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Merchant's Account Book, Elias Edmonds, Jr.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame4u
Scope and Contents

Account book, 1799, of merchant Elias Edmonds, Jr. of Kilmarnock, Virginia.

Previously described an account book of unknown merchant of Lancaster Court House, Virginia.

Dates: 1799

Richard Lee Morton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 90 M84
Scope and Contents Papers, chiefly 1930-1969, of Richard Lee Morton, professor of history at the College of William and Mary from 1919 to 1959. 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,...
Dates: 1756-2006; Majority of material found in 1930-1969

Edward Moss Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ap26
Scope and Contents

Account book, 1774-1781, of Edward Moss, of Elizabeth City County, Va. Includes a memorandum stating Edward Moss came to live with John Cary. Also includes record of sale of slaves.  On one page, "Miles Cary this hand and pen 1777" and another page, "Memorandum, John Cary set of to Hog Ireland [ Hog Island] in 1774."

Dates: 1773-1781

Ninian Boog Journal

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame6
Scope and Contents

Journal, 1750-1751, of a merchant in King and Queen County, Va., probably Ninian Boog. Cover is marked "Journal to Ledger B."

Dates: 1750-1751

Ninian Boog Ledger A

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame5
Scope and Contents

Ledger, 1748-1750, of a merchant in King and Queen County, Va., probably Ninian Boog, which includes a list of household expenses. Cover is marked "Ledger A"

Ninian Boog Ledgers is available on microfilm in Swem Library’s microforms area, call number  F232 .K4 B6 2004

Dates: 1748-1750

Ninian Boog Ledger B

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame128
Scope and Contents

Ledger B of Ninian Boog, merchant, of King and Queen County, Virginia.

Dates: 1750-1751

John Page Memorandum Book

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Identifier: Mss. MsV Me4
Scope and Contents

Memorandum book, 1762-1797, of John Page begun while a student at the College of William and Mary. It contains a record of the General Episcopal Convention in Philadelphia in 1785, notes in Latin and Greek, and scientific and astronomical writings, including a notation of a November 1776 observation of astronomical activity by Page and Bishop James Madison.

Dates: 1762-1797

William K. Perrin Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 95 P42
Scope and Contents Business letters, 1833-1839, to Major William K. Perrin and 1855, 1860, to his son-in-law Wyndham Kemp, both of Gloucester County, Virginia from Perrin's step-son Robert W. Nicolson in Uniontown, Perry County, Alabama, about the management of a cotton plantation. Letters mention purchasing land, growing and selling cotton management of slaves, legal and banking matters and uprising of the Creek Indians. Papers, 1800-1855 and n.d., relating to the hiring out and management of slaves of...
Dates: 1732-1902; Majority of material found in 1820-1858

Peter Winston Estate Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ap40
Scope and Contents

Peter Winston's Estate Account book.  He died October 17, 1784.  He lived at "Half Sink" on the Chickahominy River in Henrico Co, VA.

Dates: 1784-1790

Plan de la ville et environs de Williamsburg en Virginie, America (Frenchman's Map of Williamsburg, Virginia), 1782, 1978-2011

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.002-Mss. Acc. Mss. Acc. 2013.184-Mss. Acc. 2011.536
Scope and Contents The Plan de la ville et environs de Williamsburg en Virginie, America (a 11 mai 1782, levé au pas), also known as the Frenchman's Map is a map of Williamsburg dated May 11, 1782. It was drafted by an unknown Frenchman probably stationed with Rochambeau's army. Its detail suggests perhaps a billeting map for the French army following the battle of Yorktown. It has been called the "Bible of the Restoration of Williamsburg" because of the detail of the original buildings shown. It has also been...
Dates: 1782 May 11 (Original); 1978 and 2011 (Reproductions)

Robert Pleasants Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame102
Scope and Contents

Pleasants' account book kept in Henrico County, Va. covers the years, 1771-1778, and concerns the export and shipping of tobacco and other crops. It includes the religious diary, 1821-1824, of Mary W. (Pleasants) Mosby. 157 p. : bound volume ; 25 cm.

Dates: 1771-1824; Majority of material found in 1771-1778

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

Questions on Physiology

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00663
Scope and Contents

Handwritten note for possible examination, "Questions of Physiology", dated February 17, 1820. Found inside a printed volume from the Western State Hospital Medical Library collecion, The Elements of Physiology by A. Richerand. Reverse side has notes on vaccinations and catheters.

Dates: 1820 February 17

Read and Johnston Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame104
Scope and Contents

Ledger of the firm of Read and Johnston, Staunton, Va. The two partners in the firm were Matthew Read and Hugh Johnston.

Dates: 1761-1770

Matthew Read Journal

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame105
Scope and Contents

Journal (account book) of Matthew Read, merchant of Staunton, Va.

Dates: 1771-1776

James Reid Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 R27
Scope and Contents

Letters, 1790-1791, received by James Reid of Huie, Reid & Co., merchants of Dumfries, Prince William County, Va. Many deal with the tobacco trade and prices.

