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Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891,. Draper manuscripts: Virginia papers, 1772-1869.

Title: Draper manuscripts: Virginia papers, 1772-1869.

Papers collected by Lyman Draper when he was planning to publish an enlarged and revised edition of Joseph Doddridge's "Notes on the Settlements and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1763-1783." The major topics of discussion center around the development of the region and the American Revolution. Major battles include Dunmore's Expedition, 1774; the Battle of Point Pleasant, 1774; and skirmishes in Valley Forge and Pennsylvania. Defense and relationships with the Shawnee and Cherokee are discussed throughout the various military and family papers. The collection also contains information on many prominent families in the region; major figures include Joseph Doddridge and his family, William Fleming, William Christian, John Stuart, Patrick Henry, William Preston, Thomas Madison, Daniel Smith, John Evan Finley, and Joseph Martin.

ArchivalResource: 3.2 c.f. (16 volumes)

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Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809. Correspondence, 1771-1778.

Title: Correspondence, 1771-1778.

Correspondence documents Dunmore's tenure as governor of Virginia and the beginnings of the American Revolution. Subjects include coinage and currency; the flood of 1771; western lands; Cherokee Indians; French and Indian War bounty lands; the deaths of James Blair and James Horrocks; county clerk nominations; Virginia council vacancies, care of the mentally ill; Dunmore's suit against Cadwallader Colden in New York; land grants; committees of correspondence; Cape Henry lighthouse; boundary dispute of Pennsylvania and Virginia; military campaigns against Indians; the removal of gunpowder from the Williamsburg, Va. magazine (21 April 1775); martial law decree; declaration freeing slaves who join the British forces; loyalist troops; the Virginia conventions. Correspondents include Commissioner of Trade and Plantations, John Connolly, Lord Dartmouth, Thomas Gage, George Germain, Samuel Graves, Marquis of Hillsborough, Sir William Howe, Sir William Johnson, William Knox, Earl of Loudoun, Lord North, John Penn, John Pownall, William Preston, John Robinson, Patrick Tonyn, James Tilghman, George Washington, William Woodford, Ralph Wormeley.

ArchivalResource: 3 v. (834 leaves) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26923951 View

Preston family. Papers of the Preston family[manuscript], 1789-1845.

Title: Papers of the Preston family[manuscript], 1789-1845.

Correspondence is chiefly addressed to General Francis Preston and largely concerns business and legal matters, particularly land purchases in Kentucky and sales. Other topics include salt and plaster shipments by William King and Company, a slave sale inquiry, and a legacy in Patrick Henry's will. There are references to the Abingdon Masonic lodge, the Missouri Compromise debates in Congress, and a William Henry Harrison convention in Macon, Ga. Legal and financial documents include an account of the estate of William Preston, and an indenture concerning Montgomery County land. Correspondents include James Breckinridge, James Brown and William C. Preston.

ArchivalResource: 22 items.

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Davie, Preston, 1881-. "Greenfield" and the Prestons of "Greenfield" and "Smithfield," Va. [manuscript], n.d.

Title: "Greenfield" and the Prestons of "Greenfield" and "Smithfield," Va. [manuscript], n.d.

History of "Greenfield" and the Prestons of "Greenfield" and "Smithfield," Va. by Preston Davie. Typescript.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Preston family. Preston family : miscellaneous papers, 1776-1823.

Title: Preston family : miscellaneous papers, 1776-1823.

Papers include Thomas Madison's 14 Dec. 1794 letter to Francis Preston discussing his dispute with General Wood and a ballot to fill the vacancy made by a Mr. Roane's appointment to the Court of Appeals; Thomas Maxwell's 13 Aug. 1823 account of the battle of King's Mountain; and several receipts, 1774-1785, for surveys.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

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Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891,. Draper manuscripts: George Rogers Clark papers, 1756-1891.

Title: Draper manuscripts: George Rogers Clark papers, 1756-1891.

Papers of and about George Rogers Clark, the most noted military commander in the western campaigns of the Revolution, gathered by Draper from relatives, descendants, and other historians; by transcripts from archives in Spain, Virginia and other localities for an intended complete biography. Included are papers gathered from Clark's descendants and from others who had proposed biographies, recollections of Clark's role in the early history of Kentucky and the Revolutionary War in the West, notes, copies of documents, and interviews with participants or their descendants. Draper's own voluminous notes and drafts of the first two chapters of Draper's proposed biography are also present.

