The items on shipping given below were selected from the _Virginia Gazette_ to show some details of Virginia shipping in the eighteenth century: the home ports, the ports entered and cleared, the types of vessels and various kinds of cargo. Sailings are given from September 3, 1736, when a Virginia owned vessel was first mentioned in the _Gazette_, to June 28, 1768, and is by no means a complete list, even in the copies of issues now extant; it is well to recall that copies of many issues have never been found. Later sailings in the _Gazette_ have frequently omitted the type of vessel. A large number of vessels here named were Virginia owned and many of them Virginia built. 1736, SEPTEMBER 3. Ship _Priscilla_ of Virginia, Richard Williams, entered at the port of York river from Barbadoes. 1736, NOVEMBER 9. Ship _John and Mary_ of Virginia, Richard Tillidge, entered the port of York river from Barbadoes. 1737, FEBRUARY 9. The brigantine belonging to Col. Benjamin Harrison, arrived in James river last week from London, but last from Salt Islands loaded with salt. 1737, FEBRUARY 9. Cleared out of York river the schooner _Grampus_, John Briggs, for Madeira with 870 bu. wheat, 1451 bu. white pease, 1914 bu. red pease, 40 bu. beans, 1 hhd. beeswax, and 600 staves. Cleared out of York district the following vessels: 1737, MARCH 2. Sloop _Medford_ of New England, James Hathaway, for New England with 1000 bu. com, 100 bu. pease, and 600 ft. of walnut plank. MARCH 3. Ship _Hanover_ of Bristol, Roger Rumney, for Bristol with 294 hhd. tobacco, 50 tons iron, and 5280 staves. 1737, MARCH 3. Schooner _Swallow_ of New England, John Atwood, for Boston with 1500 bu. corn, 100 bu. pease, 20 bu. wheat, and 60 ft. of plank. 1737, MARCH 14. Sloop _Francis_ of Bermuda, William Mallory, for Bermuda, with 2000 bu. corn, and 30 bu. pease. 1737, MARCH 18. Sloop _Mary_ of Bermuda, Samuel Nelms, for Bermuda, with 5000 bu. corn, 56 bu. pease, 1 mast, and other pieces of timber. 1737, MARCH 19. Ship _Micajah and Philip_ of London, James Bradley, for London, with 734 hhd. tobacco, 7500 staves, and a parcel of plank. 1737, MARCH 31. Brig _Abington_ of Virginia, John Upcott, for Madeira, with 1170 bu. pease, 1617 bu. corn, 162 bu. wheat, beeswax and hemp. Entered in the York District, with sundry European goods: 1737, MARCH 4. Ship _Catherine_ of London, William Taylor, from London. 1737, MARCH 9. Ship _Haswell_ of London, John Booch, from London. 1737, MARCH 18. Sloop _Southampton_ of London, Robert Angus, from London. 1737, MARCH 23. Sloop _Betty_ of Virginia, Thomas Hamlin, from Jamaica. 1737, APRIL 22. The ship _Johnston_ of Liverpool, James Gillart, is lately arrived at York from Angola, with 490 choice young slaves. The sale of them began on Tuesday the 12th instant, and continues at York river. Thomas Nelson.