Manuscripts

Brock Collection: Virginia Insurance collection

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Description: 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
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1807-1903.
Call number: mssBR Box 170

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

Manuscripts

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.

mssBR Box 100

The Firemen's Insurance Co. N. York. By this policy of insurance

Visual Materials

Image of a single-fold insurance policy certificate issued by the Firemen's Insurance Company of New York City; fire engine with ladder, hat, and other firefighting equipment at top center with policy text below.

priJLC_FIN_002570

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Insurance records

Manuscripts

Consists of a ca. 1870 brochure for the Manhattan Life Insurance Co. of New York; an 1882 policy for C. G. Carpenter of Diamond Springs, El Dorado, with the California Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company; and three pieces of correspondence (1900-1901) from the National Life Insurance Company (Chicago, Ill.).

mssEl Dorado County

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Brock Collection: Records of Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company

Manuscripts

A group of letters and documents from the home office of the company, in Richmond, Va. The collection consists largely of letters written to the principal officers: William C. Carrington, Daniel J. Hartsook, Leroy S. Edwards, Benjamin C. Hartsook, and John J. Hopkins, and various insurance agents throughout the South

mssBR Box 162

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Brock Collection: Records of the Treasury office of Virginia

Manuscripts

A small lot of papers consisting largely of cerficiates, bills, and orders on the Treasury Office of the Colony and State of Virginia. Included are itemized expense accounts for repairs and maintenance of various public buildings in Williamsburg: the Capitol, Governor's Palace, Public Hospital for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds, Public Gaol, tobacco warehouses, foundry, and the Cape Henry Lighthouse

mssBR Box 40

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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

Brock Collection: Virginia Insurance collection

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