ArchivalResource: 15.0 c.f. (64 volumes)

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Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799. Letter, 1777 September 1, Williamsburg [Va.], to Col. [William] Preston.

Title: Letter, 1777 September 1, Williamsburg [Va.], to Col. [William] Preston.

Governor Henry's letter concerns the most recent outbreak of fighting and Col. Preston's orders for his militia company to be in readiness. Approves of Col. [Evan] Shelby's plan of defense. Hopes an expedition into Ohio may be possible. Col. [William] Fleming will be directed to cooperate. Col. [James] Southall will deliver powder and mine managers will deliver lead for shot, perhaps from Richmond.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 33 cm.

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Preston Family (Charles Peale Didier Collection) Papers, 1747-1897

Title: Preston Family (Charles Peale Didier Collection) Papers, 1747-1897

The Didier Collection of Preston Family Papers includes papers of James Patton, Patton's grandson William Preston, and Preston's eldest son, John Preston, all of Montgomery County, Virginia. The papers consist of business and legal documents, surveys, and correspondence.

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Washington, George, 1732-1799. Papers of George Washington [manuscript], 1774-1780.

Title: Papers of George Washington [manuscript], 1774-1780.

The papers include a letter, 28 February 1774, from George Washington, Mount Vernon, Va., to William Preston, Fincastle County, Va., regarding a bounty Washington received for service in the French and Indian War; and letter, 15 October 1774, from William Christian to William Preston, regarding the Battle of Point Pleasant. There is also a list, 1780, of officers in the Continental Army, with orders on verso regarding officers' uniforms.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Austin, Moses, 1761-1821. Papers of the Preston and related Radford families [manuscript], 1726-1895.

Title: Papers of the Preston and related Radford families [manuscript], 1726-1895.

The collection contains correspondence, surveys, indentures, receipts and other financial, legal and military papers of the related families. Topics include farming and crops, land sales, mercantile purchases, and slave hirings. Of interest are a series of letters, 1819-1828, from University of Virginia students mentioning negotiations with a D.F. Carr, Thomas Jefferson's reputation and John H. Cocke's intentions to keep students out of Charlottesville by a moat or physical barrier. Other topics include early land transactions in Augusta and neighboring counties, 1744-1810, the estate settlement of Colonel James Patton, and the military service of William Preston against Indians on the Virginia frontier.

ArchivalResource: 1300 items.

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Preston family. Papers, 1727-1896 (bulk 1751-1823).

Title: Papers, 1727-1896 (bulk 1751-1823).

The collection contains correspondence, accounts, land records, estate materials, and other papers of the following persons: James Patton (1692-1755), early settler and sheriff of Augusta County, Va.; William Preston (1729-1783) of "Greenfield," Botetourt County, Va., surveyor, militia and Revolutionary War officer; John Preston (1764-1827) of "Horseshoe Bottom," Montgomery County, Va., militia officer, state legislator, and Virginia state treasurer; Francis Preston (1765-1835) of Abingdon, Va., politician; William Preston (1770-1821), U.S. Army officer; and Thomas Lewis Preston (1781-1812) of Lexington, Va. Materials concern the patenting and settlement of land in southwestern Virginia and Kentucky; the activities of surveyors in Augusta and Montgomery counties, Va., and the settlement of Botetourt and Wythe counties, Va.; salt and iron mining and manufacture; Indians, African-American slavery, and the Revolution in southwestern Virginia; and banking, politics, and mineral springs in Virginia. Also, contains miscellaneous papers of other members of the Preston and related families.

ArchivalResource: 3,540 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31752218 View

Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820. Draper manuscripts: Daniel Boone papers, 1760-1911.

Title: Draper manuscripts: Daniel Boone papers, 1760-1911.

Collection of original Daniel Boone manuscripts and correspondence and notes of Lyman C. Draper concerning Daniel Boone, other Kentucky pioneers, Indian-White conflict, and the American Revolution in the West.

ArchivalResource: 5.6 c.f. (33 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145784098 View

Preston, William, 1729-1783. Letters [manuscript], 1776.

Title: Letters [manuscript], 1776.

Include letter, 8 June 1776, from William Fleming to William Preston, regarding relations with the Cherokee nation, a shipment of gunpowder, and the movements of British forces under the command of Lord Dunmore; and letter, 7 August 1776, from Andrew Lewis, Williamsburg, Va., to William Preston, regarding relations with Native Americans, especially Cherokees, gunpowder and other supplies, and Lord Dunmore's change of position.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Preston, William, 1729-1783. Journal of Captain William Preston : Shawnee expedition : typescript copy, 1756 Feb. 9-Mar. 13.

