Papers, 1787-1929.

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Papers, 1787-1929.

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Plantation, business, and personal papers (1703-1929) of the Major and Marable families. Papers document the economic life of planters and merchants in colonial, post-revolutionary, and antebellum Virginia. Papers mostly of Henry Hartwell Marable; the John Major family; overseer, Turner Jackson; shoe maker, Jacob Trappell; the Thomas Griffith family; and George B. Major and family. Included are accounts and receipts for quitrent and other taxes, blacksmith work, tobacco and corn crops, food, debt payments, and household goods. Also included are several account books of general stores, a tavern (1794), a postmaster (1840s), medical doctors (1833-1846), and plantation or business (1750-1866). Also included are letters, estate papers, bills of sale for slaves, judgements, orders, and licenses for stills and carriages. Later material includes Civil War family correspondence and popular music magazines (1890s-1904). Subjects include plantation management and overseers, estate administration, litigation over delinquent accounts, family medicine, school tuition, shoe making, tobacco crops, runaway slaves and slave management.

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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library

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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library

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Tyler, John, 1742-1823

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Tyler, John, 1790-1862

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Dinwiddie, Robert, 1693-1770

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