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Morris, Robert, 1734-1806. Autograph letter signed : New York, to James Wilson, 1789 Sept. 27.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New York, to James Wilson, 1789 Sept. 27.

Regarding his nomination by the President as Second Associate Judge of the Supreme Court, alongside Chief Justice John Jay and his associates John Rutledge, James Wilson , Robert Harrison, William Cushing and John Blair, "the station is honorable and the salary of $3500 /ann. not contemptible altho neither comes up to my wishes for you, but you must accept, it is said here that Mr. Rutledge will not accept"; regarding Mr. Hopkins, appointed District Judge, who has enemies slandering him; expressing his hope that the Convention has positive results for Philadelphia; explaining that he has "laboured hard to bring Congress into the neighborhood of our city" but all depends on tomorrow in the House of Representatives.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p., with address panel) ; 22.8 cm.

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Hewlin, Edward. Edward Hewlin land patent, 1758.

Title: Edward Hewlin land patent, 1758.

Land patent (14" x 13 1/2") to Edward Hewlin in Brunswick County, Va., 24 April 1758, probably signed by John Blair, member of the Constitutional Convention (1787) and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226295922 View

Order of Council, 1754 Feb 10.

Title: Order of Council, 1754 Feb 10.

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=cw/viwc00193.xml View

Williamsburg (Va.). Trustees. Deed, 1783 Sep[temb]er 1, to Thomas Nelson.

Title: Deed, 1783 Sep[temb]er 1, to Thomas Nelson.

Deed of a lot in Williamsburg, Va., by John Blair and Robert Andrews representing the trustees of Williamsburg, Va. Lot is bounded on north by Capitol Square, on east by street leading from south gate of Capitol to Francis St., on south by Francis St., and on west by Thomas Nelson's lot. Must be built upon within twenty-four months. Witnessed by [?] R[us]sell. Recorded by Ben[jamin] C[arter] Waller, Clerk of James City County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 28 x 46 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15293907 View

Dawson, William, 1704-1752. Dawson papers, 1721-1775.

Title: Dawson papers, 1721-1775.

Negative photostats of items from the correspondence of the Rev. William Dawson and the Rev. Thomas Dawson, both of whom were commissaries of the Church of England in Virginia and presidents of the College of William and Mary. Prominent correspondents include Patrick Henry, Samuel Davies, John Blair and Robert Dinwiddie.

ArchivalResource: 96 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23109343 View

Subscription list for a public school in Williamsburg, VA., 1773 July 15

Title: Subscription list for a public school in Williamsburg, VA. 1773 July 15

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=cw/viwc00322.xml View

Blair, John, 1732-1800. [Letter] 1779 Jan. 2, Wmsburg, [Vir., to] Gabriel Penn & Daniel Gaines, Amherst County / John Blair.

Title: [Letter] 1779 Jan. 2, Wmsburg, [Vir., to] Gabriel Penn & Daniel Gaines, Amherst County / John Blair.

John Blair writes the executors of a Capt. Henry Gilbert's will, notifying them that Capt. Gilbert owed John Blair's father, also called John Blair, a bond to be paid with interest dated 1764 Dec. 21.

ArchivalResource: [2] p. ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/171158319 View

Miscellaneous Papers

Title: Miscellaneous Papers

The collection consists of single or small groupings of items arranged in units by provenance. Included are tax forms, records of accounts, slave lists and bills of sale, land patents, schedules of debt, wills, marriage licenses, naturalization papers, invitations, proclamations, commissions, sermons, speeches, and reminiscences, predominantly from North Carolina, Virginia, and other southern states. There is little correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 800; 3.0

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/Misc.Papers.html View

Freemasons. Williamsburg, Va. Lodge No. 6. Proceedings, 1774-1779.

Title: Proceedings, 1774-1779.

Record of business, including the adoption of a new constitution, acceptance of new members, appointment of officers, increases in masonic rank, monetary affairs, funerals for members, plans for conventions and social occasions, and punishment for offending members. Also includes statement of masonic goals and principles. Many prominent Williamsburg citizens are mentioned.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (126 p.) ; 40 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14084128 View

Blair, John, 1732-1800. Letter, Williamsburg, to Samuel Meredith regarding financial accounts [manuscript] 1791 Feb. 9.

Title: Letter, Williamsburg, to Samuel Meredith regarding financial accounts [manuscript] 1791 Feb. 9.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647941403 View

Adams family. Papers, 1672-1792. Section 13.

Title: Papers, 1672-1792. Section 13.

