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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

Historic manuscript collection

approx. 60 Linear Feet

This collection of historic manuscripts dates from 1607-1933, with the bulk of materials dating from 1738-1868. The correspondence, journals and diaries, legal and financial records, estate documents, and printed ephemera in the collection primarily relate to the Washington and Custis families, the Revolutionary War, and society life in antebellum Washington D.C. and Virginia.

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Account book, Robert Lewis Box 38, Folder 1803.00.00

Small, bound account book, A.D.S. 18 pages. Accounts of money received as interest of stock, as part of his claim to the estate of GW. Also, money received on like interest in behalf of Lucinda and Catherine D. Lewis, sale of stock belonging to Charles and John Lewis, Jr., memorandum of expenses, "Memorandum for the year 1805," which describes experiments made in planting crops and the results, "Memorandum of Monies Received and paid away on account of Charles Lewis - John Lewis - Robert Lewis junr. - Lucinda Lewis and Catherine Dade Lewis May - 1807."

  1. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  2. Manuscripts Box 38

Account, Eliza Parke Custis Law account with Thomas Law 1 Sheets Box 41, Folder 1807.12.30

Financial account of Eliza Parke Custis Law with Thomas Law from December 1807 to February 1809. Most relate to household expenses, includes an order of prints by Vanderlyn and two payments 'in favor of William Causten' [William Costin?]. Autograph document, 2 pages, docketed on the reverse.
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  2. Manuscripts Box 41
Hampden-Sydney College

Account Books

7 Boxes

The Account Books, SC-000200, contains 13 account books or ledgers written by various people. Some of the items track family accounts while others track business accounts. Not included in this collection are any daybooks or diaries pertaining to the daily lives of the individuals. Each account book spans a couple of years while some cover a larger amount of time but altogether, the account books were created in the 19th century.

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Account Books 7 Boxes

The Account Books, SC-000200, contains 13 account books or ledgers written by various people. Some of the items track family accounts while others track business accounts. Not included in this collection are any daybooks or diaries pertaining to the daily lives of the individuals. Each account book spans a couple of years while some cover a larger amount of time but altogether, the account books were created in the 19th century.

College of William and Mary

Bray Papers

201.00 Linear Feet

Negative photostats of papers, 1730-1817, of the Bray Associates, a division of the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, which was instrumental in providing libraries for the churches in America and setting up schools for the Christian education of free and enslaved Black children.

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Account Books (a): Correspondence of Dr. Bray's Associates About the Negro School in Williamsburg Box 1, Folder 2

25 photostats of letters of Dr. Bray's Associates about subscriptions to the Negro School in Williamsburg, Virginia. Letters addressed to Robert Carter Nicholas, Rev. Dr. Dawson, William Hunter, and Rev. Dr. Josiah Johnson. Correspondents include Rev. Mr. Waring and others. Topics include subscriptions, rules to be observed by the owners of negroes and other matters. Includes Vol. 48 of the "Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society" article entitled "Thomas Bray's Associates and Their Work Among the Negroes" by Edgar Legare Pennington, dated 1939.

Bray Papers 201.00 Linear Feet

Associates of Dr. Bray (Organization)

Negative photostats of papers, 1730-1817, of the Bray Associates, a division of the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, which was instrumental in providing libraries for the churches in America and setting up schools for the Christian education of free and enslaved Black children.

Catalogue of Books Supplied by Dr. Bray's Associates Box 1, Folder 1

12 photostat pages with lists of books, entitled "Catalogues of Books for Home and Foreign Libraries, AD 1753 to AD 1817." One list is headed "1760/61 Books sent to the Rev. Dr. Dawson at Williamsburg, Virginia....for the use of the negroe schools founded there..."

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Alderman family papers

0.5 Cubic Feet 1 document box (215 items)
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College of William and Mary

John White Papers

3.5 Linear Feet

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.

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College of William and Mary

Campbell Family Papers

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Papers of four generations of the Campbell family of Orange Co., Va. including correspondence of William Campbell (1755-1823). His papers pertain to Revolutionary pensions, bounty land claims, the War of 1812, his superintendency of the Virginia State Penitentary, and his estate and includes a diary of a trip to Kentucky in 1798. There are also papers (correspondence and accounts) of his wife, Mrs. Susan Campbell and their children. The collection includes papers of the Graves family and correspondence, medical accounts, military orders and reports of Dr. William S. Parran who served in the 13th Virginia Regiment of Confederate States Army at the battles of Bull Run, Cedar Mountain and who was killed at Antietam. Correspondents of Parran include A. P. Hill and John Letcher and there is one letter, 1861, concerning Thomas Jonathan Jackson.

