Manuscripts

Brock Collection: Records of the Treasury office of Virginia

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Description: 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
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1765-1789.
Call number: mssBR Box 40
Creator: Virginia(Opens in new tab)
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: Correspondence of William Davies, Commissioner of Virginia War Office

Manuscripts

Official communications, addressed to William Davies from the County Commissioners responsible for collecting the specific tax -- a five-year levy payable in certain commodities that was established in connection with the raising of funds for supplying the armed forces of Virginia

mssBR Box 44

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Brock Collection: Virginia courts collection

Manuscripts

Miscellaneous records, consisting of lawsuits (all fragmentary); legal writs, county sheriff's papers, claims against the Commonwealth, wills, revenue reports, etc., emanating from the General Court (1688-1820); High Court of Chancery (1780-1850), Court of Admiralty (1786), Districts courts of Richmond, Hay Market, Dumfries, Lynchburg, and Williamsburg, and county and circuit courts (1687-1898)

mssBR Boxes 217-226

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Brock Collection: Orderly book of the Virginia Regiment

Manuscripts

Fragment of the orderly book of the Virginia regiment that covers the period from June 4 through Sept. 4, 1762, including regimental orders and brief records of proceedings of the court martial.

mssBR 97

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Brock Collection: Confederate States of America hospitals collection

Manuscripts

Letters and documents pertaining to personnel (letters of recommendation, agreements, returns), and patients (reports and lists, discharge papers, request for physical examinations, medical certificates) of various Confederate hospitals. The bulk of the collection pertains to Winder Hospital, although there are some items relating to Chimborazo Hospital, a hospital for Negroes "engaged on work on Richmond Defense," Refuge Hill Hospital, Robertson Hospital, and Williamsburg Seminary Hospital. Many letters are addressed to Dr. Alexander G. Lane, Surgeon-in-charge of the Winder hospital

mssBR Box 83

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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

Brock Collection: Records of the Treasury office of Virginia

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