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Benjamin Waller Letter to William Byrd, 1772 March 15

Title: Benjamin Waller Letter to William Byrd 1772 March 15

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Adams family. Papers, 1672-1792. Section 8.

Title: Papers, 1672-1792. Section 8.

Bills of lading, 1772, issued to Perkins, Buchanan & Brown of London, Eng., by James Lowes for the shipment of goods to Thomas Adams; and a bill of exchange, 1772, of William Byrd, III, drawn on Robert Cary & Co. of London, Eng., to pay Thomas Adams.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38987887 View

William Byrd letter to Samuel Ingles and lottery ticket, 1767-1770

Title: William Byrd letter to Samuel Ingles and lottery ticket 1767-1770

Letter concerning wheat trade, and a 1767 lottery ticket.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/8099 View

Collection of lottery tickets from Dr. B. Randolph Wellford's collection [manuscript] 1767-1887.

Title: Collection of lottery tickets from Dr. B. Randolph Wellford's collection [manuscript] 1767-1887.

Including ticket of Mountain Road, Va. Lottery, signed by George Washington, 1768; Virginia State Navigation Co. lottery tickets, Lynchburg, 1827; Dismal Swamp Canal Co. lottery; Petersburg, Va. church lottery (1800); College of William and Mary lottery ticket; Fredericksburg, Va. lottery for streets, buildings, 1826 and Louisiana State Lottery Co., 1887. Photostats. 8 items. Two original tickets of the Washington City Canal Co lottery (no.1) 1798. 2 items. 1767-1887.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647963660 View

Woodfin, Maude Howlett, 1891-1948. Papers, 1915-1948.

Title: Papers, 1915-1948.

Papers of Maude Howlett Woodfin include correspondence, research notes, manuscripts and articles, a short story, and student essays documenting her career as a scholar and teacher on the faculty of Westhampton College (now part of the University of Richmond). Reflected are her work on the secret diaries of William Byrd II and her research on the three William Byrds of Westover, Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Charles Genet, Thomas Stegge I and Thomas Stegge II, as well as genealogy and architecture. Correspondents include historian Louis B. Wright and editor Marion Tinling.

ArchivalResource: 21, 021 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33953232 View

Byrd, William III, 1728-1777. Lottery ticket, 1767.

Title: Lottery ticket, 1767.

Ticket number 9233 for William Byrd's lottery, 1767.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 5.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10307066 View

Skipwith, Peyton, 1740-1805. Papers : of Peyton Skipwith, 1763-1852.

Title: Papers : of Peyton Skipwith, 1763-1852.

The collection consists primarily of correspondence regarding personal and legal matters. Correspondents include his daughter, Lillia Skipwith Carter, Daniel Call, William Byrd, and others. Also included are three indentures, and receipts for goods in London for Lady Skipwith, 1771.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29551504 View

Byrd, William, 1728-1777. Letter : to Maria Carter, ca. 1761-1764.

Title: Letter : to Maria Carter, ca. 1761-1764.

Letter possibly to Maria Carter from William Byrd III inquiring as to when she will visit Westover. Mentions several family members.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25617144 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

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647927819 View

Byrd, William, 1728-1777. William Byrd papers, 1761-1768.

Title: William Byrd papers, 1761-1768.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79454077 View

Clayton, John, 1665-1737. Jenings family papers, 1737-1837.

Title: Jenings family papers, 1737-1837.

The collection contains the letterpress copybook of Edmund Jenings, kept in London and Richmond, England, concerning Horatio Sharpe, Richard Lee, Edward Braddock's campaign in 1755, horse racing in Virginia, Frederick Lord Baltimore, John Randolph, the Ohio Company, Peyton Randolph, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, William Byrd III, and William Pitt. Other subjects include the Board of Trade of Great Britain, Jewish immigration to Great Britain, Maryland Land Office, slaves, paper currency in Virginia and Maryland, pistole fee, plantations in Virginia and Maryland, salt, Seven Years' War, tobacco, and the Virginia and Maryland boundary. Also discussed are copper mines, the East India company, pamphlets of Edmund Jenings (1731-1819) and Dr. John Mitchell, the Stamp Act of 1765, taxation, the Townshend Acts of 1767, and the College of William and Mary. There are also letters (1789-1818) written to Edmund Jenings (1731-1819) concerning land in Anne Arundel County, Md.; a letter (1783) concerning American property rights in England; a copy of a 1795 act of the Maryland General Assembly concerning land of Edmund Jenings in Anne Arundel County, Md.; the wills (1737) of John Clayton (1665-1737) and (1774) of John Clayton (1694-1773); affidavits (1790) concerning John Clayton (1694- 1773) and William Clayton. Also includes Jenings family genealogical notes and letters.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29489755 View

John Glassford and Company Records, 1743-1886, (bulk 1760-1820)

Title: John Glassford and Company Records 1743-1886 (bulk 1760-1820)

Mercantile firm. Ledgers, journals, daybooks, inventories, cashbooks, and letterbooks of the various mercantile firms in Maryland and Virginia representing or succeeding the Glasgow, Scotland, firm of John Glassford and Company in the Chesapeake tobacco trade.

