Manuscripts

Duncan Richmond accounts

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Description: Accounts kept by Duncan Richmond between 1757-1758; there are six clearance notes in the hand of Earl of Loudoun. Also included are 32 receipts and accounts, mostly for feed and repairs, and the the account with Richmond (1758, Nov. 20), and Samuel Sackett (1758, July 22).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1757, January 1-1758, August 23.
Call number: mssHM 444
Creator: Richmond, Duncan (active 1755-1759)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: In library.
Dimensions: 18 cm :

George Richmond letter to Samuel Palmer

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This letter provides a first hand account of the death of William Blake. Richmond was heavily guided and influenced by Blake in his painting and was present at Blake's death

mssHM 60136

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J.D. Duncan letters to A.H. Campbell

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In these two letters to his brother, J.D. Duncan writes that he has arrived in the town of Stockton, California from Wisconsin and plans to head north to the gold mines. A year later, he writes that he has found work with "a large Ditch Company." He writes of the current state of crops, of the scarcity of gold, and the danger posed by Indians. Nevertheless, J.D. believes there is still "plenty of gold to be had." HM 25788 is dated 1857, February 4, and HM 25789 is dated 1858, September 13, and both were written in Stockton, California.

mssHM 25788-25789

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Account book of the estate of Peter Jefferson, (bulk 1743-1758)

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The accounts of Peter Jefferson's estate compiled ca. 1759 by an executor of Peter Jefferson's estate, probably John Harvie (1706-1767). The book covers the period from 1743 to 1758 and consists of the accounts with the estates of Col. William Randolph, Peter Jefferson's father, Thomas Jefferson (1679-1731), (these accounts cover the period from 1728 to 1732 and include a record of the sale of a "Negro woman Call'd Phillis & 2 children Call'd Dinah & Goliath, purchased of Capt. Henry Wood at Publick sale"), and Joshua Fry. Also included are accounts with "Messrs. Thomas Chamberlayne & Co," John Bisnell, College of William and Mary, Albemarle County, Doctor Thomas Walker, and others. More detailed accounts of Col. William Randolph's estate include lists of vouchers of payments made by Peter Jefferson, "An Account of Tobacco made at Col. Randolph's Quarters," "Overseers Accounts," and "Sundry payments made to the Sheriffs of Goochland & Cumberland on Account of Col. Randolph's Estate" (ff. 28v -- 32 v.). Also included are records of Peter Jefferson's surveyor's fees (ff. 34 v. - 38), and alphabetical index (ff. 45 v. - 46 v.)

mssHM 911

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Brock Collection: Papers of the editors of the Richmond enquirer, (bulk 1867-1876)

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Papers, chiefly routine correspondence with a few documents, accumulated by the editors and managers. Included are accounts, advertisements, letters from contributors, readers, subscribers, and advertisers, correspondence relating to the merger with Richmond Examiner (1866) and the company management. The majority of the letters are addressed to George C. Wedderburn and W. W. Berry.

mssBR Box 176

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Duncan McKercher papers

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The collection includes three pocket diaries kept by McKercher from January 1, 1862 to March 3, 1865, detailing his military service and his imprisonment. Also included are memoirs, based on the diaries that McKercher composed later, and some additional regimental records. There is also a group of 41 notes from South Carolina enslavers requesting various forms of punishment for enslaved persons. The requests are addressed to the Master of the Charleston "workhouse," the city's notorious jail for enslaved persons. McKercher apparently took these papers while incarcerated in Charleston jail on his way to Libby Prison. Also included is a military commission issued by Governor of Alabama, May 29, 1861, a special instruction for officers guarding Libby Prison, April 30, 1864, and a letter from Theodore Schock, a prospector of Needleton, Colorado describing his wife's suicide, written on January 9, 1889.

mssHM 48562-48568

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Duncan McKercher papers

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mssHM 48562-48568

Duncan Richmond accounts

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