Papers, 1672-1792. Section 6.

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Papers, 1672-1792. Section 6.

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Correspondence, 1762-1788, of Thomas Adams (of Augusta and New Kent counties and Richmond, Va., and in Henrico County, Williamsburg, Va., and London, Eng., and while serving in the U.S. Continental Congress at Philadelphia and York, Pa.) with Elizabeth (Griffin) Adams, Richard Adams (concerning tobacco and his election to the Virginia House of Burgesses and the burning of his warehouse in Richmond, Va.), John Banister (bears diary [copy], 1778, of Caleb Gibbs kept during the siege of Newport, R.I., by the U.S. Continental Army), and Richard Bland (concerning the appointment of an Anglican bishop for America, flooding of the James, Rappahannock, and Roanoke rivers in 1771, and paper currency). Also with Edward Browne (of London, Eng., concerning tobacco), John Henry (concerning the printing and sale of Henry's map of Virginia, 1770, in Great Britain and France), Thomas Jefferson, John Morton Jordan, Richard Lee (of Westmoreland County, Va.), William Lee, Philip Mazzei (concerning the sale of wheat in Italy and Mazzei's captivity by the British in New York City and bears seal and letter [copy] of Francis Dana to Thomas Adams), Thomas Nelson, and William Nelson. Also included are Edmund Pendleton, Edmund Randolph, William Richardson (concerning iron ore), George Riddell, Thomas Stuart, James Watt (for Patrick Coutts), George Webb (concerning the estates of Bowler Cocke [1696-1771] and Bowler Cocke [1727-1771]), George Wythe, John Morton Jordan & Co. of London, Eng. (concerning Cyrus Griffin and tobacco), Perkins, and Buchanan & Brown of London, Eng. (concerning the shipment of tobacco, Scottish merchants, and the Virginia Association of 1769).

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