Title: Journal of Captain William Preston : Shawnee expedition : typescript copy, 1756 Feb. 9-Mar. 13.

Typed transcript of Preston's account of an unsuccessful military expedition to Shawnee towns.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (12 leaves)

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Preston, William, 1729-1783. Papers of William and John Preston, 1740-1960; (bulk 1783-1817).

Title: Papers of William and John Preston, 1740-1960; (bulk 1783-1817).

Papers of William Preston and of his son General John Preston, legislator and treasurer of Virginia, and surveyor of Montgomery Co., Va. William Preston's papers chiefly concern surveying and a militia expedition against the Cherokees. The bulk of the papers relate to the business and personal affairs of John Preston. Topics include surveying, old treaties with the Cherokees, the education of his children, legislation in the House of Delegates, stocks in the Second Bank of the United States, and other types of property. Correspondents include Richard Willing Byrd, John Floyd, Charles Clement Johnston, James Pleasants, Francis Preston, and William Radford.

ArchivalResource: 349 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20071643 View

Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891,. Draper manuscripts: Kentucky papers, 1768-1892.

Title: Draper manuscripts: Kentucky papers, 1768-1892.

Collection of papers of diverse dates and formats dealing with the early history of Kentucky. The original manuscripts were created by pioneer Kentucky settlers representing numerous occupations and professions--land promoters, surveyors, farmers, housewives, historians, teachers, clergymen, merchants, and soldiers. Several volumes relate primarily to events, institutions, and people in the city of Lexington, Kentucky; elsewhere is material on the development of Louisville and other communities. A major portion of the collection consists of the papers of John D. Shane, a Presbyterian minister in Ohio and Kentucky.

ArchivalResource: 6.0 c.f. (37 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787140 View

Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891. Collection of Lyman Copeland Draper Manuscripts, 1735-1890.

Title: Collection of Lyman Copeland Draper Manuscripts, 1735-1890.

Manuscripts including colonial papers in Paris and London relating to the history of Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Kings Mountain (N.C.), North Carolina, the Northwest, Pittsburgh (Pa.), South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia; topics such as border forays, frontier wars, the Mecklenburg declaration, and pension statements; and individuals including George M. Bedinger, Daniel Boone, Samuel Brady, Joseph Brant, Daniel Brodhead, George Rogers Clark, Jonathan Clark, William Clark, William Croghan, Daniel Drake, Thomas Forsyth, Josiah Harmar, William Henry Harrison, Thomas S. Hinde, William Irvine, Simon Kenton, Peter Ney, Robert Patterson, members of the Potter family, William Preston, Michael Rudolph, David Shepherd, Thomas Sumter, John Cleves Symmes, Tecumseh, and Lewis Wetzel.

ArchivalResource: 134 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78163206 View

Beale, Lucy Preston. Interview summary, 1922.

Title: Interview summary, 1922.

Typewritten summary of a 1922 interview with Mrs. Lucy Preston Beale, great-granddaughter of Col. William Preston, while on a visit to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Included is information regarding the death of Col. James Patton in 1755, the origin of the name of Smithfield, Va., and the presidential campaign of 1848.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

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Preston, Caroline Hancock, 1785-1847. Recipe book, ca. 1808-1827.

Title: Recipe book, ca. 1808-1827.

Book containing recipes for food preparations and home remedies, and the names of the women who supplied recipes.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914. Commonplace book, 1874-1892 [microform].

Title: Commonplace book, 1874-1892 [microform].

