Forwarded by Flo. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: A GUIDE TO GLOUCESTER COUNTY, VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS, 1651-1865 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:19:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Sylvia Rowe Organization: RelayNet(tm) : BBSWORLD (#1279)Tulsa,OK - [email protected] To: ALL Newsgroups: rime.virginia_gen Item 51. CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED BY THE COMMISSIONERS FOR TRADE AND PLANTATIONS...FROM THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA...CO 5/1318, 1717-1720. Original: Public Record Office, London, England; Copy: Virginia Colonial Records Project on microfilm. Two letters, Lt. Gov. Spotswood, to the Council of Trade and Plantations, pertain to Gloucester. The first, 14 August 1718, encloses a list of patents for Virginia land showing that John Lewis, John Smith and John Washington, Jr., received 46-1/2 acres in Gloucester for importation rights. The second, 5 March 1720, concerns the death of a Gloucester Councillor, Col. Smith, and the plans to appoint his successor. Spotswood gives reasons for not appointing Mr. Porteous. Item 106: ARMISTEAD-COCKE PAPERS, 1680-1907. 269 Items. Original: William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia. Contains items on the Cocke, Curtis, Jones, Sheldon and Throckmorton families. Most papers deal with family news and the wheat and tobacco business of William Armistead Cocke ( -1855) who lived at Oakland, Cumberland County. Also five account books, 1851-1863, and scrap and copy books of Richard P. Jones of Land's End; a series of letters and bonds, ca 1680-ca 1790, regarding property of the following families: Beverly, Burwell, Curtis, Iveson, Kemp, Lewis, Marloe, Page, Skipwith, Washington and Wyatt; part of a plat, ca 1680, of land on Piankatank River of George Curtis, Augustine Horth, Col. Kemp, William Marloe, and Lady Skipwith; a deed, 1689, of Charles Curtis for land in Kingston Parish bought from Thomas Curtis; a will, ca 1700, of Charles Curtis; and a plat, ca 1700, of Charles Curtis' land on Piankatank River surveyed by John Smith. Item 168. CUSTIS FAMILY, PAPERS, 1683-1858. 909 Items. Original: Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia. Letter to George Washington in Gloucester from Capel and Osgood Hanbury, London, 25 October 1769. Concerns Washington's account and firm's continuing business after Capel Hanbury's death. Also a plat, 1683, surveyed by Lawrence Smith for Assar Merrett of 1,250 acres in Gloucester, showing location of Daniel Parke's mill. Item 170. DANDRIDGE-SPOTTSWOOD COLLECTION, 1619-1892. 200 Items and 1 volume. Original: Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia Includes one letter, Thomas Overton, Gloucester Court House, to Samuel Pettus, Esq., 30 March 1776. Item 190. FREEMAN, DOUGLAS SL, COLLECTION OF PHOTOSTATS, TYPESCRIPTS, CARDS, ETC. 68 Items, 3 vols., 8,000 cards. Original: Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia. Includes floor plans of Kempville and two negative prints of the record of medical expenses of the son of John Washington, 1739-1741. Originals of these prints are in the john Carter account book, Colonial Williamsburg. Item 193. GLASS PAPERS, 1858-1884. 11 Items. Originial: William and Mary Correspondence, receipts, bonds and a fishing license. Among the names mentioned are George Brushwood, George P. Evans, Captain Andrew Glass, his brothers, Thomas Glass and William T. Glass. Item 251. MOORE, AUGUSTINE (?), ACCOUNT BOOK, 1746-1752. 1 vol. Original: University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia. Accounts with the following Gloucester residents; Christopher Adams, Capt. David Alexander, Mrs. Anne Armistead, Thomas Booth, James Briggs, Capt. John Briggs, Jonathan Brooke, Thomas Brooks, William Camp, Mrs. Judith Dudley, John Fox, John Hughes, Mann Page, Capt. John Perrin, Mrs. Elizabeth Perry, Capt. Gwyn Read, Samuel Robinson, William Roe, Thomas Stoakes, Capt. John thompson, William Thomson, Warner Washington, Thomas Whiting, William Wilcock and Col. Francis Willis. Item 261. PAGE, JOHN, LETTERS AND PAPERS, 1777-1806. 27 Items. Original: William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Copy: Research Department, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia on microfilm. Letters of John Page (1743-1808) of Rosewell, dealing with a variety of subjects including Revolutionary War troop movements, supplying French troops, legislation and personal affairs, especially finances. The collection contains Page's protest against legislative usurpation of power in Virginia, 16 August 1777; a letter to Col. Innes discussing the possiblility of Cornwallis' attacking Yorktown and plans for defense of Gloucester; and correspondence with Robert Carter on the Frying Pan Company. In addition the collection contains lettrs describing Washington's inauguration, 1789; the First Congress; and outlining John James Beckley's career as Clerk of the United States house of Representatives, 1789-1797; 1801-1807. Also includes three letters from St. George Tucker to John Page. The Colonial Williamsburg film is of nine items, mainly concerned with Page in the American Revolution. Item 377. BYRD, CHART, at Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia; Carter, Dallas, Lewis, Ludlow, Reade, Warener, Washington, Willis. Item 416. LEWIS, BIBLE, 1746-1862, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia; Washington, Willis. --- RIMEGate(tm)/ListProc V4.24 at BBSWORLD * [email protected]