Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809]]> Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803--Correspondence]]> Spotswood, Alexander, approximately 1746-1818--Correspondence]]> Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783]]> Spotswood, Alexander, approximately 1746-1818]]> 1775-11-16]]> MS1999.10]]> Anthony, Alley]]> McDorman, Thomas]]> African American apprentices--Virginia--Norfolk]]> African American women--Virginia--Norfolk]]> Free blacks--Virginia--Norfolk]]> Articles of apprenticeship--Virginia--Norfolk--18th-century]]> 1799-04-02]]> MS2012.16]]> Fauquier, Francis, 1704?-1768]]> Governors--Virginia]]> Governor's Palace (Williamsburg, Va.)]]> Fauquier, Francis]]> 1773-06-21]]> MS2000.8]]> Amulets]]> 18th-century]]> MS2004.14]]> Following the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament passed the Boston Port Act which authorized the closing of that town’s port on June 1, 1774. When news of the Boston Port Act reached Virginia, the General Assembly was sitting in Williamsburg. It responded to the news by passing a resolution setting aside June 1st as a “Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer …” The resolution demonstrated the Burgesses support for the people of Boston linking their cause with the rights of all Americans. Governor Dunmore responded to the resolution by dissolving the Burgesses on May 26. The following day, the former Burgesses met in the Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern where they adopted an Association calling for a Boycott of East India Company goods and the meeting of a general congress.

The Association is signed in print by eighty-nine of the former Burgesses known to have attended that body's most recent session. The document also bears the names of twenty-one men from the Williamsburg area who joined the Association following its adoption by the former Burgesses.

The broadside was most likely printed by Clementina Rind.

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1774-05-27]]> Rind, Clementina, -1774, printer]]> English]]> MS1929.2]]>
Smith, William, -circa 1782]]> Estate inventories]]> Estate appraisal of the property of William Smith of Westmoreland County, Virginia. The appraisal was conducted on December 7, 1782 and is signed by James Muse, Anthony Peyton and Thomas Muse. The estate was valued at £1498..5..3. The bulk of the estate's value was in the more than twenty five enslaved persons listed at the top of the appraisal. The appraisal also lists livestock in the form of horses, cattle and hogs. Among the household furniture is listed a desk, chairs, tables and bed furniture. Spinning and flax wheels as well as cards and a loom are listed in the appraisal. Kitchen implements listed in the appraisal include knives, pots, pans, a tea kettle, china plates, pewter plates a delft bowl and a salt cellar. A looking glass and brass candlesticks, box heater and snuffers are listed. Three books, the Bible, a dictionary and a "Bray book" are the only reading materials listed. Farming equipment listed in the appraisal includes hoes, axes, plows, saddles, wedge and froe, a beehive and drawing knife.

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Robinson, Hannah--Estate]]> Estate inventories]]> 1778-09-23]]> MS2011.6]]> Shepherd, Andrew]]> Stores & shops--Virginia--Orange County]]> Ledgers (account books)]]> Ledger of accounts for a store, possibly kept by Andrew Shepherd of Orange County, Virginia. A great variety of goods were sold to people in Orange, Culpeper, Albemarle, and Augusta counties, and the communities of Fredericksburg and Staunton. Customers included Isaac Allen, Captain William Daingerfield, Ambrose Madison, James Madison Jr., Hugh Mercer, Barnet Moore, John Strather, Mrs. William Taliaferro and George Weedon.

Andrew Shepherd's name appears on a page of calculations near the end of the volume.

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Shepherd, Andrew]]> 1773-1790]]> MS1966.1]]>
Lowther, Barbara]]> 1792-06-02]]> MS1959.1.63]]> Enslaved persons--Barbados--Medical care]]> Medical record book prepared by a Barwick Bruce, a plantation doctor of Barbados.  A contemporary title added to the front cover reads: "Barwick Bruce's Day Book Commencing March 17, 1791." Most entries are signed by either John Austin or William Tull. Each entry lists a date, the name of the person examined, and the treatment prescribed. Plantations mentioned include Edge Hill, Grome Hall, and Bay Plantation. A majority of the entries concern treatments prescribed for illnesses or injuries suffered by enslaved persons. James Bruce is listed as the master of many of the slaves treated. In addition, some entries concern prescriptions given to treat planters and their family members. The entries provide insight into care provided by plantation owners for their enslaved laborers and family members and into different remedies prescribed for ailments, such as bleeding, purging, pills, and ointments.