Commonplace book, 1874-1892, compiled by Robert Alonzo Brock containing his handwritten copies of the following materials: genealogical notes concerning the Armistead (p. 1-11), Aylett (p. 12-14), Burwell (p. 64-70), Byrd (p. 21, 36-37), Garland (p. 172-176), Gilmer (p. 150-169), Rose (p. 295-308, 318-319), Rutherfoord (p. 310-317), and Thruston families (p. 377-387, 390, 403-404). Also, includes diaries of John Blair (1751 January 1-1752 December 31) kept in Williamsburg, Va. (p. 23-35), John Floyd (1774 April 8-August 9) kept while exploring the Ohio River (p. 391-398), Doctor Robert Wellford (1794 September 22-December 6) kept while serving in the Virginia Militia (volunteer troop of Fredericksburg cavalry) in Maryland and Pennsylvania during the Whiskey Insurrection (p. 405-409), and Doctor Robert Wellford (1801 June 1-October 14, 1806 March 13-July 6, 1813 December 31-1814 March 6, and 1819 September 20-1820 April 6) kept in Fredericksburg, Va. (p. 409-418). Also, includes Alexander Galt Taliaferro's memoirs of his service in the 23rd Virginia Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. (prelim. pages); extracts from a manuscript copy of Edmund Randolph's History of Virginia (p. 272-292); a letter, 1774 September 7, Camp Union (now Lewisburg, W. Va.), written by William Christian to William Preston concerning military operations during Dunmore's War (p. 399); business accounts, 1769-1770, concerning the estate of Lord Botetourt (p. 55-61); register of marriages, 1817-1847, performed by Charles Talley in Hanover County, Va. (p. 363-369); inventory of the estate, 1782, of John Thruston of Gloucester County, Va. (p. 380-381); architectural drawings of "Ampthill," Chesterfield County (now Richmond), Va. (p. 91-92); architectural drawings of the African Baptist Church of Richmond, Va. (p. 11); and the membership application, 1875 October 16, issued by the Virginia Historical Society to Charles Benjamin Moore (p. 219).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (435 p.)

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Preston, William, 1729-1783. Account book, 1758-1759.

Title: Account book, 1758-1759.

This account book, for the period 1758 to 1759, is interleaved in William Hunter's _Virginia Almanac_ (1758). It contains military financial records and personal cash accounts. Included are entries recording the total payroll for the militia in 1758 and 1759, money lent and borrowed among his officers and acquaintances, and memoranda concerning requests from friends for the purchase of items in nearby Williamsburg, as well as commissary and ammunition orders and militia commission renewals. There are records of expenses incurred in Williamsburg, "an account of money left with [Preston's] sister sealed and no. as follows," a promissory note for payment to the military physician for tending to a wounded person outside the regiment, and a brief statement concerning a paternity suit in which one of Preston's soldiers was apparently involved.

ArchivalResource: 1 almanac (65 p.)

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College of William and Mary. President and Masters. Appointment, 1774 February 21, of Hancock Taylor to assistant Surveyor of Fincastle County, [Va.].

Title: Appointment, 1774 February 21, of Hancock Taylor to assistant Surveyor of Fincastle County, [Va.].

Designates Taylor as Surveyor W[illia]m Preston's assistant. [Signed by] John Camm, S[amuel] Henley, T[homas] Gwatkin and James Madison.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18143348 View

Preston family. Preston family papers, 1755-1836, 1786-1815.

Title: Preston family papers, 1755-1836, 1786-1815.

Papers, chiefly 1786-1815, of three generations of the Preston family. Includes appointments (mostly photostatic copies) of William Preston (ca. 1829-1783) to county positions (coroner, sheriff and surveyor) and to positions in the Virginia militia; and letters, 1773-1782, to Preston concerning land, the Cherokee Indians and a court martial. Also includes correspondence, 1785-1819. of Francis Preston (1765-1836) and his brother John Preston (1764-1827) including letters from John Preston to Francis Preston as well as correspondence of the two men with other people. Subjects covered in the letters include politics; the War of 1812; a carriage; the College of William and Mary; duels; the building of a house; and Indians. The papers also contain a certificate, 20 September 1793, of emancipation of a slave; and correspondence of William Campbell Preston (1764-1860) including a circular and letter, 1827, concerning protest by citizens of South Carolina of a protective tariff.

ArchivalResource: 90 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22596126 View

Preston, William, 1729-1783. Journal of Captain William Preston : Shawnee expedition : typescript copy, 1756 Feb. 9-Mar. 13.

Title: Journal of Captain William Preston : Shawnee expedition : typescript copy, 1756 Feb. 9-Mar. 13.