Materials, 1771-1774, concerning Philip Mazzei. Include memorandum for Thomas Adams concerning the emigration of Italians to Virginia; a copy of a plan for encouraging the production of olive-oil, silk, and wine in the American Colonies; a copy of proposals regarding the formation of a company designed to encourage the production of olive-oil, silk, and wine in Virginia (bears a list of subscribers [including Lord Dunmore, Thomas Adams, John Blair, Charles Carter, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, Peyton Randolph, Thomas Mann Randolph, and George Washington]; and a list of books.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38987893 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Blair family. Blair, Banister, Braxton, Horner, Whiting papers, 1760-1890, 1765-1817.

Title: Blair, Banister, Braxton, Horner, Whiting papers, 1760-1890, 1765-1817.

Letters, chiefly 1765-1817, of the Blair, Banister, Braxton, Horner and Whiting families. Correspondents include John Blair (1732-1800), Anne (Blair) Banister and Mary (Blair) Braxton Burwell Prescott. Many of the letters are written by women. Subjects covered in the collection include the Baron de Botetourt, William Tryon, Martha Washington, dueling, social life and customs, marriage and courtship, medicine, the Richmond theater fire, slavery, War of 1812, the College of William and Mary, and Williamsburg, Va.

ArchivalResource: 107 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22648416 View

Subscription list : for a public school in Williamsburg, Va., 1773 July 15.

Title: Subscription list : for a public school in Williamsburg, Va., 1773 July 15.

Subscription list for the establishment of a school in Williamsburg. Consists of twenty signatures. Signers include John Blair, J. Tazewell, George Webb, John Prentis, Edmund Randolph, Robert Andrews, William Pitt, Joseph Hornsby, Thomas Southall, William Page, Gabriel Maupin, John Hatley Norton, William Phillips, Archibald Diddep, Henry Tazewell, Benjamin Powell, Robert Nicolson, William Russell, J. Harwood, and James Innes.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25617917 View

John Blair letter, 1756

Title: John Blair letter 1756

Letter concerning rental and business interests of John Blair of Williamsburg, New York(February 24, 1756).

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/7406 View

Papers, 1664-1842.

Title: Papers, 1664-1842.

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=cw/viwc00131.xml View

College of William and Mary. Bursar's ledger, 1763-1770.

Title: Bursar's ledger, 1763-1770.

Financial records for the College, that show income collected and dispersed, including faculty salaries; household expenses; property rents, and duties on tobacco, liquor, skins, and furs; and peddler licenses. Records of money paid to the office of the surveyor-general, and expenses of a voyage to Britain. Prominent individuals mentioned include William Allen, John Blair, Lewis Burwell, John Camm, Wilson Miles Cary, Benjamin Harrison, James Horrocks, Josiah Johnson, Emmanuel Jones, Philip Ludwell, John Norton, John Palmer, John Randolph, Peyton Randolph, John Robinson, William Small, and Edward Champion Travis.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (103 p.) 40 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19835176 View

Banister, Anne Blair, 1746-1813. Blair, Banister, Braxton, Horner and Whiting Papers, 1765-1890.

Title: Blair, Banister, Braxton, Horner and Whiting Papers, 1765-1890.

Begins with Blair family of Virginia and continues in chronological sequence through their descendants in the Banister, Braxton, Horner and Whiting families. Topics covered include Williamsburg society, medicine, epidemics and illnesses, wartime conditions (American Revolution and War of 1812), and genealogical information. Majority of letters written by female family members who vividly relate activities and concerns of women in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Virginia. Correspondents of note are: Carter Braxton, Benjamin Rush, Bushrod Washington, and Wilson Cary.

ArchivalResource: 108 items ; 36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13449090 View

Forbes, John, 1707-1759. Papers of John Forbes [manuscript], 1755-1759.

Title: Papers of John Forbes [manuscript], 1755-1759.

The papers from Forbes's campaign against the French at Ft. Duquesne contain correspondence, reports about Indian allies and the colonial governments, military returns and instructions, intelligence reports and some financial papers. They concern strategy, supply, the advance across Pennsylvania, colonial cooperation, provisioning of the troops, Indian negotiations and relations with British and colonial officers. Material is present from other British campaigns in the French and Indian war, particularly the assault at Ft. Ticonderoga, the massacre at Ft. William Henry, the siege of Louisburg, and Braddock's defeat which is described in the letterbook of Sir John St.Clair, the highest ranking officer to survive.

ArchivalResource: 530 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647835114 View

College of William and Mary. Bursar's ledger, 1770-1777.

