Collections : [College of William and Mary]

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
Primary Collecting Areas:
Williamsburg and surrounding area Virginia; Southern United States; African American life and culture; Hip Hop History; Movies and film studies; Travel, exploration, and adventure; Veterans papers; Distinguished alumni papers; College of William & Mary; Dogs
Description:
The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) houses one of the largest and most significant collections of rare and unique materials of any educational institution of comparable size in the United States. Focused on Virginia history but with nationally and internationally important collections, the Manuscripts Collection includes letters, diaries, journals, scrapbooks, business records, organizational minutes, and other items that provide evidence of events great and small and the daily lives of Americans of all backgrounds. The Rare Books Collection, with volumes dating from the 15th century to the present, is strong in dogs, Virginia-related items, early Virginia family libraries, gardening and natural history, religion, book arts, printing history, travel, science, and medicine. The University Archives documents the history of William & Mary from 1693 to the present, including a wide range of materials from administrative records, student organization records, and alumni papers to photographs, audio-visual materials, and artifacts.
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Start Over Repository College of William and Mary Collection Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.) records, 1662/2010, bulk 1900/2000 Date range 1928

Acc. 2013.246, 1920/2007 Box 77

The accession contains directories, drawings, photographs, and audiovisual material related to Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Virginia. Included in the accession are prints, negatives, and slides of the inside of the church, its grounds, as well as Reverend Cotesworth Lewis and Craighill; church directories from circa 1990-2007; and signs from the inauguration service of Tim Kaine as Governor of Virginia in 2005.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.) records, 1662/2010, bulk 1900/2000
  3. Series 8: Additions, 1968/2011

Acc. 2016.099, 1895/1982

Correspondence and notes by Charlotte Pendleton about her ancestors Edmund Pendleton, Nathaniel Pendleton,and Nathaniel Green Pendleton. Correspondence with Bruton Parish Church about moving Judge Edmund Pendleton's remains to Bruton Parish and a portrait of Judge Edmund Pendleton for the Church Exhibit at Jamestown (1906-1907)with brochures.1895-1898 correspondence and legal documents.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.) records, 1662/2010, bulk 1900/2000
  3. Series 8: Additions, 1968/2011

Architectural and Other Notes and Summaries, 1928/1937 Box 58, Folder 71

Miscellaneous historical notes. Excerpts from 1903 depositions from older parishioners re: church in mid-19th century. Copies of architectural and historical notes based primarily on Goodwin research, with additions by Williamsburg Restoration staff member Helen Bullock. List of records stored at Capitol, 1935.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.) records, 1662/2010, bulk 1900/2000
  3. Series 5: Church History
  4. Church History and Records
  5. Church History (I), 1827/2007

Bruton and Wythe House Yards, 1927/1938 Box 54, Folder 3

Correspondence with members of Garden Club of VA, re landscaping churchyard. Pictures of churchyard showing excavations and Old Parish House. copy of mid-19th Century Wythe House garden plan by Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship, who lived there as a child. Letters of Reverend W.A.R. Goodwin raising questions about restoration of tombstones and wall.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.) records, 1662/2010, bulk 1900/2000
  3. Series 4: Buildings and Grounds
  4. Cemetery and Churchyard
  5. Churchyard Maintenance: Archaeological Reports and Correspondence, 1927/1997

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