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Bruce, Barwick, 1756 or 1757-1841]]> 1791]]> Austin, John]]> Tull, William]]> MS1996.11]]>
Skelton, Meriwether--Correspondence]]> Waller, Benjamin, 1716-1786--Correspondence]]> Loans, Personal]]> Waller, Benjamin, 1716-1786]]> 1780-02-21]]> MS1932.7]]> Cooking, English]]> Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800]]> Cookbooks]]> Anonymous 18th-century manuscript cookbook and book of medical formulas. The medical formulas are drawn from several sources including the works of Richard Mead (1673-1754), a famous English medical practitioner of his day. Mead's cures for the bite of a mad dog are included. Also included is Joanna Stephens' (d. 1774) cure for the stone and gravel. This was first printed in 1739 and earned Stephens an award of £5,000 from the British Parliament. This occured despite the objections of many respected medical practitioners who believed the only cure for stones involved surgery. Parliament was convinced of the value of the medicine by David Hartley who published the testimonials of patients claiming to be cured by the formula. Hartley also conducted experiments proving the ability of the formula to reduce stones. The manuscript also contains a cure for heartburn attributed to Dr. Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) the famous Dutch botanist, physician and medical instructor.

Also included are numerous recipes for foods and beverages some attributed to a Miss Bathurst and S. Bathurst, Mrs. Beck, Lady Englefield and others.

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18th-century]]> MS1938.7]]>
1836]]> MS1939.6]]> Custis, Daniel Parke, 1711-1757]]> Virginia. Militia]]> Military commissions]]> Commission appointing Daniel Parke Custis Lieutenant and commander of milita for New Kent County, Virginia. The commission is signed by Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie, dated December 13, 1754.

Custis was a wealthy planter and politician who owned several properties including one in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was the first husband of Martha Dandridge who married George Washington after Custis's death.

The commission was displayed in the Clash of Empires exhibit, an NEH supported exhibition at the Senator John Heinz Regional History Center, from May, 2005 to July, 2007.

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Virginia. Lieutenant Governor (1751-1758 : Dinwiddie)]]> 1754-12-13]]> MS2002.5]]>
Bound journal of accounts including household accounts and the settlements of the estates of his uncle and aunt, John and Mary Bagge on surviving pages 33-198. Names appearing in the accounts include Katherine Bagge, Robert Brooke, James Curtiss, William Fosset, John Greene, Robert Gresham, Dr. Alexander Parker, Robert Rose, Alexander Spotswood, William Taliaferro, Thomas Waring, and Benjamin Winslow.

The second half of the volume is the diary of the Reverend Robert Rose.

Edmund Bagge (d. 1734) was an Anglican minister serving St. Anne's Parish, Essex County, at the time of his death.

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Bagge, Edmund, -1734]]> 1726-1733]]> MS1949.1]]>
Galt, A. (Alexander), 1793-1855]]> Whitehead, Elizabeth McPherson, -1855]]> Boston Athenaeum]]> Norfolk (Va.)]]> Diaries]]> Whitehead, Elizabeth McPherson, -1855]]> 1853-1855]]> MS2005.5]]> Contains various kinds of accounts including accounts with individuals (many individuals in Hanover Co., Va.), for goods purchased from Jerdone; with merchants in Great Britain, and with the ships' captains who carried goods between Virginia and England; lists of supplies of staples such as salt and rum; invoices for tobacco shipped to England; and a summary of Jerdone's finances. Goods include sugar, molasses, chocolates, cheese, tea, beer, raisins, hats, hosiery and snuff. Also concerns buying and selling of slaves; and shows tobacco marks of various planters. Accounts incl ude those of Robert Anderson, John Backhouse, John Baylor, John Chiswell, Henry Cooke, John Cooper, Archibald Crawford, Robert Donald, John Goldsmith, Dr. Alexander Jameson, Bennitt Kirby, Edward Lankford, Thomas Nelson, John Norton, Mann Page, the proprietors of the Raleigh Tavern, William Stevenson, John Thomson, John Winn and George Wythe.

