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The collection also includes a letter, 22 October 1827, of Burwell Bassett and a letter, 1826, of John Mercer Patton (1796-1858). These papers contain references to the Whiting family of Williamsburg, Virginia."," Papers relate to settlements of estates which John Dixon administered, while early material include copies of the wills of his great-grandfather John Dixon of Bistol, England, his father John Dixon (d. 1788) of Gloucester County, Virginia, and the settlement of the estate of his mother Elizabeth Peyton Dixon."," Sm. Coll. Add. 24:"," Copies of a 1729 land patent, the 1766 will of Roger Dixon and two genealogies of the family.","1 item. Mutilated. John Dixon is the great-grandfather of John Dixon Jr.","25 items. John Dixon is the father of John Dixon Jr. A copy of his will is included among his estate papers.","19 items. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access:"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers. 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Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: \u003cextref href=\"http://scdbwiki.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/John_Dixon\" title=\"John Dixon\"\u003e\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information:"],"bioghist_tesim":["John Dixon Jr. was born in 1778 and died September 5, 1830. He married Sally (Sarah) Throckmorton, the daughter of Warner and Julia Throckmorton, in 1795. They had three children: Dr. John Dixon(1812- 1835), Isabella S. Burwell, Harriet Peyton. Dixon remarried Mary T. (?). There was one child from this union Mary E. Dixon."," Family History"," John Dixon Jr.'s father was John Dixon (d.1788). He married Elizabeth Peyton, daughter of Sir John Peyton of Isleham, Gloucester County, on February 6, 1773. They had four children: John, Lucy, Seigniora, and Betsy."," John Dixon Jr.'s grandfather was the Rev. John Dixon(d.1777). He married Lucy (?). They had five children: John, William, Thomas, Lucy, Elizabeth"," John Dixon Jr.'s great grandfather, John Dixon (d.1758) came to Virginia from Bristol, England in the eighteenth century. He married Lucy Reade(1701-1731), daughter of Mr. Thomas Reade of Gloucester. They had three children: Rev. John Dixon, Roger Dixon, and Thomas Dixon. After the death of his first wife, he remarried Ann (?), of King William County. They had four children: Cornelious, Lyonell, Robert, and Susannah Ann. All the male children from this second union died unmarried."," Additional family and genealogical information can be found in the first folder of the first box of the John Dixon Papers, Collection number: Mss. 39.1 D64. 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Item concern the manufacture and sale of Hotchisses' improved straw cutter.","1 item. Items concern the use and disposal of certain property.","2 items. Item concerns the specifications for staves for hogsheads; and a memorandum concerning other lumber.","1 item.","1 item. This item was paid for by John Dixon, quarter master.","230 items. (Continued in Folder 5)","230 items. (Continued from Folder 4)","Transactions with the George Catlett estate and Seigniora Catlett, 1802 - 1827. 80 items.","18 items.","24 items. Items include a copy of his will.","10 items.","28 items.","13 items.","26 items."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Dixon family","Whiting family","Dixon, John","Bassett, Burwell, 1764-1841","Dixon, Elizabeth Peyton","Dixon, John, d. 1788","Dixon, William M","Patton, John Mercer, 1796-1858"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"names_coll_ssim":["Dixon family","Whiting family","Bassett, Burwell, 1764-1841","Dixon, Elizabeth Peyton","Dixon, John, d. 1788","Dixon, William M","Patton, John Mercer, 1796-1858"],"famname_ssim":["Dixon family","Whiting family"],"persname_ssim":["Dixon, John","Bassett, Burwell, 1764-1841","Dixon, Elizabeth Peyton","Dixon, John, d. 1788","Dixon, William M","Patton, John Mercer, 1796-1858"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":65,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T22:57:25.653Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_8769"}},{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8395","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"John Millington Papers","creator":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_8395#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Millington, John, 1779-1868","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_8395#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eMillington's papers concern his experiences as directing engineer of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association, as professor at the College of William \u0026amp; Mary (where he lived in the Wythe House), as professor at University of Mississippi, and at Memphis Medical College. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","This collection is currently being processed. Please consult a staff member for further information.","John Millington was born May 11, 1779 near London. Licensed as attorney in England, he later turned to engineering. Professor of Royal Institution. In 1829, moved to Mexico as engineer with Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1832. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy at College of William and Mary, 1836-1848. Took degree of doctor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science at University of Mississippi. Professor, Memphis (Tennessee) Medical College. Died in 1868.","The material from Acc. 1980.124 was previously part of the John Millington Collection, UA 6.015.","The collection was rehoused into new boxes and folders, and the box and folder list were compiled by Matt Abel and Jenn Quirnback from December 2012-March 2013. As a result, box and folder numbers from the original paper finding aid have been updated.","John Millington Collection (UA 6.015)","Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306)","The personal library of John Millington is in the Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries.","Roll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 2012.","All of the artifacts and copper plates that were originally part of Boxes 7-10, 13-15 were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the processing of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)","Millington's papers concern his experiences as directing engineer of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association, as professor at the College of William \u0026 Mary (where he lived in the Wythe House), as professor at University of Mississippi, and at Memphis Medical College. Includes diaries covering 1832, 1835, and 1861-1867; letters of his family members; and Blankenship family land records and letters concerning the Spanish-American War.","Several sketches of the life of John Millington, 1779-1868, and genealogical information on the family are to be found here. Papers of John Millington include his commission as an officer in the St. James Loyal Volunteers, London, and certificate for hair powder allowance, 1801; license as attorney under George III, 1802-1804; and his activities as an engineer in constructing a suspension bridge in Buchinghamshire, 1829. The notice of the sale of his effects in London and a passport to Vera Cruz, Mexico, signed by General Santa Ana, 1829, mark the move from England to Mexico, where he was the directing engineer for the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Letters of introductions to persons in the United States, 1832, which were taken with him when he left Mexico are included as are printed annoucements of the engineering office which he set up on Philadelphia, 1832. From this period arincluded letters from Michael Faraday of the Royal Institute, London, 1828-1832, and theatre programs from Philadelphia, 1834. Letters and papers from the time that he moved to Williamsburg to become Professor of Chemsistry and Natural Philosophy at the College of William and Mary, 1836-1850, conclude this box. Included is a letter written to Millington by T.R. Dew, President of the College, asking him to buy books for the College Library in Philadelphia Bookshops, 21 September, 1837, and many letters to other Professors of Natural Philosophy (Physics) in the United States, discussing textbooks that were in use at the time.","Typewritten copy.","Scope and Contents In \"William and Mary College Papers\" of the 1939 Survey; folders 16 (1 piece), 50 (2 pieces), 98a (1 piece), 108 (44 pieces), Typewritten copy.","Reprinted 1964 by the King and Queen Press, Williamsburg. TV.","Unsigned.","Unsigned.","Unsigned.","Scope and Contents Enclosure: Sketch of the life of John Millington by Alfred Temple Spanton \"about the year 1908,\" a great grandson of Dr. Millington.","Scope and Contents 1. List of marriages and issues. 3 pages. 2. A second list of marriages, children, and subsequent heirs, 1802-1841. 2 pages. 3. \"Copy of writing on back of Bartolozzi picture\" of Mrs. Ruth Millington, mother of Prof. John Millington. C. 4. List of Hills family, born 1872-1891. 1 page. 5. List of places of residence of John Millington from 1803 to 1863. 1 page.","Scope and Contents Exemption from the payment of duty of Hair Powder Certificates, due to his being a member of the St. James Loyal Volunteers Corps. Signed by Chas. Blackley. Printed Signed.","Sworn before the King George III, signed by R. Forester.","License to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.","License to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.","\"Whereof Geoffrey Lord Amherst is Colonel\". Signed by Scott Titchfield (Marquis).","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"calling my attention to certain parts of his book \u0026amp; to dine with him.\"","Answer to an enquery regarding the diameters of Jupiter's satellites.","(Purchased March, 1968)","Concerning the chain cable cause. (Purchased from Ifam Kyle Hatchen, London, January 9, 1951)","Scope and Contents Regarding the transactions of the Society of Arts, his purchase of \"7 optical models\" and Luminus Conductor.","Scope and Contents Regarding an order from Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the subject on which Millington planned to discourse at the Royal Institute. Card.","Endorsement: \"about not calling\".","Scope and Contents Re: a suspension bridge that Millington was appointed to build. (Incomplete).","Scope and Contents An account with John Millington for services rendered in connection with contract and bond for the Mexican Mining Co.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about dining with Hook, going to Mexico, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. hook wishing me to dine with him on Thursday next to meet Porter, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"pressing me to dine with him on morrow.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"begging to have his American Paddle specific ready by tomorrow.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"inctroducing Mr. Marshall as Engineer to E. London Water Works.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: Dr. Ols. Gregory, saying that \"wo'd undertake the reediting of Cavallo's Treatise of Phil'y for Mr. P. Hoare and Rev. Thos. Racket, the Ex'ors.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"for part of Phil. Transact's let me \u0026amp; asking if going to Mexico.\"","Millington to Faraday. Re: acceptance of Anglo-Mexican Mining Associates.","Printed Material. Card.","Scope and Contents Endorsment: \"Mr. Tindal pressing for answer to his letters.\"","Scope and Contents An introduction for John Millington and his family to Mr. Phelps of Madeira.","For an auction at No. 5 Doughty St.Endorsement: \"J. Millington Going to Mexico.\" Printed Material.","Issued at Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"passport for the Republic of Mexico.\"","James Chabot to John Millington, Esq. Note about son Tom.","Scope and Contents A printed announcement \"Aviso al comercio\" in Guanajuato. Printed material.","Sarah Gibson to John Millington at Guanajuato. Re: marriage of daughter Emily.","Memorandum signed by John Millington and endorsed: \"List of Articles brought away from [caborce] by self and Morcom.","Scope and Contents Thomas writes of his school, Emily of shopping for her mother.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Requesting that they visit her and see their grandchild, Emilita.","Endorsement by John Millington.","Introducing John Millington, Director of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.","Introducing John Millington, Commissioner of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.","Scope and Contents Introducing John Millington. Four letters.","Introducing John Millington.","Introducing Professor Millington. Five letters and covers.","Scope and Contents Introducing Professor Millington.","Includes 2 pieces of equipage from the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.","Scope and Contents Intrducing John Millington.","Scope and Contents Re: the situation in Mexico City, then under siege by Santa Ana, and of expected battle between Santa Ana and Bustamente.","Scope and Contents Writes of her desire to leave Mexico, but no one dares to leave the City for fear of murder and robbery in the continuing revolution.","Endorsement \"Dr. Ma[?]trie's Advertisement.\" Newspaper.E. Note: Dr. M'Murtrie has an advertisement in the last column on the second page in which Millington is mentioned as having constructed the dark closets for the exhibition of his illustrations.","Scope and Contents Re: a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, and Millington's request for a strip of Rhodium.","Printed Material.","Printed Material.","Scope and Contents Includes a program by Mr. Power. Endorsement: \"with J. Lett's orders.\"","Scope and Contents Incomplete. Endorsement: \"Autograph of Miss Hughes, a Singer of the London theatres.\"","Appointment of John Millington by Board of Visitors of William and Mary College as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry.","J. Page, Rector of William and Mary College, to John Millington. Re: election as Professor to William and Mary College.","Printed invitation of students of William and Mary to a ball to be held on February 22.","Scope and Contents Date is recorded as 8 mo. 17, 1836. Re: questions in astronomy.","Scope and Contents License to serve as a Lay Reader in the Episcopal Church in Williamsburg.","Scope and Contents Congratulations on his appointment at the College: he (Faraday) has been at the R.A. for 23 years; a lathe ordered by Millington.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about Saunder's loan--\u0026amp; his going to England.\" Having bought a copper mine in the Wisconson Territory, he is going to Europe to engage miners.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Dr. J.G. at canonsburg, Jefferson College about my [?] degree in s'd College \u0026amp; his coming to town....\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. John Vaughn inviting me to breakfast with him on morrow morning.\"","Endorsement: \"Judge Tucker at F.S. about my taking Edmund Randolf to Board, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew requesting me to purchase 2 or 300 $ worth of books for Wm. \u0026amp; Mary College Library.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew asking me to take Mr. J. Wright to board.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about new edition of his Nat. Philosophy.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"stating that Jefferson Coll. had conferred M.D. upon me \u0026amp; to appoint some person to receive the diploma.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"saying he had sent 1st vol. of his Phil'y to Dobson for me \u0026amp; with part'-lars of price, etc.\"","Endorsement: \"about repair of stronomical Telescope, Text Books, etc.\" Includes a full discussion of scientific textbooks in use and enquiries about \"Millington's Natural Philosophy.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about shipping me a box of Tin ores, etc.\" Letter states that he will spend \"specimens of most of the minerals found in the U.S.\"","Scope and Contents A deed to property in Tennessee. Signed.","Scope and Contents Endorsemed: \"to send him copy of my book on Engineering.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Prof. Saunders asking of I wished to buy a woman serv't--Ans'd in affirmative.\" Woman was wife to man owned by Saunders.","Scope and Contents \"I am sorry your present situation is not agreeable to you...recommend to you to ask for an assistant...\"","Scope and Contents Regarding her students seeing the College.","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Uncle George in his 86th year. The last letter he wrote me.\" Regarding Tom Millington, son of John Millington and his \"Father's wife\" in England.","An account and statement regarding the estate of Peter Aylward, a part of which is to go to \"Millington Trustees.\"","Scope and Contents Indenture for the price of the house and lot in Williamsburg. Signed. C. Separate agreement with Thomas O. Cogbill, Trustee for William H. Lee.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Lease of a house and garden on the north side of the main street of Williamsburg. Signed.","Scope and Contents A comparison of the lecture hours of Professor Millington with those of Professor Silliman in Boston. Signed.","Scope and Contents Bond for portion of the purchase price of property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.","Scope and Contents Deed for property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed by Ruch'd L. Lloyd.","He writes, \"The Oregon Difficulty has paralysed everything in the way of business....for Fear of war between the two countries.\"","Regarding inheretance from the will of the late Peter Aylward, deceased in 1840. Card.","Endorsed: \"With acc. of the close of Mr. Dew's life.\"","Enclosing a sermon for the funeral of Mr. Letts.","Enclosing an account sheet. ADrS. Enclosed.","Regarding the final settlement of the estate of the late Peter Aylward. ADrS.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Letters and papers of John Millington record his move to the newly opened University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, 1850, and to the Medical College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1853. From this period came an order for payment for engineering services to the Mississippi Central Railroad, a copy of a medical address pritned in the Memphis Daily Bulletin, and letters from Williamsburg, Virginia, where he still owned a house, 1855-1858. A letter written by John C. Phillips after an eight month exploratory trip to Pike's Peak, colorado, 1861, reviews the mining prospects there; shares of stock from the Aetna Oil Company and the Shafton Coal Company reflect mineral activity in the East. From the war years, 1861-1864, there are many letters from his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship in Richmond, Virginia, and his son, George B. Millington, which tell of the movement of armies, the high prices of civillian goods, etc. The remainder of the letters and papers in this box are from the period of the return of John Millington to live in Philadelphia, 1865, and then to Richmond, Virginia, 1867, until his death on 10 July, 1868. Also included are papers concerned with the settlement of the estate of John Millington, 1868-1892.","Enclosing a power of Attorney. ADrS. E.","Regarding his account with the company.","Regarding his business with that firm.","Regarding settlement of an estate in England, to which Millington is an heir.","Regarding settlement of an estate.","Endorsed: \"Coults and Co. inclosing Bank account to this day.\"","Regarding transfer of money received for his account.","Endorsed: \"Bishop Green at memphis, saying his was coming to preach at Oxford....\"","Regarding his accounts in England.","A promissory note for $105 to Lewis Sharks (Dean). Card.","Regarding family affairs; copies of the new Illustrated Papers; and his life in Philadelphia.","Regarding an engraving to be made; enclosing a syllabus of the Chemical Institute; he has joined the Sons of Temperance.","Regarding shares held by John Millington in the railroad.","Order for payment to John Millington for work for the railroad company.","News of England from the brother of John Millington's first wife.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"to say the 20th St. house sold for $5,150 cash \u0026amp; to send the title deeds.\"","PAM.","From a student at the Memphis Medical College, whose diploma had been withheld until a note was given for money owed on his tuition; including a rumor that the college is soon to close.","Family news; John Millington's move to a new residence.","Regarding his attempts to rent their furnished house in Williamsburg; news of the people in the town.","Sent with a volume of her poems, and asking for a review of them.","Deed for tracts of land in Fayette County, Tennessee.","Regarding the death of her husband. Card.","Scope and Contents Regarding her move to her new home in Richmond, and family news.","Letter to Katie Millington Blakenship describing the hard times and social news. Card.","A bank check.","Family news; endorsement: \"send to Hills.\"","Regarding her life in England.","Regarding an eight month trip around Pike's Peak in Colorado prospecting for gold and other minerals; and offering his services to the South in the event of a war.","Scope and Contents Regarding hope of a war between England and the United States in order to take the pressure off the South; buying blankets and overcoats for Southern soldiers; the formation of the Confederacy under Jefferson Davis; the progress of the war; the defeat of the \"grand army\" in its attempt to take Richmond; concern for his house in Williamsburg; the threat of an attack on Memphis.","Endorsement: \"enquiry into state of affairs in Williamsburg, Va....\"","Regarding threat of the Federal army at Cairy; hope for a return to peace; the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Blankenship.","Regarding her visit to her daughter; 2 bad fires in Memphis; the army that is being formed; high prices. Card.","Scope and Contents Regarding a business trip made by rail through Manassas, behind the Confederate lines.","Scope and Contents Regarding inauguration of President Davis on 22 February; hope that the British will lift the blockade and perhaps declare war on the North; the capture of a part of the railroad line by the Northerners; Tennessee Legislature has fled from Nashville to Memphis; hope to return to Williamsburg; then purchase a 220 acre plantation at La Grange, Tennessee.","Receipt for $5,500 in Confederate Notes, for investment.","Scope and Contents Indenture for 23 acres and a house. Signed","Printed Material.","Scope and Contents By flag of truce; Kate's second daughter.","Scope and Contents Written to J.M. in Philadelphia. Regarding the high prices in the south--$175 for a pair of shoes; requests an English check for 20 pounds which could be sold in the south for $1,200 to $1,500.","Scope and Contents Printed Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the uncertainty of mails; markets will supplied in Richmond where he visited his sister; prices very high there, however; his army pay just about covers his mess account.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Printed Signed.","Scope and Contents Re: the handling of some affairs for him. Card.","Scope and Contents Re: the reverses of the confederate Army in the Tennessee Campaign, including the battle of Franklin and of Nashville; and poorly clad and nearly barefood army.","Newspaper clipping.","Newspaper clipping.","PADS.","Scope and Contents On inspecting their place in la Grange he finds headquarters of the 11th Illinois regiment and 9 families of the 2nd Arkansas regiment in the house, all marble mantels gone, most of the windows broken, and the furniture taken.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Relinquishment of the Bureau of the property at La Grange seized as belonging to Rev'd John N. Waddell\" by John Millington. ADS.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the payment of taxes.","Scope and Contents Deed for house and 23 acres in Fayette County, Tennessee. (See Indenture of 15 October, 1862.) Signed.","Autogaphed document.","Scope and Contents Regarding selling his Williamsburg home.","Scope and Contents Regarding the purchase of John Millington's Williamsburg house.","Scope and Contents Regarding the claim for damage to the property at La Grange, Tennessee.","Scope and Contents Regarding his life in Memphis, and the move of \"Pa and Ma\" (Mr. and Mrs. John Millington) to Richmond.","Scope and Contents Receipt for payment for half a gallon of whiskey. Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the account of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding an account of his in the name of G.B. Millington, his son.","Scope and Contents Regarding account in that bank.","Scope and Contents Business matters.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Has rented Waddell Place for the year of 1868.\"","Regarding property in Tennessee.","Scope and Contents Sympathy expressed for the death of her father.","Regarding the death of their father (John Millington).","Scope and Contents Regarding the death of \"Ma\" (Mrs. John Millington).","Scope and Contents Regarding a rehearsal, etc.","Scope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.","Regarding their late father's affairs. ACyS.","Scope and Contents Regarding court certificates he sent to England in connection with the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Receipts for monies received from R. E. Blankenship, Admin. for John Millington, deceased.","Scope and Contents Regarding Titles to the Philadelphia property of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the administration of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the will of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the payment of dividends to estate of John Millington with enclosures.","Scope and Contents 1869. Papers connected with the case of Deare vs. Bates.","Scope and Contents Lettered as exhibits \"A\" through \"M\" in the trial.","Scope and Contents Letter thanking Professor Henry for items he sent to W\u0026amp;M and comments on Thomas Dew's death.","Newspaper clipping.","Contains primarly diaries, one notebook and one account book.","AV.","AV.","AV. 12 February-15 April 15 April-13 June 13 June-26 September 25 September-31 December","AV. 1 Januar-16 March 16 March-4 June 5 June-19 August 19 August-26 October 26 October-31 December","AV 1 January-30 March 30 March-22 June 22 June-18 September 18 September-31 December","AV.","AV. 2 January-13 April 13 April-7 August 7 August-27 December","AV. 1 January-10 April 11 April-15 July 16 July-24 October 25 October-31 January, 1865","AV. 1 February-15 May 15 May-9 August 9 August-31 December","AV. 1 January-20 March 20 March-29 June 2 July-10 October","AV. 1 January-10 December 9 December-27 December","Death of Millington is noted of Friday, July 10, 1868. 2 books. PAV.","59 pages. TDr.","Harriet Blankenship Papers, 1834-1861, and Blankenship Family papers, 1866-1951. Included is correspondence with John Wesley Johnson of Mississippi and George F. Holmes of the University of Virginia regarding the biography of Dr. John Millington. There are letters from Frank and John Blankenship to their mother, Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship, many of which are from Florida and Cuba in the time of the Spanish-American War, 1989-1899. Included is correspondence, 1937, between Mrs. Blankenship and the officers of the Folger Shakespearean Library in Washington regarding the gift of Mrs. Siddon's stage jewelry, which had been given by Dr. Millington to his grandmdaughter; and a 6 page report of the Pearl harbor attack of the December 7, 1941, sent out by Earl M. Thacker of Honolulu.","Cover for some of next 14 papers.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding deeds from Bacon Tate (sic) and Petes (sic).","Scope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.","Regarding our biographical sketch of Dr. John Millington, her father.","Scope and Contents On the same subject.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Please return to Mrs. K.M. Blankenship...Richmond, Va.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding \"the Blankenship matter.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding dull days and duties in the army.","Scope and Contents Regarding a furlough.","Scope and Contents Regarding his return from a furlough.","Scope and Contents Re: crowded and sickening conditions of the soldiers on the transport ship.","Scope and Contents Regarding a trip from Savannah.","Scope and Contents Regarding the inaction of the fleet, \"now that the war is over.\"","Newspaper clipping.","Scope and Contents Regarding family affairs including the marriage of a sister, Evie.","Scope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: the enthusiasm of the people of Havana for General Gomex; description of a carnival and that \"battle of the flowers.\"","Scope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: family affairs and the hope that his mother will come to Cuba for a visit.","Scope and Contents Regarding the army's duties in policing the city until a Cuban police force is formed.","Scope and Contents Enclosure: note on \"Castleford Ware\" signed G[?] B[?]. Enclosure.","Scope and Contents Regarding information concerning Professor John Millington, father of Mrs. K.M.B. C.","Scope and Contents Regarding the return of the manuscript of the life of Professor John Millington.","Regarding the value of a book on medals.","Scope and Contents Regarding a monument to the grandfather of Mrs. Marshall, who had taught Miss Henley's father at William and Mary, probably a reference to John Millington.","Enclosure: list of particular gifts.","Regarding certain prints offered to the Library and a collection of Siddons stage jewelry.","Report of conditions in Honolulu after December 7, 1941 attack by Japanese. Manuscript.","Appreciation for a playbill sent by Mrs. Blankenship; interest in the stage properties of Mrs. Siddons.","Unknown recipient. Regarding Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry.","Regarding portrait and miniature owned by Miss Blankenship. Card.","Regarding the receipt of the Siddons stage jewelry.","Appreciation for the presentation of Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry to the library. TOLS. Enclosure: \"Sarah Siddons's stage jewelry,\" a description of this and account of its former ownership by Dr. John Millington. Enclosed.","Newspaper clipping.","Application blank to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the daughter of Captain R.E. Blankenship, Miss Kate Blankenship.","Printed material.","Donated by the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.","Notice by his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship. Newspaper clipping","Regarding a gold snuff box of John Millington left to the College in the will of Frank B. Blankenship.","Regarding items of interest to the College from the old Blankenship house.","Names and addresses of the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship.","Scope and Contents Regarding the \"Blankenship Home\" where artifacts relating to Professor John Millington were obtained. Newspaper clipping.","Stating that he has a portrait of John Millington and some books. Enclosed brochure from Valentine Museum, Richmond, on painting of J.M. and mother (see folder V-21).","Scope and Contents Reference to Ethel Hills, granddaughter of John Millington.","Enclosing xerox copy of cover and article from Valentine Museum brochure; sent valuable \"Mitchell's Traveller's Guide of the U.S.\" of 1843, with colored map.","Scope and Contents John Millington, Elizabeth Letts, Sarah Anne Letts (who married J.M.), Robert Moore Blankenship, John Millington Blankenship, Richard F. Morris, Robert Blankenship Morris.","Scope and Contents John Millington, Sarah Anne Letts, Mrs. Harriet Blakenship, Robert E. Blankenship, R.M. Blankenship, Annie Blankenship, Kate Blankenship, Sarah Anne Millington, George Beale Millington.","Annie Blankenshop, John Millington Blankenship, Mrs. Frances Harrison Blankenship, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship, John M. Blankenship, Mrs. Evie Blankenship Carter, Mrs. Caroline Virginia Gordon, Mrs. Harriet Blankenship, Robert Millington Blankenship, Jr. Newspaper clippings.","See John Millington account book of sale of tickets, in Box VI. Printed Material.","Newspaper. Announcement of John Millington's appointment to William and Mary College faculty, on page 2.","Included is a list of his acomplishments unrecorded elsewhere. Newspaper clipping.","Newspaper clipping","Scope and Contents (J.M. owned the house now known as the \"Wythe House\" having lived in it while he was Professor of Natural Philosophy at William and Mary. When he left Williamsburg in 1850, he rented the house out for many years.) Newspaper clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material. Card.","Newspaper clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material.","Newspaper Clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material.","Includes an account of the ghost of the house. Newspaper clipping.","3 photographs.","\"The artist who painted the portrait of Mrs. Millington with her son, John Millington, done in London.\" A typed note on the lie of A.K., 1740-1807.","Includes photograph of the painting on the cover and article on it on page 1. The painting was left to the museum in the will of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Photographs endorsed \"Professor of Chemistry \u0026amp; Toxicology in the Memphis Medical College, Tennessee, 1857.\"","Photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","One has list: McLeod, Walkter, Warwick, Warren, Blankenship, Rutherfoord. Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Identified as \"Thomas Millington of London, Eng. Father of John Millington.\" The label behind the original frame also bears the inscription \"Georgie Blackenship, April 192[9]\"","Includes one printed version, taken from the water color by Thomas C. Millington. Printed Material.","Photograph.","Includes biographical notes copied from 'Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors\". Probably the painter of the miniature of John Millington as a boy. Photograph.","Three cartes de visite found in the trunk of John Millington. Photos are possibly of Bruton Parish Church and Cemetary. Each is about 4 in. x 2.5 in. Good condition with fading.","By William Hamilton. Purchased at Regent Circus, Picadilly, London. 26 pages used.","\"Prof'r J. Millington, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. Bot in Philadelphia, 1849. 75 cts.\" 3 inches by 5 inches.","Endorsed, \"Sue fox Album, Richmond, Virginia\". Greetings, poems and the like written to Sue Fox by her friends. 