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Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.","The collection is divided into two series: Legal and Financial, and Correspondence. The folders are arranged in chronological order within each series. The undated material is listed at the end of the series, in alphabetical order by folder title.","Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (1779-1852): Eleanor was born on March 31, 1779. She was the youngest granddaughter of Martha Washington and the step-granddaughter of George Washington. After her father John Parke Custis' death in 1781 and her mother, Eleanor Calvert Custis' marriage to Dr. David Stuart, Eleanor and her brother George Washington Parke Custis began living with the Washingtons. In 1799, Eleanor married Washington's nephew, Lawrence Lewis. Of their eight children, only one son and three daughters lived to maturity. Eleanor and Lawrence remained at Mount Vernon until Martha Washington's death in 1802 and subsequently moved to Woodlawn Plantation upon its completion in 1805. Throughout her life, Nelly regarded herself as the preserver of George Washington's legacy. She died at Audley Plantation on July 15, 1852 and is buried at Mount Vernon in the family tomb.","Martha Washington (1731-1802): Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born on June 2, 1731 to parents John and Frances Jones Dandridge. She married her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on May 15, 1750. Together they had four children, two of whom died in childhood. On July 8, 1757, her husband unexpectedly died, leaving her a widow with their two remaining children, John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis. On January 6, 1759, Martha Dandridge Custis married George Washington. Martha Parke Custis or Patsy, died at the age of 17. On February 3, 1774, John Parke Custis married Eleanor Calvert, and together they had four children who survived to adulthood. However, on November 5, 1781, John Parke Custis passed away, and the younger two of his children went to live at Mount Vernon with their grandmother. Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died on May 22, 1802.","George Washington (1732-1799): George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at a modest farm in Westmoreland County, Virginia to parents Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. In 1749, George Washington was appointed surveyor for Culpepper County. In 1752, he started his military career in the Virginia militia. During the Revolutionary War he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and later was elected as the first President of the United States of America. He lived with his wife, Martha Washington, at Mount Vernon, where he passed away December 14, 1799.","Esther Maria Lewis Chapin Collection of Washington Family Documents ;\nGeorge Washington Collection ;\nHistoric Manuscripts Collection ;\nLawrence Lewis Papers ;\nPeter Family Papers","This collection consists of papers inherited and collected by Washington family descendants. Many were purchased in 1927 at auction to reunite Washington family correspondence. The collection includes correspondence, financial documents and legal documents that relate primarily to the Custis and Lewis families, but include other items related to Virginia history. Charles and Peter Chapin, the previous owners of this collection, descended from Eleanor Parke Custis and Lawrence Lewis through Esther Maria Lewis and Charles Chapin. This collection was originally assembled by Esther Maria Lewis Chapin who inherited some of the Washington/Custis papers, but was also an avid collector and brought back together family items that were being dispersed nationwide. This collection is an example of that effort; much of which was at auction in 1927 (Anderson Galleries, sale 2201, 28-29 November 1927).","Partially printed bill of exchange charged to the estate of Daniel Parke Custis and signed by Martha Custis.","Autograph document in George Washington's hand. Receipt for the purchase of a horse. Signed and docketed on verso by George Washington Parke Custis. With facsimile of related receipt provenance notes from the Custis family.","Indenture for the sale of land in New Jersey.","Document signed by Lord Dunmore, 1 page, on vellum, 24 x 26 inches. Docketed on verso \"George Washingon Esq./ 10900 Acres/ Fincastle, Recorded and examined.\"","Autograph document signed in the hand of George Washington, for money received from Doctor Stuart for annuity and a balance due from the estate of John Parke Custis.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Washington writes that Jacky Custis is returning to school after being delayed by illness. Washington writes that Jacky \"promises to stick close to his Book, and endeavour by diligent study to recover his lost time.\"","Autograph letter signed, about financial matters. With an engraving of Charles Carroll of Carrollton by A. P. Durand.","Autograph letter signed, 1 page. Mounted on cardstock. Washington gives orders for the removal of suspected loyalists to New Rochelle. He warns against any injury to persons or property but insists they be kept \"at a distance from the Enemy of whom it is suspected they are favourers and are carrying on correspondances dangerous to the United States of America.","Letter signed, about the case of Colonel John Duyckinck, who surrendered from the British army and was being held in Philadelphia.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Custis writes about financial matters and Sunday dinner plans.","Autograph letter signed, 3 pages. Washington writes criticizing Congress's plan to raise a standing army for only one year, lamenting \"the pernicious State-system is still adhered to.\" Washington worries each victory will \"lull us into security.\" He writes, \"The history of the war is a history of false hopes and temporary expedient.\" With an engraving by W. Humphreys and photogravure of Washington.","Autograph letter signed, 3 pages, with integral address panel. Mounted in folder with an engraving of Charles Stewart.","Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel. Letter written in Philadelphia by David Rittenhouse while he is serving as Treasurer for the State of Pennsylvania.","Dandridge writes on behalf of President George Washington to the printers Childs and Swaine that Washington no longer wishes to subscribe to the supplement to their Daily Advertiser because he longer has time to read \"the published prints that are brought to him.\"","Autograph letter signed, 1 page. Trumbull writes of business matters. He also writes of the French, \"from such friends, God Deliver us.\"","Autograph letter signed, 4 pages. Nelly thanks Mrs. Pinckney for the shawl she sent and hopes she can visit Mount Vernon next summer, when Nelly and husband hope to be settled in their own house. She writes about the health of herself, her daughter Frances, and Martha Washington, who had a \"bilious fever.\" She writes of the death of her sister Martha Peter's daughter Eleanor, who was buried in the family vault at Mount Vernon. With an envelope purported to contain Washington's hair.","Autograph letter signed, 3 pages.","Autograph letter signed, 1 page. Nelly writes about visiting Philadelphia, sending bacon, and wishing well to Costin's mother.","One title, The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1634. 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Of their eight children, only one son and three daughters lived to maturity. Eleanor and Lawrence remained at Mount Vernon until Martha Washington's death in 1802 and subsequently moved to Woodlawn Plantation upon its completion in 1805. Throughout her life, Nelly regarded herself as the preserver of George Washington's legacy. She died at Audley Plantation on July 15, 1852 and is buried at Mount Vernon in the family tomb.","Martha Washington (1731-1802): Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born on June 2, 1731 to parents John and Frances Jones Dandridge. She married her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on May 15, 1750. Together they had four children, two of whom died in childhood. On July 8, 1757, her husband unexpectedly died, leaving her a widow with their two remaining children, John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis. On January 6, 1759, Martha Dandridge Custis married George Washington. Martha Parke Custis or Patsy, died at the age of 17. On February 3, 1774, John Parke Custis married Eleanor Calvert, and together they had four children who survived to adulthood. However, on November 5, 1781, John Parke Custis passed away, and the younger two of his children went to live at Mount Vernon with their grandmother. Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died on May 22, 1802.","George Washington (1732-1799): George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at a modest farm in Westmoreland County, Virginia to parents Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. In 1749, George Washington was appointed surveyor for Culpepper County. In 1752, he started his military career in the Virginia militia. During the Revolutionary War he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and later was elected as the first President of the United States of America. He lived with his wife, Martha Washington, at Mount Vernon, where he passed away December 14, 1799.","Esther Maria Lewis Chapin Collection of Washington Family Documents ;\nGeorge Washington Collection ;\nHistoric Manuscripts Collection ;\nLawrence Lewis Papers ;\nPeter Family Papers","This collection consists of papers inherited and collected by Washington family descendants. Many were purchased in 1927 at auction to reunite Washington family correspondence. The collection includes correspondence, financial documents and legal documents that relate primarily to the Custis and Lewis families, but include other items related to Virginia history. Charles and Peter Chapin, the previous owners of this collection, descended from Eleanor Parke Custis and Lawrence Lewis through Esther Maria Lewis and Charles Chapin. This collection was originally assembled by Esther Maria Lewis Chapin who inherited some of the Washington/Custis papers, but was also an avid collector and brought back together family items that were being dispersed nationwide. This collection is an example of that effort; much of which was at auction in 1927 (Anderson Galleries, sale 2201, 28-29 November 1927).","Partially printed bill of exchange charged to the estate of Daniel Parke Custis and signed by Martha Custis.","Autograph document in George Washington's hand. Receipt for the purchase of a horse. Signed and docketed on verso by George Washington Parke Custis. With facsimile of related receipt provenance notes from the Custis family.","Indenture for the sale of land in New Jersey.","Document signed by Lord Dunmore, 1 page, on vellum, 24 x 26 inches. Docketed on verso \"George Washingon Esq./ 10900 Acres/ Fincastle, Recorded and examined.\"","Autograph document signed in the hand of George Washington, for money received from Doctor Stuart for annuity and a balance due from the estate of John Parke Custis.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Washington writes that Jacky Custis is returning to school after being delayed by illness. Washington writes that Jacky \"promises to stick close to his Book, and endeavour by diligent study to recover his lost time.\"","Autograph letter signed, about financial matters. With an engraving of Charles Carroll of Carrollton by A. P. Durand.","Autograph letter signed, 1 page. Mounted on cardstock. Washington gives orders for the removal of suspected loyalists to New Rochelle. He warns against any injury to persons or property but insists they be kept \"at a distance from the Enemy of whom it is suspected they are favourers and are carrying on correspondances dangerous to the United States of America.","Letter signed, about the case of Colonel John Duyckinck, who surrendered from the British army and was being held in Philadelphia.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Custis writes about financial matters and Sunday dinner plans.","Autograph letter signed, 3 pages. Washington writes criticizing Congress's plan to raise a standing army for only one year, lamenting \"the pernicious State-system is still adhered to.\" Washington worries each victory will \"lull us into security.\" He writes, \"The history of the war is a history of false hopes and temporary expedient.\" With an engraving by W. Humphreys and photogravure of Washington.","Autograph letter signed, 3 pages, with integral address panel. Mounted in folder with an engraving of Charles Stewart.","Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel. Letter written in Philadelphia by David Rittenhouse while he is serving as Treasurer for the State of Pennsylvania.","Dandridge writes on behalf of President George Washington to the printers Childs and Swaine that Washington no longer wishes to subscribe to the supplement to their Daily Advertiser because he longer has time to read \"the published prints that are brought to him.\"","Autograph letter signed, 1 page. Trumbull writes of business matters. He also writes of the French, \"from such friends, God Deliver us.\"","Autograph letter signed, 4 pages. Nelly thanks Mrs. Pinckney for the shawl she sent and hopes she can visit Mount Vernon next summer, when Nelly and husband hope to be settled in their own house. She writes about the health of herself, her daughter Frances, and Martha Washington, who had a \"bilious fever.\" She writes of the death of her sister Martha Peter's daughter Eleanor, who was buried in the family vault at Mount Vernon. With an envelope purported to contain Washington's hair.","Autograph letter signed, 3 pages.","Autograph letter signed, 1 page. Nelly writes about visiting Philadelphia, sending bacon, and wishing well to Costin's mother.","One title, The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1634. 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Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.","The collection is divided into four series: Correspondence, Financial and Legal Materials, and Research Files. The folders are arranged in chronological order within each series. The undated material is listed at the end of each series, in alphabetical order by folder title.","Series 1. Correspondence \nSeries 2. Financial and Legal Materials\nSeries 3. Research Files\nSeries 4. Bound Volumes","Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (1779-1852): Eleanor was born on March 31, 1779. She was the youngest granddaughter of Martha Washington and the step-granddaughter of George Washington. After her father John Parke Custis' death in 1781 and her mother, Eleanor Calvert Custis' marriage to Dr. David Stuart, Eleanor and her brother George Washington Parke Custis began living with the Washingtons. In 1799, Eleanor married Washington's nephew, Lawrence Lewis. Of their eight children, only one son and three daughters lived to maturity. Eleanor and Lawrence remained at Mount Vernon until Martha Washington's death in 1802 and subsequently moved to Woodlawn Plantation upon its completion in 1805. Throughout her life, Nelly regarded herself as the preserver of George Washington's legacy. She died at Audley Plantation on July 15, 1852 and is buried at Mount Vernon in the family tomb.","Lewis, Lawrence (1767-1839): Nephew of George Washington, born on April 4, 1767, in Fredericksburg, VA to Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington Lewis, the sister of George Washington. In 1797 he became personal secretary to Washington and married Eleanor Custis, a granddaughter of Martha Washington, on February 22, 1799. He was the primary executor of Washington's will and was given 2,000 acres of land by him on which he built Woodlawn. They moved to Audley Plantation in 1830 on land he had purchased from Washington's holdings. He died on November 20, 1839 and is buried in the vault at Mount Vernon.","Washington, Bushrod (1762-1869): Bushrod was the son of Hannah Bushrod and John Augustine Washington, the younger brother of George Washington. Upon the death of George Washington, Bushrod inherited the Mount Vernon estate. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, Bushrod served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was joined on the Supreme Court by his long-time friend, John Marshall. Justices Washington and Marshall had met while attending law lectures given by George Wythe at the College of William and Mary. Bushrod and his wife, Julia Ann Blackburn, had no children of their own, but raised three of their nephews. One nephew, John Augustine Washington (1789-1832), would inherit Mount Vernon from Bushrod.","Autograph document, 2 pages.","Bushrod Washington Family Papers ;\nElizabeth Bordley Gibson Collection ;\nGeorge Washington Collection ;\nHistoric Manuscript Collection ;\nLawrence Lewis Papers ;\nMartha Washington Collection ;\nPeter Family Papers","Scope and Content: \nThis collection was originally assembled by Esther Maria Lewis Chapin, who inherited some of the Washington and Custis papers but was also an avid collector. She reassembled family materials that were being dispersed nationwide, much of which was purchased at Anderson Galleries, sale 22001, 28-29 November 1927.\nThe collection contains correspondence, legal documents, and financial records related primarily to the Custis and Lewis families. Much of the financial and legal materials focus on the construction of the New Tomb at Mount Vernon, as well as settling George Washington's estate.The dates of the material in this collection ranges from 1743-1852, with the bulk of the material dating between 1818-1829.","Autograph letter signed. Washington orders a new suit, to be made for a slender man about six-feet tall.","Autograph letter signed, regarding the sale of property.","Autograph letter signed, discussing the settlement of George Washington's estate.","Autograph letter signed, discussing financial transactions. Mentions John Marshall.","Autograph letter signed. Discusses suit with Samuel Washington and Kanawha lands.","Autograph letter signed, 2 pages, with additional page of accounts.","Autograph letter signed, with list of names on verso (possibly of enslaved persons).","Autograph letter signed, about renting Rock Hall.","Autograph letter signed, likely to Lawrence Lewis, about settling account books","Autograph letter signed, about selling city property and settling accounts.","Autograph letter, signed, likely to Lawrence Washington, about lands in Kentucky and lots in the Federal City.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he \"highly approves\" of Lewis's \"plan for the future settlement of the free negroes.\"","Autograph letter signed, giving instructions for dealing with Mr. Alexander. Bushrod writes about Lawrence's plan to resettle the \"free negroes.\"","Autograph letter signed, with list of all the legatees of George Washington's estate and their addresses.","Autograph letter signed, discussing Mr. Alexander's financial problems.","Autograph letter signed, 2 pages, about the sale of Rock Hall.","Autograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall.","Autograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall.","Autograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall and complaints about Mr. Alexander.","Autograph letter signed, about settling various accounts.","Autograph letter signed, with details of amount to be paid to Dr. Turner from Washington's estate.","Autograph letter signed, about settling the estate of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he purchased 10 barrels of corn to give to the \"free negroes.\"","Autograph letter signed, regarding legal matters in Alexandria.","Autograph letter signed, regarding the suit of the estate of George Washington against Thomas Lee and Gerard Alexander of Pendleton County.","Letter discussing judgements in the Superior Court of Fairfax County.","Autograph letter signed, regarding judgement against Mr. Lee.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod writs that Lawrence needs to meet Mr. Lee in Alexandria about settling debt.","Autograph letter signed, about recovering money and selling wheat crop.","Autograph letter signed, about Mr. Alexander and hiring Reuben to build a brick chimney.","Autograph letter signed, about buying clothes, meat, and corn for a poor woman.","Autograph letter signed, about claims made by Mr. Hammond and Mr. Peter. Bushrod writes that his health has been poor.","Autograph letter signed, about payment for corn and house in Alexandria.","Autograph letter signed, about signing an agreement with Doctor Peale.","Autograph letter signed, about financial matters.","Autograph letter signed, encloses check for corn and timothy.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod invites Lawrence to dine at Mount Vernon so they can discuss Dismal Swamp shares.","Autograph letter signed, about debt.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he has looked through a bundle of General Washington's letters and his letterbook and found one letter to Dr. Jenifer regarding the sale of tobacco.","Autograph letter signed, about financial matters.","Autograph letter signed. Custis writes that he has paid all of his debt to Peyton.","Lengthy letter thanking Lewis for sending the scent bottle that once belonged to George Washington. Rivinus writes about how great Washington was and send news from the city of \"brotherly love,\" including the death of Bushrod Washington and various engagements.","Autograph letter signed. Describes Lawrence Lewis's visit to Woodlawn and writes that she made a purse for Lorenzo, among other family news.","Letter about selling parcels of land.","Letter discussing family news.","Letter discussing family news.","Autograph letter, telling of the death of their granddaughter from whooping cough. Nelly describes the treatment given to the child and writes that she will be interred at the vault at Mount Vernon.","Autograph letter, grieving the loss of their granddaughter. Their daughter is pregnant again. Nelly also writes about financial concerns.","McLean writes that he is enclosing a check for $100 to the estate of George Washington.","Account of taxes owed on properties owned by the estate of General George Washington in Alexandria from 1817-1827. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Prentis writes about paying taxes and the Dismal Swamp lands.","Page writes that he wants to meet Lewis in Norfolk to discuss property.","Prentis writes about tax payments, with enclosed receipts to the Sheriff of Nansemond County.","Letter about selling Ohio lands and claims that cannot be paid.","Autograph letter signed. Nelly sends best wishes to her \"dearest niece\" on her upcoming wedding.","Moore writes that Mr. Hammond's court case is almost settled.","Framed.","Autograph document, 5 pages. Certified by Harry Turner, County Clerk, Westmoreland County.","Receipt for money paid in Pennsylvania currency for land owned by Samuel Chase.","Autograph document in the hand of George Washington, 12 pages, folio, bound in morocco. Washington's personal copy of official documents made by Nathaniel Walthoe, clerk of the council, of all land grants applied for from 1745-1769 for lands lying between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.","Autograph document signed, 13 pages. Stitched manuscript pamphlet in hand of the collector of rents in King George County. Includes rent paid by Mary Washington on 700 acres.","Promissory note for 12 gallons of oil and a patent brush. With a distillery sketch on verso.","Copy of agreement related to renting land.","Copy of agreement related to renting land.","Autograph document signed.","Signed by Lewis as executor of the estate of George Washington.","7 receipts dating from 1832-1836 related to the estate of George Washington.","Receipt for repairs to the vault door at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for barrels of lime for the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for the delivery of 5000 bricks from the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for hauling bricks and sand to the vault at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for six days work on the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for laying bricks at the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for covering the vault of the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for work on the new tomb at Mount Vernon, including a note from the contactor that he has an \"aversion\" to putting a price on his own work.","Receipt for plastering the vault at Mount Vernon.","Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Docketed \"L. Lewis Papers.\"","Receipt for payment from James Hunter for the account of Col. William Aylett. Framed with provenance information on verso.","Draft invoice, docketed by Charles Worthington. Framed.","Receipt for renting a house in Georgetown for one month. Framed.","Document titled \"Papers for the Lili Chapin Book\" with assorted envelopes.","With letters from Ernest Dressel North to Mrs. Chapin regarding the sale.","Two books were transferred to the rare book collection:","Washington's farewell address to the people of the United States (Newburyport : Published by W. and J. Gilman, 1812). [A-1421]\nRobert E. Lee : a character sketch by H. H. Smith ([Richmond], [Williams Print. Co.], [1925]). 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After her father John Parke Custis' death in 1781 and her mother, Eleanor Calvert Custis' marriage to Dr. David Stuart, Eleanor and her brother George Washington Parke Custis began living with the Washingtons. In 1799, Eleanor married Washington's nephew, Lawrence Lewis. Of their eight children, only one son and three daughters lived to maturity. Eleanor and Lawrence remained at Mount Vernon until Martha Washington's death in 1802 and subsequently moved to Woodlawn Plantation upon its completion in 1805. Throughout her life, Nelly regarded herself as the preserver of George Washington's legacy. She died at Audley Plantation on July 15, 1852 and is buried at Mount Vernon in the family tomb.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLewis, Lawrence (1767-1839): Nephew of George Washington, born on April 4, 1767, in Fredericksburg, VA to Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington Lewis, the sister of George Washington. In 1797 he became personal secretary to Washington and married Eleanor Custis, a granddaughter of Martha Washington, on February 22, 1799. He was the primary executor of Washington's will and was given 2,000 acres of land by him on which he built Woodlawn. They moved to Audley Plantation in 1830 on land he had purchased from Washington's holdings. He died on November 20, 1839 and is buried in the vault at Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWashington, Bushrod (1762-1869): Bushrod was the son of Hannah Bushrod and John Augustine Washington, the younger brother of George Washington. Upon the death of George Washington, Bushrod inherited the Mount Vernon estate. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, Bushrod served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was joined on the Supreme Court by his long-time friend, John Marshall. Justices Washington and Marshall had met while attending law lectures given by George Wythe at the College of William and Mary. 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Throughout her life, Nelly regarded herself as the preserver of George Washington's legacy. She died at Audley Plantation on July 15, 1852 and is buried at Mount Vernon in the family tomb.","Lewis, Lawrence (1767-1839): Nephew of George Washington, born on April 4, 1767, in Fredericksburg, VA to Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington Lewis, the sister of George Washington. In 1797 he became personal secretary to Washington and married Eleanor Custis, a granddaughter of Martha Washington, on February 22, 1799. He was the primary executor of Washington's will and was given 2,000 acres of land by him on which he built Woodlawn. They moved to Audley Plantation in 1830 on land he had purchased from Washington's holdings. He died on November 20, 1839 and is buried in the vault at Mount Vernon.","Washington, Bushrod (1762-1869): Bushrod was the son of Hannah Bushrod and John Augustine Washington, the younger brother of George Washington. Upon the death of George Washington, Bushrod inherited the Mount Vernon estate. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, Bushrod served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was joined on the Supreme Court by his long-time friend, John Marshall. Justices Washington and Marshall had met while attending law lectures given by George Wythe at the College of William and Mary. Bushrod and his wife, Julia Ann Blackburn, had no children of their own, but raised three of their nephews. One nephew, John Augustine Washington (1789-1832), would inherit Mount Vernon from Bushrod."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAutograph document, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["General"],"odd_tesim":["Autograph document, 2 pages."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Name and date of item], Esther Maria Lewis Chapin Collection of Washington family documents, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Name and date of item], Esther Maria Lewis Chapin Collection of Washington family documents, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBushrod Washington Family Papers ;\nElizabeth Bordley Gibson Collection ;\nGeorge Washington Collection ;\nHistoric Manuscript Collection ;\nLawrence Lewis Papers ;\nMartha Washington Collection ;\nPeter Family Papers\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Bushrod Washington Family Papers ;\nElizabeth Bordley Gibson Collection ;\nGeorge Washington Collection ;\nHistoric Manuscript Collection ;\nLawrence Lewis Papers ;\nMartha Washington Collection ;\nPeter Family Papers"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eScope and Content: \nThis collection was originally assembled by Esther Maria Lewis Chapin, who inherited some of the Washington and Custis papers but was also an avid collector. She reassembled family materials that were being dispersed nationwide, much of which was purchased at Anderson Galleries, sale 22001, 28-29 November 1927.\nThe collection contains correspondence, legal documents, and financial records related primarily to the Custis and Lewis families. Much of the financial and legal materials focus on the construction of the New Tomb at Mount Vernon, as well as settling George Washington's estate.The dates of the material in this collection ranges from 1743-1852, with the bulk of the material dating between 1818-1829.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Washington orders a new suit, to be made for a slender man about six-feet tall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, regarding the sale of property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, discussing the settlement of George Washington's estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, discussing financial transactions. Mentions John Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Discusses suit with Samuel Washington and Kanawha lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, 2 pages, with additional page of accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, with list of names on verso (possibly of enslaved persons).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about renting Rock Hall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, likely to Lawrence Lewis, about settling account books\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about selling city property and settling accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter, signed, likely to Lawrence Washington, about lands in Kentucky and lots in the Federal City.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he \"highly approves\" of Lewis's \"plan for the future settlement of the free negroes.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, giving instructions for dealing with Mr. Alexander. Bushrod writes about Lawrence's plan to resettle the \"free negroes.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, with list of all the legatees of George Washington's estate and their addresses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, discussing Mr. Alexander's financial problems.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, 2 pages, about the sale of Rock Hall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall and complaints about Mr. Alexander.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about settling various accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, with details of amount to be paid to Dr. Turner from Washington's estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about settling the estate of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he purchased 10 barrels of corn to give to the \"free negroes.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, regarding legal matters in Alexandria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, regarding the suit of the estate of George Washington against Thomas Lee and Gerard Alexander of Pendleton County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter discussing judgements in the Superior Court of Fairfax County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, regarding judgement against Mr. Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Bushrod writs that Lawrence needs to meet Mr. Lee in Alexandria about settling debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about recovering money and selling wheat crop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about Mr. Alexander and hiring Reuben to build a brick chimney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about buying clothes, meat, and corn for a poor woman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about claims made by Mr. Hammond and Mr. Peter. Bushrod writes that his health has been poor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about payment for corn and house in Alexandria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about signing an agreement with Doctor Peale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about financial matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, encloses check for corn and timothy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Bushrod invites Lawrence to dine at Mount Vernon so they can discuss Dismal Swamp shares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he has looked through a bundle of General Washington's letters and his letterbook and found one letter to Dr. Jenifer regarding the sale of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about financial matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Custis writes that he has paid all of his debt to Peyton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLengthy letter thanking Lewis for sending the scent bottle that once belonged to George Washington. Rivinus writes about how great Washington was and send news from the city of \"brotherly love,\" including the death of Bushrod Washington and various engagements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Describes Lawrence Lewis's visit to Woodlawn and writes that she made a purse for Lorenzo, among other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter about selling parcels of land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter discussing family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter discussing family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter, telling of the death of their granddaughter from whooping cough. Nelly describes the treatment given to the child and writes that she will be interred at the vault at Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter, grieving the loss of their granddaughter. Their daughter is pregnant again. Nelly also writes about financial concerns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcLean writes that he is enclosing a check for $100 to the estate of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of taxes owed on properties owned by the estate of General George Washington in Alexandria from 1817-1827. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrentis writes about paying taxes and the Dismal Swamp lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePage writes that he wants to meet Lewis in Norfolk to discuss property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrentis writes about tax payments, with enclosed receipts to the Sheriff of Nansemond County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter about selling Ohio lands and claims that cannot be paid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Nelly sends best wishes to her \"dearest niece\" on her upcoming wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMoore writes that Mr. Hammond's court case is almost settled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFramed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph document, 5 pages. 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Discusses suit with Samuel Washington and Kanawha lands.","Autograph letter signed, 2 pages, with additional page of accounts.","Autograph letter signed, with list of names on verso (possibly of enslaved persons).","Autograph letter signed, about renting Rock Hall.","Autograph letter signed, likely to Lawrence Lewis, about settling account books","Autograph letter signed, about selling city property and settling accounts.","Autograph letter, signed, likely to Lawrence Washington, about lands in Kentucky and lots in the Federal City.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he \"highly approves\" of Lewis's \"plan for the future settlement of the free negroes.\"","Autograph letter signed, giving instructions for dealing with Mr. Alexander. Bushrod writes about Lawrence's plan to resettle the \"free negroes.\"","Autograph letter signed, with list of all the legatees of George Washington's estate and their addresses.","Autograph letter signed, discussing Mr. Alexander's financial problems.","Autograph letter signed, 2 pages, about the sale of Rock Hall.","Autograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall.","Autograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall.","Autograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall and complaints about Mr. Alexander.","Autograph letter signed, about settling various accounts.","Autograph letter signed, with details of amount to be paid to Dr. Turner from Washington's estate.","Autograph letter signed, about settling the estate of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he purchased 10 barrels of corn to give to the \"free negroes.\"","Autograph letter signed, regarding legal matters in Alexandria.","Autograph letter signed, regarding the suit of the estate of George Washington against Thomas Lee and Gerard Alexander of Pendleton County.","Letter discussing judgements in the Superior Court of Fairfax County.","Autograph letter signed, regarding judgement against Mr. Lee.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod writs that Lawrence needs to meet Mr. Lee in Alexandria about settling debt.","Autograph letter signed, about recovering money and selling wheat crop.","Autograph letter signed, about Mr. Alexander and hiring Reuben to build a brick chimney.","Autograph letter signed, about buying clothes, meat, and corn for a poor woman.","Autograph letter signed, about claims made by Mr. Hammond and Mr. Peter. Bushrod writes that his health has been poor.","Autograph letter signed, about payment for corn and house in Alexandria.","Autograph letter signed, about signing an agreement with Doctor Peale.","Autograph letter signed, about financial matters.","Autograph letter signed, encloses check for corn and timothy.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod invites Lawrence to dine at Mount Vernon so they can discuss Dismal Swamp shares.","Autograph letter signed, about debt.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he has looked through a bundle of General Washington's letters and his letterbook and found one letter to Dr. Jenifer regarding the sale of tobacco.","Autograph letter signed, about financial matters.","Autograph letter signed. Custis writes that he has paid all of his debt to Peyton.","Lengthy letter thanking Lewis for sending the scent bottle that once belonged to George Washington. Rivinus writes about how great Washington was and send news from the city of \"brotherly love,\" including the death of Bushrod Washington and various engagements.","Autograph letter signed. Describes Lawrence Lewis's visit to Woodlawn and writes that she made a purse for Lorenzo, among other family news.","Letter about selling parcels of land.","Letter discussing family news.","Letter discussing family news.","Autograph letter, telling of the death of their granddaughter from whooping cough. Nelly describes the treatment given to the child and writes that she will be interred at the vault at Mount Vernon.","Autograph letter, grieving the loss of their granddaughter. Their daughter is pregnant again. Nelly also writes about financial concerns.","McLean writes that he is enclosing a check for $100 to the estate of George Washington.","Account of taxes owed on properties owned by the estate of General George Washington in Alexandria from 1817-1827. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Prentis writes about paying taxes and the Dismal Swamp lands.","Page writes that he wants to meet Lewis in Norfolk to discuss property.","Prentis writes about tax payments, with enclosed receipts to the Sheriff of Nansemond County.","Letter about selling Ohio lands and claims that cannot be paid.","Autograph letter signed. Nelly sends best wishes to her \"dearest niece\" on her upcoming wedding.","Moore writes that Mr. Hammond's court case is almost settled.","Framed.","Autograph document, 5 pages. Certified by Harry Turner, County Clerk, Westmoreland County.","Receipt for money paid in Pennsylvania currency for land owned by Samuel Chase.","Autograph document in the hand of George Washington, 12 pages, folio, bound in morocco. Washington's personal copy of official documents made by Nathaniel Walthoe, clerk of the council, of all land grants applied for from 1745-1769 for lands lying between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.","Autograph document signed, 13 pages. Stitched manuscript pamphlet in hand of the collector of rents in King George County. Includes rent paid by Mary Washington on 700 acres.","Promissory note for 12 gallons of oil and a patent brush. With a distillery sketch on verso.","Copy of agreement related to renting land.","Copy of agreement related to renting land.","Autograph document signed.","Signed by Lewis as executor of the estate of George Washington.","7 receipts dating from 1832-1836 related to the estate of George Washington.","Receipt for repairs to the vault door at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for barrels of lime for the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for the delivery of 5000 bricks from the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for hauling bricks and sand to the vault at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for six days work on the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for laying bricks at the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for covering the vault of the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for work on the new tomb at Mount Vernon, including a note from the contactor that he has an \"aversion\" to putting a price on his own work.","Receipt for plastering the vault at Mount Vernon.","Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Docketed \"L. 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Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.","The collection is divided into four series: Correspondence, Financial and Legal Materials, and Research Files. The folders are arranged in chronological order within each series. The undated material is listed at the end of each series, in alphabetical order by folder title.","Series 1. Correspondence \nSeries 2. Financial and Legal Materials\nSeries 3. Research Files\nSeries 4. Bound Volumes","Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (1779-1852): Eleanor was born on March 31, 1779. She was the youngest granddaughter of Martha Washington and the step-granddaughter of George Washington. After her father John Parke Custis' death in 1781 and her mother, Eleanor Calvert Custis' marriage to Dr. David Stuart, Eleanor and her brother George Washington Parke Custis began living with the Washingtons. In 1799, Eleanor married Washington's nephew, Lawrence Lewis. Of their eight children, only one son and three daughters lived to maturity. Eleanor and Lawrence remained at Mount Vernon until Martha Washington's death in 1802 and subsequently moved to Woodlawn Plantation upon its completion in 1805. Throughout her life, Nelly regarded herself as the preserver of George Washington's legacy. She died at Audley Plantation on July 15, 1852 and is buried at Mount Vernon in the family tomb.","Lewis, Lawrence (1767-1839): Nephew of George Washington, born on April 4, 1767, in Fredericksburg, VA to Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington Lewis, the sister of George Washington. In 1797 he became personal secretary to Washington and married Eleanor Custis, a granddaughter of Martha Washington, on February 22, 1799. He was the primary executor of Washington's will and was given 2,000 acres of land by him on which he built Woodlawn. They moved to Audley Plantation in 1830 on land he had purchased from Washington's holdings. He died on November 20, 1839 and is buried in the vault at Mount Vernon.","Washington, Bushrod (1762-1869): Bushrod was the son of Hannah Bushrod and John Augustine Washington, the younger brother of George Washington. Upon the death of George Washington, Bushrod inherited the Mount Vernon estate. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, Bushrod served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was joined on the Supreme Court by his long-time friend, John Marshall. Justices Washington and Marshall had met while attending law lectures given by George Wythe at the College of William and Mary. Bushrod and his wife, Julia Ann Blackburn, had no children of their own, but raised three of their nephews. One nephew, John Augustine Washington (1789-1832), would inherit Mount Vernon from Bushrod.","Autograph document, 2 pages.","Bushrod Washington Family Papers ;\nElizabeth Bordley Gibson Collection ;\nGeorge Washington Collection ;\nHistoric Manuscript Collection ;\nLawrence Lewis Papers ;\nMartha Washington Collection ;\nPeter Family Papers","Scope and Content: \nThis collection was originally assembled by Esther Maria Lewis Chapin, who inherited some of the Washington and Custis papers but was also an avid collector. She reassembled family materials that were being dispersed nationwide, much of which was purchased at Anderson Galleries, sale 22001, 28-29 November 1927.\nThe collection contains correspondence, legal documents, and financial records related primarily to the Custis and Lewis families. Much of the financial and legal materials focus on the construction of the New Tomb at Mount Vernon, as well as settling George Washington's estate.The dates of the material in this collection ranges from 1743-1852, with the bulk of the material dating between 1818-1829.","Autograph letter signed. Washington orders a new suit, to be made for a slender man about six-feet tall.","Autograph letter signed, regarding the sale of property.","Autograph letter signed, discussing the settlement of George Washington's estate.","Autograph letter signed, discussing financial transactions. Mentions John Marshall.","Autograph letter signed. Discusses suit with Samuel Washington and Kanawha lands.","Autograph letter signed, 2 pages, with additional page of accounts.","Autograph letter signed, with list of names on verso (possibly of enslaved persons).","Autograph letter signed, about renting Rock Hall.","Autograph letter signed, likely to Lawrence Lewis, about settling account books","Autograph letter signed, about selling city property and settling accounts.","Autograph letter, signed, likely to Lawrence Washington, about lands in Kentucky and lots in the Federal City.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he \"highly approves\" of Lewis's \"plan for the future settlement of the free negroes.\"","Autograph letter signed, giving instructions for dealing with Mr. Alexander. Bushrod writes about Lawrence's plan to resettle the \"free negroes.\"","Autograph letter signed, with list of all the legatees of George Washington's estate and their addresses.","Autograph letter signed, discussing Mr. Alexander's financial problems.","Autograph letter signed, 2 pages, about the sale of Rock Hall.","Autograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall.","Autograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall.","Autograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall and complaints about Mr. Alexander.","Autograph letter signed, about settling various accounts.","Autograph letter signed, with details of amount to be paid to Dr. Turner from Washington's estate.","Autograph letter signed, about settling the estate of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he purchased 10 barrels of corn to give to the \"free negroes.\"","Autograph letter signed, regarding legal matters in Alexandria.","Autograph letter signed, regarding the suit of the estate of George Washington against Thomas Lee and Gerard Alexander of Pendleton County.","Letter discussing judgements in the Superior Court of Fairfax County.","Autograph letter signed, regarding judgement against Mr. Lee.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod writs that Lawrence needs to meet Mr. Lee in Alexandria about settling debt.","Autograph letter signed, about recovering money and selling wheat crop.","Autograph letter signed, about Mr. Alexander and hiring Reuben to build a brick chimney.","Autograph letter signed, about buying clothes, meat, and corn for a poor woman.","Autograph letter signed, about claims made by Mr. Hammond and Mr. Peter. Bushrod writes that his health has been poor.","Autograph letter signed, about payment for corn and house in Alexandria.","Autograph letter signed, about signing an agreement with Doctor Peale.","Autograph letter signed, about financial matters.","Autograph letter signed, encloses check for corn and timothy.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod invites Lawrence to dine at Mount Vernon so they can discuss Dismal Swamp shares.","Autograph letter signed, about debt.