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Battaile Muse papers, Bulk, 1777-1800, 1726-1891

Title: Battaile Muse papers Bulk, 1777-1800 1726-1891

Battaile Muse (1750-1803) was a planters' agent, of Berkeley Co., Va. (now Jefferson Co., W. Va.). Collection includes correspondence, account books, memoranda, and other papers. The collection concerns the movement from Tidewater farms to western Virginia, the progress of the Revolutionary War, sale of farm produce, the treatment of slaves, business operations, the Mercer (1776-1783), and Fairfax estates, and Muse's career as a rental agent for George Washington in Frederick and Fauquier counties, Va. (1784-1792). Correspondents include W. M. Cary, Bryan Fairfax, Ferdinando Fairfax, G. W. Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, J. L. Gervais, Tobias Lear, Richard Bland Lee, Warner Lewis, Stevens T. Mason, James Mercer, John Francis Mercer, Hugh Nelson, George Nicholas, John Hatley Norton, Thomas Rutherford, Magnus Tate, Hannah Fairfax Washington, and Warner Washington.

ArchivalResource: 7.2 Linear feet; 18 boxes

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Cary, Wilson Miles, 1734-1817. Papers of the Fairfax and Lee families, 1753-1808.

Title: Papers of the Fairfax and Lee families, 1753-1808.

Business and legal papers of the Fairfax and Lee families include bonds, agreements, complaints, depositions, indentures, lease, powers of attorney, and promissory notes pertaining to family members and others including Wilson Miles Cary, Ferdinando Fairfax, George William Fairfax, Sally Fairfax, Charles Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Henry Lee, Philip Ludwell Lee, Richard Bland Lee, Richard Henry Lee, John Marshall, James Monroe, Battaile Muse, John Page of Rosewell, Edmund Randolph, and Adam Stephen. Topics include slave hiring and the estates of George William Fairfax and Warner Washington.

ArchivalResource: 51 items.

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Muse, George. Lease, 1777 October 13, Virginia [to] Battaile Muse.

Title: Lease, 1777 October 13, Virginia [to] Battaile Muse.

Lease for two tracts of land along the Kanhawa River in Botetourt County, Virginia, one tract of 2000 acres and one tract of 100 acres, witnessed by James Taylor, Jr., James Upshaw, and Edmund Pendleton, Jr., (1721-1803), Justice of the Peace for Caroline County Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 29 x 38.7 cm.

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