Hi, Folks, I have been asked how to obtain these microfilms, etc. Would anyone have the answer? Would it be ILL or LDS? Flo. [email protected] wrote: > > 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] > > ==== OLD-FREDERICK-CO-VA Mailing List ==== > Visit the Frederick County,VA USGenWeb Home Page! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafreder/frederic.htm > Visit the Frederick County USGenWeb Archives! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/frederic.htm -- <[email protected]>