Title: Bursar's ledger, 1770-1777.

Financial records for the College of William and Mary. Income generated from tuition payments, and rents on lands owned by the College in King William and Surry counties, and the "Notoway [sic] [Nottoway] Quarter." Expenses include faculty salaries, household expenses for Brafferton Manor, fees paid to the Surveyor General's office, duties on liquor, furs, skins and tobacco, and interest on accounts owed. Prominent individuals mentioned include John Blair, Richard Bland, John Camm, Richard Graham, Benjamin Grymes, Samuel Henley, James Horrocks, Josiah Johnson, Emmanuel Jones, Philip Ludwell, Robert Miller, John Norton, Peyton Randolph, and Edward Champion Travis.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (136 p.) ; 41 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19927550 View

Blair, John, 1732-1800. Receipt, 1793 March 2.

Title: Receipt, 1793 March 2.

Receipt for Blair's salary for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 1792, received from Samuel Meredith, the first U.S. Treasurer (1789-1801), and signed by Blair.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173203791 View

Freemasons. Williamsburg, Va. Lodge No. 6. Minutes, 1773-1779.

Title: Minutes, 1773-1779.

Corresponds to Proceedings, 1774-1779 (Oversize PH/02/39). Records masonic business, including adoption of a new constitution, acceptance of new members, appointments of officers, increases in masonic rank, etc. Many prominent citizens mentioned, including: John Blair, James Galt, James Innes, James Monroe, Edmund Randolph, Peyton Randolph, Henry Tazewell and St. George Tucker.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol. (130 p.) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17016532 View

Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume XII, Miscellany, 1769-1838

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume XII, Miscellany, 1769-1838

Portraits, prints, letters, documents, and manuscripts (with printed version) tipped into Volume 12 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856) (Rare E 312 I72 ++ 1898) Portraits: Washington Irving (2, 1 with autograph), George Washington, Cornwallis, Lafayette (2, 1 in color), Count de Grasse, Richard Henry Lee, William White, John Brooks, Napoleon, James Madison, John Adams (2), Samuel Osgood (2, 1 with autograph), Walter Livingston (with autograph), George Washington Parke Custis (with autograph), Mrs. Washington, Edmund Randolph, James Wilson (with autograph), John Blair, Robert Hanson Harrison, Fisher Ames, Thomas Jefferson (2), Louis 16th, Governeur Morris. Prints: Ende der Feindseeligkeiten. Die Engländer räumen den Americanern Neu Yorck ein.--1783; Mt Vernon, Residence of Washington; Early Days of Washington; [Martha Washington, Miss Custis, servant]; General Putnam's Escape from the British at Horse-neck; Washington Presiding in the Convention 1787; [Two men, a woman, and a baby in a boat fishing]; East View of Baltimore, Maryland; Sunnyside. Residence of Washington Irving; Inaugeration of Washington at the Old City Hall 1789; Fraunces' Tavern; Washington Taking Leave of His Mother; The First Cabinet. Letters: ALS, John Trumbull to John Taliaferro, May 24, 1838; AL[draft], John Trumbull to the Editors of the American [in defense of Benjamin West], [n.d.]; A[aman.]LS, Henry Knox to Benjamin Lincoln, May 25, 1790; ALS, Tobias Lear to Messers. Adam Stewart & Co., March 19, 1790; AL, Benjamin Franklin to Robert Hare, June 27 [1789]; ALS, Tobias Lear to William Pierce, October 6, 1795; A[aman.]LS, John Jay to William Carmichael, December 1, 1786; ALS, William Pierce to Edward Telfair, Governor of Georgia, January 29, 1786; A[aman.]LS, David Humphreys to John Trumbull, May 16, 1800; A[aman.]LS, Thomas Mifflin to John Houstoun, Governor of Georgia, April 21-22, 1784; A[aman.]LS, David Humphreys to Stephen van Rensselaer, March 6, 1810; ALS, Sam Nicholson to Arthur Lee, January 9-10, 1778; A[aman.]LS, George Clinton to Aaron Burr, March 27, 1790; ALS, U.S. Board of Treasury to Philip Schuyler [signed by Samuel Osgood, Walter Livingston, and Arthur Lee], July 17, 1788; ALS, Samuel Osgood to Samuel Holten, May 14, 1782; ALS, Arthur Lee to [?], August 4, 1769; ALS, James Madison Jr. to Auditors of the Public Accounts, Virginia, September 25, 1780; ALS, Henry Knox to William Hull, May 6, 1792; A[aman.]LS, Thomas Jefferson to James Brown, October 20, 1795; ALS, Henry Knox to Jeremiah Wadsworth, June 11, 1791; ALS, David Humphreys to Samuel Parker, September 2, 1803; ALS, Samuel Bard to Judge Thomson, February 6, 1812; A[aman.]LS, Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, May 13, 1790. Letters (continued): ALS, Edmund Randolph to Charles Simms, February 6, 1791; ALS, John Rutledge to Henry Lanney, July 18, 1778; ALS, [Virginia. Commission to treat with the Ohio Indians] to Edmond Pendleton [signed by Thomas Walker, Andrew Lewis, James Wood, Adam Stephen, J. Walker], October 20, 1775; ALS, Governeur Morris to Jonathan Dayton, July 8, 1807. Documents: D[printed]S, U.S. Board of Commissioner of the Federal city, Warrant [entitling Samuel Blodget, Jr. to share #319 of loan to City of Washington, signed by Thomas Johnson, David Stuart, and Daniel Carroll], May 18, 1792. Manuscripts: AM[draft], "General Washington," [n.d.]; AM[final draft], "General Washington," [n.d.]; AM, [advertisement for a print of "General Washington Resigning his Commission..."], [n.d.] Printed: "General Washington."

