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Nelson, William, 1711-1772. William Nelson ledger and daybook, 1767-1784.

Title: William Nelson ledger and daybook, 1767-1784.

Ledger and daybook of William Nelson, merchant and colonial leader of Yorktown, Virginia. The collection contains one ledger from a family business which spanned three generations. A number of the accounts are for large purchases totaling in the hundreds of pounds. There are numerous accounts for individuals in Yorktown and its vicinity including accounts with several Yorktown doctors. There are also a number of accounts for ship's captains as Yorktown was an important port in the eighteenth century. There are entries for several merchants. Prominent among these are John Hatley Norton who represented John Norton and Sons in Yorktown, the Scots merchant, David Jameson of Yorktown who served as Lt. Governor under Thomas Nelson, Jr., the firm of Messr's Lamer, Hill & Bisett located on the island of Madiera, Cornelius Calvert of Norfolk, and Colonel Humphrey Hill of King and Queen County. There are entries for a number of estates including those of Carter Burwell, Governor Francis Fauquier, Philip Grymes, William Lightfoot, and the London merchant Edward Athawes. There are accounts for a number of Williamsburg residents including William Biers, Edward Charlton, Thomas Craig, John Ferguson, Humphrey Harwood, Anthony Hay, Robert Carter Nicholas, John Prentis, Samuel Spurr, Jane Vobe, Benjamin Waller, and Mary Wray. Other prominent individuals include Jaqueline Ambler, the Reverend Robert Barret, Burwell Bassett, Nathaniel Burwell, Robert Burwell, William Byrd III, Reverend Joseph Davenport, Richard Henry Lee, Augustine Moore, William Nelson, Jr., the Reverend Charles Mynn Thruston, the Reverend Thomas Warrington, and Ralph Wormeley. There is also an account with the Dismal Swamp Company and the William and Thomas Nelson House in Williamsburg.

ArchivalResource: 2 vols. bound in 3

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Harrison, Mary Bain, collector, d. 1989. Collection of manuscript items, 1756-1865.

Title: Collection of manuscript items, 1756-1865.

Includes two letters from James Madison to Edmund Pendleton. Other correspondents mentioned: Thomas Jefferson, Philip Grymes, Robert Harrison, and Lunsford Lomax.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

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Grymes, Philip. Papers of Philip Grymes, 1762-1764.

Title: Papers of Philip Grymes, 1762-1764.

Estate collection.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Vol. CLXXXIV (ff. 203). 1642-1764.includes:ff. 1, 14, 17 Excise: Ordinances of: 1642, 1644. f. 3 Medicine: Plan for a medical club: 1834 (?). f. 19 Navy; England: Report of Committee on public debt of: 1710. f. 31 Henry Watkins, Deputy Judge-Advo..., 1642-1764

Title: Vol. CLXXXIV (ff. 203). 1642- 1764.includes:ff. 1, 14, 17 Excise: Ordinances of: 1642, 1644. f. 3 Medicine: Plan for a medical club: 1834 (?). f. 19 Navy; England: Report of Committee on public debt of: 1710. f. 31 Henry Watkins, Deputy Judge-Advo... 1642-1764

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Burwell family. Papers, 1736-1810.

Title: Papers, 1736-1810.

Account books kept by Carter Burwell (1716-1756) and his son, Nathaniel Burwell (1750-1814), for their plantation, Carter's Grove, James City County, Virginia. One account book contains accounts of their neighbor, James Bray (d. 1744), who ran a tannery and shoemaking shop at his plantation; others contain accounts for the building of Carter's Grove. Also, a Book of Common Prayer and a Bible owned by Carter Burwell; four stud horse advertisements and a poster on pedigree and performance of the "late Eclipse." The accounts include names of James Anderson, Governor Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, the Rev. John Bracken, Ann Burwell, Armistead Burwell, John Carter, George Charleton, Josiah Chowning, Mrs. Davenport, Dr. John Minson Galt, Governor William Gooch, Philip Grymes, Matthew Hubbard, William Moody, Hugh Nelson, John Norton, Dr. William Pasteur, Dr. John de Sequeyra, Richard Taliaferro, William Trebell, Robert Waller, Henry Wetherburn, Thomas Wharton, Ralph Wormeley, and many others.

ArchivalResource: 5 v. and 10 items.

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Grymes, Philip. Inventory of books, 1762 July.

Title: Inventory of books, 1762 July.

List of books in Philip Grymes's estate.

ArchivalResource: 4 p. ; 40 cm.

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Harrison, Mary Bain, collector, d.1989. Collection of manuscript items, 1756-1865.

Title: Collection of manuscript items, 1756-1865.

These items, 1756-1865, are from the estate of Mary Bain Harrison (d. 1989) and include two unsigned letters of James Madison to Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803), August 27 and September 10, 1782, discussing a fugitive slave belonging to Pendleton's nephew, financial problems, and current events, including the court martial of Captain Richard Lippincott for the hanging of Joshua Huddy; the fragment of an address leaf directed to Edmund Pendleton, Caroline County, docketed Thomas Jefferson, May 12, 178;̲ a copy of an account, n.d., signed by George Wythe, who was clerk of the House of Burgesses from 1768 to 1776; a 1756 deed between Lunsford Lomax of Caroline County and the Honorable Philip Grymes, Middlesex County, recorded by the General Court; letter from Mary T. Harrison to her father Robert H. Harrison, King William County, December 13, 1842; three letters from Andrew F. Goolsby, Company E, 46th Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, to his sister Ann E. McElsom, April 20 and May 26, 1862, October 23, 1864, relating military action around Richmond and on the Peninsula, including the siege of Yorktown; request for interest on two Confederate States bonds, 1865; and a Harrison family record.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

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Order of Council, 1754 Feb 10.

Title: Order of Council, 1754 Feb 10.

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Vol. CXLVI (ff. 331). 2 Feb.-31 Dec. 1763, etc.includes:ff. 1, 14-36, 68-77 British America: Reflections on the settlement and government of: 1763. ff. 1-5, 14-33 Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baron Grosvenor; 1st Earl Grosvenor 1784: Hints on British pol...

Title: Vol. CXLVI (ff. 331). 2 Feb.- 31 Dec. 1763, etc.includes:ff. 1, 14-36, 68-77 British America: Reflections on the settlement and government of: 1763. ff. 1-5, 14-33 Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baron Grosvenor; 1st Earl Grosvenor 1784: Hints on British pol... 2 Feb 1763-31 Dec 1763

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letter to John Beele Boardly [manuscript], 1800 August 30.

Title: Letter to John Beele Boardly [manuscript], 1800 August 30.

Jefferson writes to John Beele Boardly regarding an annuity settled on Mrs. Ariana Jenings Randolph which Peter Randolph, Peyton Randolph, Philip Grymes, and Edmund Randolph, her son were bound.

ArchivalResource: 1 letter.

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Burwell Family Papers, 1736-1786, 1736-1810.

Title: Burwell Family Papers, 1736-1786, 1736-1810.

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