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

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

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A Guide to the Dunmore Proclamations, 1771-1772

Title: A Guide to the Dunmore Proclamations, 1771-1772

Series of proclamations given by John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, Oct. 12, 1771-Feb. 8, 1772.

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William Lightfoot Papers, 1740-1764.

Title: William Lightfoot Papers, 1740-1764.

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Hunter, William, d. 1761. Printing office journal, 1750-1752.

Title: Printing office journal, 1750-1752.

Journal of William Hunter's printing office. Accounts with Williamsburg residents and others for printing, advertisements in the Virginia Gazette, bookbinding, postage and stationery. Includes Hunter's household accounts. Types of books represented in the journal include novels, lawbooks, Virginia Almanacks, Bibles, prayer books, cyphering books and other printed items.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 35 cm.

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Corbin, Richard, ca. 1708-1790. Papers, 1746-1825.

Title: Papers, 1746-1825.

Letters and accounts of Richard Corbin include warrants for payments of Virginia quitrents; accounts and letters with Osgood and Capel Hanbury, his London agents; memoranda and accounts regarding his plantations; accounts with tradesmen; accounts, legal papers, and letters to his son, Richard Corbin, Jr. Volumes include Corbin's letterbook (1758-1768) with letters and invoices to Edward Athawes, Robert Dinwiddie, Capel and Osgood Hanbury, Edmund Jennings, Philip Ludwell, Ralph Wormeley, Charles Goore, Beilby Porteus, and others; Corbin's tobacco book, 1746-1790, includes annual quantity, origin, place of inspection, disposition, and overseers' shares; and the diary (1773-1776) of John Harrower, Scottish indentured tutor for Colonel William Daingerfield's children, of Belvidera, near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Collection includes mention of Jaquelin Ambler, Leroy Anderson, Burwell Bassett, Carter Braxton, Charles Carter, Robert Cary, Robert Cholemondeley, James Lee, John Norton and Sons, John Robinson, James Semple, Benjamin Tomkins, and Benjamin Waller.

ArchivalResource: 3 v. and 370 items.

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Lightfoot, William, 1724-1764. Papers, 1740-1764.

Title: Papers, 1740-1764.

Mercantile account book (1747-1764) and loose accounts. Account book documents business dealings with prominent Virginians and British merchants. Names include William Byrd III, Dr. James Carter, Colonel Dudley Digges, Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie, Dr. Peter Hay, Colonel Philip Ludwell, John Norton, Hugh Orr, John Randolph, Richard Taliaferro, Benjamin Waller, and Ralph Wormeley. The first section of the book contains accounts of an English merchant. Names include Joseph Freeman, Edmund Goss, Edmund Green, Thomas Higgs, Thomas Hill, John Lewis, William Poole, Richard Purbeck, James Stanbridge, Thomas Tournay, Robert Warne, and James Young.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. and 8 items.

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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.

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Bookplate collection, 18th and 19th centuries.

Title: Bookplate collection, 18th and 19th centuries.

This collection includes original bookplates of the following persons and groups: Robert Dinwiddie, John Wayles Eppes, James Forster, John Randolph of Roanoke, Wyndham Robertson of Richmond, Thomas Bolling Robertson of Petersburg, Ralph Wormeley of Rosegill, William Stith, John Tayloe of Mt. Airy, Virginia, John Tazewell, the Virginia Council Chamber, and George Wythe.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

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Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809. Proclamations, 1771 October 12-1772 February 8.

Title: Proclamations, 1771 October 12-1772 February 8.

A series of proclamations to dissolve, prorogue, summon, and alter the oath of allegiance for the Virginia General Assembly. Printed Document.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 29 cm.

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Bookplate Collection, 18th-19th century.

Title: Bookplate Collection, 18th-19th century.

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Richard Corbin Papers, 1746-1825.

Title: Richard Corbin Papers, 1746-1825.

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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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