Manuscripts

Brock Collection: Papers of Samuel Miller

Image not available

Description: Business correspondence and accounts documenting Samuel Miller's tobacco business.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1833-1877.
Call number: mssBR Box 103
Creator: Miller, Samuel (1792-1869)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description: Also included is the correspondence and papers relating to controversies over Miller's bequest to his former slaves and the establishment of Miller Manual Labor School.
Provenance: Purchased with the Brock collection from Elizabeth Brock, 1922.

Brock Collection: Papers of John Cunliffe

Manuscripts

Business records and correspondence of John Cunliffe regarding trade in tobacco, salt, rum, sugar, and coal

mssBR Box 49

Image not available

Brock Collection: Papers of James Harford, (bulk 1767-1805)

Manuscripts

Correspondence, accounts and legal papers, chiefly pertaining to Harford's legal affairs in America. Included is correspondence of Robert Pleasants, Thomas Bates, William Fisher, James Cowles and Samuel Fisher, Benjamin Day, Oliver Towles, John Dixon, and Micajah Crew. There are items that document the sale of slaves. Also included is a letter of Edmund Pendleton discussion various opinions of the case

mssBR Box 27 (1)

Image not available

Brock Collection: Papers of George Evans

Manuscripts

Personal financial and legal records and scattered correspondence of Dr. George Evans: bonds, bills, accounts, powers of attorney, receipts, and land surveys. There are also bills and receipts for purchases and sales of slaves, treatment of plantation slaves, and documents relating to several estates administered by Dr. Evans. Also included are letters from his agents regarding his bounty lands and letters relating to the debts of George Evans, Jr

mssBR Box 47

Image not available

Brock Collection: Papers of Micajah Crew

Manuscripts

Chiefly business papers and correspondence of Micajah Crew dealing with wheat, corn, and tobacco trade. There are a few letters relating to the affairs of the Society of Friends and hiring of slaves. Also included correspondence about the estate of Robert Pleasants, including the fate of his former slaves, and a letter regarding a decision of the Superior Court of Chancery to restore a slave to her freedom (1809)

mssBR Boxes 42 & 43

Image not available

Brock Collection: Papers of Lancasterian school (Richmond, Va.)

Manuscripts

Correspondence and documents of the Lancasterian school. Included are: records of faculty appointments, tuition accounts, attendance reports, monitors's bonds, and reports of the Visiting Committee

mssBR Box 93

Image not available

Brock Collection: Papers of Robert Hill

Manuscripts

Chiefly commissions and business correspondence of Robert C. Hill and the firm Hill & Dabney concerning with wheat and corn trade, bill collecting and sale and hiring slaves

mssBR Box 41

Brock Collection: Papers of Samuel Miller

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Brock Collection: Papers of John Cunliffe

Brock Collection: Papers of James Harford, (bulk 1767-1805)

Brock Collection: Papers of George Evans

Brock Collection: Papers of Micajah Crew

Brock Collection: Papers of Lancasterian school (Richmond, Va.)

Brock Collection: Papers of Robert Hill