John Speed the Entrepreneur
Say what you will about John Speed, he was a great entrepreneur! By 1809 he and his young family had taken possession of and moved onto the property that they would call Farmington. Judge Speed, as he became known in the community, was very good at generating...
Who Was John Speed?
The plantation called Farmington was established by John Speed. We know that Speed had taken ownership of Farmington by 1809 through examining tax records for Jefferson County. In a letter to his business partner, William Pope, Speed claims that his family was...