Typewritten transcript of Preston's account of an unsuccessful military expedition to Shawnee towns.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (12 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82278256 View

Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume III, Miscellany, 1756-1807

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume III, Miscellany, 1756-1807

Portraits, prints, letters, maps, and documents tipped into Volume 3 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: Edmund Pendleton, Samuel Adams (2), Patrick Henry (2), Jacob Duche (2), John Adams, John Dickinson (3), John Jay, William Pitt (2), Israel Putnam, Charles Lee (2), Lord George Sackville, Horatio Gates, Joseph Warren (3), Timothy Pickering, Benedict Arnold, Philip Schuyler, John Adams, John Hancock, Thomas Mifflin, Henry Clinton, William Howe, George Harris, Richard Howe, Jonathan Trumbull, Gilbert Stuart. Prints: Faneuil Hall 1776; Le President du Congres; Bunker Hill Monument; Journee de Lexington; Das erste Burger Blut, zu Grundung der Americanischen Freyheit, vergossen bey Lexington am 19ten April 1775; First Action between the English and Americans, at Concord in 1775; [Putnam hearing the news of the battle of Lexington]; several prints on the Battle of Bunker Hill; A View of the Niagara Fort, taken by Sir William Johnson, on the 25th of July 1759. Letters: correspondents include Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Cols. Fleming and Preston, Richard Henry Lee, Benjamin Lincoln; John Houstoun, Governor of Georgia; John Dickinson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Gage, Artemus Ward, General Thomas, Horatio Gates, Andrew Adams, Gen. Joseph Warren, William Heath, Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne; Lord Percy, Duke of Northumberland; Lord Auckland, Thomas Cushing, Meshech Weare, Samuel Adams, Thomas Rice, John Hancock, a Selectman of Boston, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, Benjamin Lincoln, Clement Biddle, the Massachusetts (Colony) Committee of Supply, Israel Putnam, Robert Howe, Elbridge Gerry, the Massachusetts Legislature, F.M. Lamb, Philip Schuyler, Peter T. Curtenius, Samuel Broome, John Lamb, Maj. Gen. Worster, William Johnson, and Charles Willson Peale. Documents: A[aman.]DS, [bill of exchange for George Croghan, signed by Thomas Gage], April 9, 1766; ADS, [New York committee for inquiry into conspiracies, signed by John Jay, chairman], Jan. 3, 1777; A[aman.]DS, [instructions to John Powell to remit payment to Col. Valentine Jones, signed by Thomas Gage], Feb. 10, 1773; ADS, [request by Massachusetts Gov. John Hancock to the Senate and House for appropriation of funds for troops, signed by Tristram Dalton and Samuel Adams], Oct. 22, 1783; A[aman.]DS, [authorization sent to Lord Henry Duke of Newcastle for a payment to Henry Shelley, signed by William Pitt], Aug. 31, 1787; ADS, [orders for Gen. Thomas from the Massachusetts Council of Safety], April 29, 1775; A[aman.]DS, [Proclamation by Massachusetts Gov. John Hancock for a day of thanksgiving], Oct. 28, 1784; A[aman]DS, [Proclamation by Massachusetts Gov. John Hancock of a fast], March 13, 1788; D[form]S, [commission from the Massachusetts Council for John Parker], March 13, 1780; A[aman.]DS, [request to the Massachusetts Senate and House from Gov. John Hancock for funds for the artillery], June 18, 1791; ADS, [referral and settlement of a case of trespass by Isaac Tyson, with signatures of Thomas Mifflin, et al.], March 30, 1773/June 18, 1773; ADS, [resolution by the Massachusetts House of Representatives approving payment to Oliver Teir for supplies to the Northern Army, signed by John Avery, et al.], Nov. 14, 1776. Documents (continued): AD[contemporary copy]S, [Massachusetts [Committee of Supply?] certifying to Congress Col. Gridley's need of a horse, with signatures of Elbridge Gerry, et al.], July 1, 1786; AD, [John Trumbull?], [pallet employed in the small copy of the Resignation of General Washington], [n.d.]. Maps: Plan of the Town of Boston with the Attack on Bunkers-Hill in the Peninsula of Charlestown.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (94 items).

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Davie, Preston, 1881-1967. Papers, 1750-1967 (bulk 1924-1966).

Title: Papers, 1750-1967 (bulk 1924-1966).

