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Lee, Henry, 1756-1818

 Person

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Blow Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 B63
Scope and Contents Papers, 1770-1875, of the Blow family of "Tower Hill," Sussex County, Va. and of the Waller family. Prominent correspondents in the collection include Philip Barraud, John Hartwell Cocke, Henry Lee and Edmund Ruffin. Most of these accessions were integrated as the collection was partially processed, but some are boxed separately. Includes a Blow family scrapbook containing many manuscript items. Collection includes: correspondence of Richard Blow (1746-1833), merchant, who had...
Dates: 1613-1960; Majority of material found in 1770-1875

Charles Brown Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 B84
Scope and Contents Letters, accounts, and legal papers of Dr. Charles Brown. Collection includes letters, 1813-1818, concerning patients (including slaves). Includes land signed by Henry Lee and John Tyler, items relating to "Actonplace" [Acton] English estate of William Jennings and plats of land in Albemarle County, Virginia; as well as letters of members of the Brown family. Charles Brown Papers 1792-1888, Albemarle County Virginia is available on microfilm in Swem Library’s...
Dates: 1792-1888

William Cole Collection of Documents Pertaining to the Colonial-Era

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00196
Content Description

Documents, prints, and heraldry pertaining to Virginia governors from the 17th and 18th centuries. Includes letters and documents signed by John Murray, Robert Brooke, James Wood, Beverly Randolph, Patrick Henry, Edmund Andros, Jeffrey Amherst, Norborne Berkeley, Robert Hunter, Francis Fauquier, Earl De La Warr, James Blair, and Robert Dinwiddie among others. Also included in the collection are prints, coats of arms, and commemorative coins.

Dates: 1676-1971; Majority of material found within 1730-1770

James Monroe papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 M75
Scope and Contents Collection contains correspondence from 1783-1831, of James Monroe written from Richmond, Virginia while serving time as governor, Paris while minister to France, London while minister to Great Britain, from Washington, D. C. while Secretary of State, Secretary of War, and from Loudoun County, Virginia after serving as President. Also included is a penciled sketch of Monroe by John Vanderlyn. Subjects covered in the collection include diplomatic service, education (advice to his nephew),...
Dates: 1776-1924; Majority of material found in 1783-1831

Zachariah Johnston Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 J63
Scope and Contents

Letter, 26 March 1790, from Edward Carrington in Richmond, Va. to Zachariah Johnston, Augusta County, Va. concerning taking the census in Augusta, Pendleton and Rockingham counties, Va.; and letter, 27 March 1792, from Henry Lee to Zachariah Johnston, concerning the excise tax [on whiskey ?]

Dates: 1790-1792

Marquis de Lafayette Letter to Lewis Morris

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01343
Scope and Contents

Letter, 1781 April 4, to Lewis Morris. 2 p. ; 21 cm. Concerns military operations in Virginia, a delayed meeting in Williamsburg, and mentions Benedict Arnold, Nathanael Greene, and Henry Lee. Typescript also available.

Dates: 1781 April 4

Henry Lee Letter

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00540
Scope and Contents

Letter, 1794 April 27, Norfolk, [Va.] to [?]. 4 p. on 1 leaf ; 20 cm. Relates an incident of tarring and feathering in Norfolk, Va. in connection with the embargo and notes the arrival of Major [John] Rivardi to examine points of defense on the river.

Dates: 1794 April 27

John Marshall letters

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00134
Scope and Contents A Collection of two letters written by John Marshall. Letter, 1833 August 11, replies to Major Henry Lee’s criticisms of the two-volume condensed edition of Marshall’s Life of Washington published in 1832. Battle of Bunker Hill occurred before George Washington took command. Regrets that Champe’s affair was omitted. The statement of Henry Lee (1756-1818) refutes the malignant remark of Thomas Jefferson. Did not have letter of George Washington to Henry Lee, Sr....
Dates: 1833 August 11; 1834 February 21

Thomas Read Land Grant

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01470
Scope and Contents

Two page land grant issued to Thomas Read on 18 September 1782. This land is recorded as number 14,340 and is for 740 acres in Charlotte County, Virginia. Survey of the property as outlined in the grant was completed on 18 January 1793. The signature on the deed, issued by the Governor of the Commonwealth, Henry Lee, is from William Price, Esq. and is dated Augist 20, 1794.