6 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.","Cooking receipts, plus a few pages of newspaper clippings regarding diseases and cures. Approximately 40 pages used. 6 1/2 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.","Scope and Contents Secretaries reporting on meetings of the \"club\" include C.L. Campbell, Irving E. Campbell, A.M. Olcott, R. Massey Noeling, Julian F. Skelton, Egberta Olcott, A.B. Dinwiddie, R.P. Irving, Sue Seddon Weleor, Richard F. Morris, Martha Harrison Christian, George W. McCrury, and Evie Blankenship. Approximately 100 pages used. 7 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.","Greetings, poems and the like written to Kate Millington by her friends; sketches and colored cards are enclosed and loose. 7 1/2 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.","Endorsed: \"drawn and engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.\" belonging to Georgia Blankenship, Richmond.","Photograph Volume. 9 in. by 12 in","67 pages used. Loose international postage stamps (circa 1880s-1900s), previously lining selected blank pages in the back of the volume, were removed from the journal and consolidated into a separate enclosure in Box 11. Volume measures 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.","Records and accounts of what appears to have been a children's enterprise. Miss Kate Blankenship was among the contributors of such items as Confederate and English buttons. Approximately 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.","John Millington's first wife was Emily Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton, R.A. Approximately 163 sketches 7 1/2 in. by 9 1/2 in. Parchment binding.","13 pages used. 6 inches by 8 inches. Parchment binding. Autograph Volume.","7 inches by 8 inches by 2 1/2 inches deep. Photograph Volume.","[RELOCATED TO ARTIFACTS AT 2019C]","Approximately 8 inches in diameter, on stand, overall height 14 inches. Mss Artifact 2011","Photograph from when it was owned by John Millington, together with the later post card picture of the house.","Fragile.","Scope and Contents Broken case and daguerreotype image in poor condition, 3.5\" x 4.5\"","Scope and Contents Metal oval brooch with miniature daguerreotype of John Millington on one side, and a tintype of Mrs. Millington on the other. 1.25\" x 1.5\"","Scope and Contents 1\" x 1.5\"","Scope and Contents Painted on plaster, in broken case. 2.5\" x 3.5\"","Approximately 100 stereocard photographs","[MOVED TO ARTIFACT COLLECTION 2019C]","Scope and Contents Glass plate negatives of photographs circa. 1880s-90s. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Includes individual and group portraits with family, dog, friends, and classmates (Hanover Academy and \"V.M.J. cadets\"). Fragile and heavy box.","Glass plate negatives from circa 1880s-1890s, with views of streets, buildings, and house interiors. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Fragile and heavy box.","Undeveloped photographic film, circa 1901, of L.F.B. Blakenship taken while he was in Cuba. Also includes a box in which the film was meant to have been sent to the Eastman Kodak Company to be developed. Film is rolled and is extremely brittle; likely nitrate and thus placed in special storage. Please contact SCRC staff before visiting.","This box was originally Box 7 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.","Note by John Millington. Re: a Guinea which was presented to him at his baptism (as an infant), then was carried in his pocket \"for above 50 years.\" [1777] Gold Guinea, as described.","Scales in leather case, belonging to John Millington.","Spectacles in metal case belonging to John Millington.","Ivory fan, very finely carved, belonging to Emily Hamilton, first wife of John Millington.","Note with the fan identifying Emily Hamilton as daughter of William Hamilton, English artist who painted portrait of Mrs. Sedden (Siddon), celebrated English actress; her stage jewelry presented to Fulger (Folger) Shakespearean Library, Washington, D.C.","Scope and Contents Small leather purse containing 3 \"Conduct\" Awards to J.M. Blankenship from McGuire's School.","Round medallion with worked hair design and initial \"B,\" 2 in. diameter.","Mexican lace known as \"drawn Work,\" owned by Mrs. Blankenship.","Mexican woven purse.","Miscellaneous hand-worked cards.","Petit point patterns.","\"Mitchell's Travellor's Guide through the United States,\" with colored map in back fold. Endorsed: \"J. Millington, Wmsbg. Virg'a. Bot in Philiadelphia. More full and 9 years more recent than Tanners.\" PV.","This box was originally Box 8 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.","Gold snuff box in red leather case, Inscribed inside cover, \"This box presented to John Millington, Esq., a Civil Engineer, by a few of the members of the London Mechanics Institute....\"","Robert Christie, Secy, London Mechanical Institute, to John Millington, Falmouth, England. Accompanying a gold snuff box.","Note stating that the snuff box was given to her sons, John M. Blankenship on July 27, 1889, and then to Frank B. Blankenship in April 1929, by Kate Millington Blankenship.","Thermometer in case belonging to John Millington.","Drafting instruments in wooden case belonging to John Millington.","This box was originally Box 9 before being rehoused. Contains Mexican figurines.","Scope and Contents Figurine \"White Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship.\"","Mexican figurine of a monk.","Scope and Contents Figurine of \"Mexican Black Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830\"","Miner figurine endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830.\"","Roll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 9, 2012.","Artifacts were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the process of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)","Thomas Millington's watercolor painting of Bruton Parish Church was transferred from the John Millington Papers (Mss. 65 M59, Box 18, Folder 11) to the Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306) on July 29, 2019.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Memphis Medical College, Memphis, Tenn","Blankenship family","Millington family","Millington, John, 1779-1868","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 M59","/repositories/2/resources/8395"],"normalized_title_ssm":["John Millington Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["John Millington Papers"],"collection_ssim":["John Millington Papers"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"geogname_ssim":["Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"creator_ssm":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"creator_ssim":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"creators_ssim":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"places_ssim":["Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gifts were made by Dr. Millington (grandson of J. Millington) in 1936, and by Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship and family between 1939-1953. Additional purchases have been made by Special Collections Research Center between 1951 and 1988. Acc. 1988.08 was purchased and received on 1/26/1988."],"access_subjects_ssim":["College of William and Mary--History--19th century","Engineering--Study and teaching--United States--19th century","Mexico--History--19th century","Mining engineering--History--19th century","Spanish-American War, 1898","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","Universities and Colleges--Virginia--Faculty","University of Mississippi--History--19th century","World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area","Account books","Correspondence","Diaries","Lithographs","Maps","Photographs","Watercolors (drawings)"],"access_subjects_ssm":["College of William and Mary--History--19th century","Engineering--Study and teaching--United States--19th century","Mexico--History--19th century","Mining engineering--History--19th century","Spanish-American War, 1898","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","Universities and Colleges--Virginia--Faculty","University of Mississippi--History--19th century","World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area","Account books","Correspondence","Diaries","Lithographs","Maps","Photographs","Watercolors (drawings)"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["2,477.00 items"],"extent_ssm":["8.00 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["8.00 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Account books","Correspondence","Diaries","Lithographs","Maps","Photographs","Watercolors (drawings)"],"date_range_isim":[1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access:"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is currently being processed. Please consult a staff member for further information.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement of Materials:"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is currently being processed. Please consult a staff member for further information."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Millington was born May 11, 1779 near London. Licensed as attorney in England, he later turned to engineering. Professor of Royal Institution. In 1829, moved to Mexico as engineer with Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1832. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy at College of William and Mary, 1836-1848. Took degree of doctor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science at University of Mississippi. Professor, Memphis (Tennessee) Medical College. Died in 1868.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information:"],"bioghist_tesim":["John Millington was born May 11, 1779 near London. Licensed as attorney in England, he later turned to engineering. Professor of Royal Institution. In 1829, moved to Mexico as engineer with Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1832. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy at College of William and Mary, 1836-1848. Took degree of doctor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science at University of Mississippi. Professor, Memphis (Tennessee) Medical College. Died in 1868."],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe material from Acc. 1980.124 was previously part of the John Millington Collection, UA 6.015.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Custodial History:"],"custodhist_tesim":["The material from Acc. 1980.124 was previously part of the John Millington Collection, UA 6.015."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Millington Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["John Millington Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection was rehoused into new boxes and folders, and the box and folder list were compiled by Matt Abel and Jenn Quirnback from December 2012-March 2013. As a result, box and folder numbers from the original paper finding aid have been updated.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information:"],"processinfo_tesim":["The collection was rehoused into new boxes and folders, and the box and folder list were compiled by Matt Abel and Jenn Quirnback from December 2012-March 2013. As a result, box and folder numbers from the original paper finding aid have been updated."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Millington Collection (UA 6.015)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThomas Millington Collection (MS 00306)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe personal library of John Millington is in the Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026amp; Mary Libraries.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRoll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 2012.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAll of the artifacts and copper plates that were originally part of Boxes 7-10, 13-15 were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the processing of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["John Millington Collection (UA 6.015)","Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306)","The personal library of John Millington is in the Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries.","Roll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 2012.","All of the artifacts and copper plates that were originally part of Boxes 7-10, 13-15 were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the processing of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMillington's papers concern his experiences as directing engineer of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association, as professor at the College of William \u0026amp; Mary (where he lived in the Wythe House), as professor at University of Mississippi, and at Memphis Medical College. Includes diaries covering 1832, 1835, and 1861-1867; letters of his family members; and Blankenship family land records and letters concerning the Spanish-American War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeveral sketches of the life of John Millington, 1779-1868, and genealogical information on the family are to be found here. Papers of John Millington include his commission as an officer in the St. James Loyal Volunteers, London, and certificate for hair powder allowance, 1801; license as attorney under George III, 1802-1804; and his activities as an engineer in constructing a suspension bridge in Buchinghamshire, 1829. The notice of the sale of his effects in London and a passport to Vera Cruz, Mexico, signed by General Santa Ana, 1829, mark the move from England to Mexico, where he was the directing engineer for the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Letters of introductions to persons in the United States, 1832, which were taken with him when he left Mexico are included as are printed annoucements of the engineering office which he set up on Philadelphia, 1832. From this period arincluded letters from Michael Faraday of the Royal Institute, London, 1828-1832, and theatre programs from Philadelphia, 1834. Letters and papers from the time that he moved to Williamsburg to become Professor of Chemsistry and Natural Philosophy at the College of William and Mary, 1836-1850, conclude this box. Included is a letter written to Millington by T.R. Dew, President of the College, asking him to buy books for the College Library in Philadelphia Bookshops, 21 September, 1837, and many letters to other Professors of Natural Philosophy (Physics) in the United States, discussing textbooks that were in use at the time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In \"William and Mary College Papers\" of the 1939 Survey; folders 16 (1 piece), 50 (2 pieces), 98a (1 piece), 108 (44 pieces), Typewritten copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprinted 1964 by the King and Queen Press, Williamsburg. TV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Enclosure: Sketch of the life of John Millington by Alfred Temple Spanton \"about the year 1908,\" a great grandson of Dr. Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 1. List of marriages and issues. 3 pages. 2. A second list of marriages, children, and subsequent heirs, 1802-1841. 2 pages. 3. \"Copy of writing on back of Bartolozzi picture\" of Mrs. Ruth Millington, mother of Prof. John Millington. C. 4. List of Hills family, born 1872-1891. 1 page. 5. List of places of residence of John Millington from 1803 to 1863. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Exemption from the payment of duty of Hair Powder Certificates, due to his being a member of the St. James Loyal Volunteers Corps. Signed by Chas. Blackley. Printed Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSworn before the King George III, signed by R. Forester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLicense to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLicense to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Whereof Geoffrey Lord Amherst is Colonel\". Signed by Scott Titchfield (Marquis).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"calling my attention to certain parts of his book \u0026amp;amp; to dine with him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnswer to an enquery regarding the diameters of Jupiter's satellites.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Purchased March, 1968)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the chain cable cause. (Purchased from Ifam Kyle Hatchen, London, January 9, 1951)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the transactions of the Society of Arts, his purchase of \"7 optical models\" and Luminus Conductor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding an order from Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the subject on which Millington planned to discourse at the Royal Institute. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement: \"about not calling\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: a suspension bridge that Millington was appointed to build. (Incomplete).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents An account with John Millington for services rendered in connection with contract and bond for the Mexican Mining Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"about dining with Hook, going to Mexico, etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. hook wishing me to dine with him on Thursday next to meet Porter, etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"pressing me to dine with him on morrow.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"begging to have his American Paddle specific ready by tomorrow.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"inctroducing Mr. Marshall as Engineer to E. London Water Works.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: Dr. Ols. Gregory, saying that \"wo'd undertake the reediting of Cavallo's Treatise of Phil'y for Mr. P. Hoare and Rev. Thos. Racket, the Ex'ors.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"for part of Phil. Transact's let me \u0026amp;amp; asking if going to Mexico.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMillington to Faraday. Re: acceptance of Anglo-Mexican Mining Associates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Material. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsment: \"Mr. Tindal pressing for answer to his letters.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents An introduction for John Millington and his family to Mr. Phelps of Madeira.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor an auction at No. 5 Doughty St.Endorsement: \"J. Millington Going to Mexico.\" Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIssued at Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"passport for the Republic of Mexico.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Chabot to John Millington, Esq. Note about son Tom.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A printed announcement \"Aviso al comercio\" in Guanajuato. Printed material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Gibson to John Millington at Guanajuato. Re: marriage of daughter Emily.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum signed by John Millington and endorsed: \"List of Articles brought away from [caborce] by self and Morcom.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thomas writes of his school, Emily of shopping for her mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requesting that they visit her and see their grandchild, Emilita.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement by John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing John Millington, Director of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing John Millington, Commissioner of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Introducing John Millington. Four letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing Professor Millington. Five letters and covers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Introducing Professor Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 2 pieces of equipage from the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Intrducing John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: the situation in Mexico City, then under siege by Santa Ana, and of expected battle between Santa Ana and Bustamente.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Writes of her desire to leave Mexico, but no one dares to leave the City for fear of murder and robbery in the continuing revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement \"Dr. Ma[?]trie's Advertisement.\" Newspaper.E. Note: Dr. M'Murtrie has an advertisement in the last column on the second page in which Millington is mentioned as having constructed the dark closets for the exhibition of his illustrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, and Millington's request for a strip of Rhodium.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Includes a program by Mr. Power. Endorsement: \"with J. Lett's orders.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Incomplete. Endorsement: \"Autograph of Miss Hughes, a Singer of the London theatres.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of John Millington by Board of Visitors of William and Mary College as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Page, Rector of William and Mary College, to John Millington. Re: election as Professor to William and Mary College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted invitation of students of William and Mary to a ball to be held on February 22.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Date is recorded as 8 mo. 17, 1836. Re: questions in astronomy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents License to serve as a Lay Reader in the Episcopal Church in Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulations on his appointment at the College: he (Faraday) has been at the R.A. for 23 years; a lathe ordered by Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"about Saunder's loan--\u0026amp;amp; his going to England.\" Having bought a copper mine in the Wisconson Territory, he is going to Europe to engage miners.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Dr. J.G. at canonsburg, Jefferson College about my [?] degree in s'd College \u0026amp;amp; his coming to town....\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. John Vaughn inviting me to breakfast with him on morrow morning.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement: \"Judge Tucker at F.S. about my taking Edmund Randolf to Board, etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew requesting me to purchase 2 or 300 $ worth of books for Wm. \u0026amp;amp; Mary College Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew asking me to take Mr. J. Wright to board.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"about new edition of his Nat. Philosophy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"stating that Jefferson Coll. had conferred M.D. upon me \u0026amp;amp; to appoint some person to receive the diploma.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"saying he had sent 1st vol. of his Phil'y to Dobson for me \u0026amp;amp; with part'-lars of price, etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement: \"about repair of stronomical Telescope, Text Books, etc.\" Includes a full discussion of scientific textbooks in use and enquiries about \"Millington's Natural Philosophy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"about shipping me a box of Tin ores, etc.\" Letter states that he will spend \"specimens of most of the minerals found in the U.S.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A deed to property in Tennessee. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsemed: \"to send him copy of my book on Engineering.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsed: \"Prof. Saunders asking of I wished to buy a woman serv't--Ans'd in affirmative.\" Woman was wife to man owned by Saunders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"I am sorry your present situation is not agreeable to you...recommend to you to ask for an assistant...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding her students seeing the College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsed: \"Uncle George in his 86th year. The last letter he wrote me.\" Regarding Tom Millington, son of John Millington and his \"Father's wife\" in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account and statement regarding the estate of Peter Aylward, a part of which is to go to \"Millington Trustees.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Indenture for the price of the house and lot in Williamsburg. Signed. C. Separate agreement with Thomas O. Cogbill, Trustee for William H. Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Lease of a house and garden on the north side of the main street of Williamsburg. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A comparison of the lecture hours of Professor Millington with those of Professor Silliman in Boston. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Bond for portion of the purchase price of property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Deed for property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed by Ruch'd L. Lloyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe writes, \"The Oregon Difficulty has paralysed everything in the way of business....for Fear of war between the two countries.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding inheretance from the will of the late Peter Aylward, deceased in 1840. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"With acc. of the close of Mr. Dew's life.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing a sermon for the funeral of Mr. Letts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing an account sheet. ADrS. Enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the final settlement of the estate of the late Peter Aylward. ADrS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and papers of John Millington record his move to the newly opened University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, 1850, and to the Medical College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1853. From this period came an order for payment for engineering services to the Mississippi Central Railroad, a copy of a medical address pritned in the Memphis Daily Bulletin, and letters from Williamsburg, Virginia, where he still owned a house, 1855-1858. A letter written by John C. Phillips after an eight month exploratory trip to Pike's Peak, colorado, 1861, reviews the mining prospects there; shares of stock from the Aetna Oil Company and the Shafton Coal Company reflect mineral activity in the East. From the war years, 1861-1864, there are many letters from his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship in Richmond, Virginia, and his son, George B. Millington, which tell of the movement of armies, the high prices of civillian goods, etc. The remainder of the letters and papers in this box are from the period of the return of John Millington to live in Philadelphia, 1865, and then to Richmond, Virginia, 1867, until his death on 10 July, 1868. Also included are papers concerned with the settlement of the estate of John Millington, 1868-1892.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing a power of Attorney. ADrS. E.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his account with the company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his business with that firm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding settlement of an estate in England, to which Millington is an heir.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding settlement of an estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Coults and Co. inclosing Bank account to this day.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding transfer of money received for his account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Bishop Green at memphis, saying his was coming to preach at Oxford....\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his accounts in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA promissory note for $105 to Lewis Sharks (Dean). Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding family affairs; copies of the new Illustrated Papers; and his life in Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding an engraving to be made; enclosing a syllabus of the Chemical Institute; he has joined the Sons of Temperance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding shares held by John Millington in the railroad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for payment to John Millington for work for the railroad company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of England from the brother of John Millington's first wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"to say the 20th St. house sold for $5,150 cash \u0026amp;amp; to send the title deeds.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePAM.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom a student at the Memphis Medical College, whose diploma had been withheld until a note was given for money owed on his tuition; including a rumor that the college is soon to close.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; John Millington's move to a new residence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his attempts to rent their furnished house in Williamsburg; news of the people in the town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent with a volume of her poems, and asking for a review of them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for tracts of land in Fayette County, Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the death of her husband. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding her move to her new home in Richmond, and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to Katie Millington Blakenship describing the hard times and social news. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA bank check.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; endorsement: \"send to Hills.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding her life in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding an eight month trip around Pike's Peak in Colorado prospecting for gold and other minerals; and offering his services to the South in the event of a war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding hope of a war between England and the United States in order to take the pressure off the South; buying blankets and overcoats for Southern soldiers; the formation of the Confederacy under Jefferson Davis; the progress of the war; the defeat of the \"grand army\" in its attempt to take Richmond; concern for his house in Williamsburg; the threat of an attack on Memphis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement: \"enquiry into state of affairs in Williamsburg, Va....\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding threat of the Federal army at Cairy; hope for a return to peace; the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding her visit to her daughter; 2 bad fires in Memphis; the army that is being formed; high prices. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a business trip made by rail through Manassas, behind the Confederate lines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding inauguration of President Davis on 22 February; hope that the British will lift the blockade and perhaps declare war on the North; the capture of a part of the railroad line by the Northerners; Tennessee Legislature has fled from Nashville to Memphis; hope to return to Williamsburg; then purchase a 220 acre plantation at La Grange, Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for $5,500 in Confederate Notes, for investment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Indenture for 23 acres and a house. Signed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents By flag of truce; Kate's second daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Written to J.M. in Philadelphia. Regarding the high prices in the south--$175 for a pair of shoes; requests an English check for 20 pounds which could be sold in the south for $1,200 to $1,500.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Printed Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the uncertainty of mails; markets will supplied in Richmond where he visited his sister; prices very high there, however; his army pay just about covers his mess account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Printed Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: the handling of some affairs for him. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: the reverses of the confederate Army in the Tennessee Campaign, including the battle of Franklin and of Nashville; and poorly clad and nearly barefood army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePADS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On inspecting their place in la Grange he finds headquarters of the 11th Illinois regiment and 9 families of the 2nd Arkansas regiment in the house, all marble mantels gone, most of the windows broken, and the furniture taken.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Relinquishment of the Bureau of the property at La Grange seized as belonging to Rev'd John N. Waddell\" by John Millington. ADS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the payment of taxes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Deed for house and 23 acres in Fayette County, Tennessee. (See Indenture of 15 October, 1862.) Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutogaphed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding selling his Williamsburg home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the purchase of John Millington's Williamsburg house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the claim for damage to the property at La Grange, Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding his life in Memphis, and the move of \"Pa and Ma\" (Mr. and Mrs. John Millington) to Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Receipt for payment for half a gallon of whiskey. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the account of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding an account of his in the name of G.B. Millington, his son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding account in that bank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Business matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Has rented Waddell Place for the year of 1868.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding property in Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sympathy expressed for the death of her father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the death of their father (John Millington).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the death of \"Ma\" (Mrs. John Millington).