Elizabeth G. Elliott papers
Dublin Core
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Collection includes papers of Warwick and York Counties' resident Elizabeth G. Elliott (d. 1856), widow of Kemp P. Elliott (d. 1836?); Warwick County sheriff Thomas Moss; woodcutter Thomas Hogg Jr.; and Williamsburg attorney Sydney Smith. Also includes a satiric prose poem dated 1755: "On Sundry Inhabitants of Yorkto{wn} by Doctor Porterfield". Papers of Elizabeth G. Elliott include accounts, receipts, decrees, bonds, letters, and other material.
Included are receipts for taxes from York and Warwick Counties; accounts for building and repairing carriages or "gigs"; several accounts of doctors for treatment of enslaved persons and Elizabeth G. Elliott; many bonds for the annual rental of enslaved persons; legal material concerning the estate of Kemp P. Elliott; a Robert Anderson letter (1848); accounts for hauling wood for Thomas Hogg, Jr.; receipts for board at the Eastern Lunatic Asylum for an enslaved person; and Elizabeth G. Elliott's estate matters which were administered by Daniel P. Curtis; account book (1788-1793) of lawyer, John Wickham which lists expenses; Sheriff Thomas Moss collections account book; and an account book and papers of Sydney Smith.
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