Manuscripts

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

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1779-1788.
Call number: mssBR Box 2
Creator: Harrison, Benjamin (approximately 1726-1791)

Brock Collection: Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont, (bulk 1861-1868)

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Correspondence accumulated by Pierpont during his gubernatorial service, chiefly received by his office in 1861-1868. Included are letters, communications, dispatches, etc. from Federal government and military agencies, petitions, applications, letters of recommendations, etc..$bAlso included are a few personal letters addressed to Pierpont, an article on the history of West Virginia, by Edmund Pendleton of Martinsburg, W. Va., and Pierpont's autobiographical sketches (1883). Correspondence include James S. Wheat, Ephraim Benoni Hall, and Peter Godwin Van Winkle

mssBR Box 155

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Brock Collection: Papers of Fitzhugh Lee, (bulk 1885-1889)

Manuscripts

Chiefly correspondence accumulated by Fitzhugh Lee during his term as Governor of Virginia. The bulk of the collection consists of petitions for executive clemency, with a few items dealing with Lee's historical studies and affairs of Confederate veterans

mssBR Box 39

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Brock Collection: Harrison family papers, (bulk 1780-1880)

Manuscripts

Correspondence, litigation papers, business records, and genealogical materials pertaining to the affairs of various members of the Harrison family. Correspondents include Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn, and Thomas Hicks Wynne.

mssBR Box 3

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Brock Collection: Papers of Virginia Board of Trade, (bulk 1779 May - 1780 Apr.)

Manuscripts

Official papers of the Board of Trade, chiefly concerning with supplies for the armed forces of Virginia. Included are orders, recommendations, and correspondence with Governor Jefferson and the Board of War, and correspondence with purveyors and agents

mssBR Box 1

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Brock Collection: Papers of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, (bulk 1785-1878)

Manuscripts

Correspondence and scattered records of the Grand Lodge of Virginia. Included are communications from national and foreign Grand Lodges, including those of Ireland and Nova Scotia, correspondence between the Grand Lodge and the local subordinate lodges, with a few papers of the Royal Arch Masons and the Virginia Knights Templar

mssBR Boxes 20-25

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Brock Collection: Ruffin family papers, (bulk 1866-1892)

Manuscripts

The main portion of the collection consists of the correspondence of Frank G. Ruffin, chiefly relating to his post-Civil War life, including his political career, agricultural pursuits, ties with the University of Virginia and Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and his memoirs of the Civil War.

mssBR Box 80

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

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