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a rehearsal, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding their late father's affairs. ACyS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding court certificates he sent to England in connection with the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Receipts for monies received from R. E. Blankenship, Admin. for John Millington, deceased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding Titles to the Philadelphia property of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the administration of the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the will of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the payment of dividends to estate of John Millington with enclosures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 1869. Papers connected with the case of Deare vs. Bates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Lettered as exhibits \"A\" through \"M\" in the trial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter thanking Professor Henry for items he sent to W\u0026amp;amp;M and comments on Thomas Dew's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains primarly diaries, one notebook and one account book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 12 February-15 April 15 April-13 June 13 June-26 September 25 September-31 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 Januar-16 March 16 March-4 June 5 June-19 August 19 August-26 October 26 October-31 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV 1 January-30 March 30 March-22 June 22 June-18 September 18 September-31 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 2 January-13 April 13 April-7 August 7 August-27 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 January-10 April 11 April-15 July 16 July-24 October 25 October-31 January, 1865\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 February-15 May 15 May-9 August 9 August-31 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 January-20 March 20 March-29 June 2 July-10 October\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 January-10 December 9 December-27 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Millington is noted of Friday, July 10, 1868. 2 books. PAV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e59 pages. TDr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHarriet Blankenship Papers, 1834-1861, and Blankenship Family papers, 1866-1951. Included is correspondence with John Wesley Johnson of Mississippi and George F. Holmes of the University of Virginia regarding the biography of Dr. John Millington. There are letters from Frank and John Blankenship to their mother, Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship, many of which are from Florida and Cuba in the time of the Spanish-American War, 1989-1899. Included is correspondence, 1937, between Mrs. Blankenship and the officers of the Folger Shakespearean Library in Washington regarding the gift of Mrs. Siddon's stage jewelry, which had been given by Dr. Millington to his grandmdaughter; and a 6 page report of the Pearl harbor attack of the December 7, 1941, sent out by Earl M. Thacker of Honolulu.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCover for some of next 14 papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding deeds from Bacon Tate (sic) and Petes (sic).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding our biographical sketch of Dr. John Millington, her father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On the same subject.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Please return to Mrs. K.M. Blankenship...Richmond, Va.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding \"the Blankenship matter.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding dull days and duties in the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a furlough.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding his return from a furlough.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: crowded and sickening conditions of the soldiers on the transport ship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a trip from Savannah.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the inaction of the fleet, \"now that the war is over.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding family affairs including the marriage of a sister, Evie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: the enthusiasm of the people of Havana for General Gomex; description of a carnival and that \"battle of the flowers.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: family affairs and the hope that his mother will come to Cuba for a visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the army's duties in policing the city until a Cuban police force is formed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Enclosure: note on \"Castleford Ware\" signed G[?] B[?]. Enclosure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding information concerning Professor John Millington, father of Mrs. K.M.B. C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the return of the manuscript of the life of Professor John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the value of a book on medals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a monument to the grandfather of Mrs. Marshall, who had taught Miss Henley's father at William and Mary, probably a reference to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosure: list of particular gifts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding certain prints offered to the Library and a collection of Siddons stage jewelry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of conditions in Honolulu after December 7, 1941 attack by Japanese. Manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppreciation for a playbill sent by Mrs. Blankenship; interest in the stage properties of Mrs. Siddons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnknown recipient. Regarding Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding portrait and miniature owned by Miss Blankenship. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the receipt of the Siddons stage jewelry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppreciation for the presentation of Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry to the library. TOLS. Enclosure: \"Sarah Siddons's stage jewelry,\" a description of this and account of its former ownership by Dr. John Millington. Enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplication blank to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the daughter of Captain R.E. Blankenship, Miss Kate Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDonated by the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotice by his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship. Newspaper clipping\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding a gold snuff box of John Millington left to the College in the will of Frank B. Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding items of interest to the College from the old Blankenship house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNames and addresses of the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the \"Blankenship Home\" where artifacts relating to Professor John Millington were obtained. Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStating that he has a portrait of John Millington and some books. Enclosed brochure from Valentine Museum, Richmond, on painting of J.M. and mother (see folder V-21).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reference to Ethel Hills, granddaughter of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing xerox copy of cover and article from Valentine Museum brochure; sent valuable \"Mitchell's Traveller's Guide of the U.S.\" of 1843, with colored map.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Millington, Elizabeth Letts, Sarah Anne Letts (who married J.M.), Robert Moore Blankenship, John Millington Blankenship, Richard F. Morris, Robert Blankenship Morris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Millington, Sarah Anne Letts, Mrs. Harriet Blakenship, Robert E. Blankenship, R.M. Blankenship, Annie Blankenship, Kate Blankenship, Sarah Anne Millington, George Beale Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnie Blankenshop, John Millington Blankenship, Mrs. Frances Harrison Blankenship, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship, John M. Blankenship, Mrs. Evie Blankenship Carter, Mrs. Caroline Virginia Gordon, Mrs. Harriet Blankenship, Robert Millington Blankenship, Jr. Newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee John Millington account book of sale of tickets, in Box VI. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper. Announcement of John Millington's appointment to William and Mary College faculty, on page 2.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a list of his acomplishments unrecorded elsewhere. Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents (J.M. owned the house now known as the \"Wythe House\" having lived in it while he was Professor of Natural Philosophy at William and Mary. When he left Williamsburg in 1850, he rented the house out for many years.) Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper Clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an account of the ghost of the house. Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The artist who painted the portrait of Mrs. Millington with her son, John Millington, done in London.\" A typed note on the lie of A.K., 1740-1807.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photograph of the painting on the cover and article on it on page 1. The painting was left to the museum in the will of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Photographs endorsed \"Professor of Chemistry \u0026amp;amp; Toxicology in the Memphis Medical College, Tennessee, 1857.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne has list: McLeod, Walkter, Warwick, Warren, Blankenship, Rutherfoord. Photograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdentified as \"Thomas Millington of London, Eng. Father of John Millington.\" The label behind the original frame also bears the inscription \"Georgie Blackenship, April 192[9]\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes one printed version, taken from the water color by Thomas C. Millington. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes biographical notes copied from 'Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors\". Probably the painter of the miniature of John Millington as a boy. Photograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree cartes de visite found in the trunk of John Millington. Photos are possibly of Bruton Parish Church and Cemetary. Each is about 4 in. x 2.5 in. Good condition with fading.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy William Hamilton. Purchased at Regent Circus, Picadilly, London. 26 pages used.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Prof'r J. Millington, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. Bot in Philadelphia, 1849. 75 cts.\" 3 inches by 5 inches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed, \"Sue fox Album, Richmond, Virginia\". Greetings, poems and the like written to Sue Fox by her friends. 6 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCooking receipts, plus a few pages of newspaper clippings regarding diseases and cures. Approximately 40 pages used. 6 1/2 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Secretaries reporting on meetings of the \"club\" include C.L. Campbell, Irving E. Campbell, A.M. Olcott, R. Massey Noeling, Julian F. Skelton, Egberta Olcott, A.B. Dinwiddie, R.P. Irving, Sue Seddon Weleor, Richard F. Morris, Martha Harrison Christian, George W. McCrury, and Evie Blankenship. Approximately 100 pages used. 7 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGreetings, poems and the like written to Kate Millington by her friends; sketches and colored cards are enclosed and loose. 7 1/2 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"drawn and engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.\" belonging to Georgia Blankenship, Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph Volume. 9 in. by 12 in\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e67 pages used. Loose international postage stamps (circa 1880s-1900s), previously lining selected blank pages in the back of the volume, were removed from the journal and consolidated into a separate enclosure in Box 11. Volume measures 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords and accounts of what appears to have been a children's enterprise. Miss Kate Blankenship was among the contributors of such items as Confederate and English buttons. Approximately 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Millington's first wife was Emily Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton, R.A. Approximately 163 sketches 7 1/2 in. by 9 1/2 in. Parchment binding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 pages used. 6 inches by 8 inches. Parchment binding. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 inches by 8 inches by 2 1/2 inches deep. Photograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[RELOCATED TO ARTIFACTS AT 2019C]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApproximately 8 inches in diameter, on stand, overall height 14 inches. Mss Artifact 2011\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph from when it was owned by John Millington, together with the later post card picture of the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragile.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Broken case and daguerreotype image in poor condition, 3.5\" x 4.5\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Metal oval brooch with miniature daguerreotype of John Millington on one side, and a tintype of Mrs. Millington on the other. 1.25\" x 1.5\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 1\" x 1.5\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Painted on plaster, in broken case. 2.5\" x 3.5\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApproximately 100 stereocard photographs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[MOVED TO ARTIFACT COLLECTION 2019C]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Glass plate negatives of photographs circa. 1880s-90s. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Includes individual and group portraits with family, dog, friends, and classmates (Hanover Academy and \"V.M.J. cadets\"). Fragile and heavy box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlass plate negatives from circa 1880s-1890s, with views of streets, buildings, and house interiors. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Fragile and heavy box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndeveloped photographic film, circa 1901, of L.F.B. Blakenship taken while he was in Cuba. Also includes a box in which the film was meant to have been sent to the Eastman Kodak Company to be developed. Film is rolled and is extremely brittle; likely nitrate and thus placed in special storage. Please contact SCRC staff before visiting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box was originally Box 7 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote by John Millington. Re: a Guinea which was presented to him at his baptism (as an infant), then was carried in his pocket \"for above 50 years.\" [1777] Gold Guinea, as described.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScales in leather case, belonging to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpectacles in metal case belonging to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIvory fan, very finely carved, belonging to Emily Hamilton, first wife of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote with the fan identifying Emily Hamilton as daughter of William Hamilton, English artist who painted portrait of Mrs. Sedden (Siddon), celebrated English actress; her stage jewelry presented to Fulger (Folger) Shakespearean Library, Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Small leather purse containing 3 \"Conduct\" Awards to J.M. Blankenship from McGuire's School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRound medallion with worked hair design and initial \"B,\" 2 in. diameter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMexican lace known as \"drawn Work,\" owned by Mrs. Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMexican woven purse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous hand-worked cards.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetit point patterns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Mitchell's Travellor's Guide through the United States,\" with colored map in back fold. Endorsed: \"J. Millington, Wmsbg. Virg'a. Bot in Philiadelphia. More full and 9 years more recent than Tanners.\" PV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box was originally Box 8 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGold snuff box in red leather case, Inscribed inside cover, \"This box presented to John Millington, Esq., a Civil Engineer, by a few of the members of the London Mechanics Institute....\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Christie, Secy, London Mechanical Institute, to John Millington, Falmouth, England. Accompanying a gold snuff box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote stating that the snuff box was given to her sons, John M. Blankenship on July 27, 1889, and then to Frank B. Blankenship in April 1929, by Kate Millington Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThermometer in case belonging to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrafting instruments in wooden case belonging to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box was originally Box 9 before being rehoused. Contains Mexican figurines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Figurine \"White Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMexican figurine of a monk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Figurine of \"Mexican Black Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiner figurine endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. 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Includes diaries covering 1832, 1835, and 1861-1867; letters of his family members; and Blankenship family land records and letters concerning the Spanish-American War.","Several sketches of the life of John Millington, 1779-1868, and genealogical information on the family are to be found here. Papers of John Millington include his commission as an officer in the St. James Loyal Volunteers, London, and certificate for hair powder allowance, 1801; license as attorney under George III, 1802-1804; and his activities as an engineer in constructing a suspension bridge in Buchinghamshire, 1829. The notice of the sale of his effects in London and a passport to Vera Cruz, Mexico, signed by General Santa Ana, 1829, mark the move from England to Mexico, where he was the directing engineer for the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Letters of introductions to persons in the United States, 1832, which were taken with him when he left Mexico are included as are printed annoucements of the engineering office which he set up on Philadelphia, 1832. From this period arincluded letters from Michael Faraday of the Royal Institute, London, 1828-1832, and theatre programs from Philadelphia, 1834. Letters and papers from the time that he moved to Williamsburg to become Professor of Chemsistry and Natural Philosophy at the College of William and Mary, 1836-1850, conclude this box. Included is a letter written to Millington by T.R. Dew, President of the College, asking him to buy books for the College Library in Philadelphia Bookshops, 21 September, 1837, and many letters to other Professors of Natural Philosophy (Physics) in the United States, discussing textbooks that were in use at the time.","Typewritten copy.","Scope and Contents In \"William and Mary College Papers\" of the 1939 Survey; folders 16 (1 piece), 50 (2 pieces), 98a (1 piece), 108 (44 pieces), Typewritten copy.","Reprinted 1964 by the King and Queen Press, Williamsburg. TV.","Unsigned.","Unsigned.","Unsigned.","Scope and Contents Enclosure: Sketch of the life of John Millington by Alfred Temple Spanton \"about the year 1908,\" a great grandson of Dr. Millington.","Scope and Contents 1. List of marriages and issues. 3 pages. 2. A second list of marriages, children, and subsequent heirs, 1802-1841. 2 pages. 3. \"Copy of writing on back of Bartolozzi picture\" of Mrs. Ruth Millington, mother of Prof. John Millington. C. 4. List of Hills family, born 1872-1891. 1 page. 5. List of places of residence of John Millington from 1803 to 1863. 1 page.","Scope and Contents Exemption from the payment of duty of Hair Powder Certificates, due to his being a member of the St. James Loyal Volunteers Corps. Signed by Chas. Blackley. Printed Signed.","Sworn before the King George III, signed by R. Forester.","License to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.","License to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.","\"Whereof Geoffrey Lord Amherst is Colonel\". Signed by Scott Titchfield (Marquis).","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"calling my attention to certain parts of his book \u0026amp; to dine with him.\"","Answer to an enquery regarding the diameters of Jupiter's satellites.","(Purchased March, 1968)","Concerning the chain cable cause. (Purchased from Ifam Kyle Hatchen, London, January 9, 1951)","Scope and Contents Regarding the transactions of the Society of Arts, his purchase of \"7 optical models\" and Luminus Conductor.","Scope and Contents Regarding an order from Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the subject on which Millington planned to discourse at the Royal Institute. Card.","Endorsement: \"about not calling\".","Scope and Contents Re: a suspension bridge that Millington was appointed to build. (Incomplete).","Scope and Contents An account with John Millington for services rendered in connection with contract and bond for the Mexican Mining Co.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about dining with Hook, going to Mexico, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. hook wishing me to dine with him on Thursday next to meet Porter, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"pressing me to dine with him on morrow.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"begging to have his American Paddle specific ready by tomorrow.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"inctroducing Mr. Marshall as Engineer to E. London Water Works.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: Dr. Ols. Gregory, saying that \"wo'd undertake the reediting of Cavallo's Treatise of Phil'y for Mr. P. Hoare and Rev. Thos. Racket, the Ex'ors.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"for part of Phil. Transact's let me \u0026amp; asking if going to Mexico.\"","Millington to Faraday. Re: acceptance of Anglo-Mexican Mining Associates.","Printed Material. Card.","Scope and Contents Endorsment: \"Mr. Tindal pressing for answer to his letters.\"","Scope and Contents An introduction for John Millington and his family to Mr. Phelps of Madeira.","For an auction at No. 5 Doughty St.Endorsement: \"J. Millington Going to Mexico.\" Printed Material.","Issued at Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"passport for the Republic of Mexico.\"","James Chabot to John Millington, Esq. Note about son Tom.","Scope and Contents A printed announcement \"Aviso al comercio\" in Guanajuato. Printed material.","Sarah Gibson to John Millington at Guanajuato. Re: marriage of daughter Emily.","Memorandum signed by John Millington and endorsed: \"List of Articles brought away from [caborce] by self and Morcom.","Scope and Contents Thomas writes of his school, Emily of shopping for her mother.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Requesting that they visit her and see their grandchild, Emilita.","Endorsement by John Millington.","Introducing John Millington, Director of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.","Introducing John Millington, Commissioner of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.","Scope and Contents Introducing John Millington. Four letters.","Introducing John Millington.","Introducing Professor Millington. Five letters and covers.","Scope and Contents Introducing Professor Millington.","Includes 2 pieces of equipage from the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.","Scope and Contents Intrducing John Millington.","Scope and Contents Re: the situation in Mexico City, then under siege by Santa Ana, and of expected battle between Santa Ana and Bustamente.","Scope and Contents Writes of her desire to leave Mexico, but no one dares to leave the City for fear of murder and robbery in the continuing revolution.","Endorsement \"Dr. Ma[?]trie's Advertisement.\" Newspaper.E. Note: Dr. M'Murtrie has an advertisement in the last column on the second page in which Millington is mentioned as having constructed the dark closets for the exhibition of his illustrations.","Scope and Contents Re: a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, and Millington's request for a strip of Rhodium.","Printed Material.","Printed Material.","Scope and Contents Includes a program by Mr. Power. Endorsement: \"with J. Lett's orders.\"","Scope and Contents Incomplete. Endorsement: \"Autograph of Miss Hughes, a Singer of the London theatres.\"","Appointment of John Millington by Board of Visitors of William and Mary College as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry.","J. Page, Rector of William and Mary College, to John Millington. Re: election as Professor to William and Mary College.","Printed invitation of students of William and Mary to a ball to be held on February 22.","Scope and Contents Date is recorded as 8 mo. 17, 1836. Re: questions in astronomy.","Scope and Contents License to serve as a Lay Reader in the Episcopal Church in Williamsburg.","Scope and Contents Congratulations on his appointment at the College: he (Faraday) has been at the R.A. for 23 years; a lathe ordered by Millington.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about Saunder's loan--\u0026amp; his going to England.\" Having bought a copper mine in the Wisconson Territory, he is going to Europe to engage miners.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Dr. J.G. at canonsburg, Jefferson College about my [?] degree in s'd College \u0026amp; his coming to town....\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. John Vaughn inviting me to breakfast with him on morrow morning.\"","Endorsement: \"Judge Tucker at F.S. about my taking Edmund Randolf to Board, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew requesting me to purchase 2 or 300 $ worth of books for Wm. \u0026amp; Mary College Library.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew asking me to take Mr. J. Wright to board.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about new edition of his Nat. Philosophy.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"stating that Jefferson Coll. had conferred M.D. upon me \u0026amp; to appoint some person to receive the diploma.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"saying he had sent 1st vol. of his Phil'y to Dobson for me \u0026amp; with part'-lars of price, etc.\"","Endorsement: \"about repair of stronomical Telescope, Text Books, etc.\" Includes a full discussion of scientific textbooks in use and enquiries about \"Millington's Natural Philosophy.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about shipping me a box of Tin ores, etc.\" Letter states that he will spend \"specimens of most of the minerals found in the U.S.\"","Scope and Contents A deed to property in Tennessee. Signed.","Scope and Contents Endorsemed: \"to send him copy of my book on Engineering.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Prof. Saunders asking of I wished to buy a woman serv't--Ans'd in affirmative.\" Woman was wife to man owned by Saunders.","Scope and Contents \"I am sorry your present situation is not agreeable to you...recommend to you to ask for an assistant...\"","Scope and Contents Regarding her students seeing the College.","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Uncle George in his 86th year. The last letter he wrote me.\" Regarding Tom Millington, son of John Millington and his \"Father's wife\" in England.","An account and statement regarding the estate of Peter Aylward, a part of which is to go to \"Millington Trustees.\"","Scope and Contents Indenture for the price of the house and lot in Williamsburg. Signed. C. Separate agreement with Thomas O. Cogbill, Trustee for William H. Lee.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Lease of a house and garden on the north side of the main street of Williamsburg. Signed.","Scope and Contents A comparison of the lecture hours of Professor Millington with those of Professor Silliman in Boston. Signed.","Scope and Contents Bond for portion of the purchase price of property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.","Scope and Contents Deed for property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed by Ruch'd L. Lloyd.","He writes, \"The Oregon Difficulty has paralysed everything in the way of business....for Fear of war between the two countries.\"","Regarding inheretance from the will of the late Peter Aylward, deceased in 1840. Card.","Endorsed: \"With acc. of the close of Mr. Dew's life.\"","Enclosing a sermon for the funeral of Mr. Letts.","Enclosing an account sheet. ADrS. Enclosed.","Regarding the final settlement of the estate of the late Peter Aylward. ADrS.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Letters and papers of John Millington record his move to the newly opened University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, 1850, and to the Medical College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1853. From this period came an order for payment for engineering services to the Mississippi Central Railroad, a copy of a medical address pritned in the Memphis Daily Bulletin, and letters from Williamsburg, Virginia, where he still owned a house, 1855-1858. A letter written by John C. Phillips after an eight month exploratory trip to Pike's Peak, colorado, 1861, reviews the mining prospects there; shares of stock from the Aetna Oil Company and the Shafton Coal Company reflect mineral activity in the East. From the war years, 1861-1864, there are many letters from his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship in Richmond, Virginia, and his son, George B. Millington, which tell of the movement of armies, the high prices of civillian goods, etc. The remainder of the letters and papers in this box are from the period of the return of John Millington to live in Philadelphia, 1865, and then to Richmond, Virginia, 1867, until his death on 10 July, 1868. Also included are papers concerned with the settlement of the estate of John Millington, 1868-1892.","Enclosing a power of Attorney. ADrS. E.","Regarding his account with the company.","Regarding his business with that firm.","Regarding settlement of an estate in England, to which Millington is an heir.","Regarding settlement of an estate.","Endorsed: \"Coults and Co. inclosing Bank account to this day.\"","Regarding transfer of money received for his account.","Endorsed: \"Bishop Green at memphis, saying his was coming to preach at Oxford....\"","Regarding his accounts in England.","A promissory note for $105 to Lewis Sharks (Dean). Card.","Regarding family affairs; copies of the new Illustrated Papers; and his life in Philadelphia.","Regarding an engraving to be made; enclosing a syllabus of the Chemical Institute; he has joined the Sons of Temperance.","Regarding shares held by John Millington in the railroad.","Order for payment to John Millington for work for the railroad company.","News of England from the brother of John Millington's first wife.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"to say the 20th St. house sold for $5,150 cash \u0026amp; to send the title deeds.\"","PAM.","From a student at the Memphis Medical College, whose diploma had been withheld until a note was given for money owed on his tuition; including a rumor that the college is soon to close.","Family news; John Millington's move to a new residence.","Regarding his attempts to rent their furnished house in Williamsburg; news of the people in the town.","Sent with a volume of her poems, and asking for a review of them.","Deed for tracts of land in Fayette County, Tennessee.","Regarding the death of her husband. Card.","Scope and Contents Regarding her move to her new home in Richmond, and family news.","Letter to Katie Millington Blakenship describing the hard times and social news. Card.","A bank check.","Family news; endorsement: \"send to Hills.\"","Regarding her life in England.","Regarding an eight month trip around Pike's Peak in Colorado prospecting for gold and other minerals; and offering his services to the South in the event of a war.","Scope and Contents Regarding hope of a war between England and the United States in order to take the pressure off the South; buying blankets and overcoats for Southern soldiers; the formation of the Confederacy under Jefferson Davis; the progress of the war; the defeat of the \"grand army\" in its attempt to take Richmond; concern for his house in Williamsburg; the threat of an attack on Memphis.","Endorsement: \"enquiry into state of affairs in Williamsburg, Va....\"","Regarding threat of the Federal army at Cairy; hope for a return to peace; the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Blankenship.","Regarding her visit to her daughter; 2 bad fires in Memphis; the army that is being formed; high prices. Card.","Scope and Contents Regarding a business trip made by rail through Manassas, behind the Confederate lines.","Scope and Contents Regarding inauguration of President Davis on 22 February; hope that the British will lift the blockade and perhaps declare war on the North; the capture of a part of the railroad line by the Northerners; Tennessee Legislature has fled from Nashville to Memphis; hope to return to Williamsburg; then purchase a 220 acre plantation at La Grange, Tennessee.","Receipt for $5,500 in Confederate Notes, for investment.","Scope and Contents Indenture for 23 acres and a house. Signed","Printed Material.","Scope and Contents By flag of truce; Kate's second daughter.","Scope and Contents Written to J.M. in Philadelphia. Regarding the high prices in the south--$175 for a pair of shoes; requests an English check for 20 pounds which could be sold in the south for $1,200 to $1,500.","Scope and Contents Printed Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the uncertainty of mails; markets will supplied in Richmond where he visited his sister; prices very high there, however; his army pay just about covers his mess account.