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Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864. [Map of the internal improvements of Virginia] / prepared under the direction of C. Crozet by order of the Board of Public Works.

Title: [Map of the internal improvements of Virginia] / prepared under the direction of C. Crozet by order of the Board of Public Works. [1855?]

ArchivalResource: 1 map on 2 sheets : col. ms. ; 79 x 120 cm., sheets 81 x 62 cm. and 74 x 62 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/416556178 View

Breckinridge, James, 1763-1833. Papers, 1805-1831.

Title: Papers, 1805-1831.

Chiefly correspondence of Breckinridge of Botetourt County, Va., and Washington, D.C., with Robert Gamble, a commission merchant in Richmond and at Balcony Falls, Va., and in Jefferson County, Fla., concerning the Breckinridge family, William H. Cabell, Claudius Crozet, Letitia (Breckinridge) Gamble, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Watkins Leigh (concerning a duel), James Monroe, John Hampden Pleasants, John Preston, Miles Selden, and John Tyler; and the Botetourt County courthouse, Fincastle, Va., fruit trees, the James River and Kanawha Canal, and slavery.

ArchivalResource: 110 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31752365 View

Rogers, John Carr, d. 1979. Papers of John C. Rogers [manuscript], 1937-1973.

Title: Papers of John C. Rogers [manuscript], 1937-1973.

The collection contains letters to Rogers from Rockwell Kent, Murrell Edmunds, Art Buchwald, Harry Monroe Caudill, Nikki Giovanni, Jack Conroy, R. Bruce Crawford, Norman MacLeod, and Ernie Pyle commenting on their current activities and writings, past events, and Roger's work. Other items in the collection include two poems, "Salute," and "Ghetto night" by Edmunds; theater programs featuring Jack Conroy and Nikki Giovanni; newsclippings on a 19th century Virginia turnpike designed by Claudius Crozet; Bruce Crawford's protest against the Alabama Downs law forbidding the distribution of radical literature; and a photograph of the mountain on which Buffalo Bill is buried.

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647937919 View

Tyler, John, 1790-1862. Letter to Charles Fenton Mercer, 1826 December 5.

Title: Letter to Charles Fenton Mercer, 1826 December 5.

Tyler discusses the Virginia literary fund, a constitutional convention, James River improvements and Claudius Crozet. Of Crozet he states " ... I am not deceived whten I pronounce him inferior to no man in Virginia for that quality which old George Mason esteemed so highly, real sagacity--added to which he is a man of the most extensive research, and profound science--But above all I regard him as honest--His candor has caused him to be sometimes unpopular in particular sections."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48823447 View

Gianniny, Omer Allan. Al Gianniny Papers [manuscript], 1949-1996.

Title: Al Gianniny Papers [manuscript], 1949-1996.

The papers consist Gianniny's files as professor of humanities in the School of Engineering at the University of Virginia and reflect his interest in the the history of the school. They contain research for the symposium and exhibit "150 years of engineering education at the University of Virginia," including articles, student papers, issues particularly the teaching of humanities and the transition from natural philosophy to applied science (engineering). Other topics include the American Society for Engineering Education, Thomas Jefferson's interest in transportation and science, canals of Virginia, English language and humanities courses for engineering students.and The collection also contains photographs of the Engineering School by Joseph Vaughan, 1935-1938, undated, including professors, Deans Gibson, Henderson, Rodman and Quarles, students, buildings, and social events. Of interest are photographs of Peter Carter, engineering janitor; the Red Hill air field and Fred Morses's plane; dead chestnuts on the Skyline Drive; and Johnnie Larowe coaching student boxer Joseph L. Vaughan. Of interest are a log of expenditures for the administration building at the University of Virginia Air Field, 1941; a history of the School of Engineering by Charles Nerses Papazian, 1972; long-range planning efforts for the division of humanities, 1976; various drafts and articles on Leopold Jules Boeck, Claudius Crozet, John E. Gibson, John Lloyd Newcomb, William B. Rogers, Edgar A. Stark, William M. Thornton, Charles S. Venable, and William S. Weedon; an interview with Charles Henderson; a draft of a strategic plan for the School of Engineering and Applied Science, 1996. and Gianniny's history "From natural philosophy to applied science." There is also a copy of a letter from president Alderman to Paul Barringer pertaining to a report by William M. Thornton and others. In addition there are audiocassettes of lectures by engineering professors in Gianniny's Engineering 351 class, 1973-1974: Charles H. Barron, Jr., on entropy; Dr. Thomas Hunter III on medicine and biomedical health care delivery; F. Anthony Iachetta on wastes as energy sources; Reed Johnson on energy needs; Henry Phillips on managing construction of nuclear power plants; Lawrence Quarles on nuclear plant site decision; Robert H. Williams on energy policy; Donald Wright on the computer in biomedical health care. In addition there are lectures on unidentified topics by Charles H. Barron, Jr.; [George?] Bluman and Billington; Brittain and Krick; Gibson and H. Hartman; Luther Y. Gore; Hartman and Stansbury at an H. & S.S. Workshop; and Lamar and Shriver; a discussion labelled [Krauer?]; talks or proceedings from an undated Societal/Urban Systems Conference; LSD 3650 Troy, N.Y., 1974.