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he has looked through a bundle of General Washington's letters and his letterbook and found one letter to Dr. Jenifer regarding the sale of tobacco.","Autograph letter signed, about financial matters.","Autograph letter signed. Custis writes that he has paid all of his debt to Peyton.","Lengthy letter thanking Lewis for sending the scent bottle that once belonged to George Washington. Rivinus writes about how great Washington was and send news from the city of \"brotherly love,\" including the death of Bushrod Washington and various engagements.","Autograph letter signed. Describes Lawrence Lewis's visit to Woodlawn and writes that she made a purse for Lorenzo, among other family news.","Letter about selling parcels of land.","Letter discussing family news.","Letter discussing family news.","Autograph letter, telling of the death of their granddaughter from whooping cough. Nelly describes the treatment given to the child and writes that she will be interred at the vault at Mount Vernon.","Autograph letter, grieving the loss of their granddaughter. Their daughter is pregnant again. Nelly also writes about financial concerns.","McLean writes that he is enclosing a check for $100 to the estate of George Washington.","Account of taxes owed on properties owned by the estate of General George Washington in Alexandria from 1817-1827. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Prentis writes about paying taxes and the Dismal Swamp lands.","Page writes that he wants to meet Lewis in Norfolk to discuss property.","Prentis writes about tax payments, with enclosed receipts to the Sheriff of Nansemond County.","Letter about selling Ohio lands and claims that cannot be paid.","Autograph letter signed. Nelly sends best wishes to her \"dearest niece\" on her upcoming wedding.","Moore writes that Mr. Hammond's court case is almost settled.","Framed.","Autograph document, 5 pages. Certified by Harry Turner, County Clerk, Westmoreland County.","Receipt for money paid in Pennsylvania currency for land owned by Samuel Chase.","Autograph document in the hand of George Washington, 12 pages, folio, bound in morocco. Washington's personal copy of official documents made by Nathaniel Walthoe, clerk of the council, of all land grants applied for from 1745-1769 for lands lying between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.","Autograph document signed, 13 pages. Stitched manuscript pamphlet in hand of the collector of rents in King George County. Includes rent paid by Mary Washington on 700 acres.","Promissory note for 12 gallons of oil and a patent brush. With a distillery sketch on verso.","Copy of agreement related to renting land.","Copy of agreement related to renting land.","Autograph document signed.","Signed by Lewis as executor of the estate of George Washington.","7 receipts dating from 1832-1836 related to the estate of George Washington.","Receipt for repairs to the vault door at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for barrels of lime for the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for the delivery of 5000 bricks from the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for hauling bricks and sand to the vault at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for six days work on the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for laying bricks at the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for covering the vault of the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for work on the new tomb at Mount Vernon, including a note from the contactor that he has an \"aversion\" to putting a price on his own work.","Receipt for plastering the vault at Mount Vernon.","Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Docketed \"L. 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After her father John Parke Custis' death in 1781 and her mother, Eleanor Calvert Custis' marriage to Dr. David Stuart, Eleanor and her brother George Washington Parke Custis began living with the Washingtons. In 1799, Eleanor married Washington's nephew, Lawrence Lewis. Of their eight children, only one son and three daughters lived to maturity. Eleanor and Lawrence remained at Mount Vernon until Martha Washington's death in 1802 and subsequently moved to Woodlawn Plantation upon its completion in 1805. Throughout her life, Nelly regarded herself as the preserver of George Washington's legacy. She died at Audley Plantation on July 15, 1852 and is buried at Mount Vernon in the family tomb.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLewis, Lawrence (1767-1839): Nephew of George Washington, born on April 4, 1767, in Fredericksburg, VA to Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington Lewis, the sister of George Washington. In 1797 he became personal secretary to Washington and married Eleanor Custis, a granddaughter of Martha Washington, on February 22, 1799. He was the primary executor of Washington's will and was given 2,000 acres of land by him on which he built Woodlawn. They moved to Audley Plantation in 1830 on land he had purchased from Washington's holdings. He died on November 20, 1839 and is buried in the vault at Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWashington, Bushrod (1762-1869): Bushrod was the son of Hannah Bushrod and John Augustine Washington, the younger brother of George Washington. Upon the death of George Washington, Bushrod inherited the Mount Vernon estate. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, Bushrod served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was joined on the Supreme Court by his long-time friend, John Marshall. Justices Washington and Marshall had met while attending law lectures given by George Wythe at the College of William and Mary. Bushrod and his wife, Julia Ann Blackburn, had no children of their own, but raised three of their nephews. One nephew, John Augustine Washington (1789-1832), would inherit Mount Vernon from Bushrod.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (1779-1852): Eleanor was born on March 31, 1779. She was the youngest granddaughter of Martha Washington and the step-granddaughter of George Washington. After her father John Parke Custis' death in 1781 and her mother, Eleanor Calvert Custis' marriage to Dr. David Stuart, Eleanor and her brother George Washington Parke Custis began living with the Washingtons. In 1799, Eleanor married Washington's nephew, Lawrence Lewis. Of their eight children, only one son and three daughters lived to maturity. Eleanor and Lawrence remained at Mount Vernon until Martha Washington's death in 1802 and subsequently moved to Woodlawn Plantation upon its completion in 1805. Throughout her life, Nelly regarded herself as the preserver of George Washington's legacy. She died at Audley Plantation on July 15, 1852 and is buried at Mount Vernon in the family tomb.","Lewis, Lawrence (1767-1839): Nephew of George Washington, born on April 4, 1767, in Fredericksburg, VA to Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington Lewis, the sister of George Washington. In 1797 he became personal secretary to Washington and married Eleanor Custis, a granddaughter of Martha Washington, on February 22, 1799. He was the primary executor of Washington's will and was given 2,000 acres of land by him on which he built Woodlawn. They moved to Audley Plantation in 1830 on land he had purchased from Washington's holdings. He died on November 20, 1839 and is buried in the vault at Mount Vernon.","Washington, Bushrod (1762-1869): Bushrod was the son of Hannah Bushrod and John Augustine Washington, the younger brother of George Washington. Upon the death of George Washington, Bushrod inherited the Mount Vernon estate. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, Bushrod served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was joined on the Supreme Court by his long-time friend, John Marshall. Justices Washington and Marshall had met while attending law lectures given by George Wythe at the College of William and Mary. Bushrod and his wife, Julia Ann Blackburn, had no children of their own, but raised three of their nephews. One nephew, John Augustine Washington (1789-1832), would inherit Mount Vernon from Bushrod."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAutograph document, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["General"],"odd_tesim":["Autograph document, 2 pages."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Name and date of item], Esther Maria Lewis Chapin Collection of Washington family documents, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Name and date of item], Esther Maria Lewis Chapin Collection of Washington family documents, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBushrod Washington Family Papers ;\nElizabeth Bordley Gibson Collection ;\nGeorge Washington Collection ;\nHistoric Manuscript Collection ;\nLawrence Lewis Papers ;\nMartha Washington Collection ;\nPeter Family Papers\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Bushrod Washington Family Papers ;\nElizabeth Bordley Gibson Collection ;\nGeorge Washington Collection ;\nHistoric Manuscript Collection ;\nLawrence Lewis Papers ;\nMartha Washington Collection ;\nPeter Family Papers"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eScope and Content: \nThis collection was originally assembled by Esther Maria Lewis Chapin, who inherited some of the Washington and Custis papers but was also an avid collector. She reassembled family materials that were being dispersed nationwide, much of which was purchased at Anderson Galleries, sale 22001, 28-29 November 1927.\nThe collection contains correspondence, legal documents, and financial records related primarily to the Custis and Lewis families. Much of the financial and legal materials focus on the construction of the New Tomb at Mount Vernon, as well as settling George Washington's estate.The dates of the material in this collection ranges from 1743-1852, with the bulk of the material dating between 1818-1829.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Washington orders a new suit, to be made for a slender man about six-feet tall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, regarding the sale of property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, discussing the settlement of George Washington's estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, discussing financial transactions. Mentions John Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Discusses suit with Samuel Washington and Kanawha lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, 2 pages, with additional page of accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, with list of names on verso (possibly of enslaved persons).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about renting Rock Hall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, likely to Lawrence Lewis, about settling account books\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about selling city property and settling accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter, signed, likely to Lawrence Washington, about lands in Kentucky and lots in the Federal City.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he \"highly approves\" of Lewis's \"plan for the future settlement of the free negroes.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, giving instructions for dealing with Mr. Alexander. Bushrod writes about Lawrence's plan to resettle the \"free negroes.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, with list of all the legatees of George Washington's estate and their addresses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, discussing Mr. Alexander's financial problems.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, 2 pages, about the sale of Rock Hall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall and complaints about Mr. Alexander.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about settling various accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, with details of amount to be paid to Dr. Turner from Washington's estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about settling the estate of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he purchased 10 barrels of corn to give to the \"free negroes.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, regarding legal matters in Alexandria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, regarding the suit of the estate of George Washington against Thomas Lee and Gerard Alexander of Pendleton County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter discussing judgements in the Superior Court of Fairfax County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, regarding judgement against Mr. Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Bushrod writs that Lawrence needs to meet Mr. Lee in Alexandria about settling debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about recovering money and selling wheat crop.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about Mr. Alexander and hiring Reuben to build a brick chimney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about buying clothes, meat, and corn for a poor woman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about claims made by Mr. Hammond and Mr. Peter. Bushrod writes that his health has been poor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about payment for corn and house in Alexandria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about signing an agreement with Doctor Peale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about financial matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, encloses check for corn and timothy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Bushrod invites Lawrence to dine at Mount Vernon so they can discuss Dismal Swamp shares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he has looked through a bundle of General Washington's letters and his letterbook and found one letter to Dr. Jenifer regarding the sale of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, about financial matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Custis writes that he has paid all of his debt to Peyton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLengthy letter thanking Lewis for sending the scent bottle that once belonged to George Washington. Rivinus writes about how great Washington was and send news from the city of \"brotherly love,\" including the death of Bushrod Washington and various engagements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Describes Lawrence Lewis's visit to Woodlawn and writes that she made a purse for Lorenzo, among other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter about selling parcels of land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter discussing family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter discussing family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter, telling of the death of their granddaughter from whooping cough. Nelly describes the treatment given to the child and writes that she will be interred at the vault at Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter, grieving the loss of their granddaughter. Their daughter is pregnant again. Nelly also writes about financial concerns.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcLean writes that he is enclosing a check for $100 to the estate of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of taxes owed on properties owned by the estate of General George Washington in Alexandria from 1817-1827. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrentis writes about paying taxes and the Dismal Swamp lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePage writes that he wants to meet Lewis in Norfolk to discuss property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrentis writes about tax payments, with enclosed receipts to the Sheriff of Nansemond County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter about selling Ohio lands and claims that cannot be paid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Nelly sends best wishes to her \"dearest niece\" on her upcoming wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMoore writes that Mr. Hammond's court case is almost settled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFramed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph document, 5 pages. Certified by Harry Turner, County Clerk, Westmoreland County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for money paid in Pennsylvania currency for land owned by Samuel Chase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph document in the hand of George Washington, 12 pages, folio, bound in morocco. Washington's personal copy of official documents made by Nathaniel Walthoe, clerk of the council, of all land grants applied for from 1745-1769 for lands lying between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph document signed, 13 pages. Stitched manuscript pamphlet in hand of the collector of rents in King George County. Includes rent paid by Mary Washington on 700 acres.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory note for 12 gallons of oil and a patent brush. With a distillery sketch on verso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of agreement related to renting land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of agreement related to renting land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph document signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by Lewis as executor of the estate of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 receipts dating from 1832-1836 related to the estate of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for repairs to the vault door at Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for barrels of lime for the new tomb at Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the delivery of 5000 bricks from the new tomb at Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for hauling bricks and sand to the vault at Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for six days work on the new tomb at Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for laying bricks at the new tomb at Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for covering the vault of the new tomb at Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for work on the new tomb at Mount Vernon, including a note from the contactor that he has an \"aversion\" to putting a price on his own work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for plastering the vault at Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocketed \"L. Lewis Papers.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for payment from James Hunter for the account of Col. William Aylett. Framed with provenance information on verso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft invoice, docketed by Charles Worthington. Framed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for renting a house in Georgetown for one month. Framed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument titled \"Papers for the Lili Chapin Book\" with assorted envelopes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith letters from Ernest Dressel North to Mrs. Chapin regarding the sale.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Scope and Content: \nThis collection was originally assembled by Esther Maria Lewis Chapin, who inherited some of the Washington and Custis papers but was also an avid collector. She reassembled family materials that were being dispersed nationwide, much of which was purchased at Anderson Galleries, sale 22001, 28-29 November 1927.\nThe collection contains correspondence, legal documents, and financial records related primarily to the Custis and Lewis families. Much of the financial and legal materials focus on the construction of the New Tomb at Mount Vernon, as well as settling George Washington's estate.The dates of the material in this collection ranges from 1743-1852, with the bulk of the material dating between 1818-1829.","Autograph letter signed. Washington orders a new suit, to be made for a slender man about six-feet tall.","Autograph letter signed, regarding the sale of property.","Autograph letter signed, discussing the settlement of George Washington's estate.","Autograph letter signed, discussing financial transactions. Mentions John Marshall.","Autograph letter signed. Discusses suit with Samuel Washington and Kanawha lands.","Autograph letter signed, 2 pages, with additional page of accounts.","Autograph letter signed, with list of names on verso (possibly of enslaved persons).","Autograph letter signed, about renting Rock Hall.","Autograph letter signed, likely to Lawrence Lewis, about settling account books","Autograph letter signed, about selling city property and settling accounts.","Autograph letter, signed, likely to Lawrence Washington, about lands in Kentucky and lots in the Federal City.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he \"highly approves\" of Lewis's \"plan for the future settlement of the free negroes.\"","Autograph letter signed, giving instructions for dealing with Mr. Alexander. Bushrod writes about Lawrence's plan to resettle the \"free negroes.\"","Autograph letter signed, with list of all the legatees of George Washington's estate and their addresses.","Autograph letter signed, discussing Mr. Alexander's financial problems.","Autograph letter signed, 2 pages, about the sale of Rock Hall.","Autograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall.","Autograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall.","Autograph letter signed, about the sale of Rock Hall and complaints about Mr. Alexander.","Autograph letter signed, about settling various accounts.","Autograph letter signed, with details of amount to be paid to Dr. Turner from Washington's estate.","Autograph letter signed, about settling the estate of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he purchased 10 barrels of corn to give to the \"free negroes.\"","Autograph letter signed, regarding legal matters in Alexandria.","Autograph letter signed, regarding the suit of the estate of George Washington against Thomas Lee and Gerard Alexander of Pendleton County.","Letter discussing judgements in the Superior Court of Fairfax County.","Autograph letter signed, regarding judgement against Mr. Lee.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod writs that Lawrence needs to meet Mr. Lee in Alexandria about settling debt.","Autograph letter signed, about recovering money and selling wheat crop.","Autograph letter signed, about Mr. Alexander and hiring Reuben to build a brick chimney.","Autograph letter signed, about buying clothes, meat, and corn for a poor woman.","Autograph letter signed, about claims made by Mr. Hammond and Mr. Peter. Bushrod writes that his health has been poor.","Autograph letter signed, about payment for corn and house in Alexandria.","Autograph letter signed, about signing an agreement with Doctor Peale.","Autograph letter signed, about financial matters.","Autograph letter signed, encloses check for corn and timothy.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod invites Lawrence to dine at Mount Vernon so they can discuss Dismal Swamp shares.","Autograph letter signed, about debt.","Autograph letter signed. Bushrod writes that he has looked through a bundle of General Washington's letters and his letterbook and found one letter to Dr. Jenifer regarding the sale of tobacco.","Autograph letter signed, about financial matters.","Autograph letter signed. Custis writes that he has paid all of his debt to Peyton.","Lengthy letter thanking Lewis for sending the scent bottle that once belonged to George Washington. Rivinus writes about how great Washington was and send news from the city of \"brotherly love,\" including the death of Bushrod Washington and various engagements.","Autograph letter signed. Describes Lawrence Lewis's visit to Woodlawn and writes that she made a purse for Lorenzo, among other family news.","Letter about selling parcels of land.","Letter discussing family news.","Letter discussing family news.","Autograph letter, telling of the death of their granddaughter from whooping cough. Nelly describes the treatment given to the child and writes that she will be interred at the vault at Mount Vernon.","Autograph letter, grieving the loss of their granddaughter. Their daughter is pregnant again. Nelly also writes about financial concerns.","McLean writes that he is enclosing a check for $100 to the estate of George Washington.","Account of taxes owed on properties owned by the estate of General George Washington in Alexandria from 1817-1827. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Prentis writes about paying taxes and the Dismal Swamp lands.","Page writes that he wants to meet Lewis in Norfolk to discuss property.","Prentis writes about tax payments, with enclosed receipts to the Sheriff of Nansemond County.","Letter about selling Ohio lands and claims that cannot be paid.","Autograph letter signed. Nelly sends best wishes to her \"dearest niece\" on her upcoming wedding.","Moore writes that Mr. Hammond's court case is almost settled.","Framed.","Autograph document, 5 pages. Certified by Harry Turner, County Clerk, Westmoreland County.","Receipt for money paid in Pennsylvania currency for land owned by Samuel Chase.","Autograph document in the hand of George Washington, 12 pages, folio, bound in morocco. Washington's personal copy of official documents made by Nathaniel Walthoe, clerk of the council, of all land grants applied for from 1745-1769 for lands lying between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.","Autograph document signed, 13 pages. Stitched manuscript pamphlet in hand of the collector of rents in King George County. Includes rent paid by Mary Washington on 700 acres.","Promissory note for 12 gallons of oil and a patent brush. With a distillery sketch on verso.","Copy of agreement related to renting land.","Copy of agreement related to renting land.","Autograph document signed.","Signed by Lewis as executor of the estate of George Washington.","7 receipts dating from 1832-1836 related to the estate of George Washington.","Receipt for repairs to the vault door at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for barrels of lime for the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for the delivery of 5000 bricks from the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for hauling bricks and sand to the vault at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for six days work on the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for laying bricks at the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for covering the vault of the new tomb at Mount Vernon.","Receipt for work on the new tomb at Mount Vernon, including a note from the contactor that he has an \"aversion\" to putting a price on his own work.","Receipt for plastering the vault at Mount Vernon.","Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Docketed \"L. Lewis Papers.\"","Receipt for payment from James Hunter for the account of Col. William Aylett. Framed with provenance information on verso.","Draft invoice, docketed by Charles Worthington. Framed.","Receipt for renting a house in Georgetown for one month. Framed.","Document titled \"Papers for the Lili Chapin Book\" with assorted envelopes.","With letters from Ernest Dressel North to Mrs. Chapin regarding the sale."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eTwo books were transferred to the rare book collection:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWashington's farewell address to the people of the United States (Newburyport : Published by W. and J. Gilman, 1812). [A-1421]\nRobert E. Lee : a character sketch by H. H. Smith ([Richmond], [Williams Print. Co.], [1925]). 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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.","George Washington (February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799) led America's Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), and in 1789 was elected the first President of the United States of America. He served two four-year terms from 1789 to 1797. Washington served as the first American Chancellor of the College of William and Mary from 1788 to 1799.","Box and folder list inventory completed by Zach Woodward, SCRC staff, in March 2011.","For other Washington material, see Dunmore Family Papers (I) (Mss. 65 D92), Dismal Swamp Collection (Mss. 39.2 D63), Powell Family Papers (Mss. 65 P875) and Leven Powell Papers (Mss. 65 P87)."," Artifacts transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03) include: Facsimile Dinner Plate (Mss 39.1W25.01)","Photostats, typescripts, original and printed copies of letters and papers of and about George Washington, Martha Washington and Mary Ball Washington; manuscript of \"The Washingtons of Sulgrave\" by S. H. Lee Washington; portrait engravings and prints of George Washington and places and events associated with him, including an original pen and ink sketch [ca. 1790] by Benjamin H. Latrobe; a piece of sheet music written in honor of George Washington by George M. Cohan; and various maps. ","Original Washington letters in the collection include: Letter, 1796 June 26, George Washington to his nephew Robert Lewis concerning his retirement from public life; and letter, Letter, 1799 March 18, of George Washington to James McAlpine concerning the making of a suit; Letter, 1783 November 15, George Washington to Governor George Clinton (Acc. 1997.073).","Please note that, whenever available, patrons are required to use a digital surrogate, facsimile, or printed version instead of the original document.","18 July, 1755. G[eorge] Washington, Fort Cumberland, [Md.], to [Gov. Robert dinwiddie]. Gives report of an unexpected attack by about 300 French and Indians during his troop's march to Fort Dequesne, in which heavy losses of American men were felt; includes a list of officers wounded or killed at Monogehela. [ca. 18 July, 1755]. R. Orme, [Fort Cumberland, Md.] to Gov. [Robert Dinwiddie], n.p. Detailed report of surprise attack on them by French and Indians; mentions the bravery of [George] Washington and his small band of men. 13 September, 1771. Survey map of Washington's boyhood home along the Rappahannock River, opposite Fredericksburg. Surveyed by George Washington. See oversize file. 19 June, 1775. Commission of George Washington as General and Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army. Signed by John Cancock, President of Congress. See oversize file. June 1775-June, 1783. George Washington's accounts with the United States. 17 August-21 October, 1775. Orderly book of the camp at Cambidge, [Mass.], General Washington's headquarters. 17 October, 1777. John Hancock, Presid[en]t [of Congress], York Town, Pennsylvania, to the Assembly of the State of Virginia, [Williamsburg, Va.]. Transmits a copy of the returns from General [George] Washington, indicating the continental Army's dire need for clothing. 22 Oct. 1780. G[e]o[rge] Washington, H[ea]d Q[uarte]rs, Passaid Falls, [N.J.], to Geo[rge] Mason, Introduces Gen[era]l Gates Command, whose conduct is being investigated by Congress; tells of present problems, and relates feelings of despair that the struggle [American Revolution] has been based on false hopes; details changes which must take place in order to continue the war, including a permanent army, replenished funding, and a unified Congress. 22 May, [17]82. G[eorge] Washington, Newburgh, [N.Y.]. To Col. [Lewis] Nichola [sic] [Nicola]. Expresses wish to visit him [at Mount Vernon] soon; tells of news relating to the treaty [of Paris, 1783]; mention of the replacement of Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin; sentiments of affectionat friendship. See oversize file. 25 June, 1788. George Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.], to Sam[ue]l Powell, Thanks for the chair, which arrived \"in good order,\" and is \"handsome and neat\"; agricultural discussion including the mention of Sainfoin[?] grass seed, and Winlaw's threshing machine; critisizes Congress for their indecision in setting a new meeting place. 17 Sept. 1790. Washington's farewell address. See oversize file. Including correspondence relating to the gift. [ca. 1790]. Pen and ink sketch of George Washington made by [Benjamin H. Latrobe]. Including relative explanation. 18 May, 1794. G[eorge] Washington, Philadelphia, [Pa.], to his nephew, Robert Lewis, real estate discussion about lands owned in Winchester, [Va.], in Bath, and Berkeley counties, and along the Potomac [River]. 26 June, 1796. G[e]o[rge] Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.] to his nephew, Rob[er]t Lewis, n.p. Tells of upcoming schedule, including his retiring from public life on March 4, at which time \"no consideration under heaven that I can forsee shall again withdraw me from the walks of private life\"; mentions his mother's will in realtion to a dispute over some land on Accocoek Run; expresses sorrow at the death of Mrs. [Elizabeth Ball] Haynie, and readily agrees to care for her daughter in a monetary fashion; however, cannot have her stay at Mount Vernon because of his absence and later, much company, including the Ministers of France, Great Britain, and Portugal. Including items concerning the provenance and history of the letter 9 July, 1796. Document giving permission to Thomas Holder, captain of the ship Maria, to depart for spain, carrying a cargo of lumber. Signed by G[eorge] Washington and Edm[und] Randolph. See oversize file. 18 Mar. 1799. G[e]o[rge] Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.], to James McAlpine [Glasgow, Scotland]. Discussion of a custom-made suit, and gold thread needed. Including XCy. 1 p. 9 July, 1799. Will of George Washington. 11 May, 1896. Lawrence Washington, Alex[andria], Va., to Beverly Chew [?], n.p. Asks if he would be interested to buy, and at what pice, an original bookplate of Gen[era]l [George] Washington. Fragment of letter signed by George Washington.","Gives report of an unexpected attack by about 300 French and Indians during his troop's march to Fort Duquesne, in which heavy losses of American men were felt; includes a list of officers wounded or killed at Monongahela.","1754. Title page of a book, The Journal of Major George Washington, printed in Williamsburg, Va. 1800. Funeral oration delivered by Henry Lee, on the death of George Washington, printed in The Western Spy, and Hamilton Gazette, Cincinati, [Ohio]. See oversize file. 1839. Monuments of Washington's Petriotism: An Appeal to the public b P.W. Gallaudet. 1841. monuments of Washington's patriotism: an appeal to the public by P.W. Gallaudet. 1859. James Ross Snowdon, Director of the Mint of the United States, requesting, through a circular, anyone owning medals, coins, or tokens bearking Washington's name or head to turn them into him to supply the cabinet with a \"full set of these interesting materials.\" 1877. Daily Richmond Dispatch article entitled \"Washington--Pater Patriae.\" 1883. Invitation from the chamber of commerce of the state of New York to Benjamin S. Ewell for the unveiling of the statue of George Washington in Wall Street. PM. Framed. Missing 10-25-82 1895. The Spirit of '76, a monthly publication showing on its front cover a photograph of Washington's marriage to Martha Custis in 1759. 1897. Article from The Spirit of '76 about the relationship between George Washington and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth. 1917. Booklet advertising the plight of French children after World War I, and asking for assistance, relating the French's help to America (and George Washington) during the Revolution. 1920. Selections and annotations about a notebook written by Washington while in Va. in 1757. Edited by Victor Hugo Paltsits. 1925. Program of official ceremony celebrating the 193rd birthday of George Washington. 1925. Anniversary of the Birth of Washington: Address of Rep. R. Walton moore of Virginia at the Annual Washington Banquet of the Sons of the American Revolution, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1929. The George Washington Scandals, by John C. Fitzpatrick. Bulletin No. 1 of the Washington Society of Alexandria, [Va.]. PM. 1930. \"When Washington's Sweetheart Fainted,\" a pamphlet advertisign restored Colonial Williamsburg.","Patrons are required to use the facsimile copy instead of the original.","Engraved by H.H. Hall's Sons, New York","Map drawn by National Geographic. See oversize file.","1932. Circular printed by the George Washington Bicentenial Committee of the Grand Lodge F. \u0026 A. M. of Indiana. Signed by Ja[me]s M. Clift, Grand Secretary. 1932. Pamphlet printed in conjunction with the Exhibition of Portraits of George Washington and his Associates at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1932. Invitation from the Governor of Virginia to be present at a celbration honoroing the religious character of George Washington and the drafting of the statues of Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State. 1932. \"George Washington the Churchman,\" a sermon by Rev[eren]d Frank Landon, Humphreys, delivered at Bethesda-by-the-sea, Palm Beach, Florida. 1932. Pamphlet printed in conjunction with the American Tree Association entitled \"George Washington Bi-Centennial Tree Planting.\" 1932. Principal Events in the Life of George Washington. A map by the General Drafting Co., Inc. for Standard oil Company of New Jersey, giving no scale. 1933. \"Harvard's First L. L. D.\" An article from the Boston Daily Globe. 1934. Advance release of address delivered by Hon. R. Walton moore entitled, \"Washington the Statesman in his Home Country.\" Including two items of correspondence regarding the aforementioned item. 1937. Program of the Unveiling Exercises of a Portrait of George Washington in the Court House at New Kent Co., Va. 1938. \"Washington's Burgess Route,\" by the Rev. Arthur P. Gray. 1938. \"George Washington's Godfather of Child Baptized at Cologne in 1795\" including one item of correspondence relating to the article. 1938. George Washington Biography Calendar. 1939, April. Inaguration of Gen. George Washington [showing his and John Adams' routes to New York City, N.Y. and a plan of the city of New York]. A map by the United States Constitution Sequicentennial Commission, with scales of 5:20 and 4:4000. 1948. Washington, D.C. Paper, The Evening Star, article on a recent discovery of a George Washington letter to Samuel Galloway.","\"General Washington's Order Book in the American Revolution.\" \"Subscribers to the Life of Washington.\" Advertisement entitled \"Washington and His Generals.\" \"Washington's Farewell Address, September 19, 1796,\" issued by the National Association of Democratic Clubs. Pamphlet, Known Journeys of Washington to Williamsburg between May 28, 1748 and August, 1775, by Sir Arthur Gray. \"Places in Fredericksburg Associated with George Washington.\" Guide to the Washington Memorial at Valley Forge. Pamphlet, Music written by George M. Cohan entitled \"Father of the Land We Love.\" \"History of the Great Republic,\" p.20, referring to George Washington. Advertisement of Forbes Lithograph Mfg. Co., using Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington. \"George Washington, the Engineer,\" by Charles Colfax Long, President, sons of the Revolution in the District of Colombia. A Brief History of Alexandria: Washington Lodge No. 22 and of its First Worshipful Master General George Washington. Newspaper articles relating to George Washington. Various prints relating to George Washington, including one rendition of the Washington Monument, and Washington's various headquarters during the American Revolution.","Prints, engravings, pictures, and photographs of portraits of George Washington. Lithograph design of George Washington Monument by Charles Parsons (1821-1910), a certificate of subscription signed by James K. Polk, G[eorge] M. Dallas, John Quincy Adams, H[enry] Clay, Albert Gallatin, and Dan[ie]l Webster. See oversize file.","1925 article from Collier's magazine entitled, \"She Knew Martha Washington,\" prints and engravings of Martha Washington, and a facsimile of her china [Transferred to Manuscripts Artifact Collection].","Materials related to Mount Vernon, \"Wakefield,\" and the Mount Vernon Ladies Association.","Includes: coat-of-arms of the Washington family; genealogical charts of the Washington family; material relating to the English branch of the Washington family, and their home, Sulgrave Manor, including a variation of a watercolor painting of the home, by Waller Scott; \"The Will of Mary Washington, Mother of George Washington, First President of the U.S.\"; extracts from the will of Col. John Washington. Also see oversize file.","Artifacts transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03) include: Facsimile Dinner Plate (Mss 39.1W25.01)","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.","For preservation reasons, researchers are asked to use a digial surogate or published version of the original items, if available.","Patrons are required to use the facsimile copy instead of the original.","Special Collections Research Center","Washington, George, 1732-1799","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 39.1 W25","/repositories/2/resources/926"],"normalized_title_ssm":["George Washington Papers [in part: photostats, printed copies, typescripts]"],"collection_title_tesim":["George Washington Papers [in part: photostats, printed copies, typescripts]"],"collection_ssim":["George Washington Papers [in part: photostats, printed copies, typescripts]"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Washington, George, 1732-1799"],"creator_ssim":["Washington, George, 1732-1799"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Washington, George, 1732-1799"],"creators_ssim":["Washington, George, 1732-1799"],"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.","For preservation reasons, researchers are asked to use a digial surogate or published version of the original items, if available."],"acqinfo_ssim":["The materials that comprise this collection were donated and purchased by W\u0026M Special Collections from numerous individuals between 1928 and 1997."],"access_subjects_ssim":["United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783","United States--Presidents","Correspondence","Photocopies","Typescripts"],"access_subjects_ssm":["United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783","United States--Presidents","Correspondence","Photocopies","Typescripts"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["3.00 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["3.00 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Correspondence","Photocopies","Typescripts"],"date_range_isim":[1755,1756,1757,1758,1759,1760,1761,1762,1763,1764,1765,1766,1767,1768,1769,1770,1771,1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. 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H. Lee Washington; portrait engravings and prints of George Washington and places and events associated with him, including an original pen and ink sketch [ca. 1790] by Benjamin H. Latrobe; a piece of sheet music written in honor of George Washington by George M. Cohan; and various maps. ","Original Washington letters in the collection include: Letter, 1796 June 26, George Washington to his nephew Robert Lewis concerning his retirement from public life; and letter, Letter, 1799 March 18, of George Washington to James McAlpine concerning the making of a suit; Letter, 1783 November 15, George Washington to Governor George Clinton (Acc. 1997.073).","Please note that, whenever available, patrons are required to use a digital surrogate, facsimile, or printed version instead of the original document.","18 July, 1755. G[eorge] Washington, Fort Cumberland, [Md.], to [Gov. Robert dinwiddie]. Gives report of an unexpected attack by about 300 French and Indians during his troop's march to Fort Dequesne, in which heavy losses of American men were felt; includes a list of officers wounded or killed at Monogehela. [ca. 18 July, 1755]. R. Orme, [Fort Cumberland, Md.] to Gov. [Robert Dinwiddie], n.p. Detailed report of surprise attack on them by French and Indians; mentions the bravery of [George] Washington and his small band of men. 13 September, 1771. Survey map of Washington's boyhood home along the Rappahannock River, opposite Fredericksburg. Surveyed by George Washington. See oversize file. 19 June, 1775. Commission of George Washington as General and Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army. Signed by John Cancock, President of Congress. See oversize file. June 1775-June, 1783. George Washington's accounts with the United States. 17 August-21 October, 1775. Orderly book of the camp at Cambidge, [Mass.], General Washington's headquarters. 17 October, 1777. John Hancock, Presid[en]t [of Congress], York Town, Pennsylvania, to the Assembly of the State of Virginia, [Williamsburg, Va.]. Transmits a copy of the returns from General [George] Washington, indicating the continental Army's dire need for clothing. 22 Oct. 1780. G[e]o[rge] Washington, H[ea]d Q[uarte]rs, Passaid Falls, [N.J.], to Geo[rge] Mason, Introduces Gen[era]l Gates Command, whose conduct is being investigated by Congress; tells of present problems, and relates feelings of despair that the struggle [American Revolution] has been based on false hopes; details changes which must take place in order to continue the war, including a permanent army, replenished funding, and a unified Congress. 22 May, [17]82. G[eorge] Washington, Newburgh, [N.Y.]. To Col. [Lewis] Nichola [sic] [Nicola]. Expresses wish to visit him [at Mount Vernon] soon; tells of news relating to the treaty [of Paris, 1783]; mention of the replacement of Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin; sentiments of affectionat friendship. See oversize file. 25 June, 1788. George Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.], to Sam[ue]l Powell, Thanks for the chair, which arrived \"in good order,\" and is \"handsome and neat\"; agricultural discussion including the mention of Sainfoin[?] grass seed, and Winlaw's threshing machine; critisizes Congress for their indecision in setting a new meeting place. 17 Sept. 1790. Washington's farewell address. See oversize file. Including correspondence relating to the gift. [ca. 1790]. Pen and ink sketch of George Washington made by [Benjamin H. Latrobe]. Including relative explanation. 18 May, 1794. G[eorge] Washington, Philadelphia, [Pa.], to his nephew, Robert Lewis, real estate discussion about lands owned in Winchester, [Va.], in Bath, and Berkeley counties, and along the Potomac [River]. 26 June, 1796. G[e]o[rge] Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.] to his nephew, Rob[er]t Lewis, n.p. Tells of upcoming schedule, including his retiring from public life on March 4, at which time \"no consideration under heaven that I can forsee shall again withdraw me from the walks of private life\"; mentions his mother's will in realtion to a dispute over some land on Accocoek Run; expresses sorrow at the death of Mrs. [Elizabeth Ball] Haynie, and readily agrees to care for her daughter in a monetary fashion; however, cannot have her stay at Mount Vernon because of his absence and later, much company, including the Ministers of France, Great Britain, and Portugal. Including items concerning the provenance and history of the letter 9 July, 1796. Document giving permission to Thomas Holder, captain of the ship Maria, to depart for spain, carrying a cargo of lumber. Signed by G[eorge] Washington and Edm[und] Randolph. See oversize file. 18 Mar. 1799. G[e]o[rge] Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.], to James McAlpine [Glasgow, Scotland]. Discussion of a custom-made suit, and gold thread needed. Including XCy. 1 p. 9 July, 1799. Will of George Washington. 11 May, 1896. Lawrence Washington, Alex[andria], Va., to Beverly Chew [?], n.p. Asks if he would be interested to buy, and at what pice, an original bookplate of Gen[era]l [George] Washington. Fragment of letter signed by George Washington.","Gives report of an unexpected attack by about 300 French and Indians during his troop's march to Fort Duquesne, in which heavy losses of American men were felt; includes a list of officers wounded or killed at Monongahela.","1754. Title page of a book, The Journal of Major George Washington, printed in Williamsburg, Va. 1800. Funeral oration delivered by Henry Lee, on the death of George Washington, printed in The Western Spy, and Hamilton Gazette, Cincinati, [Ohio]. See oversize file. 1839. Monuments of Washington's Petriotism: An Appeal to the public b P.W. Gallaudet. 1841. monuments of Washington's patriotism: an appeal to the public by P.W. Gallaudet. 1859. James Ross Snowdon, Director of the Mint of the United States, requesting, through a circular, anyone owning medals, coins, or tokens bearking Washington's name or head to turn them into him to supply the cabinet with a \"full set of these interesting materials.\" 1877. Daily Richmond Dispatch article entitled \"Washington--Pater Patriae.\" 1883. Invitation from the chamber of commerce of the state of New York to Benjamin S. Ewell for the unveiling of the statue of George Washington in Wall Street. PM. Framed. Missing 10-25-82 1895. The Spirit of '76, a monthly publication showing on its front cover a photograph of Washington's marriage to Martha Custis in 1759. 1897. Article from The Spirit of '76 about the relationship between George Washington and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth. 1917. Booklet advertising the plight of French children after World War I, and asking for assistance, relating the French's help to America (and George Washington) during the Revolution. 1920. Selections and annotations about a notebook written by Washington while in Va. in 1757. Edited by Victor Hugo Paltsits. 1925. Program of official ceremony celebrating the 193rd birthday of George Washington. 1925. Anniversary of the Birth of Washington: Address of Rep. R. Walton moore of Virginia at the Annual Washington Banquet of the Sons of the American Revolution, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1929. The George Washington Scandals, by John C. Fitzpatrick. Bulletin No. 1 of the Washington Society of Alexandria, [Va.]. PM. 1930. \"When Washington's Sweetheart Fainted,\" a pamphlet advertisign restored Colonial Williamsburg.","Patrons are required to use the facsimile copy instead of the original.","Engraved by H.H. Hall's Sons, New York","Map drawn by National Geographic. See oversize file.","1932. Circular printed by the George Washington Bicentenial Committee of the Grand Lodge F. \u0026 A. M. of Indiana. Signed by Ja[me]s M. Clift, Grand Secretary. 1932. Pamphlet printed in conjunction with the Exhibition of Portraits of George Washington and his Associates at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1932. Invitation from the Governor of Virginia to be present at a celbration honoroing the religious character of George Washington and the drafting of the statues of Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State. 1932. \"George Washington the Churchman,\" a sermon by Rev[eren]d Frank Landon, Humphreys, delivered at Bethesda-by-the-sea, Palm Beach, Florida. 1932. Pamphlet printed in conjunction with the American Tree Association entitled \"George Washington Bi-Centennial Tree Planting.\" 1932. Principal Events in the Life of George Washington. A map by the General Drafting Co., Inc. for Standard oil Company of New Jersey, giving no scale. 1933. \"Harvard's First L. L. D.\" An article from the Boston Daily Globe. 1934. Advance release of address delivered by Hon. R. Walton moore entitled, \"Washington the Statesman in his Home Country.\" Including two items of correspondence regarding the aforementioned item. 1937. Program of the Unveiling Exercises of a Portrait of George Washington in the Court House at New Kent Co., Va. 1938. \"Washington's Burgess Route,\" by the Rev. Arthur P. Gray. 1938. \"George Washington's Godfather of Child Baptized at Cologne in 1795\" including one item of correspondence relating to the article. 