Papers of the Morris family [manuscript], 1704-1931 bulk 1776-1865.

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Papers of the Morris family [manuscript], 1704-1931 bulk 1776-1865.

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Correspondence, business and legal documents of three generations of the family. Papers of Richard Morris are chiefly concerned with business and legal affairs but also include items pertaining to his service as Commissary of Provisions for Virginia, 1776-1780, purchasing food for Virginia troops. Papers of his sons William O. Morris and Dr. James Maury Morris concern tobacco and grain sales, coal mining, candle manufacturing and Dr. Morris's medical practice. Letters of grandson Richard O. Morris are chiefly mercantile. Of interest are a bond of Patrick Henry, 1767; two bills signed by John Marshall; five letters from Henry Clay, 1822-1833, and a substantial amount of slavery material, 1769-1864, including bills of sale, tax bills, taxable property lists, a register, hiring agreements, three documents pertaining to runaways and a suspected thief, and a portrait, 1850, of Harry Holmes, slave of Major James Watson. The collection also contains documents, particularly bonds, land grants and maps, 1727-1831, 1894, pertaining to property and estate settlements in Louisa and Hanover Counties, Roanoke, and Kentucky, together with wills for several members of the Morris and Watson families. Finally there are genealogies, some scattered Confederate items including a bond and a receipt; a journal containing accounts of an Orange, New Jersey, physician, 1910-1920; and a speech re the presidential election of 1872. Also of interest are letters, 1778 and 1788, to James Maury, U.S. consul in Liverpool concerning business prospects, local news, tobacco shipping, and mentioning Patrick Henry's objection to the new Consititution.

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