Dates: 1790-1791

Richard Corbin Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ap8
Scope and Contents

Ledger, 1786-1797, of Richard Corbin of Caroline County, Va. including farm accounts and records of enslaved persons.

Dates: 1786-1797

Robb-Bernard Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 65 R54
Scope and Contents Papers, 1800-1901, of and relating to John Hipkins and John Hipkins Bernard (mostly accounts); of and relating to members of the Hipkins, Bernard and Robb families; and relating to the Hipkins-Bernard-Robb home "Rose Hill," Caroline County, Va. (later renamed "Gay Mont") and to Bernard's lands in Alabama, Texas and Arkansas. Includes diaries, correspondence, poems, accounts and account books of women (Elizabeth Hipkins, Jane Gay Robertson Bernard, and Helen Struan Bernard Robb); and legal...
Dates: 1665-2001; Majority of material found in 1850-1950

A. Willis Robertson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 66 R54
Scope and Contents This collection is housed off-site. At least 72 hours advanced notice is required for retrieval. Papers, 1921-1967, of A. Willis Robertson, U. S. Congressman and Senator from Virginia. Chiefly his senatorial office files, 1946-1966. Robertson was a conservative Democrat, serving at the same time as Harry F. Byrd, Sr. Subjects in the collection include national defense, agriculture, taxation, banking, government employees, the Moral...
Dates: 1921-1971, 1988; Majority of material found in 1946-1966

William Selden Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00934
Scope and Contents Papers, 1772-1799, of Anglican minister William Selden (1741-1783) and his wife Mary Ann Hancock Selden (1745-1789) of Elizabeth City County, Virginia. These papers are primarily financial in nature and document the Selden family's management of the Elizabeth City Parish, the family estate, slave holdings, and the hire of estate slaves to local plantation owners. These papers consist of receipts, labor contracts, financial summaries, and a small leather financial ledger. The labor contracts...
Dates: 1771-1799

William and Peyton Short Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 Sh9
Scope and Contents Dated 1783-1825. Letters, 1783-1825, primarily between William Short (1759-1849), American diplomat and financier, who, after a career in Europe, settled in Philadelphia, Pa., and his brother, Peyton Short (1761-1825), a native of Virginia who moved to Kentucky and engaged in extensive land speculation there and in Ohio. William gives advice concerning Peyton's career and the education of his children, and discusses other family matters, but is primarily concerned with various speculative...
Dates: 1783-1825

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

Sussex County, Va. Merchant's Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame1u Oversize
Scope and Contents

Account book of an unknown merchant, probably from Sussex County, Virginia.  Some accounts include people from Isle of Wight County, Virginia and Surry County, Virginia.

Dates: 1770-1771

Mark Taylor Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 T22
Scope and Contents

Letters, 1816-1819, received by Mark Taylor, a farmer at Genito, Powhatan County, Va. Includes letters from family members including Matthew Taylor of Monroe County, Va. [now W. Va.] and James Taylor (working as an overseer.)

Dates: 1816-1819

Thomas Ladd Letter Copy Book

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Cp4
Scope and Contents

Letter copybook, 1798-1799, of Thomas Ladd, tobacco merchant of Richmond, Va. Later, the volume was used as a scrapbook for newspaper clippings, 1841-1862, by Alice Starke.

