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Smith, Ann Mallory,. Papers of the Mallory family [manuscript], 1728-1835.

Title: Papers of the Mallory family [manuscript], 1728-1835.

Represented in the collection are John Mallory (d. 1774), planter and overseer of roads for Orange County, Va.; and his son Nathan Mallory (ca. 1740-1820), also a planter of Orange County, Va. The papers contain correspondence, 1774-1780, concerning a debt of Col. John Quarles of Fredericksburg, Va., due to John Mallory of Orange County, Va.; family letters, 1791-1805, to Nathan Mallory from his sisters Ann Mallory Smith, Lucy Mallory Bailey, and his brother Henry Mallory. The papers also contain the will of John Mallory, probated 1774, with estate inventory, and valuations of slaves; receipts, 1742-ca. 1800, for quitrents; slave bills of sale, 1758; tax documents, 1780-1799; land deed, 1791, for the Burrusses Tract in Orange County, Va.; will, 1815, of Nathan Mallory; and personal account books, 1767-1818, kept by Nathan Mallory, one with an 1806 entry for sales of slaves from William Harvey's estate.

ArchivalResource: 221 items.

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Waller, Benjamin, 1710-1786. Writ, 1771 April 25, Williamsburg, Va. appointing James and John Quarles to examine Agnes Easter.

Title: Writ, 1771 April 25, Williamsburg, Va. appointing James and John Quarles to examine Agnes Easter.

Names James and John Quarles to examine Agnes Easter to determine if she freely relinquishes her dower right to land her husband Phips Jackson Easter sold to John Parke Custis. Includes a letter from James and John Quarles confirming Agnes freely releases her dower right.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. ; 31 cm.

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Mallory family. Mallory family papers, 1728-1835.

Title: Mallory family papers, 1728-1835.

Represented in the collection are John Mallory (d. 1774), planter and overseer of roads for Orange County, Va.; and his son Nathan Mallory (ca. 1740-1820), also a planter of Orange County, Va. Include correspondence, 1774-1780, concerning debt of Col. John Quarles of Fredericksburg, Va., due to John Mallory of Orange County, Va.; family letters, 1791-1805, to Nathan Mallory from his sisters Ann Mallory Smith, Lucy Mallory Bailey, and his brother Henry Mallory. Also include will of John Mallory, probated 1774, with estate inventory, and valuations of slaves; receipts, 1742-ca. 1800, for quitrents; slave bills of sale, 1758; tax documents, 1780-1799; land deed, 1791, for the Burrusses Tract in Orange County, Va.; will, 1815, of Nathan Mallory; and personal account books, 1767-1818, kept by Nathan Mallory, one with an 1806 entry for sales of slaves from William Harvey's estate.

ArchivalResource: 221 items.

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Minor, James, 1785-1828. Papers of James Minor, 1801-1817.

Title: Papers of James Minor, 1801-1817.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence of Minor while an assistant to Dr. James Carmichael of Fredericksburg, 1803-1805, and a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania. Topics include the study of anatomy, the lectures of Benjamin Rush, professors William Shippen and Caspar Wistar, and studies at the University of Edinburgh by Minor's friends, George Watson and James Alexander, who found their medical studies there disappointing. Of interest are a description of surgery performed by Dr. Carmichael and two other Fredericksburg physicians in 1805; a discussion of Dr. Rush's "unity of disease" vs. Dr. William Cullen's "nosology"; manuscript notes on Rush's theory of the functions of the liver, spleen and pancreas; and an 1810 description of trans-Allegheny lands. Additional correspondents include Robert Briggs, John Lewis, Robert Miller, Peter Minor, Garret Minor, John Quarles, and J. Shelton Watson.

ArchivalResource: 81 items.

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