Consist primarily of the correspondence, 1924-1966, of Preston Davie (1881-1967) concerning the Preston family and genealogical notes regarding the Ballard, Brooke, Campbell, Dudley, Hampton, Hubard, Patton, Preston, Smith, and Wickliffe families. Also, include papers of members of the Preston and related families. Items include speeches and a letter, 1774-1775, of William Preston (1729-1783) concerning Cherokee Indians in the Revolutionary War; correspondence, 1812-1841, of William Campbell Preston (1794-1860); correspondence, 1861-1864, of John Smith Preston (1809-1881) concerning his service in the Confederate States Bureau of Conscription; letters, 1878-1886, of William Preston (1816-1887); and correspondence, 1844-1862, of Charles Anderson Wickliffe (1788-1869) with James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, James Knox Polk, and John Tyler concerning, in part, the annexation of Texas. Also, papers collected by Preston Davie. Items include a patent, 1750, issued for land in Augusta County, Va.; and rent rolls, 1773-1794, of the Northern Neck Proprietary of Virginia for Culpeper and Northumberland counties, Va.

ArchivalResource: 633 items.

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Geddy, James, Jr., 1731-1778. Receipted account, 1772 May 5.

Title: Receipted account, 1772 May 5.

Receipted account of Col [William] Preston with Williamsburg silversmith James Geddy, Jr., for 9£ 19s 3p; items include jewelry, silverware, buckles, studs, and watch repairs.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 11.5 x 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11772849 View

Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Notes

Title: Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Notes

Lyman Draper's notes, primarily of interviews (1841-1868), with maps and transcriptions from state and county archives, newspapers, and personal manuscripts, concerning the trans-Appalachian West from about 1750 to 1815, with emphasis on Indian-White conflict, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. Includes material on Indian wars, including Dunmore's War, 1774; expeditions against the Cherokee in 1776, 1788, and 1793; Crawford's campaign, 1782; John Logan's Shawnee expedition, 1787; the Great Miami treaty, 1786; the Nickajack campaign, 1794; a battle between the Potawatomi and Stephen Cole's party, 1810; Henry Dodge's expeditions of 1812 and 1814; and Indian attacks and captivities in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Also includes material on the Revolutionary War in Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and the Mohawk Valley, and the battles of Point Pleasant, Monmouth, King's Mountain, and Blue Licks, activities of spies, St. Clair's defeat, and Clark's Illinois campaign. Material on the War of 1812 includes descriptions of the Chicago massacre and battles of Frenchtown, Raisin River, and Thames. Also includes information on early settlement in Missouri and Kentucky, the state of Franklin, Shays' Rebellion, the upper Mississippi River, Prairie du Chien (Wisconsin), the Rock River valley (Illinois and Wisconsin), Indian traders at Milwaukee (circa 1800), and Hugh F. Bell's recollections of game hunting and cooking in Kentucky (circa 1795), with instructions for making a bearskin coat. Persons interviewed include Seneca Indians at the Cattaraugus Reservation (New York); Nathan Boone, son of Daniel Boone, and his wife, Olive Van Bibber Boone; Simon Girty's daughter, Sarah Munger; and Simon Kenton's son, William M. Kenton. Includes excerpts from Benjamin Van Cleve's manuscript biography, from Nathaniel Hart's journal of Anthony Wayne's 1794 campaign, and copies of Wayne papers for 1792-1795. Individuals noted as subject terms below are discussed in the interviews. Also includes information on the Lewis family of Virginia, and on the Musick, Renfroe, Todd, and Wetzel families, and genealogical information for the Boone, Bryan, Callaway, Girty, Kenton, Munger, Sevier, and Van Bibber families, and for the families of John Cuppy, Thomas Dickerson, Silas Hedges, Henry Jolly, and Spencer Records. Maps include Kaskaskia (Illinois), portions of Ohio, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and the Tippecanoe battleground.

ArchivalResource: 3.6 cubic feet (33 volumes)

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Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817. Jefferson facsimiles collection [manuscript], n.d.

Title: Jefferson facsimiles collection [manuscript], n.d.

The facsimiles include a letter, 1768 August 18, to William Preston regarding James Fontaine's candidacy for chaplaincy of the House of Burgesses; Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence; and a letter, 1780 June 10, to James Monroe requesting that he serve as emissary for the governor. Also a letter, 1781 March 19, to George Washington, regarding Nathanael Greene, the militia, the Marquis de Lafayette and the war in the south; a letter, 1815 May 15, to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, on Napoleon's return to power and its effect on peace between America, England and France; and an Outline of a bill for proportioning crimes and punishments, n.d.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647923054 View

Campbell, Arthur, 1742-1811. Arthur Campbell Papers, 1752-1811.

Title: Arthur Campbell Papers, 1752-1811.

