Manuscripts

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

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Description: Papers and correspondence of several generation of the Pleasants family, focusing on Robert Pleasants.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1745-1898.
Call number: mssBR Boxes 12-15
Creator: Pleasants (Family)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description: Also included are papers of William Henry Pleasants (d. ca. 1826), and correspondence of John Hampden Pleasants (1797-1846), a noted Whig journalist; Included are papers and correspondence reflecting Robert Pleasants' interest in abolitionism: manumissions, correspondence with Philadelphia Quaker abolitionists, and projects dealing with emancipation and education of slaves. Also included a petition of Philadelphia citizens to the Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania (1773) for the abolishing of slave trade

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: Lee family papers, (bulk 1765-1870)

Manuscripts

Papers, chiefly correspondence, of four generations of the Lee family

mssBR Boxes 4 & 5

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Brock Collection: Garland family papers, (bulk 1816-1857)

Manuscripts

Chiefly legal and business papers of various members of the Garland family of Lynchburg, Va., particularly Samuel Garland and the law firm of Samuel and Maurice H. Garland, and the mercantile firm of Garland & Roy. Included in the collection is business and personal correspondence of John B. Roy

mssBR Boxes 84-86

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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 James Harford, (bulk 1767-1805)

Manuscripts

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

mssBR Box 27 (1)

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Brock Collection: Lipscombe family papers

Manuscripts

Business, financial, and legal records and some correspondence of the Lipscombe family, particularly of Ambrose Lipscombe (fl. 1770-1793), Nathaniel Claiborne Lipscombe (d. 1847), and his son Nathaniel Claiborne Lipscombe

mssBR Boxes 28 & 29

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

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