Papers, 1819-1875.

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Papers, 1819-1875.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30891153

Collection contains letters, 1833-1873, written to William Gray as a director of the Bank of Virginia, officer of the Manchester Methodist Episcopal Church, trustee of the town of Manchester, Va., justice of the peace for Chesterfield County, Va., and owner of William Gray & Co. (a tobacco manufacturing and shipping firm). Correspondence in part concerns the tobacco trade and hiring out slaves to Richmond tobacco factories; fugitive slaves and free blacks; and the education of children. Also includes letters, 1833-1874, accounts, banking records, and other business records of William Gray & Co., in part concerning tobacco agents primarily in London, Eng., and New York City, the financial Panic of 1837, the murder of Gray's partner, Joseph H. Harris, by a slave in New Providence, Tenn. (who was subsequently lynched), and European reaction to secession and the American Civil War.

4,000 (ca.) items.

Virginia Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7292940

Virginia Historical Society Library

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William Gray & Co. (Manchester, Va.)

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Harris, Joseph H., d. 1858.

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Bank of Virginia

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Manchester Methodist Episcopal Church (Va.)

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Gray, William, 1793-1873.

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Prominent tobacco manufacturer and shipper of Manchester (now part of Richmond), Va. Owned and operated William Gray & Co. from 1833 until 1873 and served as a director of the Bank of Virginia. From the description of Papers, 1819-1875. (Virginia Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 30891153 ...