Collection includes correspondence, statements of account, receipts, promissory notes, land papers, military papers, and legal papers. Papers reflect Campbell's activities as county lieutenant of Washington County, Virginia, from its formation in 1777 through the Revolution and the Indian wars that followed, his service as sheriff of the county, and as a member of the Virginia Assembly. Correspondence, 1774-1811, concerns land, the state militia, frontier defense against Indians, military aid to Kentucky, Indian treaties, the Creek War, the Virginia-North Carolina boundary, the state of Franklin, separation of Kentucky from Virginia, navigation of the Mississippi River, Anglo-American relations, national and state politics, proceedings of Congress in 1790, Anthony Wayne's campaign against the Northwest Indians, the French Revolution, and Jedidiah Morse's Geography. Also includes an account, 1764-1765, against Colonel John Buchanan for "teaching scholars"; papers, 1752-1806, concerning lands in Lee, Russell and Washington counties, Virginia, including a "short narrative of the discovery of Powell's Valley"; petition of inhabitants of Washington and Montgomery counties that Dr. Thomas Walker's grant be buried in oblivion; papers, 1773-1806, concerning lands in Jefferson, Lincoln, and Hardin counties, Kentucky; papers, 1780-1809, concerning lands in Sullivan and Claiborne counties, Tennessee; bonds, 1797-1798, to Arthur Campbell as sheriff; writ in the case of Arthur Campbell v. Andrew Vance, 1799; transcript of record in case of Salathiel Martin v. Arthur Campbell and John Jones, 1804-1811; and miscellaneous military papers, 1773-1797, a certificate signed by Daniel Boone, 1774, and a military journal kept by William Dells on an expedition against the Cherokee, 1776.

ArchivalResource: 0.33 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46764024 View

Preston, William, 1729-1783. List of military warrants lodged in the surveyor's office of Fincastle from the Virginia Land Office,.

Title: List of military warrants lodged in the surveyor's office of Fincastle from the Virginia Land Office,.

A list, endorsed by William Preston, Fincastle County surveyor, containing in columns the name of the person to whom the warrant was issued, the number of acres contained therein, and assignments made on the warrants. These warrants were approved by Lord Dunmore as governor.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Preston Family Papers, 1755-1836, 1786-1815.

Title: Preston Family Papers, 1755-1836, 1786-1815.

This inventory is dated primarily from 1786 to 1815, and concerns three generations of the Preston family of western Virginia. The papers reflect their involvement in the administrative and political life of Virginia and the nation, as well as family concerns on the Virginia frontier.

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Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809,. Lord Dunmore letters [manuscript], 1773-1775.

Title: Lord Dunmore letters [manuscript], 1773-1775.

Letter, 27 August 1773, from Lord Dunmore, Staunton, Va., to T.B. Martin, regards the purchase of land. Letter, 19 June 1775, Thomas Lewis to William Preston, discusses, Dunmore, western lands and the Loyal Land Company, politics and foreign affairs.

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Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891,. Draper manuscripts: frontier wars papers, 1754-1885.

Title: Draper manuscripts: frontier wars papers, 1754-1885.

Papers collected and arranged by Lyman Draper preparatory to writing a series of sketches on border warfare. Though the earlier Indian wars are briefly considered, the larger portion of the material deals with wars waged in the Northwest (1788-1795) and with Western operations during the War of 1812. The papers include several significant series of original documents and journals of participants in the campaigns. Present is the manuscript original of General Dearborn's defense against the charges of General Hull in relation to the Detroit surrender; papers of Richard Butler, Josiah Harmar, Absolom Baird, James Winchester, Charles S. Todd, Benjamin Whiteman, Nathan Heald, Joseph Martin, Daniel Smith, and others; and much information on Indian treaties and their negotiation.

ArchivalResource: 5.6 c.f. (24 volumes)

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Preston, William, 1729-1783. Draper manuscripts: William Preston papers, 1731-1791.

Title: Draper manuscripts: William Preston papers, 1731-1791.

Papers of William Preston, a colonial and frontier political figure in Virginia, and a few of his relatives. Business and military records concern Preston's land dealings and his role in Indian negotiations. Also included is correspondence with prominent military and political figures, as well as some papers of James Patton and John Buchanan.

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Preston, William, 1729-1783. Some words and phrases in several Indian dialects taken from a M.S. note book of Capt. William Preston : manuscript copy, [17--?].

Title: Some words and phrases in several Indian dialects taken from a M.S. note book of Capt. William Preston : manuscript copy, [17--?].

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (38 leaves)

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