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Account book, tobacco book, negros the property of Robert Peter taken November, lots in the city of Washington 178 pages Box 37

Book of tobacco sales, list of enslaved persons belonging to Robert Peter, and lots of Robert Peter in the City of Washington with division by squares for the Commissioners and how they are disposed. The bound volume is made up of 178 pages. Pages 52-147 are blank. At some point the volume is flipped and entries are begun at the back of the book from pages 178-154. For viewing purposes those pages have been reoriented and reordered.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Peter family papers
  3. Series 18. Letterbooks, Notebooks, and Bound Volumes

Book, Overseer's Account book Box 38

This ledger includes a list of slaves at the Mount Vernon Plantations, clothing alloted to them each year, inventory of cattle, Nov. 15, 1785, accounts with the several plantations, accounts with shoemakers, overseers, and bricklayers. With other Accounts (including ones from George Augustine and Lawrence A. Washington, Tobias Lear, John and H. Fairfax, and Anthony Whiting).

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. George Washington collection
  3. Series 3. Ledgers and Bound Manuscripts

Collection of Spanish Language Manuscripts 1.00 Linear Feet

Includes printed and manuscript material written in Spanish and originating from Spain and Spanish-speaking countries in North America and South America. The collection is currently being processed and new items will be added on an ongoing basis. For this reason, the indicated date range is approximate at this point. This collection has multiple creators, which have not been indexed at this time.

  1. College of William and Mary

Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) Papers 0.1 Linear Feet Summary: 1 in. (2 folders)

Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891
Papers of Judge Gideon D. Camden (1805-1891) of Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia. Camden was a lawyer, Democratic politician, member of the Virginia Convention of 1850-1851, circuit judge, and state senator (1872-1876). Includes correspondence, legal documents, photocopies of printed material, and land grants. Subjects of the correspondence include West Virginia politics; the elections of 1840, 1860, and 1861; Reconstruction; the Flick Amendment; Southern sentiment in Clarksburg; and the location of the capital. Other papers deal with Indian scouting between the West Fork and Buckhannon Rivers during the Revolution; land speculation in Harrison and nearby counties; New York merchants and the Civil War; public schools in Shepherdstown, 1850; the Meade Collegiate Institute; Mount de Chantal Academy; Wheeling Female Seminary; the Chicago, Parkersburg, and Norfolk Railroad; and the Virginia Debt Question. There are several items of correspondence of the Reverend John S. Martin which relate to Methodism in Virginia, Maryland, and D.C., particularly camp meetings, parish life and the slave question. There are also original and photocopied land grants signed by James Monroe, Edmund Randolph, Patrick Henry, and Henry Lee (late 1700s to early 1800s). Correspondents include Judge John J. Allen, Robert M.T. Hunter, Alexander Campbell, Judge E. J. Pitts, James A. Hall, W.P. Cooper, George W. Thompson, Judge Hugh W. Shuffey, Thomas Maslin, William E. Arnold, J. M. Mason, and Samuel D. Tompkins.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

John White Papers 3.5 Linear Feet

White, John

This collection includes correspondence, personal and managed accounts, and legal papers of John White. Ranging in date from 1757-1843, with the bulk of the papers taking place from 1810-1830. From these papers, it appears that John White was a lawyer who practiced in Northampton County, North Carolina and the surrounding area. The buying, selling, and loaning of enslaved persons is a pervasive theme in his personal papers. As a result of his work managing accounts, he has many warrants placed on him for his arrest as a result of the accounts that he managed. In addition to numerous small accounts, the largest accounts White managed were those of Thomas Deberry Hollamon and Etheldred Smith. Outside of managing the accounts of others, White was a farmer and ran, with the help of Ann Johnson, what appears to be an inn where alcohol was sold and individuals could obtain transportation. This collection primarily occurs in the area surrounding Murfeesboro, North Carolina and Northampton County, North Carolina. More specifically, the location of Bryan's Cross Roads is referenced on multiple occasions and is confirmed to be a location in Northampton County, North Carolina during this time by the North Carolina Postal History Society.

  1. College of William and Mary

Lease deed, between Penelope French and George Washington for Dogue Run Plantation and enslaved African Americans 3 pages Box 21, Folder 1786.10.18

This agreement between George Washington and Penelope French secured for his use the last piece of property he added to his Mount Vernon estate, a parcel that would become part of Union Farm. French, who had a life in interest in the land and buildings, also leased to Washington the use of twenty-one enslaved people including "Will, Paschal, Paul, Abraham, Sabine, Rosanna, Daphne, Lucy, Delia, Grace, Tom, Isaac, Robert, Moses, Julius, Spencer, Nancy, Celia, Nell, Mitty, and Lett", and three young children not named. The agreement stipulated that Washington must ensure the enslaved were "clothed and fed in the same manner as slaves usually are within this commonwealth and shall not be removed and worked out of the said county of fairfax", and is "unreasonably worked or neglected in sickness or treated within humanity", they would be returned to French.

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  2. George Washington collection
  3. Series 2. To George Washington

Leaves, Record of Work Done on Mount Vernon Farms Box 39

This is a record of the work done at the various farms making up George Washington's Mount Vernon, reporting the number of hours worked by which workers, just what was being done on each farm during a particular week. Farms include Dogue Run, Ferry Plantation, Muddy Hole, River Plantation, and Frenchs Plantation (or Frenchs Quarter). Work by tailors, carpenters, shoemakers, coopers, ditchers, and millers are recorded separately. Includes "Fairfaxs Report on House People" for several weeks. Begins November 1786 and ends in April 1787. At the end of the volume there is a document titled "Memorandum of things delivered to the different Plantations from the 12th of Apl. 1786, 1786 April 12-August 31" that begins at the last page and works its way back toward the center of the volume. This used to be bound, but has since been unbound and is just leaves.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. George Washington collection
  3. Series 3. Ledgers and Bound Manuscripts

Letter, James Bloxham to William Peacey Box 11, Folder 1786.07.23

A.L.S. 3 pages. Mount Vernon. Safe arrival at G. W.'s--be sure the General gets good Sanfine seed which he is ordering--get a "Clever Lille Desant plow which must go with out a weeal for the land is not Level and to be shoor to make him Light and Desant and be Shoor to make him turn the works well ..."--describes plows in use at Mt. V.--doesn't want wife to come yet, for he may not stay past his year--land poor, plows poor, farm instruments poor--wages and terms of General's are good--dislikes negroes--"tese Black Peope I am Rather in Danger of being posind among them ..."--wife can decide about coming--look after his children--General sold good sheep for 40/ "a pes of thar money."--. Autograph letter signed, integral cover, laminated, watermarks. [Bloxham was an English farmer who came to serve as farmer and manager of some activities at Mount Vernon. Peacey was his sponsor].

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 11

Lund Washington Account Book Box 112, Shelf Bound Manuscripts/Ledgers

Contains accounts for the running of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate, its constituent farms and businesses. Entries document expenses for the fisheries, tailor work, voyage of the brig (or brigantine) Farmer to Jamaica in 1774, tools, clothing for slaves, expenses for various craftsmen, food, weaving, tobacco, and much more. Earliest entries are said to be in the hand of John Kirkpatrick, while the last two thirds of the volume are in the hand of Lund Washington. About a half dozen notations in George Washington's hand also appear. Quite a few later manuscript additions appear throughout, giving explanations or 'editorial commentary' on the text. Pages numbered 89-107 were removed prior to the original coming to Mount Vernon.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection
  3. Series 2. Ledgers and Bound Manuscripts

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