Papers, 1779-1956 and n.d.

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Papers, 1779-1956 and n.d.

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Includes correspondence, clippings, business record books, printed material, legal papers, and scrapbooks from Winchester, Va. Account book, (1807-1861) from unidentified business lists sales of flour and contains pages onto which clippings of poetry, essays, and articles (including one on abolitionist John Brown) have been pasted. Entries were dated in the Quaker style. Account book of the firm Pugh and Miller records sales of a general store from 1817-1824. Dr. John R. Dunbar's memorandum and scrapbook (1823-1894) contains copies of letters (one from Rev. William Meade) and addresses while Dunbar was at Dickinson College and clippings concerning the temperance movement, colonization societies, and Dunbar's election as city councilman. J.L. Bond's personal account book (1879-1891) contains itemized expenditures of a Quaker farmer and businessman. Miscellaneous papers include wills of Lord Fairfax and Daniel Morgan; an 1895 Encyclopedia Britannica scrip book; a 1956 history of Winchester, Va., and a 1916 map of Winchester upon which the sites of Civil War battles have been marked.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7241852

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Dickinson College

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American colonization society

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The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817 in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of transporting freeborn and emancipated American blacks to Africa and helping them start a new life there. From the description of List of emigrants for Liberia, 1867 Nov. 17. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144821 The American Colonization Society was an organization dedicated to transporting freeborn blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa, to what is n...

Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Lord, 1692-1782

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This land grant was issued in 1741 by Thomas, 6th Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, to Richard Brown (d. 1745), descendent of Quaker minister William Brown. The grant was one of five that Richard Brown had received in Virginia's Northern Neck; at the time of his death, he owned a total of 2,774 acres in Loudoun County. Furthermore, his extensive plantation included a house, malthouse, mill, millhouse, saw, sawmill, brewhouse, outhouses of all sorts, and sundry accessories. The 634-acre tract of la...

Morgan, Daniel, 1736-1802

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Morgan was a frontiersman who prospered as a Virginia farmer. His military career began when he served as Captain of one of the two Virginia rifle companies, and led Arnold's march to Quebec (1775). He rose to the rank of brigadier general in 1780, serving until July, 1781 when he retired to "Saratoga," his estate near Winchester, Va. He commanded militia troops during the Whiskey Insurrection of 1794, and was elected to the Fifth Congress as a Federalist representing Virginia. From ...

Dunbar, John R. W. (John Richard Woodcock), 1805-1871

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Winchester (Va.)

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Meade, William, 1789-1862

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Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia. From the description of William Meade papers, 1811-1867. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 660160649 Born 11 November 1789, the son of Richard Kidder Meade and Mary Fitzhugh (Grymes) Meade, William Meade graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1808. He married Mary Nelson (d. 1817) and Thomasia Nelson. He was elected Bishop of the Protestant Church in Virginia and Presiding Bishop of the 1861 Convention...

Pugh and Miller (Winchester, Va.)

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Bond, J. L.

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