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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 Date range 1798

Unnumbered Notebook 1, 1797/1803 Box 3 (legal), Folder 1

Pages numbered 1-113, balance not numbered. "Sketch of a plan for the Endowment and Establishment of a national university". Letter to the president April 16, 1797. Page 7, "Loose thoughts on the improvement of the police, in Virginia". P 18 "Remarks on the District Court Laws". P 20 "Curious fact"; "McNeill's Cattle"; newspaper clipping with two articles marked: Schooner Only Son and the other on Herefordshire Cattle. P 21 "Memo" re: Sons of Duke of Orleans; reflections and notes occasioned by the perusal of the History of Ancient Greece. P 26 "Character of Beverley Randolph". P 27 Recipe for preservative for timber, plant etc. P 28 Note on So. Carolina District Sheriffs; memo of a cold night May 9. P 29 "N. Burwell's method of keeping a cash book". P 30 "Idea of an hydraulic machine for raising water out of wells". P 35 "Case of a lockjaw relieved" (a horse). P 36 Weather on June 17, 18, 19, 1797 in Richmond. P 37 "Cash Account June 23, 1797". P 38 "copy of a letter to Robert Pleasants, on the abolition of Slavery". June 29, 1797. P 42 "Sketch of a letter to the Reverend William Bentley - Salem". P 56 "Memo" re: British ships in Lynhaven bay firing on other vessels, Aug 18, 1797. P 57 "Cash Acct", August 27, 1797. P 58 "pratical rule to turn cents into pence Virginia currency. P 59 "Loose thoughts on the subject of a convention to amend the Constitution of the Commonwealth". P 60 "reflection". P 61 "Political Arithmetic Nov 30, 1797". P 65 "Cash Account Dec 1, 1797" and 1798. P 68 "Plan of a National Insurance". P 70 Method to keep poplar plank from cracking. P 71 "Plan for adjusting the representation in the general assembly upon an equal and liberal scalt". P 80 "Curious Incident". P 81 Memo re: mares to Bizarre; Nov 2 re: Iron coat of mail found while plowing; Nov 19 re: sharks teeth etc found while diggin a well. P 82 "Cash account" 1798.P 84 "Loose thoughts on a steam engine for raising water". P 107 "Directions for making a working model of the foregoing steam engine". Balance of pages not numbered: Copy of letter to Col William Davies, Dec 9, 1798 "The Dangerous Vice: A fragment-addressed to all whom it may concern. By a gentleman formerly of Boston" "Idea of a monument to the memory of the late General Washington. (Printed in the Enquirer, Vol 14, March 13, 1818 and March 27) Jan 15, 1800 letter to John Marshall re: monument to Washington. "Dirge for the 22nd of February 1800" "Description of a subterranean wall discovered near Salisbury, North Carolina, in the year 1795" "On the mausoleum-proposed to be erected to the memory of General Washington" "Idea of an amendment to the Constitution US" "Copy of a letter to Professor Ebeling, Hamburg, Dec 11, 1801" "Sketch of a bill for securing the independence of the members of Congress" "Copy of a letter to the Rector of the Convocation of Visitors and Governors of William and Mary College, Dec 9, 1803"

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Tucker-Coleman papers, 1664/1945, bulk 1770/1907
  3. Series 2: Legal Papers of St. George Tucker, 1764/1825
  4. Sub-series 2.1: Legal Notebooks
  5. St. George Tucker Notebooks, 1797/1819

Upshur Family Papers, 1662/1936 18.00 Linear Feet

Papers, 1622-1936, of the Upshur family of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Chiefly the genealogical correspondence and notes of Thomas Teackle Upshur (d. 1910) who was interested in the local history of Northampton and Accomack counties, Va. and in the genealogies of Eastern Shore families. Includes three manuscript volumes (indexed) called "Genealogies of the Kingdom of Accomack." The family papers of the Upshur family includes correspondence, 1786-1910, unpublished writings, accounts, and legal documents. The genealogical notes are arranged by family. The correspondence is arranged chronologically and the surnames of correspondents are given.

  1. College of William and Mary

Various papers, 1788/1937 Box 17, Folder 17

Copy of a typed transcription, with index, of vestry minutes of St. Patrick Parish, 1755-1774. Bond given by Joseph Bohan to Philemon Holcombe, March 28, 1788. Printed report "Second Report of the Prince Edward Landmark Committee," 1928. Copy of a print of the Union Theological Seminary. Undated. Notes by Mrs. Margaret H. Morton from the Prince Edward County Courthouse on the prisons in the county. Appeared in the October 1937 William and Mary Quarterly. Notes copied by Mrs. Margaret H. Morton from the Prince Edward County Courthouse about Mr. Burks's buildings as part of a lawsuit between Woodson and Burks in 1767. Typed carbon copy of Declarations of James Pugh, James Moss, James Wooldridge, Peter Grigg and James Taylor about their participation in the Revolutionary War. Other notes concerning Revolutionary War claims. Correspondence between Dr. Earl Gregg Swem and W.S. Morton. 1936. Notes about Prince Edward County by Mrs. Margaret H. Morton. Mentions Richard Darfson, Peter Legrand, Dr. John Fisher, James Thackson, John Meadley, James Roberts, John Moore, Jr., Abraham Venable, Benjamin Augell, John Le Neve, John Bonds, Charles Anderson, Matthias Flournoy, John Pryor Smith, Charles Smith, Zachariah Leigh, Thomas Yuille and Michael McDearman. Dates covered are from mid to late 1700's. Notes taken in 1936.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Virginia Counties Collection, 1600/2000, bulk 1730/1890
  3. Prince Edward County, 1788/1937

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