Guidebook to the James Russell correspondence in the Coutts & Company Papers in the Great Britain National Register of Archives [manuscript], 1956.

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Guidebook to the James Russell correspondence in the Coutts & Company Papers in the Great Britain National Register of Archives [manuscript], 1956.

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The guidebook, compiled in 1956 by the Historical Manuscripts Commission of the Great Britain National Register of Archives, outlines the 18th century business correspondence of James Russell, a London merchant. The correspondence [not extant] is mostly with agents and firms in Maryland and Virginia concerning tobacco and wheat cargoes. People mentioned include Thomas Sim Lee, the Virginia Statesman who helped frame the Declaration of Independence. Corrspondents also include members of these Maryland and Virginia families: Fendell, Galloway, Jenifer, Johns, Warfield and Washington.

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Lee, Thomas Sim, 1745-1819

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Thomas Sim Lee (October 29, 1745 – November 9, 1819) was an American planter and statesman of Frederick County, Maryland. Although not a signatory to the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation or the US Constitution, he was an important participant in the process of their creation. Thomas Sim Lee was the second State Governor of Maryland, serving twice, from 1779 to 1783 and again from 1792 to 1794. Thomas Sim Lee also served as a delegate of Maryland in the Congress of the C...

Plater, George, 1735-1792

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George Plater III (November 8, 1735 – February 10, 1792) was an American planter, lawyer, and statesman from Saint Mary's County, Maryland. He represented Maryland in the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1780, and briefly served as the sixth Governor of Maryland from November 1791 until his death. Born at Sotterley, his family's plantation near Saint Mary's County in the Colony of Maryland, Plater received his early schooling at home before attending the College of William and Mary in Willia...

Washington family

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Prominent Virginia families of Stafford and Spotsylvania counties. Augustine Washington (1694–1743) was a Virginia planter and the father of George Washington. He had a total of ten children by two wives. His son Augustine II (1720-1762) had four children but only one son, William Augustine (1759-1810). William Augustine had nine children, among them his eldest son Augustine (1780-1798); his sixth child, George Corbin Washington (1789-1854), was a Congressman from Maryl...

Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794

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Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794) was an American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia, best known for the June 1776 Lee Resolution, the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain leading to the United States Declaration of Independence, which he signed. He also served a one-year term as the president of the Continental Congress, was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation, and was a United States Senator fro...

Russell, James, active 1799

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Great Britain. National Register of Archives

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Fendell family,

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Warfield family,

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