1938. George Washington Biography Calendar. 1939, April. Inaguration of Gen. George Washington [showing his and John Adams' routes to New York City, N.Y. and a plan of the city of New York]. A map by the United States Constitution Sequicentennial Commission, with scales of 5:20 and 4:4000. 1948. Washington, D.C. Paper, The Evening Star, article on a recent discovery of a George Washington letter to Samuel Galloway.","\"General Washington's Order Book in the American Revolution.\" \"Subscribers to the Life of Washington.\" Advertisement entitled \"Washington and His Generals.\" \"Washington's Farewell Address, September 19, 1796,\" issued by the National Association of Democratic Clubs. Pamphlet, Known Journeys of Washington to Williamsburg between May 28, 1748 and August, 1775, by Sir Arthur Gray. \"Places in Fredericksburg Associated with George Washington.\" Guide to the Washington Memorial at Valley Forge. Pamphlet, Music written by George M. Cohan entitled \"Father of the Land We Love.\" \"History of the Great Republic,\" p.20, referring to George Washington. Advertisement of Forbes Lithograph Mfg. Co., using Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington. \"George Washington, the Engineer,\" by Charles Colfax Long, President, sons of the Revolution in the District of Colombia. A Brief History of Alexandria: Washington Lodge No. 22 and of its First Worshipful Master General George Washington. Newspaper articles relating to George Washington. Various prints relating to George Washington, including one rendition of the Washington Monument, and Washington's various headquarters during the American Revolution.","Prints, engravings, pictures, and photographs of portraits of George Washington. Lithograph design of George Washington Monument by Charles Parsons (1821-1910), a certificate of subscription signed by James K. Polk, G[eorge] M. Dallas, John Quincy Adams, H[enry] Clay, Albert Gallatin, and Dan[ie]l Webster. See oversize file.","1925 article from Collier's magazine entitled, \"She Knew Martha Washington,\" prints and engravings of Martha Washington, and a facsimile of her china [Transferred to Manuscripts Artifact Collection].","Materials related to Mount Vernon, \"Wakefield,\" and the Mount Vernon Ladies Association.","Includes: coat-of-arms of the Washington family; genealogical charts of the Washington family; material relating to the English branch of the Washington family, and their home, Sulgrave Manor, including a variation of a watercolor painting of the home, by Waller Scott; \"The Will of Mary Washington, Mother of George Washington, First President of the U.S.\"; extracts from the will of Col. John Washington. Also see oversize file."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArtifacts transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03) include: Facsimile Dinner Plate (Mss 39.1W25.01)\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials:"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Artifacts transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03) include: Facsimile Dinner Plate (Mss 39.1W25.01)"],"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\n","\u003cp\u003eFor preservation reasons, researchers are asked to use a digial surogate or published version of the original items, if available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatrons are required to use the facsimile copy instead of the original.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:","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.","For preservation reasons, researchers are asked to use a digial surogate or published version of the original items, if available.","Patrons are required to use the facsimile copy instead of the original."],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Washington, George, 1732-1799"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"names_coll_ssim":["Washington, George, 1732-1799"],"persname_ssim":["Washington, George, 1732-1799"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":20,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T05:01:47.341Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePhotostats, typescripts, original and printed copies of letters and papers of and about George Washington, Martha Washington and Mary Ball Washington; manuscript of \"The Washingtons of Sulgrave\" by S. H. Lee Washington; portrait engravings and prints of George Washington and places and events associated with him, including an original pen and ink sketch [ca. 1790] by Benjamin H. Latrobe; a piece of sheet music written in honor of George Washington by George M. Cohan; and various maps. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOriginal Washington letters in the collection include: Letter, 1796 June 26, George Washington to his nephew Robert Lewis concerning his retirement from public life; and letter, Letter, 1799 March 18, of George Washington to James McAlpine concerning the making of a suit; Letter, 1783 November 15, George Washington to Governor George Clinton (Acc. 1997.073).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePlease note that, whenever available, patrons are required to use a digital surrogate, facsimile, or printed version instead of the original document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 July, 1755. G[eorge] Washington, Fort Cumberland, [Md.], to [Gov. Robert dinwiddie]. Gives report of an unexpected attack by about 300 French and Indians during his troop's march to Fort Dequesne, in which heavy losses of American men were felt; includes a list of officers wounded or killed at Monogehela. [ca. 18 July, 1755]. R. Orme, [Fort Cumberland, Md.] to Gov. [Robert Dinwiddie], n.p. Detailed report of surprise attack on them by French and Indians; mentions the bravery of [George] Washington and his small band of men. 13 September, 1771. Survey map of Washington's boyhood home along the Rappahannock River, opposite Fredericksburg. Surveyed by George Washington. See oversize file. 19 June, 1775. Commission of George Washington as General and Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army. Signed by John Cancock, President of Congress. See oversize file. June 1775-June, 1783. George Washington's accounts with the United States. 17 August-21 October, 1775. Orderly book of the camp at Cambidge, [Mass.], General Washington's headquarters. 17 October, 1777. John Hancock, Presid[en]t [of Congress], York Town, Pennsylvania, to the Assembly of the State of Virginia, [Williamsburg, Va.]. Transmits a copy of the returns from General [George] Washington, indicating the continental Army's dire need for clothing. 22 Oct. 1780. G[e]o[rge] Washington, H[ea]d Q[uarte]rs, Passaid Falls, [N.J.], to Geo[rge] Mason, Introduces Gen[era]l Gates Command, whose conduct is being investigated by Congress; tells of present problems, and relates feelings of despair that the struggle [American Revolution] has been based on false hopes; details changes which must take place in order to continue the war, including a permanent army, replenished funding, and a unified Congress. 22 May, [17]82. G[eorge] Washington, Newburgh, [N.Y.]. To Col. [Lewis] Nichola [sic] [Nicola]. Expresses wish to visit him [at Mount Vernon] soon; tells of news relating to the treaty [of Paris, 1783]; mention of the replacement of Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin; sentiments of affectionat friendship. See oversize file. 25 June, 1788. George Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.], to Sam[ue]l Powell, Thanks for the chair, which arrived \"in good order,\" and is \"handsome and neat\"; agricultural discussion including the mention of Sainfoin[?] grass seed, and Winlaw's threshing machine; critisizes Congress for their indecision in setting a new meeting place. 17 Sept. 1790. Washington's farewell address. See oversize file. Including correspondence relating to the gift. [ca. 1790]. Pen and ink sketch of George Washington made by [Benjamin H. Latrobe]. Including relative explanation. 18 May, 1794. G[eorge] Washington, Philadelphia, [Pa.], to his nephew, Robert Lewis, real estate discussion about lands owned in Winchester, [Va.], in Bath, and Berkeley counties, and along the Potomac [River]. 26 June, 1796. G[e]o[rge] Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.] to his nephew, Rob[er]t Lewis, n.p. Tells of upcoming schedule, including his retiring from public life on March 4, at which time \"no consideration under heaven that I can forsee shall again withdraw me from the walks of private life\"; mentions his mother's will in realtion to a dispute over some land on Accocoek Run; expresses sorrow at the death of Mrs. [Elizabeth Ball] Haynie, and readily agrees to care for her daughter in a monetary fashion; however, cannot have her stay at Mount Vernon because of his absence and later, much company, including the Ministers of France, Great Britain, and Portugal. Including items concerning the provenance and history of the letter 9 July, 1796. Document giving permission to Thomas Holder, captain of the ship Maria, to depart for spain, carrying a cargo of lumber. Signed by G[eorge] Washington and Edm[und] Randolph. See oversize file. 18 Mar. 1799. G[e]o[rge] Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.], to James McAlpine [Glasgow, Scotland]. Discussion of a custom-made suit, and gold thread needed. Including XCy. 1 p. 9 July, 1799. Will of George Washington. 11 May, 1896. Lawrence Washington, Alex[andria], Va., to Beverly Chew [?], n.p. Asks if he would be interested to buy, and at what pice, an original bookplate of Gen[era]l [George] Washington. Fragment of letter signed by George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives report of an unexpected attack by about 300 French and Indians during his troop's march to Fort Duquesne, in which heavy losses of American men were felt; includes a list of officers wounded or killed at Monongahela.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1754. Title page of a book, The Journal of Major George Washington, printed in Williamsburg, Va. 1800. Funeral oration delivered by Henry Lee, on the death of George Washington, printed in The Western Spy, and Hamilton Gazette, Cincinati, [Ohio]. See oversize file. 1839. Monuments of Washington's Petriotism: An Appeal to the public b P.W. Gallaudet. 1841. monuments of Washington's patriotism: an appeal to the public by P.W. Gallaudet. 1859. James Ross Snowdon, Director of the Mint of the United States, requesting, through a circular, anyone owning medals, coins, or tokens bearking Washington's name or head to turn them into him to supply the cabinet with a \"full set of these interesting materials.\" 1877. Daily Richmond Dispatch article entitled \"Washington--Pater Patriae.\" 1883. Invitation from the chamber of commerce of the state of New York to Benjamin S. Ewell for the unveiling of the statue of George Washington in Wall Street. PM. Framed. Missing 10-25-82 1895. The Spirit of '76, a monthly publication showing on its front cover a photograph of Washington's marriage to Martha Custis in 1759. 1897. Article from The Spirit of '76 about the relationship between George Washington and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth. 1917. Booklet advertising the plight of French children after World War I, and asking for assistance, relating the French's help to America (and George Washington) during the Revolution. 1920. Selections and annotations about a notebook written by Washington while in Va. in 1757. Edited by Victor Hugo Paltsits. 1925. Program of official ceremony celebrating the 193rd birthday of George Washington. 1925. Anniversary of the Birth of Washington: Address of Rep. R. Walton moore of Virginia at the Annual Washington Banquet of the Sons of the American Revolution, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1929. The George Washington Scandals, by John C. Fitzpatrick. Bulletin No. 1 of the Washington Society of Alexandria, [Va.]. PM. 1930. \"When Washington's Sweetheart Fainted,\" a pamphlet advertisign restored Colonial Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatrons are required to use the facsimile copy instead of the original.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEngraved by H.H. Hall's Sons, New York\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap drawn by National Geographic. See oversize file.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1932. Circular printed by the George Washington Bicentenial Committee of the Grand Lodge F. \u0026amp; A. M. of Indiana. Signed by Ja[me]s M. Clift, Grand Secretary. 1932. Pamphlet printed in conjunction with the Exhibition of Portraits of George Washington and his Associates at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1932. Invitation from the Governor of Virginia to be present at a celbration honoroing the religious character of George Washington and the drafting of the statues of Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State. 1932. \"George Washington the Churchman,\" a sermon by Rev[eren]d Frank Landon, Humphreys, delivered at Bethesda-by-the-sea, Palm Beach, Florida. 1932. Pamphlet printed in conjunction with the American Tree Association entitled \"George Washington Bi-Centennial Tree Planting.\" 1932. Principal Events in the Life of George Washington. A map by the General Drafting Co., Inc. for Standard oil Company of New Jersey, giving no scale. 1933. \"Harvard's First L. L. D.\" An article from the Boston Daily Globe. 1934. Advance release of address delivered by Hon. R. Walton moore entitled, \"Washington the Statesman in his Home Country.\" Including two items of correspondence regarding the aforementioned item. 1937. Program of the Unveiling Exercises of a Portrait of George Washington in the Court House at New Kent Co., Va. 1938. \"Washington's Burgess Route,\" by the Rev. Arthur P. Gray. 1938. \"George Washington's Godfather of Child Baptized at Cologne in 1795\" including one item of correspondence relating to the article. 1938. George Washington Biography Calendar. 1939, April. Inaguration of Gen. George Washington [showing his and John Adams' routes to New York City, N.Y. and a plan of the city of New York]. A map by the United States Constitution Sequicentennial Commission, with scales of 5:20 and 4:4000. 1948. Washington, D.C. Paper, The Evening Star, article on a recent discovery of a George Washington letter to Samuel Galloway.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"General Washington's Order Book in the American Revolution.\" \"Subscribers to the Life of Washington.\" Advertisement entitled \"Washington and His Generals.\" \"Washington's Farewell Address, September 19, 1796,\" issued by the National Association of Democratic Clubs. Pamphlet, Known Journeys of Washington to Williamsburg between May 28, 1748 and August, 1775, by Sir Arthur Gray. \"Places in Fredericksburg Associated with George Washington.\" Guide to the Washington Memorial at Valley Forge. Pamphlet, Music written by George M. Cohan entitled \"Father of the Land We Love.\" \"History of the Great Republic,\" p.20, referring to George Washington. Advertisement of Forbes Lithograph Mfg. Co., using Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington. \"George Washington, the Engineer,\" by Charles Colfax Long, President, sons of the Revolution in the District of Colombia. A Brief History of Alexandria: Washington Lodge No. 22 and of its First Worshipful Master General George Washington. Newspaper articles relating to George Washington. Various prints relating to George Washington, including one rendition of the Washington Monument, and Washington's various headquarters during the American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrints, engravings, pictures, and photographs of portraits of George Washington. Lithograph design of George Washington Monument by Charles Parsons (1821-1910), a certificate of subscription signed by James K. Polk, G[eorge] M. Dallas, John Quincy Adams, H[enry] Clay, Albert Gallatin, and Dan[ie]l Webster. See oversize file.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1925 article from Collier's magazine entitled, \"She Knew Martha Washington,\" prints and engravings of Martha Washington, and a facsimile of her china [Transferred to Manuscripts Artifact Collection].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials related to Mount Vernon, \"Wakefield,\" and the Mount Vernon Ladies Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes: coat-of-arms of the Washington family; genealogical charts of the Washington family; material relating to the English branch of the Washington family, and their home, Sulgrave Manor, including a variation of a watercolor painting of the home, by Waller Scott; \"The Will of Mary Washington, Mother of George Washington, First President of the U.S.\"; extracts from the will of Col. John Washington. Also see oversize file.\u003c/p\u003e"],"collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_926","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_926","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_926","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_926","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_926.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Washington, George, Papers","title_ssm":["George Washington Papers [in part: photostats, printed copies, typescripts]"],"title_tesim":["George Washington Papers [in part: photostats, printed copies, typescripts]"],"unitdate_ssm":["1755-1932"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1755-1932"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 39.1 W25","/repositories/2/resources/926"],"text":["Mss. 39.1 W25","/repositories/2/resources/926","George Washington Papers [in part: photostats, printed copies, typescripts]","United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783","United States--Presidents","Correspondence","Photocopies","Typescripts","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.","George Washington (February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799) led America's Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), and in 1789 was elected the first President of the United States of America. He served two four-year terms from 1789 to 1797. Washington served as the first American Chancellor of the College of William and Mary from 1788 to 1799.","Box and folder list inventory completed by Zach Woodward, SCRC staff, in March 2011.","For other Washington material, see Dunmore Family Papers (I) (Mss. 65 D92), Dismal Swamp Collection (Mss. 39.2 D63), Powell Family Papers (Mss. 65 P875) and Leven Powell Papers (Mss. 65 P87)."," Artifacts transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03) include: Facsimile Dinner Plate (Mss 39.1W25.01)","Photostats, typescripts, original and printed copies of letters and papers of and about George Washington, Martha Washington and Mary Ball Washington; manuscript of \"The Washingtons of Sulgrave\" by S. H. Lee Washington; portrait engravings and prints of George Washington and places and events associated with him, including an original pen and ink sketch [ca. 1790] by Benjamin H. Latrobe; a piece of sheet music written in honor of George Washington by George M. Cohan; and various maps. ","Original Washington letters in the collection include: Letter, 1796 June 26, George Washington to his nephew Robert Lewis concerning his retirement from public life; and letter, Letter, 1799 March 18, of George Washington to James McAlpine concerning the making of a suit; Letter, 1783 November 15, George Washington to Governor George Clinton (Acc. 1997.073).","Please note that, whenever available, patrons are required to use a digital surrogate, facsimile, or printed version instead of the original document.","18 July, 1755. G[eorge] Washington, Fort Cumberland, [Md.], to [Gov. Robert dinwiddie]. Gives report of an unexpected attack by about 300 French and Indians during his troop's march to Fort Dequesne, in which heavy losses of American men were felt; includes a list of officers wounded or killed at Monogehela. [ca. 18 July, 1755]. R. Orme, [Fort Cumberland, Md.] to Gov. [Robert Dinwiddie], n.p. Detailed report of surprise attack on them by French and Indians; mentions the bravery of [George] Washington and his small band of men. 13 September, 1771. Survey map of Washington's boyhood home along the Rappahannock River, opposite Fredericksburg. Surveyed by George Washington. See oversize file. 19 June, 1775. Commission of George Washington as General and Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army. Signed by John Cancock, President of Congress. See oversize file. June 1775-June, 1783. George Washington's accounts with the United States. 17 August-21 October, 1775. Orderly book of the camp at Cambidge, [Mass.], General Washington's headquarters. 17 October, 1777. John Hancock, Presid[en]t [of Congress], York Town, Pennsylvania, to the Assembly of the State of Virginia, [Williamsburg, Va.]. Transmits a copy of the returns from General [George] Washington, indicating the continental Army's dire need for clothing. 22 Oct. 1780. G[e]o[rge] Washington, H[ea]d Q[uarte]rs, Passaid Falls, [N.J.], to Geo[rge] Mason, Introduces Gen[era]l Gates Command, whose conduct is being investigated by Congress; tells of present problems, and relates feelings of despair that the struggle [American Revolution] has been based on false hopes; details changes which must take place in order to continue the war, including a permanent army, replenished funding, and a unified Congress. 22 May, [17]82. G[eorge] Washington, Newburgh, [N.Y.]. To Col. [Lewis] Nichola [sic] [Nicola]. Expresses wish to visit him [at Mount Vernon] soon; tells of news relating to the treaty [of Paris, 1783]; mention of the replacement of Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin; sentiments of affectionat friendship. See oversize file. 25 June, 1788. George Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.], to Sam[ue]l Powell, Thanks for the chair, which arrived \"in good order,\" and is \"handsome and neat\"; agricultural discussion including the mention of Sainfoin[?] grass seed, and Winlaw's threshing machine; critisizes Congress for their indecision in setting a new meeting place. 17 Sept. 1790. Washington's farewell address. See oversize file. Including correspondence relating to the gift. [ca. 1790]. Pen and ink sketch of George Washington made by [Benjamin H. Latrobe]. Including relative explanation. 18 May, 1794. G[eorge] Washington, Philadelphia, [Pa.], to his nephew, Robert Lewis, real estate discussion about lands owned in Winchester, [Va.], in Bath, and Berkeley counties, and along the Potomac [River]. 26 June, 1796. G[e]o[rge] Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.] to his nephew, Rob[er]t Lewis, n.p. Tells of upcoming schedule, including his retiring from public life on March 4, at which time \"no consideration under heaven that I can forsee shall again withdraw me from the walks of private life\"; mentions his mother's will in realtion to a dispute over some land on Accocoek Run; expresses sorrow at the death of Mrs. [Elizabeth Ball] Haynie, and readily agrees to care for her daughter in a monetary fashion; however, cannot have her stay at Mount Vernon because of his absence and later, much company, including the Ministers of France, Great Britain, and Portugal. Including items concerning the provenance and history of the letter 9 July, 1796. Document giving permission to Thomas Holder, captain of the ship Maria, to depart for spain, carrying a cargo of lumber. Signed by G[eorge] Washington and Edm[und] Randolph. See oversize file. 18 Mar. 1799. G[e]o[rge] Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.], to James McAlpine [Glasgow, Scotland]. Discussion of a custom-made suit, and gold thread needed. Including XCy. 1 p. 9 July, 1799. Will of George Washington. 11 May, 1896. Lawrence Washington, Alex[andria], Va., to Beverly Chew [?], n.p. Asks if he would be interested to buy, and at what pice, an original bookplate of Gen[era]l [George] Washington. Fragment of letter signed by George Washington.","Gives report of an unexpected attack by about 300 French and Indians during his troop's march to Fort Duquesne, in which heavy losses of American men were felt; includes a list of officers wounded or killed at Monongahela.","1754. Title page of a book, The Journal of Major George Washington, printed in Williamsburg, Va. 1800. Funeral oration delivered by Henry Lee, on the death of George Washington, printed in The Western Spy, and Hamilton Gazette, Cincinati, [Ohio]. See oversize file. 1839. Monuments of Washington's Petriotism: An Appeal to the public b P.W. Gallaudet. 1841. monuments of Washington's patriotism: an appeal to the public by P.W. Gallaudet. 1859. James Ross Snowdon, Director of the Mint of the United States, requesting, through a circular, anyone owning medals, coins, or tokens bearking Washington's name or head to turn them into him to supply the cabinet with a \"full set of these interesting materials.\" 1877. Daily Richmond Dispatch article entitled \"Washington--Pater Patriae.\" 1883. Invitation from the chamber of commerce of the state of New York to Benjamin S. Ewell for the unveiling of the statue of George Washington in Wall Street. PM. Framed. Missing 10-25-82 1895. The Spirit of '76, a monthly publication showing on its front cover a photograph of Washington's marriage to Martha Custis in 1759. 1897. Article from The Spirit of '76 about the relationship between George Washington and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth. 1917. Booklet advertising the plight of French children after World War I, and asking for assistance, relating the French's help to America (and George Washington) during the Revolution. 1920. Selections and annotations about a notebook written by Washington while in Va. in 1757. Edited by Victor Hugo Paltsits. 1925. Program of official ceremony celebrating the 193rd birthday of George Washington. 1925. Anniversary of the Birth of Washington: Address of Rep. R. Walton moore of Virginia at the Annual Washington Banquet of the Sons of the American Revolution, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1929. The George Washington Scandals, by John C. Fitzpatrick. Bulletin No. 1 of the Washington Society of Alexandria, [Va.]. PM. 1930. \"When Washington's Sweetheart Fainted,\" a pamphlet advertisign restored Colonial Williamsburg.","Patrons are required to use the facsimile copy instead of the original.","Engraved by H.H. Hall's Sons, New York","Map drawn by National Geographic. See oversize file.","1932. Circular printed by the George Washington Bicentenial Committee of the Grand Lodge F. \u0026 A. M. of Indiana. Signed by Ja[me]s M. Clift, Grand Secretary. 1932. Pamphlet printed in conjunction with the Exhibition of Portraits of George Washington and his Associates at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1932. Invitation from the Governor of Virginia to be present at a celbration honoroing the religious character of George Washington and the drafting of the statues of Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State. 1932. \"George Washington the Churchman,\" a sermon by Rev[eren]d Frank Landon, Humphreys, delivered at Bethesda-by-the-sea, Palm Beach, Florida. 1932. Pamphlet printed in conjunction with the American Tree Association entitled \"George Washington Bi-Centennial Tree Planting.\" 1932. Principal Events in the Life of George Washington. A map by the General Drafting Co., Inc. for Standard oil Company of New Jersey, giving no scale. 1933. \"Harvard's First L. L. D.\" An article from the Boston Daily Globe. 1934. Advance release of address delivered by Hon. R. Walton moore entitled, \"Washington the Statesman in his Home Country.\" Including two items of correspondence regarding the aforementioned item. 1937. Program of the Unveiling Exercises of a Portrait of George Washington in the Court House at New Kent Co., Va. 1938. \"Washington's Burgess Route,\" by the Rev. Arthur P. Gray. 1938. \"George Washington's Godfather of Child Baptized at Cologne in 1795\" including one item of correspondence relating to the article. 1938. George Washington Biography Calendar. 1939, April. Inaguration of Gen. George Washington [showing his and John Adams' routes to New York City, N.Y. and a plan of the city of New York]. A map by the United States Constitution Sequicentennial Commission, with scales of 5:20 and 4:4000. 1948. Washington, D.C. Paper, The Evening Star, article on a recent discovery of a George Washington letter to Samuel Galloway.","\"General Washington's Order Book in the American Revolution.\" \"Subscribers to the Life of Washington.\" Advertisement entitled \"Washington and His Generals.\" \"Washington's Farewell Address, September 19, 1796,\" issued by the National Association of Democratic Clubs. Pamphlet, Known Journeys of Washington to Williamsburg between May 28, 1748 and August, 1775, by Sir Arthur Gray. \"Places in Fredericksburg Associated with George Washington.\" Guide to the Washington Memorial at Valley Forge. Pamphlet, Music written by George M. Cohan entitled \"Father of the Land We Love.\" \"History of the Great Republic,\" p.20, referring to George Washington. Advertisement of Forbes Lithograph Mfg. Co., using Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington. \"George Washington, the Engineer,\" by Charles Colfax Long, President, sons of the Revolution in the District of Colombia. A Brief History of Alexandria: Washington Lodge No. 22 and of its First Worshipful Master General George Washington. Newspaper articles relating to George Washington. Various prints relating to George Washington, including one rendition of the Washington Monument, and Washington's various headquarters during the American Revolution.","Prints, engravings, pictures, and photographs of portraits of George Washington. Lithograph design of George Washington Monument by Charles Parsons (1821-1910), a certificate of subscription signed by James K. Polk, G[eorge] M. Dallas, John Quincy Adams, H[enry] Clay, Albert Gallatin, and Dan[ie]l Webster. See oversize file.","1925 article from Collier's magazine entitled, \"She Knew Martha Washington,\" prints and engravings of Martha Washington, and a facsimile of her china [Transferred to Manuscripts Artifact Collection].","Materials related to Mount Vernon, \"Wakefield,\" and the Mount Vernon Ladies Association.","Includes: coat-of-arms of the Washington family; genealogical charts of the Washington family; material relating to the English branch of the Washington family, and their home, Sulgrave Manor, including a variation of a watercolor painting of the home, by Waller Scott; \"The Will of Mary Washington, Mother of George Washington, First President of the U.S.\"; extracts from the will of Col. John Washington. Also see oversize file.","Artifacts transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03) include: Facsimile Dinner Plate (Mss 39.1W25.01)","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.","For preservation reasons, researchers are asked to use a digial surogate or published version of the original items, if available.","Patrons are required to use the facsimile copy instead of the original.","Special Collections Research Center","Washington, George, 1732-1799","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 39.1 W25","/repositories/2/resources/926"],"normalized_title_ssm":["George Washington Papers [in part: photostats, printed copies, typescripts]"],"collection_title_tesim":["George Washington Papers [in part: photostats, printed copies, typescripts]"],"collection_ssim":["George Washington Papers [in part: photostats, printed copies, typescripts]"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Washington, George, 1732-1799"],"creator_ssim":["Washington, George, 1732-1799"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Washington, George, 1732-1799"],"creators_ssim":["Washington, George, 1732-1799"],"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.","For preservation reasons, researchers are asked to use a digial surogate or published version of the original items, if available."],"acqinfo_ssim":["The materials that comprise this collection were donated and purchased by W\u0026M Special Collections from numerous individuals between 1928 and 1997."],"access_subjects_ssim":["United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783","United States--Presidents","Correspondence","Photocopies","Typescripts"],"access_subjects_ssm":["United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783","United States--Presidents","Correspondence","Photocopies","Typescripts"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["3.00 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["3.00 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Correspondence","Photocopies","Typescripts"],"date_range_isim":[1755,1756,1757,1758,1759,1760,1761,1762,1763,1764,1765,1766,1767,1768,1769,1770,1771,1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932],"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. 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H. Lee Washington; portrait engravings and prints of George Washington and places and events associated with him, including an original pen and ink sketch [ca. 1790] by Benjamin H. Latrobe; a piece of sheet music written in honor of George Washington by George M. Cohan; and various maps. ","Original Washington letters in the collection include: Letter, 1796 June 26, George Washington to his nephew Robert Lewis concerning his retirement from public life; and letter, Letter, 1799 March 18, of George Washington to James McAlpine concerning the making of a suit; Letter, 1783 November 15, George Washington to Governor George Clinton (Acc. 1997.073).","Please note that, whenever available, patrons are required to use a digital surrogate, facsimile, or printed version instead of the original document.","18 July, 1755. G[eorge] Washington, Fort Cumberland, [Md.], to [Gov. Robert dinwiddie]. Gives report of an unexpected attack by about 300 French and Indians during his troop's march to Fort Dequesne, in which heavy losses of American men were felt; includes a list of officers wounded or killed at Monogehela. [ca. 18 July, 1755]. R. Orme, [Fort Cumberland, Md.] to Gov. [Robert Dinwiddie], n.p. Detailed report of surprise attack on them by French and Indians; mentions the bravery of [George] Washington and his small band of men. 13 September, 1771. Survey map of Washington's boyhood home along the Rappahannock River, opposite Fredericksburg. Surveyed by George Washington. See oversize file. 19 June, 1775. Commission of George Washington as General and Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army. Signed by John Cancock, President of Congress. See oversize file. June 1775-June, 1783. George Washington's accounts with the United States. 17 August-21 October, 1775. Orderly book of the camp at Cambidge, [Mass.], General Washington's headquarters. 17 October, 1777. John Hancock, Presid[en]t [of Congress], York Town, Pennsylvania, to the Assembly of the State of Virginia, [Williamsburg, Va.]. Transmits a copy of the returns from General [George] Washington, indicating the continental Army's dire need for clothing. 22 Oct. 1780. G[e]o[rge] Washington, H[ea]d Q[uarte]rs, Passaid Falls, [N.J.], to Geo[rge] Mason, Introduces Gen[era]l Gates Command, whose conduct is being investigated by Congress; tells of present problems, and relates feelings of despair that the struggle [American Revolution] has been based on false hopes; details changes which must take place in order to continue the war, including a permanent army, replenished funding, and a unified Congress. 22 May, [17]82. G[eorge] Washington, Newburgh, [N.Y.]. To Col. [Lewis] Nichola [sic] [Nicola]. Expresses wish to visit him [at Mount Vernon] soon; tells of news relating to the treaty [of Paris, 1783]; mention of the replacement of Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin; sentiments of affectionat friendship. See oversize file. 25 June, 1788. George Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.], to Sam[ue]l Powell, Thanks for the chair, which arrived \"in good order,\" and is \"handsome and neat\"; agricultural discussion including the mention of Sainfoin[?] grass seed, and Winlaw's threshing machine; critisizes Congress for their indecision in setting a new meeting place. 17 Sept. 1790. Washington's farewell address. See oversize file. Including correspondence relating to the gift. [ca. 1790]. Pen and ink sketch of George Washington made by [Benjamin H. Latrobe]. Including relative explanation. 18 May, 1794. G[eorge] Washington, Philadelphia, [Pa.], to his nephew, Robert Lewis, real estate discussion about lands owned in Winchester, [Va.], in Bath, and Berkeley counties, and along the Potomac [River]. 26 June, 1796. G[e]o[rge] Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.] to his nephew, Rob[er]t Lewis, n.p. Tells of upcoming schedule, including his retiring from public life on March 4, at which time \"no consideration under heaven that I can forsee shall again withdraw me from the walks of private life\"; mentions his mother's will in realtion to a dispute over some land on Accocoek Run; expresses sorrow at the death of Mrs. [Elizabeth Ball] Haynie, and readily agrees to care for her daughter in a monetary fashion; however, cannot have her stay at Mount Vernon because of his absence and later, much company, including the Ministers of France, Great Britain, and Portugal. Including items concerning the provenance and history of the letter 9 July, 1796. Document giving permission to Thomas Holder, captain of the ship Maria, to depart for spain, carrying a cargo of lumber. Signed by G[eorge] Washington and Edm[und] Randolph. See oversize file. 18 Mar. 1799. G[e]o[rge] Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.], to James McAlpine [Glasgow, Scotland]. Discussion of a custom-made suit, and gold thread needed. Including XCy. 1 p. 9 July, 1799. Will of George Washington. 11 May, 1896. Lawrence Washington, Alex[andria], Va., to Beverly Chew [?], n.p. Asks if he would be interested to buy, and at what pice, an original bookplate of Gen[era]l [George] Washington. Fragment of letter signed by George Washington.","Gives report of an unexpected attack by about 300 French and Indians during his troop's march to Fort Duquesne, in which heavy losses of American men were felt; includes a list of officers wounded or killed at Monongahela.","1754. Title page of a book, The Journal of Major George Washington, printed in Williamsburg, Va. 1800. Funeral oration delivered by Henry Lee, on the death of George Washington, printed in The Western Spy, and Hamilton Gazette, Cincinati, [Ohio]. See oversize file. 1839. Monuments of Washington's Petriotism: An Appeal to the public b P.W. Gallaudet. 1841. monuments of Washington's patriotism: an appeal to the public by P.W. Gallaudet. 1859. James Ross Snowdon, Director of the Mint of the United States, requesting, through a circular, anyone owning medals, coins, or tokens bearking Washington's name or head to turn them into him to supply the cabinet with a \"full set of these interesting materials.\" 1877. Daily Richmond Dispatch article entitled \"Washington--Pater Patriae.\" 1883. Invitation from the chamber of commerce of the state of New York to Benjamin S. Ewell for the unveiling of the statue of George Washington in Wall Street. PM. Framed. Missing 10-25-82 1895. The Spirit of '76, a monthly publication showing on its front cover a photograph of Washington's marriage to Martha Custis in 1759. 1897. Article from The Spirit of '76 about the relationship between George Washington and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth. 1917. Booklet advertising the plight of French children after World War I, and asking for assistance, relating the French's help to America (and George Washington) during the Revolution. 1920. Selections and annotations about a notebook written by Washington while in Va. in 1757. Edited by Victor Hugo Paltsits. 1925. Program of official ceremony celebrating the 193rd birthday of George Washington. 1925. Anniversary of the Birth of Washington: Address of Rep. R. Walton moore of Virginia at the Annual Washington Banquet of the Sons of the American Revolution, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1929. The George Washington Scandals, by John C. Fitzpatrick. Bulletin No. 1 of the Washington Society of Alexandria, [Va.]. PM. 1930. \"When Washington's Sweetheart Fainted,\" a pamphlet advertisign restored Colonial Williamsburg.","Patrons are required to use the facsimile copy instead of the original.","Engraved by H.H. Hall's Sons, New York","Map drawn by National Geographic. See oversize file.","1932. Circular printed by the George Washington Bicentenial Committee of the Grand Lodge F. \u0026 A. M. of Indiana. Signed by Ja[me]s M. Clift, Grand Secretary. 1932. Pamphlet printed in conjunction with the Exhibition of Portraits of George Washington and his Associates at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1932. Invitation from the Governor of Virginia to be present at a celbration honoroing the religious character of George Washington and the drafting of the statues of Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State. 1932. \"George Washington the Churchman,\" a sermon by Rev[eren]d Frank Landon, Humphreys, delivered at Bethesda-by-the-sea, Palm Beach, Florida. 1932. Pamphlet printed in conjunction with the American Tree Association entitled \"George Washington Bi-Centennial Tree Planting.\" 1932. Principal Events in the Life of George Washington. A map by the General Drafting Co., Inc. for Standard oil Company of New Jersey, giving no scale. 1933. \"Harvard's First L. L. D.\" An article from the Boston Daily Globe. 1934. Advance release of address delivered by Hon. R. Walton moore entitled, \"Washington the Statesman in his Home Country.\" Including two items of correspondence regarding the aforementioned item. 1937. Program of the Unveiling Exercises of a Portrait of George Washington in the Court House at New Kent Co., Va. 1938. \"Washington's Burgess Route,\" by the Rev. Arthur P. Gray. 1938. \"George Washington's Godfather of Child Baptized at Cologne in 1795\" including one item of correspondence relating to the article. 1938. George Washington Biography Calendar. 1939, April. Inaguration of Gen. George Washington [showing his and John Adams' routes to New York City, N.Y. and a plan of the city of New York]. A map by the United States Constitution Sequicentennial Commission, with scales of 5:20 and 4:4000. 1948. Washington, D.C. Paper, The Evening Star, article on a recent discovery of a George Washington letter to Samuel Galloway.","\"General Washington's Order Book in the American Revolution.\" \"Subscribers to the Life of Washington.\" Advertisement entitled \"Washington and His Generals.\" \"Washington's Farewell Address, September 19, 1796,\" issued by the National Association of Democratic Clubs. Pamphlet, Known Journeys of Washington to Williamsburg between May 28, 1748 and August, 1775, by Sir Arthur Gray. \"Places in Fredericksburg Associated with George Washington.\" Guide to the Washington Memorial at Valley Forge. Pamphlet, Music written by George M. Cohan entitled \"Father of the Land We Love.\" \"History of the Great Republic,\" p.20, referring to George Washington. Advertisement of Forbes Lithograph Mfg. Co., using Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington. \"George Washington, the Engineer,\" by Charles Colfax Long, President, sons of the Revolution in the District of Colombia. A Brief History of Alexandria: Washington Lodge No. 22 and of its First Worshipful Master General George Washington. Newspaper articles relating to George Washington. Various prints relating to George Washington, including one rendition of the Washington Monument, and Washington's various headquarters during the American Revolution.","Prints, engravings, pictures, and photographs of portraits of George Washington. Lithograph design of George Washington Monument by Charles Parsons (1821-1910), a certificate of subscription signed by James K. Polk, G[eorge] M. Dallas, John Quincy Adams, H[enry] Clay, Albert Gallatin, and Dan[ie]l Webster. See oversize file.","1925 article from Collier's magazine entitled, \"She Knew Martha Washington,\" prints and engravings of Martha Washington, and a facsimile of her china [Transferred to Manuscripts Artifact Collection].","Materials related to Mount Vernon, \"Wakefield,\" and the Mount Vernon Ladies Association.","Includes: coat-of-arms of the Washington family; genealogical charts of the Washington family; material relating to the English branch of the Washington family, and their home, Sulgrave Manor, including a variation of a watercolor painting of the home, by Waller Scott; \"The Will of Mary Washington, Mother of George Washington, First President of the U.S.\"; extracts from the will of Col. John Washington. Also see oversize file."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArtifacts transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03) include: Facsimile Dinner Plate (Mss 39.1W25.01)\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials:"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Artifacts transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03) include: Facsimile Dinner Plate (Mss 39.1W25.01)"],"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\n","\u003cp\u003eFor preservation reasons, researchers are asked to use a digial surogate or published version of the original items, if available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatrons are required to use the facsimile copy instead of the original.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:","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.","For preservation reasons, researchers are asked to use a digial surogate or published version of the original items, if available.","Patrons are required to use the facsimile copy instead of the original."],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Washington, George, 1732-1799"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"names_coll_ssim":["Washington, George, 1732-1799"],"persname_ssim":["Washington, George, 1732-1799"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":20,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T05:01:47.341Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePhotostats, typescripts, original and printed copies of letters and papers of and about George Washington, Martha Washington and Mary Ball Washington; manuscript of \"The Washingtons of Sulgrave\" by S. H. Lee Washington; portrait engravings and prints of George Washington and places and events associated with him, including an original pen and ink sketch [ca. 1790] by Benjamin H. Latrobe; a piece of sheet music written in honor of George Washington by George M. Cohan; and various maps. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOriginal Washington letters in the collection include: Letter, 1796 June 26, George Washington to his nephew Robert Lewis concerning his retirement from public life; and letter, Letter, 1799 March 18, of George Washington to James McAlpine concerning the making of a suit; Letter, 1783 November 15, George Washington to Governor George Clinton (Acc. 1997.073).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePlease note that, whenever available, patrons are required to use a digital surrogate, facsimile, or printed version instead of the original document.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 July, 1755. G[eorge] Washington, Fort Cumberland, [Md.], to [Gov. Robert dinwiddie]. Gives report of an unexpected attack by about 300 French and Indians during his troop's march to Fort Dequesne, in which heavy losses of American men were felt; includes a list of officers wounded or killed at Monogehela. [ca. 18 July, 1755]. R. Orme, [Fort Cumberland, Md.] to Gov. [Robert Dinwiddie], n.p. Detailed report of surprise attack on them by French and Indians; mentions the bravery of [George] Washington and his small band of men. 13 September, 1771. Survey map of Washington's boyhood home along the Rappahannock River, opposite Fredericksburg. Surveyed by George Washington. See oversize file. 19 June, 1775. Commission of George Washington as General and Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army. Signed by John Cancock, President of Congress. See oversize file. June 1775-June, 1783. George Washington's accounts with the United States. 17 August-21 October, 1775. Orderly book of the camp at Cambidge, [Mass.], General Washington's headquarters. 17 October, 1777. John Hancock, Presid[en]t [of Congress], York Town, Pennsylvania, to the Assembly of the State of Virginia, [Williamsburg, Va.]. Transmits a copy of the returns from General [George] Washington, indicating the continental Army's dire need for clothing. 22 Oct. 1780. G[e]o[rge] Washington, H[ea]d Q[uarte]rs, Passaid Falls, [N.J.], to Geo[rge] Mason, Introduces Gen[era]l Gates Command, whose conduct is being investigated by Congress; tells of present problems, and relates feelings of despair that the struggle [American Revolution] has been based on false hopes; details changes which must take place in order to continue the war, including a permanent army, replenished funding, and a unified Congress. 22 May, [17]82. G[eorge] Washington, Newburgh, [N.Y.]. To Col. [Lewis] Nichola [sic] [Nicola]. Expresses wish to visit him [at Mount Vernon] soon; tells of news relating to the treaty [of Paris, 1783]; mention of the replacement of Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin; sentiments of affectionat friendship. See oversize file. 25 June, 1788. George Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.], to Sam[ue]l Powell, Thanks for the chair, which arrived \"in good order,\" and is \"handsome and neat\"; agricultural discussion including the mention of Sainfoin[?] grass seed, and Winlaw's threshing machine; critisizes Congress for their indecision in setting a new meeting place. 17 Sept. 1790. Washington's farewell address. See oversize file. Including correspondence relating to the gift. [ca. 1790]. Pen and ink sketch of George Washington made by [Benjamin H. Latrobe]. Including relative explanation. 18 May, 1794. G[eorge] Washington, Philadelphia, [Pa.], to his nephew, Robert Lewis, real estate discussion about lands owned in Winchester, [Va.], in Bath, and Berkeley counties, and along the Potomac [River]. 26 June, 1796. G[e]o[rge] Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.] to his nephew, Rob[er]t Lewis, n.p. Tells of upcoming schedule, including his retiring from public life on March 4, at which time \"no consideration under heaven that I can forsee shall again withdraw me from the walks of private life\"; mentions his mother's will in realtion to a dispute over some land on Accocoek Run; expresses sorrow at the death of Mrs. [Elizabeth Ball] Haynie, and readily agrees to care for her daughter in a monetary fashion; however, cannot have her stay at Mount Vernon because of his absence and later, much company, including the Ministers of France, Great Britain, and Portugal. Including items concerning the provenance and history of the letter 9 July, 1796. Document giving permission to Thomas Holder, captain of the ship Maria, to depart for spain, carrying a cargo of lumber. Signed by G[eorge] Washington and Edm[und] Randolph. See oversize file. 18 Mar. 1799. G[e]o[rge] Washington, Mt. Vernon, [Va.], to James McAlpine [Glasgow, Scotland]. Discussion of a custom-made suit, and gold thread needed. Including XCy. 1 p. 9 July, 1799. Will of George Washington. 