ArchivalResource: circa 450 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767736414 View

Stuart, Alexander H. H. (Alexander Hugh Holmes), 1807-1891. Papers of Alexander H. H. Stuart and the related Stuart and Baldwin families [manuscript], 1776-1878 (bulk 1850-1861).

Title: Papers of Alexander H. H. Stuart and the related Stuart and Baldwin families [manuscript], 1776-1878 (bulk 1850-1861).

The collection contains the political correspondence of Alexander H.H. Stuart, particularly from 1850-1853, when he served in Fillmore's cabinet and from 1857-1861, when he was in the Virginia State Senate. The Whig Party is a major topic. Other topics include national and Virginia politics, the presidential elections of 1848, 1852, and 1868, the reestablishment of a national bank, the Virginia Reform Convention of 1850, the American Know-Nothing Party, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Also slavery, abolition, Southern conservative opposition to secession, Virginia elections of 1831, 1851, 1859, 1867, the aftermath of Nat Turner's rebellion, the use of statistics in government, the Confederate Congress, sectional reconciliation after the Civil War, the Readjustor controversy, political patronage, and internal improvements. Also mentioned are Revolutionary War pension claims, migration of free blacks to Liberia, affairs at the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indian Agency in 1851, California politics and Indians in 1851, the Tehuantepec Isthmus route, Iowa in 1851, San Francisco in 1854, New Orleans in 1861, West Virginia in 1861, the U.S.S. Princeton explosion, Dorothea Dix's efforts to establish hospitals for the mentally ill, building of the U.S. Capitol, the Virginia Central Railroad and the University of Virginia. Many letters convey local news in Staunton and Augusta County, Va., such as the development of Alum Springs, the establishment of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, smallpox cases and land sales and controversies in Virginia and Kentucky. Others refer to legal cases handled by Stuart, including suits involving the Bath Iron Works and Buffalo Forge, and the Wheeling Bridge. Several letters discuss family affairs including plans by a cousin to run a boarding house for young women in Athens, Greece. Only a few letters mention the Civil War and Reconstruction and include references to the military movements of Confederate general Robert S. Garnett. Topics in earlier Stuart and the related Baldwin family papers include ratification of the U.S. constitution, Jeffersonian party politics, political events during the administration of George Washington, Washington Academy, the University of Virginia and its honor system, Washington College, and William Wirt's biography of Patrick Henry. The papers also contain an architectural drawing of an unidentified house, an engraving of Alexander H.H. Stuart, insurance policies, stock certificates, indentures, wills, land plats, and speeches by Alexander H.H. Stuart. Military papers of Captain George M. Cochran, Jr., Quartermaster, 52nd Virginia Infantry, consist chiefly of requisitions and receipts. There are also two printed pamphlets, 1849, in French and German, on the potato blight.

ArchivalResource: 800 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647857203 View

Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864. Sperryville to Swift Run Gap Turnpike field notes, 1839.

