Preston, William
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
University Archives Bound Volumes Collection
Collection
Identifier: UA 15
Scope and Contents
This collection contains information about the College of William and Mary from the Eighteenth Century to the present. Included in the collection are faculty lecture notes from a variety of classes, scrapbooks, research notes, correspondence, textbooks used at the College of William and Mary, minute and account books, poetry books, student notebooks, a literary manual, and various other miscellaneous bound volumes.
Dates:
1739-1993
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Preston Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 P91
Scope and Contents
This inventory, chiefly 1786-1815, represents three generations of the Preston family, and likewise can be divided into the following: Items relating to William Preston (ca. 1729-1783), 1755-1782, primarily photostats of appointments to various county offices (coroner, sheriff and surveyor) and to positions in the Virginia militia; but also including original appointments, 1763 and 1776; a surveyor's entry; 1774; and letters, 1773-1782, to Preston concerning land, the Cherokee...
Dates:
1755-1836; Majority of material found in 1786-1815
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
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- American poetry--19th century 1
- Architecture, Domestic--Virginia 1
- Athletics 1
- Buckingham County (Va.)--History 1
- Carriage and wagon making 1
- Certificates 1
- Cherokee Indians 1
- Class materials 1
- College of William and Mary--History--19th century 1
- College of William and Mary--History--20th century 1
- College of William and Mary--Students 1
- College sports--United States--History--20th century 1
- Correspondence 1
- Curriculum 1
- Dueling--Virginia 1
- Financial records 1
- Freedmen--Virginia--History 1
- Indians of North America--History--19th century 1
- Lecture notes 1
- Legal documents 1
- Minutes 1
- Natural and Experimental Philosophy 1
- Notebooks 1
- Petitions 1
- Photostats 1
- Plays (document genre) 1
- President's House (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Slavery--Virginia--History--18th century 1
- Student Government 1
- Student Plays 1
- Tariff--United States--History 1
- Textbooks 1
- United States--History--War of 1812 1
- United States--Politics and government--1789-1815 1
- Virginia--Militia 1
- Virginia--Politics and Government--18th century 1
- Virginia--Politics and Government--19th century 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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