Dangerfield Lewis papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Dangerfield Lewis Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
1173.00 Linear Feet
Creator:
Lewis, Dangerfield, Lewis, George, Lomax, John A., and Lomax, John Tayloe, 1781-1862
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Dangerfield Lewis Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Letters, accounts, and legal papers of Dangerfield Lewis of "Marmion" and "Chatterton," King George County, Northern Neck, Virginia. His correspondence concerns plantation management.

The collection includes account books, 1821-1829 as well as agreements with overseers, bonds for the hiring of enslaved persons and papers concerning escaped enslaved persons.

Also includes accounts, 1816-1846, of his father George Lewis, son of Col. Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington (sister of George Washington). There is a letter [1801 ?] from an enslaved person to John A. Lomax and other correspondence of the John Tayloe Lomax family of "Menokin", Richmond County, Virginia. Correspondents include William F. Grymes, John Taliaferro, and Henry T. Washington.

Folder: 1-2. 69 items.

Folder 1-2. 60 items.

Probably a black slave driver.

Postmarked Morganfield, Kentucky.

Receipt signed by James Townsend on back of sheet.

Including account: Dangerfield Lewis to William Prentiss, Cr.

Written on the back of a statement of progress of George W. Lewis in Alexandria Boarding School.

Enclosure: Business card of William McLean, grocer and commission merchant, at Alexandria, D.C.

9 items.

Printed circular, advertising the Medical Companion.

Folder 3-10

Folder 3-7.

306 items.

1 bound volume. Note: This volume includes a list of live stock of Dangerfield Lewis.

1 bound volume. Note: This volume includes three unidentified plats of land.

61 items.

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Folder 8-10.

9 items.

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127 items.

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Includes legal documents, newspaper clippings, subscriptions, poetry and more.

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Unidentified. 2 items.

1 item.

1 item.Copy. Mutilated.

1 item. Mutilated.

1 item.

1 item.Mutilated.

3 items.

1 item. Bond for the hire of a slave.

1 item. Bond for the hire of two enslaved persons.

2 items.

1 item.

1 item.

1 item.

4 items.[1 piece mutilated].

1 item.

1 item. Mutilated.

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1 item.Mutilated.

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4 items.Newspaper clippings.

7 items.

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1 item.

2 items.Photographic negatives.

16 items.

13 items.

Biographical / historical:

Dangerfield Lewis and his father George Lewis were residents of King George County, Virginia. George Lewis was the son of Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington, the sister of George Washington. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .

Acquisition information:
Purchased: 1,173 items, 1930.
Arrangement:

Organization: This collection has been organized into 3 series: 1. Letters, 2. Accounts, 3. Papers. Series 1. Letters, has been divided into the following subseries: 1. Dated Letters, 2. Fragmentary and Undated Letters. Series 2. Accounts, has been divided into the following subseries: 1. Accounts of Dangerfield Lewis, 2. Accounts of Various Persons. Arrangement: Each series are arranged chronologically by date.