Browse Collections (29 total)

Papers, primarily 1770-1848, accumulated by members of the Baylor family of New Market, Caroline County, Va., especially Frances Walker Baylor (d.…

Correspondence and family papers of Michael Bowyer, captain (Continental Line) of Augusta County, VA, including various state and continental…

Letters, 1762-1763, between Charles Steuart (1725-1797), merchant in Norfolk, Virginia, and later receiver general of customs for the Eastern-Middle…

The collection consists of seven items, one letter and six recipes or formulas for dyes from the 19th-century. An undated letter from Emily Hudson…

Papers, primarily 1785-1815, of brothers Jean Augustine (1763-1838) and Peter Robert
Deneufville (d. 1809), who arrived in Hanover County and…

Virginia’s General Assembly authorized several joint-stock companies for projects to link separated
crop producing areas during the late eighteenth…

Collection includes papers of Warwick and York Counties' resident Elizabeth G. Elliott (d. 1856), widow of Kemp P. Elliott (d. 1836?); Warwick County…

This collection contains the family Bibles held by Special Collections containing material of a genealogical nature. Its purpose is to make the…

The collection consists of four items sent to Francis Jerdone including two letters and two documents concerning the jailing of his runaway slaves. A…

Miscellaneous papers relating to the Galt family, especially Dr. John Minson Galt II (1819-1862), superintendent of Eastern State Hospital in…

Letters of French commanders and others during the American Revolution. They include material concerning the French campaigns around Newport, Rhode…

Plantation, business, and personal papers (1703–1929) of the Major and Marable families of Charles City and Sussex Counties (Virginia). The papers…

Papers, mainly 1788-1813, of Mann Page, Jr. (1766-1813), of Shelly, Gloucester County, Va.,
oldest son of John and Frances Burwell Page. Primarily…

This collection consists of manuscripts and documents which were acquired as individual items not forming part of a large collection of personal…

This collection consists of issues of The Virginia Gazette printed in 18th-century Norfolk and Williamsburg, Virginia. None of the Norfolk issues are…

Original printed and manuscript playbills for plays performed in Williamsburg, Fredericksburg, and Suffolk, VA; New Bern, Fayetteville, and Edenton,…

Letters and accounts of Richard Corbin (1708-1790) of "Laneville," burgess, councilor, and receiver general of Virginia from 1761-1776. Included are…

The letter books of Robert Carter III of Nomini Hall (Westmoreland County, Virginia), Williamsburg and Baltimore, Maryland. The three letter books…

Papers of Dr. Thomas H. Sherwood, supervisor of Eastern Virginia Lunatic Asylum during the Union occupation of Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1862. In the…

Correspondence of George S. Vest to Mary Garrett Vest, residents of Williamsburg’s Palmer
House on Duke of Gloucester Street, before and after their…

Ledger and daybook of William Nelson, merchant and colonial leader of Yorktown, Virginia. The collection contains one ledger from a family business…

Personal and business papers of the Wise and Ware families. Whether or not either of these families ever resided in Williamsburg, and if so, for how…