11 May, 1896. Lawrence Washington, Alex[andria], Va., to Beverly Chew [?], n.p. Asks if he would be interested to buy, and at what pice, an original bookplate of Gen[era]l [George] Washington. Fragment of letter signed by George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives report of an unexpected attack by about 300 French and Indians during his troop's march to Fort Duquesne, in which heavy losses of American men were felt; includes a list of officers wounded or killed at Monongahela.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1754. Title page of a book, The Journal of Major George Washington, printed in Williamsburg, Va. 1800. Funeral oration delivered by Henry Lee, on the death of George Washington, printed in The Western Spy, and Hamilton Gazette, Cincinati, [Ohio]. See oversize file. 1839. Monuments of Washington's Petriotism: An Appeal to the public b P.W. Gallaudet. 1841. monuments of Washington's patriotism: an appeal to the public by P.W. Gallaudet. 1859. James Ross Snowdon, Director of the Mint of the United States, requesting, through a circular, anyone owning medals, coins, or tokens bearking Washington's name or head to turn them into him to supply the cabinet with a \"full set of these interesting materials.\" 1877. Daily Richmond Dispatch article entitled \"Washington--Pater Patriae.\" 1883. Invitation from the chamber of commerce of the state of New York to Benjamin S. Ewell for the unveiling of the statue of George Washington in Wall Street. PM. Framed. Missing 10-25-82 1895. The Spirit of '76, a monthly publication showing on its front cover a photograph of Washington's marriage to Martha Custis in 1759. 1897. Article from The Spirit of '76 about the relationship between George Washington and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth. 1917. Booklet advertising the plight of French children after World War I, and asking for assistance, relating the French's help to America (and George Washington) during the Revolution. 1920. Selections and annotations about a notebook written by Washington while in Va. in 1757. Edited by Victor Hugo Paltsits. 1925. Program of official ceremony celebrating the 193rd birthday of George Washington. 1925. Anniversary of the Birth of Washington: Address of Rep. R. Walton moore of Virginia at the Annual Washington Banquet of the Sons of the American Revolution, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1929. The George Washington Scandals, by John C. Fitzpatrick. Bulletin No. 1 of the Washington Society of Alexandria, [Va.]. PM. 1930. \"When Washington's Sweetheart Fainted,\" a pamphlet advertisign restored Colonial Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatrons are required to use the facsimile copy instead of the original.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEngraved by H.H. Hall's Sons, New York\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap drawn by National Geographic. See oversize file.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1932. Circular printed by the George Washington Bicentenial Committee of the Grand Lodge F. \u0026amp; A. M. of Indiana. Signed by Ja[me]s M. Clift, Grand Secretary. 1932. Pamphlet printed in conjunction with the Exhibition of Portraits of George Washington and his Associates at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1932. Invitation from the Governor of Virginia to be present at a celbration honoroing the religious character of George Washington and the drafting of the statues of Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State. 1932. \"George Washington the Churchman,\" a sermon by Rev[eren]d Frank Landon, Humphreys, delivered at Bethesda-by-the-sea, Palm Beach, Florida. 1932. Pamphlet printed in conjunction with the American Tree Association entitled \"George Washington Bi-Centennial Tree Planting.\" 1932. Principal Events in the Life of George Washington. A map by the General Drafting Co., Inc. for Standard oil Company of New Jersey, giving no scale. 1933. \"Harvard's First L. L. D.\" An article from the Boston Daily Globe. 1934. Advance release of address delivered by Hon. R. Walton moore entitled, \"Washington the Statesman in his Home Country.\" Including two items of correspondence regarding the aforementioned item. 1937. Program of the Unveiling Exercises of a Portrait of George Washington in the Court House at New Kent Co., Va. 1938. \"Washington's Burgess Route,\" by the Rev. Arthur P. Gray. 1938. \"George Washington's Godfather of Child Baptized at Cologne in 1795\" including one item of correspondence relating to the article. 1938. George Washington Biography Calendar. 1939, April. Inaguration of Gen. George Washington [showing his and John Adams' routes to New York City, N.Y. and a plan of the city of New York]. A map by the United States Constitution Sequicentennial Commission, with scales of 5:20 and 4:4000. 1948. Washington, D.C. Paper, The Evening Star, article on a recent discovery of a George Washington letter to Samuel Galloway.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"General Washington's Order Book in the American Revolution.\" \"Subscribers to the Life of Washington.\" Advertisement entitled \"Washington and His Generals.\" \"Washington's Farewell Address, September 19, 1796,\" issued by the National Association of Democratic Clubs. Pamphlet, Known Journeys of Washington to Williamsburg between May 28, 1748 and August, 1775, by Sir Arthur Gray. \"Places in Fredericksburg Associated with George Washington.\" Guide to the Washington Memorial at Valley Forge. Pamphlet, Music written by George M. Cohan entitled \"Father of the Land We Love.\" \"History of the Great Republic,\" p.20, referring to George Washington. Advertisement of Forbes Lithograph Mfg. Co., using Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington. \"George Washington, the Engineer,\" by Charles Colfax Long, President, sons of the Revolution in the District of Colombia. A Brief History of Alexandria: Washington Lodge No. 22 and of its First Worshipful Master General George Washington. Newspaper articles relating to George Washington. Various prints relating to George Washington, including one rendition of the Washington Monument, and Washington's various headquarters during the American Revolution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrints, engravings, pictures, and photographs of portraits of George Washington. Lithograph design of George Washington Monument by Charles Parsons (1821-1910), a certificate of subscription signed by James K. Polk, G[eorge] M. Dallas, John Quincy Adams, H[enry] Clay, Albert Gallatin, and Dan[ie]l Webster. See oversize file.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1925 article from Collier's magazine entitled, \"She Knew Martha Washington,\" prints and engravings of Martha Washington, and a facsimile of her china [Transferred to Manuscripts Artifact Collection].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials related to Mount Vernon, \"Wakefield,\" and the Mount Vernon Ladies Association.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes: coat-of-arms of the Washington family; genealogical charts of the Washington family; material relating to the English branch of the Washington family, and their home, Sulgrave Manor, including a variation of a watercolor painting of the home, by Waller Scott; \"The Will of Mary Washington, Mother of George Washington, First President of the U.S.\"; extracts from the will of Col. John Washington. 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It includes letters from George Washington, letters of condolence to Martha Washington after George Washington's death, estate documents, Major George Peter's military papers, land plats and surveys, photo albums, letterbooks, and notebooks that tell of the life of this prominent family in Virginia and the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vimtvl_repositories_3_resources_40#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vimtvl_repositories_3_resources_40","ead_ssi":"vimtvl_repositories_3_resources_40","_root_":"vimtvl_repositories_3_resources_40","_nest_parent_":"vimtvl_repositories_3_resources_40","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/MV/repositories_3_resources_40.xml","title_ssm":["Peter family papers"],"title_tesim":["Peter family papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1772-1932"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1772-1932"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["RM.1186","/repositories/3/resources/40"],"text":["RM.1186","/repositories/3/resources/40","Peter family papers","Access to letters may be restricted because of fragile condition.","This collection is arranged in the following series and subseries. Within each series, materials are generally separated by format and listed chronologically, with undated materials listed last.","Series 1. Papers of George Washington Series 2. Papers of Tobias Lear Series 3. Miscellaneous Series 4. Papers of Martha Washington Series 5. Papers of Eliza Parke Custis Law Series 6. Papers of Thomas Law : Subseries 6.1. Legal Documents, Subseries 6.2. Correspondence Series 7. Papers of William Costin Series 8. Papers of John Law Series 9. Papers of Lloyd Nicholas Rogers Series 10. Papers of Edmund Law Rogers Series 11. Papers of Robert Peter : Subseries 11.1. Accounts, Subseries 11.2. Financial Documents, Subseries 11.3. Legal Documents, Subseries 11.4. Land Documents, Subseries 11.5. Estate Documents Series 12. Papers of Thomas Peter : Subseries 12.1. Financial Documents, Subseries 12.2. Land Documents, Subseries 12.3. Estate Documents, Subseries 12.4. Correspondence Series 13. Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1824-1909 : Subseries 13.1. Financial Documents, Subseries 13.2. Legal Documents, Subseries 13.3. Correspondence","The Peters were a prominent family in Washington, D.C. during the eighteenth and nineteen centuries. Martha Parke Custis, Martha Washington's granddaughter, married into the Peter family in 1795.","George Washington (1732-1799) : George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at a modest farm in Westmoreland County, Virginia to parents Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. In 1749, George Washington was appointed surveyor for Culpepper County. In 1752, he started his military career in the Virginia militia. During the Revolutionary War he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and later was elected as the first President of the United States of America. He lived with his wife, Martha Washington, at Mount Vernon, where he passed away December 14, 1799.","Martha Washington (1731-1802) : Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born on June 2, 1731 to parents John and Frances Jones Dandridge. She married her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on May 15, 1750. Together they had four children, two of whom died in childhood. On July 8, 1757, her husband unexpectedly died, leaving her a widow with their two remaining children, John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis. On January 6, 1759, Martha Dandridge Custis married George Washington. Martha Parke Custis or Patsy, died at the age of 17. On February 3, 1774, John Parke Custis married Eleanor Calvert, and together they had four children who survived to adulthood. However, on November 5, 1781, John Parke Custis passed away, and the younger two of his children went to live at Mount Vernon with their grandmother. Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died on May 22, 1802.","Tobias Lear (1762-1816) : Tobias Lear was born in 1762. He was employed by George Washington in 1786 to manage expense reports to Congress and also as the personal tutor to Martha Washington's grandchildren. In 1790 Tobias Lear married Mary \"Polly\" Long; however she died in 1793. Lear then married Martha Washington's niece, Frances Bassett Washington, but she died shortly they were married. Lear married for a third time to Frances Dandridge Henley, another niece of Martha Washington. He died in 1816.","Elizabeth (Betsy, Beth, Eliza) Parke Custis Law (1776-1831) : Wife to Thomas Law, Eliza Parke Custis Law was born on August 21, 1776. She was the daughter of John (Jacky) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert. Upon the death of her father in 1781, Eliza's two younger siblings, George Washington (Washy) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Parke Custis went to live with their grandmother, Martha Washington, and her second husband, George Washington. Eliza and her other sister Martha stayed at home with their mother. Shortly after, their mother remarried Dr. David Stuart and had thirteen more children. On March 21, 1796, Eliza Parke Custis Law married Thomas Law and together they had one child, Eliza Law. In 1804, the couple separated and their daughter went to live with her father. They officially divorced in 1811. Eliza Parke Custis Law lived with one of her uncles for a time after the separation, and soon purchased a house in Alexandria called \"Mount Washington.\" Eliza Law Rogers died in 1822, leaving behind a husband (Lloyd Nicholas Rogers) and two children. Eliza Parke Custis Law died on December 31, 1831.","Thomas Law (1756-1834) : Thomas Law was born on October 23, 1756 in Cambridge, England. He started his career working for the East India Trading Company and began building his reputation, as well as his income. In 1794, he left England to start a new life in America where he began to invest in lands, particularly in the nation's capital. Over time, Law became extremely passionate about the arts, particularly poetry, which he wrote and published. He even founded the first dance society, theater, and the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis on March 21, 1796. Together they had one child, Eliza Law, who married Lloyd Nicholls Rogers in 1817. Thomas Law died in 1834.","William Costin (1780-1842) : William Costin was a prominent free black man in early 19th-century Washington DC. He was a messenger for the Bank of Washington and ran a hack business in the city. In 1800, he married his cousin Philadelphia (\"Delphy\"), a dower slave of Martha Washington. Upon Martha Washington's death in 1802, Delphy became the property of Eliza Parke Custis Law, wife to Thomas Law. Delphy and their children were granted freedom shortly after, and the couple decided to stay in Washington, D.C. Together the Costins had seven children. He died in 1842.","John Law (1784-1822) : John Law was born in India about 1784 to Thomas Law and an unidentified Indian woman. In 1794 Thomas Law came to America after living about two decades in India; presumably John and his brothers came with him. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis in 1796 and raised the boys until their separation around 1804. John Law graduated from Harvard University in 1804; he was a member of the Columbian Dragoons in 1811; and was the commissioner to adjust the Yazoo claims in 1814. He died on October 4, 1822.","Lloyd Nicholas Rogers (1787 or 1788-1860) : Lloyd Nicholas Rogers was born on September 20, 1788 to parents Nicholas and Eleanor Buchanan Rogers. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers married Eliza Law Rogers in 1817. Together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers and Eleanor Agnes Rogers. They lived on Druid Hill which had been passed down by Lloyd's Scottish father. Very shortly after the death of Lloyd's father in 1822, Eliza also died. In 1829, Rogers was married to Hortensia Monroe Hay who was the granddaughter of James Monroe. Together, they had an additional three daughters, Harriet, Hortensia, and Mary Custis. Lloyd was a proprietor of his estate and practiced law out of his home on Druid Hill. Hortensia died in the 1850s, leaving Lloyd all alone. All of his children except for Eleanor had already married and moved out. Eleanor would not marry until 1862, following her father's death. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers died on November 12, 1860.","Edmund Law Rogers (1818-1896) : Edmund Law Rogers was born in 1818 to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers and Eliza Law Rogers. He grew up and lived in Baltimore all of his life, and was a founding member of the Maryland and Harvard Club, as well as a member of various other organizations, such as, the Sons of the Revolution and the Baltimore Historical Society. He spoke several different languages and was a lover of the arts. He married Charlotte Matilda Plater and together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers, Jr., and Charlotte Plater Rogers. He died of paralysis on January 24, 1896.","Robert Peter (1726-1806) : Robert Peter was born in 1726 in Scotland to Thomas Peter and Jean Dunlop, who were prosperous merchants. He immigrated to the United States around 1745, but there is no definite reason why he chose to leave. He first settled in the town, Bladensburg, along the Anacostia River. In 1751, Georgetown was established, and Robert purchased a lot in the town the following year, and slowly began to build up his land holdings. His land holdings grew to be quite extensive, including owning the entire square from M, K, and 31st Streets, and Wisconsin Ave. From 1789 to 1798, Robert Peter was the first mayor of Georgetown. On December 27, 1767, he married Elizabeth Scott, and together they had 10 children, one of whom died as an infant. Their names were: Thomas, Alexander, Elizabeth, Walter, Robert, Jean, Margaret, David, George, and James. He died in 1806.","Thomas Peter (1769-1834) : Thomas Peter was born January 4, 1769 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. Thomas Peter married Martha Parke Custis, granddaughter to Martha Washington, in 1795. Together, they had eight children. Martha Eliza Eleanor, Columbia Washington, John Parke Custis, Robert Thomas, George Washington, America Pinckney, Martha Custis Castania (who died young), and Britannia Wellington. In 1805, Thomas and Martha purchased eight-and-a-half acres in \"Georgetown Heights.\" [For more information on Tudor Place, see Tudor Place: Historic House and Gardens.] They later hired architect Dr. William Thornton to design and build Tudor Place located in Georgetown. It was completed in 1816 and still stands today. Thomas Peter was a prominent lawyer of the time and was one of the executors of Martha Washington's will. He died April 16, 1834.","Martha (Patty) Parke Custis Peter (1777-1854) : was born to John Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert Custis on December 31, 1777. She was one of four children in their family to survive to adulthood: Eliza Parke, Martha Parke, Eleanor Parke (Nelly), and George Washington (Washy) Parke. Following the death of their father in 1781, Patty and her older sister, Eliza, lived with their mother and stepfather, Dr. David Stuart, and their large family, while their younger siblings, Nelly and Washy, lived with their grandparents at Mount Vernon. There were frequent visits to Mount Vernon in both childhood and following her marriage to Thomas Peter in 1795. She died July 13 or 15, 1854.","Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon (1815-1911) : Britannia Wellington Peter was born January 28, 1815, as the youngest child of Martha Parke (Patty) Custis Peter and Thomas Peter. In 1842, she married Commodore Beverley Kennon, and together they had one child, Martha Custis Kennon, on October 18, 1843. Commodore Kennon died from a gun explosion on the frigate Princeton on February 28, 1844. Martha Custis Kennon married Dr. Armistead Peter in 1867. When Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon's mother passed in 1854, she inherited Tudor Place, where she lived until her death in 1911.","Major George Peter (1779-1861) : Major George W. Peter was born on September 28, 1779 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. He was married three times during his life. First, to Ann Plater in 1809. Together they had two children, George and Thomas. His wife and two children all died in 1814. Secondly, in 1815 he married Agnes Buchanon Freeland. They had five children, Robert, Ann, James, Agnes, and David. Agnes, his wife, died in 1825. Only a month later, he again married, this time to Sarah Norfleet Freeland, the sister of his second wife. Together, they had nine children: Sarah Agnes, George, Alexander Scott, Margaret Dick, Elizabeth, Armistead, Walter Gibson, William, and Katherine Norfleet. Major George Peter was an officer in the army, a representative in Congress, and a farmer. During his career in the army, he was first appointed first lieutenant 2nd, Artillery and Engineers on February 16, 1801. He was promoted to Captain on November 3, 1807, and finally was transferred to the Light Artillery in May of 1808. He resigned in June 11, 1809. In 1815, he was elected to Congress to cover the sixth district in Maryland. He would continue this appointment until after 1828. He died June 22, 1861.","Dr. Armistead Peter (1840-1902) : Dr. Armistead Peter was one of George Peter's sons from his third marriage to Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter. He was born on February 23, 1840. Dr. Armistead Peter was a cousin to his wife Martha Custis Kennon Peter, whom he married in 1867. Together, Martha and Armistead had five children: Walter Gibson, Armistead, Beverley Kennon, George Freeland, and Agnes. He and Martha Custis Kennon Peter both moved into Tudor Place and Dr. Armistead Peter converted a portion of the house for his medical practice. He created a very successful business as one of the best doctors in the city of Washington. During the Civil War he was employed by the U.S. Army as ward surgeon, as well as serving in a smallpox hospital. Martha Custis Kennon Peter died suddenly in 1886. Armistead died in 1902, his mother-in-law, Britannia W. Peter Kennon outliving both of them. The land in Bethesda was divided between their four children. After Britannia W. Peter Kennon died, the house was left to her grandson, Armistead Peter II. Dr. Armistead Peter died on January 28, 1902.","Agnes Peter (1880-1957) : Agnes Peter, born on February 3, 1880, was the daughter of Dr. Armistead Peter and Martha Custis Kennon Peter. She lived in France for a period of time during WWI conducting work for the YMCA. Agnes Peter was the director of a Foyer du Soldat and helped to receive soldiers and refugees. She was also in charge of the Graves Registration Section in Rheims. She was the first woman in France to be awarded the silver Medal of Honor for her distinguished services to the country during the war. In 1946, when she was 73, she married Nobel Prize winner, Dr. John R. Mott, who is most acclaimed for his work creating international Christian programs with a goal to establish peace. She died in 1957.","Peter family owned books are cataloged in the Library Catalog. The 23 titles (36 volumes) are searchable in the\n the Catalog's Peter Family Collection .","see Century Magazine, May 1890, p. 17","This collection consists of papers collected by various members of the Peter families. It includes letters from George Washington, letters of condolence to Martha Washington after George Washington's death, estate documents, Major George Peter's military papers, land plats and surveys, photo albums, letterbooks, and notebooks that tell of the life of this prominent family in Virginia and the City of Washington.","Autograph letter signed from Eliza, Hope Park, asking her grandfather for a picture of him. Docketed in Washington's hand on verso.","Autographed letter signed (signature cut out) George Washington, German Town, to Eliza Parke Custis. Washington offers his granddaughter advice on love and marriage.","Autograph letter in Washington's hand, initialed by both George and Martha. George and Martha Washington, Philadelphia, to Thomas Law. The Washingtons congratulate Law on his marriage to their grandaughter Eliza.","Autograph letter signed by George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter, discussing the purchase of English cattle.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in Washington's hand.Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Washington, Mount Vernon. Peter asks Washington to secure a spot for his brother in the Army and shares rumors about a bill coming up in Congress.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel and seal. George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about the sale of tobacco.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel.George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about farming and congratulates Thomas and Patsy on the birth of their son.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. John Mercereau, Union Township, to George Washington. John Mercereau, a businessman who served with his brother and nephew in a spy ring during the Revolutionary War, writes to Washington asking if he may come and visit, reflecting that no memories give him greater satisfaction than those he spent \"Devoted to my Countrys Service.\" Tragically, Mercereau did not know that Washington had died 10 days before his letter was sent.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., London, to George Washington.  Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., writes to his uncle about his business ventures from London. He had not yet received word of Washington's death on December 14, 1799.","Autograph letter unsigned in the hand of Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart and most likely addressed to Tobias Lear. The letter is dated 7 February with no year but was most likely written in 1790, since it mentions Lear's first marriage, which occured in 1790.","Autograph letter signed, undated, with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart to Tobias Lear, New York. Docketed in Lear's hand as received 2 October 1790. Eleanor writes of her unhappiness at being parted from her children Nelly and Wash.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, Mount Vernon, to Tobias Lear, New York. Eleanor writes about the lottery and her family, noting that \"My Dear Nelly \u0026 Wash. are still spoilt by Grand Mama but chearfully obey every word I say to them.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in hand of George Washington. Lucretia Constance Radcliffe, Charleston, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Mrs. Radcliffe writes seeking an Army commission for her son and sends a packet of crane feathers and melon seeds. She also sends news of Major Pinkney.","Manuscript resolution of the \"Sixth Congress of the United States: At the first session Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine\" stating that a marble monument to George Washington be erected in the City of Washington and that his remains be interred beneath it. It is also resolved that a funeral procession from Comgress Hall to the German Lutheran Church shall take place on Thursday, December 26, 1799, and that the nation will wear crepe arm bands for thirty days of mourning.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Maria S. Ross, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. A condolence letter from Maria S. Ross of Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Martha Washington on the death of her husband.","Autograph letter, copy. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response to Maria Ross's condolence letter to Martha Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel with seal of John Adams. Abigail Adams, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Condolence letter written by Abigail Adams to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Martha Washington's response to Abigail Adams's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Mary Stead Pinckney, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Pinckney also sends her regards and congratulations to Nelly Parke Custis Lewis, who was recovering from the birth of her first child, Frances Parke Lewis.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Governor of Connecticut, Lebanon, Connecticut, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Elias Boudinot, New Jersey Congressman and Director of the United States Mint, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Elias Boudinot. Tobias Lear's response on behalf of Martha Washington to Elias Boudinot's condolence letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Bushrod Washington, Walnut Farm, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bushrod writes to Martha about purchasing corn from Colonel Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter written by Ann Huntington, New London, Connecticut,  to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Hamilton's condolence letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter from Reverend Samuel Miller, New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington. He writes that he is inclosing a discourse he recently delivered on the occasion of Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Samuel Miller's, New York, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Stephen Williamson, Philadelphia, State Prison, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Stephen Williamson introduces himself as the captain of a company in the Rhode Island Regiment who served under Washington in the Revolutionary War. He recounts a dream he had in which she gives birth to a son following Washington's death. He also tells Martha the details of his arrest for buying a stolen horse and requests her assistance in getting him out of prison.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Former Secretary of War Henry Knox, Montpelier, St. Georges, sends Martha his condolences after the passing of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Henry Knox's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Mayor of New York City Richard Varick offers his condolences to Martha after the death of George Washington. He also incloses, on behalf of the Common Council of New York City, an oration delivered on the occassion of Washington's death by Gouverneur Morris.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Richard Varick's, New York, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Richard Washington,Bermuda, a former business associate of Washington's in London, offers his condolences to Martha after George Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Sedgwick writes that he is inclosing a second edition of General Lee's funeral oration.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha in response to Theodore Sedgwick's condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter written by the Marquis de Lafayette, La Grange, to Martha after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. A condolence letter from Auguste Belin, Secretary of the Loge Française l'Aménité of Philidelphia, a freemason lodge of French and Saint-Dominguen émigrés. Belin writes that he is inclosing copies of a funeral oration performed at the lodge in honor of George Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Auguste Belin's, Philadelphia, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter. Condolence note from Reverend William Rogers, Philadelphia, to Martha on the death of George Washington. Rogers writes that he is enclosing a copy of a funeral oration he delivered in Washington's honor.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks William Rogers for sending \"a copy of the Religious Exercises, at the time of the Eulogy, at the German Reformed Church.\"","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, requests that Gilbert Stuart's original portrait of Washington be given to Martha, in exchange for fair compensation. Lear writes that Martha has expressed no desire for her own portrait, but Lear thinks it would be nice to display alongside the portrait of Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence note written by Charles Humphrey Atherton, Amherst, New Hampshire, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Atherton writes that he is enclosing a funeral oration delivered at the request of the citizens of Amherst, New Hampshire in Washington's honor.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Charles H. Atherton's, Amherst, New Hampshire, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Georges Washington de Lafayette, La Grange, son of the Marquis de Lafayette, writes a condolence note to Martha after the death of George Washington. Georges writes of Washington's \"parental kindness\" when he visited Mount Vernon and says, \"How far was I to imagine when I left your family that it would be a last farewell.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Condolence letter written by Alexandria merchant Thomas Porter to Martha after the death of George Washington. Porter writes that he is sending an eulogy along with the letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A condolence letter written by Revered James Kemp, Cambridge, Maryland, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Kemp writes that he is enclosing a copy of a sermon he delivered on the day appointed by Congress to honor George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha Washington to James Kemp's, Cambridge, Maryland, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Peleg Wadsworth, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Wadsworth requests, on behalf of his daughter, a relic of the late General.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Peleg Wadsworth's condolence letter after the death of George Washington. Lear writes that he is enclosing a lock of Washington's hair for Wadsworth's daughter as requested.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks Reverend John D. Blair for sending his condolences and two orations delivered in Richmond on February 22 in honor of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. William Griffiths, Burlington, New Jersey, offers his condolences on behalf of the citizens of Burlington, New Jersey to Martha after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha to William Griffith's, Burlington, New Jersey, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon","Autograph letter signed \"John Lemayere.\" Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs, was George Washington's dentist during the Revolutionary War. He writes his condolences to Martha on the death of Washington, apologizing that his servant lost the first condolence letter he had written on February 24.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Dr. Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bartholomew Dandridge Jr. writes his aunt inquiring about letters sent to him from Washington before his death that Dandridge never received.","Autograph letter signed. Sir John Sinclair, London, writes to Martha in praise of her late husband and sends her a volume of his letters.","3 letters written by Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers to her mother between December 5, 1819 - November 21, 1821.","7 letters written by Brigadier General Simon Bernard, Washington City, to Eliza Parke Custis Law between March 28, 1828 and May 21, 1830.","Lloyd Rogers to Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Alexandria","Printed legal document: Statement of the defendant's case. Docketed on verso \"Papers relating to case of Law v. Morris Nicholson \u0026 Greenleaf.\"","Manuscript legal statement of Thomas Law in regards to a property dispute in Washington City between William Mayne Duncason and Tench Ringgold.","Manuscript memoranda regarding property dispute over square 744 in the City of Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Concerning Tench Ringgold and property dealings in the City of Washington.","Manuscript descriptions of the architectural plans for the Thomas Law House, designed by architect William Lovering and built circa 1794 on the 689 square in the City of Washington.","Thomas Law, Washington City, discusses his plan for construction of New Jersey Avenue on lot 744 of Washington City, along the public canal.","Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White, Washington City, to Thomas Law","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. George Washington Parke Custis, Philadelphia to Thomas Law, Federal City. George Washington Parke Custis writes to Law of the pleasure he will have in serving Washington City, which is to be \"the pride of future ages\" and \"the metropolis of America.\"","A manuscript copy of the address read by W. M. Duncanson at a meeting of the Managers of Washington Canal Lottery - Law, Carroll, Young, and Duncanson. Their reply is copied on the verso.","Autograph letter signed. Duncanson writes that Thomas Law has resigned his title to Lot 744 of Washington City in favor of Tench Ringgold.","Unsigned, undated manuscript, docketed \"Tench Ringgold Arbitration.\"","James Piercy, City of Washington, to Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White. Three manuscript copies by Thomas Munroe of letters written by James Piercy to the Commissioners of the City of Washington about his claims to lot 744.","Manuscript copy made by Thomas Munroe of a letter written by the Commissioners of the City of Washington to James Piercy in response to Piercy's claims on lot 744. Scott and Thornton write to Piercy that \"no intention exists of granting you the square you mention.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, City of Washington","Lloyd Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, Washington City","Thomas Law to Lloyd Rogers, Baltimore","Writing from New Orleans in 1832, John Taylor reports that fifty to sixty people a day are dying from yellow fever and smallpox.","Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Washington, to Thomas Law, London","Letter written by Lawrence Lewis to William \"Billy\" Costin requesting Costin's service in transporting his family from Mr. Charles Carter's residence in Culpepper County to their home. Lewis provides a suggested route and expected arrival date stating, 'you must not disappoint me.' A postscript in the hand of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis requests additional and immediate transportation for herself to Philadelphia. She offers Costin's mother payment in Pork if she will accompany them on the trip. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel.","Undated note from Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis asking \"Billy\" to ask her sister Betsy to send the things by which she [Eleanor] wrote to her for. Directs Billy to be very careful of them as they are easily broken. Autograph note signed E Lewis, 1 page.","Autograph letter signed with integral adddress panel.","Autograph letter signed. George Washington Parke Custis writes William \"Billy\" Costin at the Bank of Washington. He mentions he expects to go with Lafayette to visit Woodlawn.","5 letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law. The first letter is addressed to John at George Town College and the other four to Harvard University.","Edmund Law, Washington, to John Law, Baltimore","5 dated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","Letter discussing the court martial of Commodore James Barron, who would later kill Commodore Stephen Decatur in duel in 1820.","4 undated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","15 undated letters and notes written by Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. John Law asks William Thornton if he can borrow a book on calvary maneuvers.","2 letters written by William Thornton in response to John Law's August 10, 1807 letter.","An undated letter from John Law to his half sister, Eliza Law. He writes that he is sending sweetmeats from Woodlawn by William, as promised.","William D. Sims, Pittsburgh, to John Law, Washington City","Three letters","A series of four letters and their draft copies written over the course of two days by John Law to his father, criticizing his conduct, particularly in regards to Eliza Law's marriage to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers.","5 letters written by Thomas Law to his son John Law, Washington City, around 1817, addressing John's criticisms of him, his divorce, and his friendship with Elizabeth Bordley Gibson.","Autograph letter signed. A letter of reconciliation sent by John Law to his father.","Draft of letter from Lloyd Nicholas Rogers, New York, to Major-General Henry Lee discussing the life of Baron de Kalb.","2 letters about the sale of property in Washington.Lenman and Brother, Washington City, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.","Documents related to the sale of property in Washington.","Correspondence about the sale of property in Washington.","2 letters about the sale of property in Washington. N. Callan, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.","Bond of conveyance for Lot No. 1 in Square 260 in Washington City, District of Columbia.","1 survey plat of lots in Washington along Canal St, and 2 pages of notes listing the prices of lots and the names of their purchasers.","Letter from the Commisioners of the Sinking Fund of the Corporation of Washington. William McCormick, Registers Office, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers.","An indenture form reassigning a parcel of property in Washington City. The Deed of Trust form is marked at the top of the first page \"Printed and Sold by Robert A. Waters, D. st., bet. 9th \u0026 10th.\"","1 page autograph letter signed by George Washington Parke Custis to Edmund Law Rogers, with additional letter from Martha Custis Williams, Arlington House, written on verso. Custis writes, \"From the very graphic account you gave Martha Williams of your visit to Mr Fenno, I see but a poor chance of my Drama being brought out [in Baltimore].\" He asks Rogers to inquire of his \"theater going friends\" if any other Baltimore theatres will perform the work. If not, he asks Rogers to return the book care of William Adam Bookseller Pennsylvania Avenie Washington.","In her letter, Williams passes on a request from \"Aunt B\" (Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon) to send the \"little manuscript book, containing an inventory of the Mt Vernon relics at Tudor Place, as she is much at a loss, with regard to the history of many things in the House.\" Britannia Peter had inherited Tudor Place the year before, in 1854. Williams adds to Rogers that she hopes he will not make too much effort to have Uncle Custis's play produced because \"Cousin Mary Lee and all his family are so much opposed to it.\" Williams hopes Custis will focus on finishing his Recollections instead.","Bill for $21 addressed to Edmund Law Rogers for advertising the sale of lots in the City of Washington in the newspaper the National Intelligencer.","Unsigned indenture for the sale of lots in the City of Washington. Docketed in pencil \"sale not made.\"","Invoices, notes, and receipts from accounts between Robert Peter and the firm O'Neill and Dearkins. Includes an invoice for tobacco, sugar, corduroy, gauze, linen, chocolate, silk, muslin, paper, wine, ribbons, pins, cotton, and tea.","Unknown list of accounts, believed to be from Robert Peter.","Pages from account book with the note \"These leaves was received by James S Webber from Mrs. Esther H Webber wife of Mr Levi Webber of Vassalboro Kennebeck Co. Maine being a part of account Book of Charles Webber, my Grand Father, his own handwriting. Received by me June 22 1878.\" The accounts include invoices for cod fish, bacon, molasses, tea, rum, sugar, silk, shoes, brandy, wine, coffee, and corn.","Includes accounts for flour, pork, beef, lamb, and veal.","Bond for the conveyance of a parcel of property called Black Oak Thickett in Frederick County, Maryland.","rent paid","Page of rent payment accounts in unknown hand.","Bond of Thomas Nicholls of John to Robert Peter","Bond of Isaiah and Edward Nicholls to Robert Peter","Lawsuit against Robert Peter by James Gordon, Henry Riddell, John Campbell, John Campbell Junior, Alexander Low, and William Ingram","Three documents related to disputed accounts between Robert Peter and Benjamin Ray. One with a note by John T. Mason dated February 27, 1799, \"He has no shadow of right to one shilling on this [account].\"","List of Robert Peter's court appearances","Court documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 5 manuscripts.","Court documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 19 small manuscript receipts","Survey of land called Bealls Plaines in what became Washington City, along Goose Creek, later renamed Tiber Creek.","Manuscript on parchment with large seal attached by a ribbon.","1766, Survey to Forrest, May 12, 1773, (six documents) Bladenburg, Sept., 21, 1766; Rock Creek, Nov. 13, 1766 \"to Robert Peter, merchant in Georgetown.\"","One undated note by Thomas Peter and one letter from William Dearkins and Ben Stoddert to Stephen Chiswell about resurveying about 200 acres called Partnership granted to Elting Williams.","The Resurvey of Brandy and transfer of several named enslaved people.","A letter about resurveying a parcel of propery called Hazard. George Scott to Robert Peter, George Town.","Four autograph documents dealing with land ownership. Two notes on fragments; one half sheet giving history of a property in Prince George's County; and an 8 page survey document, with reference to points on a drawn survey, of Cross Basket, Balantyre, and other properties (9 lots) belonging to Robert Peter and divided amongst George and Thomas Peter.","Certificate and plat for 5 3/4 acres of vacant land granted by special warrant to Robert Peter out of the Western Shore Land Office of Washington County in the District of Columbia. Surveyed by Joseph Elgar, Jr. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Hand colored survey plat showing the division of Robert Peter's Square in George Town. Docketed on verso \"Plat belonging to Thomas Peter's Square in George Town.\"","Tobacco sales","Tabacco Sales, Real Estate, Transfer of enslaved people","Deed of trust book is dated 1790","One dollar printed in Annapolis by F. Green, 7 December 1775. Two thirds of a dollar printed in Philadelphia by Hall and Sellers, 17 February 1776.","List of items purchased by Martha Washington from Macleod \u0026 Lumsdon, dated at the top 18 February 1800, Alexandria. The accounts, dated 8 July and 9 August, include entries for 47 panes of glass, oil, paint for 30 mahoghany chairs, paint for a wine cooler, varnishing, picture frame gilding, and glazing. Signed by Macleod \u0026 Lumdsdon at the bottom, noting that the above money was received in full 9 October 1800.","Receipt signed \"Daniel Lecock\" for payment received by the hands of James Anderson on behalf of Martha Washington for 790 bushels of corn on 2 May 1800.","Receipt for $25 paid by Thomas Carwood to James Anderson for 100 barrels of fish from Mount Vernon.","Accounts dated February 13, March 11, and April 12, 1800 for newspaper advertisements and handbills purchased by Martha Washington from Ellis Price, printer of The Columbian Mirror and Alexandria Gazette. Items Martha purchased include 26 advertisements for a house to rent, an advertisement about the Mount Vernon fishery, 23 advertisements about the donkey Knight of Malta, and notice about the runaway slave Marcus.","Accounts dated 23 April-23 September 1800 for weaving yards of cotton, wool, and other fabrics. The payments are marked as having been paid \"By balance due the Estate of General Washington,\" by cash, by 41 gallons of whiskey, and barrells of herring. The final payment is marked as received from James Anderson on 10 November 1801.","Bill addressed to the Estate of Mrs. Martha Washington, Deceased for $200 due to James Craik for medical services rendered Mrs. Washington during her last illness and $5 for cash paid Heyskill for the hire of his carriage. A signed oath by Jacob Hoffman testifies to the validity of the charges.","Receipt of payment from Thomas Peter to Lawrence Lewis for three hundred dollars for one hundred barrels of corn sold to Mount Vernon for the use of the estate. Signed by John Anderson.","Receipt written by Dr. David Stuart for the receipt from Thomas Peter for five guineas, the leagcy left by Martha Washington to Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart.","Payment from Thomas Law to Griffith Coombs for repairs to Martha Washington's townhome in the District Columbia occupied by Henry Dearborn. Payment marked by Coombs as received in full from Thomas Peter on August 23, 1802.","Twenty dollars wages paid to Richard Burnett of the City of Washingon by Thomas Peter for the year 1802.","Payment of $50 received by George Smith of Woodlawn from Thomas Peter on 12 January 1803 for hire as a blacksmith at Mount Vernon in the year 1802. Signed by George Smith (his mark) and Lawrence Lewis. George Smith was one of George Washington's slaves who was freed after Washington's death. His wife, Lydia, was one of Martha Washington's dower slaves and was inherited by Nelly Parke Custis Lewis of Woodlawn.","Receipt for one hundred pounds Virginia currency received by Benjamin Lincoln Lear from Thomas Peter, one of the executors of Martha Washington's estate.","Accounts of Mr. James Dunlop with Thomas Peter, for horses, ploughs, and an enslaved woman named Peg. Peg is likely one of the slaves Martha Parke Custis Peter inherited from the Custis estate.","Receipt for funeral arrangements paid by Thomas Peter to William King on December 4, 1820 following the death of his twenty-three-year-old daughter Columbia Washington Peter. The arrangements include a \"walnut coffin lined,\" silver plate and engraving, and rental of horses, a hearse, and attendants.","H. B. Morris, Philadelphia, to Thomas Peter, Georgetown. Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A letter about bank accounts and stock certificates.","Bill from Dr. Warfield to Thomas Peter for a visit to a \"black man in the night\" on March 5, 1824 which resulted in the amputation of the man's leg.","Two bills from P.L. Dupont paid by Martha Parke Custis Peter for dancing lessons for her daughter Britannia.","Two stock share certificates for the Patowmack Company (Potomac Company). Share No. 89 is for Martha Peter, and No. 91 for Thomas Peter.","Land office papers for the resurvey of Bear Denn, Daniels Discovery, and Partnership in Maryland","With unknown survey plat on verso.","Aquila Johns to Thomas Peter on sale of Seneca plantation","Autograph letter signed by Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter, wife of Thomas Peter's brother George, relinquishing right title and interest on a tract of land called Forrest, property of her husband, in order to pay his debts.","Letter about resurveying property owned by George Washington Peter.","List of property in Montgomery County Maryland owned by Thomas Peter","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Regarding financial matters.","Horatio Edmondson of Taylor County, Maryland","Pamphlet stitch binding with marbled paper covers. Contains notes about purchases made by Thomas Peter 1813-1814.","Calling card from Le Baron de Maltitz, Secretaire de la Legation Imperiale de Russie. Manuscript date 1823 on verso.","John Dandridge writes to Thomas Peter, George Town, asking to borrow money from the estate of Martha Washington.","Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed, with envelope. Josiah Quincy, Cambridge, to Martha Parke Custis Peter, Georgetown. Josiah Quincy thanks Martha Parke Custis Peter for her generous reeption of his children at Tudor Place and thanks her for the relic of George Washington that she sent back with them.","A contemporary manuscript copy of a letter in which Nelly Parke Custis describes having seen George Washington writing his farewell address at Mount Vernon. When the address was finished, she says he asked her to bring him silk string, and she watched him stitch the address together in front of her. Nelly writes this as a rebuke to one of Alexander Hamilton's sons, who claims his father wrote the farewell address.","A list of accounts between the Estate of George Washington and Alexandria apothecary Edward Stabler, including purchases for Turlington's Balsam, castor oil, arsenic, balsam copaiva, British oil, salts, purified Salt Petre, cantharides, ipecacuanha, laudanum, tumeric, and opodildo. Payments are marked as received from James Anderson. Autograph document, 1 page.","Manuscript titled \"A List of Negroes belonging to Mrs. Washington.