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Printed Signed.","Scope and Contents Re: the handling of some affairs for him. Card.","Scope and Contents Re: the reverses of the confederate Army in the Tennessee Campaign, including the battle of Franklin and of Nashville; and poorly clad and nearly barefood army.","Newspaper clipping.","Newspaper clipping.","PADS.","Scope and Contents On inspecting their place in la Grange he finds headquarters of the 11th Illinois regiment and 9 families of the 2nd Arkansas regiment in the house, all marble mantels gone, most of the windows broken, and the furniture taken.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Relinquishment of the Bureau of the property at La Grange seized as belonging to Rev'd John N. Waddell\" by John Millington. ADS.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the payment of taxes.","Scope and Contents Deed for house and 23 acres in Fayette County, Tennessee. (See Indenture of 15 October, 1862.) Signed.","Autogaphed document.","Scope and Contents Regarding selling his Williamsburg home.","Scope and Contents Regarding the purchase of John Millington's Williamsburg house.","Scope and Contents Regarding the claim for damage to the property at La Grange, Tennessee.","Scope and Contents Regarding his life in Memphis, and the move of \"Pa and Ma\" (Mr. and Mrs. John Millington) to Richmond.","Scope and Contents Receipt for payment for half a gallon of whiskey. Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the account of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding an account of his in the name of G.B. Millington, his son.","Scope and Contents Regarding account in that bank.","Scope and Contents Business matters.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Has rented Waddell Place for the year of 1868.\"","Regarding property in Tennessee.","Scope and Contents Sympathy expressed for the death of her father.","Regarding the death of their father (John Millington).","Scope and Contents Regarding the death of \"Ma\" (Mrs. John Millington).","Scope and Contents Regarding a rehearsal, etc.","Scope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.","Regarding their late father's affairs. ACyS.","Scope and Contents Regarding court certificates he sent to England in connection with the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Receipts for monies received from R. E. Blankenship, Admin. for John Millington, deceased.","Scope and Contents Regarding Titles to the Philadelphia property of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the administration of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the will of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the payment of dividends to estate of John Millington with enclosures.","Scope and Contents 1869. Papers connected with the case of Deare vs. Bates.","Scope and Contents Lettered as exhibits \"A\" through \"M\" in the trial.","Scope and Contents Letter thanking Professor Henry for items he sent to W\u0026amp;M and comments on Thomas Dew's death.","Newspaper clipping.","Contains primarly diaries, one notebook and one account book.","AV.","AV.","AV. 12 February-15 April 15 April-13 June 13 June-26 September 25 September-31 December","AV. 1 Januar-16 March 16 March-4 June 5 June-19 August 19 August-26 October 26 October-31 December","AV 1 January-30 March 30 March-22 June 22 June-18 September 18 September-31 December","AV.","AV. 2 January-13 April 13 April-7 August 7 August-27 December","AV. 1 January-10 April 11 April-15 July 16 July-24 October 25 October-31 January, 1865","AV. 1 February-15 May 15 May-9 August 9 August-31 December","AV. 1 January-20 March 20 March-29 June 2 July-10 October","AV. 1 January-10 December 9 December-27 December","Death of Millington is noted of Friday, July 10, 1868. 2 books. PAV.","59 pages. TDr.","Harriet Blankenship Papers, 1834-1861, and Blankenship Family papers, 1866-1951. Included is correspondence with John Wesley Johnson of Mississippi and George F. Holmes of the University of Virginia regarding the biography of Dr. John Millington. There are letters from Frank and John Blankenship to their mother, Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship, many of which are from Florida and Cuba in the time of the Spanish-American War, 1989-1899. Included is correspondence, 1937, between Mrs. Blankenship and the officers of the Folger Shakespearean Library in Washington regarding the gift of Mrs. Siddon's stage jewelry, which had been given by Dr. Millington to his grandmdaughter; and a 6 page report of the Pearl harbor attack of the December 7, 1941, sent out by Earl M. Thacker of Honolulu.","Cover for some of next 14 papers.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding deeds from Bacon Tate (sic) and Petes (sic).","Scope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.","Regarding our biographical sketch of Dr. John Millington, her father.","Scope and Contents On the same subject.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Please return to Mrs. K.M. Blankenship...Richmond, Va.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding \"the Blankenship matter.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding dull days and duties in the army.","Scope and Contents Regarding a furlough.","Scope and Contents Regarding his return from a furlough.","Scope and Contents Re: crowded and sickening conditions of the soldiers on the transport ship.","Scope and Contents Regarding a trip from Savannah.","Scope and Contents Regarding the inaction of the fleet, \"now that the war is over.\"","Newspaper clipping.","Scope and Contents Regarding family affairs including the marriage of a sister, Evie.","Scope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: the enthusiasm of the people of Havana for General Gomex; description of a carnival and that \"battle of the flowers.\"","Scope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: family affairs and the hope that his mother will come to Cuba for a visit.","Scope and Contents Regarding the army's duties in policing the city until a Cuban police force is formed.","Scope and Contents Enclosure: note on \"Castleford Ware\" signed G[?] B[?]. Enclosure.","Scope and Contents Regarding information concerning Professor John Millington, father of Mrs. K.M.B. C.","Scope and Contents Regarding the return of the manuscript of the life of Professor John Millington.","Regarding the value of a book on medals.","Scope and Contents Regarding a monument to the grandfather of Mrs. Marshall, who had taught Miss Henley's father at William and Mary, probably a reference to John Millington.","Enclosure: list of particular gifts.","Regarding certain prints offered to the Library and a collection of Siddons stage jewelry.","Report of conditions in Honolulu after December 7, 1941 attack by Japanese. Manuscript.","Appreciation for a playbill sent by Mrs. Blankenship; interest in the stage properties of Mrs. Siddons.","Unknown recipient. Regarding Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry.","Regarding portrait and miniature owned by Miss Blankenship. Card.","Regarding the receipt of the Siddons stage jewelry.","Appreciation for the presentation of Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry to the library. TOLS. Enclosure: \"Sarah Siddons's stage jewelry,\" a description of this and account of its former ownership by Dr. John Millington. Enclosed.","Newspaper clipping.","Application blank to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the daughter of Captain R.E. Blankenship, Miss Kate Blankenship.","Printed material.","Donated by the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.","Notice by his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship. Newspaper clipping","Regarding a gold snuff box of John Millington left to the College in the will of Frank B. Blankenship.","Regarding items of interest to the College from the old Blankenship house.","Names and addresses of the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship.","Scope and Contents Regarding the \"Blankenship Home\" where artifacts relating to Professor John Millington were obtained. Newspaper clipping.","Stating that he has a portrait of John Millington and some books. Enclosed brochure from Valentine Museum, Richmond, on painting of J.M. and mother (see folder V-21).","Scope and Contents Reference to Ethel Hills, granddaughter of John Millington.","Enclosing xerox copy of cover and article from Valentine Museum brochure; sent valuable \"Mitchell's Traveller's Guide of the U.S.\" of 1843, with colored map.","Scope and Contents John Millington, Elizabeth Letts, Sarah Anne Letts (who married J.M.), Robert Moore Blankenship, John Millington Blankenship, Richard F. Morris, Robert Blankenship Morris.","Scope and Contents John Millington, Sarah Anne Letts, Mrs. Harriet Blakenship, Robert E. Blankenship, R.M. Blankenship, Annie Blankenship, Kate Blankenship, Sarah Anne Millington, George Beale Millington.","Annie Blankenshop, John Millington Blankenship, Mrs. Frances Harrison Blankenship, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship, John M. Blankenship, Mrs. Evie Blankenship Carter, Mrs. Caroline Virginia Gordon, Mrs. Harriet Blankenship, Robert Millington Blankenship, Jr. Newspaper clippings.","See John Millington account book of sale of tickets, in Box VI. Printed Material.","Newspaper. Announcement of John Millington's appointment to William and Mary College faculty, on page 2.","Included is a list of his acomplishments unrecorded elsewhere. Newspaper clipping.","Newspaper clipping","Scope and Contents (J.M. owned the house now known as the \"Wythe House\" having lived in it while he was Professor of Natural Philosophy at William and Mary. When he left Williamsburg in 1850, he rented the house out for many years.) Newspaper clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material. Card.","Newspaper clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material.","Newspaper Clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material.","Includes an account of the ghost of the house. Newspaper clipping.","3 photographs.","\"The artist who painted the portrait of Mrs. Millington with her son, John Millington, done in London.\" A typed note on the lie of A.K., 1740-1807.","Includes photograph of the painting on the cover and article on it on page 1. The painting was left to the museum in the will of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Photographs endorsed \"Professor of Chemistry \u0026amp; Toxicology in the Memphis Medical College, Tennessee, 1857.\"","Photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","One has list: McLeod, Walkter, Warwick, Warren, Blankenship, Rutherfoord. Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Identified as \"Thomas Millington of London, Eng. Father of John Millington.\" The label behind the original frame also bears the inscription \"Georgie Blackenship, April 192[9]\"","Includes one printed version, taken from the water color by Thomas C. Millington. Printed Material.","Photograph.","Includes biographical notes copied from 'Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors\". Probably the painter of the miniature of John Millington as a boy. Photograph.","Three cartes de visite found in the trunk of John Millington. Photos are possibly of Bruton Parish Church and Cemetary. Each is about 4 in. x 2.5 in. Good condition with fading.","By William Hamilton. Purchased at Regent Circus, Picadilly, London. 26 pages used.","\"Prof'r J. Millington, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. Bot in Philadelphia, 1849. 75 cts.\" 3 inches by 5 inches.","Endorsed, \"Sue fox Album, Richmond, Virginia\". Greetings, poems and the like written to Sue Fox by her friends. 6 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.","Cooking receipts, plus a few pages of newspaper clippings regarding diseases and cures. Approximately 40 pages used. 6 1/2 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.","Scope and Contents Secretaries reporting on meetings of the \"club\" include C.L. Campbell, Irving E. Campbell, A.M. Olcott, R. Massey Noeling, Julian F. Skelton, Egberta Olcott, A.B. Dinwiddie, R.P. Irving, Sue Seddon Weleor, Richard F. Morris, Martha Harrison Christian, George W. McCrury, and Evie Blankenship. Approximately 100 pages used. 7 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.","Greetings, poems and the like written to Kate Millington by her friends; sketches and colored cards are enclosed and loose. 7 1/2 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.","Endorsed: \"drawn and engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.\" belonging to Georgia Blankenship, Richmond.","Photograph Volume. 9 in. by 12 in","67 pages used. Loose international postage stamps (circa 1880s-1900s), previously lining selected blank pages in the back of the volume, were removed from the journal and consolidated into a separate enclosure in Box 11. Volume measures 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.","Records and accounts of what appears to have been a children's enterprise. Miss Kate Blankenship was among the contributors of such items as Confederate and English buttons. Approximately 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.","John Millington's first wife was Emily Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton, R.A. Approximately 163 sketches 7 1/2 in. by 9 1/2 in. Parchment binding.","13 pages used. 6 inches by 8 inches. Parchment binding. Autograph Volume.","7 inches by 8 inches by 2 1/2 inches deep. Photograph Volume.","[RELOCATED TO ARTIFACTS AT 2019C]","Approximately 8 inches in diameter, on stand, overall height 14 inches. Mss Artifact 2011","Photograph from when it was owned by John Millington, together with the later post card picture of the house.","Fragile.","Scope and Contents Broken case and daguerreotype image in poor condition, 3.5\" x 4.5\"","Scope and Contents Metal oval brooch with miniature daguerreotype of John Millington on one side, and a tintype of Mrs. Millington on the other. 1.25\" x 1.5\"","Scope and Contents 1\" x 1.5\"","Scope and Contents Painted on plaster, in broken case. 2.5\" x 3.5\"","Approximately 100 stereocard photographs","[MOVED TO ARTIFACT COLLECTION 2019C]","Scope and Contents Glass plate negatives of photographs circa. 1880s-90s. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Includes individual and group portraits with family, dog, friends, and classmates (Hanover Academy and \"V.M.J. cadets\"). Fragile and heavy box.","Glass plate negatives from circa 1880s-1890s, with views of streets, buildings, and house interiors. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Fragile and heavy box.","Undeveloped photographic film, circa 1901, of L.F.B. Blakenship taken while he was in Cuba. Also includes a box in which the film was meant to have been sent to the Eastman Kodak Company to be developed. Film is rolled and is extremely brittle; likely nitrate and thus placed in special storage. Please contact SCRC staff before visiting.","This box was originally Box 7 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.","Note by John Millington. Re: a Guinea which was presented to him at his baptism (as an infant), then was carried in his pocket \"for above 50 years.\" [1777] Gold Guinea, as described.","Scales in leather case, belonging to John Millington.","Spectacles in metal case belonging to John Millington.","Ivory fan, very finely carved, belonging to Emily Hamilton, first wife of John Millington.","Note with the fan identifying Emily Hamilton as daughter of William Hamilton, English artist who painted portrait of Mrs. Sedden (Siddon), celebrated English actress; her stage jewelry presented to Fulger (Folger) Shakespearean Library, Washington, D.C.","Scope and Contents Small leather purse containing 3 \"Conduct\" Awards to J.M. Blankenship from McGuire's School.","Round medallion with worked hair design and initial \"B,\" 2 in. diameter.","Mexican lace known as \"drawn Work,\" owned by Mrs. Blankenship.","Mexican woven purse.","Miscellaneous hand-worked cards.","Petit point patterns.","\"Mitchell's Travellor's Guide through the United States,\" with colored map in back fold. Endorsed: \"J. Millington, Wmsbg. Virg'a. Bot in Philiadelphia. More full and 9 years more recent than Tanners.\" PV.","This box was originally Box 8 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.","Gold snuff box in red leather case, Inscribed inside cover, \"This box presented to John Millington, Esq., a Civil Engineer, by a few of the members of the London Mechanics Institute....\"","Robert Christie, Secy, London Mechanical Institute, to John Millington, Falmouth, England. Accompanying a gold snuff box.","Note stating that the snuff box was given to her sons, John M. Blankenship on July 27, 1889, and then to Frank B. Blankenship in April 1929, by Kate Millington Blankenship.","Thermometer in case belonging to John Millington.","Drafting instruments in wooden case belonging to John Millington.","This box was originally Box 9 before being rehoused. Contains Mexican figurines.","Scope and Contents Figurine \"White Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship.\"","Mexican figurine of a monk.","Scope and Contents Figurine of \"Mexican Black Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830\"","Miner figurine endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830.\""],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRoll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 9, 2012.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eArtifacts were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the process of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThomas Millington's watercolor painting of Bruton Parish Church was transferred from the John Millington Papers (Mss. 65 M59, Box 18, Folder 11) to the Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306) on July 29, 2019.\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Roll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 9, 2012.","Artifacts were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the process of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)","Thomas Millington's watercolor painting of Bruton Parish Church was transferred from the John Millington Papers (Mss. 65 M59, Box 18, Folder 11) to the Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306) on July 29, 2019."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_coll_ssim":["Memphis Medical College, Memphis, Tenn","Blankenship family","Millington family"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Memphis Medical College, Memphis, Tenn","Blankenship family","Millington family","Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Memphis Medical College, Memphis, Tenn"],"famname_ssim":["Blankenship family","Millington family"],"persname_ssim":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":471,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T06:30:22.113Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8395","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8395","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8395","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8395","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_8395.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Millington, John Papers","title_ssm":["John Millington Papers"],"title_tesim":["John Millington Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1801-1951"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1801-1951"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 65 M59","/repositories/2/resources/8395"],"text":["Mss. 65 M59","/repositories/2/resources/8395","John Millington Papers","Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)","College of William and Mary--History--19th century","Engineering--Study and teaching--United States--19th century","Mexico--History--19th century","Mining engineering--History--19th century","Spanish-American War, 1898","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","Universities and Colleges--Virginia--Faculty","University of Mississippi--History--19th century","World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area","Account books","Correspondence","Diaries","Lithographs","Maps","Photographs","Watercolors (drawings)","2,477.00 items","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","This collection is currently being processed. Please consult a staff member for further information.","John Millington was born May 11, 1779 near London. Licensed as attorney in England, he later turned to engineering. Professor of Royal Institution. In 1829, moved to Mexico as engineer with Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1832. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy at College of William and Mary, 1836-1848. Took degree of doctor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science at University of Mississippi. Professor, Memphis (Tennessee) Medical College. Died in 1868.","The material from Acc. 1980.124 was previously part of the John Millington Collection, UA 6.015.","The collection was rehoused into new boxes and folders, and the box and folder list were compiled by Matt Abel and Jenn Quirnback from December 2012-March 2013. As a result, box and folder numbers from the original paper finding aid have been updated.","John Millington Collection (UA 6.015)","Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306)","The personal library of John Millington is in the Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries.","Roll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 2012.","All of the artifacts and copper plates that were originally part of Boxes 7-10, 13-15 were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the processing of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)","Millington's papers concern his experiences as directing engineer of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association, as professor at the College of William \u0026 Mary (where he lived in the Wythe House), as professor at University of Mississippi, and at Memphis Medical College. Includes diaries covering 1832, 1835, and 1861-1867; letters of his family members; and Blankenship family land records and letters concerning the Spanish-American War.","Several sketches of the life of John Millington, 1779-1868, and genealogical information on the family are to be found here. Papers of John Millington include his commission as an officer in the St. James Loyal Volunteers, London, and certificate for hair powder allowance, 1801; license as attorney under George III, 1802-1804; and his activities as an engineer in constructing a suspension bridge in Buchinghamshire, 1829. The notice of the sale of his effects in London and a passport to Vera Cruz, Mexico, signed by General Santa Ana, 1829, mark the move from England to Mexico, where he was the directing engineer for the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Letters of introductions to persons in the United States, 1832, which were taken with him when he left Mexico are included as are printed annoucements of the engineering office which he set up on Philadelphia, 1832. From this period arincluded letters from Michael Faraday of the Royal Institute, London, 1828-1832, and theatre programs from Philadelphia, 1834. Letters and papers from the time that he moved to Williamsburg to become Professor of Chemsistry and Natural Philosophy at the College of William and Mary, 1836-1850, conclude this box. Included is a letter written to Millington by T.R. Dew, President of the College, asking him to buy books for the College Library in Philadelphia Bookshops, 21 September, 1837, and many letters to other Professors of Natural Philosophy (Physics) in the United States, discussing textbooks that were in use at the time.","Typewritten copy.","Scope and Contents In \"William and Mary College Papers\" of the 1939 Survey; folders 16 (1 piece), 50 (2 pieces), 98a (1 piece), 108 (44 pieces), Typewritten copy.","Reprinted 1964 by the King and Queen Press, Williamsburg. TV.","Unsigned.","Unsigned.","Unsigned.","Scope and Contents Enclosure: Sketch of the life of John Millington by Alfred Temple Spanton \"about the year 1908,\" a great grandson of Dr. Millington.","Scope and Contents 1. List of marriages and issues. 3 pages. 2. A second list of marriages, children, and subsequent heirs, 1802-1841. 2 pages. 3. \"Copy of writing on back of Bartolozzi picture\" of Mrs. Ruth Millington, mother of Prof. John Millington. C. 4. List of Hills family, born 1872-1891. 1 page. 5. List of places of residence of John Millington from 1803 to 1863. 1 page.","Scope and Contents Exemption from the payment of duty of Hair Powder Certificates, due to his being a member of the St. James Loyal Volunteers Corps. Signed by Chas. Blackley. Printed Signed.","Sworn before the King George III, signed by R. Forester.","License to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.","License to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.","\"Whereof Geoffrey Lord Amherst is Colonel\". Signed by Scott Titchfield (Marquis).","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"calling my attention to certain parts of his book \u0026amp; to dine with him.\"","Answer to an enquery regarding the diameters of Jupiter's satellites.","(Purchased March, 1968)","Concerning the chain cable cause. (Purchased from Ifam Kyle Hatchen, London, January 9, 1951)","Scope and Contents Regarding the transactions of the Society of Arts, his purchase of \"7 optical models\" and Luminus Conductor.","Scope and Contents Regarding an order from Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the subject on which Millington planned to discourse at the Royal Institute. Card.","Endorsement: \"about not calling\".","Scope and Contents Re: a suspension bridge that Millington was appointed to build. (Incomplete).","Scope and Contents An account with John Millington for services rendered in connection with contract and bond for the Mexican Mining Co.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about dining with Hook, going to Mexico, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. hook wishing me to dine with him on Thursday next to meet Porter, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"pressing me to dine with him on morrow.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"begging to have his American Paddle specific ready by tomorrow.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"inctroducing Mr. Marshall as Engineer to E. London Water Works.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: Dr. Ols. Gregory, saying that \"wo'd undertake the reediting of Cavallo's Treatise of Phil'y for Mr. P. Hoare and Rev. Thos. Racket, the Ex'ors.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"for part of Phil. Transact's let me \u0026amp; asking if going to Mexico.\"","Millington to Faraday. Re: acceptance of Anglo-Mexican Mining Associates.","Printed Material. Card.","Scope and Contents Endorsment: \"Mr. Tindal pressing for answer to his letters.\"","Scope and Contents An introduction for John Millington and his family to Mr. Phelps of Madeira.","For an auction at No. 5 Doughty St.Endorsement: \"J. Millington Going to Mexico.\" Printed Material.","Issued at Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"passport for the Republic of Mexico.\"","James Chabot to John Millington, Esq. Note about son Tom.","Scope and Contents A printed announcement \"Aviso al comercio\" in Guanajuato. Printed material.","Sarah Gibson to John Millington at Guanajuato. Re: marriage of daughter Emily.","Memorandum signed by John Millington and endorsed: \"List of Articles brought away from [caborce] by self and Morcom.","Scope and Contents Thomas writes of his school, Emily of shopping for her mother.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Requesting that they visit her and see their grandchild, Emilita.","Endorsement by John Millington.","Introducing John Millington, Director of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.","Introducing John Millington, Commissioner of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.","Scope and Contents Introducing John Millington. Four letters.","Introducing John Millington.","Introducing Professor Millington. Five letters and covers.","Scope and Contents Introducing Professor Millington.","Includes 2 pieces of equipage from the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.","Scope and Contents Intrducing John Millington.","Scope and Contents Re: the situation in Mexico City, then under siege by Santa Ana, and of expected battle between Santa Ana and Bustamente.","Scope and Contents Writes of her desire to leave Mexico, but no one dares to leave the City for fear of murder and robbery in the continuing revolution.","Endorsement \"Dr. Ma[?]trie's Advertisement.\" Newspaper.E. Note: Dr. M'Murtrie has an advertisement in the last column on the second page in which Millington is mentioned as having constructed the dark closets for the exhibition of his illustrations.","Scope and Contents Re: a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, and Millington's request for a strip of Rhodium.","Printed Material.","Printed Material.","Scope and Contents Includes a program by Mr. Power. Endorsement: \"with J. Lett's orders.\"","Scope and Contents Incomplete. Endorsement: \"Autograph of Miss Hughes, a Singer of the London theatres.\"","Appointment of John Millington by Board of Visitors of William and Mary College as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry.","J. Page, Rector of William and Mary College, to John Millington. Re: election as Professor to William and Mary College.","Printed invitation of students of William and Mary to a ball to be held on February 22.","Scope and Contents Date is recorded as 8 mo. 17, 1836. Re: questions in astronomy.","Scope and Contents License to serve as a Lay Reader in the Episcopal Church in Williamsburg.","Scope and Contents Congratulations on his appointment at the College: he (Faraday) has been at the R.A. for 23 years; a lathe ordered by Millington.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about Saunder's loan--\u0026amp; his going to England.\" Having bought a copper mine in the Wisconson Territory, he is going to Europe to engage miners.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Dr. J.G. at canonsburg, Jefferson College about my [?] degree in s'd College \u0026amp; his coming to town....\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. John Vaughn inviting me to breakfast with him on morrow morning.\"","Endorsement: \"Judge Tucker at F.S. about my taking Edmund Randolf to Board, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew requesting me to purchase 2 or 300 $ worth of books for Wm. \u0026amp; Mary College Library.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew asking me to take Mr. J. Wright to board.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about new edition of his Nat. Philosophy.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"stating that Jefferson Coll. had conferred M.D. upon me \u0026amp; to appoint some person to receive the diploma.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"saying he had sent 1st vol. of his Phil'y to Dobson for me \u0026amp; with part'-lars of price, etc.\"","Endorsement: \"about repair of stronomical Telescope, Text Books, etc.\" Includes a full discussion of scientific textbooks in use and enquiries about \"Millington's Natural Philosophy.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about shipping me a box of Tin ores, etc.\" Letter states that he will spend \"specimens of most of the minerals found in the U.S.\"","Scope and Contents A deed to property in Tennessee. Signed.","Scope and Contents Endorsemed: \"to send him copy of my book on Engineering.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Prof. Saunders asking of I wished to buy a woman serv't--Ans'd in affirmative.\" Woman was wife to man owned by Saunders.","Scope and Contents \"I am sorry your present situation is not agreeable to you...recommend to you to ask for an assistant...\"","Scope and Contents Regarding her students seeing the College.","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Uncle George in his 86th year. The last letter he wrote me.\" Regarding Tom Millington, son of John Millington and his \"Father's wife\" in England.","An account and statement regarding the estate of Peter Aylward, a part of which is to go to \"Millington Trustees.\"","Scope and Contents Indenture for the price of the house and lot in Williamsburg. Signed. C. Separate agreement with Thomas O. Cogbill, Trustee for William H. Lee.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Lease of a house and garden on the north side of the main street of Williamsburg. Signed.","Scope and Contents A comparison of the lecture hours of Professor Millington with those of Professor Silliman in Boston. Signed.","Scope and Contents Bond for portion of the purchase price of property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.","Scope and Contents Deed for property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed by Ruch'd L. Lloyd.","He writes, \"The Oregon Difficulty has paralysed everything in the way of business....for Fear of war between the two countries.\"","Regarding inheretance from the will of the late Peter Aylward, deceased in 1840. Card.","Endorsed: \"With acc. of the close of Mr. Dew's life.\"","Enclosing a sermon for the funeral of Mr. Letts.","Enclosing an account sheet. ADrS. Enclosed.","Regarding the final settlement of the estate of the late Peter Aylward. ADrS.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Letters and papers of John Millington record his move to the newly opened University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, 1850, and to the Medical College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1853. From this period came an order for payment for engineering services to the Mississippi Central Railroad, a copy of a medical address pritned in the Memphis Daily Bulletin, and letters from Williamsburg, Virginia, where he still owned a house, 1855-1858. A letter written by John C. Phillips after an eight month exploratory trip to Pike's Peak, colorado, 1861, reviews the mining prospects there; shares of stock from the Aetna Oil Company and the Shafton Coal Company reflect mineral activity in the East. From the war years, 1861-1864, there are many letters from his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship in Richmond, Virginia, and his son, George B. Millington, which tell of the movement of armies, the high prices of civillian goods, etc. The remainder of the letters and papers in this box are from the period of the return of John Millington to live in Philadelphia, 1865, and then to Richmond, Virginia, 1867, until his death on 10 July, 1868. Also included are papers concerned with the settlement of the estate of John Millington, 1868-1892.","Enclosing a power of Attorney. ADrS. E.","Regarding his account with the company.","Regarding his business with that firm.","Regarding settlement of an estate in England, to which Millington is an heir.","Regarding settlement of an estate.","Endorsed: \"Coults and Co. inclosing Bank account to this day.