Manuscripts

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

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Description: 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
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1763-1729.
Call number: mssBR Box 27 (1)
Creator: Harford, James (-approximately 1829)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased with the Brock collection from Elizabeth Brock, 1922.

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

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Brock Collection: Papers of James A. Bates

Manuscripts

Chiefly official correspondence accumulated by James A. Bates during his service at Hammond Hospital and the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Included are letters, reports, muster out rolls, passes, orders, monthly returns, circulars, etc.

mssBR Box 121 (1)

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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

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Brock Collection: Pleasants family papers, (bulk 1745-1850)

Manuscripts

Papers and correspondence of several generation of the Pleasants family, focusing on Robert Pleasants.

mssBR Boxes 12-15

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

Manuscripts

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 James Hoge Tyler, (bulk 1898-1901)

Manuscripts

Correspondence and miscellaneous documents, chiefly accumulated by James Hoge Tyler during his term as Governor of Virginia. Included are correspondence and petitions regarding institutional and military appointments, applications for executive clemency, etc.

mssBR Box 167

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

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