Bowyer-Hubard Papers 1767-1816

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...

Mercer, James, 1736-1793

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James Mercer (February 26, 1736 – October 31, 1793), was an American lawyer, military officer, planter, jurist, and politician. Born at his family's Marlborough plantation in Stafford County in the Colony of Virginia, Mercer received a private education suitable as well as access to his father's library, if not the best, then one of the best in the area. Mercer traveled to Williamsburg for higher education under prominent lawyer George Wythe and others, and graduated from the College of Willi...

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

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Edmund Pendleton (September 9, 1721 – October 23, 1803) was a Virginia planter, politician, lawyer and judge, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served in the Virginia legislature before and during the American Revolutionary War, rising to the position of Speaker. Pendleton attended the First Continental Congress as one of Virginia's delegates alongside George Washington and Patrick Henry, signed the Continental Association, and led the conventions both wherein Virginia declared inde...

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

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John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that the term John Hancock or Hancock has become a nickname in the United S...

Hubard, Meriwether.

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Murray, James

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Epithet: 2nd son of David, 5th Viscount Stormont; styled Earl of Dunbar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x00031b Epithet: Assistant-Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x00027d Epithet: afterwards MP for county Wigtown British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue ...

United States. Continental Army - History.

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Bernard, Simon, 1779-1839

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Simon Bernard, a French military engineer, was born in 1779 and educated at the Ecole Polytechnique. He served in the French army of the Rhine as well as in northern Italy and was made a French captain in 1800. He became known to Napoleon and worked on military intelligence leading to the battle of Austerlitz. He was charged with designing fortifications of Antwerp and later served Napoleon directly. After Napoleon's fall, Bernard went to the United States (1816) and was given a position with ra...

Page, John, 1744-1808

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John Page (1744 – October 11, 1808) was a figure in early United States history. He served in the U.S. Congress and as Governor of Virginia. From the guide to the Memorandum, 1775, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) John Page was born and lived at Rosewell Plantation in Gloucester County, Virginia. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1763, where he was a friend and the closest college classmate of Thomas Jefferson. He became...

Bowyer, Frances Carpenter.

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United States. Continental Army. Virginia Regiment, 12th.

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Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805

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Governor General of India and British army officer. From the description of Papers of Charles Cornwallis, Marquis Cornwallis, 1614-1854. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068310 British general; second in command in North America during Revolution, surrendered to Washington at Yorktown. Later governor-general of India. From the description of Proclamation, 1781 March 18, North Carolina. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86156104 Charle...

Lee, Thomas Ludwell, 1730-1778

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Thomas Ludwell Lee, a delegate from Stafford County to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1776, was a member of "a committee appointed to prepare a Declaration of Rights, and such plan of government as will be most likely to maintain peace and order in this colony, and secure substantial and equal liberty to the people." From the description of Letter, 1776 May 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122602279 ...

Hubard, Frances Morton.

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Hubard, James.

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Hubard, Matthew.

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McGrew, Alexander.

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Digges, Dudley, 1718-1790.

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Wood, James, 1741-1813

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Virginia legislator and Revolutionary War officer. From the description of Papers of James Wood [manuscript], 1746-1787. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647859413 Revolutionary War officer and governor of Virginia (1796-1799). From the description of James Wood letter to Littleton Waller Tazewell [manuscript], 1799 September 26. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647874525 Virginia Governor. From the description of Le...

Scott, Charles

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Epithet: MD, army surgeon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x000293 Charles Scott was a merchant based in Glade Spring Depot, VA. Charles Scott and Company traded in basic goods and ran a salt mill outside of Saltville, Virginia. Saltville, Virginia was known as the Salt Capital of the Confederacy and Charles Scott and Company sold salt to the Virginia Government along with Stuart, Buchanan, and Company i...

Bowyer, Michael.

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Michael Bowyer of Augusta County, Va. was captain in the 12th Virginia regiment of the Continental Line. He married Frances Carpente r in 1766. Elizabeth Hubard, daughter of loy alist lawyer James Hubard married Michael Bowyer's son, John. From the guide to the Bowyer-Hubard Papers, 1767-1816, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) ...

Carrington, Paul, 1733-1818.

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Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809

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Appointed governor of Virginia in 1771. From the description of Correspondence, 1771-1778. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 26923951 Lord Dunmore was the British governor of the Virginia Colony, from September 25, 1771 until his departure to New York on New Years Eve, 1776. From the guide to the Land Grant to Ambrose Gatewood, 1773 June 15, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) Governor of New York (1...