Title: Sperryville to Swift Run Gap Turnpike field notes, 1839.

These records contain field notes for a proposed road connecting Sperryville with Swift Run.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122653801 View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. Applications for position of principal engineer, 1816-1823.

Title: Applications for position of principal engineer, 1816-1823.

Contains letters of application; letters of recommendation; correspondence concerning the qualifications of a principal engineer (written by James Madison and Benjamin Henry Latrobe). Applicants: Andrew Alexander (1818); Loammi Baldwin (1816-1818); John Barnett (1816); William Blackburne (1822); Robert H.B. Brazier (1822); -- Cascella (1817); Mark A. Chilton (1823); William Couling (1816); Claudius Crozet (1822-1823); James Deneale (1818); Valentine Dillon (1818); Daniel Dod (1822-1823); William Foster (1817); Hamilton Fulton (1820-1822); John G. Gamble (1823); Valentine Gill (1817-1822); John G. Hales (1822); John H. Hall (1823); Ferdinand R. Hassler (1818-1823); John M. Jones (1818); Stephen H. Long (1822-1823); George Love (1818-1823); William McCree (1822); Robert Mills (1822-1823); Thomas Moore (1818); P.H. Perrault (1816); John Randall (1822-1823); F.L. Savin (1822); James Shriver (1822); Joseph H. Siddall (1822); Jeremiah Strother (1823); Edward B. Symes (1818); Chiles Terrell (1822-1823); Josias Thompson (1822); John Upton (1817); Charles Varle (1818); Francis P. Vidal (1822); and John Wood (1816).

ArchivalResource: 5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244636843 View

Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864. Lynchburg to Lexington Turnpike field notes, 1827.

Title: Lynchburg to Lexington Turnpike field notes, 1827.

These records contain a detailed analysis of the topography.

ArchivalResource: 4 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122538719 View

Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864. Warrenton to New Market Turnpike field notes, 1837.

Title: Warrenton to New Market Turnpike field notes, 1837.

These records contain a field book for a survey taken by Claudius Crozet, principal engineer.

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122481522 View

Cabell, Hannah Carrington, fl. 1751-1817,. Papers of the Joseph Carrington Cabell family, 1790-1890.

Title: Papers of the Joseph Carrington Cabell family, 1790-1890.

The collection consists primarily of the correspondence of Joseph Carrington Cabell and other family and allied members including Anne Blaws Cocke Cabell, Elizabeth Nicholas Cabell, Hannah Carrington Cabell, Dr. J.L. Cabell, John Grattan Cabell, Mrs. Margaret C. Cabell, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Philip Barraud Cabell, Sally F. Cabell, William H. Cabell, John Coalter, Charles Cary Cocke, John B. Cocke, John Hartwell Cocke, and Philip St. George Cocke. Other correspondents, many of whom are represented by single letters, include William S. Archer, John Roy Baylor, William M. Blackford, Walter Blair, William Bolling, Colonel William Boulware, John R. Bryan, the Rev. George Bush, Mathew Carey, John Coalter, Isaac A. Coles, the Reverend Richard De Charms, Thomas R. Dew, Charles Ellis, Thomas H. Ellis, the Rev. James McElroy, Harrison, William H., John P. Hungerford, William J. Lewis, Daniel H. London, and James Lyons. Also Thomas S. McLelland, Charles F. Mercer, Hugh Mercer, William Nelson, Wilson Cary Nicholas, J.W. Pegram, James P. Preston, General John Preston, Isaac Read, Robert Rives, Wyndham Robertson, Merritt M. Robinson, Edmund Ruffin, Frank G. Ruffin, Robert Skipwith, George W. Spooner, N.B. Tucker, George Tucker, Henry St. George Tucker, Judge Francis Nathaniel Watkins, the Rev. J.P.B. Wilmer, the Rev. R.H. Wilmer, William Wirt, H.N.B. Wood, William H. Wycoff, and Charles Yancey. The papers also include the correspondence of the Bolling family of Goochland County, Va., some relating to the James River & Kanawha Canal Company. Other legal and financial papers concern the estates of Bolling, Lownes, and Newburn family members. The collection also includes newsclippings, particularly regarding George Bush of the New Jerusalem Church; Nathaniel Francis Cabell manuscripts; poetry; and school reports for Sallie F. Cabell and Fannie G. Cabell. Of interest are Philip B. Cabell's letters written while serving as a volunteer aide to Philip St. G. Cocke and a copy of a draft report on the first battle of Bull Run, submitted by P. St. G. Cocke to General Beauregard. Topics in the correspondence include domestic and family concerns; family slaves, including purchases and run-aways; agriculture, and plantation life and management, particularly at "Corotoman" and "Liberty Hall"; domestic life during the Civil War and Reconstruction; recreational and business travel; the New Jerusalem Church; and John Randolph of Roanoke. There are brief references to George Washington; Henry Lee; James Madison and the Virginia resolutions; the College of William and Mary; the War of 1812; Thomas Jefferson; the University of Virginia and its Board of Visitors; James Monroe's gubernatorial race; Claudius Crozet and railroad interests; U.S. and Virginia politics. Of much interest is the correspondence between Joseph Carrington Cabell and John Hartwell Cocke discussing tobacco; agricultural improvement; temperance; religion; slavery; colonization in Liberia; and the James River and Kanawha Canal and internal improvements.

