THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION An Overview of the Manuscript Sources in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Duke University http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/pathfinders/american-revolution John Rutherfoord Papers, 1754 (1781-1865) 1931. 2,712 items and 33 vols. Richmond, Va. Family, business, personal, and political correspondence of John Rutherfoord (1792-1866), lawyer, merchant, and governor of Virginia, 1841-1842; of his son, John Coles Rutherfoord (1825-1866), lawyer, planter, and member of the House of Delegates; of Ann Seddon (Roy) Rutherfoord (1832-1906?), wife of John Coles Rutherfoord; and of Thomas Rutherfoord (1766-1852), father of John Rutherfoord, and Richmond merchant. Early papers are those of Isaac Holmes, assistant quartermaster at Petersburg, Virginia, chiefly from Richard Claiborne concerning provisions for Revolutionary soldiers; and of James Webb, apparently a lawyer of Smithfield, Virginia, having connections with John Marshall, Spencer Roane, and John Wickham, consisting of legal correspondence and papers. The papers of Thomas Rutherfoord include a letter, 1810, expressing objections to the embargo and an article, 1812, on the necessity of a navy to protect the maritime rights of the United States.