Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Brock Collection: Papers of Virginia Board of Trade, (bulk 1779 May - 1780 Apr.)
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Official communications, addressed to William Davies from the County Commissioners responsible for collecting the specific tax -- a five-year levy payable in certain commodities that was established in connection with the raising of funds for supplying the armed forces of Virginia
mssBR Box 44
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Manuscripts
Chiefly letters, dispatches, communications, and petitions received by Benjamin Harrison during his service as speaker of the State House of Delegates and Governor of Virginia. Included are letters of acceptance and resignation from Virginia members of the Continental Congress, communications relating to taxation, raising of troops, procurement for the army, restitutions, bailing of prisoners, and other aspects of Revolutionary war in Virginia. Correspondents include Gabriel Jones, William Fitzhugh, Joseph Jones, Meriwether Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Edward Carrington, Rochambeau, and Patrick Henry.
mssBR Box 2
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State papers, largely Senate documents with emphasis on the final period of the War. Included are the Senate Journal of Secret Sessions, original drafts and printed proofs of bills, acts, resolutions, communications, committee reports, etc. Principal topics of legislation are: finances and banks; re-organization of the armed forces, including slave and "free Negro" volunteers, salaries of soldiers and officers, supplies, exemptions from military serves, AWOL, amnesty to soldiers; civilian relief and public defense, escaped slaves, etc.
mssBR Boxes 236-240
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Letters received by the Board, chiefly addressed to Governor James Lawson Kemper and Samuel H. Boykin, Secretary of the Board. The correspondence documents the state government's attempt to attract immigrants from other states and from abroad, particularly from England, Scotland, and Germany. The correspondence falls roughly into two categories: applications for agents' positions, and requests for literature published by Board, particularly for Jedediah Hotckkiss' "Virginia; a geographical and political summary" (Richmond, Va., 1876) and Matthew Fontaine Maury's "Physical survey of Virginia" (Richmond, Va. 1878.) There are a few items relating to a competition between the Board and various state and commercial agencies promoting emigration to the West and letters from emigration agencies in Great Britain and charitable immigration societies in the state. Correspondents include Jedediah Hotchkiss. Also included are orders and minutes of meetings of the Board (1877-1878)
mssBR Boxes 243 & 244
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Chiefly correspondence and miscellaneous documents accumulated by Philip Watkins McKinney during his term as Governor of Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of petitions for executive clemency and letters of recommendations for positions of tax commissioners.
mssBR Box 125 (1)
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Manuscripts
Correspondence and miscellaneous documents accumulated by Charles Triplett O'Ferrall during his term as Governor of Virginia. Included are petitions for executive clemency and letters of recommendations for state government posts
mssBR Box 125 (2)