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Jonathan Boucher Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 93 B66
Scope and Contents Correspondence of Jonathan Boucher, Anglican clergyman of Virginia, Maryland, and England. He was a prominent loyalist during the American Revolution and later a prominent figure among conservatives in the Anglican church in England. His principle correspondents in this collection include John James, James Maury, Charles Daubeny, Sir Frederick Morton Eden, William Knox, and William Stevens. The principle subjects covered by this collection include Virginia social customs and...
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Alexander Brown Papers (I)

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Identifier: 01/Mss. 65 B83
Scope and Contents Inventory contains the papers of Alexander Brown (1843-1906), farmer, merchant and author who lived in Nelson County, Virginia. Includes correspondence relating to his books, The Genesis of the United States, The First Republic in America, The Cabells and Their Kin, New Views, and other correspondence and business papers of Brown including letters...
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Cabell Family Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 65 C12
Scope and Contents Accounts, surveys and correspondence, chiefly 1743-1823, of members of the Cabell family of Albemarle and Amherst counties, Virginia.Includes accounts and land transactions, 1733-1754, of Dr. William Cabell (1699-1774) as well as letters written to him concerning medical treatment.Also includes accounts, surveys of Amherst County and correspondence with commission merchants of William Cabell (1730-1798); and surveyor's license and surveys of William Cabell (b....
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Charles Campbell Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 65 C17
Scope and Contents The Charles Campbell papers consist of papers received or collected by Charles Campbell (1807-1876), Virginia historian. The papers fall into four general headings: historical papers collected by Charles Campbell, correspondence, manuscript volumes, and miscellaneous. These include personal and professional correspondence as well as eighteenth century documents collected by Charles Campbell, newspaper clippings, diaries, scrapbooks, and notebooks, covering then period 1743-1896. The papers...
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Philip Ludwell Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 39.2 L96
Scope and Contents

Letters, 1716, written by Philip Ludwell (1672-1727) to Alexander Spotswood and to William Blathwayt concerning charges of malfeasance against Ludwell and his removal as auditor of Virginia.

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McGavock Papers

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Identifier: 01/Mss. 39.1 M17
Scope and Contents Papers (including correspondence, legal documents, and accounts) of James McGavock (1728-1812), his son James McGavock (1764-1838) and his grandsons James McGavock (1804-1839) and Stephen McGavock (1807-1880). Many of the papers concern lead mines at Fort Chiswell, Va, slavery, agriculture, aspects of the Revolutionary War, and other.  Included are a list of parish levies before 1776; receipts for supplies issued at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Va. and at Fort Patrick Henry, Tenn. for an...
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Wood-Waller Typescripts

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Identifier: SC 01236
Scope and Contents

Typescripts of letters; 1745-1754, from Henry Wood to Benjamin Waller. Concerns death of Joshua Fry. Letters are in verse form. Letters mention Williamsburg, VA. 12 items.

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C. L. Worthington Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 65 W89
Scope and Contents The collection also contains miscellaneous manuscripts and account books. Included in this material are: land grants, 1761 and 1766, for land in Fairfax and Frederick counties, Va.; eighty-five survey maps of Frederick, Fauquier, and Loudoun counties, Va. and Berkeley and Hampshire counties, W. Va.; road petitions, 1743-1828, for Frederick County; affidavits for Revolutionary War service; correspondence, 1923-1930, of the Improved Order of Redmen, Great Council of Virginia; letters written...
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George Wythe Collection

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Identifier: Mss. 39.2 W99
Scope and Contents Copies of letters, 1781-1783, from George Wythe, Williamsburg, Va. , one to John Adams and another to Thomas Jefferson concerning the use of the College of William and Mary as a hospital. Also includes a magazine article about Wythe; newspaper copy of William Munford's oration at Wythe's funeral; correspondence, 1921, of Robert M. Hughes concerning a monument for Wythe's grave; a form book of Peter Tinsley, clerk of the High Court of Chancery which gives "Forms of Injunctions," Forms of...
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Arlington Estate (Va.) 1
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Medicine--Virginia--History--18th century 1
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Scrapbooks 1
Slavery--Virginia--18th century 1
Slavery--Virginia--19th century 1
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Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Slaves--Virginia--Correspondence 1
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Speeches, addresses, etc. 1
Surveying--Virginia--History 1
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Washington County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
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Adams, Herbert Baxter, 1850-1901 1
Adams, John, 1735-1826 1
Anderson Seminary 1
Boucher, Jonathan, 1738-1804 1
Boyd family 1
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Brown family 1
Brown, Alexander, 1843-1906 1
Cabell family 1
Cabell, Joseph C. (Joseph Carrington), 1778-1856 1
Cabell, Mayo 1
Cabell, William, 1730-1798 1
Cabell, William, Dr., 1700-1774 1
Cabell, William, b. 1759 1
Cable family 1
Campbell family 1
Campbell, Charles, 1807-1876 1
Carter, Mary B. 1
Cloyd family 1
College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae 1
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 1
Crawford, William S., b. 1815 1
Crawford, William S., d. 1815 1
Cryer, William 1
Curry, J. L. M. (Jabez Lamar Monroe), 1825-1903 1
Custis family 1
Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857 1
Daubeny, Charles, 1745-1827 1
Deane, Charles, 1813-1889 1
Eden, Frederick Morton, Sir, 1766-1809 1
Episcopal Church 1
Farmer's Register 1
Fry, Joshua, 1700 (ca.)-1754 1
Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799 1
Hughes, Robert M. (Robert Morton), b. 1855 1
James, John, 1729-1785 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Knox, William, 1732-1810 1
Lynchburg Female Seminary 1
Marshall, John, 1755-1835 1
Marshall-Wythe School of Law 1
Maury, James, Sr., 1718-1769 1
Maxwell, William, 1784-1857 1
Mayo Cabell and Co. (Lynchburg, Va.) 1
McGavock family 1
McGavock, James, 1728-1812 1
McGavock, James, 1764-1838 1
McGavock, James, 1804-1839 1
McGavock, John Williamson, b. 1843 1
McGavock, Stephen, 1807-1880 1
Moore family 1
New York Weekly Journal of Commerce 1
Nicholas, Philip Norborne, 1773-1849 1
Page, Powhatan R., d. 1863 1
Petersburg Index (Va.) 1
Randolph, John, 1773-1833 1
Richmond Enquirer 1
Richmond Whig (Va.) 1
Southern Literary Messenger 1
Stevens, William, 1732-1807 1
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935 1
University of Virginia 1
Virginia Historical Society 1
Virginia. High Court of Chancery 1
Washington family 1
Wythe, George, 1726-1806 1
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