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (74 items).

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Harwood, Humphrey, d. 1788. Account book, 1776-1794.

Title: Account book, 1776-1794.

Account book of Humphrey Harwood for brickmaking and other services. Ledger C and D contain the accounts of Harwood's estate, which were settled by his son, William Harwood (1768-1794) and by an unidentified person. Among people whom Harwood worked for were John Ambler, James Anderson, Samuel Beall, John Blair, Louis Burwell, Nathaniel Burwell, William Byrd III, Jesse Cole, Alexander Craig, John M. Galt I, Robert Greenhow, Mrs. Hallam, Mrs. Margaret Hunter, Philip Moody, Mary Stith, Richard Taliaferro, John Travis, St. George Tucker, Benjamin Waller, Thomas Wharton, and George Wythe.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (566 p.) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24767598 View

Humphrey Harwood Account Book, 1776-1794.

Title: Humphrey Harwood Account Book, 1776-1794.

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=cw/viwc00031.xml View

Tazewell family. Papers, 1664 [1771-1805] 1842.

Title: Papers, 1664 [1771-1805] 1842.

Correspondence and legal documents, primarily of Henry Tazewell, but also of Henry's uncle, John, and son, Littleton Waller. Legal documents concern land transactions, including grants from colonial Virginia governors Jeffreys, Gooch, Dinwiddie, and Dunmore, and deeds for lands in Williamsburg, and Caroline, James City, Lower Norfolk, Nansemond, Northampton, Stafford, Westmoreland and York counties. Correspondence discusses legal cases, particularly the settlement of the estates of John and Peyton Randolph, and the debt of John Holt to James [Barrett] Southall. Includes Virginia Superior Court docket for the October term, 1842. Persons of note in collection include: John Blair, Jr., Thomas Everard, Thomas, Baron Fairfax, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Nelson, Lucy Ludwell Paradise, Edmund Pendleton, Benjamin Waller, George Wythe, and others.

ArchivalResource: 44 items ; 38 cm. plus oversize.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14219608 View

Blair, John, 1732-1800. ALS, 1796, November 29, Philadelphia, to Samuel Meredith.

Title: ALS, 1796, November 29, Philadelphia, to Samuel Meredith.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 20 x 7 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13181161 View

Tax Book, 1768-1769.

Title: Tax Book, 1768-1769.

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=cw/viwc00119.xml View

Blair family. Papers, 1741-1792.

Title: Papers, 1741-1792.

An artificial collections of papers concerning the Blair family of Williamsburg. Includes land grant, 1741, signed by James Blair (1655-1743); document, 1768, signed by John Blair (1689-1771) concerning Loudoun County, Va. justices of the peace; depositions, 1787 and n.d., of John Blair (1732-1800) concerning a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Chatham County, Ga. (Margaret Eustace vs. Seth John Cuthbert) which concerned the estate of his brother, James Blair (1741-1772); deposition, 1781, of Patrick Henry in the lawsuit of Margaret Eustace vs. Seth John Cuthbert; and letter, 1792, of John Blair to Samuel Meredith concerning payment to Robert Greenhow.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23249612 View

Deed, 1783 September1

Title: Deed 1783 September1

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=cw/viwc00372.xml View