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Group A;  Papers of Moses Myers, and his sons Samuel Myers (1790-1829) lawyer in Norfolk and Pensacola, Fla. and John Myers (1787-1830) merchant of Norfolk. Includes papers of Barton Myers (1853-1927), mayor of Norfolk, Va. and his family.

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The Manuscripts Audiovisual Collection includes audiovisual formats from a variety of personal papers and organizational records collections.

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Group A;  Papers of Moses Myers, and his sons Samuel Myers (1790-1829) lawyer in Norfolk and Pensacola, Fla. and John Myers (1787-1830) merchant of Norfolk. Includes papers of Barton Myers (1853-1927), mayor of Norfolk, Va. and his family.

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[Possibly 1823] John warns Sam that "You must calculate that in any new country and almost any other, efforts will be made to keep you down. The great art is to rise without letting others envy it." Says "The General" is looking at the papers.

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Myers, G.A. Papers, including 3 invitations to Mason meetings. 7 items. Richmond, Virginia. 1850’s and 1860’s. Receipt for one bag received of A.S. Pendleton of G. Myers. Southern Express Company. Richmond, Virginia. November 6, 1863. Note recall to G.A. Myers, Bank of Virginia. Richmond, Virginia. January 1842. 2 items. Myers, Gustavus Letter to Gustavus Myers of Richmond, Virginia from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania about making a screen or a chair. Written on a...

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Allen is sending by this boat the tobacco Fred asked for. Thanks him for the information on the drafts. Captain Crawford will not accept the freight. Caskie offered 40, but Crawford says nothing. Asks Fred to send a note for $1000 and he will send the title papers.

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Noted as "Addendum Box 1" on box.

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Sam confirms information in letters to Thos. Wilson. "Nothing new, Mr. McLaine will go today and the Georgiana will also get out. We have had surveys and all necessary papers for the underwriters to recover her damage here."

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John notes what Sam said in his last about Fredericksburg. "I have no confidence in Phillips. He will sell the vessel, but not pay. He wishes to get the false papers out of view." John will see "the General" today about the insurance case. Sam's bedding was damaged.

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Cannot find the papers he (Myers) requested in regards to his father's appointment to "Collector at Norfolk." Isn't sure whether name of father Moses Myers has been sent to the president or not. ALS. 2 pp.

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Blurred photograph of older lady holding a baby, business cards for Barton Myers (3), newspaper clipping with a table showing "value of one dollar in Gold as compared with Treasury Notes during each month of the war, from May 1861 to April 1, 1865," War Department pass for Barton Myers and party as representatives of the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, 1922 pamphlet from the American Society of Civil Engineers as a memoir to Archibald Stuart Baldwin who died on June 26, 1922...

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents 5 August 1834. Deed given by John Duffield and his wife Amanda A. Duffield, John Duffield, Jr. and his wife Frances Duffield, Henry M. Myers and his wife Caroline M.R. Myers, and William H. Duffield, transferring to Frederick A. Ross, trustee, all their rights as heirs of David Ross in the estate called "Cobbham" in Cumberland County, Va. 30 January 1844. Trust deed given by Overton B. Pettit and his wife Mary E. Pettit to William Fontaine arid Abraham Shepherd, Jr.,...

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1808-1809. Accounts of Cornelius Nash with William Smith. 8 Aug[us]t 1818. James Tatum, to Cornelius Nash, 1830. A receipted invoice for goods bought: by D. Nash & Co., from F. Myers.

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Senior "labors under the greatest anxiety" from what he has read in the papers. Thomas Wilson says that John should be back on Wednesday. Senior begs John to contact him "in hopes that your information may prove to be better" than that in the papers.

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DeNorris received Moses' letter of December 2 with a check for $500. He is trying to find information on a younger brother who he believes is dead. DeNorris needs to go to Europe, but wants to finish his business here and needs the papers Moses promised to send.

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Since John departed, Moses received some letters for him which were forwarded as he requested. Feels peace with England is not very distant. Report in the London papers that the Russian minister to the UK has offered to mediate. Marx leaves for NY on Monday.

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DeNorris can't remember if the papers were sent to Moses by ship or via Messrs Will & Co. of Amsterdam, but notes that Moses wrote him about them on August 8, 1807. Does Moses know anything of Dallert or Blanchard? Please send $500.

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Many of the papers in this box are dated before the Revolutionary War.

Blow Family Papers; Correspondence, Agreements, and Financial Papers, 1768-1830. [many of the papers in this box are dated before the Revolutionary War]

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Letters of C. M. Barton to grandchildren Katherine and Willie; letter of Miss Cary M. Barton to Kate; L. B. B. Lloyd to Kate; Mary D. Whitlow to Miss Katherine Myers.

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Powers of attorney, agreements to repair and paint lighthouses; powers to sign bonds including ones from Moses Myers; and Littleton Waller Tazewell.

Scope and Contents Typed list of pictures in the library, 1922, 1 piece. Typed list of treasures, circa 1923, 1 piece. Bolling family; a loose-leaf volume containing photographs (taken before and after restoration) and letters pertaining to the identification of the Bolling portraits, as well as views of dwellings associated with the family, i.e. Bolling Hall, Bradford, Yorkshire, England; "Cobbs" on Appomattox River, VA, Correspondence, dated 1876-77, concerning the British coat-of-arms presented to the...

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Creditors included John Myers, Myers & Sons and Samuel Myers

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One issue of a weekly newsletter, "Music in the Camps," Vol. 1, No. 37, July 13, 1918. and war camp community service worker notices. Toast from World War I. Probably from the papers of either Barton Myers, Jr. or R. Baldwin Myers while serving in World War I.

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Put your watering pot on the packet. We were tortured by what happened in the family of Mr. Myers. The papers will carry the correct story.