Manuscripts

Brock Collection: Papers of Archelaus Hughes

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Description: Correspondence and business records Archelaus Hughes. Included are rentals, leases, titles, and building contracts of real estate in Richmond, adjacent to the James River Canal, and surveys and deeds for property in Kent and Henrico Conties. There are a few personal letters, including ones discussing the trial of Aaron Burr (1807) and Fourth of July (1813), and a letter from John Clopton (1756-1816) about political and congressional news (1810)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1799-1832.
Call number: mssBR Box 50 (2)
Creator: Hughes, Archelaus (active 1799-1832)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased with the Brock collection from Elizabeth Brock, 1922.

Brock Collection: Minor family papers

Manuscripts

Scattered papers and correspondence, including letters to and from Lucian Minor (1802-1858), John Barbee Minor (1813-1895), and Charles Landon Carter Minor(1835-1903)

mssBR Box 56

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Brock Collection: Papers of Robert William Hughes, (bulk 1874-1891)

Manuscripts

Professional and personal correspondence of Judge Hughes. Included are his letters to R. A. Brock concerning Virginia history and genealogy

mssBR Box 208 (1)

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Brock Collection: Tinsley family papers

Manuscripts

Chiefly account books, personal correspondence, and miscellaneous documents of Nathaniel Tinsley (1757-1834) and his son, Jeremiah Samuel Beckley Tinsley (b. 1813). Correspondents include Tennessee family members and friends

mssBR Boxes 16 & 17

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Brock Collection: Papers of John Augustus Chevallié, (bulk 1786-1828)

Manuscripts

The bulk of the collection consists of personal letters to John Augustus Chevallié from Sarah Magee Chevallié and Catherine Power Chevallié. Also included are miscellaneous business records and documents, including ones issued by the Consulate of the French Republic in New York, and a few letters by other members of the Chevallié family

mssBR Box 55 (1)

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Brock Collection: Miscellaneous papers of the U. S. Treasury Dept., (bulk 1791-1859)

Manuscripts

Collection of scattered letters and documents to and from various offices and officials of the Treasury Department: Secretaries of the Treasury, Registers, Comptollers, Auditors, Solicitors, Paymasters, the Land Office, Customs officers, and others. Included are individual items related to finances of the Revolutionary War and Early Republic, including pensions paid to the war veterans, and John Jacob Astor's "proposal for loaning monies to the United States," (1813), a group of documents and letters relative to Nathaniel Denby, U.S. Naval agent in Marseilles in 1845-1851, and correspondents and documents addressed to various customs collectors and internal revenues agents, predominantly in Virginia

mssBR Box 202

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Brock Collection: Papers of Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia

Manuscripts

Letters addressed to principal agents for the Mutual Assurance Society William Frederick Ast, 1795-1807; Samuel Greenhow, 1808-1815; James Rawlings, 1815-1837, and Colonel John Rutherford, 1837-1866.; policies, declarations, re-valuations of property, and miscellaneous documents

mssBR Boxes 67-72

Brock Collection: Papers of Archelaus Hughes

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