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Bolling family. Papers, 1785-1875.

Title: Papers, 1785-1875.

The collection includes accounts, 1785-1831, maintained by the Petersburg, Va., city chamberlain concerning the collection of fees and taxes and the costs of municipal services; materials, 1790-1831, concerning a lawsuit of Robert Bolling versus the Petersburg Common Council over rights to the public wharf, courthouse square, and market square; and letters, 1856-1858, of Robert Buckner Bolling concerning his service with the Petersburg Common Council. Also, includes materials, 1817-1826, compiled by Robert Bolling concerning a proposed canal between the Appomattox and Staunton rivers in Virginia, including a letter of Richard N. Venable regarding the commercial value of a canal to Petersburg; map and reports concerning the projected canal route; and an ordinance of the Petersburg Common Council concerning the Lower Appomattox Company (a river improvement company).

ArchivalResource: 34 items.

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Bolling, Robert, 1759-1839. Account book, 1792-1795.

Title: Account book, 1792-1795.

This account book, from 13 December 1792 to 28 November 1795, contains miscellaneous entries for scattered dates; the entries deal with labor accounts, provisions, tobacco production and prices, and other miscellaneous items. It is interleaved in Robert Andrews, _The Virginia Almanack for the year of our Lord, 1793 ..._ (Richmond: Printed and Sold by John Dixon, [1792]).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (78 p.) ; octavo.

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