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Corbin, Richard, d. 1787. Papers of Richard Corbin [manuscript] 1746-1795.

Title: Papers of Richard Corbin [manuscript] 1746-1795.

This collection contains a tobacco book, 1746-1795, with entries for each year's crop, and also the letterbook, 1758-68, of Corbin. There are many financial letters in the letter, both Corbin's own and letters regarding his position as Receiver General of His majesty's revenue. There are reports to Robert Dinwiddie on the Virginia General Assembly's actions and many comments on the financial aspects of the French and Indian War. Of interest are letters on the settling of William Byrd's affairs and a letter of instruction on the care of slaves and livestock. With the collection is the diary, 1773-75, of John Harrower, a Scottish emigrant who went to England and Virginia in search of employment. Correspondents include Mann Page, Ralph Wormeley, John Blair, Philip Grymes, Philip Ludwell, James Semple, and John Semple.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

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Manuscripts, land grants, deeds, bonds and other legal papers covering titles to lands in Gloucester County, Lancaster County, Middlesex County, and Rappahannock County, Va. [manuscript] 1666-1777.

Title: Manuscripts, land grants, deeds, bonds and other legal papers covering titles to lands in Gloucester County, Lancaster County, Middlesex County, and Rappahannock County, Va. [manuscript] 1666-1777.

Contracts regarding lands in Southampton, Eng. Names occuring in these papers include: Harry Armistead, John Armistead, Edmund Berkeley, Sir William Berkeley, Thomas Blakey, William Boulter, John Bradley, Mary Bradley, John Buckner, Armistead Churchill, William Churchill, Charles Curtis, Andrew Davis, John Dodson, Thomas Dood, James Dudley, William Elliott, Robert Gleave, James Grundy, Eliza Jones, John Jones, George Keeble, Walter Keeble, John Man, Thomas Marston, Thomas Martin, Patrick Miller, Henry Perrot, Richard Perrot, Micajah Perry, John Rhodes, Christopher Robinson, Thomas Roby, Frances Sandiford, John Sandiford, William Sandiford, John Sibley, Thomas Smith, Richard Stephens, Vallentine Wallia, Henry Webler, John Weire, Walter Whittaker, Thomas Williams, John Wormeley, Ralph Wormeley.

ArchivalResource: 33 items.

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Allason, William, 1731-1800. Records, 1722-1847.

Title: Records, 1722-1847.

Correspondence letterbooks, daybooks, ledgers and miscellaneous items relating to the operation of a mercantile business in Falmouth (King George County) and Winchester, Virginia by William and David Allason. The correspondence reflects the various aspects of extensive mercantile endeavor, as well as personal relationships between family members and friends. Allason corresponded with Lord Dunmore before and after Dunmore fled Virginia, and he maintained a close association with Lord Fairfax, acting as his factor, buying and selling his slaves and engaging people to collect quitrents for the Fairfax proprietary. Other correspondents include Alexander Baine, Robert Beverley, Nathaniel and Robert Burwell, Charles and Landon Carter, John Harvey, Abraham Hite, Neil Jamieson, Charles Marshall, James Mercer, General Daniel Morgan, Hugh Nelson, Mann Page, Robert Rose, David Ross, Andrew Sprowle, Col. John Taylor, Benamin Waller, John and Warriner Washington, Ralph Wormeley, George Wythe and Isaac Zane. Records identifed as Allason's during his service as agent for Baird and Walker include: daybook for a concern belonging to Baird and Walker, 1759-1769; ledger of sundry goods, 1757-1762; ledger for cargo, 1759; and ledger, 1751-1752. Other volumes include: daybooks, 1761-1800; ledgers, 1760-1801; cash sales, 1764-1782; invoice and inventory books, 1760-1796' balances due, 1766-1792; memorandum books, 1757-1800; and tobacco books 1757-1763, 1786-1804. Account books of the Shenandoah store operated by David Allason include: day book, 1761-1763; and ledgers, 1761-1763. Records of his operation of the Falmouth Store include: daybooks,1775-1777, 1786-1804; and ledgers, 1783-1801. Other volumes include: daybook and journal of private transaction, 1757-1769; daybook of Pine Forest Sawmill, 1787-1793; record of planks saved, 1787-1789; transaction at River Run mill, 1786-1787; and transaction for William Kirk's estate, 1781-1786.

ArchivalResource: 15.375 cu. ft.

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Wormeley, Ralph. Ralph Wormeley correspondence, 1782 April 19.

Title: Ralph Wormeley correspondence, 1782 April 19.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70981420 View

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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Wormeley, Ralph, 1744-1805. Papers of Ralph Wormeley, 1773-1802.

Title: Papers of Ralph Wormeley, 1773-1802.