ArchivalResource: 4200 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51259328 View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. Maps and county boundaries, 1813-1873.

Title: Maps and county boundaries, 1813-1873.

These records contain letters received, reports on surveys of county boundaries for Claudius Crozet's internal improvement maps of 1838, 1848, and 1855, and Ludwig von Bucholtz's state maps of 1859, sketch maps of county boundaries, ca. 1858. The records cover the years 1813, 1837-1838, 1840-1842, 1845, 1847-1857, 1859-1861, 1870-1871, 1873.

ArchivalResource: 5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122611480 View

Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864. Middleburg to Strasburg Turnpike field notes, 1828.

Title: Middleburg to Strasburg Turnpike field notes, 1828.

These records contain field notes for a road from Middleburg to Strasburg by way of Berry's Ferry and Front Royal.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122538331 View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. Survey from Rockfish Gap to Charlottesville New Ark Gordonsville & Orange C.H.

Title: Survey from Rockfish Gap to Charlottesville New Ark Gordonsville & Orange C.H. [1849]

ArchivalResource: 6 maps on 1 sheet : ms., mounted on paper ; sheet 25 x 59 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427415115 View

Seales, P. Notebook, 1831.

Title: Notebook, 1831.

Surveys, 1831, and other notes made by P. Seales (under the direction of C[laude] Crozet) on the location of the Warm Springs and the Harrisonburg Turnpike.

ArchivalResource: 44 p. : bound v. ; 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24477014 View

Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864. Warm Springs Mountain Turnpike, and Roanoke River to New River Canal field notes, 1827-1828.

Title: Warm Springs Mountain Turnpike, and Roanoke River to New River Canal field notes, 1827-1828.

These cards contain field notes for a survey for a road over the Warm Springs Mountain between the headwaters of the Roanoke River and the New River; a survey for a canal between the New River and Roanoke; and for a canal from the forks of the Roanoke to Salem, taken by Claudius Crozet, principal engineer.

ArchivalResource: 4 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/303495003 View

Inventory of the Robert William Hughes Papers, 1818-1900

Title: Inventory of the Robert William Hughes Papers 1818-1900

Papers, mainly 1865-1900, of Robert William Hughes (1821-1901), journalist, Republican politician, and United States District Judge, of Abingdon and Norfolk, Va.

ArchivalResource:

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Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864. Little Kanawha River Survey field notes, 1838.

Title: Little Kanawha River Survey field notes, 1838.

These records contain notes and topographic maps of the river, made by Claudius Crozet, principal engineer.

ArchivalResource: 4 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86172316 View

Shaw, Charles B. Gordonsville to Harrisonburg Railroad field notes, 1836, 1838.

