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brought their goods down to a river, made arrangements with a ship's captain, took ordered goods off the ship, and willfully bypassed all custom duties and taxes.
This loss of revenue upset the London Company back in. England. Virginians were scattering all over the place. They were hard to control. They were not settling down into prissy little towns, like the New Englanders. The town problem was solved by government edict. Charles II, in 1662, "requested" the General Assembly of Virginia to build a few towns from scratch. They passed an Act. A town was to be built at James City, it was to contain 32 houses made of brick, each to be 40’ long and 20' wide, and they were to be arranged around a square. They also voted that one house be built in each of the (then) 17 counties, to serve as a nucleus of a town.
Later, in the June 1680 session of the General Assembly of Virginia, a new request was honored and an Act passed whereby 50 acres of land was to be purchased in each county and laid out for a town and storehouse. They even named the 20 places, such as "in Henrico county at Verina where the court house is.” In 1691, three more towns were authorized. This continued on even up to 1788, when an Act for establishing a town near Chester's Gap was passed. This became Front Royal - 50 acres, laid out in
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