\"","Regarding transfer of money received for his account.","Endorsed: \"Bishop Green at memphis, saying his was coming to preach at Oxford....\"","Regarding his accounts in England.","A promissory note for $105 to Lewis Sharks (Dean). Card.","Regarding family affairs; copies of the new Illustrated Papers; and his life in Philadelphia.","Regarding an engraving to be made; enclosing a syllabus of the Chemical Institute; he has joined the Sons of Temperance.","Regarding shares held by John Millington in the railroad.","Order for payment to John Millington for work for the railroad company.","News of England from the brother of John Millington's first wife.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"to say the 20th St. house sold for $5,150 cash \u0026amp; to send the title deeds.\"","PAM.","From a student at the Memphis Medical College, whose diploma had been withheld until a note was given for money owed on his tuition; including a rumor that the college is soon to close.","Family news; John Millington's move to a new residence.","Regarding his attempts to rent their furnished house in Williamsburg; news of the people in the town.","Sent with a volume of her poems, and asking for a review of them.","Deed for tracts of land in Fayette County, Tennessee.","Regarding the death of her husband. Card.","Scope and Contents Regarding her move to her new home in Richmond, and family news.","Letter to Katie Millington Blakenship describing the hard times and social news. Card.","A bank check.","Family news; endorsement: \"send to Hills.\"","Regarding her life in England.","Regarding an eight month trip around Pike's Peak in Colorado prospecting for gold and other minerals; and offering his services to the South in the event of a war.","Scope and Contents Regarding hope of a war between England and the United States in order to take the pressure off the South; buying blankets and overcoats for Southern soldiers; the formation of the Confederacy under Jefferson Davis; the progress of the war; the defeat of the \"grand army\" in its attempt to take Richmond; concern for his house in Williamsburg; the threat of an attack on Memphis.","Endorsement: \"enquiry into state of affairs in Williamsburg, Va....\"","Regarding threat of the Federal army at Cairy; hope for a return to peace; the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Blankenship.","Regarding her visit to her daughter; 2 bad fires in Memphis; the army that is being formed; high prices. Card.","Scope and Contents Regarding a business trip made by rail through Manassas, behind the Confederate lines.","Scope and Contents Regarding inauguration of President Davis on 22 February; hope that the British will lift the blockade and perhaps declare war on the North; the capture of a part of the railroad line by the Northerners; Tennessee Legislature has fled from Nashville to Memphis; hope to return to Williamsburg; then purchase a 220 acre plantation at La Grange, Tennessee.","Receipt for $5,500 in Confederate Notes, for investment.","Scope and Contents Indenture for 23 acres and a house. Signed","Printed Material.","Scope and Contents By flag of truce; Kate's second daughter.","Scope and Contents Written to J.M. in Philadelphia. Regarding the high prices in the south--$175 for a pair of shoes; requests an English check for 20 pounds which could be sold in the south for $1,200 to $1,500.","Scope and Contents Printed Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the uncertainty of mails; markets will supplied in Richmond where he visited his sister; prices very high there, however; his army pay just about covers his mess account.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Printed Signed.","Scope and Contents Re: the handling of some affairs for him. Card.","Scope and Contents Re: the reverses of the confederate Army in the Tennessee Campaign, including the battle of Franklin and of Nashville; and poorly clad and nearly barefood army.","Newspaper clipping.","Newspaper clipping.","PADS.","Scope and Contents On inspecting their place in la Grange he finds headquarters of the 11th Illinois regiment and 9 families of the 2nd Arkansas regiment in the house, all marble mantels gone, most of the windows broken, and the furniture taken.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Relinquishment of the Bureau of the property at La Grange seized as belonging to Rev'd John N. Waddell\" by John Millington. ADS.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the payment of taxes.","Scope and Contents Deed for house and 23 acres in Fayette County, Tennessee. (See Indenture of 15 October, 1862.) Signed.","Autogaphed document.","Scope and Contents Regarding selling his Williamsburg home.","Scope and Contents Regarding the purchase of John Millington's Williamsburg house.","Scope and Contents Regarding the claim for damage to the property at La Grange, Tennessee.","Scope and Contents Regarding his life in Memphis, and the move of \"Pa and Ma\" (Mr. and Mrs. John Millington) to Richmond.","Scope and Contents Receipt for payment for half a gallon of whiskey. Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the account of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding an account of his in the name of G.B. Millington, his son.","Scope and Contents Regarding account in that bank.","Scope and Contents Business matters.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Has rented Waddell Place for the year of 1868.\"","Regarding property in Tennessee.","Scope and Contents Sympathy expressed for the death of her father.","Regarding the death of their father (John Millington).","Scope and Contents Regarding the death of \"Ma\" (Mrs. John Millington).","Scope and Contents Regarding a rehearsal, etc.","Scope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.","Regarding their late father's affairs. ACyS.","Scope and Contents Regarding court certificates he sent to England in connection with the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Receipts for monies received from R. E. Blankenship, Admin. for John Millington, deceased.","Scope and Contents Regarding Titles to the Philadelphia property of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the administration of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the will of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the payment of dividends to estate of John Millington with enclosures.","Scope and Contents 1869. Papers connected with the case of Deare vs. Bates.","Scope and Contents Lettered as exhibits \"A\" through \"M\" in the trial.","Scope and Contents Letter thanking Professor Henry for items he sent to W\u0026amp;M and comments on Thomas Dew's death.","Newspaper clipping.","Contains primarly diaries, one notebook and one account book.","AV.","AV.","AV. 12 February-15 April 15 April-13 June 13 June-26 September 25 September-31 December","AV. 1 Januar-16 March 16 March-4 June 5 June-19 August 19 August-26 October 26 October-31 December","AV 1 January-30 March 30 March-22 June 22 June-18 September 18 September-31 December","AV.","AV. 2 January-13 April 13 April-7 August 7 August-27 December","AV. 1 January-10 April 11 April-15 July 16 July-24 October 25 October-31 January, 1865","AV. 1 February-15 May 15 May-9 August 9 August-31 December","AV. 1 January-20 March 20 March-29 June 2 July-10 October","AV. 1 January-10 December 9 December-27 December","Death of Millington is noted of Friday, July 10, 1868. 2 books. PAV.","59 pages. TDr.","Harriet Blankenship Papers, 1834-1861, and Blankenship Family papers, 1866-1951. Included is correspondence with John Wesley Johnson of Mississippi and George F. Holmes of the University of Virginia regarding the biography of Dr. John Millington. There are letters from Frank and John Blankenship to their mother, Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship, many of which are from Florida and Cuba in the time of the Spanish-American War, 1989-1899. Included is correspondence, 1937, between Mrs. Blankenship and the officers of the Folger Shakespearean Library in Washington regarding the gift of Mrs. Siddon's stage jewelry, which had been given by Dr. Millington to his grandmdaughter; and a 6 page report of the Pearl harbor attack of the December 7, 1941, sent out by Earl M. Thacker of Honolulu.","Cover for some of next 14 papers.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding deeds from Bacon Tate (sic) and Petes (sic).","Scope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.","Regarding our biographical sketch of Dr. John Millington, her father.","Scope and Contents On the same subject.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Please return to Mrs. K.M. Blankenship...Richmond, Va.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding \"the Blankenship matter.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding dull days and duties in the army.","Scope and Contents Regarding a furlough.","Scope and Contents Regarding his return from a furlough.","Scope and Contents Re: crowded and sickening conditions of the soldiers on the transport ship.","Scope and Contents Regarding a trip from Savannah.","Scope and Contents Regarding the inaction of the fleet, \"now that the war is over.\"","Newspaper clipping.","Scope and Contents Regarding family affairs including the marriage of a sister, Evie.","Scope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: the enthusiasm of the people of Havana for General Gomex; description of a carnival and that \"battle of the flowers.\"","Scope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: family affairs and the hope that his mother will come to Cuba for a visit.","Scope and Contents Regarding the army's duties in policing the city until a Cuban police force is formed.","Scope and Contents Enclosure: note on \"Castleford Ware\" signed G[?] B[?]. Enclosure.","Scope and Contents Regarding information concerning Professor John Millington, father of Mrs. K.M.B. C.","Scope and Contents Regarding the return of the manuscript of the life of Professor John Millington.","Regarding the value of a book on medals.","Scope and Contents Regarding a monument to the grandfather of Mrs. Marshall, who had taught Miss Henley's father at William and Mary, probably a reference to John Millington.","Enclosure: list of particular gifts.","Regarding certain prints offered to the Library and a collection of Siddons stage jewelry.","Report of conditions in Honolulu after December 7, 1941 attack by Japanese. Manuscript.","Appreciation for a playbill sent by Mrs. Blankenship; interest in the stage properties of Mrs. Siddons.","Unknown recipient. Regarding Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry.","Regarding portrait and miniature owned by Miss Blankenship. Card.","Regarding the receipt of the Siddons stage jewelry.","Appreciation for the presentation of Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry to the library. TOLS. Enclosure: \"Sarah Siddons's stage jewelry,\" a description of this and account of its former ownership by Dr. John Millington. Enclosed.","Newspaper clipping.","Application blank to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the daughter of Captain R.E. Blankenship, Miss Kate Blankenship.","Printed material.","Donated by the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.","Notice by his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship. Newspaper clipping","Regarding a gold snuff box of John Millington left to the College in the will of Frank B. Blankenship.","Regarding items of interest to the College from the old Blankenship house.","Names and addresses of the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship.","Scope and Contents Regarding the \"Blankenship Home\" where artifacts relating to Professor John Millington were obtained. Newspaper clipping.","Stating that he has a portrait of John Millington and some books. Enclosed brochure from Valentine Museum, Richmond, on painting of J.M. and mother (see folder V-21).","Scope and Contents Reference to Ethel Hills, granddaughter of John Millington.","Enclosing xerox copy of cover and article from Valentine Museum brochure; sent valuable \"Mitchell's Traveller's Guide of the U.S.\" of 1843, with colored map.","Scope and Contents John Millington, Elizabeth Letts, Sarah Anne Letts (who married J.M.), Robert Moore Blankenship, John Millington Blankenship, Richard F. Morris, Robert Blankenship Morris.","Scope and Contents John Millington, Sarah Anne Letts, Mrs. Harriet Blakenship, Robert E. Blankenship, R.M. Blankenship, Annie Blankenship, Kate Blankenship, Sarah Anne Millington, George Beale Millington.","Annie Blankenshop, John Millington Blankenship, Mrs. Frances Harrison Blankenship, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship, John M. Blankenship, Mrs. Evie Blankenship Carter, Mrs. Caroline Virginia Gordon, Mrs. Harriet Blankenship, Robert Millington Blankenship, Jr. Newspaper clippings.","See John Millington account book of sale of tickets, in Box VI. Printed Material.","Newspaper. Announcement of John Millington's appointment to William and Mary College faculty, on page 2.","Included is a list of his acomplishments unrecorded elsewhere. Newspaper clipping.","Newspaper clipping","Scope and Contents (J.M. owned the house now known as the \"Wythe House\" having lived in it while he was Professor of Natural Philosophy at William and Mary. When he left Williamsburg in 1850, he rented the house out for many years.) Newspaper clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material. Card.","Newspaper clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material.","Newspaper Clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material.","Includes an account of the ghost of the house. Newspaper clipping.","3 photographs.","\"The artist who painted the portrait of Mrs. Millington with her son, John Millington, done in London.\" A typed note on the lie of A.K., 1740-1807.","Includes photograph of the painting on the cover and article on it on page 1. The painting was left to the museum in the will of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Photographs endorsed \"Professor of Chemistry \u0026amp; Toxicology in the Memphis Medical College, Tennessee, 1857.\"","Photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","One has list: McLeod, Walkter, Warwick, Warren, Blankenship, Rutherfoord. Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Identified as \"Thomas Millington of London, Eng. Father of John Millington.\" The label behind the original frame also bears the inscription \"Georgie Blackenship, April 192[9]\"","Includes one printed version, taken from the water color by Thomas C. Millington. Printed Material.","Photograph.","Includes biographical notes copied from 'Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors\". Probably the painter of the miniature of John Millington as a boy. Photograph.","Three cartes de visite found in the trunk of John Millington. Photos are possibly of Bruton Parish Church and Cemetary. Each is about 4 in. x 2.5 in. Good condition with fading.","By William Hamilton. Purchased at Regent Circus, Picadilly, London. 26 pages used.","\"Prof'r J. Millington, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. Bot in Philadelphia, 1849. 75 cts.\" 3 inches by 5 inches.","Endorsed, \"Sue fox Album, Richmond, Virginia\". Greetings, poems and the like written to Sue Fox by her friends. 6 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.","Cooking receipts, plus a few pages of newspaper clippings regarding diseases and cures. Approximately 40 pages used. 6 1/2 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.","Scope and Contents Secretaries reporting on meetings of the \"club\" include C.L. Campbell, Irving E. Campbell, A.M. Olcott, R. Massey Noeling, Julian F. Skelton, Egberta Olcott, A.B. Dinwiddie, R.P. Irving, Sue Seddon Weleor, Richard F. Morris, Martha Harrison Christian, George W. McCrury, and Evie Blankenship. Approximately 100 pages used. 7 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.","Greetings, poems and the like written to Kate Millington by her friends; sketches and colored cards are enclosed and loose. 7 1/2 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.","Endorsed: \"drawn and engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.\" belonging to Georgia Blankenship, Richmond.","Photograph Volume. 9 in. by 12 in","67 pages used. Loose international postage stamps (circa 1880s-1900s), previously lining selected blank pages in the back of the volume, were removed from the journal and consolidated into a separate enclosure in Box 11. Volume measures 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.","Records and accounts of what appears to have been a children's enterprise. Miss Kate Blankenship was among the contributors of such items as Confederate and English buttons. Approximately 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.","John Millington's first wife was Emily Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton, R.A. Approximately 163 sketches 7 1/2 in. by 9 1/2 in. Parchment binding.","13 pages used. 6 inches by 8 inches. Parchment binding. Autograph Volume.","7 inches by 8 inches by 2 1/2 inches deep. Photograph Volume.","[RELOCATED TO ARTIFACTS AT 2019C]","Approximately 8 inches in diameter, on stand, overall height 14 inches. Mss Artifact 2011","Photograph from when it was owned by John Millington, together with the later post card picture of the house.","Fragile.","Scope and Contents Broken case and daguerreotype image in poor condition, 3.5\" x 4.5\"","Scope and Contents Metal oval brooch with miniature daguerreotype of John Millington on one side, and a tintype of Mrs. Millington on the other. 1.25\" x 1.5\"","Scope and Contents 1\" x 1.5\"","Scope and Contents Painted on plaster, in broken case. 2.5\" x 3.5\"","Approximately 100 stereocard photographs","[MOVED TO ARTIFACT COLLECTION 2019C]","Scope and Contents Glass plate negatives of photographs circa. 1880s-90s. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Includes individual and group portraits with family, dog, friends, and classmates (Hanover Academy and \"V.M.J. cadets\"). Fragile and heavy box.","Glass plate negatives from circa 1880s-1890s, with views of streets, buildings, and house interiors. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Fragile and heavy box.","Undeveloped photographic film, circa 1901, of L.F.B. Blakenship taken while he was in Cuba. Also includes a box in which the film was meant to have been sent to the Eastman Kodak Company to be developed. Film is rolled and is extremely brittle; likely nitrate and thus placed in special storage. Please contact SCRC staff before visiting.","This box was originally Box 7 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.","Note by John Millington. Re: a Guinea which was presented to him at his baptism (as an infant), then was carried in his pocket \"for above 50 years.\" [1777] Gold Guinea, as described.","Scales in leather case, belonging to John Millington.","Spectacles in metal case belonging to John Millington.","Ivory fan, very finely carved, belonging to Emily Hamilton, first wife of John Millington.","Note with the fan identifying Emily Hamilton as daughter of William Hamilton, English artist who painted portrait of Mrs. Sedden (Siddon), celebrated English actress; her stage jewelry presented to Fulger (Folger) Shakespearean Library, Washington, D.C.","Scope and Contents Small leather purse containing 3 \"Conduct\" Awards to J.M. Blankenship from McGuire's School.","Round medallion with worked hair design and initial \"B,\" 2 in. diameter.","Mexican lace known as \"drawn Work,\" owned by Mrs. Blankenship.","Mexican woven purse.","Miscellaneous hand-worked cards.","Petit point patterns.","\"Mitchell's Travellor's Guide through the United States,\" with colored map in back fold. Endorsed: \"J. Millington, Wmsbg. Virg'a. Bot in Philiadelphia. More full and 9 years more recent than Tanners.\" PV.","This box was originally Box 8 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.","Gold snuff box in red leather case, Inscribed inside cover, \"This box presented to John Millington, Esq., a Civil Engineer, by a few of the members of the London Mechanics Institute....\"","Robert Christie, Secy, London Mechanical Institute, to John Millington, Falmouth, England. Accompanying a gold snuff box.","Note stating that the snuff box was given to her sons, John M. Blankenship on July 27, 1889, and then to Frank B. Blankenship in April 1929, by Kate Millington Blankenship.","Thermometer in case belonging to John Millington.","Drafting instruments in wooden case belonging to John Millington.","This box was originally Box 9 before being rehoused. Contains Mexican figurines.","Scope and Contents Figurine \"White Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship.\"","Mexican figurine of a monk.","Scope and Contents Figurine of \"Mexican Black Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830\"","Miner figurine endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830.\"","Roll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 9, 2012.","Artifacts were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the process of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)","Thomas Millington's watercolor painting of Bruton Parish Church was transferred from the John Millington Papers (Mss. 65 M59, Box 18, Folder 11) to the Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306) on July 29, 2019.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Memphis Medical College, Memphis, Tenn","Blankenship family","Millington family","Millington, John, 1779-1868","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 M59","/repositories/2/resources/8395"],"normalized_title_ssm":["John Millington Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["John Millington Papers"],"collection_ssim":["John Millington Papers"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"geogname_ssim":["Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"creator_ssm":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"creator_ssim":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"creators_ssim":["Millington, John, 1779-1868"],"places_ssim":["Wythe House (Williamsburg, Va.)"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gifts were made by Dr. Millington (grandson of J. Millington) in 1936, and by Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship and family between 1939-1953. Additional purchases have been made by Special Collections Research Center between 1951 and 1988. Acc. 1988.08 was purchased and received on 1/26/1988."],"access_subjects_ssim":["College of William and Mary--History--19th century","Engineering--Study and teaching--United States--19th century","Mexico--History--19th century","Mining engineering--History--19th century","Spanish-American War, 1898","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","Universities and Colleges--Virginia--Faculty","University of Mississippi--History--19th century","World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area","Account books","Correspondence","Diaries","Lithographs","Maps","Photographs","Watercolors (drawings)"],"access_subjects_ssm":["College of William and Mary--History--19th century","Engineering--Study and teaching--United States--19th century","Mexico--History--19th century","Mining engineering--History--19th century","Spanish-American War, 1898","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","Universities and Colleges--Virginia--Faculty","University of Mississippi--History--19th century","World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area","Account books","Correspondence","Diaries","Lithographs","Maps","Photographs","Watercolors (drawings)"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["2,477.00 items"],"extent_ssm":["8.00 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["8.00 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Account books","Correspondence","Diaries","Lithographs","Maps","Photographs","Watercolors (drawings)"],"date_range_isim":[1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access:"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is currently being processed. Please consult a staff member for further information.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement of Materials:"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is currently being processed. Please consult a staff member for further information."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Millington was born May 11, 1779 near London. Licensed as attorney in England, he later turned to engineering. Professor of Royal Institution. In 1829, moved to Mexico as engineer with Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1832. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy at College of William and Mary, 1836-1848. Took degree of doctor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science at University of Mississippi. Professor, Memphis (Tennessee) Medical College. Died in 1868.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information:"],"bioghist_tesim":["John Millington was born May 11, 1779 near London. Licensed as attorney in England, he later turned to engineering. Professor of Royal Institution. In 1829, moved to Mexico as engineer with Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1832. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy at College of William and Mary, 1836-1848. Took degree of doctor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science at University of Mississippi. Professor, Memphis (Tennessee) Medical College. Died in 1868."],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe material from Acc. 1980.124 was previously part of the John Millington Collection, UA 6.015.\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Custodial History:"],"custodhist_tesim":["The material from Acc. 1980.124 was previously part of the John Millington Collection, UA 6.015."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Millington Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["John Millington Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection was rehoused into new boxes and folders, and the box and folder list were compiled by Matt Abel and Jenn Quirnback from December 2012-March 2013. As a result, box and folder numbers from the original paper finding aid have been updated.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information:"],"processinfo_tesim":["The collection was rehoused into new boxes and folders, and the box and folder list were compiled by Matt Abel and Jenn Quirnback from December 2012-March 2013. As a result, box and folder numbers from the original paper finding aid have been updated."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Millington Collection (UA 6.015)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThomas Millington Collection (MS 00306)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe personal library of John Millington is in the Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026amp; Mary Libraries.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eRoll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 2012.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAll of the artifacts and copper plates that were originally part of Boxes 7-10, 13-15 were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the processing of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["John Millington Collection (UA 6.015)","Thomas Millington Collection (MS 00306)","The personal library of John Millington is in the Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries.","Roll of undeveloped photographs taken in Cuba by L.F.B. Blankenship were transferred to the Manuscripts Photograph Collection, 9 February 2012.","All of the artifacts and copper plates that were originally part of Boxes 7-10, 13-15 were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03), and are in the processing of being described. Artifacts with descriptions include: Watercolor of Sudbury Church (65M59.01), match box (65M59.A02.2), name plate (65M59.A02.4), ivory seal (65M59.A02.7), porcelain lids (65M59.A02.8a), small cup (65.M59.A02.8b), broken bowl (65M59.A02.8c), clay mortars (65M59.A02.8d), fish painting on glass (65M59.A02.8e), bronze powder (65M59.A02.8f)"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMillington's papers concern his experiences as directing engineer of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association, as professor at the College of William \u0026amp; Mary (where he lived in the Wythe House), as professor at University of Mississippi, and at Memphis Medical College. Includes diaries covering 1832, 1835, and 1861-1867; letters of his family members; and Blankenship family land records and letters concerning the Spanish-American War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeveral sketches of the life of John Millington, 1779-1868, and genealogical information on the family are to be found here. Papers of John Millington include his commission as an officer in the St. James Loyal Volunteers, London, and certificate for hair powder allowance, 1801; license as attorney under George III, 1802-1804; and his activities as an engineer in constructing a suspension bridge in Buchinghamshire, 1829. The notice of the sale of his effects in London and a passport to Vera Cruz, Mexico, signed by General Santa Ana, 1829, mark the move from England to Mexico, where he was the directing engineer for the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Letters of introductions to persons in the United States, 1832, which were taken with him when he left Mexico are included as are printed annoucements of the engineering office which he set up on Philadelphia, 1832. From this period arincluded letters from Michael Faraday of the Royal Institute, London, 1828-1832, and theatre programs from Philadelphia, 1834. Letters and papers from the time that he moved to Williamsburg to become Professor of Chemsistry and Natural Philosophy at the College of William and Mary, 1836-1850, conclude this box. Included is a letter written to Millington by T.R. Dew, President of the College, asking him to buy books for the College Library in Philadelphia Bookshops, 21 September, 1837, and many letters to other Professors of Natural Philosophy (Physics) in the United States, discussing textbooks that were in use at the time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypewritten copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In \"William and Mary College Papers\" of the 1939 Survey; folders 16 (1 piece), 50 (2 pieces), 98a (1 piece), 108 (44 pieces), Typewritten copy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprinted 1964 by the King and Queen Press, Williamsburg. TV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Enclosure: Sketch of the life of John Millington by Alfred Temple Spanton \"about the year 1908,\" a great grandson of Dr. Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 1. List of marriages and issues. 3 pages. 2. A second list of marriages, children, and subsequent heirs, 1802-1841. 2 pages. 3. \"Copy of writing on back of Bartolozzi picture\" of Mrs. Ruth Millington, mother of Prof. John Millington. C. 4. List of Hills family, born 1872-1891. 1 page. 5. List of places of residence of John Millington from 1803 to 1863. 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Exemption from the payment of duty of Hair Powder Certificates, due to his being a member of the St. James Loyal Volunteers Corps. Signed by Chas. Blackley. Printed Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSworn before the King George III, signed by R. Forester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLicense to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLicense to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Whereof Geoffrey Lord Amherst is Colonel\". Signed by Scott Titchfield (Marquis).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"calling my attention to certain parts of his book \u0026amp;amp; to dine with him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnswer to an enquery regarding the diameters of Jupiter's satellites.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Purchased March, 1968)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the chain cable cause. (Purchased from Ifam Kyle Hatchen, London, January 9, 1951)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the transactions of the Society of Arts, his purchase of \"7 optical models\" and Luminus Conductor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding an order from Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the subject on which Millington planned to discourse at the Royal Institute. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement: \"about not calling\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: a suspension bridge that Millington was appointed to build. (Incomplete).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents An account with John Millington for services rendered in connection with contract and bond for the Mexican Mining Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"about dining with Hook, going to Mexico, etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. hook wishing me to dine with him on Thursday next to meet Porter, etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"pressing me to dine with him on morrow.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"begging to have his American Paddle specific ready by tomorrow.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"inctroducing Mr. Marshall as Engineer to E. London Water Works.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: Dr. Ols. Gregory, saying that \"wo'd undertake the reediting of Cavallo's Treatise of Phil'y for Mr. P. Hoare and Rev. Thos. Racket, the Ex'ors.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"for part of Phil. Transact's let me \u0026amp;amp; asking if going to Mexico.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMillington to Faraday. Re: acceptance of Anglo-Mexican Mining Associates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Material. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsment: \"Mr. Tindal pressing for answer to his letters.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents An introduction for John Millington and his family to Mr. Phelps of Madeira.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor an auction at No. 5 Doughty St.Endorsement: \"J. Millington Going to Mexico.\" Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIssued at Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"passport for the Republic of Mexico.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Chabot to John Millington, Esq. Note about son Tom.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A printed announcement \"Aviso al comercio\" in Guanajuato. Printed material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Gibson to John Millington at Guanajuato. Re: marriage of daughter Emily.