Title: Gordonsville to Harrisonburg Railroad field notes, 1836, 1838.

These records contain surveys and level books for a railroad from Gordonsville to Harrisonburg, taken over a two year period, 1836-1838, by Charles B. Shaw and Claudius Crozet, principal engineers.

ArchivalResource: 12 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122538925 View

Shaw, Charles B. Map of the location of part of the North-Western Turnpike Road / made under direction of C. Crozet, Pr. Eng., by Chas. B. Shaw, Ast., 1831.

Title: Map of the location of part of the North-Western Turnpike Road / made under direction of C. Crozet, Pr. Eng., by Chas. B. Shaw, Ast., 1831.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. map : col. ; 38 x 106 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61327670 View

Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864. Fishing Creek Turnpike to Clarksburg via Middletown compass book, 1839.

Title: Fishing Creek Turnpike to Clarksburg via Middletown compass book, 1839.

These records contain a compass book of a road survey by Claudius Crozet, principal engineer. The road begins at a point on the Fishing Creek Turnpike near Middletown, via Middletown to Clarksburg.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122497976 View

Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864. Mattaponi River Survey field notes, 1826.

Title: Mattaponi River Survey field notes, 1826.

These records contain detailed notes and topographic maps.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122555514 View

Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864. Staunton to Callaghan's Turnpike field notes, 1825.

Title: Staunton to Callaghan's Turnpike field notes, 1825.

These records contain field notes taken for a survey from Staunton to Warm Springs: v.1 surveys King's and Panther's Gaps and the Warm Springs, v.2, Callaghan's to Covington, and v.3., Covington by way of McGraw's Gap, Simpson's Creek, and Bratton's Run.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122487810 View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. Agency history.

Title: Agency history.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145406597 View

Cocke, John Hartwell, 1804-1846. Papers of John Hartwell Cocke [manuscript] 1817-1865.

Title: Papers of John Hartwell Cocke [manuscript] 1817-1865.

The collection consists chiefly of Cocke's correspondence with family and friends. In letters home he describes life at school in Norfolk, at William and Mary and at Yale where he studied mineralogy with Benjamin Silliman. He describes a canal surveying trip in Virginia with Claudius Crozet and a tour of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania to study the canal system. John Hartwell Cocke, Louisiana Barraud Cocke Faulcon and Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke write about the family, Bremo, and a trip to the western Virginia springs. There are frequent allusions to Cocke, Jr.'s epilepsy. The papers also contain some religious notes by Cocke, Sr., and a copy of a letter of introduction, 1841, for Arthur Lee Brent to Thomas Walker Gilmer, Cocke's ideas for an agriculture school, a copy of Brent's resignation as resident physician at Philadelphia hospital, bills & receipts of Brent and Cocke, Sr., regarding the running of Bremo, and lists of freedmen, their work time, and wages in 1865.

ArchivalResource: 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647927753 View

Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864. James River to Roanoke River Canal field notes, 1828.

Title: James River to Roanoke River Canal field notes, 1828.

These records provide a detailed description of the terrain and illustrate the topography.

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/301709891 View

Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864. A plan of James Riv. from the North Branch to the balcony falls exhibiting a comparison between the Pr. Engr's location & that substituted by the commissioner. drawn by C. Crozet, P.E. 1824.

Title: A plan of James Riv. from the North Branch to the balcony falls exhibiting a comparison between the Pr. Engr's location & that substituted by the commissioner. drawn by C. Crozet, P.E. 1824. 1824.

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms. col. ; 33 x 46.2 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82640162 View

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letters, Monticello, to M. Claudius Crozet, West Point, N.Y. [manuscript] 1821 Mar. 31 and Nov. 23.

Title: Letters, Monticello, to M. Claudius Crozet, West Point, N.Y. [manuscript] 1821 Mar. 31 and Nov. 23.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647942560 View

Baldwin, John Brown, 1820-1873,. Papers of the McCue family [manuscript], 1767-1944.

Title: Papers of the McCue family [manuscript], 1767-1944.

