Harold B. Gill, Jr. - historian authored a number of important works on a number of subjects. His primary focus was 18th century Virginia and the bulk of his career was spent at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation where he started as a Research Assistant in December 1961. He was 28 years old and moved his wife and infant daughter from Richmond, where he and his wife had both been employed as archivists in the Virginia State Library, to Williamsburg, Virginia where he’d live the rest of his 91 years.
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