\" A list of 121 enslaved persons who were Martha's dower slaves. Unlike the slaves owned by George Washington, Martha's slaves were not freed after her death and were inherited by the Custis descendants. Men, boys, women, and girls and listed in separate columns, each further broken down into the places where they worked: Mansion house, River Farm, Muddy Hole, and Union Farm. Five women - Amy, Alice, Peg, Agnes, and Old Judy - are listed as \"Free but yet remain.\"","Signed certificate from the executors of General George Washington to the Clerk of Fairfax.","Accounts from 1802 for furniture and household goods purchased by George Washington Parke Custis from the Estate of Martha Washington. The final payment was made in 1826, and the account is signed by Thomas Peter, executor of the estate.","A list of the household belongings sold by Thomas Peter from the personal estate of Martha Washington. Includes a listing of who purchased each item and the price it sold for.","Signed indenture for sale of land in the City of Washington.","Articles of agreement between George Calvert and Thomas Peter with Thomas Law, agreeing that Thomas Law and his wife Eliza Parke Custis Law will live separately. Eliza will receive $1500 per year from Law, and all the interest from her inheritance from George Washington will go to her and her daughter.","3 sheets of accounts between the estate of Robert Peter and James Dunlop, including the sale of \"5 negroes willed Mrs. Peter.\" These are some of Martha's dower slaves inherited by Martha Parke Custis Peter. One additional account between Jonathan Hicks and the heirs of Robert Peter, dated 1809-1811.","Receipt written by Lawrence Lewis acknowledging receipt from Thomas Peter of three hundred and twenty-six dollars eighteen cent left to his son Lorenzo Lewis as a legacy from Martha Washington.","Receipt signed by George Washington Parke Custis acknowledging the receipt from Thomas Peter of one thousand dollars as a legacy left to his daughter from the late Martha Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Thomas Peter, George Town, to Bushrod Washington, Mount Vernon. Thomas Peter writes to Bushrod about money owed for two purchases he made from the estate of George Washington.","Two documents related to a settlement made by John Dandridge against George Washington Parke Custis and Thomas Peter, executors of Martha Washington's estate. One is a 1829 decree from the U. S. Circuit Court, signed by William Thomas Carroll; and the other is an account of money owed to John Dandridge signed by Benjamin Lincoln Lear, 1830 June 21. Autograph documents signed (2).","3 documents related to the death of Beverley Kennon, husband of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, who died aboard the USS Princeton during the 1844 Peacemaker accident: a newspaper clipping with an excerpt from a sermon by Reverend Mr. Magoon on the Princeton Tragedy, a plan of the burying ground belonging to Mrs. Beverly Kennon, and a certificate from the Vestry of Washington Parish granting Mrs. Beverley Kennon four sites in the Washington Parish Burial Ground.","Receipts for two legacies received of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, executor of Martha Parke Custis Peter's estate. One is for a grandson named Thomas Peter and another for her grandson John Parke Custis Peter.","Manuscript resolution of the Senate of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, offering sympathy to the families of those killed aboard the USS Princeton during the Peacemaker accident. This copy was given by the President of the United States to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, whose husband, Beverley Kennon, was killed in the accident.","Printed form signed by Britannia W. Peter Kennon and witnessed by William Purcell, esquire, Judge of the Orphans' Court of Washington county, District of Columbia.","A list of collections and payments made to sundry persons to settle the estate of Martha Parke Custis Peter.","Document bound with blue ribbon, with envelope. Last will and testament of Ann Gertrude Wightt, a former nun at the Georgetown Visitation Convent who later lived at Tudor Place. Autograph document, 8 pages.","Autograph letter, with envelope. Ann Gertrude Wightt, Rochester, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place","Papers related to the sale of Lot 9 in Square 72 of Washington City to William A. Gordon. Letter from William E. Edmonston to William A. Gordon, 1891 May 30. Two letters from William A. Gordon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1891 June 3 and 1889 October 4. Typescript signed by William Gordon of Declaration of Trust for sale of Lot Nine, Square Seventy Two in Washington City, D.C..","Indenture made between Britannia Wellington Kennon, party of the first part, and Walter Gibson Peter, Armistead Peter Jr., and George Freeland Peter, parties of the second part, all of the District of Columbia, regarding relics and heirlooms at Tudor Place acquired by Britannia W. Peter Kennon from her mother Martha Custis Peter grand-daughter of Martha the wife of George Washington, known in the family as \"The Mount Vernon Heirlooms.\" Other relics are from the estates of Thomas Peter and Beverley Kennon. Britannia wishes that these relics be preserved by her descendants and that none of them be sold or disposed of.","These include pictures, miniatures, engravings, glass, china, silver, jewelry, furniture, needlework, and other relics, including a sago palm formerly belonging to Martha Parke Custis Peter. The relics and heirlooms are to be divided into five parts after Britannia's death and delivered to her grandchildren.","A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (New York : Printed and published by William A. Davies) Inscribed Britannia W. Peter.","Autograph letter signed. Beverley Kennon, Navy Yard, Washington, to Reverend W. Hoff, George Town. Kennon asks Reverend Hoff to be present at Mrs. Peter's place in George Town on the 8th to marry him to Britannia W. Peter.","2 autograph letters signed.","Autograph letter signed on mourning stationary, with envelope and black seal. John Tyler, Washington, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. President John Tyler offers his condolences to Britannia W. Peter Kennon on the death of her husband, Beverley Kennon, during the Peacemaker accident aboard the USS Princeton.","G. T. Kennon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place","Autograph letter signed with envelope docketed \"A letter written to Uncle Bev. by my mother while at boarding school given to me after Uncle Bev's death by Aunt G.\". Martha Custis Kennon, Georgetown, to Beverley Kennon Jr. Beverley Kennon Jr. was Martha Custis Kennon's half brother.","According to Martha Custis Peter, this illustration was at the Tudor Place.","W. Van Ness, New York, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown","Department of the Interior, Pension Office, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown","Mrs. Charles Carroll Simms to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Georgetown","Mattie D. Abbot to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place. From the Secretary of the Ladies Aid Society of Christ Church accepting Britannia Kennon's resignation as President.","Letters from James Mackubin, Ellicott City, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon","Two letters from Justine Van Rensselaer Townsend, Vice Regent of New York for the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. In the 26 November 1890 letter, Justine asks Britannia to help the Ladies determine what is genuine at the upcoming 1890 Thomas Birch's Sons sale of Washington relics in Philadelphia. The sale will include \"General Washington's papers, a clock, a punch bowl, and many other things.\"","Invitation from The Board of World's Fair Managers of Virginia inviting Britannia W. Peter Kennon to be present at the ceremonies of Virginia Day at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Enclosed with an envelope and the calling card of Mrs. William Radford Beale.","Calling cards for Martha Custis Kennon and Armistead Peter. At home card with envelope for Britannia W. Peter Kennon, engraved by Dempsey \u0026 O. Toole of Baltimore \u0026 Washington.","Engraved form ceritifying that \"Cream Ladle No 68944 is an exact reproduction of one onwed by General and Mrs. Washington and used for a number of years at Mr. Vernon.\" The ladle was produced by Galt \u0026 Bro. Jewellers, Silversmiths, Stationers, Washington D.C..","Regarding the purchase of a clock.","Typescript lists of letters and items from Mount Vernon that were part of  Britannia W. Peter Kennon's collection at Tudor Place.","Unbound notebook with list of items and letters from Mount Vernon that belonged to Britannia W. Peter Kennon at Tudor Place. Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia's grandchildren.Includes furniture and household items.","Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia W. Peter Kennon's grandchildren.","Manuscript list of books, jewelry, and locks of hair at Tudor Place","Includes both manuscript and typescript inventories of books, furniture, and objects from Tudor Place.","Newsclippings and correspondence related to Washington relics loaned by Walter G. Peter to the National Museum in the early 1900s.","Lent by Walter G. Peter from the Britannia W. Peter Kennon Collection of Washington Relics.","R. Davidson, Pinckneyville, to George Peter, George Town","Includes a $5 charge on 23 October 1813 for a coffin \"for a black man.\" On 9 February 1814, Peter was charged $50.00 for a lined coffin covered with black cloth, among other expenses, possibly following the death of his first wife, Ann Plater Peter, or one of their young sons.","Thomas Anderson, Clarksburgh, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed with printed cash form from the Office of Discount and Deposit, Washington.","Joseph Delaplaine, Philadelphia, to George Peter. Deplaine requests Major Peter's portrait for his gallery.","U. McInder, Petersburg, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter","W. Coor, Rockville, to George Peter","Partially printed form from the District of Columbia. Major Peter grants Charles A. Burnett power of attorney to sell, assign, and transfer his 50 shares of stock in the Books of the Washington Turnpike Company.","Letter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter","Charles Bunting, Montgomery County, to George Peter","James H., Georgetown, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Lear writes regarding two suits againist Mrs. Sarah Peter.","John Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter","Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Printed letter with manuscript additions, from B. L. Lear, Attorney of the Bank, Bank of the United States.","W. W. Ramsay, Washington, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Washington, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Washington City, to George Peter","B. H., Rockville, to George Peter","Clement Cod, Georgetown, to George Peter","William Thompson, Union School, to George Peter","Michael Keepers, Frederick Town, to George Peter","John Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter","G. D., George Town, to George Peter","J. Orme, Georgetown, to George Peter","W. Sellman, Clarksburg, to George Peter","Samuel C. Ulens, Poolesville, to George Peter","J. Higgins, Poolesville, to George Peter","Jesse V., Poolesville, to George Peter, Darnestown","J. Falls, Baltimore, to George Peter","Geo. Howson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter","Alfred Spates, Cumberland, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Baltimore, to George Peter","W. Matthews, George Town, to George Peter","Geo. Hownson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter","Benj. Fawcett, Colesville, to George Peter","J. Williams, Washington D.C., to George Peter","A letter from the Treasuries Office of the Baltimore and Ohion Railroad Company, offering Peter free tickets to pass over the roads of their company.","Printed election ballot for \"The Constitution and Union Ticket,\" promising \"Civil and Religious Liberty.\" George Peter is listed as the candidate for Commisioner of Public Works.","A list of clothing purchased by Martha Washington from William Jones of Alexandria. Includes suits purchased for enslaved workers Daniel, Marcus, Christopher, and Frank. According to notes on the verso, payments were received from James Anderson on 12 April 1800 and 15 May 1800.","Five receipts for goods and services paid for by James Anderson in 1800, including repairs to old shoes, paper lampblack, freight for one box from Philadelphia, 93 yards of cloth, and leather.","Promissory notes from George Peter","Promissory notes and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Bills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Bills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Promissory notes and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro","Bills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro.","Undated Bills and accounts of George Peter","George H. Peter, Carlise, writes to his uncle asking for money for an upcoming vacation.","3 letters from James Peter to his uncle George Peter.","George Peter, George Town","3 letters sent by James Freeland Peter to his father from Alexandria, Buffalo, and Detroit.","Manuscript acrostic written for Uncle George Peter.","Sarah Peter, Georgetown, to George Peter","4 letters from George Peter, Jr., to his father.","Typescript list of \"Things from Mt. Vernon\" with manuscript annotations by George Freeland Peter of which Peter heirs inherited the items.","Typescript and manuscript inventories of items fro Tudor Place, with notes on which Peter heirs inherited them.","Identification key to \"The battle at Bunker's Hill\" engraved by Johann Gotthard Müller after the painting by John Trumbull. Printed in London by A. C. de Poggi.","Accounts for shoes, boots, and repairs, including shoes for enslaved people.","Major George Peter's troops are invited to attend Divine Service. \"It is hoped they will attend \u0026 conduct themselves with a reverence suited to the character of Christian soldiers, who have taken arms in defence of their homes \u0026 country \u0026 who look for success \u0026 preservation to the favor of the Almighty Giver of all victory.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel and red wax seal.","2 letters to George Peter from his brother David Peter, George Town.","Deed of sale for land purchased by Peter on Gay Street and Dumarton Street in George Town.","A list of 322 volumes, showing title, number of volumes, size, and type of bookbinding.","8 letters and 1 receipt, mostly addressed to George Peter from his niece, Jane Beverley and her husband, James.","printed pages","Roger Brooke Taney, Annapolis, to George Peter regarding upcoming elections [December 20] to the U. S. Senate specifically the potential election of Mr. [Alexander C.] Hanson as a means to heal and reconcile the differences in the Federal Party. Also discuss Mr. Washington's 'zeal and industry' in supporting Hanson's candidacy. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages. Docketed 'Roger B. Taney - Hanson \u0026 Washington'","W. Cook, Hyates Town,","William Brewer, Aix la Chapelle, to George Peter","James Summers, New Market, to George Peter","G. Dalls S., Colesville, to George Peter, Poolesville","Elisha Jones, Clarksburg, to George Peter","Includes the papers granting George and Sarah Peter guardianship of David Peter's children Elizabeth, William, Jane, George H., and James.","trust, property, and expenses of land","material and clothing","Receipt for the purchase of Lot No. 15 in Square No. 170 in the City of Washington.","Receipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.","3 copies of the will of Sarah Freeland, George Peter's mother-in-law.","appraisal authorization of Alexander Broome and Samuel Darby","Accounts of Margaret Dick with William Parson. Includes an account for shoes soled and nailed for James Peter.","Medical bills, pharmacy, doctor","tuition bills","Letter, T.H. Paul to George Peter. Letter, Unknown  to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States.","Receipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.","typescript copy","deed of conveyance","Indenture, George Peter to Thomas Peter, Land from estate of Robert Peter, Jr.","copies of letters","Military exemption for Armistead Peter","Bill, George Peter, Esq. to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1869 February 11; Col. Richard L. Maury, Attorney, to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1876 October 10","Includes story of Abraham Lincoln and the Maryland Barbecue by Agnes Peter","Memento for either Walter Gibson Peter or W. Orton Williams from Mrs. Laura Cassaway, small American flag and small ivory mirror with flower [Fragile]","Includes receipt of letter, 1873 January 24. Letter regarding interest in farm from Robert Dick.","lock of hair","From Binder 1","From Binder 1","From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- Fragmented letter - From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Four envelopes","Goes up to Britannia W. Peter Kennon -From Binder 1","Condolence letter","Signed by Governor Horatio Sharpe","Indenture, September 30, 1791; Resurvey of Forrest, 1796. Document signed by Gov. Haywood","Resurvey of Pipe Tomhock; Copy of Platt (sic) and Illustrations, August 14, 1798; July 11, 1766, Explanation of Survey, September 19, 1797, May 26, 1796, February 16, 1797","Deed, Elizabeth and John Scrivenor, April 18, 1799, June 11, 1799, Resurvey of Brandy, June 9, 1792, June 18, 1792","December 24, 1871, wrapper","List of enslaved persons, livestock, and tools sold at Slashes, Sugar Lands, and Rock Creek Quarters totaling $9,308.00. Autograph document, 3 pages, with docket.","Bernard Gilpin firmly bound to Thomas Peter for $5520","wove paper","Photocopy, \"Account Book 1, Robert Peter, Esq. with the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings; On division of the Tract, Mexico within the City of Washington, Exclusive of what are called \"Old divisions of squares\" and water lots of which no account is key by the Commissioners. 21 pp. Note from Walter Gibson Peter re: History of book, how it ended up in the Library of Congress Thomas Peter","signed by James Madison, B. Crowninshield, Secretary of the Navy","James Madison signature","The most important ones delivered to F.S. Keys Esq. and recorded in suit pending in Court Dt. Columbia","9 manuscripts","under the orders of Lt. Col. E. Robert, USTE","Building 3044 O Street","copies","Includes Allison's Forrest Enlarged; Fort Grubby Hill, July 1, 1732","Includes Indenture, Daniel Veetch, February 19, 1758 Document signed by Gov. Horatio Sharpe","Bathsheba","First found in Thomas Peter's Letterbooks","Photos, Photos from Survey (4) and Ivory Cross [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon] Interesting small religious carved cross, made from Mother-of-Pearl","Letter, William A. Coffin to Britannia Kennon, February 23, 1889; Brouchure for Exhibition, April 30, 1889; Letter, A. W. Drake to Britannia Kennon, January 29, 1889, May 16, 1889, including: carte de visite of George Washington and calling card of Mr. A. W. Drake (Photo) [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon]","First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","First found in Major George Peter's Letterbooks","Frenzel Gallery, Georgetown. Moved from Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.","Includes Sir Thomas Nicholson, William Scott Blair, General Scott of Malenie, Robert Buchanan, William Dunlop, Elizabeth Roberton, J. Horsburgh, Lord Abbots Hall, Isabel Corbet, Cunningham Scott. First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.","First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter","Containing photographs of Peter relatives","Pictures of Tudor Place, Vacation, Content Farm, Ellen Beale Peter 1931 (Walter Gibson's Wife) Made by Walter Gibson Peter, [Loose photographs], Half Full.","Elizabeth Peter, wife of Robert Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter [Note: Some loose pages]","Book of tobacco sales, list of enslaved persons belonging to Robert Peter, and lots of Robert Peter in the City of Washington with division by squares for the Commissioners and how they are disposed. The bound volume is made up of 178 pages. Pages 52-147 are blank. At some point the volume is flipped and entries are begun at the back of the book from pages 178-154. For viewing purposes those pages have been reoriented and reordered.","\"Tobacco Book,\" All letters received pertaining to his business of selling tobacco in Europe and trading across the Atlantic, including captains, lawyers, and buyers in Europe.","Includes personal letters that were sent to the family, photocopied letters from Thomas and General Washington, various financial papersNot in order [Documents are fragile and book in poor condition]. Made by Walter Gibson Peter.","Contains photographs and letters. Created by Walter Gibson Peter, received documents from Britannia W. Peter Kennon.","Commissions, Letters, Orders, etc. Relating to service in the U.S. Army and Major Georgetown Field Artillery, Created by Walter Gibson Peter. Items signed by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.","Corps of the Artillerists, New Orleans and Fort McHenry, Garrison and Regimental Orders, Major George Peter; Order and prisoner tries and punishments, List from Fort McHenry, Morning Reports [Note: Book in poor condition]","Ledger of real estate holdings of George Peter with Robert Peter and James Peter [pages 2-17]. Also includes, \"The following Table exhibits a view of the Squares and Lots, the Number of square feet therein contained, and the value of the same, now owned by Capt. George Peter, in the City of Washington\" [pages 74-78]. Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 88 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-7, 10-11, 14-17, 74, 76, and 78. The remaining page are blank. In 1813, the ledger is flipped and a single page (page 88) includes a list of names under the title 'Rent Roll for 1813.'","Ledger for the estate of Robert Peter maintained by his son Thomas Peter. The bond volume contains 176 pages, partially completed. Accounts are entered on pages 6-54, pages 55-173 are blank, and pages 174-176 include bank notes at the Bank of Columbia and the Branch Bank of Washington City. A scrap of paper with calculations was found between pages 49 and 50 and is included in the digitization.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","Lessons and Exercises in Vocal Music by Benjamin Carr","Contains letters, pictures, U.S. Navy Commissions (James Madison, John Tyler, and Franklin Pierce), invitations, and a memorandum of Britannia and Beverley made by Walter Gibson Peter- Grandson to Britannia.","After resigning from the army, notes made from Walter George Peter. Includes letters, a list of enlaved people from Montanaverde, bills, and business transactions.","Repairs made on properties of Robert Peter, Jr.  Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 98 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-5, 8-23, and 26-33. The remaining pages are blank.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","Copies made February 1 and 2, 1849 by Edmund Law Rogers at Tudor Place, the residence of his Great-Aunt Martha Peter.","Communion Alms, Christmas and Easter Offerings, June 5, 1850. In Memory of Mrs. Britannia Wellington Kennon, From the Trustees of the Louise Home, 1911.","Four account books. Account Money paid for the Estate of Mrs. Martha Peter","\"Commenced the practice of medicine the latter end of March 1867. Left town the first of May 1867 and returned June 28th- recommended practicing 8th of July, etc., Expense Log and Visiting List\"","First found in Dr. Armistead Peter's files. 9 volumes, dated 1863, 1866, 1870, 1873, 1876, 1878, 1889, 1892, and 1896.","List of patients from practice and paid or unpaid, in alphabetical order, Bills Due, Cash Paid to Mrs. Peter, other accounts, small pox vaccination count","Notes on visits, family seal, copied letters, list of articles from Mount Vernon, notes about clothes and jewelry; Copy of Album was acquired by Martha Custis Peter, great-great granddaughter to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, which Britannia had given to her grandson, Walter Gibson Peter. Her father was Walter Gibson Peter, Jr.","contains dried flowers","Includes folders of France and WWI soldiers","Contains deeds, inventories, and papers pertaining to Robert Peter's estates and his sons, Robert, James, David, George, and Thomas. Various notes about David Peter's death, and letters from George Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter. [Note: There are loose pages]","Includes voice and music notes for the saxon ground, will you come to the bower, nobody coming to marry me, the rose, rondo, and others.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","No. 5116, volume 190, covering the coronation of George VI.","Printed volume, includes a facsimile handwritten section entitled \"accounts, G. Washington with the United States, commencing June 1775, and ending June 1773, comprehending a space of eight years.\"","Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon","Washington, George, 1732-1799","Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816","Washington, Martha, 1731-1802","Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis, 1776-1831","Law, Thomas, 1756-1834","Costin, William, 1780?-1842","Law, John, 1784?-1822","Rogers, Lloyd Nicholas, approximately 1788-1860","Rogers, Edmund Law","Peter, Robert, 1726-1806","Peter, Thomas, 1769-1834","Peter, Martha Parke Custis, 1777-1854","Kennon, Britannia Wellington Peter, 1815-1911","Peter, George, 1779-1861","Peter, Armistead, 1840-1902","Peter, Agnes, 1840-1902","Mercereau, John, 1732-1820","Dandridge, Bartholomew, approximately 1774-1802","Stuart, Eleanor Calvert Custis, approximately 1758-1811","Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834","Madison, James, 1751-1836","Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818","Pinckney, Mary Stead, approximately 1751-1812","Trumbull, Jonathan, 1740-1809","Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821","Washington, Bushrod, 1762-1829","Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804","Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850","Knox, Henry, 1750-1806","Varick, Richard, 1753-1831","Sedgwick, Theodore, 1746-1813","Rogers, William, 1751-1824","Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828","Atherton, Charles H.  (Charles Humphrey), 1773-1853","Lafayette, Georges Washington Louis Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1779-1849","Kemp, James, 1764-1827","Wadsworth, Peleg, 1748-1829","Blair, John D.  (John Durbarrow), 1759-1823","Griffith, William, 1766-1826","Le Mayeur, Jean Pierre","Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835","Rogers, Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, 1797-1822","Bernard, Simon, 1779-1839","Ringgold, Tench","Lovering, William (Architect)","Scott, Gustavus, 1753-1800","Thornton, William, 1759-1828","White, Alexander, 1738-1804","Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857","Lewis, Lawrence, 1767-1839","Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-1852","Law, Edmund, 1790-1829","Decatur, Susan Wheeler","Hay, George, 1765-1830","Lee, Henry, 1756-1818","De Kalb, Johann, 1721-1780","Elgar, Joseph","Anderson, James, 1745-1807","Craik, James, 1730-1814","Anderson, John","Stuart, David, 1753-1814","Dearborn, Henry, 1751-1829","Smith, George (Blacksmith)","Lear, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Lincoln), 1792-1832","Peter, George Washington, 1801-1877","Maltitz, Apollonius August von, 1795-1870","Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864","Stabler, Edward, 1769-1831","Lewis, Lorenzo, 1803-1847","Kennon, Beverley, 1793-1844","Peter, Martha Custis Kennon, 1843-1886","Peter, Walter G.  (Walter Gibson), 1868-1945","Peter, Armistead, 1870-1960","Peter, George Freeland, 1875–1953","Tyler, John, 1790-1862","Peter, Walter Gibson, 1842-1863","Townsend, Justine Van Rensselaer, 1828-1912","Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864","Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824","Bunting, Charles","Key, Philip Barton, 1757-1815","Hanson, Alexander Contee, 1786-1819","English \n.    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Papers of Robert Peter : Subseries 11.1. Accounts, Subseries 11.2. Financial Documents, Subseries 11.3. Legal Documents, Subseries 11.4. Land Documents, Subseries 11.5. Estate Documents Series 12. Papers of Thomas Peter : Subseries 12.1. Financial Documents, Subseries 12.2. Land Documents, Subseries 12.3. Estate Documents, Subseries 12.4. Correspondence Series 13. Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1824-1909 : Subseries 13.1. Financial Documents, Subseries 13.2. Legal Documents, Subseries 13.3. Correspondence"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Peters were a prominent family in Washington, D.C. during the eighteenth and nineteen centuries. Martha Parke Custis, Martha Washington's granddaughter, married into the Peter family in 1795.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eGeorge Washington (1732-1799)\u003c/emph\u003e: George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at a modest farm in Westmoreland County, Virginia to parents Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. In 1749, George Washington was appointed surveyor for Culpepper County. In 1752, he started his military career in the Virginia militia. During the Revolutionary War he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and later was elected as the first President of the United States of America. He lived with his wife, Martha Washington, at Mount Vernon, where he passed away December 14, 1799.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMartha Washington (1731-1802)\u003c/emph\u003e: Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born on June 2, 1731 to parents John and Frances Jones Dandridge. She married her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on May 15, 1750. Together they had four children, two of whom died in childhood. On July 8, 1757, her husband unexpectedly died, leaving her a widow with their two remaining children, John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis. On January 6, 1759, Martha Dandridge Custis married George Washington. Martha Parke Custis or Patsy, died at the age of 17. On February 3, 1774, John Parke Custis married Eleanor Calvert, and together they had four children who survived to adulthood. However, on November 5, 1781, John Parke Custis passed away, and the younger two of his children went to live at Mount Vernon with their grandmother. Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died on May 22, 1802.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eTobias Lear (1762-1816)\u003c/emph\u003e: Tobias Lear was born in 1762. He was employed by George Washington in 1786 to manage expense reports to Congress and also as the personal tutor to Martha Washington's grandchildren. In 1790 Tobias Lear married Mary \"Polly\" Long; however she died in 1793. Lear then married Martha Washington's niece, Frances Bassett Washington, but she died shortly they were married. Lear married for a third time to Frances Dandridge Henley, another niece of Martha Washington. He died in 1816.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eElizabeth (Betsy, Beth, Eliza) Parke Custis Law (1776-1831)\u003c/emph\u003e: Wife to Thomas Law, Eliza Parke Custis Law was born on August 21, 1776. She was the daughter of John (Jacky) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert. Upon the death of her father in 1781, Eliza's two younger siblings, George Washington (Washy) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Parke Custis went to live with their grandmother, Martha Washington, and her second husband, George Washington. Eliza and her other sister Martha stayed at home with their mother. Shortly after, their mother remarried Dr. David Stuart and had thirteen more children. On March 21, 1796, Eliza Parke Custis Law married Thomas Law and together they had one child, Eliza Law. In 1804, the couple separated and their daughter went to live with her father. They officially divorced in 1811. Eliza Parke Custis Law lived with one of her uncles for a time after the separation, and soon purchased a house in Alexandria called \"Mount Washington.\" Eliza Law Rogers died in 1822, leaving behind a husband (Lloyd Nicholas Rogers) and two children. Eliza Parke Custis Law died on December 31, 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThomas Law (1756-1834)\u003c/emph\u003e: Thomas Law was born on October 23, 1756 in Cambridge, England. He started his career working for the East India Trading Company and began building his reputation, as well as his income. In 1794, he left England to start a new life in America where he began to invest in lands, particularly in the nation's capital. Over time, Law became extremely passionate about the arts, particularly poetry, which he wrote and published. He even founded the first dance society, theater, and the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis on March 21, 1796. Together they had one child, Eliza Law, who married Lloyd Nicholls Rogers in 1817. Thomas Law died in 1834.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eWilliam Costin (1780-1842)\u003c/emph\u003e: William Costin was a prominent free black man in early 19th-century Washington DC. He was a messenger for the Bank of Washington and ran a hack business in the city. In 1800, he married his cousin Philadelphia (\"Delphy\"), a dower slave of Martha Washington. Upon Martha Washington's death in 1802, Delphy became the property of Eliza Parke Custis Law, wife to Thomas Law. Delphy and their children were granted freedom shortly after, and the couple decided to stay in Washington, D.C. Together the Costins had seven children. He died in 1842.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eJohn Law (1784-1822)\u003c/emph\u003e: John Law was born in India about 1784 to Thomas Law and an unidentified Indian woman. In 1794 Thomas Law came to America after living about two decades in India; presumably John and his brothers came with him. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis in 1796 and raised the boys until their separation around 1804. John Law graduated from Harvard University in 1804; he was a member of the Columbian Dragoons in 1811; and was the commissioner to adjust the Yazoo claims in 1814. He died on October 4, 1822.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLloyd Nicholas Rogers (1787 or 1788-1860)\u003c/emph\u003e: Lloyd Nicholas Rogers was born on September 20, 1788 to parents Nicholas and Eleanor Buchanan Rogers. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers married Eliza Law Rogers in 1817. Together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers and Eleanor Agnes Rogers. They lived on Druid Hill which had been passed down by Lloyd's Scottish father. Very shortly after the death of Lloyd's father in 1822, Eliza also died. In 1829, Rogers was married to Hortensia Monroe Hay who was the granddaughter of James Monroe. Together, they had an additional three daughters, Harriet, Hortensia, and Mary Custis. Lloyd was a proprietor of his estate and practiced law out of his home on Druid Hill. Hortensia died in the 1850s, leaving Lloyd all alone. All of his children except for Eleanor had already married and moved out. Eleanor would not marry until 1862, following her father's death. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers died on November 12, 1860.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eEdmund Law Rogers (1818-1896)\u003c/emph\u003e: Edmund Law Rogers was born in 1818 to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers and Eliza Law Rogers. He grew up and lived in Baltimore all of his life, and was a founding member of the Maryland and Harvard Club, as well as a member of various other organizations, such as, the Sons of the Revolution and the Baltimore Historical Society. He spoke several different languages and was a lover of the arts. He married Charlotte Matilda Plater and together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers, Jr., and Charlotte Plater Rogers. He died of paralysis on January 24, 1896.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eRobert Peter (1726-1806)\u003c/emph\u003e: Robert Peter was born in 1726 in Scotland to Thomas Peter and Jean Dunlop, who were prosperous merchants. He immigrated to the United States around 1745, but there is no definite reason why he chose to leave. He first settled in the town, Bladensburg, along the Anacostia River. In 1751, Georgetown was established, and Robert purchased a lot in the town the following year, and slowly began to build up his land holdings. His land holdings grew to be quite extensive, including owning the entire square from M, K, and 31st Streets, and Wisconsin Ave. From 1789 to 1798, Robert Peter was the first mayor of Georgetown. On December 27, 1767, he married Elizabeth Scott, and together they had 10 children, one of whom died as an infant. Their names were: Thomas, Alexander, Elizabeth, Walter, Robert, Jean, Margaret, David, George, and James. He died in 1806.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThomas Peter (1769-1834)\u003c/emph\u003e: Thomas Peter was born January 4, 1769 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. Thomas Peter married Martha Parke Custis, granddaughter to Martha Washington, in 1795. Together, they had eight children. Martha Eliza Eleanor, Columbia Washington, John Parke Custis, Robert Thomas, George Washington, America Pinckney, Martha Custis Castania (who died young), and Britannia Wellington. In 1805, Thomas and Martha purchased eight-and-a-half acres in \"Georgetown Heights.\" [For more information on Tudor Place, see Tudor Place: Historic House and Gardens.] They later hired architect Dr. William Thornton to design and build Tudor Place located in Georgetown. It was completed in 1816 and still stands today. Thomas Peter was a prominent lawyer of the time and was one of the executors of Martha Washington's will. He died April 16, 1834.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMartha (Patty) Parke Custis Peter (1777-1854)\u003c/emph\u003e: was born to John Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert Custis on December 31, 1777. She was one of four children in their family to survive to adulthood: Eliza Parke, Martha Parke, Eleanor Parke (Nelly), and George Washington (Washy) Parke. Following the death of their father in 1781, Patty and her older sister, Eliza, lived with their mother and stepfather, Dr. David Stuart, and their large family, while their younger siblings, Nelly and Washy, lived with their grandparents at Mount Vernon. There were frequent visits to Mount Vernon in both childhood and following her marriage to Thomas Peter in 1795. She died July 13 or 15, 1854.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBritannia Wellington Peter Kennon (1815-1911)\u003c/emph\u003e: Britannia Wellington Peter was born January 28, 1815, as the youngest child of Martha Parke (Patty) Custis Peter and Thomas Peter. In 1842, she married Commodore Beverley Kennon, and together they had one child, Martha Custis Kennon, on October 18, 1843. Commodore Kennon died from a gun explosion on the frigate Princeton on February 28, 1844. Martha Custis Kennon married Dr. Armistead Peter in 1867. When Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon's mother passed in 1854, she inherited Tudor Place, where she lived until her death in 1911.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMajor George Peter (1779-1861)\u003c/emph\u003e: Major George W. Peter was born on September 28, 1779 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. He was married three times during his life. First, to Ann Plater in 1809. Together they had two children, George and Thomas. His wife and two children all died in 1814. Secondly, in 1815 he married Agnes Buchanon Freeland. They had five children, Robert, Ann, James, Agnes, and David. Agnes, his wife, died in 1825. Only a month later, he again married, this time to Sarah Norfleet Freeland, the sister of his second wife. Together, they had nine children: Sarah Agnes, George, Alexander Scott, Margaret Dick, Elizabeth, Armistead, Walter Gibson, William, and Katherine Norfleet. Major George Peter was an officer in the army, a representative in Congress, and a farmer. During his career in the army, he was first appointed first lieutenant 2nd, Artillery and Engineers on February 16, 1801. He was promoted to Captain on November 3, 1807, and finally was transferred to the Light Artillery in May of 1808. He resigned in June 11, 1809. In 1815, he was elected to Congress to cover the sixth district in Maryland. He would continue this appointment until after 1828. He died June 22, 1861.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eDr. Armistead Peter (1840-1902)\u003c/emph\u003e: Dr. Armistead Peter was one of George Peter's sons from his third marriage to Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter. He was born on February 23, 1840. Dr. Armistead Peter was a cousin to his wife Martha Custis Kennon Peter, whom he married in 1867. Together, Martha and Armistead had five children: Walter Gibson, Armistead, Beverley Kennon, George Freeland, and Agnes. He and Martha Custis Kennon Peter both moved into Tudor Place and Dr. Armistead Peter converted a portion of the house for his medical practice. He created a very successful business as one of the best doctors in the city of Washington. During the Civil War he was employed by the U.S. Army as ward surgeon, as well as serving in a smallpox hospital. Martha Custis Kennon Peter died suddenly in 1886. Armistead died in 1902, his mother-in-law, Britannia W. Peter Kennon outliving both of them. The land in Bethesda was divided between their four children. After Britannia W. Peter Kennon died, the house was left to her grandson, Armistead Peter II. Dr. Armistead Peter died on January 28, 1902.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAgnes Peter (1880-1957)\u003c/emph\u003e: Agnes Peter, born on February 3, 1880, was the daughter of Dr. Armistead Peter and Martha Custis Kennon Peter. She lived in France for a period of time during WWI conducting work for the YMCA. Agnes Peter was the director of a Foyer du Soldat and helped to receive soldiers and refugees. She was also in charge of the Graves Registration Section in Rheims. She was the first woman in France to be awarded the silver Medal of Honor for her distinguished services to the country during the war. In 1946, when she was 73, she married Nobel Prize winner, Dr. John R. Mott, who is most acclaimed for his work creating international Christian programs with a goal to establish peace. She died in 1957.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Peters were a prominent family in Washington, D.C. during the eighteenth and nineteen centuries. Martha Parke Custis, Martha Washington's granddaughter, married into the Peter family in 1795.","George Washington (1732-1799) : George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at a modest farm in Westmoreland County, Virginia to parents Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. In 1749, George Washington was appointed surveyor for Culpepper County. In 1752, he started his military career in the Virginia militia. During the Revolutionary War he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and later was elected as the first President of the United States of America. He lived with his wife, Martha Washington, at Mount Vernon, where he passed away December 14, 1799.","Martha Washington (1731-1802) : Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born on June 2, 1731 to parents John and Frances Jones Dandridge. She married her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on May 15, 1750. Together they had four children, two of whom died in childhood. On July 8, 1757, her husband unexpectedly died, leaving her a widow with their two remaining children, John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis. On January 6, 1759, Martha Dandridge Custis married George Washington. Martha Parke Custis or Patsy, died at the age of 17. On February 3, 1774, John Parke Custis married Eleanor Calvert, and together they had four children who survived to adulthood. However, on November 5, 1781, John Parke Custis passed away, and the younger two of his children went to live at Mount Vernon with their grandmother. Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died on May 22, 1802.","Tobias Lear (1762-1816) : Tobias Lear was born in 1762. He was employed by George Washington in 1786 to manage expense reports to Congress and also as the personal tutor to Martha Washington's grandchildren. In 1790 Tobias Lear married Mary \"Polly\" Long; however she died in 1793. Lear then married Martha Washington's niece, Frances Bassett Washington, but she died shortly they were married. Lear married for a third time to Frances Dandridge Henley, another niece of Martha Washington. He died in 1816.","Elizabeth (Betsy, Beth, Eliza) Parke Custis Law (1776-1831) : Wife to Thomas Law, Eliza Parke Custis Law was born on August 21, 1776. She was the daughter of John (Jacky) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert. Upon the death of her father in 1781, Eliza's two younger siblings, George Washington (Washy) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Parke Custis went to live with their grandmother, Martha Washington, and her second husband, George Washington. Eliza and her other sister Martha stayed at home with their mother. Shortly after, their mother remarried Dr. David Stuart and had thirteen more children. On March 21, 1796, Eliza Parke Custis Law married Thomas Law and together they had one child, Eliza Law. In 1804, the couple separated and their daughter went to live with her father. They officially divorced in 1811. Eliza Parke Custis Law lived with one of her uncles for a time after the separation, and soon purchased a house in Alexandria called \"Mount Washington.\" Eliza Law Rogers died in 1822, leaving behind a husband (Lloyd Nicholas Rogers) and two children. Eliza Parke Custis Law died on December 31, 1831.","Thomas Law (1756-1834) : Thomas Law was born on October 23, 1756 in Cambridge, England. He started his career working for the East India Trading Company and began building his reputation, as well as his income. In 1794, he left England to start a new life in America where he began to invest in lands, particularly in the nation's capital. Over time, Law became extremely passionate about the arts, particularly poetry, which he wrote and published. He even founded the first dance society, theater, and the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis on March 21, 1796. Together they had one child, Eliza Law, who married Lloyd Nicholls Rogers in 1817. Thomas Law died in 1834.","William Costin (1780-1842) : William Costin was a prominent free black man in early 19th-century Washington DC. He was a messenger for the Bank of Washington and ran a hack business in the city. In 1800, he married his cousin Philadelphia (\"Delphy\"), a dower slave of Martha Washington. Upon Martha Washington's death in 1802, Delphy became the property of Eliza Parke Custis Law, wife to Thomas Law. Delphy and their children were granted freedom shortly after, and the couple decided to stay in Washington, D.C. Together the Costins had seven children. He died in 1842.","John Law (1784-1822) : John Law was born in India about 1784 to Thomas Law and an unidentified Indian woman. In 1794 Thomas Law came to America after living about two decades in India; presumably John and his brothers came with him. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis in 1796 and raised the boys until their separation around 1804. John Law graduated from Harvard University in 1804; he was a member of the Columbian Dragoons in 1811; and was the commissioner to adjust the Yazoo claims in 1814. He died on October 4, 1822.","Lloyd Nicholas Rogers (1787 or 1788-1860) : Lloyd Nicholas Rogers was born on September 20, 1788 to parents Nicholas and Eleanor Buchanan Rogers. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers married Eliza Law Rogers in 1817. Together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers and Eleanor Agnes Rogers. They lived on Druid Hill which had been passed down by Lloyd's Scottish father. Very shortly after the death of Lloyd's father in 1822, Eliza also died. In 1829, Rogers was married to Hortensia Monroe Hay who was the granddaughter of James Monroe. Together, they had an additional three daughters, Harriet, Hortensia, and Mary Custis. Lloyd was a proprietor of his estate and practiced law out of his home on Druid Hill. Hortensia died in the 1850s, leaving Lloyd all alone. All of his children except for Eleanor had already married and moved out. Eleanor would not marry until 1862, following her father's death. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers died on November 12, 1860.","Edmund Law Rogers (1818-1896) : Edmund Law Rogers was born in 1818 to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers and Eliza Law Rogers. He grew up and lived in Baltimore all of his life, and was a founding member of the Maryland and Harvard Club, as well as a member of various other organizations, such as, the Sons of the Revolution and the Baltimore Historical Society. He spoke several different languages and was a lover of the arts. He married Charlotte Matilda Plater and together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers, Jr., and Charlotte Plater Rogers. He died of paralysis on January 24, 1896.","Robert Peter (1726-1806) : Robert Peter was born in 1726 in Scotland to Thomas Peter and Jean Dunlop, who were prosperous merchants. He immigrated to the United States around 1745, but there is no definite reason why he chose to leave. He first settled in the town, Bladensburg, along the Anacostia River. In 1751, Georgetown was established, and Robert purchased a lot in the town the following year, and slowly began to build up his land holdings. His land holdings grew to be quite extensive, including owning the entire square from M, K, and 31st Streets, and Wisconsin Ave. From 1789 to 1798, Robert Peter was the first mayor of Georgetown. On December 27, 1767, he married Elizabeth Scott, and together they had 10 children, one of whom died as an infant. Their names were: Thomas, Alexander, Elizabeth, Walter, Robert, Jean, Margaret, David, George, and James. He died in 1806.","Thomas Peter (1769-1834) : Thomas Peter was born January 4, 1769 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. Thomas Peter married Martha Parke Custis, granddaughter to Martha Washington, in 1795. Together, they had eight children. Martha Eliza Eleanor, Columbia Washington, John Parke Custis, Robert Thomas, George Washington, America Pinckney, Martha Custis Castania (who died young), and Britannia Wellington. In 1805, Thomas and Martha purchased eight-and-a-half acres in \"Georgetown Heights.