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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
3600 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
Mount Vernon, VA 22121
Primary Collecting Areas:
George and Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, Founding Era and Early Republic, Historic preservation, Decorative arts, Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
Description:

The Fred W. Smith National Library includes general collections, special collections and archives as a resource for scholars, students, and those interested in George Washington, colonial America and the Revolutionary and founding eras.

The library's general collections include secondary source materials on the Washington and Custis families, and the colonial and founding eras.

The Special Collections materials highlight the lives of George and Martha Washington as well as their descendants through correspondence, financial materials, and original books from George and Martha Washington's library.

The archives of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association holds the historic institutional records of the organization dating back to its founding in 1853.

POC: Reference services
Phone: (703) 780-3600
Start Over Repository The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon Date range 1808

Letter, Lawrence Washington to William Augustine Washington, 1808 Box 41, Folder 1808.06.09

A.L.S. 2 pages. Grape Hill. Reports advertisement in Winchester paper of 2 tracts of land owned by A[ndrew] Park. (Lawrence probably son of Samuel and his 4th wife Anne Steptoe).

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  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 41, 1807/1808

List of fees, Lawrence Lewis, 1808/1812 Box 41, Folder 1808.00.00

List of fees against Lawrence Lewis, Fairfax County. D.S. 1 page. Fees owed by Lewis to the Fairfax County court through his business as executor of George Washington's estate. Signed by William Moss, clerk of the court.

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  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 41, 1807/1808

List of property bought of the Estate of Robert Peter - deceased, at Slashes, Sugar Lands, and Rock Creek Quarters, 1808 Box 26, Folder 50

List of enslaved persons, livestock, and tools sold at Slashes, Sugar Lands, and Rock Creek Quarters totaling $9,308.00. Autograph document, 3 pages, with docket.

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  2. Peter family papers, 1722/1932
  3. Series 16. Oversize, 1712/1932
  4. Subseries 16.3 Robert Peter

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