Includes letterbook and letters, 1783-1802, of Ralph Wormeley to British merchants and other Virginia residents. Topics include sale and shipping of tobacco, insurance on tobacco cargo, claims against the United States for reimbursement of war losses and pre-Revolutionary debts, and effects of American legislation on commerce. Topics also include sale of tobacco for John Tayloe's estate, guardianship of John Tayloe's son, the benefits of English education and Eton, opinion of the Constitution, sale and delivery of slaves (1797), and the sudden insanity and death of his son (1801). Also include letters to Ralph Wormeley; letter, 1773, from William Tryon re: Wormeley's marriage and seat on Governor's Council; letter, 1774, from Edmund Pendleton re: governor's proclamation about court officers' fees; and letter, ca. 1775, from Nathaniel Foy re: Loyalist sympathies and Battle of Bunker Hill. Also include letter, 1775, from William Byrd re: Battle of Bunker Hill and Lord Dunmore, with note from Ralph Wormeley on Byrd's change of sympathies; and letter, 1778, from Mann Page re: the release of the Wormeleys and a suggesting that he take the Oath of Abjuration. Also include letter, 1785, concerning John Wormeley's claims with Great Britain for military service in Revolutionary War, and affadavit, 1797, attesting to his service with British Army, Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers; letter, 1786, from Hugh James re: British policy towards U.S. trade in the West Indies and Jamaican politics; letters, 1786-1787, from J. Gell re: American-English relations and the trial of Lord Hastings. Also include copy of petition, n.d., concerning the disestablishment of the Episcopal Church.

ArchivalResource: 29 items + 1 v.

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Rockett, Francis H. Virginia photographs, 1991, n.d.

Title: Virginia photographs, 1991, n.d.

The collection includes photographs of the exterior of Elmwood, Essex County, Va., the home of James Mercer Garnett; the exterior of Prestwould, Mecklenburg County, Va., the home of Sir Peyton and Lady Skipwith; the exterior of Rosegill, in Middlesex County, Va., the home of Ralph Wormeley; and interior and exterior of Sabine Hall, Richmond County, Va., the home of Landon Carter. With these is a photograph of Clifton Waller Barrett taken at his 90th birthday celebration in Alderman Library.

ArchivalResource: 7 photos : color.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51884426 View

Wingfield family. Papers, 1772-1907 (bulk 1772-1866).

Title: Papers, 1772-1907 (bulk 1772-1866).

Chiefly a volume of plantation ledger accounts and memoranda, especially of Thomas Wingfield during 1772-1797, containing also an arithmetic book (1809-1813) of Samuel Wingfield. Topics include farm work and products, weaving by men and women, shoemaking, flour milling, blacksmithing, distilling, sawmilling, house construction, artisans, wages of farm laborers, overseeing the plantation of Ralph Wormeley, slaves, and Wingfield and slave genealogy in 18th and 19th centuries. Also, miscellaneous genealogical items.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22540410 View

Wormeley family. Pedigree of the Wormeley Family, 30 January 1885.

Title: Pedigree of the Wormeley Family, 30 January 1885.

Genealogical chart of the Wormeley family of Virginia. Bears [book plate?] of one of the Ralph Wormeleys of "Rosegill," Middlesex County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 3 p. ; 21.5 cm.

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Wormeley, Ralph. Ralph Wormeley notes on Sir Robert Walpole [manuscript], post 1798.

Title: Ralph Wormeley notes on Sir Robert Walpole [manuscript], post 1798.

Miscellaneous notes by Wormeley found in his copy of the 1798 edition of William Coxe's "Memoirs of the life and administration of Sir Robert Walpole...." Wormeley noted events in Walpole's life and commented on his character.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Washington family. Papers of the Washington family, 1784-1843.

Title: Papers of the Washington family, 1784-1843.

Include miscellaneous papers, 1784-1833, of the Washington family, including an account for tobacco, records of the estate of George Quesenberry, letter ordering notions and fabric, and other letters regarding financial matters, a house for sale on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., and a legal dispute over use of a road. Also financial papers, 1788-1810, of William Augustine Washington: bills and receipts for postage, cash, and tobacco; accounts for household supplies and the administration of the estate of Thomas Turner, including Washington's speculation that trade competition between Britain and France may affect the market for American goods; and a bond, 1799, to Alexander Spotswood. Also include letter, 17 May 1795, from Ralph Wormeley to Corbin Washington, Westmoreland County, Va., regarding financial matters; and letter, 3 August 1821, from Lawrence Augustine Washington to Benjamin and Thomas Kite, Philadelphia, Pa., ordering a laxative preparation as well as two books. Also include letter, 27 July 1824, from Bushrod Washington to George Corbin Washington, regarding a visit from a relative; letter, 25 February 1827, from Bushrod Washington, Washington, D.C., to his nephews Spotswood and George Washington, regarding their studies with a private tutor in Alexandria, Va.; and letter, 24 August 1843, from H.A. Washington, Richmond, Va., to his father Lawrence Washington, Westmoreland County, Va., regarding estates law.

ArchivalResource: 31 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34931274 View