The collection contains correspondence, legal and business papers, legal case notes, genealogical material, school notebooks and bound volumes, accounts, and Confederate Army quartermaster records of McCue family members particularly the Rev. John McCue of Augusta County, Va.; Judge John Howard McCue, Lovingston, Va., lawyer and Confederate Army officer; and William T. McCue, Staunton, Va., lawyer and Democrat. Topics of general interest are life at Randolph-Macon College in the 1830s; slavery, including hires, pre-war emancipations, a law suit and sales; sectionalism and efforts to preserve the Union; professor William E. Peters and the University of Virginia; the Lynchburg Fire Hose Insurance Company; Claudius Crozet, railroad construction and inventions; Jedidiah Hotchkiss' plans for opening a school; the Civil War, particularly in western Virginia and the Valley, including John B. Floyd's retreat from Carnifex Ferry; and secession and reconstruction in Virginia, particularly in Nelson County. Prominent people mentioned include Claudius Crozet, John Buchanan Floyd, Horace Greeley, Jedediah Hotchkiss, Stonewall Jackson, William Mahone, and William E. Peters. Political papers include election returns, a secession resolution, a letter to the editor on African-American suffrage, and a Nelson County meeting on Andrew Jackson. The collection also contains marriage licenses, 1801-1803, for Augusta County, Va.; quartermaster records, 1861-1862, of the 51st Virginia regiment; letters, 1846-1889, of John Daniel Imboden; genealogical information on the McGlachlin, Moffett, and Trimble families; a copy of "The McCues of the Old Dominion," a Virginia oath of allegiance, 1777, clippings on Augusta County politics, ca. 1900-1905, and photographs, largely unidentified. Correspondents include John S. Barbour, Thomas Barry, Thomas S. Bocock, John Minor Botts, D. S. G. Cabell, Mayo Cabell, William C. Cabell, Claudius Crozet, Robert E. Cutler, R. L. Dabney, John W. Daniel, James B. Dorman, Lyman Draper, R. T. W. Duke, Dr. James A. Forbes, Edward Echols, John Echols, Thomas Walker Gilmer, Don P. Halsey, James Marshall Hanger, Col. A. W. Harman, John B. Imboden, James Lawson Kemper, Joseph L. S. Kirby, Shelton Leake, Robert E. Lee, John Letcher, John F. Lewis, John McCue, and John Howard McCue. Also John Howard McCue, Hudson Martin, John E. Massey, N. H. Massie, Matthew Fontaine Maury, John Newton, Royal Paris, John Paul, William E. Peters, Alexander Rives, William C. Rives, John Robertson, Roger A. Pryor, Leverett Saltonstall, C. Whittle Sams, Joseph Santini, Hugh Sheffey, James C. Southall, John Spiece, Alexander H. H. Stuart, Wiliam T. Sutherlin, Nicholas K. Trout, G. W. Truehart, James A. Walker, Robert Whitehead, Elisha E. Wills, William Withrow, Drury Wood, and Edgar Woods.

ArchivalResource: 10,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647825610 View

Monroe, James, 1758-1831. James Monroe letter to an unnamed correspondent, probably John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, [manuscript] 1819 Sept. 20.

Title: James Monroe letter to an unnamed correspondent, probably John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, [manuscript] 1819 Sept. 20.

Monroe discusses the trial of cadets at the United States Military Academy and the forthcoming trial of Claude Crozet, professor of engineering, mentioning Maj. Sylvanus Thayer, superintendent of the Academy, Capt. Alden Partridge, Cadet Nathaniel Hall Loring, and a letter from his father, Col. Joseph Loring, U.S.A. (retired).

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647943342 View

Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864. Harrisonburg to Beverly Turnpike field notes, 1828.

Title: Harrisonburg to Beverly Turnpike field notes, 1828.

These records contain detailed notes and topographic maps made by Claudius Crozet, principal engineer.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122464570 View

Brockenbrough, William, fl. 1763,. Papers of the Carter and Wellford family of Sabine Hall, 1650 (1736-1874) 1936.

Title: Papers of the Carter and Wellford family of Sabine Hall, 1650 (1736-1874) 1936.