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Campbell Family Papers 4.00 Linear Feet

Campbell family

Papers of four generations of the Campbell family of Orange Co., Va. including correspondence of William Campbell (1755-1823). His papers pertain to Revolutionary pensions, bounty land claims, the War of 1812, his superintendency of the Virginia State Penitentary, and his estate and includes a diary of a trip to Kentucky in 1798. There are also papers (correspondence and accounts) of his wife, Mrs. Susan Campbell and their children. The collection includes papers of the Graves family and correspondence, medical accounts, military orders and reports of Dr. William S. Parran who served in the 13th Virginia Regiment of Confederate States Army at the battles of Bull Run, Cedar Mountain and who was killed at Antietam. Correspondents of Parran include A. P. Hill and John Letcher and there is one letter, 1861, concerning Thomas Jonathan Jackson.

College of William and Mary

Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers

3.5 Linear Feet

This collection contains materials dated 1784-1934. It includes correspondence, legal papers, and accounts, chiefly 1830-1892, of Benjamin S. Ewell, professor at the U.S. Military Academy, Hampden-Sydney College, Washington and Lee College, and the College of William and Mary (which he served as acting president, 1848-1849, and president, 1854-1888). Letters from Ewell during the Civil War when he was assistant adjutant-general to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston are included as well. Among the correspondents are members of the Tyler, Ewell, Campbell, and Brown families of Virginia and Tennessee. The collection also contains the memorandum book on the Ewell family by Elizabeth S. Ewell.

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Benjamin Stoddert Ewell Papers 3.5 Linear Feet

Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894

This collection contains materials dated 1784-1934. It includes correspondence, legal papers, and accounts, chiefly 1830-1892, of Benjamin S. Ewell, professor at the U.S. Military Academy, Hampden-Sydney College, Washington and Lee College, and the College of William and Mary (which he served as acting president, 1848-1849, and president, 1854-1888). Letters from Ewell during the Civil War when he was assistant adjutant-general to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston are included as well. Among the correspondents are members of the Tyler, Ewell, Campbell, and Brown families of Virginia and Tennessee. The collection also contains the memorandum book on the Ewell family by Elizabeth S. Ewell.

College of William and Mary

McGavock Family Papers

3540.00 Linear Feet

Papers (including correspondence, legal documents, and accounts) of James McGavock (1728-1812), his son James McGavock (1764-1838) and his grandsons James McGavock (1804-1839) and Stephen McGavock (1807-1880). Many of the papers concern lead mines at Fort Chiswell, Va, slavery, agriculture, aspects of the Revolutionary War, and other. Included are a list of parish levies before 1776; receipts for supplies issued at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Va. and at Fort Patrick Henry, Tenn. for an expedition, 1776-1777, against the Cherokees; and county tax and fee bills for Augusta, Bedford, Botetourt, Montgomery, Pittsylvania, Washington and Wythe counties, Va. The collection includes genealogical information on the McGavock and Boyd families and letters written by members of the Cloyd family and by John Williamson McGavock while attending the University of Virginia.

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College of William and Mary

Garth Family papers

2.50 Linear Feet

This inventory contains personal and buisness correspondence, financial documents, loans, promissory notes, legal documents, tax information, and land records belonging to the Jesse Garth family of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia, The majority of the inventory documents correspondence chiefly from 1800-1854 between family members, mostly the adult children of Jesse and Elizabeth Garth, fl. 1798-1854, especially Lucy E. B. Garth, fl. 1820-1849; Sarah Garth Goodman, fl. 1820-1842; Jesse B. Garth, fl. 1833-1834; and May S. Garth Sumner, fl. 1849-1851, as well as other nephews and family members.

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Accounts Box 3, Folder 1

Scope and Contents Accounts and bills, with various creditors, including: Brown, River, &Co.; Brown, Watson, & Co.; William Galt; James Horsley; Richard Bibb; J. Kelly & Co.; and James & Samuel Leitch for such items as paper, a variety of fabrics, sewing accessories, liquor, farmwork, household goods, staples (i.e. coffee, tea, loaf sugar, brown sugar, salt, pepper, spices.), hardware, shoes, a shawl, suspenders, exercise book, New York Reader, and tobacco trade. Family members mentioned are J., John, Jesse, and W. Garth. 45 items.

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Accounts Box 5, Folder 7

Garth family accounts with Samuel and James Leitch. Merchandise includes: hardware, dyestuffs, liqour, household goods, gun powder, staples and groceries, stationary, penknives, sewing accessories, various fabrics, books, an entire set of china (including serving dishes), parasol, fiddlestrings, various shoes, gloves, beavermitts, gents' gloves, gentleman's stockings cotton and silk ladies stockings, raisons and a copy of The Virginia Housewife. 19 items.

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Documents of enslaved persons Box 5, Folder 1

Garth Family documents of the enslaved. Predominately bills of sale listing names of sellers, amount paid, date of purchase, and enslaved names and/or ages. Also, a note of Jesse and Brightberry Garth as cosigners of loan for Jesse B. Garth. Also, a bill of hire for three enslaved persons for a month. 14 items.

  1. Series 3: Legal Records and Miscellaneous
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Latane Family Papers 1650-1898

This collection of papers, 1650-1898, consists of ca. 710 items pertaining to the Latane familyof Essex County, Virginia. Included are correspondence, business and legal papers, papers re military and religious matters, school notebooks, and certificates of graduation from schools at the University of Virginia.

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