Letterbook, 1737-1744 [microform]

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Letterbook, 1737-1744 [microform]

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Letterbook of William Beverley (1696-1756) of "Blandfield," VA. Many letters are to merchants in England and Virginia. Included are invoices of articles ordered. Letters are addressed to: Edward Athawes, Thomas Backhouse, William Black, Neil Buchanan, John Fairchild, Lord Fairfax, Richard Hill, James Patton, Micajah and Richard Perry, and John Wilcox.

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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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Beverley, William, 1696-1756

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Virginia planter and political figure. From the guide to the William Beverley papers, 1737-1748, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

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...