Bowyer-Hubard Papers, 1767-1782 and 1816.

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68m82zx (person)

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jj4c8z (person)

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p37q7j (person)

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61h1c98 (person)

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...

United States. Continental Army

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66m6x5k (corporateBody)

In response to the expansion of the Continental Army the number of staff was increased and reorganized in 1776. Changes included the creation of a new unit to supplement George Washington's personal staff. This special unit, the Commander in Chief's Guard, was formed on March 12, 1776 with Captain Caleb Gibbs (formerly adjutant of the 14th Continental Regiment and appointed Aid to Major General Greene) as commander. The unit protected Washington, the army's cash, and official papers. ...

Hubard, James, d. 1782.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r54d36 (person)

Hubard, Matthew.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m08tk0 (person)

Bowyer, Frances Carpenter.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vq7qzq (person)

Carrington, Paul, 1733-1818.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dz07nm (person)

Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vx0q2g (person)

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...

Scott, Charles, ca. 1739-1813.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ps2j1s (person)

American soldier; gov. of Kentucky. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Petersburg, to General Lincoln, 1780 Mar. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634213 American solider; gov. of Kentucky. From the description of Autograph note signed : [n.p.], 1782 Dec. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634774 ...

Wood, James, 1750-1813.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q267wv (person)

Bernard, Simon, 1779-1839

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q252cp (person)

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...

McGrew, Alexander, 1768-1828

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6935h4j (person)

Lee, Thomas Ludwell, 1730-1778

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62z1b86 (person)

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 ...

Bowyer, Michael J. F.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pr9qfj (person)

Hubard, Meriwether.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jb0wft (person)

Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60v8jtv (person)

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...

Digges, Dudley, 1718-1790.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m33cc2 (person)

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66f2sz0 (corporateBody)

Page, John, 1743-1808.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61n8cwx (person)

Governor of Virginia. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to the Senators fro Virginia in Congress, 1803 Jan. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610808 From the description of Autograph letter signed : "In Council" [Richmond, Va.], to Brigadier General Woodford, 1780 Mar. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609950 From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Doctor Jones's", to Robert Carter of Nomony-Hall, 1789 Jan. 25. (Unknown). ...

Murray, James, 1713-1781

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60p2z1h (person)

Hubard, Frances Morton, 1739?-1800?

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6101rd0 (person)