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum signed by John Millington and endorsed: \"List of Articles brought away from [caborce] by self and Morcom.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Thomas writes of his school, Emily of shopping for her mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Requesting that they visit her and see their grandchild, Emilita.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement by John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing John Millington, Director of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing John Millington, Commissioner of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Introducing John Millington. Four letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing Professor Millington. Five letters and covers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Introducing Professor Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 2 pieces of equipage from the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Intrducing John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: the situation in Mexico City, then under siege by Santa Ana, and of expected battle between Santa Ana and Bustamente.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Writes of her desire to leave Mexico, but no one dares to leave the City for fear of murder and robbery in the continuing revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement \"Dr. Ma[?]trie's Advertisement.\" Newspaper.E. Note: Dr. M'Murtrie has an advertisement in the last column on the second page in which Millington is mentioned as having constructed the dark closets for the exhibition of his illustrations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, and Millington's request for a strip of Rhodium.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Includes a program by Mr. Power. Endorsement: \"with J. Lett's orders.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Incomplete. Endorsement: \"Autograph of Miss Hughes, a Singer of the London theatres.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of John Millington by Board of Visitors of William and Mary College as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Page, Rector of William and Mary College, to John Millington. Re: election as Professor to William and Mary College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted invitation of students of William and Mary to a ball to be held on February 22.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Date is recorded as 8 mo. 17, 1836. Re: questions in astronomy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents License to serve as a Lay Reader in the Episcopal Church in Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Congratulations on his appointment at the College: he (Faraday) has been at the R.A. for 23 years; a lathe ordered by Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"about Saunder's loan--\u0026amp;amp; his going to England.\" Having bought a copper mine in the Wisconson Territory, he is going to Europe to engage miners.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Dr. J.G. at canonsburg, Jefferson College about my [?] degree in s'd College \u0026amp;amp; his coming to town....\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. John Vaughn inviting me to breakfast with him on morrow morning.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement: \"Judge Tucker at F.S. about my taking Edmund Randolf to Board, etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew requesting me to purchase 2 or 300 $ worth of books for Wm. \u0026amp;amp; Mary College Library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew asking me to take Mr. J. Wright to board.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"about new edition of his Nat. Philosophy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"stating that Jefferson Coll. had conferred M.D. upon me \u0026amp;amp; to appoint some person to receive the diploma.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"saying he had sent 1st vol. of his Phil'y to Dobson for me \u0026amp;amp; with part'-lars of price, etc.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement: \"about repair of stronomical Telescope, Text Books, etc.\" Includes a full discussion of scientific textbooks in use and enquiries about \"Millington's Natural Philosophy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"about shipping me a box of Tin ores, etc.\" Letter states that he will spend \"specimens of most of the minerals found in the U.S.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A deed to property in Tennessee. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsemed: \"to send him copy of my book on Engineering.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsed: \"Prof. Saunders asking of I wished to buy a woman serv't--Ans'd in affirmative.\" Woman was wife to man owned by Saunders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents \"I am sorry your present situation is not agreeable to you...recommend to you to ask for an assistant...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding her students seeing the College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsed: \"Uncle George in his 86th year. The last letter he wrote me.\" Regarding Tom Millington, son of John Millington and his \"Father's wife\" in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account and statement regarding the estate of Peter Aylward, a part of which is to go to \"Millington Trustees.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Indenture for the price of the house and lot in Williamsburg. Signed. C. Separate agreement with Thomas O. Cogbill, Trustee for William H. Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Lease of a house and garden on the north side of the main street of Williamsburg. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents A comparison of the lecture hours of Professor Millington with those of Professor Silliman in Boston. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Bond for portion of the purchase price of property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Deed for property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed by Ruch'd L. Lloyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe writes, \"The Oregon Difficulty has paralysed everything in the way of business....for Fear of war between the two countries.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding inheretance from the will of the late Peter Aylward, deceased in 1840. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"With acc. of the close of Mr. Dew's life.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing a sermon for the funeral of Mr. Letts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing an account sheet. ADrS. Enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the final settlement of the estate of the late Peter Aylward. ADrS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and papers of John Millington record his move to the newly opened University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, 1850, and to the Medical College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1853. From this period came an order for payment for engineering services to the Mississippi Central Railroad, a copy of a medical address pritned in the Memphis Daily Bulletin, and letters from Williamsburg, Virginia, where he still owned a house, 1855-1858. A letter written by John C. Phillips after an eight month exploratory trip to Pike's Peak, colorado, 1861, reviews the mining prospects there; shares of stock from the Aetna Oil Company and the Shafton Coal Company reflect mineral activity in the East. From the war years, 1861-1864, there are many letters from his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship in Richmond, Virginia, and his son, George B. Millington, which tell of the movement of armies, the high prices of civillian goods, etc. The remainder of the letters and papers in this box are from the period of the return of John Millington to live in Philadelphia, 1865, and then to Richmond, Virginia, 1867, until his death on 10 July, 1868. Also included are papers concerned with the settlement of the estate of John Millington, 1868-1892.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing a power of Attorney. ADrS. E.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his account with the company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his business with that firm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding settlement of an estate in England, to which Millington is an heir.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding settlement of an estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Coults and Co. inclosing Bank account to this day.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding transfer of money received for his account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Bishop Green at memphis, saying his was coming to preach at Oxford....\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his accounts in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA promissory note for $105 to Lewis Sharks (Dean). Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding family affairs; copies of the new Illustrated Papers; and his life in Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding an engraving to be made; enclosing a syllabus of the Chemical Institute; he has joined the Sons of Temperance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding shares held by John Millington in the railroad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for payment to John Millington for work for the railroad company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of England from the brother of John Millington's first wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"to say the 20th St. house sold for $5,150 cash \u0026amp;amp; to send the title deeds.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePAM.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom a student at the Memphis Medical College, whose diploma had been withheld until a note was given for money owed on his tuition; including a rumor that the college is soon to close.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; John Millington's move to a new residence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his attempts to rent their furnished house in Williamsburg; news of the people in the town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent with a volume of her poems, and asking for a review of them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for tracts of land in Fayette County, Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the death of her husband. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding her move to her new home in Richmond, and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter to Katie Millington Blakenship describing the hard times and social news. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA bank check.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; endorsement: \"send to Hills.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding her life in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding an eight month trip around Pike's Peak in Colorado prospecting for gold and other minerals; and offering his services to the South in the event of a war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding hope of a war between England and the United States in order to take the pressure off the South; buying blankets and overcoats for Southern soldiers; the formation of the Confederacy under Jefferson Davis; the progress of the war; the defeat of the \"grand army\" in its attempt to take Richmond; concern for his house in Williamsburg; the threat of an attack on Memphis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsement: \"enquiry into state of affairs in Williamsburg, Va....\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding threat of the Federal army at Cairy; hope for a return to peace; the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding her visit to her daughter; 2 bad fires in Memphis; the army that is being formed; high prices. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a business trip made by rail through Manassas, behind the Confederate lines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding inauguration of President Davis on 22 February; hope that the British will lift the blockade and perhaps declare war on the North; the capture of a part of the railroad line by the Northerners; Tennessee Legislature has fled from Nashville to Memphis; hope to return to Williamsburg; then purchase a 220 acre plantation at La Grange, Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for $5,500 in Confederate Notes, for investment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Indenture for 23 acres and a house. Signed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents By flag of truce; Kate's second daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Written to J.M. in Philadelphia. Regarding the high prices in the south--$175 for a pair of shoes; requests an English check for 20 pounds which could be sold in the south for $1,200 to $1,500.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Printed Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the uncertainty of mails; markets will supplied in Richmond where he visited his sister; prices very high there, however; his army pay just about covers his mess account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Printed Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: the handling of some affairs for him. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: the reverses of the confederate Army in the Tennessee Campaign, including the battle of Franklin and of Nashville; and poorly clad and nearly barefood army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePADS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On inspecting their place in la Grange he finds headquarters of the 11th Illinois regiment and 9 families of the 2nd Arkansas regiment in the house, all marble mantels gone, most of the windows broken, and the furniture taken.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Relinquishment of the Bureau of the property at La Grange seized as belonging to Rev'd John N. Waddell\" by John Millington. ADS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the payment of taxes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Deed for house and 23 acres in Fayette County, Tennessee. (See Indenture of 15 October, 1862.) Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutogaphed document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding selling his Williamsburg home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the purchase of John Millington's Williamsburg house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the claim for damage to the property at La Grange, Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding his life in Memphis, and the move of \"Pa and Ma\" (Mr. and Mrs. John Millington) to Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Receipt for payment for half a gallon of whiskey. Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the account of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding an account of his in the name of G.B. Millington, his son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding account in that bank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Business matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Has rented Waddell Place for the year of 1868.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding property in Tennessee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sympathy expressed for the death of her father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the death of their father (John Millington).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the death of \"Ma\" (Mrs. John Millington).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a rehearsal, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding their late father's affairs. ACyS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding court certificates he sent to England in connection with the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Receipts for monies received from R. E. Blankenship, Admin. for John Millington, deceased.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding Titles to the Philadelphia property of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the administration of the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the will of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the payment of dividends to estate of John Millington with enclosures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 1869. Papers connected with the case of Deare vs. Bates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Lettered as exhibits \"A\" through \"M\" in the trial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Letter thanking Professor Henry for items he sent to W\u0026amp;amp;M and comments on Thomas Dew's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains primarly diaries, one notebook and one account book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 12 February-15 April 15 April-13 June 13 June-26 September 25 September-31 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 Januar-16 March 16 March-4 June 5 June-19 August 19 August-26 October 26 October-31 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV 1 January-30 March 30 March-22 June 22 June-18 September 18 September-31 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 2 January-13 April 13 April-7 August 7 August-27 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 January-10 April 11 April-15 July 16 July-24 October 25 October-31 January, 1865\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 February-15 May 15 May-9 August 9 August-31 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 January-20 March 20 March-29 June 2 July-10 October\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAV. 1 January-10 December 9 December-27 December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Millington is noted of Friday, July 10, 1868. 2 books. PAV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e59 pages. TDr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHarriet Blankenship Papers, 1834-1861, and Blankenship Family papers, 1866-1951. Included is correspondence with John Wesley Johnson of Mississippi and George F. Holmes of the University of Virginia regarding the biography of Dr. John Millington. There are letters from Frank and John Blankenship to their mother, Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship, many of which are from Florida and Cuba in the time of the Spanish-American War, 1989-1899. Included is correspondence, 1937, between Mrs. Blankenship and the officers of the Folger Shakespearean Library in Washington regarding the gift of Mrs. Siddon's stage jewelry, which had been given by Dr. Millington to his grandmdaughter; and a 6 page report of the Pearl harbor attack of the December 7, 1941, sent out by Earl M. Thacker of Honolulu.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCover for some of next 14 papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding deeds from Bacon Tate (sic) and Petes (sic).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding our biographical sketch of Dr. John Millington, her father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents On the same subject.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Endorsement: \"Please return to Mrs. K.M. Blankenship...Richmond, Va.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding \"the Blankenship matter.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding dull days and duties in the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a furlough.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding his return from a furlough.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Re: crowded and sickening conditions of the soldiers on the transport ship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a trip from Savannah.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the inaction of the fleet, \"now that the war is over.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding family affairs including the marriage of a sister, Evie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: the enthusiasm of the people of Havana for General Gomex; description of a carnival and that \"battle of the flowers.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: family affairs and the hope that his mother will come to Cuba for a visit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the army's duties in policing the city until a Cuban police force is formed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Enclosure: note on \"Castleford Ware\" signed G[?] B[?]. Enclosure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding information concerning Professor John Millington, father of Mrs. K.M.B. C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the return of the manuscript of the life of Professor John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the value of a book on medals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding a monument to the grandfather of Mrs. Marshall, who had taught Miss Henley's father at William and Mary, probably a reference to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosure: list of particular gifts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding certain prints offered to the Library and a collection of Siddons stage jewelry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of conditions in Honolulu after December 7, 1941 attack by Japanese. Manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppreciation for a playbill sent by Mrs. Blankenship; interest in the stage properties of Mrs. Siddons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnknown recipient. Regarding Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding portrait and miniature owned by Miss Blankenship. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the receipt of the Siddons stage jewelry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppreciation for the presentation of Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry to the library. TOLS. Enclosure: \"Sarah Siddons's stage jewelry,\" a description of this and account of its former ownership by Dr. John Millington. Enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplication blank to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the daughter of Captain R.E. Blankenship, Miss Kate Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDonated by the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotice by his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship. Newspaper clipping\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding a gold snuff box of John Millington left to the College in the will of Frank B. Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding items of interest to the College from the old Blankenship house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNames and addresses of the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Regarding the \"Blankenship Home\" where artifacts relating to Professor John Millington were obtained. Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStating that he has a portrait of John Millington and some books. Enclosed brochure from Valentine Museum, Richmond, on painting of J.M. and mother (see folder V-21).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reference to Ethel Hills, granddaughter of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosing xerox copy of cover and article from Valentine Museum brochure; sent valuable \"Mitchell's Traveller's Guide of the U.S.\" of 1843, with colored map.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Millington, Elizabeth Letts, Sarah Anne Letts (who married J.M.), Robert Moore Blankenship, John Millington Blankenship, Richard F. Morris, Robert Blankenship Morris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents John Millington, Sarah Anne Letts, Mrs. Harriet Blakenship, Robert E. Blankenship, R.M. Blankenship, Annie Blankenship, Kate Blankenship, Sarah Anne Millington, George Beale Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnie Blankenshop, John Millington Blankenship, Mrs. Frances Harrison Blankenship, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship, John M. Blankenship, Mrs. Evie Blankenship Carter, Mrs. Caroline Virginia Gordon, Mrs. Harriet Blankenship, Robert Millington Blankenship, Jr. Newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee John Millington account book of sale of tickets, in Box VI. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper. Announcement of John Millington's appointment to William and Mary College faculty, on page 2.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a list of his acomplishments unrecorded elsewhere. Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents (J.M. owned the house now known as the \"Wythe House\" having lived in it while he was Professor of Natural Philosophy at William and Mary. When he left Williamsburg in 1850, he rented the house out for many years.) Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material. Card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper Clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes an account of the ghost of the house. Newspaper clipping.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The artist who painted the portrait of Mrs. Millington with her son, John Millington, done in London.\" A typed note on the lie of A.K., 1740-1807.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes photograph of the painting on the cover and article on it on page 1. The painting was left to the museum in the will of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Photographs endorsed \"Professor of Chemistry \u0026amp;amp; Toxicology in the Memphis Medical College, Tennessee, 1857.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne has list: McLeod, Walkter, Warwick, Warren, Blankenship, Rutherfoord. Photograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdentified as \"Thomas Millington of London, Eng. Father of John Millington.\" The label behind the original frame also bears the inscription \"Georgie Blackenship, April 192[9]\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes one printed version, taken from the water color by Thomas C. Millington. Printed Material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes biographical notes copied from 'Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors\". Probably the painter of the miniature of John Millington as a boy. Photograph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree cartes de visite found in the trunk of John Millington. Photos are possibly of Bruton Parish Church and Cemetary. Each is about 4 in. x 2.5 in. Good condition with fading.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy William Hamilton. Purchased at Regent Circus, Picadilly, London. 26 pages used.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Prof'r J. Millington, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. Bot in Philadelphia, 1849. 75 cts.\" 3 inches by 5 inches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed, \"Sue fox Album, Richmond, Virginia\". Greetings, poems and the like written to Sue Fox by her friends. 6 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCooking receipts, plus a few pages of newspaper clippings regarding diseases and cures. Approximately 40 pages used. 6 1/2 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Secretaries reporting on meetings of the \"club\" include C.L. Campbell, Irving E. Campbell, A.M. Olcott, R. Massey Noeling, Julian F. Skelton, Egberta Olcott, A.B. Dinwiddie, R.P. Irving, Sue Seddon Weleor, Richard F. Morris, Martha Harrison Christian, George W. McCrury, and Evie Blankenship. Approximately 100 pages used. 7 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGreetings, poems and the like written to Kate Millington by her friends; sketches and colored cards are enclosed and loose. 7 1/2 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"drawn and engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.\" belonging to Georgia Blankenship, Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph Volume. 9 in. by 12 in\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e67 pages used. Loose international postage stamps (circa 1880s-1900s), previously lining selected blank pages in the back of the volume, were removed from the journal and consolidated into a separate enclosure in Box 11. Volume measures 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords and accounts of what appears to have been a children's enterprise. Miss Kate Blankenship was among the contributors of such items as Confederate and English buttons. Approximately 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Millington's first wife was Emily Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton, R.A. Approximately 163 sketches 7 1/2 in. by 9 1/2 in. Parchment binding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 pages used. 6 inches by 8 inches. Parchment binding. Autograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 inches by 8 inches by 2 1/2 inches deep. Photograph Volume.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[RELOCATED TO ARTIFACTS AT 2019C]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApproximately 8 inches in diameter, on stand, overall height 14 inches. Mss Artifact 2011\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph from when it was owned by John Millington, together with the later post card picture of the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragile.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Broken case and daguerreotype image in poor condition, 3.5\" x 4.5\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Metal oval brooch with miniature daguerreotype of John Millington on one side, and a tintype of Mrs. Millington on the other. 1.25\" x 1.5\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 1\" x 1.5\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Painted on plaster, in broken case. 2.5\" x 3.5\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApproximately 100 stereocard photographs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[MOVED TO ARTIFACT COLLECTION 2019C]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Glass plate negatives of photographs circa. 1880s-90s. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Includes individual and group portraits with family, dog, friends, and classmates (Hanover Academy and \"V.M.J. cadets\"). Fragile and heavy box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlass plate negatives from circa 1880s-1890s, with views of streets, buildings, and house interiors. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Fragile and heavy box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndeveloped photographic film, circa 1901, of L.F.B. Blakenship taken while he was in Cuba. Also includes a box in which the film was meant to have been sent to the Eastman Kodak Company to be developed. Film is rolled and is extremely brittle; likely nitrate and thus placed in special storage. Please contact SCRC staff before visiting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box was originally Box 7 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote by John Millington. Re: a Guinea which was presented to him at his baptism (as an infant), then was carried in his pocket \"for above 50 years.\" [1777] Gold Guinea, as described.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScales in leather case, belonging to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpectacles in metal case belonging to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIvory fan, very finely carved, belonging to Emily Hamilton, first wife of John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote with the fan identifying Emily Hamilton as daughter of William Hamilton, English artist who painted portrait of Mrs. Sedden (Siddon), celebrated English actress; her stage jewelry presented to Fulger (Folger) Shakespearean Library, Washington, D.C.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Small leather purse containing 3 \"Conduct\" Awards to J.M. Blankenship from McGuire's School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRound medallion with worked hair design and initial \"B,\" 2 in. diameter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMexican lace known as \"drawn Work,\" owned by Mrs. Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMexican woven purse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous hand-worked cards.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetit point patterns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Mitchell's Travellor's Guide through the United States,\" with colored map in back fold. Endorsed: \"J. Millington, Wmsbg. Virg'a. Bot in Philiadelphia. More full and 9 years more recent than Tanners.\" PV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box was originally Box 8 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGold snuff box in red leather case, Inscribed inside cover, \"This box presented to John Millington, Esq., a Civil Engineer, by a few of the members of the London Mechanics Institute....\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Christie, Secy, London Mechanical Institute, to John Millington, Falmouth, England. Accompanying a gold snuff box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote stating that the snuff box was given to her sons, John M. Blankenship on July 27, 1889, and then to Frank B. Blankenship in April 1929, by Kate Millington Blankenship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThermometer in case belonging to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrafting instruments in wooden case belonging to John Millington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box was originally Box 9 before being rehoused. Contains Mexican figurines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Figurine \"White Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMexican figurine of a monk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Figurine of \"Mexican Black Nun\" endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. Blankenship, Mexico, 1830\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiner figurine endorsed, \"Mrs. R.E. 