ArchivalResource: 227 volumes; 227 containers; 62 linear feet; 71 microfilm reels

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Byrd, William, 1728-1777. Will of William Byrd, London [manuscript] 1779 May 19.

Title: Will of William Byrd, London [manuscript] 1779 May 19.

An affadavit registering the will is attached [1 l. photocopy (positive) 24 x 25 cm.].

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647932341 View

Beverley, Robert, 1769-1843. Beverley papers, 1796-1834.

Title: Beverley papers, 1796-1834.

Chiefly letters written to Robert Beverley (1769-1843) of "Blandfield," Essex County, Va. and Georgetown, D.C. from his sister Lucy (Beverley) Randolph, her husband Brett Randolph and their son Richard Randolph, Jr. (1795-1885). The letters concern slaves given to Lucy Beverley Randolph and her children by her father Robert Beverley (d. 1800), and held in trust by her brother Robert Beverley, some of which were sold to pay debts incurred by her husband. Also includes letters concerning the lawsuit Beverley v. Pickett, Scott et al. in chancery; the will of John Randolph of Roanoke; and letters, 1830, from John H. Peyton and William Augustine Washington concerning litigation over claims to George Washington's Kanawha lands; and William Byrd's lottery.

ArchivalResource: 76 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22648173 View

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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Byrd family. Genealogical charts, ca. 1900-1950.

Title: Genealogical charts, ca. 1900-1950.

Charts (bearing coats-of-arms) of the Byrd family of England and Virginia to William Byrd (1652-1704), William Byrd (1674-1744) and William Byrd (1728-1777).

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27291119 View

Fauquier, Francis, 1704?-1768. Correspondence, 1758-1768.

Title: Correspondence, 1758-1768.

Official correspondence (1756-1768) of Francis Fauquier mostly between London and Williamsburg includes instructions, orders, commissions, depositions, circular letters, accounts for quit rents, lists of vessels with grains (1762) and payroll of recruits (1762). Subjects include Cherokee Indian affairs, military and troop matters, taxation, the College of William and Mary, privateering (1761), shipping, the Don Pedro Bermudez/Norfolk riot affair (1761-1762) and the House of Burgesses. Correspondents include George Washington, William Pitt, William Byrd, Sir Jeffrey Amherst, William Henry Lyttelton, Sir William Johnson, the Earl of Shelburne, Earl of Halifax and Earl of Hillsborough.

ArchivalResource: 6 v. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26924538 View

Brydon, Anne Page,. Letters of Anne Page Brydon [manuscript] 1759-98.

Title: Letters of Anne Page Brydon [manuscript] 1759-98.

Letter, 1759 Oct. 22, Jane Byrd Page to William Byrd [2 p. 20.5 cm. holograph signed]--Letter, 1794 Jan. 7, John Page, Rosewell, to James Brown, merchant, Richmond, regarding his account [1 l. 20.5 cm. holograph signed]--Letter, 1798 Nov. 17, Francis Walker, Castle Hill, to Hugh Nelson regarding an attempt to purchase Johnston's land [1 l. 25.3 cm. holograph signed. fragmented].

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647946396 View

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Memoranda books [manuscript] 1767-1770.

Title: Memoranda books [manuscript] 1767-1770.

The books contain notes on legal cases and fees including one for William Byrd; proposed and completed activities; purchases; subscriptions received for the Virginia Gazette and the Gentlemen's magazine; Greek and Latin phrases; house specifications (Monticello?); wine cellar contents; canal measurements; clavichord specifications; and The Virginia Almanack for 1770 annotated with court and General Assembly sessions.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (337 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647970604 View

Beverly Papers, 1796-1834.

Title: Beverly Papers, 1796-1834.

Chiefly letters to Robert Beverley, Jr. of "Blandfield," Essex County, Virginia and Georgetown, D.C., from his brother-in-law Brett Randolph of Culpeper County, Virginia and his nephew Richard Randolph, Jr.

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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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/379066921 View

Letter to Maria Carter, ca. 1761-1764.

Title: Letter to Maria Carter, ca. 1761-1764.

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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)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787473 View

William Lightfoot Papers, 1740-1764.

Title: William Lightfoot Papers, 1740-1764.

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Little, Francis,. Francis Little Collection, 1770-1864.

Title: Francis Little Collection, 1770-1864.

An artificial collection of manuscripts collected by Francis Little. Includes contract, 1770, binding William Byrd III to payment of money in a case involving Robert Carter (signed by William Byrd, John Jameson, George Wythe and Thomas Walne); letter, 1812, of William Henry Harrison to Return Jonathan Meigs concerning an expedition against Tecumseh; grant, 1822, for land in Ohio signed by James Monroe; grant, 1837, for land in Ohio; and two Civil War letters.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23660569 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25236562 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11848782 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

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26924868 View

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

Fauquier, Francis, 1704?-1768. Letter, 1761.

Title: Letter, 1761.

A letter, dated Williamsburg, from Virginia Governor Fauquier to Colonel William Byrd, in which Fauquier orders Byrd, in accordance with the wishes of General Jeffrey Amhurst, to proceed with his militia regiment westward to Cherokee County and cooperate with the troops of Colonel Grant in putting down hostile Indians there.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145771983 View