoped to write a biography of William Small, the Scottish polymath whose mentorship linked the political revolution of Thomas Jefferson and the industrial one of James Watt. Learning that another researcher had beaten him to the punch didn&#39;t diminish the author&#39;s admiration for the story in the least.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The author hoped to write a biography of William Small, the Scottish polymath whose mentorship linked the political revolution of Thomas Jefferson and the industrial one of James Watt. Learning that another researcher had beaten him to the punch didn&#39;t diminish the author&#39;s admiration for the story in the least.&nbsp;</p>

William Hunter was born in Yorktown, the son of an Elizabeth City County merchant, also named William Hunter (d. 1742), and his second wife Mary Ann Hunter (d. 1743). He also was half-brother to Colonel John Hunter, the Hampton merchant who became commissary for British forces in America during the French and Indian War (1754–1763), as well as confidante to Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie. Shortly after their parents’ deaths, Hunter’s sister Elizabeth Hunter married John Holt, the one-time mayor of Williamsburg; Hunter and his sisters—all minor children—moved into the Holts’...