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Includes diaries covering 1832, 1835, and 1861-1867; letters of his family members; and Blankenship family land records and letters concerning the Spanish-American War.","Several sketches of the life of John Millington, 1779-1868, and genealogical information on the family are to be found here. Papers of John Millington include his commission as an officer in the St. James Loyal Volunteers, London, and certificate for hair powder allowance, 1801; license as attorney under George III, 1802-1804; and his activities as an engineer in constructing a suspension bridge in Buchinghamshire, 1829. The notice of the sale of his effects in London and a passport to Vera Cruz, Mexico, signed by General Santa Ana, 1829, mark the move from England to Mexico, where he was the directing engineer for the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association. Letters of introductions to persons in the United States, 1832, which were taken with him when he left Mexico are included as are printed annoucements of the engineering office which he set up on Philadelphia, 1832. From this period arincluded letters from Michael Faraday of the Royal Institute, London, 1828-1832, and theatre programs from Philadelphia, 1834. Letters and papers from the time that he moved to Williamsburg to become Professor of Chemsistry and Natural Philosophy at the College of William and Mary, 1836-1850, conclude this box. Included is a letter written to Millington by T.R. Dew, President of the College, asking him to buy books for the College Library in Philadelphia Bookshops, 21 September, 1837, and many letters to other Professors of Natural Philosophy (Physics) in the United States, discussing textbooks that were in use at the time.","Typewritten copy.","Scope and Contents In \"William and Mary College Papers\" of the 1939 Survey; folders 16 (1 piece), 50 (2 pieces), 98a (1 piece), 108 (44 pieces), Typewritten copy.","Reprinted 1964 by the King and Queen Press, Williamsburg. TV.","Unsigned.","Unsigned.","Unsigned.","Scope and Contents Enclosure: Sketch of the life of John Millington by Alfred Temple Spanton \"about the year 1908,\" a great grandson of Dr. Millington.","Scope and Contents 1. List of marriages and issues. 3 pages. 2. A second list of marriages, children, and subsequent heirs, 1802-1841. 2 pages. 3. \"Copy of writing on back of Bartolozzi picture\" of Mrs. Ruth Millington, mother of Prof. John Millington. C. 4. List of Hills family, born 1872-1891. 1 page. 5. List of places of residence of John Millington from 1803 to 1863. 1 page.","Scope and Contents Exemption from the payment of duty of Hair Powder Certificates, due to his being a member of the St. James Loyal Volunteers Corps. Signed by Chas. Blackley. Printed Signed.","Sworn before the King George III, signed by R. Forester.","License to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.","License to practice as an Attorney and Solicitor for one year. Signed by Samuel Hill.","\"Whereof Geoffrey Lord Amherst is Colonel\". Signed by Scott Titchfield (Marquis).","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"calling my attention to certain parts of his book \u0026amp; to dine with him.\"","Answer to an enquery regarding the diameters of Jupiter's satellites.","(Purchased March, 1968)","Concerning the chain cable cause. (Purchased from Ifam Kyle Hatchen, London, January 9, 1951)","Scope and Contents Regarding the transactions of the Society of Arts, his purchase of \"7 optical models\" and Luminus Conductor.","Scope and Contents Regarding an order from Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the subject on which Millington planned to discourse at the Royal Institute. Card.","Endorsement: \"about not calling\".","Scope and Contents Re: a suspension bridge that Millington was appointed to build. (Incomplete).","Scope and Contents An account with John Millington for services rendered in connection with contract and bond for the Mexican Mining Co.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about dining with Hook, going to Mexico, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. hook wishing me to dine with him on Thursday next to meet Porter, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"pressing me to dine with him on morrow.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"begging to have his American Paddle specific ready by tomorrow.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"inctroducing Mr. Marshall as Engineer to E. London Water Works.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: Dr. Ols. Gregory, saying that \"wo'd undertake the reediting of Cavallo's Treatise of Phil'y for Mr. P. Hoare and Rev. Thos. Racket, the Ex'ors.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"for part of Phil. Transact's let me \u0026amp; asking if going to Mexico.\"","Millington to Faraday. Re: acceptance of Anglo-Mexican Mining Associates.","Printed Material. Card.","Scope and Contents Endorsment: \"Mr. Tindal pressing for answer to his letters.\"","Scope and Contents An introduction for John Millington and his family to Mr. Phelps of Madeira.","For an auction at No. 5 Doughty St.Endorsement: \"J. Millington Going to Mexico.\" Printed Material.","Issued at Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"passport for the Republic of Mexico.\"","James Chabot to John Millington, Esq. Note about son Tom.","Scope and Contents A printed announcement \"Aviso al comercio\" in Guanajuato. Printed material.","Sarah Gibson to John Millington at Guanajuato. Re: marriage of daughter Emily.","Memorandum signed by John Millington and endorsed: \"List of Articles brought away from [caborce] by self and Morcom.","Scope and Contents Thomas writes of his school, Emily of shopping for her mother.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Requesting that they visit her and see their grandchild, Emilita.","Endorsement by John Millington.","Introducing John Millington, Director of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.","Introducing John Millington, Commissioner of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Assn. who plans to settle in Philadelphia.","Scope and Contents Introducing John Millington. Four letters.","Introducing John Millington.","Introducing Professor Millington. Five letters and covers.","Scope and Contents Introducing Professor Millington.","Includes 2 pieces of equipage from the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. PADS.","Scope and Contents Intrducing John Millington.","Scope and Contents Re: the situation in Mexico City, then under siege by Santa Ana, and of expected battle between Santa Ana and Bustamente.","Scope and Contents Writes of her desire to leave Mexico, but no one dares to leave the City for fear of murder and robbery in the continuing revolution.","Endorsement \"Dr. Ma[?]trie's Advertisement.\" Newspaper.E. Note: Dr. M'Murtrie has an advertisement in the last column on the second page in which Millington is mentioned as having constructed the dark closets for the exhibition of his illustrations.","Scope and Contents Re: a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, and Millington's request for a strip of Rhodium.","Printed Material.","Printed Material.","Scope and Contents Includes a program by Mr. Power. Endorsement: \"with J. Lett's orders.\"","Scope and Contents Incomplete. Endorsement: \"Autograph of Miss Hughes, a Singer of the London theatres.\"","Appointment of John Millington by Board of Visitors of William and Mary College as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry.","J. Page, Rector of William and Mary College, to John Millington. Re: election as Professor to William and Mary College.","Printed invitation of students of William and Mary to a ball to be held on February 22.","Scope and Contents Date is recorded as 8 mo. 17, 1836. Re: questions in astronomy.","Scope and Contents License to serve as a Lay Reader in the Episcopal Church in Williamsburg.","Scope and Contents Congratulations on his appointment at the College: he (Faraday) has been at the R.A. for 23 years; a lathe ordered by Millington.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about Saunder's loan--\u0026amp; his going to England.\" Having bought a copper mine in the Wisconson Territory, he is going to Europe to engage miners.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Dr. J.G. at canonsburg, Jefferson College about my [?] degree in s'd College \u0026amp; his coming to town....\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. John Vaughn inviting me to breakfast with him on morrow morning.\"","Endorsement: \"Judge Tucker at F.S. about my taking Edmund Randolf to Board, etc.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew requesting me to purchase 2 or 300 $ worth of books for Wm. \u0026amp; Mary College Library.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Mr. Dew asking me to take Mr. J. Wright to board.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about new edition of his Nat. Philosophy.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"stating that Jefferson Coll. had conferred M.D. upon me \u0026amp; to appoint some person to receive the diploma.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"saying he had sent 1st vol. of his Phil'y to Dobson for me \u0026amp; with part'-lars of price, etc.\"","Endorsement: \"about repair of stronomical Telescope, Text Books, etc.\" Includes a full discussion of scientific textbooks in use and enquiries about \"Millington's Natural Philosophy.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"about shipping me a box of Tin ores, etc.\" Letter states that he will spend \"specimens of most of the minerals found in the U.S.\"","Scope and Contents A deed to property in Tennessee. Signed.","Scope and Contents Endorsemed: \"to send him copy of my book on Engineering.\"","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Prof. Saunders asking of I wished to buy a woman serv't--Ans'd in affirmative.\" Woman was wife to man owned by Saunders.","Scope and Contents \"I am sorry your present situation is not agreeable to you...recommend to you to ask for an assistant...\"","Scope and Contents Regarding her students seeing the College.","Scope and Contents Endorsed: \"Uncle George in his 86th year. The last letter he wrote me.\" Regarding Tom Millington, son of John Millington and his \"Father's wife\" in England.","An account and statement regarding the estate of Peter Aylward, a part of which is to go to \"Millington Trustees.\"","Scope and Contents Indenture for the price of the house and lot in Williamsburg. Signed. C. Separate agreement with Thomas O. Cogbill, Trustee for William H. Lee.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Lease of a house and garden on the north side of the main street of Williamsburg. Signed.","Scope and Contents A comparison of the lecture hours of Professor Millington with those of Professor Silliman in Boston. Signed.","Scope and Contents Bond for portion of the purchase price of property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.","Scope and Contents Deed for property in Williamsburg, Virginia. Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed by Ruch'd L. Lloyd.","He writes, \"The Oregon Difficulty has paralysed everything in the way of business....for Fear of war between the two countries.\"","Regarding inheretance from the will of the late Peter Aylward, deceased in 1840. Card.","Endorsed: \"With acc. of the close of Mr. Dew's life.\"","Enclosing a sermon for the funeral of Mr. Letts.","Enclosing an account sheet. ADrS. Enclosed.","Regarding the final settlement of the estate of the late Peter Aylward. ADrS.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Letters and papers of John Millington record his move to the newly opened University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, 1850, and to the Medical College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1853. From this period came an order for payment for engineering services to the Mississippi Central Railroad, a copy of a medical address pritned in the Memphis Daily Bulletin, and letters from Williamsburg, Virginia, where he still owned a house, 1855-1858. A letter written by John C. Phillips after an eight month exploratory trip to Pike's Peak, colorado, 1861, reviews the mining prospects there; shares of stock from the Aetna Oil Company and the Shafton Coal Company reflect mineral activity in the East. From the war years, 1861-1864, there are many letters from his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship in Richmond, Virginia, and his son, George B. Millington, which tell of the movement of armies, the high prices of civillian goods, etc. The remainder of the letters and papers in this box are from the period of the return of John Millington to live in Philadelphia, 1865, and then to Richmond, Virginia, 1867, until his death on 10 July, 1868. Also included are papers concerned with the settlement of the estate of John Millington, 1868-1892.","Enclosing a power of Attorney. ADrS. E.","Regarding his account with the company.","Regarding his business with that firm.","Regarding settlement of an estate in England, to which Millington is an heir.","Regarding settlement of an estate.","Endorsed: \"Coults and Co. inclosing Bank account to this day.\"","Regarding transfer of money received for his account.","Endorsed: \"Bishop Green at memphis, saying his was coming to preach at Oxford....\"","Regarding his accounts in England.","A promissory note for $105 to Lewis Sharks (Dean). Card.","Regarding family affairs; copies of the new Illustrated Papers; and his life in Philadelphia.","Regarding an engraving to be made; enclosing a syllabus of the Chemical Institute; he has joined the Sons of Temperance.","Regarding shares held by John Millington in the railroad.","Order for payment to John Millington for work for the railroad company.","News of England from the brother of John Millington's first wife.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"to say the 20th St. house sold for $5,150 cash \u0026amp; to send the title deeds.\"","PAM.","From a student at the Memphis Medical College, whose diploma had been withheld until a note was given for money owed on his tuition; including a rumor that the college is soon to close.","Family news; John Millington's move to a new residence.","Regarding his attempts to rent their furnished house in Williamsburg; news of the people in the town.","Sent with a volume of her poems, and asking for a review of them.","Deed for tracts of land in Fayette County, Tennessee.","Regarding the death of her husband. Card.","Scope and Contents Regarding her move to her new home in Richmond, and family news.","Letter to Katie Millington Blakenship describing the hard times and social news. Card.","A bank check.","Family news; endorsement: \"send to Hills.\"","Regarding her life in England.","Regarding an eight month trip around Pike's Peak in Colorado prospecting for gold and other minerals; and offering his services to the South in the event of a war.","Scope and Contents Regarding hope of a war between England and the United States in order to take the pressure off the South; buying blankets and overcoats for Southern soldiers; the formation of the Confederacy under Jefferson Davis; the progress of the war; the defeat of the \"grand army\" in its attempt to take Richmond; concern for his house in Williamsburg; the threat of an attack on Memphis.","Endorsement: \"enquiry into state of affairs in Williamsburg, Va....\"","Regarding threat of the Federal army at Cairy; hope for a return to peace; the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Blankenship.","Regarding her visit to her daughter; 2 bad fires in Memphis; the army that is being formed; high prices. Card.","Scope and Contents Regarding a business trip made by rail through Manassas, behind the Confederate lines.","Scope and Contents Regarding inauguration of President Davis on 22 February; hope that the British will lift the blockade and perhaps declare war on the North; the capture of a part of the railroad line by the Northerners; Tennessee Legislature has fled from Nashville to Memphis; hope to return to Williamsburg; then purchase a 220 acre plantation at La Grange, Tennessee.","Receipt for $5,500 in Confederate Notes, for investment.","Scope and Contents Indenture for 23 acres and a house. Signed","Printed Material.","Scope and Contents By flag of truce; Kate's second daughter.","Scope and Contents Written to J.M. in Philadelphia. Regarding the high prices in the south--$175 for a pair of shoes; requests an English check for 20 pounds which could be sold in the south for $1,200 to $1,500.","Scope and Contents Printed Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the uncertainty of mails; markets will supplied in Richmond where he visited his sister; prices very high there, however; his army pay just about covers his mess account.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Printed Signed.","Scope and Contents Re: the handling of some affairs for him. Card.","Scope and Contents Re: the reverses of the confederate Army in the Tennessee Campaign, including the battle of Franklin and of Nashville; and poorly clad and nearly barefood army.","Newspaper clipping.","Newspaper clipping.","PADS.","Scope and Contents On inspecting their place in la Grange he finds headquarters of the 11th Illinois regiment and 9 families of the 2nd Arkansas regiment in the house, all marble mantels gone, most of the windows broken, and the furniture taken.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Relinquishment of the Bureau of the property at La Grange seized as belonging to Rev'd John N. Waddell\" by John Millington. ADS.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the payment of taxes.","Scope and Contents Deed for house and 23 acres in Fayette County, Tennessee. (See Indenture of 15 October, 1862.) Signed.","Autogaphed document.","Scope and Contents Regarding selling his Williamsburg home.","Scope and Contents Regarding the purchase of John Millington's Williamsburg house.","Scope and Contents Regarding the claim for damage to the property at La Grange, Tennessee.","Scope and Contents Regarding his life in Memphis, and the move of \"Pa and Ma\" (Mr. and Mrs. John Millington) to Richmond.","Scope and Contents Receipt for payment for half a gallon of whiskey. Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding the account of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding an account of his in the name of G.B. Millington, his son.","Scope and Contents Regarding account in that bank.","Scope and Contents Business matters.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Has rented Waddell Place for the year of 1868.\"","Regarding property in Tennessee.","Scope and Contents Sympathy expressed for the death of her father.","Regarding the death of their father (John Millington).","Scope and Contents Regarding the death of \"Ma\" (Mrs. John Millington).","Scope and Contents Regarding a rehearsal, etc.","Scope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.","Regarding their late father's affairs. ACyS.","Scope and Contents Regarding court certificates he sent to England in connection with the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the settlement of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Receipts for monies received from R. E. Blankenship, Admin. for John Millington, deceased.","Scope and Contents Regarding Titles to the Philadelphia property of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the administration of the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the estate of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the will of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the payment of dividends to estate of John Millington with enclosures.","Scope and Contents 1869. Papers connected with the case of Deare vs. Bates.","Scope and Contents Lettered as exhibits \"A\" through \"M\" in the trial.","Scope and Contents Letter thanking Professor Henry for items he sent to W\u0026amp;M and comments on Thomas Dew's death.","Newspaper clipping.","Contains primarly diaries, one notebook and one account book.","AV.","AV.","AV. 12 February-15 April 15 April-13 June 13 June-26 September 25 September-31 December","AV. 1 Januar-16 March 16 March-4 June 5 June-19 August 19 August-26 October 26 October-31 December","AV 1 January-30 March 30 March-22 June 22 June-18 September 18 September-31 December","AV.","AV. 2 January-13 April 13 April-7 August 7 August-27 December","AV. 1 January-10 April 11 April-15 July 16 July-24 October 25 October-31 January, 1865","AV. 1 February-15 May 15 May-9 August 9 August-31 December","AV. 1 January-20 March 20 March-29 June 2 July-10 October","AV. 1 January-10 December 9 December-27 December","Death of Millington is noted of Friday, July 10, 1868. 2 books. PAV.","59 pages. TDr.","Harriet Blankenship Papers, 1834-1861, and Blankenship Family papers, 1866-1951. Included is correspondence with John Wesley Johnson of Mississippi and George F. Holmes of the University of Virginia regarding the biography of Dr. John Millington. There are letters from Frank and John Blankenship to their mother, Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship, many of which are from Florida and Cuba in the time of the Spanish-American War, 1989-1899. Included is correspondence, 1937, between Mrs. Blankenship and the officers of the Folger Shakespearean Library in Washington regarding the gift of Mrs. Siddon's stage jewelry, which had been given by Dr. Millington to his grandmdaughter; and a 6 page report of the Pearl harbor attack of the December 7, 1941, sent out by Earl M. Thacker of Honolulu.","Cover for some of next 14 papers.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Signed.","Scope and Contents Regarding deeds from Bacon Tate (sic) and Petes (sic).","Scope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.","Scope and Contents Regarding the biographical sketch of her father, Dr. John Millington.","Regarding our biographical sketch of Dr. John Millington, her father.","Scope and Contents On the same subject.","Scope and Contents Endorsement: \"Please return to Mrs. K.M. Blankenship...Richmond, Va.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding \"the Blankenship matter.\"","Scope and Contents Regarding dull days and duties in the army.","Scope and Contents Regarding a furlough.","Scope and Contents Regarding his return from a furlough.","Scope and Contents Re: crowded and sickening conditions of the soldiers on the transport ship.","Scope and Contents Regarding a trip from Savannah.","Scope and Contents Regarding the inaction of the fleet, \"now that the war is over.\"","Newspaper clipping.","Scope and Contents Regarding family affairs including the marriage of a sister, Evie.","Scope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: the enthusiasm of the people of Havana for General Gomex; description of a carnival and that \"battle of the flowers.\"","Scope and Contents Frank Blankenship to Mrs. Kate M. Blankenship. Re: family affairs and the hope that his mother will come to Cuba for a visit.","Scope and Contents Regarding the army's duties in policing the city until a Cuban police force is formed.","Scope and Contents Enclosure: note on \"Castleford Ware\" signed G[?] B[?]. Enclosure.","Scope and Contents Regarding information concerning Professor John Millington, father of Mrs. K.M.B. C.","Scope and Contents Regarding the return of the manuscript of the life of Professor John Millington.","Regarding the value of a book on medals.","Scope and Contents Regarding a monument to the grandfather of Mrs. Marshall, who had taught Miss Henley's father at William and Mary, probably a reference to John Millington.","Enclosure: list of particular gifts.","Regarding certain prints offered to the Library and a collection of Siddons stage jewelry.","Report of conditions in Honolulu after December 7, 1941 attack by Japanese. Manuscript.","Appreciation for a playbill sent by Mrs. Blankenship; interest in the stage properties of Mrs. Siddons.","Unknown recipient. Regarding Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry.","Regarding portrait and miniature owned by Miss Blankenship. Card.","Regarding the receipt of the Siddons stage jewelry.","Appreciation for the presentation of Mrs. Siddons' stage jewelry to the library. TOLS. Enclosure: \"Sarah Siddons's stage jewelry,\" a description of this and account of its former ownership by Dr. John Millington. Enclosed.","Newspaper clipping.","Application blank to the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the daughter of Captain R.E. Blankenship, Miss Kate Blankenship.","Printed material.","Donated by the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.","Notice by his daughter, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship. Newspaper clipping","Regarding a gold snuff box of John Millington left to the College in the will of Frank B. Blankenship.","Regarding items of interest to the College from the old Blankenship house.","Names and addresses of the heirs of Frank B. Blankenship.","Scope and Contents Regarding the \"Blankenship Home\" where artifacts relating to Professor John Millington were obtained. Newspaper clipping.","Stating that he has a portrait of John Millington and some books. Enclosed brochure from Valentine Museum, Richmond, on painting of J.M. and mother (see folder V-21).","Scope and Contents Reference to Ethel Hills, granddaughter of John Millington.","Enclosing xerox copy of cover and article from Valentine Museum brochure; sent valuable \"Mitchell's Traveller's Guide of the U.S.\" of 1843, with colored map.","Scope and Contents John Millington, Elizabeth Letts, Sarah Anne Letts (who married J.M.), Robert Moore Blankenship, John Millington Blankenship, Richard F. Morris, Robert Blankenship Morris.","Scope and Contents John Millington, Sarah Anne Letts, Mrs. Harriet Blakenship, Robert E. Blankenship, R.M. Blankenship, Annie Blankenship, Kate Blankenship, Sarah Anne Millington, George Beale Millington.","Annie Blankenshop, John Millington Blankenship, Mrs. Frances Harrison Blankenship, Mrs. Kate Millington Blankenship, John M. Blankenship, Mrs. Evie Blankenship Carter, Mrs. Caroline Virginia Gordon, Mrs. Harriet Blankenship, Robert Millington Blankenship, Jr. Newspaper clippings.","See John Millington account book of sale of tickets, in Box VI. Printed Material.","Newspaper. Announcement of John Millington's appointment to William and Mary College faculty, on page 2.","Included is a list of his acomplishments unrecorded elsewhere. Newspaper clipping.","Newspaper clipping","Scope and Contents (J.M. owned the house now known as the \"Wythe House\" having lived in it while he was Professor of Natural Philosophy at William and Mary. When he left Williamsburg in 1850, he rented the house out for many years.) Newspaper clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material. Card.","Newspaper clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material.","Newspaper Clipping.","Printed material.","Printed material.","Includes an account of the ghost of the house. Newspaper clipping.","3 photographs.","\"The artist who painted the portrait of Mrs. Millington with her son, John Millington, done in London.\" A typed note on the lie of A.K., 1740-1807.","Includes photograph of the painting on the cover and article on it on page 1. The painting was left to the museum in the will of Frank B. Blankenship, grandson of John Millington.","Scope and Contents Photographs endorsed \"Professor of Chemistry \u0026amp; Toxicology in the Memphis Medical College, Tennessee, 1857.\"","Photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photographs.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","One has list: McLeod, Walkter, Warwick, Warren, Blankenship, Rutherfoord. Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Photograph.","Identified as \"Thomas Millington of London, Eng. Father of John Millington.\" The label behind the original frame also bears the inscription \"Georgie Blackenship, April 192[9]\"","Includes one printed version, taken from the water color by Thomas C. Millington. Printed Material.","Photograph.","Includes biographical notes copied from 'Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors\". Probably the painter of the miniature of John Millington as a boy. Photograph.","Three cartes de visite found in the trunk of John Millington. Photos are possibly of Bruton Parish Church and Cemetary. Each is about 4 in. x 2.5 in. Good condition with fading.","By William Hamilton. Purchased at Regent Circus, Picadilly, London. 26 pages used.","\"Prof'r J. Millington, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. Bot in Philadelphia, 1849. 75 cts.\" 3 inches by 5 inches.","Endorsed, \"Sue fox Album, Richmond, Virginia\". Greetings, poems and the like written to Sue Fox by her friends. 6 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.","Cooking receipts, plus a few pages of newspaper clippings regarding diseases and cures. Approximately 40 pages used. 6 1/2 inches by 8 inches. Autograph Volume.","Scope and Contents Secretaries reporting on meetings of the \"club\" include C.L. Campbell, Irving E. Campbell, A.M. Olcott, R. Massey Noeling, Julian F. Skelton, Egberta Olcott, A.B. Dinwiddie, R.P. Irving, Sue Seddon Weleor, Richard F. Morris, Martha Harrison Christian, George W. McCrury, and Evie Blankenship. Approximately 100 pages used. 7 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.","Greetings, poems and the like written to Kate Millington by her friends; sketches and colored cards are enclosed and loose. 7 1/2 inches by 8 1/2 inches. Autograph Volume.","Endorsed: \"drawn and engraved by F. Bartolozzi, R.A.\" belonging to Georgia Blankenship, Richmond.","Photograph Volume. 9 in. by 12 in","67 pages used. Loose international postage stamps (circa 1880s-1900s), previously lining selected blank pages in the back of the volume, were removed from the journal and consolidated into a separate enclosure in Box 11. Volume measures 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.","Records and accounts of what appears to have been a children's enterprise. Miss Kate Blankenship was among the contributors of such items as Confederate and English buttons. Approximately 6 inches by 15 inches. Autograph Volume.","John Millington's first wife was Emily Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton, R.A. Approximately 163 sketches 7 1/2 in. by 9 1/2 in. Parchment binding.","13 pages used. 6 inches by 8 inches. Parchment binding. Autograph Volume.","7 inches by 8 inches by 2 1/2 inches deep. Photograph Volume.","[RELOCATED TO ARTIFACTS AT 2019C]","Approximately 8 inches in diameter, on stand, overall height 14 inches. Mss Artifact 2011","Photograph from when it was owned by John Millington, together with the later post card picture of the house.","Fragile.","Scope and Contents Broken case and daguerreotype image in poor condition, 3.5\" x 4.5\"","Scope and Contents Metal oval brooch with miniature daguerreotype of John Millington on one side, and a tintype of Mrs. Millington on the other. 1.25\" x 1.5\"","Scope and Contents 1\" x 1.5\"","Scope and Contents Painted on plaster, in broken case. 2.5\" x 3.5\"","Approximately 100 stereocard photographs","[MOVED TO ARTIFACT COLLECTION 2019C]","Scope and Contents Glass plate negatives of photographs circa. 1880s-90s. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Includes individual and group portraits with family, dog, friends, and classmates (Hanover Academy and \"V.M.J. cadets\"). Fragile and heavy box.","Glass plate negatives from circa 1880s-1890s, with views of streets, buildings, and house interiors. When separated from their original envelopes for preservation concerns, a photocopy of the descriptive label is attached. Fragile and heavy box.","Undeveloped photographic film, circa 1901, of L.F.B. Blakenship taken while he was in Cuba. Also includes a box in which the film was meant to have been sent to the Eastman Kodak Company to be developed. Film is rolled and is extremely brittle; likely nitrate and thus placed in special storage. Please contact SCRC staff before visiting.","This box was originally Box 7 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.","Note by John Millington. Re: a Guinea which was presented to him at his baptism (as an infant), then was carried in his pocket \"for above 50 years.\" [1777] Gold Guinea, as described.","Scales in leather case, belonging to John Millington.","Spectacles in metal case belonging to John Millington.","Ivory fan, very finely carved, belonging to Emily Hamilton, first wife of John Millington.","Note with the fan identifying Emily Hamilton as daughter of William Hamilton, English artist who painted portrait of Mrs. Sedden (Siddon), celebrated English actress; her stage jewelry presented to Fulger (Folger) Shakespearean Library, Washington, D.C.","Scope and Contents Small leather purse containing 3 \"Conduct\" Awards to J.M. Blankenship from McGuire's School.","Round medallion with worked hair design and initial \"B,\" 2 in. diameter.","Mexican lace known as \"drawn Work,\" owned by Mrs. Blankenship.","Mexican woven purse.","Miscellaneous hand-worked cards.","Petit point patterns.","\"Mitchell's Travellor's Guide through the United States,\" with colored map in back fold. Endorsed: \"J. Millington, Wmsbg. Virg'a. Bot in Philiadelphia. More full and 9 years more recent than Tanners.\" PV.","This box was originally Box 8 before being rehoused and contains artifacts that were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection, Mss. 1.03. The box will be deleted once they have been described in the Manuscripts Artifact Collection.","Gold snuff box in red leather case, Inscribed inside cover, \"This box presented to John Millington, Esq., a Civil Engineer, by a few of the members of the London Mechanics Institute....\"","Robert Christie, Secy, London Mechanical Institute, to John Millington, Falmouth, England. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","v. 1 (Ad 156), 1782-1806, 185 p., Ledger of William H. Macon of Hanover County, Virginia. Also used as a scrapbook for newspaper clippings."," v. 2. (Ad 157), 1807-1837, 273 p., Ledger of Wililam H. Macon of Hanover County. 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Within the folder, items are arranged in chronological order with non-dated items at the end.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement of Materials:"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is arranged into three series, each housed in their own folder. Within the folder, items are arranged in chronological order with non-dated items at the end."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eInformation about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: \u003cextref href=\"http://scdbwiki.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Hannah_M._Gibbons\" title=\"Hannah M. Gibbons\"\u003e\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information:"],"bioghist_tesim":["Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki:  ."