Brafferton Estate Collection

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:

This 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. Permission to use documents held by other institutions, including Lambeth Palace & Borthwick Institute, reproductions of which are part of this collection, must be granted by the repository holding the original document.

Preferred citation:

Brafferton Estate Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
1.20 Linear Feet
Creator:
College of William and Mary and Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Brafferton Estate Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains documents relating to the Brafferton Estate as it impacted the College of William and Mary such as accounts, decrees, correspondence, biographical material on Robert Boyle, 20th century material on the search for information about the Brafferton Estate, and other material. The collection includes both original documents and copies of documents.

There is also material related to the Brafferton Estate and the early history of the College of William and Mary from the Borthwick Institute at the University of York and the Lambeth Palace Library. Material may only be used in the Special Collections Research Center and may not be copied.

Pages from a book on Boyle; typed pages of Boyle biography; newspaper clipping from Richmond Times Dispatch, March 19, 1944 on "Life of Great Physicist", an interpretive biography of Boyle.

Folder contains both a handwritten copy and a typed transcription of the memorial and associated correspondence.

Letter, Osgood Hanbury & Co., to the President and Masters, 18 February 1771; Letter, Hanbury & Lloyd, to the President and Masters, 24 July 1771; Account, C & O Hanbury, 1766. Letter to William & Mary from John Lloyd, executor of Osgood Hanbury, about Brafferton financial matters, 1787 September 20.

An account of two half yearly rents due Lady Day and Michaelmas, 1772 and 1773.

An account of medical services provided to the Indian School by Doctors James and William Carter, 1765/66

photos of Brafferton village and chapel in England typed pages of investigation

Notes on the papers in the case; typescript of Vestry report; typescript, Chancery Decrees and Orders, 1790; notes on the case; letter, John Forster, 1796

Typed transcriptions of the "Rules and methods agreed on for the settlement of Mr Boyles Charity in Virginia"; correspondence between Ludwell Johnson (Chair of Department of History at W&M) and Sheffield University and Chatsworth Settlement

Photocopies of the two charters of the Society for Advancing the Christian Faith in the British West India Islands and the Mauritius.

2 page photocopy of letter dated 25 June 1760

photocopies and transcripts of letter from Edmund Jennings circa 1760

Letter, October 26, 1926 to Julian A. C. Chandler from Earl Gregg Swem regarding the relation of Robert Boyle to the College of William & Mary; letter, March 29, 1929 to Earl Gregg Swem from Robert M. Hughes; letter, February 14, 1930, to Earl Gregg Swem from T. C. Dale.

Correspondence between William and Mary alumnus and archivist Herbert L. Ganter and The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; Lee Bolton & Lee; and Earl Gregg Swem.

photocopies of letter dated March 18, 1758 from B. Porteus

P1988.231: Photograph of a map of the Brafferton Estate, 1796. Gift of Maurice Beresford, 1976.

Acc. 2009.129: A transcript of a 1695 document explaining the rules and methods for distributing rents and profits of the Brafferton Estate to fund the Brafferton School at the College of William & Mary.

Newspaper, The Dublin Chronicle, dated November 20, 1790. Last page has an article on Robert Boyle.

Acc. 2011.068: 1 page account.

Acc. 1990.6. Original is very fragile. Special handling required.

This series holds copies of material related to the Brafferton Estate from the Borthwick Institute at the University of York and the Lambeth Palace Library. Material may only be used in the Special Collections Research Center and may not be copied.

Includes accounts and rental information from the Brafferton Estate, a map of Brafferton entitled "The Township of Brafferton in the North riding of the Co: of York, The Estate of The Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negroe Slaves in the British West India Islands," and appeals of the faculty of the College of William & Mary to the Lord Chancellor.

Includes a copy of the Royal Charter of the College of William & Mary, the Transfer to the Faculty in Virginia, an account relating to money given towards the construction of the College of William and Mary at its founding, material relating to the appointment of Chancellors of the College, and the money generated by the Brafferton Estate. There is also correspondence relating to the early history of the College, including letters from Francis Nicholson, Alexander Spotswood, and James Blair.

Acquisition information:
Acc. 1994.009 was transferred from the College Papers folders 286, 287, and 288. Acc. 1990.006; Acc. 2009.129 was received prior to 2007. The will of Robert Boyle was originally Acc. 1939.36 and was a gift. Acquisition information for material received after 7/13/2009 is available by consulting a Special Collections Research Center staff member.
Custodial history:

Acc. 2011.068 was previously part of the College Papers Collection.

Processing information:

Acc. 2009.129 accessioned by Steven Bookman in May 2009. Acc. 2011.069 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, on 2/14/2011. Acc. 2012.396 and 2012.397 accessiond and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley, December 2012.