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Virginia - 1774
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Memoranda book
Manuscripts
Autograph notes and memoranda written on blank leaves of the Virginia Almanack for 1775. Includes legal and political notes and cash accounts that Jefferson kept in 1775 when he attended Second and Third Virginia Conventions in Richmond and traveled to Philadelphia to attend the Second Continental Congress. Also present is an account of the murder of the family of Mingo leader Logan in 1774, later published in Notes on the State of Virginia. (118 pages)
HM 590
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Tinsley, Nathaniel, 1756-1834. Account books, 1774-1803 [Henrico County, Virginia]
Manuscripts
Brock's collection of papers and manuscripts relating to political, military, economic, religious, social, and genealogical history of the state of Virginia. Included are papers of prominent Virginia families, business firms and businessmen, religious and fraternal organizations, government offices and departments, politicians, statesmen, and administrators.
BR 84 volume 1
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Tinsley, Nathaniel, 1756-1834. Account books, 1774-1803 [Henrico County, Virginia]
Manuscripts
Brock's collection of papers and manuscripts relating to political, military, economic, religious, social, and genealogical history of the state of Virginia. Included are papers of prominent Virginia families, business firms and businessmen, religious and fraternal organizations, government offices and departments, politicians, statesmen, and administrators.
BR 84 volume 2
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Tinsley, Nathaniel, 1756-1834. Account books, 1774-1803 [Henrico County, Virginia]
Manuscripts
Brock's collection of papers and manuscripts relating to political, military, economic, religious, social, and genealogical history of the state of Virginia. Included are papers of prominent Virginia families, business firms and businessmen, religious and fraternal organizations, government offices and departments, politicians, statesmen, and administrators.
BR 84 volume 3
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The Congress of 1774
Manuscripts
Compiled by Ferdinand J. Dreer, this volume consists of extra-illustrated copies of Oration of Henry Armitt Brown : on the one hundredth anniversary of the meeting of Congress in Carpenters' Hall ... [Philadelphia] : Printed by the order of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, 1874 and of Oration delivered in Carpenters' Hall on the one hundredth anniversary of the meeting of the Congress of 1774, Philadelphia : Privately printed, 1875. The 1874 edition is lacking title page. Pages are inlaid from the original 23 cm to 27 cm. It is followed by the title page and text of the 1875 edition. Both are extra-illustrated with correspondence to and from Ferdinand Dreer. Contains various portraits and autographs of prominent individuals and manuscripts including ones by Abraham Lincoln (mssHM 25023), John Adams (mssHM 25026), George Washington (mssHM 25043), Thomas Jefferson (mssHM 25045) and Ulysses S. Grant (mssHM 25052). The presidential items have been separately cataloged and full descriptions may be found in the online catalog. The frontispiece is an original watercolor drawing of Carpenter's Hall.
mssHM 3000-3026, mssHM 25001-25058
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Garnett, James Mercer, 1840-1916. Early revolutionary history of Virginia, 1773-1774 : essay, 1891
Manuscripts
Brock's collection of papers and manuscripts relating to political, military, economic, religious, social, and genealogical history of the state of Virginia. Included are papers of prominent Virginia families, business firms and businessmen, religious and fraternal organizations, government offices and departments, politicians, statesmen, and administrators.
BR 622