Elizabeth G. Elliott Papers, 1755-1871.

Access and use

Location of collection:
Colonial Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Douglas Mayo
Phone: (757) 565-8521
Phone: (757) 565-8520
Fax: (757) 565-8528
Restrictions:

There are no restrictions.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Librarian/ Associate Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the holder of the copyright, if not the Rockefeller Library at Colonial Williamsburg.

Preferred citation:

Elizabeth G. Elliott Papers, Manuscript MS 89.25, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Summary

Creator:
Elizabeth G. Elliott, d. 1856. Thomas Hogg, Jr. Thomas Moss. Sydney Smith.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Elizabeth G. Elliott Papers, Manuscript MS 89.25, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Background

Scope and content:

Collection includes papers Elizabeth G. Eland memoranda books of Warwick County sheriff Thomas Moss, woodcutter Thomas Hogg, and Williamsburg attorney Sydney Smith.

Papers of Elizabeth G. Elliott include accounts, receipts, decrees, bonds, letters, and other material. Included are receipts for taxes from York and Warwick counties; accounts for building and repairing carriages or "gigs"; several accounts of doctors for treatment of slaves and Mrs. Elliott; receipts from carpenters for building coffins for slaves; many bonds for the annual rental of slaves; legal material concerning the estate of Kemp P. Elliott; a Robert Anderson letter (1848); accounts for hauling wood for Thomas Hogg, Jr.; receipts for board at the Eastern Lunatic Asylum for a slave; and Mrs. Elliott's estate matters administered by Daniel P. Curtis.

Several memoranda books apparently of Thomas Moss list taxpayers and amounts in Warwick County (1852-1856) and list hours worked by various individuals and many other accounts (1849- 1860). One memorandum book (1850-1853) lists execution of bond payments, carriage repairs, and writs in the circuit court of Warwick County. Account book (1788-1793) of lawyer J. Wickham lists personal and business expenses and expenditures with various individuals, ferriage expenses to the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and a satiric prose poem (1755) entitled: "On Sundry Inhabitants of Yorkto[wn] by Doctor Porterfield." Account book and loose papers (1853-1871) of Williamsburg attorney Sydney Smith concern debt cases; litigation; bond accounts; administration of rental, clothing, and medical needs of a slave for the slave owner; and medical account of the R. W. Bucktrout family with Leonard Henley.

Lists names of bond holders.

List of household furniture and other items.

Lists personal and business expenses and expenditures (1788-1793) with various individuals and ferriage expenses to the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and a satiric prose poem dated 1755 "On Sundry Inhabitants of York[town] by Doctor Porterfield."

Miscellaneous accounts, bill for timber, and a list of pay with H.H. Wynne and J.A. Jones.

Includes hours and pay of work done for various individuals including Thomas Moss and Daniel P. Curtis. Scattered lists of hardware needed and miscellaneous accounts.

Includes collections, monies for a bible cause (?), list of contributors for a stove, list of contributors for Sunday School books, and C. Goodall account.

Includes memoranda of wood hauled and accounts for fodder.

Includes name of taxpayer, amount paid, and type of tax.

Includes list of tax bills for Warwick County. Includes names and amount owed. Also includes miscellaneous notes and "A List of Pay -- persons For Escemtion from Muster this Year 1853."

Accounts and copies of letters concerning wood cutting and hauling, clothing for slaves, church, property, rental of slaves, clothing, and food.

Includes lists of tax bills for Warwick County. Includes names and amount owed. Also includes receipts for levies received of Thomas Moss, sheriff.

Includes listings of execution of bonds and levies, listings of writs for the Circuit Court of Warwick County, work accounts, accounts for carriage repairs (1859), and receipts of Thomas Moss concerning levies.

Includes list of tax bills probably for Warwick County. Includes names and amount owed. Also money received of Thomas Moss, sheriff, Warwick County, for court levies. Accounts of sale of mules.

Account book for Williamsburg attorney services such as collections, bond matters or slave rentals. Includes name of client, date and amount due, and occasionally a description of the services. Includes name index.

Loose papers from Sydney Smith's account book.

Draft letter with financial notes.

Draft letter with financial notes.

List of accounts regarding the sale and rental of slaves.

Accounts of R.W. Bucktrout and family with Leonard Henley, for bleeding, virus, prescriptions, and house calls.

Case account.

Biographical / historical:

Elizabeth Elliott was a resident of Warwick and York counties. She was the widow of Kemp P. Elliott (d. ca. 1836).

Acquisition information:
Purchase, 1989.
Arrangement:

Chronologically arranged.

Physical description:
12 v. and 173 items.