Manuscripts

Brock Collection: Virginia troops collection, (bulk 1762-1820)

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Description: A collection of scattered papers of Virginia state and continental troops: military service certificates, discharge certificates, regimental accounts, pay rolls, warrants, and claims, commissions and appointments, lists and other miscellaneous document.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1752-1838.
Call number: mssBR Box 100
Additional description: Included are records of the 2nd , 3rd, 9th, 11th, Virginia Infantry Regiments, 1st Virginia Artillery Regiment of Continental Army andthe 2nd, 19th, 24th, 100th Regiments and Clark's Illinois Regiment of Virginia militia
Provenance: Purchased with the Brock collection from Elizabeth Brock, 1922.

Brock Collection: Records of Virginia Land Office

Manuscripts

Letters addressed to the various Registers, particularly William Price and William Selden, treasury warrants for surveys and scattered miscellaneous documents, and soldiers' certificates of military service in the colonial wars and American Revolution, submitted as part of application for bounty lands. Also included are related patents, claims, transfers, court orders, and other legal papers

mssBR Boxes 240-242

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Brock Collection: Virginia Insurance collection

Manuscripts

Collection of scattered miscellaneous records and documents of various insurance companies, including Essex and Virginia Fire & Marine, American Mutual Life, Aetna Life Insurance, Southern Protection Insurance, Richmond Fire Association, Insurance Company of the State of Virginia, Firemen's and Merchants' Insurance, Insurance Company of the Valley of Virginia, Southern Mutual Insurance, Widows & Orphans Benefit Life Insurance, Equitable Life Insurance, St. Louis Mutual Life, North America Life Insurance, Life Association of America, etc. City Fire Insurance, Orange Blossom Mutual Aid Society, and other companies. Included are certificates, receipts, policies, claims, etc., relating to chiefly for real estate and movable assets in Virginia. Also included are briefs and legal opinions on disputed claims

mssBR Box 170

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Brock Collection: Records of 4th Regiment of Virginia Cavalry

Manuscripts

Letters, invoices, petitions, certificates, reports, horse and equipment valuation, orders, dispatches, details, communications, and other regimental records concerning military operations, supplies, and personnel (including pieces dealing with deserters, conscripts, and courts martial) of the 4th Regiment of Virginia Cavalry.

mssBR Box 141

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Brock Collection: Records of the Company F of the 21st Virginia Light Infantry Regiment and F Company Association, (bulk 1861-1877)

Manuscripts

Military records of the Company F of the 21st Regiment of Virginia Infantry: muster rolls, certificates of identity, passes, orders, letters, court martial records, and other regimental records, chiefly relating to transfers to another companies, leaves of absences, AWOL, etc.

mssBR Box 139

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Brock Collection: Records of North Carolina Infantry regiments

Manuscripts

Miscellaneous records of various North Carolina Infantry regiments. Included are commissions, muster rolls, pay accounts, provision returns, etc. Most records pertain to the 13th regiment, with individual pieces relating to the 1st, 4th, 14th, 16th, 38th, and 77th regiments

mssBR Box 159

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Brock Collection: Papers of Benjamin Harrison, (bulk 1779-1783)

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

Brock Collection: Virginia troops collection, (bulk 1762-1820)

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