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMary and Hannah Gibbons Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Mary and Hannah Gibbons Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1793-1890, of sisters and Quaker educators, Mary and Hannah Gibbons. A small number of papers are directly related to their brother, Joseph Gibbons. Correspondence predominantly discusses relatives, friends, travels, and religious sentiments. The second series of items is family and personal papers, consisting of poems, copied scripture, drug prescriptions, and family records. The papers relating to the Infant School established by Mary and Hannah Gibbons make up the third series and include student work, account books, and promotional pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePredominantly contains correspondence to either Mary or Hannah Gibbons. However, four letters are to their brother Joseph Gibbons, one of which written by Mary and Hannah. The subject of correspondence ranged over various topics, though most concern updates on family and friends, illnesses, books read, weather, farming, land division, rents, work, charity work, and discussions of travels. Religious discussion is also present, as well as business letters. Mentions steamboat accident on Lake Erie and the publishing of J. Gibbons mountain travels in the Inquirer.  One letter from Granite Hill mentions a book on slavery, teaching theories and \"civilized\" American Indians. These letters give much insight into the everyday lives of a group of Quakers during the nineteenth century, and in particular the lives of Quaker women.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains various family material including recipes, prescriptions, poems, and business documents. Specific items include recipes for rheumatism and food; a possible gift list with names; loan documents between Joshua Robinson and Ruth Jays; plan for a \"drained meadow\" belonging to Clement Plumstead; Baldwin Family notes beginning with John and Hannah Baldwin of Chester, Pennsylvania; and more.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries contains papers, notebooks, flyers, student work, and various other materials relating to the Infant School started by Mary and Hannah Gibbons. This series illustrates several aspects of running of a grammar school, and the subjects studied by the students.  Some specific items include a $20 check for one quarter's tuition; flyers for the school; account with \"Kimber \u0026amp; Sharples\" a Bible publishing company; and school papers and notes on math, history and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1793-1890, of sisters and Quaker educators, Mary and Hannah Gibbons. A small number of papers are directly related to their brother, Joseph Gibbons. Correspondence predominantly discusses relatives, friends, travels, and religious sentiments. The second series of items is family and personal papers, consisting of poems, copied scripture, drug prescriptions, and family records. The papers relating to the Infant School established by Mary and Hannah Gibbons make up the third series and include student work, account books, and promotional pieces.","Predominantly contains correspondence to either Mary or Hannah Gibbons. However, four letters are to their brother Joseph Gibbons, one of which written by Mary and Hannah. The subject of correspondence ranged over various topics, though most concern updates on family and friends, illnesses, books read, weather, farming, land division, rents, work, charity work, and discussions of travels. Religious discussion is also present, as well as business letters. Mentions steamboat accident on Lake Erie and the publishing of J. Gibbons mountain travels in the Inquirer.  One letter from Granite Hill mentions a book on slavery, teaching theories and \"civilized\" American Indians. These letters give much insight into the everyday lives of a group of Quakers during the nineteenth century, and in particular the lives of Quaker women.","This series contains various family material including recipes, prescriptions, poems, and business documents. Specific items include recipes for rheumatism and food; a possible gift list with names; loan documents between Joshua Robinson and Ruth Jays; plan for a \"drained meadow\" belonging to Clement Plumstead; Baldwin Family notes beginning with John and Hannah Baldwin of Chester, Pennsylvania; and more.","Series contains papers, notebooks, flyers, student work, and various other materials relating to the Infant School started by Mary and Hannah Gibbons. This series illustrates several aspects of running of a grammar school, and the subjects studied by the students.  Some specific items include a $20 check for one quarter's tuition; flyers for the school; account with \"Kimber \u0026 Sharples\" a Bible publishing company; and school papers and notes on math, history and other subjects."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Gibbons, Mary P.","Gibbons, Hannah M."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"famname_ssim":["Gibbons, Mary P."],"persname_ssim":["Gibbons, Hannah M."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":3,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-20T22:44:18.559Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_1027"}},{"id":"vifgm_repositories_2_resources_330","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Mason family manuscript account book","creator":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vifgm_repositories_2_resources_330#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Mason, Armistead Thomson, 1787-1819","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vifgm_repositories_2_resources_330#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Manuscript account book documenting the business, professional, family, and personal accounts of Stevens Thomson Mason (1760-1803) and Armistead Thomson Mason (1787-1819). The account book includes records of the people they enslaved, on whom their finances and wealth depended. The two men were father and son and the nephew and grandnephew of George Mason IV, the namesake of George Mason University.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vifgm_repositories_2_resources_330#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vifgm_repositories_2_resources_330","ead_ssi":"vifgm_repositories_2_resources_330","_root_":"vifgm_repositories_2_resources_330","_nest_parent_":"vifgm_repositories_2_resources_330","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/GMU/repositories_2_resources_330.xml","title_ssm":["Mason family manuscript account book"],"title_tesim":["Mason family manuscript account book"],"unitdate_ssm":["1792-1820"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1792-1820"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["C0214","/repositories/2/resources/330"],"text":["C0214","/repositories/2/resources/330","Mason family manuscript account book","Virginia","Northern Virginia","Virginia, Northern","Virginia, Northern -- History","Agriculture -- Virginia","Plantations -- Virginia","Slavery -- United States","Account books","Manuscripts","There are no access restrictions.","A digital version of the account book is available  .","The account book is organized chronologically with an index of names in the first part of the book.","Bracey, Alexis. \"Family Connections to the Slave Trade.\"  Enslaved Children of George Mason . Accessed April 22, 2022. https://ecgm.omeka.net/exhibits/show/family-connections-to-the-slav/family-connections-to-the-slav","Loudoun County Clerk of the Circuit Court Historic Records and Deed Research, \"Enslaved Issues: Fiduciary References,\" accessed April 23, 2022. https://lfportal.loudoun.gov/LFPortalInternet/0/edoc/549076/Slave%20Issues%20Fiduciary%20References%20formatted%20for%20website.pdf.","Raspberry Plain Manor. \"Raspberry Plain Manor History.\" Accessed April 22, 2022. https://www.raspberryplainmanor.com/history","Selma Mansion. \"Families of Selma.\" Accessed April 22, 2022. https://selmamansionrebirth.com/selma-in-history/families-of-selma/","Stevens Thomson Mason (1760-1803) was the nephew of George Mason IV, the George Mason University namesake.  As highlighted by the Enslaved Children of George Mason project, Stevens's father, Thomson Mason, was an active participant in the trade of enslaved people kidnapped from West Africa (Alexis Bracey, \"Family Connections to the Slave Trade\"). Stevens Mason inherited Raspberry Plain Farm, from his father in 1785 (Raspberry Plain Manor, \"Raspberry Plain Manor History\"). According to the Loudoun County Clerk of the Circuit Court Historic Records and Deed Research, Mason enslaved 69 people listed in his will at the time of his death in 1803 (Loudoun County Clerk of the Circuit Court Historic Records And Deeds Research, \"Enslaved Issues: Fiduciary References\"). Mason served as a colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, an aide to General George Washington at the Battle of Yorktown, and a Republican Senator from Virginia (1794-1803), succeeding James Monroe.  He was a delegate to the Virginia ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788, and a graduate of William and Mary College.  ","Armistead Thomson Mason (1787-1819) was the son of Stevens Thomson Mason and a grandnephew of George Mason IV. He was given land that had been part of Raspberry Plain Farm in 1808, on which he built Selma (Selma Mansion, \"Families of Selma\"). At his death in 1819, he enslaved 71 people who were listed in his will (Loudoun County Clerk of the Circuit Court Historic Records and Deed Research, \"Enslaved Issues: Fiduciary References\"). He served as a United States Senator from Virginia (1816-1817), and he also graduated from William and Mary College. He was appointed to Brigadier General of the Virginia Militia during the War of 1812. He was killed by his cousin, John M. McCarty, in an infamous duel over a disputed election.","L \u0026 T Respess purchased the  account book  from  a bookseller in Boston  who  had (at the time of their purchase, in 2010) acquired it from  one of his regular scouts, at a local (i.e., somewhere in New England) estate sale.","The book itself has ownership notes  inside the  front cover: \"This  book, once  the property of Carlton  Shafer, is given to  A. Piatt  Andrew  by his cousin and friend, Sara Andrew  Shafer, March  1910.    Her husband's name  [i.e. Carlton Shafer] will always  be remembered as Cadet Captain of Co. B. Virginia Military Institute,\nLexington Virginia, 1861-1864 -- which  he commanded at the  Battle of New Market, May 15th  1864, the only  battle recorded in history which was won by school boys.\"","Shafer  was born  in 1844 near  Leesburg, Virginia, which  is in Loudoun County, location of the  farm  documented by the  account  book.","Processed in July 2012 by Jordan Patty. Abstract, Biographical Note, Scope and Content, and Bibliography edited/added by Elizabeth Beckman in April 2022. EAD markup completed in 2012 by Jordan Patty.","The Special Collections Research Center also holds the   and other materials on the greater Mason family.","The   \"seeks to reconstruct the 18th-century experiences of enslaved children and adults on the Gunston Hall Plantation. The purpose of [their] research is to raise awareness that the namesake of George Mason University sought the benefits of slavery and believed that the people he owned were property without free will or basic rights.\"","Manuscript account book documenting the business, professional, family, and personal accounts of Stevens Thomson Mason (1760-1803) and Armistead Thomson Mason (1787-1819). The two men were father and son and the nephew and grandnephew of George Mason IV, the namesake of George Mason University. Included in the accounting are extensive records for the operation of Raspberry Plain Farm (which once belonged to George Mason IV) near Leesburg (Loudoun County), Virginia. The account book includes records of the people the Masons enslaved, on whom their finances and wealth depended.","Stevens Thomson Mason wrote the accounts from 1792 until his death in 1803. Financial information about his legal practice and fees appear on pages 52-54, 68-90, and intermittent throughout.  There is also information on expenses and other transactions connected with Raspberry Plain Farm in Leesburg, Virginia.  After the death of Stevens Thomson, it remained in possession of his widow but was operated by Armistead Thomson Mason.  Included are general expenses for goods and services, such as hauling and plowing, information on the hire or purchase of enslaved people, and overseers' wages. Much of the information on enslavement appears on pages 11-51, 55-67, and 91-92. There are also miscellaneous personal and family accounts throughout.","Armistead Thomson Mason wrote the accounts from 1810 until his death in 1819. Expenses and other transactions connected both with his own farm (Selma) and with Raspberry Plain Farm, including enslaved people hired, owned, bought and sold, and overseers' wages.  Much of this information appears on pages 96-101 and 103-104.  The descriptions of enslavement at Raspberry Plain Faim continue on pages 105-108 in the accounts with his sister, Mary Mason, with whom he operated Raspberry Plain Farm. Some of the descriptions of enslavement include names and incidents such as an expense \"for apprehending their negro man John Tebbs …Joe ran away in August...has never been heard of since…\" on pages 153-155.  ","The accounts also include descriptions of land transactions and other business. An account with his older brother John Thomson Mason relating to lands in Kentucky and to purchase of his interest in Raspberry Plain Farm on page 151. Armistead Thomson worked as the as executor of the estate of General Hugh Douglas. An extensive record of this account appears on pages 112, 133-148, 161-163, 171, and 178-179. Douglas, the son of Loudoun County Sheriff William Douglas, served in American Revolution and the War of 1812, and he died in 1815. He also managed an account as trustee of his father's estate as noted on pages 157-159. Page 157 includes a reference to \"General Washington's Executors.\"","Although Stevens Thomson and Armistead Thomson authored most of the account entries, William Temple Thomson Mason also contributed a number of entries including the account of the estate of Armistead Thomson Mason on pages 184-186. Other entries in hand of William Temple can be found on pages 129, 150, 159, and 164. He was the half-brother of Stevens Thomson and the uncle of Armistead Thomson. Other Mason family members represented in the accounts include John Thomson Mason (1765-1824) on page 47, John Thomson Mason (1787-1850) on page 151, Stevens Thomson Mason, Jr. (1789-1815) on pages 96-101, Mary Mason on pages 105-108, Robert Armistead on page 111, and Elizabeth and Mary Armistead on pages 153-155.","No known copyright. The Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries believes that this collection is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. (See https://rightsstatements.org/page/NKC/1.0/?language=en)","Manuscript account book documenting the business, professional, family, and personal accounts of Stevens Thomson Mason (1760-1803) and Armistead Thomson Mason (1787-1819). The account book includes records of the people they enslaved, on whom their finances and wealth depended. The two men were father and son and the nephew and grandnephew of George Mason IV, the namesake of George Mason University.","R46, C1, S5","George Mason University. Libraries. 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As highlighted by the Enslaved Children of George Mason project, Stevens's father, Thomson Mason, was an active participant in the trade of enslaved people kidnapped from West Africa (Alexis Bracey, \"Family Connections to the Slave Trade\"). Stevens Mason inherited Raspberry Plain Farm, from his father in 1785 (Raspberry Plain Manor, \"Raspberry Plain Manor History\"). According to the Loudoun County Clerk of the Circuit Court Historic Records and Deed Research, Mason enslaved 69 people listed in his will at the time of his death in 1803 (Loudoun County Clerk of the Circuit Court Historic Records And Deeds Research, \"Enslaved Issues: Fiduciary References\"). Mason served as a colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, an aide to General George Washington at the Battle of Yorktown, and a Republican Senator from Virginia (1794-1803), succeeding James Monroe.  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Mason served as a colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, an aide to General George Washington at the Battle of Yorktown, and a Republican Senator from Virginia (1794-1803), succeeding James Monroe.  He was a delegate to the Virginia ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788, and a graduate of William and Mary College.  ","Armistead Thomson Mason (1787-1819) was the son of Stevens Thomson Mason and a grandnephew of George Mason IV. He was given land that had been part of Raspberry Plain Farm in 1808, on which he built Selma (Selma Mansion, \"Families of Selma\"). At his death in 1819, he enslaved 71 people who were listed in his will (Loudoun County Clerk of the Circuit Court Historic Records and Deed Research, \"Enslaved Issues: Fiduciary References\"). He served as a United States Senator from Virginia (1816-1817), and he also graduated from William and Mary College. 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The two men were father and son and the nephew and grandnephew of George Mason IV, the namesake of George Mason University. Included in the accounting are extensive records for the operation of Raspberry Plain Farm (which once belonged to George Mason IV) near Leesburg (Loudoun County), Virginia. The account book includes records of the people the Masons enslaved, on whom their finances and wealth depended.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eStevens Thomson Mason wrote the accounts from 1792 until his death in 1803. Financial information about his legal practice and fees appear on pages 52-54, 68-90, and intermittent throughout.  There is also information on expenses and other transactions connected with Raspberry Plain Farm in Leesburg, Virginia.  After the death of Stevens Thomson, it remained in possession of his widow but was operated by Armistead Thomson Mason.  Included are general expenses for goods and services, such as hauling and plowing, information on the hire or purchase of enslaved people, and overseers' wages. Much of the information on enslavement appears on pages 11-51, 55-67, and 91-92. There are also miscellaneous personal and family accounts throughout.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eArmistead Thomson Mason wrote the accounts from 1810 until his death in 1819. Expenses and other transactions connected both with his own farm (Selma) and with Raspberry Plain Farm, including enslaved people hired, owned, bought and sold, and overseers' wages.  Much of this information appears on pages 96-101 and 103-104.  The descriptions of enslavement at Raspberry Plain Faim continue on pages 105-108 in the accounts with his sister, Mary Mason, with whom he operated Raspberry Plain Farm. Some of the descriptions of enslavement include names and incidents such as an expense \"for apprehending their negro man John Tebbs …Joe ran away in August...has never been heard of since…\" on pages 153-155.  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe accounts also include descriptions of land transactions and other business. An account with his older brother John Thomson Mason relating to lands in Kentucky and to purchase of his interest in Raspberry Plain Farm on page 151. Armistead Thomson worked as the as executor of the estate of General Hugh Douglas. An extensive record of this account appears on pages 112, 133-148, 161-163, 171, and 178-179. Douglas, the son of Loudoun County Sheriff William Douglas, served in American Revolution and the War of 1812, and he died in 1815. He also managed an account as trustee of his father's estate as noted on pages 157-159. 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Other Mason family members represented in the accounts include John Thomson Mason (1765-1824) on page 47, John Thomson Mason (1787-1850) on page 151, Stevens Thomson Mason, Jr. (1789-1815) on pages 96-101, Mary Mason on pages 105-108, Robert Armistead on page 111, and Elizabeth and Mary Armistead on pages 153-155.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Manuscript account book documenting the business, professional, family, and personal accounts of Stevens Thomson Mason (1760-1803) and Armistead Thomson Mason (1787-1819). The two men were father and son and the nephew and grandnephew of George Mason IV, the namesake of George Mason University. Included in the accounting are extensive records for the operation of Raspberry Plain Farm (which once belonged to George Mason IV) near Leesburg (Loudoun County), Virginia. The account book includes records of the people the Masons enslaved, on whom their finances and wealth depended.","Stevens Thomson Mason wrote the accounts from 1792 until his death in 1803. Financial information about his legal practice and fees appear on pages 52-54, 68-90, and intermittent throughout.  There is also information on expenses and other transactions connected with Raspberry Plain Farm in Leesburg, Virginia.  After the death of Stevens Thomson, it remained in possession of his widow but was operated by Armistead Thomson Mason.  Included are general expenses for goods and services, such as hauling and plowing, information on the hire or purchase of enslaved people, and overseers' wages. Much of the information on enslavement appears on pages 11-51, 55-67, and 91-92. There are also miscellaneous personal and family accounts throughout.","Armistead Thomson Mason wrote the accounts from 1810 until his death in 1819. Expenses and other transactions connected both with his own farm (Selma) and with Raspberry Plain Farm, including enslaved people hired, owned, bought and sold, and overseers' wages.  Much of this information appears on pages 96-101 and 103-104.  The descriptions of enslavement at Raspberry Plain Faim continue on pages 105-108 in the accounts with his sister, Mary Mason, with whom he operated Raspberry Plain Farm. Some of the descriptions of enslavement include names and incidents such as an expense \"for apprehending their negro man John Tebbs …Joe ran away in August...has never been heard of since…\" on pages 153-155.  ","The accounts also include descriptions of land transactions and other business. An account with his older brother John Thomson Mason relating to lands in Kentucky and to purchase of his interest in Raspberry Plain Farm on page 151. Armistead Thomson worked as the as executor of the estate of General Hugh Douglas. An extensive record of this account appears on pages 112, 133-148, 161-163, 171, and 178-179. Douglas, the son of Loudoun County Sheriff William Douglas, served in American Revolution and the War of 1812, and he died in 1815. He also managed an account as trustee of his father's estate as noted on pages 157-159. Page 157 includes a reference to \"General Washington's Executors.\"","Although Stevens Thomson and Armistead Thomson authored most of the account entries, William Temple Thomson Mason also contributed a number of entries including the account of the estate of Armistead Thomson Mason on pages 184-186. Other entries in hand of William Temple can be found on pages 129, 150, 159, and 164. He was the half-brother of Stevens Thomson and the uncle of Armistead Thomson. Other Mason family members represented in the accounts include John Thomson Mason (1765-1824) on page 47, John Thomson Mason (1787-1850) on page 151, Stevens Thomson Mason, Jr. (1789-1815) on pages 96-101, Mary Mason on pages 105-108, Robert Armistead on page 111, and Elizabeth and Mary Armistead on pages 153-155."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNo known copyright. The Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries believes that this collection is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. (See https://rightsstatements.org/page/NKC/1.0/?language=en)\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["No known copyright. The Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries believes that this collection is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. 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As highlighted by the Enslaved Children of George Mason project, Stevens's father, Thomson Mason, was an active participant in the trade of enslaved people kidnapped from West Africa (Alexis Bracey, \"Family Connections to the Slave Trade\"). Stevens Mason inherited Raspberry Plain Farm, from his father in 1785 (Raspberry Plain Manor, \"Raspberry Plain Manor History\"). According to the Loudoun County Clerk of the Circuit Court Historic Records and Deed Research, Mason enslaved 69 people listed in his will at the time of his death in 1803 (Loudoun County Clerk of the Circuit Court Historic Records And Deeds Research, \"Enslaved Issues: Fiduciary References\"). Mason served as a colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, an aide to General George Washington at the Battle of Yorktown, and a Republican Senator from Virginia (1794-1803), succeeding James Monroe.  He was a delegate to the Virginia ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788, and a graduate of William and Mary College.  ","Armistead Thomson Mason (1787-1819) was the son of Stevens Thomson Mason and a grandnephew of George Mason IV. He was given land that had been part of Raspberry Plain Farm in 1808, on which he built Selma (Selma Mansion, \"Families of Selma\"). At his death in 1819, he enslaved 71 people who were listed in his will (Loudoun County Clerk of the Circuit Court Historic Records and Deed Research, \"Enslaved Issues: Fiduciary References\"). He served as a United States Senator from Virginia (1816-1817), and he also graduated from William and Mary College. He was appointed to Brigadier General of the Virginia Militia during the War of 1812. He was killed by his cousin, John M. 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Included in the accounting are extensive records for the operation of Raspberry Plain Farm (which once belonged to George Mason IV) near Leesburg (Loudoun County), Virginia. The account book includes records of the people the Masons enslaved, on whom their finances and wealth depended.","Stevens Thomson Mason wrote the accounts from 1792 until his death in 1803. Financial information about his legal practice and fees appear on pages 52-54, 68-90, and intermittent throughout.  There is also information on expenses and other transactions connected with Raspberry Plain Farm in Leesburg, Virginia.  After the death of Stevens Thomson, it remained in possession of his widow but was operated by Armistead Thomson Mason.  Included are general expenses for goods and services, such as hauling and plowing, information on the hire or purchase of enslaved people, and overseers' wages. Much of the information on enslavement appears on pages 11-51, 55-67, and 91-92. 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Mason served as a colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, an aide to General George Washington at the Battle of Yorktown, and a Republican Senator from Virginia (1794-1803), succeeding James Monroe.  He was a delegate to the Virginia ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788, and a graduate of William and Mary College.  ","Armistead Thomson Mason (1787-1819) was the son of Stevens Thomson Mason and a grandnephew of George Mason IV. He was given land that had been part of Raspberry Plain Farm in 1808, on which he built Selma (Selma Mansion, \"Families of Selma\"). At his death in 1819, he enslaved 71 people who were listed in his will (Loudoun County Clerk of the Circuit Court Historic Records and Deed Research, \"Enslaved Issues: Fiduciary References\"). He served as a United States Senator from Virginia (1816-1817), and he also graduated from William and Mary College. 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The two men were father and son and the nephew and grandnephew of George Mason IV, the namesake of George Mason University. Included in the accounting are extensive records for the operation of Raspberry Plain Farm (which once belonged to George Mason IV) near Leesburg (Loudoun County), Virginia. The account book includes records of the people the Masons enslaved, on whom their finances and wealth depended.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eStevens Thomson Mason wrote the accounts from 1792 until his death in 1803. Financial information about his legal practice and fees appear on pages 52-54, 68-90, and intermittent throughout.  There is also information on expenses and other transactions connected with Raspberry Plain Farm in Leesburg, Virginia.  After the death of Stevens Thomson, it remained in possession of his widow but was operated by Armistead Thomson Mason.  Included are general expenses for goods and services, such as hauling and plowing, information on the hire or purchase of enslaved people, and overseers' wages. Much of the information on enslavement appears on pages 11-51, 55-67, and 91-92. There are also miscellaneous personal and family accounts throughout.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eArmistead Thomson Mason wrote the accounts from 1810 until his death in 1819. Expenses and other transactions connected both with his own farm (Selma) and with Raspberry Plain Farm, including enslaved people hired, owned, bought and sold, and overseers' wages.  Much of this information appears on pages 96-101 and 103-104.  The descriptions of enslavement at Raspberry Plain Faim continue on pages 105-108 in the accounts with his sister, Mary Mason, with whom he operated Raspberry Plain Farm. Some of the descriptions of enslavement include names and incidents such as an expense \"for apprehending their negro man John Tebbs …Joe ran away in August...has never been heard of since…\" on pages 153-155.  \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe accounts also include descriptions of land transactions and other business. An account with his older brother John Thomson Mason relating to lands in Kentucky and to purchase of his interest in Raspberry Plain Farm on page 151. Armistead Thomson worked as the as executor of the estate of General Hugh Douglas. An extensive record of this account appears on pages 112, 133-148, 161-163, 171, and 178-179. Douglas, the son of Loudoun County Sheriff William Douglas, served in American Revolution and the War of 1812, and he died in 1815. He also managed an account as trustee of his father's estate as noted on pages 157-159. Page 157 includes a reference to \"General Washington's Executors.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlthough Stevens Thomson and Armistead Thomson authored most of the account entries, William Temple Thomson Mason also contributed a number of entries including the account of the estate of Armistead Thomson Mason on pages 184-186. Other entries in hand of William Temple can be found on pages 129, 150, 159, and 164. He was the half-brother of Stevens Thomson and the uncle of Armistead Thomson. Other Mason family members represented in the accounts include John Thomson Mason (1765-1824) on page 47, John Thomson Mason (1787-1850) on page 151, Stevens Thomson Mason, Jr. (1789-1815) on pages 96-101, Mary Mason on pages 105-108, Robert Armistead on page 111, and Elizabeth and Mary Armistead on pages 153-155.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Manuscript account book documenting the business, professional, family, and personal accounts of Stevens Thomson Mason (1760-1803) and Armistead Thomson Mason (1787-1819). The two men were father and son and the nephew and grandnephew of George Mason IV, the namesake of George Mason University. Included in the accounting are extensive records for the operation of Raspberry Plain Farm (which once belonged to George Mason IV) near Leesburg (Loudoun County), Virginia. The account book includes records of the people the Masons enslaved, on whom their finances and wealth depended.","Stevens Thomson Mason wrote the accounts from 1792 until his death in 1803. Financial information about his legal practice and fees appear on pages 52-54, 68-90, and intermittent throughout.  There is also information on expenses and other transactions connected with Raspberry Plain Farm in Leesburg, Virginia.  After the death of Stevens Thomson, it remained in possession of his widow but was operated by Armistead Thomson Mason.  Included are general expenses for goods and services, such as hauling and plowing, information on the hire or purchase of enslaved people, and overseers' wages. Much of the information on enslavement appears on pages 11-51, 55-67, and 91-92. There are also miscellaneous personal and family accounts throughout.","Armistead Thomson Mason wrote the accounts from 1810 until his death in 1819. Expenses and other transactions connected both with his own farm (Selma) and with Raspberry Plain Farm, including enslaved people hired, owned, bought and sold, and overseers' wages.  Much of this information appears on pages 96-101 and 103-104.  The descriptions of enslavement at Raspberry Plain Faim continue on pages 105-108 in the accounts with his sister, Mary Mason, with whom he operated Raspberry Plain Farm. Some of the descriptions of enslavement include names and incidents such as an expense \"for apprehending their negro man John Tebbs …Joe ran away in August...has never been heard of since…\" on pages 153-155.  ","The accounts also include descriptions of land transactions and other business. An account with his older brother John Thomson Mason relating to lands in Kentucky and to purchase of his interest in Raspberry Plain Farm on page 151. Armistead Thomson worked as the as executor of the estate of General Hugh Douglas. An extensive record of this account appears on pages 112, 133-148, 161-163, 171, and 178-179. Douglas, the son of Loudoun County Sheriff William Douglas, served in American Revolution and the War of 1812, and he died in 1815. He also managed an account as trustee of his father's estate as noted on pages 157-159. Page 157 includes a reference to \"General Washington's Executors.\"","Although Stevens Thomson and Armistead Thomson authored most of the account entries, William Temple Thomson Mason also contributed a number of entries including the account of the estate of Armistead Thomson Mason on pages 184-186. Other entries in hand of William Temple can be found on pages 129, 150, 159, and 164. He was the half-brother of Stevens Thomson and the uncle of Armistead Thomson. Other Mason family members represented in the accounts include John Thomson Mason (1765-1824) on page 47, John Thomson Mason (1787-1850) on page 151, Stevens Thomson Mason, Jr. (1789-1815) on pages 96-101, Mary Mason on pages 105-108, Robert Armistead on page 111, and Elizabeth and Mary Armistead on pages 153-155."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNo known copyright. The Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries believes that this collection is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. (See https://rightsstatements.org/page/NKC/1.0/?language=en)\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["No known copyright. The Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries believes that this collection is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. 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