Virginia miscellany, 1621-1788.

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Virginia miscellany, 1621-1788.

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Facsimile of a petition (1621) to the British ambassador to France to allow French and Walloon colonists to settle in Virginia; letter (circa 1658) of the Virginia Council to Richard Cromwell, another letter (1746) relating to lands in the Northern Neck purchased by Lord Thomas Fairfax, and fragment of a letter (1749) pertaining to Eleazer Robertson; three letters (1711, 1718) of the Virginia General Assembly documenting land sales by John and Frances Custis and Daniel McCarty; annotated chart (1748) showing results of a smallpox epidemic in Virginia; list (1757) of Virginia county surveyors; two letters (circa 1772-1775) of John Murray, Earl of Dunmore and governor of Virginia; photocopy, typescript, and facsimile of the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776); and photocopy of a sketch (1781) of the Virginia commonwealth seal.

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Virginia

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Virginia. Council

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In pre-Revolutionary Virginia, the Council was a governing body comprising 11 Virginians appointed by the crown. From the guide to the An address of the Council, 1769 November 8, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) ...

Robertson, Eleazer

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Cromwell, Richard, 1626-1712

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Richard Cromwell was the Lord Protector of England and eldest surviving son of Oliver Cromwell; the recipient is addressed as "Madam" and "Dear Heart," and is probably Cromwell's wife. The recipient was formerly identified as his mother Elizabeth Cromwell, but she died in 1665. From the description of Letters to Dorothy Major Cromwell, 1691-1705. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79752884 Richard Cromwell was the Lord Protector of England and eldest surviving son of ...

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...

Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809

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Appointed governor of Virginia in 1771. From the description of Correspondence, 1771-1778. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 26923951 Lord Dunmore was the British governor of the Virginia Colony, from September 25, 1771 until his departure to New York on New Years Eve, 1776. From the guide to the Land Grant to Ambrose Gatewood, 1773 June 15, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) Governor of New York (1...

Custis, Frances Parke, 1687-1715

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Custis, John, 1678-1749

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John Custis (August 1678 – November 22, 1749) was an American planter, politician, government official and military officer who sat in the Virginia House of Burgesses. A prominent member of the Custis family of Virginia, he utilized his extensive landholdings to support a career in horticulture and gardening. Born into a slaveholding family who resided in Northampton County, Virginia, Custis was sent to London at a young age to study the tobacco trade under Micajah Perry. He returned to his g...

Virginia. General Assembly

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Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Democratic Party of Virginia">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Democratic Party of Virginia</a>. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Democratic Party (Va.)">http://scrc...

McCarty, Daniel, 1678-1724

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