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Jerdone, Francis, 1721-1771]]> 1751-1752]]> English ]]> MS1933.4]]>
Jerdone, Francis, 1721-1771]]> 1748-1749]]> English]]> MS1965.7]]> Givens, George, 1740-1825]]> Virginia. Militia]]> Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783]]> Military commissions]]> Virginia. Committee of Safety ]]> 1776-05-14]]> Cabell, William, 1730-1798]]> Carrington, Paul, 1733-1818]]> Digges, Dudley, 1718-1790]]> Lee, Thomas Ludwell, 1730-1778]]> May, David]]> Mercer, James, 1736-1793]]> Walker, Thomas, 1715-1794]]> MS1984.1]]> Weedon, George, 1734-1793]]> United States. Continental Army. Virginia Regiment, 3rd]]> United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783]]> Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783]]> Military commissions]]> United States. Continental Congress]]> 1776-02-13]]> Hancock, John, 1737-1793]]> Thomson, Charles, 1739-1824]]> MS2012.11]]> Phillips, William, 1731?-1781 -- Correspondence]]> Weedon, George, 1734-1793 -- Correspondence]]> United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Prisoners and prisons]]> Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783]]> Retained copy of a letter of American Brigadier General George Weedon to British Major General William Phillips concerning prisoners of war. Weedon expresses his desire "to render the Circumstances of war as little afflicting as possible ..." He notes he is willing to exchange prisoners or grant paroles when exchanges aren't "Subject to my will."


Phillips himself had been a prisoner of war. Captured at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, he was exchanged for the American general, Benjamin Lincoln, who was captured at Charleston in 1780. Shortly after rejoining the army, Phillips was sent to Virginia where he operated with the traitor, Benedict Arnold. He achieved a number of successes in the field before dying at Petersburg on May 13, 1781.


Weedon was present at the Siege of Yorktown where he commanded American militia at Gloucester Point. He survived the war returning to Fredericksburg where he died in 1793.

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Weedon, George, 1734-1793]]> 1781-04-12]]> MS2013.8]]>
Craig, Thomas]]> Dixon, John--Estate]]> Williamsburg (Va.). Feoffees and Directors]]> Real property--Virginia--Williamsburg]]> Tailors--Virginia--Williamsburg]]> Indentures]]> 1771-07-09]]> MS1996.26]]> Carter, James, -1794]]> Pharmacists--Virginia--Williamsburg]]> Account books]]> Carter, James, -1794]]> 1752-1783]]> MS1939.8]]> Craig, James, -1794--Correspondence]]> Silversmiths--Virginia--Williamsburg--Correspondence]]> Letter of Williamsburg, Virginia silversmith James Craig to an unidentified recipient. Craig writes that he is overstocked with certain goods and wishes to sell them on reasonable terms. Craig was not comfortable sending the items on credit so he suggested the recipient of the letter send someone to the meeting of the General Court in Williamsburg to conduct business with him.

On April 7, 1768, Craig ran an advertisement in the Virginia Gazette announcing the arrival of a shipment from London aboard the Matty. The advertisement listed many of the items subsequently offered in the letter.

This letter may be Craig's first letter to Edenton, North Carolina silversmith and jeweler Thomas Agnis. In Virginia Silversmiths ... Catherine Hollan writes that Craig sold silver and jewelry to Agnis in July, 1761. Agnis sent his enslaved man, Joe Baker to Williamsburg with payment.

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Craig, James, -1794]]> 1761-05-23]]> John Norton & Sons papers.]]> MS2020.1]]>
Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805]]> Lafayette, Marie Adrienne de Noailles, marquise de, 1759-1807]]> McHenry, James, 1753-1816--Correspondence]]> Weedon, George, 1734-1793--Correspondence]]> Green Spring Plantation, Battle of, Va., 1781]]> McHenry, James, 1753-1816]]> 1781-07-10]]> MS2012.6]]>