Dates: 1798-1862

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Correspondence 39
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Agriculture--Virginia--History--18th century 24
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Receipts (financial records) 14
Slavery--Virginia--19th century 12
Virginia--History--18th century 11
Slavery--Virginia--History--18th century 10
Slavery--Virginia--18th century 9
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 9
Diaries 8
Ledgers (Accounting) 8
College of William and Mary--History--18th century 7
Photographs 7
Photostats 6
Tobacco--Virginia--History--18th century 6
Genealogy 5
Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century 5
Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 5
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--18th century 5
Women--Virginia--Social life and customs 5
College of William and Mary--History--19th century 4
College of William and Mary--History--20th century 4
Episcopal Church--Virginia--History--18th century 4
Executors and administrators--Virginia--History--18th century 4
Gloucester County (Va.)--History--19th century 4
Publications 4
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 4
United States--History--War of 1812 4
United States--Religious History--Christianity 4
United States--Slavery 4
Virginia--Politics and Government--19th century 4
Agriculture--United States--History--19th century 3
Agriculture--Virginia--19th century 3
Gloucester County (Va.)--History--18th century 3
Indentures 3
Indians of North America 3
Invoices 3
King and Queen County (Va.)--History 3
Medicine--Virginia--History--18th century 3
Minutes 3
Notebooks 3
Scrapbooks 3
Slavery--Southern States--History 3
Speeches 3
Surveys (documents) 3
Virginia--Genealogy 3
Virginia--History--19th century 3
Virginia--Politics and Government--18th century 3
Virginia--Religious history 3
Agendas (administrative records) 2
Anti-slavery movements 2
Architecture, Domestic--Virginia 2
Caroline County (Va.)--History--18th century 2
Cherokee Indians 2
Church of England--Virginia--History--18th century 2
College of William and Mary--Students 2
Colonial period, ca. 1609-1774 2
Copybooks 2
Dueling--Virginia 2
Embargo, 1807-1809 2
Executors and administrators--Virginia--History--19th century 2
Farm management 2
Farm management--Virginia--History--19th century 2
Fauquier County (Va.)--History--19th century 2
Freedmen--Virginia--History 2
Henrico County (Va.)--History--18th century 2
Hopewell (Va.)--History 2
Horses--Virginia 2
Letter books 2
Letters (correspondence) 2
Manuscripts (document genre) 2
Maps 2
Medicine--Practice--Virginia 2
Memoranda Books 2
Merchants--Great Britain 2
Merchants--North Carolina--History--18th century 2
Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century 2
Merchants--Virginia--Staunton 2
Merchants--Virginia--Sussex County 2
Merchants--Virginia--Williamsburg 2
Norfolk (Va.)--History--18th century 2
Petitions 2
Plantation life--Virginia 2
Plantations 2
Poems 2
Practice of law--Virginia--History 2
Prince William County (Va.)--History--18th century 2
Reports 2
Roads--Virginia 2
Shenandoah County (Va.)--History--18th century 2
Shenandoah County (Va.)--History--19th century 2
Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century 2
Staunton (Va.)--History--18th century 2
United States--Politics and Government 2
University of Virginia--History--19th century 2
Virginia--Cotton Farms--19th century 2
Virginia--Governors 2
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Language
English 80
French 2
Dutch; Flemish 1
German 1
Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
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Hebrew 1
Latin 1
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Names
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 5
College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae 4
Dinwiddie, Robert, 1693-1770 4
Democratic Party (U.S.) 3
Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809 3
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Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799 3
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818 3
Andros, Edmund, Sir, 1637-1714 2
Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, Baron de, ca. 1718-1770 2
Braxton family 2
Brooke, Robert 2
Brown, Coalter, and Tucker Family 2
Brown, Frances Bland Coalter, 1835-1894 2
Brown, Henry Peronneau, 1883-1942 2
Cabell, Joseph C. (Joseph Carrington), 1778-1856 2
Coalter family 2
Coalter, John, 1769-1838 2
Coalter, Maria Rind, d. 1792 2
Coalter, St. George Tucker, 1809-1839 2
Cocke, John Hartwell, 1780-1866 2
Democratic Party (Va.) 2
Madison, James, 1749-1812 2
Marshall, John, 1755-1835 2
Morton family 2
Taylor, John, 1753-1824 2
Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827 2
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935 2
University of Virginia 2
Whiting family 2
American Chemical Society 1
American Red Cross 1
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797 1
Anthelia Holt 1
Archer, William Segar, 1789-1855 1
Associates of Dr. Bray (Organization) 1
Banister, Anne Blair 1
Bannister family 1
Barraud, Philip, 1758-1830 1
Bartram, John, 1699-1777 1
Bassett, Burwell, 1764-1841 1
Baytop family 1
Baytop, Lucy Taliaferro Catlett 1
Bernard Family 1
Blair family 1
Blair, James, 1741-1772 1
Blair, John, 1732-1800 1
Blayton, James Blaine, Sr., (Dr.) 1
Blow family 1
Boyd family 1
Brown family 1
Brown, John, 1757-1837 1
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Bryan, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, b. 1805 1
Bryan, John Randolph, 1806-1887 1
Bryan, John Stewart, 1871-1944 1
Buchanan, Thomas 1
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 1
Bushnell, David Ives, Jr., 1875-1941 1
Bywaters family 1
Cabaniss, Mat 1
Cabell family 1
Cabell, William, 1730-1798 1
Cabell, William, Dr., 1700-1774 1
Cabell, William, b. 1759 1
Carey family 1
Carter, Charles (of Ludlow), 1733-1796 1
Carter, Robert ("King"), 1663-1732 1
Carter, Robert, 1663-1732. 1
Cary, Wilson Miles, 1838-1914 1
Clark, Lottie V., fl. 1888-1895 1
Clark, Martha Susan 1
Clark, Missouri A. 1
Cloyd family 1
Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin, d. 1859 1
Cocke, John Hartwell 1
Cole, William W. 1
Coleman, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington, 1832-1908 1
College of William and Mary. Dept. of English 1
College of William and Mary. Dept. of History 1
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 1
Connolly, John, 1750?-1813 1
Cook family 1
Coulter family 1
Cowden, Gerald Steffens, b. 1940 1
Crawford, William S., b. 1815 1
Crawford, William S., d. 1815 1
Crump family 1
Culpeper family 1
Custis, George Washington Parke 1
Dettingen Parish (Prince William County, Va.) 1
Dixon family 1
Dixon, Elizabeth Peyton 1
Dixon, John 1
Dixon, John, d. 1788 1
Dixon, William M 1
Dolmetsch, Carl (Carl Richard), 1924- 1
Dunlop family 1
Dunmore, John Murray, 4th Earl of, 1732-1809 1
Early family 1
Eastern State Hospital (Va.) 1
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