Dates: 1794-08-20

Archibald Stuart Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 St7
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings of letters, 1790-1811, in the Staunton Spectator May-June 1879, written to Judge Archibald Stuart, Staunton, Va. chiefly by Thomas Jefferson at "Monticello" concerning plantation and agricultural matters. The clippings include copies of letters from James Monroe, John Marshall, Henry Lee (1756-1818) and a photostat of a letter, 25 August 1816, from Stuart to William Wirt giving reminiscences of Patrick Henry.

Dates: 1790-1816

Archibald Woods Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 W87
Scope and Contents Papers, chiefly 1783-1846, of Archibald Woods of Ohio County, West Virginia. The papers concern his family, the Poage family, and the Houston family, as well as his business dealings. Correspondents include Levi Barber, Daniel Call, Philip Doddridge, Chapman Johnson, Henry Lee, James Pindall, Benjamin Ruggles, Daniel Sheffey and John Tyler, Edgar Campbell Wilson, George Washington Wilson and Thomas Wilson. Subjects dealt with in the collection include banking, cholera, the Cumberland Road,...
Dates: 1777-1846; Majority of material found in 1783-1846

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Subject
Correspondence 8
Financial records 3
College of William and Mary--History--19th century 2
Indians of North America 2
Legal documents 2
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Receipts (financial records) 2
Virginia--Governors 2
Account books 1
Acton (Eng. : Estate) 1
Agriculture--Virginia--History--18th century 1
Albemarle County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Ambassadors--United States--18th century 1
Ambassadors--United States--19th century 1
Augusta County (Va.)--History--18th century 1
Banks and banking--United States--History 1
Belmont County (Ohio)--History 1
Cholera--United States 1
College of William and Mary--History 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 13th. Company H 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Volunteers, Third Brigade 1
Cumberland Road 1
Deeds 1
Diplomatic and consular service 1
Embargo 1
Farm management 1
Fauquier County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
France--Foreign relations--1792-1815 1
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786 1
Hampden-Sydney College--History--19th century 1
Indiana--History 1
Indians of North America--History--19th century 1
Invoices 1
Kentucky--History 1
Land grants--Illinois 1
Land grants--Virginia 1
Marriage--United States--History--19th century 1
Medicine--Practice--Virginia 1
Medicine--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Memorandums 1
Merchants--North Carolina--History--18th century 1
Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century 1
Merchants--Virginia--History--18th century 1
Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Missouri Compromise, 1820 1
Monroe County (Ohio)--History 1
Monroe family 1
Monticello (Va.) 1
Norfolk (Va.)--History--18th century 1
Northwest, Old--History 1
Ohio County (W. Va.)--History 1
Ohio--History--19th century 1
Pendleton County (W.Va.)--History--18th century 1
Portraits 1
Practice of law--Virginia--History 1
Publications 1
Real property--Virginia 1
Rockingham County (Va.)--History--18th century 1
Saint Louis (Mo.)--History--19th century 1
Sheriffs--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Slavery--Southern States--History 1
Slavery--Virginia--19th century 1
Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Slavery--West Virginia--History 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 1
Surveys (documents) 1
Tower Hill (Sussex County, Va.) 1
Typescripts 1
United States--Foreign relations--1789-1797 1
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French 1
United States--History--War of 1812 1
United States--Lawyers 1
University of Virginia--History--19th century 1
Virginia--History--17th century 1
Virginia--History--18th century 1
Virginia--Militia--History--War of 1812 1
Virginia. Militia. 15th Regiment 1
Virginia. Militia. 4th Regiment 1
Wheeling (W.Va.)--History 1
Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794 1
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 1
Woodsfield (Ohio)--History 1
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