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Clayton family. Clayton family papers, 1814-1871.

Title: Clayton family papers, 1814-1871.

Papers related to the Clayton family house in London and the estate of its first owner, Dorothea Clayton. Includes an inventory of the house and its library; receipts for repairs, household expenses; lease and sales offers; and documents relating to Dorothea Clayton's estate. The original collector of the papers was William Clayton Clayton, Dorothea Clayton's adoptive nephew. He was the executor of her will and the heir to her London house. He kept many papers related to her estate, including inventories, legal documents and household receipts. He sold most of her assets soon after her death in 1849, but the house remained in his hands until after 1870. The bulk of the papers date from the period soon after Dorothea's death, 1849-1850.The collection consists of two parts: papers related to the house on Hyde Park Street, and papers related to the Dorothea Clayton estate. The Hyde Park Street House section includes the inventory that was made after Dorothea's death, a catalog of its library, household bills and receipts, taxes and ground rent documents, and documents related to leases and sales offers. The Dorothea Clayton estate section contains her will and other documents related to probate, legacies, expenses associated with her estate, and sales of her non-real property. There is also a small group of material related to her adoptive brother's estate and other family papers, which William Clayton Clayton probably included in the collection because they related to Dorothea's assets. The inventory of Dorothea Clayton's house provides an extraordinarily complete listing of all of its contents, including furniture, decorations, clothes, tools, crockery, linens and wine. It describes not only valuable items, but everything down to the slop pail in the housemaid's closet and the "quantity of coals" in the coal cellar. Arranged room-by-room, it gives a short description of each item, with an estimated value for all the items together at the end.

ArchivalResource: 0.42 linear feet (1 box)

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Virginia. General Assembly. House of Burgesses. Articles of association, 1774 May 27.

Title: Articles of association, 1774 May 27.

Printed copy of the Articles of Association signed by 89 members of the late House of Burgesses, 1774, in response to their dissolution by Gov. John Murray, Earl of Dunmore. Mentions the blockadge of Boston, the Tea Tax, and the East India Company. Lists the Burgesses.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14126567 View

Clayton family papers, 1814-1871

Title: Clayton family papers 1814-1871

Papers related to the Clayton family house in London and the estate of its first owner, Dorothea Clayton. Includes an inventory of the house and its library; receipts for repairs, household expenses; lease and sales offers; and documents relating to Dorothea Clayton's estate.

ArchivalResource: 0.42 Linear feet (1 box)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/ycba.mss.0002 View