English and American legal documentsMSS.79.12Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-05-23 11:01:10 +0000.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections English and American legal documents MSS.79.12 Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key /repositories/4/resources/654 2 Linear Feet 32 oversize documents 1559-1847 English Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous English and American documents that include indentures, wills, deeds, land titles and financial records. These documents span the years 1559 through 1847

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No donors are known for any of the material. Items were likely collected by the library over time before there was a special collections department.

 Wills -- England Deeds -- England Deeds -- United States Wills -- United States England -- History United States -- History -- 19th Century Miscellaneous English Legal Documents Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/75209Ornamented English Document [Recovery of Lands in the Parish of Elnig?]Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752101549 – 1559MSS 79-12Original Lease of the Great Farm called [Elsons?] between John Dingley and Roger [Mitchell]Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752111575MSS 79-12Indenture between Thomas Flemyng and Edward SkymerArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752121614MSS 79-12Indenture between Thomas Bodingfield and Thomas WItherdon Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752131643MSS 79-12Indenture between Flint and WoodieArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752141674MSS 79-12Bedford Deed between Charles Smith and Robert Earl of SuderlandArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752151676MSS 79-12Indenture signed by Henry Heylun and Lewis DaltonArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752161678MSS 79-12Unidentified document recorded by William Bolton Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752171679MSS 79-12Indenture between Joseph Dod and Samuel Chamblett Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752181684MSS 79-12Bill of Exchange between Mathias Jones (London Merchant) and J. James Dunnidge (Notary) to John Goodwin (January 4th)Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752191709MSS 79-12Will of Magdalen Lovett Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752201712MSS 79-12[Acquittance?] signed by Will Soley Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752211717MSS 79-12Indenture between Edmund Skinner and James Evers Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752221720MSS 79-12Document regarding tobacco; Quadripartite Indenture between Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Spring, Simon Thomas and William Dix Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752231729MSS 79-12Indenture between Edmund Skinner and James Evers Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752241731MSS 79-12Document concerning Thomas Gooch Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752251735MSS 79-12Will of Martha Noble Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752261762MSS 79-12Sale of Trust Account Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752271763MSS 79-12Document regarding William and Elizabeth Davison Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752281765MSS 79-12Account of Robert Conway, Exor. [Winder Kenner] with William Harcum Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752291774 – 1777MSS 79-12Rent records for the manors of Kingshall, Bendhall, Rowehall and WascoliesArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752301779MSS 79-12Financial RecordArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752311783MSS 79-12Policy of assurance for Schooner Sally taken by Nicholas Welzerd Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752321798MSS 79-12Document for Tarleton v. Holland and Burzon v. Staples Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752331815MSS 79-12Miscellaneous American Legal DocumentsArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/75247Declaration of Independence [late nineteenth-early twentieth century copy]Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752481776MSS 79-12Indenture. Sarah Malcolm and others to John Wilson, J. Wilson Deed [Used by Professor Dillard in his classes]Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752491804MSS 79-12Deed of Chalkley Gillingham's wife to Thomas WedmesleyArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752501833MSS 79-12Indenture of Thomas Nalmesley and Fernandez and Rebecca Woodington to George W. MillsArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752511837MSS 79-12Indenture of George W. and Catherine Mills to Patrick McNallyArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752521839MSS 79-12Title of Land granted to James Skaggs. Signed by Thomas M. Randolph, Governor of the Commonwealth of VirginiaArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/752531847MSS 79-12