\" [For more information on Tudor Place, see Tudor Place: Historic House and Gardens.] They later hired architect Dr. William Thornton to design and build Tudor Place located in Georgetown. It was completed in 1816 and still stands today. Thomas Peter was a prominent lawyer of the time and was one of the executors of Martha Washington's will. He died April 16, 1834.","Martha (Patty) Parke Custis Peter (1777-1854) : was born to John Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert Custis on December 31, 1777. She was one of four children in their family to survive to adulthood: Eliza Parke, Martha Parke, Eleanor Parke (Nelly), and George Washington (Washy) Parke. Following the death of their father in 1781, Patty and her older sister, Eliza, lived with their mother and stepfather, Dr. David Stuart, and their large family, while their younger siblings, Nelly and Washy, lived with their grandparents at Mount Vernon. There were frequent visits to Mount Vernon in both childhood and following her marriage to Thomas Peter in 1795. She died July 13 or 15, 1854.","Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon (1815-1911) : Britannia Wellington Peter was born January 28, 1815, as the youngest child of Martha Parke (Patty) Custis Peter and Thomas Peter. In 1842, she married Commodore Beverley Kennon, and together they had one child, Martha Custis Kennon, on October 18, 1843. Commodore Kennon died from a gun explosion on the frigate Princeton on February 28, 1844. Martha Custis Kennon married Dr. Armistead Peter in 1867. When Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon's mother passed in 1854, she inherited Tudor Place, where she lived until her death in 1911.","Major George Peter (1779-1861) : Major George W. Peter was born on September 28, 1779 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. He was married three times during his life. First, to Ann Plater in 1809. Together they had two children, George and Thomas. His wife and two children all died in 1814. Secondly, in 1815 he married Agnes Buchanon Freeland. They had five children, Robert, Ann, James, Agnes, and David. Agnes, his wife, died in 1825. Only a month later, he again married, this time to Sarah Norfleet Freeland, the sister of his second wife. Together, they had nine children: Sarah Agnes, George, Alexander Scott, Margaret Dick, Elizabeth, Armistead, Walter Gibson, William, and Katherine Norfleet. Major George Peter was an officer in the army, a representative in Congress, and a farmer. During his career in the army, he was first appointed first lieutenant 2nd, Artillery and Engineers on February 16, 1801. He was promoted to Captain on November 3, 1807, and finally was transferred to the Light Artillery in May of 1808. He resigned in June 11, 1809. In 1815, he was elected to Congress to cover the sixth district in Maryland. He would continue this appointment until after 1828. He died June 22, 1861.","Dr. Armistead Peter (1840-1902) : Dr. Armistead Peter was one of George Peter's sons from his third marriage to Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter. He was born on February 23, 1840. Dr. Armistead Peter was a cousin to his wife Martha Custis Kennon Peter, whom he married in 1867. Together, Martha and Armistead had five children: Walter Gibson, Armistead, Beverley Kennon, George Freeland, and Agnes. He and Martha Custis Kennon Peter both moved into Tudor Place and Dr. Armistead Peter converted a portion of the house for his medical practice. He created a very successful business as one of the best doctors in the city of Washington. During the Civil War he was employed by the U.S. Army as ward surgeon, as well as serving in a smallpox hospital. Martha Custis Kennon Peter died suddenly in 1886. Armistead died in 1902, his mother-in-law, Britannia W. Peter Kennon outliving both of them. The land in Bethesda was divided between their four children. After Britannia W. Peter Kennon died, the house was left to her grandson, Armistead Peter II. Dr. Armistead Peter died on January 28, 1902.","Agnes Peter (1880-1957) : Agnes Peter, born on February 3, 1880, was the daughter of Dr. Armistead Peter and Martha Custis Kennon Peter. She lived in France for a period of time during WWI conducting work for the YMCA. Agnes Peter was the director of a Foyer du Soldat and helped to receive soldiers and refugees. She was also in charge of the Graves Registration Section in Rheims. She was the first woman in France to be awarded the silver Medal of Honor for her distinguished services to the country during the war. In 1946, when she was 73, she married Nobel Prize winner, Dr. John R. Mott, who is most acclaimed for his work creating international Christian programs with a goal to establish peace. She died in 1957."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Name and date of item], Peter Family papers, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Name and date of item], Peter Family papers, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePeter family owned books are cataloged in the Library Catalog. The 23 titles (36 volumes) are searchable in the\n\u003ca href=\"https://mountvernonlibrary.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=%2A\u0026amp;clusterResults=false\u0026amp;groupVariantRecords=false\u0026amp;subscope=wz%3A46368%3A%3Azs%3A39386\u0026amp;changedFacet=scope\"\u003ethe Catalog's Peter Family Collection\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esee Century Magazine, May 1890, p. 17\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials","Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Peter family owned books are cataloged in the Library Catalog. The 23 titles (36 volumes) are searchable in the\n the Catalog's Peter Family Collection .","see Century Magazine, May 1890, p. 17"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of papers collected by various members of the Peter families. It includes letters from George Washington, letters of condolence to Martha Washington after George Washington's death, estate documents, Major George Peter's military papers, land plats and surveys, photo albums, letterbooks, and notebooks that tell of the life of this prominent family in Virginia and the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed from Eliza, Hope Park, asking her grandfather for a picture of him. Docketed in Washington's hand on verso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutographed letter signed (signature cut out) George Washington, German Town, to Eliza Parke Custis. Washington offers his granddaughter advice on love and marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter in Washington's hand, initialed by both George and Martha. George and Martha Washington, Philadelphia, to Thomas Law. The Washingtons congratulate Law on his marriage to their grandaughter Eliza.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed by George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter, discussing the purchase of English cattle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in Washington's hand.Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Washington, Mount Vernon. Peter asks Washington to secure a spot for his brother in the Army and shares rumors about a bill coming up in Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel and seal. George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about the sale of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel.George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about farming and congratulates Thomas and Patsy on the birth of their son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. John Mercereau, Union Township, to George Washington. John Mercereau, a businessman who served with his brother and nephew in a spy ring during the Revolutionary War, writes to Washington asking if he may come and visit, reflecting that no memories give him greater satisfaction than those he spent \"Devoted to my Countrys Service.\" Tragically, Mercereau did not know that Washington had died 10 days before his letter was sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., London, to George Washington.  Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., writes to his uncle about his business ventures from London. He had not yet received word of Washington's death on December 14, 1799.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter unsigned in the hand of Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart and most likely addressed to Tobias Lear. The letter is dated 7 February with no year but was most likely written in 1790, since it mentions Lear's first marriage, which occured in 1790.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, undated, with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart to Tobias Lear, New York. Docketed in Lear's hand as received 2 October 1790. Eleanor writes of her unhappiness at being parted from her children Nelly and Wash.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, Mount Vernon, to Tobias Lear, New York. Eleanor writes about the lottery and her family, noting that \"My Dear Nelly \u0026amp; Wash. are still spoilt by Grand Mama but chearfully obey every word I say to them.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in hand of George Washington. Lucretia Constance Radcliffe, Charleston, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Mrs. Radcliffe writes seeking an Army commission for her son and sends a packet of crane feathers and melon seeds. She also sends news of Major Pinkney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript resolution of the \"Sixth Congress of the United States: At the first session Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine\" stating that a marble monument to George Washington be erected in the City of Washington and that his remains be interred beneath it. It is also resolved that a funeral procession from Comgress Hall to the German Lutheran Church shall take place on Thursday, December 26, 1799, and that the nation will wear crepe arm bands for thirty days of mourning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Maria S. Ross, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. A condolence letter from Maria S. Ross of Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Martha Washington on the death of her husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter, copy. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response to Maria Ross's condolence letter to Martha Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel with seal of John Adams. Abigail Adams, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Condolence letter written by Abigail Adams to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Martha Washington's response to Abigail Adams's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Mary Stead Pinckney, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Pinckney also sends her regards and congratulations to Nelly Parke Custis Lewis, who was recovering from the birth of her first child, Frances Parke Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Governor of Connecticut, Lebanon, Connecticut, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Elias Boudinot, New Jersey Congressman and Director of the United States Mint, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Elias Boudinot. Tobias Lear's response on behalf of Martha Washington to Elias Boudinot's condolence letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Bushrod Washington, Walnut Farm, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bushrod writes to Martha about purchasing corn from Colonel Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter written by Ann Huntington, New London, Connecticut,  to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Hamilton's condolence letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter from Reverend Samuel Miller, New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington. He writes that he is inclosing a discourse he recently delivered on the occasion of Washington's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Samuel Miller's, New York, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Stephen Williamson, Philadelphia, State Prison, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Stephen Williamson introduces himself as the captain of a company in the Rhode Island Regiment who served under Washington in the Revolutionary War. He recounts a dream he had in which she gives birth to a son following Washington's death. He also tells Martha the details of his arrest for buying a stolen horse and requests her assistance in getting him out of prison.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Former Secretary of War Henry Knox, Montpelier, St. Georges, sends Martha his condolences after the passing of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Henry Knox's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Mayor of New York City Richard Varick offers his condolences to Martha after the death of George Washington. He also incloses, on behalf of the Common Council of New York City, an oration delivered on the occassion of Washington's death by Gouverneur Morris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Richard Varick's, New York, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Richard Washington,Bermuda, a former business associate of Washington's in London, offers his condolences to Martha after George Washington's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Sedgwick writes that he is inclosing a second edition of General Lee's funeral oration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha in response to Theodore Sedgwick's condolence letter after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter written by the Marquis de Lafayette, La Grange, to Martha after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. A condolence letter from Auguste Belin, Secretary of the Loge Française l'Aménité of Philidelphia, a freemason lodge of French and Saint-Dominguen émigrés. Belin writes that he is inclosing copies of a funeral oration performed at the lodge in honor of George Washington's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Auguste Belin's, Philadelphia, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter. Condolence note from Reverend William Rogers, Philadelphia, to Martha on the death of George Washington. Rogers writes that he is enclosing a copy of a funeral oration he delivered in Washington's honor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks William Rogers for sending \"a copy of the Religious Exercises, at the time of the Eulogy, at the German Reformed Church.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, requests that Gilbert Stuart's original portrait of Washington be given to Martha, in exchange for fair compensation. Lear writes that Martha has expressed no desire for her own portrait, but Lear thinks it would be nice to display alongside the portrait of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence note written by Charles Humphrey Atherton, Amherst, New Hampshire, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Atherton writes that he is enclosing a funeral oration delivered at the request of the citizens of Amherst, New Hampshire in Washington's honor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Charles H. Atherton's, Amherst, New Hampshire, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Georges Washington de Lafayette, La Grange, son of the Marquis de Lafayette, writes a condolence note to Martha after the death of George Washington. Georges writes of Washington's \"parental kindness\" when he visited Mount Vernon and says, \"How far was I to imagine when I left your family that it would be a last farewell.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Condolence letter written by Alexandria merchant Thomas Porter to Martha after the death of George Washington. Porter writes that he is sending an eulogy along with the letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. A condolence letter written by Revered James Kemp, Cambridge, Maryland, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Kemp writes that he is enclosing a copy of a sermon he delivered on the day appointed by Congress to honor George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha Washington to James Kemp's, Cambridge, Maryland, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Peleg Wadsworth, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Wadsworth requests, on behalf of his daughter, a relic of the late General.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Peleg Wadsworth's condolence letter after the death of George Washington. Lear writes that he is enclosing a lock of Washington's hair for Wadsworth's daughter as requested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks Reverend John D. Blair for sending his condolences and two orations delivered in Richmond on February 22 in honor of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. William Griffiths, Burlington, New Jersey, offers his condolences on behalf of the citizens of Burlington, New Jersey to Martha after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha to William Griffith's, Burlington, New Jersey, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed \"John Lemayere.\" Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs, was George Washington's dentist during the Revolutionary War. He writes his condolences to Martha on the death of Washington, apologizing that his servant lost the first condolence letter he had written on February 24.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Dr. Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bartholomew Dandridge Jr. writes his aunt inquiring about letters sent to him from Washington before his death that Dandridge never received.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Sir John Sinclair, London, writes to Martha in praise of her late husband and sends her a volume of his letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 letters written by Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers to her mother between December 5, 1819 - November 21, 1821.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 letters written by Brigadier General Simon Bernard, Washington City, to Eliza Parke Custis Law between March 28, 1828 and May 21, 1830.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLloyd Rogers to Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Alexandria\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted legal document: Statement of the defendant's case. Docketed on verso \"Papers relating to case of Law v. Morris Nicholson \u0026amp; Greenleaf.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript legal statement of Thomas Law in regards to a property dispute in Washington City between William Mayne Duncason and Tench Ringgold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript memoranda regarding property dispute over square 744 in the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Concerning Tench Ringgold and property dealings in the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript descriptions of the architectural plans for the Thomas Law House, designed by architect William Lovering and built circa 1794 on the 689 square in the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Law, Washington City, discusses his plan for construction of New Jersey Avenue on lot 744 of Washington City, along the public canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White, Washington City, to Thomas Law\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. George Washington Parke Custis, Philadelphia to Thomas Law, Federal City. George Washington Parke Custis writes to Law of the pleasure he will have in serving Washington City, which is to be \"the pride of future ages\" and \"the metropolis of America.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA manuscript copy of the address read by W. M. Duncanson at a meeting of the Managers of Washington Canal Lottery - Law, Carroll, Young, and Duncanson. Their reply is copied on the verso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Duncanson writes that Thomas Law has resigned his title to Lot 744 of Washington City in favor of Tench Ringgold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned, undated manuscript, docketed \"Tench Ringgold Arbitration.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Piercy, City of Washington, to Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White. Three manuscript copies by Thomas Munroe of letters written by James Piercy to the Commissioners of the City of Washington about his claims to lot 744.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript copy made by Thomas Munroe of a letter written by the Commissioners of the City of Washington to James Piercy in response to Piercy's claims on lot 744. Scott and Thornton write to Piercy that \"no intention exists of granting you the square you mention.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, City of Washington\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLloyd Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, Washington City\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Law to Lloyd Rogers, Baltimore\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWriting from New Orleans in 1832, John Taylor reports that fifty to sixty people a day are dying from yellow fever and smallpox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Parke Custis Law, Washington, to Thomas Law, London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter written by Lawrence Lewis to William \"Billy\" Costin requesting Costin's service in transporting his family from Mr. Charles Carter's residence in Culpepper County to their home. Lewis provides a suggested route and expected arrival date stating, 'you must not disappoint me.' A postscript in the hand of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis requests additional and immediate transportation for herself to Philadelphia. She offers Costin's mother payment in Pork if she will accompany them on the trip. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated note from Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis asking \"Billy\" to ask her sister Betsy to send the things by which she [Eleanor] wrote to her for. Directs Billy to be very careful of them as they are easily broken. Autograph note signed E Lewis, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral adddress panel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. George Washington Parke Custis writes William \"Billy\" Costin at the Bank of Washington. He mentions he expects to go with Lafayette to visit Woodlawn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law. The first letter is addressed to John at George Town College and the other four to Harvard University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdmund Law, Washington, to John Law, Baltimore\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 dated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter discussing the court martial of Commodore James Barron, who would later kill Commodore Stephen Decatur in duel in 1820.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 undated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 undated letters and notes written by Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. John Law asks William Thornton if he can borrow a book on calvary maneuvers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters written by William Thornton in response to John Law's August 10, 1807 letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn undated letter from John Law to his half sister, Eliza Law. He writes that he is sending sweetmeats from Woodlawn by William, as promised.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam D. Sims, Pittsburgh, to John Law, Washington City\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA series of four letters and their draft copies written over the course of two days by John Law to his father, criticizing his conduct, particularly in regards to Eliza Law's marriage to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 letters written by Thomas Law to his son John Law, Washington City, around 1817, addressing John's criticisms of him, his divorce, and his friendship with Elizabeth Bordley Gibson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. A letter of reconciliation sent by John Law to his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of letter from Lloyd Nicholas Rogers, New York, to Major-General Henry Lee discussing the life of Baron de Kalb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters about the sale of property in Washington.Lenman and Brother, Washington City, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments related to the sale of property in Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about the sale of property in Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters about the sale of property in Washington. N. Callan, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond of conveyance for Lot No. 1 in Square 260 in Washington City, District of Columbia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 survey plat of lots in Washington along Canal St, and 2 pages of notes listing the prices of lots and the names of their purchasers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from the Commisioners of the Sinking Fund of the Corporation of Washington. William McCormick, Registers Office, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn indenture form reassigning a parcel of property in Washington City. The Deed of Trust form is marked at the top of the first page \"Printed and Sold by Robert A. Waters, D. st., bet. 9th \u0026amp; 10th.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page autograph letter signed by George Washington Parke Custis to Edmund Law Rogers, with additional letter from Martha Custis Williams, Arlington House, written on verso. Custis writes, \"From the very graphic account you gave Martha Williams of your visit to Mr Fenno, I see but a poor chance of my Drama being brought out [in Baltimore].\" He asks Rogers to inquire of his \"theater going friends\" if any other Baltimore theatres will perform the work. If not, he asks Rogers to return the book care of William Adam Bookseller Pennsylvania Avenie Washington.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn her letter, Williams passes on a request from \"Aunt B\" (Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon) to send the \"little manuscript book, containing an inventory of the Mt Vernon relics at Tudor Place, as she is much at a loss, with regard to the history of many things in the House.\" Britannia Peter had inherited Tudor Place the year before, in 1854. Williams adds to Rogers that she hopes he will not make too much effort to have Uncle Custis's play produced because \"Cousin Mary Lee and all his family are so much opposed to it.\" Williams hopes Custis will focus on finishing his Recollections instead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for $21 addressed to Edmund Law Rogers for advertising the sale of lots in the City of Washington in the newspaper the National Intelligencer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned indenture for the sale of lots in the City of Washington. Docketed in pencil \"sale not made.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoices, notes, and receipts from accounts between Robert Peter and the firm O'Neill and Dearkins. Includes an invoice for tobacco, sugar, corduroy, gauze, linen, chocolate, silk, muslin, paper, wine, ribbons, pins, cotton, and tea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnknown list of accounts, believed to be from Robert Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePages from account book with the note \"These leaves was received by James S Webber from Mrs. Esther H Webber wife of Mr Levi Webber of Vassalboro Kennebeck Co. Maine being a part of account Book of Charles Webber, my Grand Father, his own handwriting. Received by me June 22 1878.\" The accounts include invoices for cod fish, bacon, molasses, tea, rum, sugar, silk, shoes, brandy, wine, coffee, and corn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes accounts for flour, pork, beef, lamb, and veal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for the conveyance of a parcel of property called Black Oak Thickett in Frederick County, Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003erent paid\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePage of rent payment accounts in unknown hand.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond of Thomas Nicholls of John to Robert Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond of Isaiah and Edward Nicholls to Robert Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawsuit against Robert Peter by James Gordon, Henry Riddell, John Campbell, John Campbell Junior, Alexander Low, and William Ingram\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree documents related to disputed accounts between Robert Peter and Benjamin Ray. One with a note by John T. Mason dated February 27, 1799, \"He has no shadow of right to one shilling on this [account].\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of Robert Peter's court appearances\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 5 manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 19 small manuscript receipts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurvey of land called Bealls Plaines in what became Washington City, along Goose Creek, later renamed Tiber Creek.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript on parchment with large seal attached by a ribbon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1766, Survey to Forrest, May 12, 1773, (six documents) Bladenburg, Sept., 21, 1766; Rock Creek, Nov. 13, 1766 \"to Robert Peter, merchant in Georgetown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne undated note by Thomas Peter and one letter from William Dearkins and Ben Stoddert to Stephen Chiswell about resurveying about 200 acres called Partnership granted to Elting Williams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Resurvey of Brandy and transfer of several named enslaved people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter about resurveying a parcel of propery called Hazard. George Scott to Robert Peter, George Town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour autograph documents dealing with land ownership. Two notes on fragments; one half sheet giving history of a property in Prince George's County; and an 8 page survey document, with reference to points on a drawn survey, of Cross Basket, Balantyre, and other properties (9 lots) belonging to Robert Peter and divided amongst George and Thomas Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate and plat for 5 3/4 acres of vacant land granted by special warrant to Robert Peter out of the Western Shore Land Office of Washington County in the District of Columbia. Surveyed by Joseph Elgar, Jr. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHand colored survey plat showing the division of Robert Peter's Square in George Town. Docketed on verso \"Plat belonging to Thomas Peter's Square in George Town.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco sales\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTabacco Sales, Real Estate, Transfer of enslaved people\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of trust book is dated 1790\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne dollar printed in Annapolis by F. Green, 7 December 1775. Two thirds of a dollar printed in Philadelphia by Hall and Sellers, 17 February 1776.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of items purchased by Martha Washington from Macleod \u0026amp; Lumsdon, dated at the top 18 February 1800, Alexandria. The accounts, dated 8 July and 9 August, include entries for 47 panes of glass, oil, paint for 30 mahoghany chairs, paint for a wine cooler, varnishing, picture frame gilding, and glazing. Signed by Macleod \u0026amp; Lumdsdon at the bottom, noting that the above money was received in full 9 October 1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt signed \"Daniel Lecock\" for payment received by the hands of James Anderson on behalf of Martha Washington for 790 bushels of corn on 2 May 1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for $25 paid by Thomas Carwood to James Anderson for 100 barrels of fish from Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts dated February 13, March 11, and April 12, 1800 for newspaper advertisements and handbills purchased by Martha Washington from Ellis Price, printer of The Columbian Mirror and Alexandria Gazette. Items Martha purchased include 26 advertisements for a house to rent, an advertisement about the Mount Vernon fishery, 23 advertisements about the donkey Knight of Malta, and notice about the runaway slave Marcus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts dated 23 April-23 September 1800 for weaving yards of cotton, wool, and other fabrics. The payments are marked as having been paid \"By balance due the Estate of General Washington,\" by cash, by 41 gallons of whiskey, and barrells of herring. The final payment is marked as received from James Anderson on 10 November 1801.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill addressed to the Estate of Mrs. Martha Washington, Deceased for $200 due to James Craik for medical services rendered Mrs. Washington during her last illness and $5 for cash paid Heyskill for the hire of his carriage. A signed oath by Jacob Hoffman testifies to the validity of the charges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of payment from Thomas Peter to Lawrence Lewis for three hundred dollars for one hundred barrels of corn sold to Mount Vernon for the use of the estate. Signed by John Anderson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt written by Dr. David Stuart for the receipt from Thomas Peter for five guineas, the leagcy left by Martha Washington to Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment from Thomas Law to Griffith Coombs for repairs to Martha Washington's townhome in the District Columbia occupied by Henry Dearborn. Payment marked by Coombs as received in full from Thomas Peter on August 23, 1802.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwenty dollars wages paid to Richard Burnett of the City of Washingon by Thomas Peter for the year 1802.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of $50 received by George Smith of Woodlawn from Thomas Peter on 12 January 1803 for hire as a blacksmith at Mount Vernon in the year 1802. Signed by George Smith (his mark) and Lawrence Lewis. George Smith was one of George Washington's slaves who was freed after Washington's death. His wife, Lydia, was one of Martha Washington's dower slaves and was inherited by Nelly Parke Custis Lewis of Woodlawn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for one hundred pounds Virginia currency received by Benjamin Lincoln Lear from Thomas Peter, one of the executors of Martha Washington's estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of Mr. James Dunlop with Thomas Peter, for horses, ploughs, and an enslaved woman named Peg. Peg is likely one of the slaves Martha Parke Custis Peter inherited from the Custis estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for funeral arrangements paid by Thomas Peter to William King on December 4, 1820 following the death of his twenty-three-year-old daughter Columbia Washington Peter. The arrangements include a \"walnut coffin lined,\" silver plate and engraving, and rental of horses, a hearse, and attendants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. B. Morris, Philadelphia, to Thomas Peter, Georgetown. Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A letter about bank accounts and stock certificates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill from Dr. Warfield to Thomas Peter for a visit to a \"black man in the night\" on March 5, 1824 which resulted in the amputation of the man's leg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo bills from P.L. Dupont paid by Martha Parke Custis Peter for dancing lessons for her daughter Britannia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo stock share certificates for the Patowmack Company (Potomac Company). Share No. 89 is for Martha Peter, and No. 91 for Thomas Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand office papers for the resurvey of Bear Denn, Daniels Discovery, and Partnership in Maryland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith unknown survey plat on verso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAquila Johns to Thomas Peter on sale of Seneca plantation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed by Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter, wife of Thomas Peter's brother George, relinquishing right title and interest on a tract of land called Forrest, property of her husband, in order to pay his debts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter about resurveying property owned by George Washington Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of property in Montgomery County Maryland owned by Thomas Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Regarding financial matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHoratio Edmondson of Taylor County, Maryland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePamphlet stitch binding with marbled paper covers. Contains notes about purchases made by Thomas Peter 1813-1814.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCalling card from Le Baron de Maltitz, Secretaire de la Legation Imperiale de Russie. Manuscript date 1823 on verso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Dandridge writes to Thomas Peter, George Town, asking to borrow money from the estate of Martha Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Peter, George Town, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, with envelope. Josiah Quincy, Cambridge, to Martha Parke Custis Peter, Georgetown. Josiah Quincy thanks Martha Parke Custis Peter for her generous reeption of his children at Tudor Place and thanks her for the relic of George Washington that she sent back with them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA contemporary manuscript copy of a letter in which Nelly Parke Custis describes having seen George Washington writing his farewell address at Mount Vernon. When the address was finished, she says he asked her to bring him silk string, and she watched him stitch the address together in front of her. Nelly writes this as a rebuke to one of Alexander Hamilton's sons, who claims his father wrote the farewell address.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of accounts between the Estate of George Washington and Alexandria apothecary Edward Stabler, including purchases for Turlington's Balsam, castor oil, arsenic, balsam copaiva, British oil, salts, purified Salt Petre, cantharides, ipecacuanha, laudanum, tumeric, and opodildo. Payments are marked as received from James Anderson. Autograph document, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript titled \"A List of Negroes belonging to Mrs. Washington.\" A list of 121 enslaved persons who were Martha's dower slaves. Unlike the slaves owned by George Washington, Martha's slaves were not freed after her death and were inherited by the Custis descendants. Men, boys, women, and girls and listed in separate columns, each further broken down into the places where they worked: Mansion house, River Farm, Muddy Hole, and Union Farm. Five women - Amy, Alice, Peg, Agnes, and Old Judy - are listed as \"Free but yet remain.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned certificate from the executors of General George Washington to the Clerk of Fairfax.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts from 1802 for furniture and household goods purchased by George Washington Parke Custis from the Estate of Martha Washington. The final payment was made in 1826, and the account is signed by Thomas Peter, executor of the estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of the household belongings sold by Thomas Peter from the personal estate of Martha Washington. Includes a listing of who purchased each item and the price it sold for.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned indenture for sale of land in the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles of agreement between George Calvert and Thomas Peter with Thomas Law, agreeing that Thomas Law and his wife Eliza Parke Custis Law will live separately. Eliza will receive $1500 per year from Law, and all the interest from her inheritance from George Washington will go to her and her daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 sheets of accounts between the estate of Robert Peter and James Dunlop, including the sale of \"5 negroes willed Mrs. Peter.\" These are some of Martha's dower slaves inherited by Martha Parke Custis Peter. One additional account between Jonathan Hicks and the heirs of Robert Peter, dated 1809-1811.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt written by Lawrence Lewis acknowledging receipt from Thomas Peter of three hundred and twenty-six dollars eighteen cent left to his son Lorenzo Lewis as a legacy from Martha Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt signed by George Washington Parke Custis acknowledging the receipt from Thomas Peter of one thousand dollars as a legacy left to his daughter from the late Martha Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Thomas Peter, George Town, to Bushrod Washington, Mount Vernon. Thomas Peter writes to Bushrod about money owed for two purchases he made from the estate of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo documents related to a settlement made by John Dandridge against George Washington Parke Custis and Thomas Peter, executors of Martha Washington's estate. One is a 1829 decree from the U. S. Circuit Court, signed by William Thomas Carroll; and the other is an account of money owed to John Dandridge signed by Benjamin Lincoln Lear, 1830 June 21. Autograph documents signed (2).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 documents related to the death of Beverley Kennon, husband of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, who died aboard the USS Princeton during the 1844 Peacemaker accident: a newspaper clipping with an excerpt from a sermon by Reverend Mr. Magoon on the Princeton Tragedy, a plan of the burying ground belonging to Mrs. Beverly Kennon, and a certificate from the Vestry of Washington Parish granting Mrs. Beverley Kennon four sites in the Washington Parish Burial Ground.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts for two legacies received of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, executor of Martha Parke Custis Peter's estate. One is for a grandson named Thomas Peter and another for her grandson John Parke Custis Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript resolution of the Senate of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, offering sympathy to the families of those killed aboard the USS Princeton during the Peacemaker accident. This copy was given by the President of the United States to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, whose husband, Beverley Kennon, was killed in the accident.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted form signed by Britannia W. Peter Kennon and witnessed by William Purcell, esquire, Judge of the Orphans' Court of Washington county, District of Columbia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of collections and payments made to sundry persons to settle the estate of Martha Parke Custis Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument bound with blue ribbon, with envelope. Last will and testament of Ann Gertrude Wightt, a former nun at the Georgetown Visitation Convent who later lived at Tudor Place. Autograph document, 8 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter, with envelope. Ann Gertrude Wightt, Rochester, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers related to the sale of Lot 9 in Square 72 of Washington City to William A. Gordon. Letter from William E. Edmonston to William A. Gordon, 1891 May 30. Two letters from William A. Gordon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1891 June 3 and 1889 October 4. Typescript signed by William Gordon of Declaration of Trust for sale of Lot Nine, Square Seventy Two in Washington City, D.C..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndenture made between Britannia Wellington Kennon, party of the first part, and Walter Gibson Peter, Armistead Peter Jr., and George Freeland Peter, parties of the second part, all of the District of Columbia, regarding relics and heirlooms at Tudor Place acquired by Britannia W. Peter Kennon from her mother Martha Custis Peter grand-daughter of Martha the wife of George Washington, known in the family as \"The Mount Vernon Heirlooms.\" Other relics are from the estates of Thomas Peter and Beverley Kennon. Britannia wishes that these relics be preserved by her descendants and that none of them be sold or disposed of.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThese include pictures, miniatures, engravings, glass, china, silver, jewelry, furniture, needlework, and other relics, including a sago palm formerly belonging to Martha Parke Custis Peter. The relics and heirlooms are to be divided into five parts after Britannia's death and delivered to her grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (New York : Printed and published by William A. Davies) Inscribed Britannia W. Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Beverley Kennon, Navy Yard, Washington, to Reverend W. Hoff, George Town. Kennon asks Reverend Hoff to be present at Mrs. Peter's place in George Town on the 8th to marry him to Britannia W. Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 autograph letters signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed on mourning stationary, with envelope and black seal. John Tyler, Washington, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. President John Tyler offers his condolences to Britannia W. Peter Kennon on the death of her husband, Beverley Kennon, during the Peacemaker accident aboard the USS Princeton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. T. Kennon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with envelope docketed \"A letter written to Uncle Bev. by my mother while at boarding school given to me after Uncle Bev's death by Aunt G.\". Martha Custis Kennon, Georgetown, to Beverley Kennon Jr. Beverley Kennon Jr. was Martha Custis Kennon's half brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccording to Martha Custis Peter, this illustration was at the Tudor Place.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. Van Ness, New York, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDepartment of the Interior, Pension Office, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Charles Carroll Simms to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Georgetown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMattie D. Abbot to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place. From the Secretary of the Ladies Aid Society of Christ Church accepting Britannia Kennon's resignation as President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from James Mackubin, Ellicott City, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters from Justine Van Rensselaer Townsend, Vice Regent of New York for the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. In the 26 November 1890 letter, Justine asks Britannia to help the Ladies determine what is genuine at the upcoming 1890 Thomas Birch's Sons sale of Washington relics in Philadelphia. The sale will include \"General Washington's papers, a clock, a punch bowl, and many other things.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation from The Board of World's Fair Managers of Virginia inviting Britannia W. Peter Kennon to be present at the ceremonies of Virginia Day at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Enclosed with an envelope and the calling card of Mrs. William Radford Beale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCalling cards for Martha Custis Kennon and Armistead Peter. At home card with envelope for Britannia W. Peter Kennon, engraved by Dempsey \u0026amp; O. Toole of Baltimore \u0026amp; Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEngraved form ceritifying that \"Cream Ladle No 68944 is an exact reproduction of one onwed by General and Mrs. Washington and used for a number of years at Mr. Vernon.\" The ladle was produced by Galt \u0026amp; Bro. Jewellers, Silversmiths, Stationers, Washington D.C..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the purchase of a clock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript lists of letters and items from Mount Vernon that were part of  Britannia W. Peter Kennon's collection at Tudor Place.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnbound notebook with list of items and letters from Mount Vernon that belonged to Britannia W. Peter Kennon at Tudor Place. Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia's grandchildren.Includes furniture and household items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia W. Peter Kennon's grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript list of books, jewelry, and locks of hair at Tudor Place\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes both manuscript and typescript inventories of books, furniture, and objects from Tudor Place.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewsclippings and correspondence related to Washington relics loaned by Walter G. Peter to the National Museum in the early 1900s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLent by Walter G. Peter from the Britannia W. Peter Kennon Collection of Washington Relics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eR. Davidson, Pinckneyville, to George Peter, George Town\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a $5 charge on 23 October 1813 for a coffin \"for a black man.