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Papers, 1746-1825.

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Letters and accounts of Richard Corbin include warrants for payments of Virginia quitrents; accounts and letters with Osgood and Capel Hanbury, his London agents; memoranda and accounts regarding his plantations; accounts with tradesmen; accounts, legal papers, and letters to his son, Richard Corbin, Jr. Volumes include Corbin's letterbook (1758-1768) with letters and invoices to Edward Athawes, Robert Dinwiddie, Capel and Osgood Hanbury, Edmund Jennings, Philip Ludwell, Ralph Wormeley, Charles Goore, Beilby Porteus, and others; Corbin's tobacco book, 1746-1790, includes annual quantity, origin, place of inspection, disposition, and overseers' shares; and the diary (1773-1776) of John Harrower, Scottish indentured tutor for Colonel William Daingerfield's children, of Belvidera, near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Collection includes mention of Jaquelin Ambler, Leroy Anderson, Burwell Bassett, Carter Braxton, Charles Carter, Robert Cary, Robert Cholemondeley, James Lee, John Norton and Sons, John Robinson, James Semple, Benjamin Tomkins, and Benjamin Waller.

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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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Braxton, Carter, 1736-1797

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Carter Braxton (September 10, 1736 – October 10, 1797) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, a merchant, planter, a Founding Father of the United States and a Virginia politician. A grandson of Robert "King" Carter, one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners and slaveholders in the Old Dominion, Braxton was active in Virginia's legislature for more than 25 years, generally allied with Landon Carter, Benjamin Harrison V, Edmund Pendleton and other conservative pla...

John Norton & Sons.

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Cary, Robert

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Robinson, John, 1705-1766.

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Tompkins, Benjamin.

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Ambler, Jaquelin, 1742-1798

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Anderson, Leroy Hammond, 1770-1837.

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Goore, Charles, 1701-1783

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Bassett, Burwell, -1793

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Porteus, Beilby, 1731-1809

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Beilby Porteus was born in York in 1731; his parents were Virginian colonists who had moved back to England. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1752 and tutored until 1757 when he was ordained. In 1759 he won the Seatonian Prize for his poem 'Death: a poetical essay'. By 1762 Porteus had been appointed domestic chaplain to Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury; in 1769 he became Chaplain to King George III, and was created Bishop of Chester in 1776. When Porteus was appointed Bishop of ...

Daingerfield, William Henry, 1808-1878

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Waller, Benjamin, 1716-1786.

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Benajmin Waller (1716-1786) was a respected and influential lawyer, civil servant, community leader, and land developer. Born in King William County, Virginia, Waller was a student at the College of William and Mary and later studied law using Sir John Randolph's law library. From the guide to the Benjamin Waller Letter to William Byrd, 1772 March 15, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) From the guide to the Clerk's Chit, 1774, (John D. Rocke...

Corbin, Richard, 1751-1819.

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Semple, James, 1768-1835

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Harrower, John, 1733 or 1734-1777

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Lee, James A., 1922-

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Ludwell, Philip, 1716-1767.

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Capel and Osgood Hanbury (Firm)

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Carter, Charles, 1732-1806.

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Son of Dasey Southall and Edith Southall. Resided in Henrico County, Va. Married to Martha Vanderwall in 1756. Member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Senate. Served on a commission to establish the capital at Richmond and was one of three commissioners for the state foundry at Westham. From the guide to the Turner Southall Receipt Book, 1776-1784., (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) ...

Cholemondeley, Robert.

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Wormeley, Ralph, 1715-1790

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Jennings, Edmund, 1731-1819.

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Dinwiddie, Robert, 1693-1770

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Governor of Virginia. From the description of Transcripts of correspondence edited by Louis Knott Koontz, 1739-1769. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067647 From the description of Autograph signature (clipped) from a document : [n.p.]., 1754 Apr. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270534556 Colonial official; lieutenant governor of Virginia 1751-1758. From the description of LS : Williamsburg, Va., to Robert Hunter Morris, 1754 Mar. 1. (Rosenbach Museum...

Athawes, Edward, fl. 1750-1775.

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Corbin, Richard, ca. 1708-1790.

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Richard Corbin was a Virginia Burgess, Councillor, and Receiver General. From the description of Papers, 1746-1825. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 25236521 ...