The papers of the Carter and Wellford families contain deeds, patents, stocks and bonds, wills maps, surveys, and indentures as well as correspondence. The early correspondence of Landon Carter (1710-1778) deals with tobacco production and sale, land purchases, and management of his plantation. Family and neighborhood news is frequently conveyed. Later correspondence contains many references to political troubles with England, action taken in Virginia, and events in the first years of the Revolution such as the Stamp Act, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Virginia Convention, and includes several letters to the editor of the Virginia Gazette on the political situation. The diary of Landon Carter, 1763-1778, records daily farming activities, with many comments on his slaves, remarks on the Revolution and its ultimate effect, and reflections on his estrangement from his son Robert Wormeley Carter, the second (1792-1861). The correspondence of Robert Wormeley Carter the second contains more local and agricultural news with a few letters generated by the latter's political career touching on national politics. Of interest are mentions of the War of 1812 and the evacuation of slaves at the approach of British warships, a letter from John Tyler on Andrew Jackson's fiscal policies, and comments on the Whig Party and the Virginia Reform Convention of 1851. One Civil War letter mentions the death of an acquaintance and two affadavits, 1863, concern slaves who fled to Union forces. Interspersed in the large segment of R.W. Carter II's estate settlement papers are several comments on reconstruction in Virginia. Correspondence of Dr. Armistead Nelson Wellford, is chiefly business in nature but also includes his official Civil War pardon signed by President Andrew Johnson. Papers of his son Robert Carter Wellford and grandson Armistead Nelso Wellford include University of Virginia report cards and correspondence with Cassius Francis Lee, Jr., and Earl G. Swem discussing the respective sale and preservation of the Sabine Hall Papers. Correspondence of women in the family includes discussions of schooling, social events, and sickness and deaths. Of interest are a comment on Charlotte Brontë's "Vilette" and a commonplace book of Elizabeth Merry Tayloe's poems. Other items of interest include the agricultural journals, 1813-1860, and mill book containing a slave register, 1831-1845, of the second R.W. Carter; a list of "Negroes Baptized in Richmond County 1723-1724"; election returns for Lancaster and Richmond Counties, 1836; an 1872 brochure urging immigration to the Northern Neck; agricultural essays and medical observations of the 1st Landon Carter and an inventory of his estate; and physician's account ledgers of Beverley R. Wellford. Seventeenth century items include land patents, from William Berkeley, 1650-1665; a surveys, 1650-1684; deeds of sale and indentures; and the will of John Rice. Correspondents include Norborne Berkeley, baron de Botetourt, William Brockenbrough, Charles Carter, Samuel Chase, Raleigh Colston, Richard Corbin, Francis Fauquier, the Rev. Isaac W. Giberne, Arthur Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Henry Lee, Richard Lee, Richard Henry Lee, Robert E. Lee (a receipt), George Mason, William Meade, Thomas Nelson, Robert Carter Nicholas, John Page, vice chairman of the Committee of Safety, Peter Pelham, Alexander Purdie, Peyton Randolph, William Rind, Joseph Royle, Earl G. Swem, Edward T. Tayloe, John Tayloe, John Tyler, and Dr. A.N. Wellford.

ArchivalResource: 1,075 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62079862 View

Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864. Little Kanawha River Survey field notes, 1838.

Title: Little Kanawha River Survey field notes, 1838.

These records contain notes and topographic maps of the river, made by Claudius Crozet, principal engineer.

ArchivalResource: 4 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/301808377 View

Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864. North Anna River Survey field notes, 1827.

Title: North Anna River Survey field notes, 1827.

These records contain field notes taken by Claudius Crozet, principal engineer.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122601612 View

Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864. Harrison's Bar on the James River field notes, 1826.

Title: Harrison's Bar on the James River field notes, 1826.

These records contain a detailed survey of Harrison's Bar on the James River, "from Mr. Benjamin Harrison's lower line (water fence also beingMr. Douthat's upper line) on the north side of the James River to City Point and then down the south side of the river to Ruffin's Creek."

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122553174 View