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Box 5

 Container

Contains 57 Results:

Virginia financial problems

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 25
Identifier: id150408
Scope and Contents

Sinking funds, taxes collected, certificates and bonds issued, Governor Johnson's message, Rd. D. dispatches on state finances. 1851-1852, 1857, 1860, 1865. 1 item.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Virginia oyster trade.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 26
Identifier: id150409
Scope and Contents

1858. 1 item.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Only three clerks of courts elected in Prince Edward County since 1754.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 27
Identifier: id150410
Scope and Contents

1856. 1 item.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

John Howard.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 28
Identifier: id150411
Scope and Contents

1850. 1 item.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Governor Wise, W.J. Hubard, 'State Museum Will Display Hubard Works,'

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 29
Identifier: id150412
Scope and Contents

1856-1858, 1948. 2 items.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

R.M.T. Hunter.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 30
Identifier: id150413
Scope and Contents

1860. 2 items.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Comments on Morton's History of Virginia

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 31
Identifier: id150414
Scope and Contents

Letter from American Historical Association about extra copies, Eubank B. Caldwell sending historical materials, list of mistakes in work. 1925. 5 items.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Kansas-Nebraska Act.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 32
Identifier: id150415
Scope and Contents

1854. 1 item.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Know Nothings in Virginia, connections with Governor Wise.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 33
Identifier: id150416
Scope and Contents

1853-1857, 1861. 2 items.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Literature

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 34
Identifier: id150417
Scope and Contents

Richmond Atheneaeum, notes on various papers, Virginia Sesqui-Centennial Celebration, on slavery, Philip Pendleton Cooke, Judge Beverley Tucker, John Wesley Montette, titles. 1851-1860. 1 item.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Manufacturing and trade

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 35
Identifier: id150418
Scope and Contents

William Ballad Preston, establishment of cotton mills, petition of Central Southerns Rights Association, governor's message, cotton trade, manufacturing in Lynchburg, cloth, leather, why Southern factories fail, Old Dominion iron and Rail Works, Major Andrews family. 1850-1852, 1854, 1856, 1857, 1859-1860. 1 item.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Matthew Fontaine Maury - notes concerning his papers, letters in libraries.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 36
Identifier: id150419
Scope and Contents

1839-1840. 1 item.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

John Y. Mason. 1859. 1 item.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 37
Identifier: id150420
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 1 includes personal and professional correspondence, lectures and notes relating to his research on Virginia history, and material relating to his community activities in Williamsburg, Va. Includes correspondence of his wife Estelle (Dinwiddie) Morton, land grants, 1756 and 1774, signed by Robert Dinwiddie and Lord Dunmore, Confederate currency and bonds, genealogical materials on the Watkins and Morton families and photographs.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Medical affairs

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 38
Identifier: id150421
Scope and Contents

Medical Journal, Medical Board of Examiners, Norfolk and Portsmouth fever. 1852-1853, 1855. 1 item.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Mining

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 39
Identifier: id150422
Scope and Contents

Clover Hill coal pits, Commodore Stockton and quartz mining, salt mining. 1851, 1856, 1858. 1 item.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Nashville Convention.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 40
Identifier: id150423
Scope and Contents

1850. 1 item.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Newspapers Bibliography

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 41
Identifier: id150424
Scope and Contents

List of Virginia newspapers, "The South", Edward William Johnston, John M. Daniel, "Richmond Dispatch". 1850-1851, 1855, 1857, 1860, 1865. 2 items.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

National Politics.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 42
Identifier: id150425
Scope and Contents

Federal relations, slavery, resolution of New Jersey Legislature, syllabus for course 'Virginia - The Commonwealth.' 1850, 1852-1853, 1860-1861. 2 items.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Population.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 43
Identifier: id150426
Scope and Contents

Seventh Virginia Census, number of Virginians in the US, number of immigrants to Virginia, population figures from Canning,' History of the United States, 'Virginia Population and Wealth.' 1834, 1850, 1852, 1860. 5 items.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Virginia politics.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 44
Identifier: id150427
Scope and Contents

Lt. Governor Samuel Watts, Democratic politics, Johnson succeeded Floyd as governor, members of General Assembly, presidential elections, Kansas-Nebraska Bill, Governor Wise elected, nomination of John Letcher for governor, vote totals for governor and Lt. Gov., electoral vote. 1851-1860.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Public Welfare

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 45
Identifier: id150428
Scope and Contents

Eastern Lunatic Asylum, imprisonment, slave punishment by whipping. 1825, 1850-1856, 1858. 1 item.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Railroad gauges

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 46
Identifier: id150429
Scope and Contents

Letters concerning the sending of railroad information, notes on Virginia internal improvement debate, notes from Sinclair's "Development of the Locomotive Empire," 'Why Was Four Foot 8 1/2 Inches Adopted as the Standard Gauge,' gauge of railroads in the US. 1853-1854, 1940, 1945, 1949. 6 items.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Religion

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 47
Identifier: id150430
Scope and Contents

Note on George Fitzhugh's article dealing with Virginia Act of Religious Toleration. 1859. 1 item.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Simeon deane.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 48
Identifier: id150431
Scope and Contents

1778. 1 item.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5

Richmond, Virgina

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 49
Identifier: id150432
Scope and Contents

YMCA, travellers to city, description, trade, Reading and Newsroom, Richmond Directory, streets. 1850, 1852, 1854, 1856, 1860-1861. 1 item.

Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Richard Lee Morton Papers / Series 1: Mss. 90 M84 / Box 5