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Beverley, Robert, 1769-1843. Papers of Robert Beverley, 1783-1831.

Title: Papers of Robert Beverley, 1783-1831.

Include letters, 1783, from Edmund Randolph re legislative procedures in the General Assembly including a bill to pay off the Army debt; letters, 1809-1810, from British minister plenipotentiary Francis James Jackson re the recall of Erskine following the Chesapeake-Leopard affair, Jackson's peace initiatives, and protests against a renewed embargo; and an indenture and bond for London and Jefferson County land signed by Ferdinando Fairfax. Most of the papers are concerned with Beverley's settlement of the estate of William Augustine Washington. Correspondents include John Tayloe Lomax, Thomas B. Barton, Thomas Gresham, William Brooke, William Macfarlane, Phillip Pendleton Barbour, Briscoe Gerard Baldwin, Daniel Sheffey, Bushrod Washington, and Sarah Tayloe Washington.

ArchivalResource: 42 items.

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Burnham, Royal Edwin. Brooke family genealogical notes.

Title: Brooke family genealogical notes.

Genealogical notes concerning William Brooke (d. ca. 1821) and his wife Mary Beale Brooke of Culpeper County, Virginia and their children George Brooke (d. 1828), William Brooke (1786-1842), Robert Brooke, (d. 1838), Fontaine Brooke, Reuben Brooke (d. 1854), Harriet Brooke, Phoebe Brooke, and Whitfield Brooke and their descendants. Included are military records, clippings, deeds, (Culpeper, and Stafford counties, Virginia), court records (Richmond County, Virginia), and a short history of Falmouth, Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 53 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/187303188 View

Burnham, Royal Edwin. Brooke family genealogical notes, 1786-1854.

Title: Brooke family genealogical notes, 1786-1854.

Genealogical notes concerning William Brooke (d. ca. 1821) and his wife Mary Beale Brooke of Culpeper County, Virginia and their children George Brooke (d. 1828), William Brooke (1786-1842), Robert Brooke, (d. 1838), Fontaine Brooke, Reuben Brooke (d. 1854), Harriet Brooke, Phoebe Brooke, and Whitfield Brooke and their descendants. Included are military records, clippings, deeds, (Culpeper, and Stafford counties, Virginia), court records (Richmond County, Virginia), and a short history of Falmouth, Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 53 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122553898 View

Brooke, John Rutter, 1838-1926. Papers, 1753-1903.

Title: Papers, 1753-1903.

Correspondence documents, military orders, and pamphlets pertaining chiefly to the career of John Rutter Brooke in the United States Army, 1861-1892. Includes: official reports of the battle of Fair Oaks, 1862; Civil War orders, 1862; war maps of Indian territory in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the Shenandoah Valley; material on suppression of mob violence in New Orleans and Baton Rouge; records of Brooke's activities as commanding general in the Indian territories of Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, 1892-1898; list of names of outlaws, 1892; correspondence from military departments of La Platte, Dakota, Missouri, Omaha, Governors' Island, New Mexico, Texas, Minnesota; material on military expedition in Puerto Rico, 1898-1902; appointment as peace commissioner and Governor of Puerto Rico; accounts of several expeditions in Cuba, military hospitals, barracks, railroads, governor's palace, post office, etc.; letter books, 1888-1898; index books to correspondence; printed military regulations, 1863-1899; commissions signed by Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Andrew Johnson, William McKinley, Grover Cleveland, Elihu Root; also letters of Major William Brooke on military affairs in the Philippines, 1901-1902.

ArchivalResource: 18 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86102568 View