\" On 9 February 1814, Peter was charged $50.00 for a lined coffin covered with black cloth, among other expenses, possibly following the death of his first wife, Ann Plater Peter, or one of their young sons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Anderson, Clarksburgh, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with printed cash form from the Office of Discount and Deposit, Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Delaplaine, Philadelphia, to George Peter. Deplaine requests Major Peter's portrait for his gallery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eU. McInder, Petersburg, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. Coor, Rockville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePartially printed form from the District of Columbia. Major Peter grants Charles A. Burnett power of attorney to sell, assign, and transfer his 50 shares of stock in the Books of the Washington Turnpike Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Bunting, Montgomery County, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames H., Georgetown, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Lear writes regarding two suits againist Mrs. Sarah Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Printed letter with manuscript additions, from B. L. Lear, Attorney of the Bank, Bank of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. W. Ramsay, Washington, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unidentified, Washington, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unidentified, Washington City, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eB. H., Rockville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClement Cod, Georgetown, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Thompson, Union School, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMichael Keepers, Frederick Town, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. D., George Town, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Orme, Georgetown, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. Sellman, Clarksburg, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel C. Ulens, Poolesville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Higgins, Poolesville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJesse V., Poolesville, to George Peter, Darnestown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Falls, Baltimore, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeo. Howson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfred Spates, Cumberland, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unidentified, Baltimore, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. Matthews, George Town, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeo. Hownson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenj. Fawcett, Colesville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Williams, Washington D.C., to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter from the Treasuries Office of the Baltimore and Ohion Railroad Company, offering Peter free tickets to pass over the roads of their company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted election ballot for \"The Constitution and Union Ticket,\" promising \"Civil and Religious Liberty.\" George Peter is listed as the candidate for Commisioner of Public Works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of clothing purchased by Martha Washington from William Jones of Alexandria. Includes suits purchased for enslaved workers Daniel, Marcus, Christopher, and Frank. According to notes on the verso, payments were received from James Anderson on 12 April 1800 and 15 May 1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive receipts for goods and services paid for by James Anderson in 1800, including repairs to old shoes, paper lampblack, freight for one box from Philadelphia, 93 yards of cloth, and leather.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory notes from George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory notes and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory notes and bank notes from George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and bank notes from George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and bank notes from George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated Bills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge H. Peter, Carlise, writes to his uncle asking for money for an upcoming vacation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 letters from James Peter to his uncle George Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Peter, George Town\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 letters sent by James Freeland Peter to his father from Alexandria, Buffalo, and Detroit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript acrostic written for Uncle George Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Peter, Georgetown, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 letters from George Peter, Jr., to his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript list of \"Things from Mt. Vernon\" with manuscript annotations by George Freeland Peter of which Peter heirs inherited the items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript and manuscript inventories of items fro Tudor Place, with notes on which Peter heirs inherited them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdentification key to \"The battle at Bunker's Hill\" engraved by Johann Gotthard Müller after the painting by John Trumbull. Printed in London by A. C. de Poggi.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts for shoes, boots, and repairs, including shoes for enslaved people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMajor George Peter's troops are invited to attend Divine Service. \"It is hoped they will attend \u0026amp; conduct themselves with a reverence suited to the character of Christian soldiers, who have taken arms in defence of their homes \u0026amp; country \u0026amp; who look for success \u0026amp; preservation to the favor of the Almighty Giver of all victory.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel and red wax seal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters to George Peter from his brother David Peter, George Town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of sale for land purchased by Peter on Gay Street and Dumarton Street in George Town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of 322 volumes, showing title, number of volumes, size, and type of bookbinding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 letters and 1 receipt, mostly addressed to George Peter from his niece, Jane Beverley and her husband, James.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eprinted pages\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoger Brooke Taney, Annapolis, to George Peter regarding upcoming elections [December 20] to the U. S. Senate specifically the potential election of Mr. [Alexander C.] Hanson as a means to heal and reconcile the differences in the Federal Party. Also discuss Mr. Washington's 'zeal and industry' in supporting Hanson's candidacy. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages. Docketed 'Roger B. Taney - Hanson \u0026amp; Washington'\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. Cook, Hyates Town,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Brewer, Aix la Chapelle, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Summers, New Market, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. Dalls S., Colesville, to George Peter, Poolesville\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElisha Jones, Clarksburg, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the papers granting George and Sarah Peter guardianship of David Peter's children Elizabeth, William, Jane, George H., and James.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etrust, property, and expenses of land\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ematerial and clothing\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the purchase of Lot No. 15 in Square No. 170 in the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 copies of the will of Sarah Freeland, George Peter's mother-in-law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eappraisal authorization of Alexander Broome and Samuel Darby\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of Margaret Dick with William Parson. Includes an account for shoes soled and nailed for James Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMedical bills, pharmacy, doctor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etuition bills\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter, T.H. Paul to George Peter. Letter, Unknown  to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etypescript copy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003edeed of conveyance\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndenture, George Peter to Thomas Peter, Land from estate of Robert Peter, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecopies of letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMilitary exemption for Armistead Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill, George Peter, Esq. to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1869 February 11; Col. Richard L. Maury, Attorney, to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1876 October 10\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes story of Abraham Lincoln and the Maryland Barbecue by Agnes Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemento for either Walter Gibson Peter or W. Orton Williams from Mrs. Laura Cassaway, small American flag and small ivory mirror with flower [Fragile]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes receipt of letter, 1873 January 24. Letter regarding interest in farm from Robert Dick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003elock of hair\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- Fragmented letter - From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour envelopes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoes up to Britannia W. Peter Kennon -From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolence letter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by Governor Horatio Sharpe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndenture, September 30, 1791; Resurvey of Forrest, 1796. Document signed by Gov. Haywood\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResurvey of Pipe Tomhock; Copy of Platt (sic) and Illustrations, August 14, 1798; July 11, 1766, Explanation of Survey, September 19, 1797, May 26, 1796, February 16, 1797\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed, Elizabeth and John Scrivenor, April 18, 1799, June 11, 1799, Resurvey of Brandy, June 9, 1792, June 18, 1792\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDecember 24, 1871, wrapper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enslaved persons, livestock, and tools sold at Slashes, Sugar Lands, and Rock Creek Quarters totaling $9,308.00. Autograph document, 3 pages, with docket.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBernard Gilpin firmly bound to Thomas Peter for $5520\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewove paper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy, \"Account Book 1, Robert Peter, Esq. with the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings; On division of the Tract, Mexico within the City of Washington, Exclusive of what are called \"Old divisions of squares\" and water lots of which no account is key by the Commissioners. 21 pp. Note from Walter Gibson Peter re: History of book, how it ended up in the Library of Congress Thomas Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esigned by James Madison, B. Crowninshield, Secretary of the Navy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Madison signature\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe most important ones delivered to F.S. Keys Esq. and recorded in suit pending in Court Dt. Columbia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e9 manuscripts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eunder the orders of Lt. Col. E. Robert, USTE\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBuilding 3044 O Street\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecopies\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Allison's Forrest Enlarged; Fort Grubby Hill, July 1, 1732\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Indenture, Daniel Veetch, February 19, 1758 Document signed by Gov. Horatio Sharpe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBathsheba\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Thomas Peter's Letterbooks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos, Photos from Survey (4) and Ivory Cross [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon] Interesting small religious carved cross, made from Mother-of-Pearl\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter, William A. Coffin to Britannia Kennon, February 23, 1889; Brouchure for Exhibition, April 30, 1889; Letter, A. W. Drake to Britannia Kennon, January 29, 1889, May 16, 1889, including: carte de visite of George Washington and calling card of Mr. A. W. Drake (Photo) [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Major George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Major George Peter's Letterbooks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrenzel Gallery, Georgetown. Moved from Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Sir Thomas Nicholson, William Scott Blair, General Scott of Malenie, Robert Buchanan, William Dunlop, Elizabeth Roberton, J. Horsburgh, Lord Abbots Hall, Isabel Corbet, Cunningham Scott. First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContaining photographs of Peter relatives\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePictures of Tudor Place, Vacation, Content Farm, Ellen Beale Peter 1931 (Walter Gibson's Wife) Made by Walter Gibson Peter, [Loose photographs], Half Full.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Peter, wife of Robert Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter [Note: Some loose pages]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook of tobacco sales, list of enslaved persons belonging to Robert Peter, and lots of Robert Peter in the City of Washington with division by squares for the Commissioners and how they are disposed. The bound volume is made up of 178 pages. Pages 52-147 are blank. At some point the volume is flipped and entries are begun at the back of the book from pages 178-154. For viewing purposes those pages have been reoriented and reordered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Tobacco Book,\" All letters received pertaining to his business of selling tobacco in Europe and trading across the Atlantic, including captains, lawyers, and buyers in Europe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes personal letters that were sent to the family, photocopied letters from Thomas and General Washington, various financial papersNot in order [Documents are fragile and book in poor condition]. Made by Walter Gibson Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains photographs and letters. Created by Walter Gibson Peter, received documents from Britannia W. Peter Kennon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCommissions, Letters, Orders, etc. Relating to service in the U.S. Army and Major Georgetown Field Artillery, Created by Walter Gibson Peter. Items signed by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorps of the Artillerists, New Orleans and Fort McHenry, Garrison and Regimental Orders, Major George Peter; Order and prisoner tries and punishments, List from Fort McHenry, Morning Reports [Note: Book in poor condition]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLedger of real estate holdings of George Peter with Robert Peter and James Peter [pages 2-17]. Also includes, \"The following Table exhibits a view of the Squares and Lots, the Number of square feet therein contained, and the value of the same, now owned by Capt. George Peter, in the City of Washington\" [pages 74-78]. Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 88 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-7, 10-11, 14-17, 74, 76, and 78. The remaining page are blank. In 1813, the ledger is flipped and a single page (page 88) includes a list of names under the title 'Rent Roll for 1813.'\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLedger for the estate of Robert Peter maintained by his son Thomas Peter. The bond volume contains 176 pages, partially completed. Accounts are entered on pages 6-54, pages 55-173 are blank, and pages 174-176 include bank notes at the Bank of Columbia and the Branch Bank of Washington City. A scrap of paper with calculations was found between pages 49 and 50 and is included in the digitization.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Major George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLessons and Exercises in Vocal Music by Benjamin Carr\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains letters, pictures, U.S. Navy Commissions (James Madison, John Tyler, and Franklin Pierce), invitations, and a memorandum of Britannia and Beverley made by Walter Gibson Peter- Grandson to Britannia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter resigning from the army, notes made from Walter George Peter. Includes letters, a list of enlaved people from Montanaverde, bills, and business transactions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairs made on properties of Robert Peter, Jr.  Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 98 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-5, 8-23, and 26-33. The remaining pages are blank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Major George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Major George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies made February 1 and 2, 1849 by Edmund Law Rogers at Tudor Place, the residence of his Great-Aunt Martha Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCommunion Alms, Christmas and Easter Offerings, June 5, 1850. In Memory of Mrs. Britannia Wellington Kennon, From the Trustees of the Louise Home, 1911.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour account books. Account Money paid for the Estate of Mrs. Martha Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Commenced the practice of medicine the latter end of March 1867. Left town the first of May 1867 and returned June 28th- recommended practicing 8th of July, etc., Expense Log and Visiting List\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Dr. Armistead Peter's files. 9 volumes, dated 1863, 1866, 1870, 1873, 1876, 1878, 1889, 1892, and 1896.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of patients from practice and paid or unpaid, in alphabetical order, Bills Due, Cash Paid to Mrs. Peter, other accounts, small pox vaccination count\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on visits, family seal, copied letters, list of articles from Mount Vernon, notes about clothes and jewelry; Copy of Album was acquired by Martha Custis Peter, great-great granddaughter to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, which Britannia had given to her grandson, Walter Gibson Peter. Her father was Walter Gibson Peter, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003econtains dried flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes folders of France and WWI soldiers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains deeds, inventories, and papers pertaining to Robert Peter's estates and his sons, Robert, James, David, George, and Thomas. Various notes about David Peter's death, and letters from George Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter. [Note: There are loose pages]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes voice and music notes for the saxon ground, will you come to the bower, nobody coming to marry me, the rose, rondo, and others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Major George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNo. 5116, volume 190, covering the coronation of George VI.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted volume, includes a facsimile handwritten section entitled \"accounts, G. 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It includes letters from George Washington, letters of condolence to Martha Washington after George Washington's death, estate documents, Major George Peter's military papers, land plats and surveys, photo albums, letterbooks, and notebooks that tell of the life of this prominent family in Virginia and the City of Washington.","Autograph letter signed from Eliza, Hope Park, asking her grandfather for a picture of him. Docketed in Washington's hand on verso.","Autographed letter signed (signature cut out) George Washington, German Town, to Eliza Parke Custis. Washington offers his granddaughter advice on love and marriage.","Autograph letter in Washington's hand, initialed by both George and Martha. George and Martha Washington, Philadelphia, to Thomas Law. The Washingtons congratulate Law on his marriage to their grandaughter Eliza.","Autograph letter signed by George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter, discussing the purchase of English cattle.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in Washington's hand.Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Washington, Mount Vernon. Peter asks Washington to secure a spot for his brother in the Army and shares rumors about a bill coming up in Congress.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel and seal. George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about the sale of tobacco.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel.George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about farming and congratulates Thomas and Patsy on the birth of their son.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. John Mercereau, Union Township, to George Washington. John Mercereau, a businessman who served with his brother and nephew in a spy ring during the Revolutionary War, writes to Washington asking if he may come and visit, reflecting that no memories give him greater satisfaction than those he spent \"Devoted to my Countrys Service.\" Tragically, Mercereau did not know that Washington had died 10 days before his letter was sent.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., London, to George Washington.  Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., writes to his uncle about his business ventures from London. He had not yet received word of Washington's death on December 14, 1799.","Autograph letter unsigned in the hand of Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart and most likely addressed to Tobias Lear. The letter is dated 7 February with no year but was most likely written in 1790, since it mentions Lear's first marriage, which occured in 1790.","Autograph letter signed, undated, with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart to Tobias Lear, New York. Docketed in Lear's hand as received 2 October 1790. Eleanor writes of her unhappiness at being parted from her children Nelly and Wash.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, Mount Vernon, to Tobias Lear, New York. Eleanor writes about the lottery and her family, noting that \"My Dear Nelly \u0026 Wash. are still spoilt by Grand Mama but chearfully obey every word I say to them.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in hand of George Washington. Lucretia Constance Radcliffe, Charleston, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Mrs. Radcliffe writes seeking an Army commission for her son and sends a packet of crane feathers and melon seeds. She also sends news of Major Pinkney.","Manuscript resolution of the \"Sixth Congress of the United States: At the first session Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine\" stating that a marble monument to George Washington be erected in the City of Washington and that his remains be interred beneath it. It is also resolved that a funeral procession from Comgress Hall to the German Lutheran Church shall take place on Thursday, December 26, 1799, and that the nation will wear crepe arm bands for thirty days of mourning.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Maria S. Ross, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. A condolence letter from Maria S. Ross of Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Martha Washington on the death of her husband.","Autograph letter, copy. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response to Maria Ross's condolence letter to Martha Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel with seal of John Adams. Abigail Adams, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Condolence letter written by Abigail Adams to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Martha Washington's response to Abigail Adams's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Mary Stead Pinckney, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Pinckney also sends her regards and congratulations to Nelly Parke Custis Lewis, who was recovering from the birth of her first child, Frances Parke Lewis.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Governor of Connecticut, Lebanon, Connecticut, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Elias Boudinot, New Jersey Congressman and Director of the United States Mint, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Elias Boudinot. Tobias Lear's response on behalf of Martha Washington to Elias Boudinot's condolence letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Bushrod Washington, Walnut Farm, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bushrod writes to Martha about purchasing corn from Colonel Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter written by Ann Huntington, New London, Connecticut,  to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Hamilton's condolence letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter from Reverend Samuel Miller, New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington. He writes that he is inclosing a discourse he recently delivered on the occasion of Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Samuel Miller's, New York, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Stephen Williamson, Philadelphia, State Prison, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Stephen Williamson introduces himself as the captain of a company in the Rhode Island Regiment who served under Washington in the Revolutionary War. He recounts a dream he had in which she gives birth to a son following Washington's death. He also tells Martha the details of his arrest for buying a stolen horse and requests her assistance in getting him out of prison.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Former Secretary of War Henry Knox, Montpelier, St. Georges, sends Martha his condolences after the passing of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Henry Knox's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Mayor of New York City Richard Varick offers his condolences to Martha after the death of George Washington. He also incloses, on behalf of the Common Council of New York City, an oration delivered on the occassion of Washington's death by Gouverneur Morris.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Richard Varick's, New York, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Richard Washington,Bermuda, a former business associate of Washington's in London, offers his condolences to Martha after George Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Sedgwick writes that he is inclosing a second edition of General Lee's funeral oration.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha in response to Theodore Sedgwick's condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter written by the Marquis de Lafayette, La Grange, to Martha after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. A condolence letter from Auguste Belin, Secretary of the Loge Française l'Aménité of Philidelphia, a freemason lodge of French and Saint-Dominguen émigrés. Belin writes that he is inclosing copies of a funeral oration performed at the lodge in honor of George Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Auguste Belin's, Philadelphia, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter. Condolence note from Reverend William Rogers, Philadelphia, to Martha on the death of George Washington. Rogers writes that he is enclosing a copy of a funeral oration he delivered in Washington's honor.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks William Rogers for sending \"a copy of the Religious Exercises, at the time of the Eulogy, at the German Reformed Church.\"","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, requests that Gilbert Stuart's original portrait of Washington be given to Martha, in exchange for fair compensation. Lear writes that Martha has expressed no desire for her own portrait, but Lear thinks it would be nice to display alongside the portrait of Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence note written by Charles Humphrey Atherton, Amherst, New Hampshire, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Atherton writes that he is enclosing a funeral oration delivered at the request of the citizens of Amherst, New Hampshire in Washington's honor.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Charles H. Atherton's, Amherst, New Hampshire, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Georges Washington de Lafayette, La Grange, son of the Marquis de Lafayette, writes a condolence note to Martha after the death of George Washington. Georges writes of Washington's \"parental kindness\" when he visited Mount Vernon and says, \"How far was I to imagine when I left your family that it would be a last farewell.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Condolence letter written by Alexandria merchant Thomas Porter to Martha after the death of George Washington. Porter writes that he is sending an eulogy along with the letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A condolence letter written by Revered James Kemp, Cambridge, Maryland, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Kemp writes that he is enclosing a copy of a sermon he delivered on the day appointed by Congress to honor George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha Washington to James Kemp's, Cambridge, Maryland, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Peleg Wadsworth, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Wadsworth requests, on behalf of his daughter, a relic of the late General.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Peleg Wadsworth's condolence letter after the death of George Washington. Lear writes that he is enclosing a lock of Washington's hair for Wadsworth's daughter as requested.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks Reverend John D. Blair for sending his condolences and two orations delivered in Richmond on February 22 in honor of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. William Griffiths, Burlington, New Jersey, offers his condolences on behalf of the citizens of Burlington, New Jersey to Martha after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha to William Griffith's, Burlington, New Jersey, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon","Autograph letter signed \"John Lemayere.\" Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs, was George Washington's dentist during the Revolutionary War. He writes his condolences to Martha on the death of Washington, apologizing that his servant lost the first condolence letter he had written on February 24.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Dr. Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bartholomew Dandridge Jr. writes his aunt inquiring about letters sent to him from Washington before his death that Dandridge never received.","Autograph letter signed. Sir John Sinclair, London, writes to Martha in praise of her late husband and sends her a volume of his letters.","3 letters written by Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers to her mother between December 5, 1819 - November 21, 1821.","7 letters written by Brigadier General Simon Bernard, Washington City, to Eliza Parke Custis Law between March 28, 1828 and May 21, 1830.","Lloyd Rogers to Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Alexandria","Printed legal document: Statement of the defendant's case. Docketed on verso \"Papers relating to case of Law v. Morris Nicholson \u0026 Greenleaf.\"","Manuscript legal statement of Thomas Law in regards to a property dispute in Washington City between William Mayne Duncason and Tench Ringgold.","Manuscript memoranda regarding property dispute over square 744 in the City of Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Concerning Tench Ringgold and property dealings in the City of Washington.","Manuscript descriptions of the architectural plans for the Thomas Law House, designed by architect William Lovering and built circa 1794 on the 689 square in the City of Washington.","Thomas Law, Washington City, discusses his plan for construction of New Jersey Avenue on lot 744 of Washington City, along the public canal.","Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White, Washington City, to Thomas Law","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. George Washington Parke Custis, Philadelphia to Thomas Law, Federal City. George Washington Parke Custis writes to Law of the pleasure he will have in serving Washington City, which is to be \"the pride of future ages\" and \"the metropolis of America.\"","A manuscript copy of the address read by W. M. Duncanson at a meeting of the Managers of Washington Canal Lottery - Law, Carroll, Young, and Duncanson. Their reply is copied on the verso.","Autograph letter signed. Duncanson writes that Thomas Law has resigned his title to Lot 744 of Washington City in favor of Tench Ringgold.","Unsigned, undated manuscript, docketed \"Tench Ringgold Arbitration.\"","James Piercy, City of Washington, to Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White. Three manuscript copies by Thomas Munroe of letters written by James Piercy to the Commissioners of the City of Washington about his claims to lot 744.","Manuscript copy made by Thomas Munroe of a letter written by the Commissioners of the City of Washington to James Piercy in response to Piercy's claims on lot 744. Scott and Thornton write to Piercy that \"no intention exists of granting you the square you mention.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, City of Washington","Lloyd Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, Washington City","Thomas Law to Lloyd Rogers, Baltimore","Writing from New Orleans in 1832, John Taylor reports that fifty to sixty people a day are dying from yellow fever and smallpox.","Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Washington, to Thomas Law, London","Letter written by Lawrence Lewis to William \"Billy\" Costin requesting Costin's service in transporting his family from Mr. Charles Carter's residence in Culpepper County to their home. Lewis provides a suggested route and expected arrival date stating, 'you must not disappoint me.' A postscript in the hand of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis requests additional and immediate transportation for herself to Philadelphia. She offers Costin's mother payment in Pork if she will accompany them on the trip. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel.","Undated note from Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis asking \"Billy\" to ask her sister Betsy to send the things by which she [Eleanor] wrote to her for. Directs Billy to be very careful of them as they are easily broken. Autograph note signed E Lewis, 1 page.","Autograph letter signed with integral adddress panel.","Autograph letter signed. George Washington Parke Custis writes William \"Billy\" Costin at the Bank of Washington. He mentions he expects to go with Lafayette to visit Woodlawn.","5 letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law. The first letter is addressed to John at George Town College and the other four to Harvard University.","Edmund Law, Washington, to John Law, Baltimore","5 dated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","Letter discussing the court martial of Commodore James Barron, who would later kill Commodore Stephen Decatur in duel in 1820.","4 undated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","15 undated letters and notes written by Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. John Law asks William Thornton if he can borrow a book on calvary maneuvers.","2 letters written by William Thornton in response to John Law's August 10, 1807 letter.","An undated letter from John Law to his half sister, Eliza Law. He writes that he is sending sweetmeats from Woodlawn by William, as promised.","William D. Sims, Pittsburgh, to John Law, Washington City","Three letters","A series of four letters and their draft copies written over the course of two days by John Law to his father, criticizing his conduct, particularly in regards to Eliza Law's marriage to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers.","5 letters written by Thomas Law to his son John Law, Washington City, around 1817, addressing John's criticisms of him, his divorce, and his friendship with Elizabeth Bordley Gibson.","Autograph letter signed. A letter of reconciliation sent by John Law to his father.","Draft of letter from Lloyd Nicholas Rogers, New York, to Major-General Henry Lee discussing the life of Baron de Kalb.","2 letters about the sale of property in Washington.Lenman and Brother, Washington City, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.","Documents related to the sale of property in Washington.","Correspondence about the sale of property in Washington.","2 letters about the sale of property in Washington. N. Callan, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.","Bond of conveyance for Lot No. 1 in Square 260 in Washington City, District of Columbia.","1 survey plat of lots in Washington along Canal St, and 2 pages of notes listing the prices of lots and the names of their purchasers.","Letter from the Commisioners of the Sinking Fund of the Corporation of Washington. William McCormick, Registers Office, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers.","An indenture form reassigning a parcel of property in Washington City. The Deed of Trust form is marked at the top of the first page \"Printed and Sold by Robert A. Waters, D. st., bet. 9th \u0026 10th.\"","1 page autograph letter signed by George Washington Parke Custis to Edmund Law Rogers, with additional letter from Martha Custis Williams, Arlington House, written on verso. Custis writes, \"From the very graphic account you gave Martha Williams of your visit to Mr Fenno, I see but a poor chance of my Drama being brought out [in Baltimore].\" He asks Rogers to inquire of his \"theater going friends\" if any other Baltimore theatres will perform the work. If not, he asks Rogers to return the book care of William Adam Bookseller Pennsylvania Avenie Washington.","In her letter, Williams passes on a request from \"Aunt B\" (Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon) to send the \"little manuscript book, containing an inventory of the Mt Vernon relics at Tudor Place, as she is much at a loss, with regard to the history of many things in the House.\" Britannia Peter had inherited Tudor Place the year before, in 1854. Williams adds to Rogers that she hopes he will not make too much effort to have Uncle Custis's play produced because \"Cousin Mary Lee and all his family are so much opposed to it.\" Williams hopes Custis will focus on finishing his Recollections instead.","Bill for $21 addressed to Edmund Law Rogers for advertising the sale of lots in the City of Washington in the newspaper the National Intelligencer.","Unsigned indenture for the sale of lots in the City of Washington. Docketed in pencil \"sale not made.\"","Invoices, notes, and receipts from accounts between Robert Peter and the firm O'Neill and Dearkins. Includes an invoice for tobacco, sugar, corduroy, gauze, linen, chocolate, silk, muslin, paper, wine, ribbons, pins, cotton, and tea.","Unknown list of accounts, believed to be from Robert Peter.","Pages from account book with the note \"These leaves was received by James S Webber from Mrs. Esther H Webber wife of Mr Levi Webber of Vassalboro Kennebeck Co. Maine being a part of account Book of Charles Webber, my Grand Father, his own handwriting. Received by me June 22 1878.\" The accounts include invoices for cod fish, bacon, molasses, tea, rum, sugar, silk, shoes, brandy, wine, coffee, and corn.","Includes accounts for flour, pork, beef, lamb, and veal.","Bond for the conveyance of a parcel of property called Black Oak Thickett in Frederick County, Maryland.","rent paid","Page of rent payment accounts in unknown hand.","Bond of Thomas Nicholls of John to Robert Peter","Bond of Isaiah and Edward Nicholls to Robert Peter","Lawsuit against Robert Peter by James Gordon, Henry Riddell, John Campbell, John Campbell Junior, Alexander Low, and William Ingram","Three documents related to disputed accounts between Robert Peter and Benjamin Ray. One with a note by John T. Mason dated February 27, 1799, \"He has no shadow of right to one shilling on this [account].\"","List of Robert Peter's court appearances","Court documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 5 manuscripts.","Court documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 19 small manuscript receipts","Survey of land called Bealls Plaines in what became Washington City, along Goose Creek, later renamed Tiber Creek.","Manuscript on parchment with large seal attached by a ribbon.","1766, Survey to Forrest, May 12, 1773, (six documents) Bladenburg, Sept., 21, 1766; Rock Creek, Nov. 13, 1766 \"to Robert Peter, merchant in Georgetown.\"","One undated note by Thomas Peter and one letter from William Dearkins and Ben Stoddert to Stephen Chiswell about resurveying about 200 acres called Partnership granted to Elting Williams.","The Resurvey of Brandy and transfer of several named enslaved people.","A letter about resurveying a parcel of propery called Hazard. George Scott to Robert Peter, George Town.","Four autograph documents dealing with land ownership. Two notes on fragments; one half sheet giving history of a property in Prince George's County; and an 8 page survey document, with reference to points on a drawn survey, of Cross Basket, Balantyre, and other properties (9 lots) belonging to Robert Peter and divided amongst George and Thomas Peter.","Certificate and plat for 5 3/4 acres of vacant land granted by special warrant to Robert Peter out of the Western Shore Land Office of Washington County in the District of Columbia. Surveyed by Joseph Elgar, Jr. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Hand colored survey plat showing the division of Robert Peter's Square in George Town. Docketed on verso \"Plat belonging to Thomas Peter's Square in George Town.\"","Tobacco sales","Tabacco Sales, Real Estate, Transfer of enslaved people","Deed of trust book is dated 1790","One dollar printed in Annapolis by F. Green, 7 December 1775. Two thirds of a dollar printed in Philadelphia by Hall and Sellers, 17 February 1776.","List of items purchased by Martha Washington from Macleod \u0026 Lumsdon, dated at the top 18 February 1800, Alexandria. The accounts, dated 8 July and 9 August, include entries for 47 panes of glass, oil, paint for 30 mahoghany chairs, paint for a wine cooler, varnishing, picture frame gilding, and glazing. Signed by Macleod \u0026 Lumdsdon at the bottom, noting that the above money was received in full 9 October 1800.","Receipt signed \"Daniel Lecock\" for payment received by the hands of James Anderson on behalf of Martha Washington for 790 bushels of corn on 2 May 1800.","Receipt for $25 paid by Thomas Carwood to James Anderson for 100 barrels of fish from Mount Vernon.","Accounts dated February 13, March 11, and April 12, 1800 for newspaper advertisements and handbills purchased by Martha Washington from Ellis Price, printer of The Columbian Mirror and Alexandria Gazette. Items Martha purchased include 26 advertisements for a house to rent, an advertisement about the Mount Vernon fishery, 23 advertisements about the donkey Knight of Malta, and notice about the runaway slave Marcus.","Accounts dated 23 April-23 September 1800 for weaving yards of cotton, wool, and other fabrics. The payments are marked as having been paid \"By balance due the Estate of General Washington,\" by cash, by 41 gallons of whiskey, and barrells of herring. The final payment is marked as received from James Anderson on 10 November 1801.","Bill addressed to the Estate of Mrs. Martha Washington, Deceased for $200 due to James Craik for medical services rendered Mrs. Washington during her last illness and $5 for cash paid Heyskill for the hire of his carriage. A signed oath by Jacob Hoffman testifies to the validity of the charges.","Receipt of payment from Thomas Peter to Lawrence Lewis for three hundred dollars for one hundred barrels of corn sold to Mount Vernon for the use of the estate. Signed by John Anderson.","Receipt written by Dr. David Stuart for the receipt from Thomas Peter for five guineas, the leagcy left by Martha Washington to Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart.","Payment from Thomas Law to Griffith Coombs for repairs to Martha Washington's townhome in the District Columbia occupied by Henry Dearborn. Payment marked by Coombs as received in full from Thomas Peter on August 23, 1802.","Twenty dollars wages paid to Richard Burnett of the City of Washingon by Thomas Peter for the year 1802.","Payment of $50 received by George Smith of Woodlawn from Thomas Peter on 12 January 1803 for hire as a blacksmith at Mount Vernon in the year 1802. Signed by George Smith (his mark) and Lawrence Lewis. George Smith was one of George Washington's slaves who was freed after Washington's death. His wife, Lydia, was one of Martha Washington's dower slaves and was inherited by Nelly Parke Custis Lewis of Woodlawn.","Receipt for one hundred pounds Virginia currency received by Benjamin Lincoln Lear from Thomas Peter, one of the executors of Martha Washington's estate.","Accounts of Mr. James Dunlop with Thomas Peter, for horses, ploughs, and an enslaved woman named Peg. Peg is likely one of the slaves Martha Parke Custis Peter inherited from the Custis estate.","Receipt for funeral arrangements paid by Thomas Peter to William King on December 4, 1820 following the death of his twenty-three-year-old daughter Columbia Washington Peter. The arrangements include a \"walnut coffin lined,\" silver plate and engraving, and rental of horses, a hearse, and attendants.","H. B. Morris, Philadelphia, to Thomas Peter, Georgetown. Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A letter about bank accounts and stock certificates.","Bill from Dr. Warfield to Thomas Peter for a visit to a \"black man in the night\" on March 5, 1824 which resulted in the amputation of the man's leg.","Two bills from P.L. Dupont paid by Martha Parke Custis Peter for dancing lessons for her daughter Britannia.","Two stock share certificates for the Patowmack Company (Potomac Company). Share No. 89 is for Martha Peter, and No. 91 for Thomas Peter.","Land office papers for the resurvey of Bear Denn, Daniels Discovery, and Partnership in Maryland","With unknown survey plat on verso.","Aquila Johns to Thomas Peter on sale of Seneca plantation","Autograph letter signed by Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter, wife of Thomas Peter's brother George, relinquishing right title and interest on a tract of land called Forrest, property of her husband, in order to pay his debts.","Letter about resurveying property owned by George Washington Peter.","List of property in Montgomery County Maryland owned by Thomas Peter","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Regarding financial matters.","Horatio Edmondson of Taylor County, Maryland","Pamphlet stitch binding with marbled paper covers. Contains notes about purchases made by Thomas Peter 1813-1814.","Calling card from Le Baron de Maltitz, Secretaire de la Legation Imperiale de Russie. Manuscript date 1823 on verso.","John Dandridge writes to Thomas Peter, George Town, asking to borrow money from the estate of Martha Washington.","Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed, with envelope. Josiah Quincy, Cambridge, to Martha Parke Custis Peter, Georgetown. Josiah Quincy thanks Martha Parke Custis Peter for her generous reeption of his children at Tudor Place and thanks her for the relic of George Washington that she sent back with them.","A contemporary manuscript copy of a letter in which Nelly Parke Custis describes having seen George Washington writing his farewell address at Mount Vernon. When the address was finished, she says he asked her to bring him silk string, and she watched him stitch the address together in front of her. Nelly writes this as a rebuke to one of Alexander Hamilton's sons, who claims his father wrote the farewell address.","A list of accounts between the Estate of George Washington and Alexandria apothecary Edward Stabler, including purchases for Turlington's Balsam, castor oil, arsenic, balsam copaiva, British oil, salts, purified Salt Petre, cantharides, ipecacuanha, laudanum, tumeric, and opodildo. Payments are marked as received from James Anderson. Autograph document, 1 page.","Manuscript titled \"A List of Negroes belonging to Mrs. Washington.\" A list of 121 enslaved persons who were Martha's dower slaves. Unlike the slaves owned by George Washington, Martha's slaves were not freed after her death and were inherited by the Custis descendants. Men, boys, women, and girls and listed in separate columns, each further broken down into the places where they worked: Mansion house, River Farm, Muddy Hole, and Union Farm. Five women - Amy, Alice, Peg, Agnes, and Old Judy - are listed as \"Free but yet remain.\"","Signed certificate from the executors of General George Washington to the Clerk of Fairfax.","Accounts from 1802 for furniture and household goods purchased by George Washington Parke Custis from the Estate of Martha Washington. The final payment was made in 1826, and the account is signed by Thomas Peter, executor of the estate.","A list of the household belongings sold by Thomas Peter from the personal estate of Martha Washington. Includes a listing of who purchased each item and the price it sold for.","Signed indenture for sale of land in the City of Washington.","Articles of agreement between George Calvert and Thomas Peter with Thomas Law, agreeing that Thomas Law and his wife Eliza Parke Custis Law will live separately. Eliza will receive $1500 per year from Law, and all the interest from her inheritance from George Washington will go to her and her daughter.","3 sheets of accounts between the estate of Robert Peter and James Dunlop, including the sale of \"5 negroes willed Mrs. Peter.