Dangerfield Lewis Papers, 1799-1854.

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.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Dangerfield Lewis Papers, 1799-1854, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Creator:
Dangerfield Lewis, George Lewis, John A. Lomax, John Tayloe Lomax.
Abstract:
This group of 1,171 items and two bound volumes, dated 1799-1854, consists chiefly of letters and accounts of Dangerfield Lewis and family of King George County, Virginia.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Dangerfield Lewis Papers, 1799-1854, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, 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 slaves and papers concerning runaway slaves. 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 ?] of a slave 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.

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.

Printed circular, advertising the Medical Companion.

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

Note: This volume includes three unidentified plats of land.

Bond for the hire of a slave.

Bond for the hire of two slaves.

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.

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.

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.

Each series are arranged chronologically by date.

Physical description:
1,173 items.