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Brock Collection: Papers of Walter D. Blair

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    Brock Collection: Papers of John George Blair

    Manuscripts

    Business and personal records, documents, and correspondence of John George Blair and Albert Blair. Included are documents dealing with James Black's claim on the estate of William Galt, Farmers' Bank of Virginia, John G. Blair's diary kept during a trip to New York and Philaldephia (1831), and a report on coalfields in vicinity of Richmond, Va

    mssBR Box 101

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    Brock Collection: Papers of John Durbarrow Blair

    Manuscripts

    Sermons, articles, correspondence, and documents. The correspondence concerns religious and social life in Richmond in the late 1780's - early 1800's and the Blair family affairs. Included are Rev. Blair's letters to Samuel Pleasants, the editor of The Virginia Argus, his Fourth of July Oration (1798), and articles on various subjects, some intended for publication in the Virginia evangelical and literary magazine (1821).

    mssBR Boxes 45 & 46

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    Brock Collection: Papers of John Cunliffe

    Manuscripts

    Business records and correspondence of John Cunliffe regarding trade in tobacco, salt, rum, sugar, and coal

    mssBR Box 49

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    Brock Collection: Papers of Samuel Miller

    Manuscripts

    Business correspondence and accounts documenting Samuel Miller's tobacco business.

    mssBR Box 103

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    Brock Collection: Papers of Robert Hill

    Manuscripts

    Chiefly commissions and business correspondence of Robert C. Hill and the firm Hill & Dabney concerning with wheat and corn trade, bill collecting and sale and hiring slaves

    mssBR Box 41

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    Brock Collection: Papers of Archelaus Hughes

    Manuscripts

    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)

    mssBR Box 50 (2)