\" These are some of Martha's dower slaves inherited by Martha Parke Custis Peter. One additional account between Jonathan Hicks and the heirs of Robert Peter, dated 1809-1811.","Receipt written by Lawrence Lewis acknowledging receipt from Thomas Peter of three hundred and twenty-six dollars eighteen cent left to his son Lorenzo Lewis as a legacy from Martha Washington.","Receipt signed by George Washington Parke Custis acknowledging the receipt from Thomas Peter of one thousand dollars as a legacy left to his daughter from the late Martha Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Thomas Peter, George Town, to Bushrod Washington, Mount Vernon. Thomas Peter writes to Bushrod about money owed for two purchases he made from the estate of George Washington.","Two documents related to a settlement made by John Dandridge against George Washington Parke Custis and Thomas Peter, executors of Martha Washington's estate. One is a 1829 decree from the U. S. Circuit Court, signed by William Thomas Carroll; and the other is an account of money owed to John Dandridge signed by Benjamin Lincoln Lear, 1830 June 21. Autograph documents signed (2).","3 documents related to the death of Beverley Kennon, husband of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, who died aboard the USS Princeton during the 1844 Peacemaker accident: a newspaper clipping with an excerpt from a sermon by Reverend Mr. Magoon on the Princeton Tragedy, a plan of the burying ground belonging to Mrs. Beverly Kennon, and a certificate from the Vestry of Washington Parish granting Mrs. Beverley Kennon four sites in the Washington Parish Burial Ground.","Receipts for two legacies received of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, executor of Martha Parke Custis Peter's estate. One is for a grandson named Thomas Peter and another for her grandson John Parke Custis Peter.","Manuscript resolution of the Senate of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, offering sympathy to the families of those killed aboard the USS Princeton during the Peacemaker accident. This copy was given by the President of the United States to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, whose husband, Beverley Kennon, was killed in the accident.","Printed form signed by Britannia W. Peter Kennon and witnessed by William Purcell, esquire, Judge of the Orphans' Court of Washington county, District of Columbia.","A list of collections and payments made to sundry persons to settle the estate of Martha Parke Custis Peter.","Document bound with blue ribbon, with envelope. Last will and testament of Ann Gertrude Wightt, a former nun at the Georgetown Visitation Convent who later lived at Tudor Place. Autograph document, 8 pages.","Autograph letter, with envelope. Ann Gertrude Wightt, Rochester, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place","Papers related to the sale of Lot 9 in Square 72 of Washington City to William A. Gordon. Letter from William E. Edmonston to William A. Gordon, 1891 May 30. Two letters from William A. Gordon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1891 June 3 and 1889 October 4. Typescript signed by William Gordon of Declaration of Trust for sale of Lot Nine, Square Seventy Two in Washington City, D.C..","Indenture made between Britannia Wellington Kennon, party of the first part, and Walter Gibson Peter, Armistead Peter Jr., and George Freeland Peter, parties of the second part, all of the District of Columbia, regarding relics and heirlooms at Tudor Place acquired by Britannia W. Peter Kennon from her mother Martha Custis Peter grand-daughter of Martha the wife of George Washington, known in the family as \"The Mount Vernon Heirlooms.\" Other relics are from the estates of Thomas Peter and Beverley Kennon. Britannia wishes that these relics be preserved by her descendants and that none of them be sold or disposed of.","These include pictures, miniatures, engravings, glass, china, silver, jewelry, furniture, needlework, and other relics, including a sago palm formerly belonging to Martha Parke Custis Peter. The relics and heirlooms are to be divided into five parts after Britannia's death and delivered to her grandchildren.","A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (New York : Printed and published by William A. Davies) Inscribed Britannia W. Peter.","Autograph letter signed. Beverley Kennon, Navy Yard, Washington, to Reverend W. Hoff, George Town. Kennon asks Reverend Hoff to be present at Mrs. Peter's place in George Town on the 8th to marry him to Britannia W. Peter.","2 autograph letters signed.","Autograph letter signed on mourning stationary, with envelope and black seal. John Tyler, Washington, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. President John Tyler offers his condolences to Britannia W. Peter Kennon on the death of her husband, Beverley Kennon, during the Peacemaker accident aboard the USS Princeton.","G. T. Kennon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place","Autograph letter signed with envelope docketed \"A letter written to Uncle Bev. by my mother while at boarding school given to me after Uncle Bev's death by Aunt G.\". Martha Custis Kennon, Georgetown, to Beverley Kennon Jr. Beverley Kennon Jr. was Martha Custis Kennon's half brother.","According to Martha Custis Peter, this illustration was at the Tudor Place.","W. Van Ness, New York, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown","Department of the Interior, Pension Office, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown","Mrs. Charles Carroll Simms to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Georgetown","Mattie D. Abbot to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place. From the Secretary of the Ladies Aid Society of Christ Church accepting Britannia Kennon's resignation as President.","Letters from James Mackubin, Ellicott City, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon","Two letters from Justine Van Rensselaer Townsend, Vice Regent of New York for the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. In the 26 November 1890 letter, Justine asks Britannia to help the Ladies determine what is genuine at the upcoming 1890 Thomas Birch's Sons sale of Washington relics in Philadelphia. The sale will include \"General Washington's papers, a clock, a punch bowl, and many other things.\"","Invitation from The Board of World's Fair Managers of Virginia inviting Britannia W. Peter Kennon to be present at the ceremonies of Virginia Day at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Enclosed with an envelope and the calling card of Mrs. William Radford Beale.","Calling cards for Martha Custis Kennon and Armistead Peter. At home card with envelope for Britannia W. Peter Kennon, engraved by Dempsey \u0026 O. Toole of Baltimore \u0026 Washington.","Engraved form ceritifying that \"Cream Ladle No 68944 is an exact reproduction of one onwed by General and Mrs. Washington and used for a number of years at Mr. Vernon.\" The ladle was produced by Galt \u0026 Bro. Jewellers, Silversmiths, Stationers, Washington D.C..","Regarding the purchase of a clock.","Typescript lists of letters and items from Mount Vernon that were part of  Britannia W. Peter Kennon's collection at Tudor Place.","Unbound notebook with list of items and letters from Mount Vernon that belonged to Britannia W. Peter Kennon at Tudor Place. Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia's grandchildren.Includes furniture and household items.","Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia W. Peter Kennon's grandchildren.","Manuscript list of books, jewelry, and locks of hair at Tudor Place","Includes both manuscript and typescript inventories of books, furniture, and objects from Tudor Place.","Newsclippings and correspondence related to Washington relics loaned by Walter G. Peter to the National Museum in the early 1900s.","Lent by Walter G. Peter from the Britannia W. Peter Kennon Collection of Washington Relics.","R. Davidson, Pinckneyville, to George Peter, George Town","Includes a $5 charge on 23 October 1813 for a coffin \"for a black man.\" On 9 February 1814, Peter was charged $50.00 for a lined coffin covered with black cloth, among other expenses, possibly following the death of his first wife, Ann Plater Peter, or one of their young sons.","Thomas Anderson, Clarksburgh, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed with printed cash form from the Office of Discount and Deposit, Washington.","Joseph Delaplaine, Philadelphia, to George Peter. Deplaine requests Major Peter's portrait for his gallery.","U. McInder, Petersburg, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter","W. Coor, Rockville, to George Peter","Partially printed form from the District of Columbia. Major Peter grants Charles A. Burnett power of attorney to sell, assign, and transfer his 50 shares of stock in the Books of the Washington Turnpike Company.","Letter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter","Charles Bunting, Montgomery County, to George Peter","James H., Georgetown, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Lear writes regarding two suits againist Mrs. Sarah Peter.","John Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter","Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Printed letter with manuscript additions, from B. L. Lear, Attorney of the Bank, Bank of the United States.","W. W. Ramsay, Washington, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Washington, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Washington City, to George Peter","B. H., Rockville, to George Peter","Clement Cod, Georgetown, to George Peter","William Thompson, Union School, to George Peter","Michael Keepers, Frederick Town, to George Peter","John Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter","G. D., George Town, to George Peter","J. Orme, Georgetown, to George Peter","W. Sellman, Clarksburg, to George Peter","Samuel C. Ulens, Poolesville, to George Peter","J. Higgins, Poolesville, to George Peter","Jesse V., Poolesville, to George Peter, Darnestown","J. Falls, Baltimore, to George Peter","Geo. Howson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter","Alfred Spates, Cumberland, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Baltimore, to George Peter","W. Matthews, George Town, to George Peter","Geo. Hownson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter","Benj. Fawcett, Colesville, to George Peter","J. Williams, Washington D.C., to George Peter","A letter from the Treasuries Office of the Baltimore and Ohion Railroad Company, offering Peter free tickets to pass over the roads of their company.","Printed election ballot for \"The Constitution and Union Ticket,\" promising \"Civil and Religious Liberty.\" George Peter is listed as the candidate for Commisioner of Public Works.","A list of clothing purchased by Martha Washington from William Jones of Alexandria. Includes suits purchased for enslaved workers Daniel, Marcus, Christopher, and Frank. According to notes on the verso, payments were received from James Anderson on 12 April 1800 and 15 May 1800.","Five receipts for goods and services paid for by James Anderson in 1800, including repairs to old shoes, paper lampblack, freight for one box from Philadelphia, 93 yards of cloth, and leather.","Promissory notes from George Peter","Promissory notes and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Bills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Bills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Promissory notes and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro","Bills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro.","Undated Bills and accounts of George Peter","George H. Peter, Carlise, writes to his uncle asking for money for an upcoming vacation.","3 letters from James Peter to his uncle George Peter.","George Peter, George Town","3 letters sent by James Freeland Peter to his father from Alexandria, Buffalo, and Detroit.","Manuscript acrostic written for Uncle George Peter.","Sarah Peter, Georgetown, to George Peter","4 letters from George Peter, Jr., to his father.","Typescript list of \"Things from Mt. Vernon\" with manuscript annotations by George Freeland Peter of which Peter heirs inherited the items.","Typescript and manuscript inventories of items fro Tudor Place, with notes on which Peter heirs inherited them.","Identification key to \"The battle at Bunker's Hill\" engraved by Johann Gotthard Müller after the painting by John Trumbull. Printed in London by A. C. de Poggi.","Accounts for shoes, boots, and repairs, including shoes for enslaved people.","Major George Peter's troops are invited to attend Divine Service. \"It is hoped they will attend \u0026 conduct themselves with a reverence suited to the character of Christian soldiers, who have taken arms in defence of their homes \u0026 country \u0026 who look for success \u0026 preservation to the favor of the Almighty Giver of all victory.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel and red wax seal.","2 letters to George Peter from his brother David Peter, George Town.","Deed of sale for land purchased by Peter on Gay Street and Dumarton Street in George Town.","A list of 322 volumes, showing title, number of volumes, size, and type of bookbinding.","8 letters and 1 receipt, mostly addressed to George Peter from his niece, Jane Beverley and her husband, James.","printed pages","Roger Brooke Taney, Annapolis, to George Peter regarding upcoming elections [December 20] to the U. S. Senate specifically the potential election of Mr. [Alexander C.] Hanson as a means to heal and reconcile the differences in the Federal Party. Also discuss Mr. Washington's 'zeal and industry' in supporting Hanson's candidacy. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages. Docketed 'Roger B. Taney - Hanson \u0026 Washington'","W. Cook, Hyates Town,","William Brewer, Aix la Chapelle, to George Peter","James Summers, New Market, to George Peter","G. Dalls S., Colesville, to George Peter, Poolesville","Elisha Jones, Clarksburg, to George Peter","Includes the papers granting George and Sarah Peter guardianship of David Peter's children Elizabeth, William, Jane, George H., and James.","trust, property, and expenses of land","material and clothing","Receipt for the purchase of Lot No. 15 in Square No. 170 in the City of Washington.","Receipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.","3 copies of the will of Sarah Freeland, George Peter's mother-in-law.","appraisal authorization of Alexander Broome and Samuel Darby","Accounts of Margaret Dick with William Parson. Includes an account for shoes soled and nailed for James Peter.","Medical bills, pharmacy, doctor","tuition bills","Letter, T.H. Paul to George Peter. Letter, Unknown  to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States.","Receipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.","typescript copy","deed of conveyance","Indenture, George Peter to Thomas Peter, Land from estate of Robert Peter, Jr.","copies of letters","Military exemption for Armistead Peter","Bill, George Peter, Esq. to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1869 February 11; Col. Richard L. Maury, Attorney, to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1876 October 10","Includes story of Abraham Lincoln and the Maryland Barbecue by Agnes Peter","Memento for either Walter Gibson Peter or W. Orton Williams from Mrs. Laura Cassaway, small American flag and small ivory mirror with flower [Fragile]","Includes receipt of letter, 1873 January 24. Letter regarding interest in farm from Robert Dick.","lock of hair","From Binder 1","From Binder 1","From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- Fragmented letter - From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Four envelopes","Goes up to Britannia W. Peter Kennon -From Binder 1","Condolence letter","Signed by Governor Horatio Sharpe","Indenture, September 30, 1791; Resurvey of Forrest, 1796. Document signed by Gov. Haywood","Resurvey of Pipe Tomhock; Copy of Platt (sic) and Illustrations, August 14, 1798; July 11, 1766, Explanation of Survey, September 19, 1797, May 26, 1796, February 16, 1797","Deed, Elizabeth and John Scrivenor, April 18, 1799, June 11, 1799, Resurvey of Brandy, June 9, 1792, June 18, 1792","December 24, 1871, wrapper","List of enslaved persons, livestock, and tools sold at Slashes, Sugar Lands, and Rock Creek Quarters totaling $9,308.00. Autograph document, 3 pages, with docket.","Bernard Gilpin firmly bound to Thomas Peter for $5520","wove paper","Photocopy, \"Account Book 1, Robert Peter, Esq. with the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings; On division of the Tract, Mexico within the City of Washington, Exclusive of what are called \"Old divisions of squares\" and water lots of which no account is key by the Commissioners. 21 pp. Note from Walter Gibson Peter re: History of book, how it ended up in the Library of Congress Thomas Peter","signed by James Madison, B. Crowninshield, Secretary of the Navy","James Madison signature","The most important ones delivered to F.S. Keys Esq. and recorded in suit pending in Court Dt. Columbia","9 manuscripts","under the orders of Lt. Col. E. Robert, USTE","Building 3044 O Street","copies","Includes Allison's Forrest Enlarged; Fort Grubby Hill, July 1, 1732","Includes Indenture, Daniel Veetch, February 19, 1758 Document signed by Gov. Horatio Sharpe","Bathsheba","First found in Thomas Peter's Letterbooks","Photos, Photos from Survey (4) and Ivory Cross [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon] Interesting small religious carved cross, made from Mother-of-Pearl","Letter, William A. Coffin to Britannia Kennon, February 23, 1889; Brouchure for Exhibition, April 30, 1889; Letter, A. W. Drake to Britannia Kennon, January 29, 1889, May 16, 1889, including: carte de visite of George Washington and calling card of Mr. A. W. Drake (Photo) [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon]","First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","First found in Major George Peter's Letterbooks","Frenzel Gallery, Georgetown. Moved from Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.","Includes Sir Thomas Nicholson, William Scott Blair, General Scott of Malenie, Robert Buchanan, William Dunlop, Elizabeth Roberton, J. Horsburgh, Lord Abbots Hall, Isabel Corbet, Cunningham Scott. First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.","First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter","Containing photographs of Peter relatives","Pictures of Tudor Place, Vacation, Content Farm, Ellen Beale Peter 1931 (Walter Gibson's Wife) Made by Walter Gibson Peter, [Loose photographs], Half Full.","Elizabeth Peter, wife of Robert Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter [Note: Some loose pages]","Book of tobacco sales, list of enslaved persons belonging to Robert Peter, and lots of Robert Peter in the City of Washington with division by squares for the Commissioners and how they are disposed. The bound volume is made up of 178 pages. Pages 52-147 are blank. At some point the volume is flipped and entries are begun at the back of the book from pages 178-154. For viewing purposes those pages have been reoriented and reordered.","\"Tobacco Book,\" All letters received pertaining to his business of selling tobacco in Europe and trading across the Atlantic, including captains, lawyers, and buyers in Europe.","Includes personal letters that were sent to the family, photocopied letters from Thomas and General Washington, various financial papersNot in order [Documents are fragile and book in poor condition]. Made by Walter Gibson Peter.","Contains photographs and letters. Created by Walter Gibson Peter, received documents from Britannia W. Peter Kennon.","Commissions, Letters, Orders, etc. Relating to service in the U.S. Army and Major Georgetown Field Artillery, Created by Walter Gibson Peter. Items signed by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.","Corps of the Artillerists, New Orleans and Fort McHenry, Garrison and Regimental Orders, Major George Peter; Order and prisoner tries and punishments, List from Fort McHenry, Morning Reports [Note: Book in poor condition]","Ledger of real estate holdings of George Peter with Robert Peter and James Peter [pages 2-17]. Also includes, \"The following Table exhibits a view of the Squares and Lots, the Number of square feet therein contained, and the value of the same, now owned by Capt. George Peter, in the City of Washington\" [pages 74-78]. Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 88 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-7, 10-11, 14-17, 74, 76, and 78. The remaining page are blank. In 1813, the ledger is flipped and a single page (page 88) includes a list of names under the title 'Rent Roll for 1813.'","Ledger for the estate of Robert Peter maintained by his son Thomas Peter. The bond volume contains 176 pages, partially completed. Accounts are entered on pages 6-54, pages 55-173 are blank, and pages 174-176 include bank notes at the Bank of Columbia and the Branch Bank of Washington City. A scrap of paper with calculations was found between pages 49 and 50 and is included in the digitization.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","Lessons and Exercises in Vocal Music by Benjamin Carr","Contains letters, pictures, U.S. Navy Commissions (James Madison, John Tyler, and Franklin Pierce), invitations, and a memorandum of Britannia and Beverley made by Walter Gibson Peter- Grandson to Britannia.","After resigning from the army, notes made from Walter George Peter. Includes letters, a list of enlaved people from Montanaverde, bills, and business transactions.","Repairs made on properties of Robert Peter, Jr.  Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 98 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-5, 8-23, and 26-33. The remaining pages are blank.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","Copies made February 1 and 2, 1849 by Edmund Law Rogers at Tudor Place, the residence of his Great-Aunt Martha Peter.","Communion Alms, Christmas and Easter Offerings, June 5, 1850. In Memory of Mrs. Britannia Wellington Kennon, From the Trustees of the Louise Home, 1911.","Four account books. Account Money paid for the Estate of Mrs. Martha Peter","\"Commenced the practice of medicine the latter end of March 1867. Left town the first of May 1867 and returned June 28th- recommended practicing 8th of July, etc., Expense Log and Visiting List\"","First found in Dr. Armistead Peter's files. 9 volumes, dated 1863, 1866, 1870, 1873, 1876, 1878, 1889, 1892, and 1896.","List of patients from practice and paid or unpaid, in alphabetical order, Bills Due, Cash Paid to Mrs. Peter, other accounts, small pox vaccination count","Notes on visits, family seal, copied letters, list of articles from Mount Vernon, notes about clothes and jewelry; Copy of Album was acquired by Martha Custis Peter, great-great granddaughter to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, which Britannia had given to her grandson, Walter Gibson Peter. Her father was Walter Gibson Peter, Jr.","contains dried flowers","Includes folders of France and WWI soldiers","Contains deeds, inventories, and papers pertaining to Robert Peter's estates and his sons, Robert, James, David, George, and Thomas. Various notes about David Peter's death, and letters from George Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter. [Note: There are loose pages]","Includes voice and music notes for the saxon ground, will you come to the bower, nobody coming to marry me, the rose, rondo, and others.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","No. 5116, volume 190, covering the coronation of George VI.","Printed volume, includes a facsimile handwritten section entitled \"accounts, G. Washington with the United States, commencing June 1775, and ending June 1773, comprehending a space of eight years.\""],"names_ssim":["Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon","Washington, George, 1732-1799","Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816","Washington, Martha, 1731-1802","Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis, 1776-1831","Law, Thomas, 1756-1834","Costin, William, 1780?-1842","Law, John, 1784?-1822","Rogers, Lloyd Nicholas, approximately 1788-1860","Rogers, Edmund Law","Peter, Robert, 1726-1806","Peter, Thomas, 1769-1834","Peter, Martha Parke Custis, 1777-1854","Kennon, Britannia Wellington Peter, 1815-1911","Peter, George, 1779-1861","Peter, Armistead, 1840-1902","Peter, Agnes, 1840-1902","Mercereau, John, 1732-1820","Dandridge, Bartholomew, approximately 1774-1802","Stuart, Eleanor Calvert Custis, approximately 1758-1811","Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834","Madison, James, 1751-1836","Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818","Pinckney, Mary Stead, approximately 1751-1812","Trumbull, Jonathan, 1740-1809","Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821","Washington, Bushrod, 1762-1829","Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804","Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850","Knox, Henry, 1750-1806","Varick, Richard, 1753-1831","Sedgwick, Theodore, 1746-1813","Rogers, William, 1751-1824","Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828","Atherton, Charles H.  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Within each series, materials are generally separated by format and listed chronologically, with undated materials listed last.","Series 1. Papers of George Washington Series 2. Papers of Tobias Lear Series 3. Miscellaneous Series 4. Papers of Martha Washington Series 5. Papers of Eliza Parke Custis Law Series 6. Papers of Thomas Law : Subseries 6.1. Legal Documents, Subseries 6.2. Correspondence Series 7. Papers of William Costin Series 8. Papers of John Law Series 9. Papers of Lloyd Nicholas Rogers Series 10. Papers of Edmund Law Rogers Series 11. Papers of Robert Peter : Subseries 11.1. Accounts, Subseries 11.2. Financial Documents, Subseries 11.3. Legal Documents, Subseries 11.4. Land Documents, Subseries 11.5. Estate Documents Series 12. Papers of Thomas Peter : Subseries 12.1. Financial Documents, Subseries 12.2. Land Documents, Subseries 12.3. Estate Documents, Subseries 12.4. Correspondence Series 13. Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1824-1909 : Subseries 13.1. Financial Documents, Subseries 13.2. Legal Documents, Subseries 13.3. Correspondence","The Peters were a prominent family in Washington, D.C. during the eighteenth and nineteen centuries. Martha Parke Custis, Martha Washington's granddaughter, married into the Peter family in 1795.","George Washington (1732-1799) : George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at a modest farm in Westmoreland County, Virginia to parents Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. In 1749, George Washington was appointed surveyor for Culpepper County. In 1752, he started his military career in the Virginia militia. During the Revolutionary War he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and later was elected as the first President of the United States of America. He lived with his wife, Martha Washington, at Mount Vernon, where he passed away December 14, 1799.","Martha Washington (1731-1802) : Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born on June 2, 1731 to parents John and Frances Jones Dandridge. She married her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on May 15, 1750. Together they had four children, two of whom died in childhood. On July 8, 1757, her husband unexpectedly died, leaving her a widow with their two remaining children, John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis. On January 6, 1759, Martha Dandridge Custis married George Washington. Martha Parke Custis or Patsy, died at the age of 17. On February 3, 1774, John Parke Custis married Eleanor Calvert, and together they had four children who survived to adulthood. However, on November 5, 1781, John Parke Custis passed away, and the younger two of his children went to live at Mount Vernon with their grandmother. Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died on May 22, 1802.","Tobias Lear (1762-1816) : Tobias Lear was born in 1762. He was employed by George Washington in 1786 to manage expense reports to Congress and also as the personal tutor to Martha Washington's grandchildren. In 1790 Tobias Lear married Mary \"Polly\" Long; however she died in 1793. Lear then married Martha Washington's niece, Frances Bassett Washington, but she died shortly they were married. Lear married for a third time to Frances Dandridge Henley, another niece of Martha Washington. He died in 1816.","Elizabeth (Betsy, Beth, Eliza) Parke Custis Law (1776-1831) : Wife to Thomas Law, Eliza Parke Custis Law was born on August 21, 1776. She was the daughter of John (Jacky) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert. Upon the death of her father in 1781, Eliza's two younger siblings, George Washington (Washy) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Parke Custis went to live with their grandmother, Martha Washington, and her second husband, George Washington. Eliza and her other sister Martha stayed at home with their mother. Shortly after, their mother remarried Dr. David Stuart and had thirteen more children. On March 21, 1796, Eliza Parke Custis Law married Thomas Law and together they had one child, Eliza Law. In 1804, the couple separated and their daughter went to live with her father. They officially divorced in 1811. Eliza Parke Custis Law lived with one of her uncles for a time after the separation, and soon purchased a house in Alexandria called \"Mount Washington.\" Eliza Law Rogers died in 1822, leaving behind a husband (Lloyd Nicholas Rogers) and two children. Eliza Parke Custis Law died on December 31, 1831.","Thomas Law (1756-1834) : Thomas Law was born on October 23, 1756 in Cambridge, England. He started his career working for the East India Trading Company and began building his reputation, as well as his income. In 1794, he left England to start a new life in America where he began to invest in lands, particularly in the nation's capital. Over time, Law became extremely passionate about the arts, particularly poetry, which he wrote and published. He even founded the first dance society, theater, and the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis on March 21, 1796. Together they had one child, Eliza Law, who married Lloyd Nicholls Rogers in 1817. Thomas Law died in 1834.","William Costin (1780-1842) : William Costin was a prominent free black man in early 19th-century Washington DC. He was a messenger for the Bank of Washington and ran a hack business in the city. In 1800, he married his cousin Philadelphia (\"Delphy\"), a dower slave of Martha Washington. Upon Martha Washington's death in 1802, Delphy became the property of Eliza Parke Custis Law, wife to Thomas Law. Delphy and their children were granted freedom shortly after, and the couple decided to stay in Washington, D.C. Together the Costins had seven children. He died in 1842.","John Law (1784-1822) : John Law was born in India about 1784 to Thomas Law and an unidentified Indian woman. In 1794 Thomas Law came to America after living about two decades in India; presumably John and his brothers came with him. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis in 1796 and raised the boys until their separation around 1804. John Law graduated from Harvard University in 1804; he was a member of the Columbian Dragoons in 1811; and was the commissioner to adjust the Yazoo claims in 1814. He died on October 4, 1822.","Lloyd Nicholas Rogers (1787 or 1788-1860) : Lloyd Nicholas Rogers was born on September 20, 1788 to parents Nicholas and Eleanor Buchanan Rogers. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers married Eliza Law Rogers in 1817. Together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers and Eleanor Agnes Rogers. They lived on Druid Hill which had been passed down by Lloyd's Scottish father. Very shortly after the death of Lloyd's father in 1822, Eliza also died. In 1829, Rogers was married to Hortensia Monroe Hay who was the granddaughter of James Monroe. Together, they had an additional three daughters, Harriet, Hortensia, and Mary Custis. Lloyd was a proprietor of his estate and practiced law out of his home on Druid Hill. Hortensia died in the 1850s, leaving Lloyd all alone. All of his children except for Eleanor had already married and moved out. Eleanor would not marry until 1862, following her father's death. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers died on November 12, 1860.","Edmund Law Rogers (1818-1896) : Edmund Law Rogers was born in 1818 to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers and Eliza Law Rogers. He grew up and lived in Baltimore all of his life, and was a founding member of the Maryland and Harvard Club, as well as a member of various other organizations, such as, the Sons of the Revolution and the Baltimore Historical Society. He spoke several different languages and was a lover of the arts. He married Charlotte Matilda Plater and together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers, Jr., and Charlotte Plater Rogers. He died of paralysis on January 24, 1896.","Robert Peter (1726-1806) : Robert Peter was born in 1726 in Scotland to Thomas Peter and Jean Dunlop, who were prosperous merchants. He immigrated to the United States around 1745, but there is no definite reason why he chose to leave. He first settled in the town, Bladensburg, along the Anacostia River. In 1751, Georgetown was established, and Robert purchased a lot in the town the following year, and slowly began to build up his land holdings. His land holdings grew to be quite extensive, including owning the entire square from M, K, and 31st Streets, and Wisconsin Ave. From 1789 to 1798, Robert Peter was the first mayor of Georgetown. On December 27, 1767, he married Elizabeth Scott, and together they had 10 children, one of whom died as an infant. Their names were: Thomas, Alexander, Elizabeth, Walter, Robert, Jean, Margaret, David, George, and James. He died in 1806.","Thomas Peter (1769-1834) : Thomas Peter was born January 4, 1769 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. Thomas Peter married Martha Parke Custis, granddaughter to Martha Washington, in 1795. Together, they had eight children. Martha Eliza Eleanor, Columbia Washington, John Parke Custis, Robert Thomas, George Washington, America Pinckney, Martha Custis Castania (who died young), and Britannia Wellington. In 1805, Thomas and Martha purchased eight-and-a-half acres in \"Georgetown Heights.\" [For more information on Tudor Place, see Tudor Place: Historic House and Gardens.] They later hired architect Dr. William Thornton to design and build Tudor Place located in Georgetown. It was completed in 1816 and still stands today. Thomas Peter was a prominent lawyer of the time and was one of the executors of Martha Washington's will. He died April 16, 1834.","Martha (Patty) Parke Custis Peter (1777-1854) : was born to John Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert Custis on December 31, 1777. She was one of four children in their family to survive to adulthood: Eliza Parke, Martha Parke, Eleanor Parke (Nelly), and George Washington (Washy) Parke. Following the death of their father in 1781, Patty and her older sister, Eliza, lived with their mother and stepfather, Dr. David Stuart, and their large family, while their younger siblings, Nelly and Washy, lived with their grandparents at Mount Vernon. There were frequent visits to Mount Vernon in both childhood and following her marriage to Thomas Peter in 1795. She died July 13 or 15, 1854.","Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon (1815-1911) : Britannia Wellington Peter was born January 28, 1815, as the youngest child of Martha Parke (Patty) Custis Peter and Thomas Peter. In 1842, she married Commodore Beverley Kennon, and together they had one child, Martha Custis Kennon, on October 18, 1843. Commodore Kennon died from a gun explosion on the frigate Princeton on February 28, 1844. Martha Custis Kennon married Dr. Armistead Peter in 1867. When Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon's mother passed in 1854, she inherited Tudor Place, where she lived until her death in 1911.","Major George Peter (1779-1861) : Major George W. Peter was born on September 28, 1779 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. He was married three times during his life. First, to Ann Plater in 1809. Together they had two children, George and Thomas. His wife and two children all died in 1814. Secondly, in 1815 he married Agnes Buchanon Freeland. They had five children, Robert, Ann, James, Agnes, and David. Agnes, his wife, died in 1825. Only a month later, he again married, this time to Sarah Norfleet Freeland, the sister of his second wife. Together, they had nine children: Sarah Agnes, George, Alexander Scott, Margaret Dick, Elizabeth, Armistead, Walter Gibson, William, and Katherine Norfleet. Major George Peter was an officer in the army, a representative in Congress, and a farmer. During his career in the army, he was first appointed first lieutenant 2nd, Artillery and Engineers on February 16, 1801. He was promoted to Captain on November 3, 1807, and finally was transferred to the Light Artillery in May of 1808. He resigned in June 11, 1809. In 1815, he was elected to Congress to cover the sixth district in Maryland. He would continue this appointment until after 1828. He died June 22, 1861.","Dr. Armistead Peter (1840-1902) : Dr. Armistead Peter was one of George Peter's sons from his third marriage to Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter. He was born on February 23, 1840. Dr. Armistead Peter was a cousin to his wife Martha Custis Kennon Peter, whom he married in 1867. Together, Martha and Armistead had five children: Walter Gibson, Armistead, Beverley Kennon, George Freeland, and Agnes. He and Martha Custis Kennon Peter both moved into Tudor Place and Dr. Armistead Peter converted a portion of the house for his medical practice. He created a very successful business as one of the best doctors in the city of Washington. During the Civil War he was employed by the U.S. Army as ward surgeon, as well as serving in a smallpox hospital. Martha Custis Kennon Peter died suddenly in 1886. Armistead died in 1902, his mother-in-law, Britannia W. Peter Kennon outliving both of them. The land in Bethesda was divided between their four children. After Britannia W. Peter Kennon died, the house was left to her grandson, Armistead Peter II. Dr. Armistead Peter died on January 28, 1902.","Agnes Peter (1880-1957) : Agnes Peter, born on February 3, 1880, was the daughter of Dr. Armistead Peter and Martha Custis Kennon Peter. She lived in France for a period of time during WWI conducting work for the YMCA. Agnes Peter was the director of a Foyer du Soldat and helped to receive soldiers and refugees. She was also in charge of the Graves Registration Section in Rheims. She was the first woman in France to be awarded the silver Medal of Honor for her distinguished services to the country during the war. In 1946, when she was 73, she married Nobel Prize winner, Dr. John R. Mott, who is most acclaimed for his work creating international Christian programs with a goal to establish peace. She died in 1957.","Peter family owned books are cataloged in the Library Catalog. The 23 titles (36 volumes) are searchable in the\n the Catalog's Peter Family Collection .","see Century Magazine, May 1890, p. 17","This collection consists of papers collected by various members of the Peter families. It includes letters from George Washington, letters of condolence to Martha Washington after George Washington's death, estate documents, Major George Peter's military papers, land plats and surveys, photo albums, letterbooks, and notebooks that tell of the life of this prominent family in Virginia and the City of Washington.","Autograph letter signed from Eliza, Hope Park, asking her grandfather for a picture of him. Docketed in Washington's hand on verso.","Autographed letter signed (signature cut out) George Washington, German Town, to Eliza Parke Custis. Washington offers his granddaughter advice on love and marriage.","Autograph letter in Washington's hand, initialed by both George and Martha. George and Martha Washington, Philadelphia, to Thomas Law. The Washingtons congratulate Law on his marriage to their grandaughter Eliza.","Autograph letter signed by George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter, discussing the purchase of English cattle.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in Washington's hand.Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Washington, Mount Vernon. Peter asks Washington to secure a spot for his brother in the Army and shares rumors about a bill coming up in Congress.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel and seal. George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about the sale of tobacco.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel.George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about farming and congratulates Thomas and Patsy on the birth of their son.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. John Mercereau, Union Township, to George Washington. John Mercereau, a businessman who served with his brother and nephew in a spy ring during the Revolutionary War, writes to Washington asking if he may come and visit, reflecting that no memories give him greater satisfaction than those he spent \"Devoted to my Countrys Service.\" Tragically, Mercereau did not know that Washington had died 10 days before his letter was sent.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., London, to George Washington.  Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., writes to his uncle about his business ventures from London. He had not yet received word of Washington's death on December 14, 1799.","Autograph letter unsigned in the hand of Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart and most likely addressed to Tobias Lear. The letter is dated 7 February with no year but was most likely written in 1790, since it mentions Lear's first marriage, which occured in 1790.","Autograph letter signed, undated, with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart to Tobias Lear, New York. Docketed in Lear's hand as received 2 October 1790. Eleanor writes of her unhappiness at being parted from her children Nelly and Wash.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, Mount Vernon, to Tobias Lear, New York. Eleanor writes about the lottery and her family, noting that \"My Dear Nelly \u0026 Wash. are still spoilt by Grand Mama but chearfully obey every word I say to them.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in hand of George Washington. Lucretia Constance Radcliffe, Charleston, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Mrs. Radcliffe writes seeking an Army commission for her son and sends a packet of crane feathers and melon seeds. She also sends news of Major Pinkney.","Manuscript resolution of the \"Sixth Congress of the United States: At the first session Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine\" stating that a marble monument to George Washington be erected in the City of Washington and that his remains be interred beneath it. It is also resolved that a funeral procession from Comgress Hall to the German Lutheran Church shall take place on Thursday, December 26, 1799, and that the nation will wear crepe arm bands for thirty days of mourning.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Maria S. Ross, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. A condolence letter from Maria S. Ross of Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Martha Washington on the death of her husband.","Autograph letter, copy. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response to Maria Ross's condolence letter to Martha Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel with seal of John Adams. Abigail Adams, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Condolence letter written by Abigail Adams to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Martha Washington's response to Abigail Adams's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Mary Stead Pinckney, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Pinckney also sends her regards and congratulations to Nelly Parke Custis Lewis, who was recovering from the birth of her first child, Frances Parke Lewis.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Governor of Connecticut, Lebanon, Connecticut, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Elias Boudinot, New Jersey Congressman and Director of the United States Mint, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Elias Boudinot. Tobias Lear's response on behalf of Martha Washington to Elias Boudinot's condolence letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Bushrod Washington, Walnut Farm, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bushrod writes to Martha about purchasing corn from Colonel Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter written by Ann Huntington, New London, Connecticut,  to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Hamilton's condolence letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter from Reverend Samuel Miller, New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington. He writes that he is inclosing a discourse he recently delivered on the occasion of Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Samuel Miller's, New York, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Stephen Williamson, Philadelphia, State Prison, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Stephen Williamson introduces himself as the captain of a company in the Rhode Island Regiment who served under Washington in the Revolutionary War. He recounts a dream he had in which she gives birth to a son following Washington's death. He also tells Martha the details of his arrest for buying a stolen horse and requests her assistance in getting him out of prison.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Former Secretary of War Henry Knox, Montpelier, St. Georges, sends Martha his condolences after the passing of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Henry Knox's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Mayor of New York City Richard Varick offers his condolences to Martha after the death of George Washington. He also incloses, on behalf of the Common Council of New York City, an oration delivered on the occassion of Washington's death by Gouverneur Morris.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Richard Varick's, New York, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Richard Washington,Bermuda, a former business associate of Washington's in London, offers his condolences to Martha after George Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Sedgwick writes that he is inclosing a second edition of General Lee's funeral oration.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha in response to Theodore Sedgwick's condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter written by the Marquis de Lafayette, La Grange, to Martha after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. A condolence letter from Auguste Belin, Secretary of the Loge Française l'Aménité of Philidelphia, a freemason lodge of French and Saint-Dominguen émigrés. Belin writes that he is inclosing copies of a funeral oration performed at the lodge in honor of George Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Auguste Belin's, Philadelphia, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter. Condolence note from Reverend William Rogers, Philadelphia, to Martha on the death of George Washington. Rogers writes that he is enclosing a copy of a funeral oration he delivered in Washington's honor.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks William Rogers for sending \"a copy of the Religious Exercises, at the time of the Eulogy, at the German Reformed Church.\"","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, requests that Gilbert Stuart's original portrait of Washington be given to Martha, in exchange for fair compensation. Lear writes that Martha has expressed no desire for her own portrait, but Lear thinks it would be nice to display alongside the portrait of Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence note written by Charles Humphrey Atherton, Amherst, New Hampshire, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Atherton writes that he is enclosing a funeral oration delivered at the request of the citizens of Amherst, New Hampshire in Washington's honor.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Charles H. Atherton's, Amherst, New Hampshire, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Georges Washington de Lafayette, La Grange, son of the Marquis de Lafayette, writes a condolence note to Martha after the death of George Washington. Georges writes of Washington's \"parental kindness\" when he visited Mount Vernon and says, \"How far was I to imagine when I left your family that it would be a last farewell.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Condolence letter written by Alexandria merchant Thomas Porter to Martha after the death of George Washington. Porter writes that he is sending an eulogy along with the letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A condolence letter written by Revered James Kemp, Cambridge, Maryland, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Kemp writes that he is enclosing a copy of a sermon he delivered on the day appointed by Congress to honor George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha Washington to James Kemp's, Cambridge, Maryland, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Peleg Wadsworth, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Wadsworth requests, on behalf of his daughter, a relic of the late General.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Peleg Wadsworth's condolence letter after the death of George Washington. Lear writes that he is enclosing a lock of Washington's hair for Wadsworth's daughter as requested.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks Reverend John D. Blair for sending his condolences and two orations delivered in Richmond on February 22 in honor of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. William Griffiths, Burlington, New Jersey, offers his condolences on behalf of the citizens of Burlington, New Jersey to Martha after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha to William Griffith's, Burlington, New Jersey, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon","Autograph letter signed \"John Lemayere.\" Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs, was George Washington's dentist during the Revolutionary War. He writes his condolences to Martha on the death of Washington, apologizing that his servant lost the first condolence letter he had written on February 24.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Dr. Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bartholomew Dandridge Jr. writes his aunt inquiring about letters sent to him from Washington before his death that Dandridge never received.","Autograph letter signed. Sir John Sinclair, London, writes to Martha in praise of her late husband and sends her a volume of his letters.","3 letters written by Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers to her mother between December 5, 1819 - November 21, 1821.","7 letters written by Brigadier General Simon Bernard, Washington City, to Eliza Parke Custis Law between March 28, 1828 and May 21, 1830.","Lloyd Rogers to Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Alexandria","Printed legal document: Statement of the defendant's case. Docketed on verso \"Papers relating to case of Law v. Morris Nicholson \u0026 Greenleaf.\"","Manuscript legal statement of Thomas Law in regards to a property dispute in Washington City between William Mayne Duncason and Tench Ringgold.","Manuscript memoranda regarding property dispute over square 744 in the City of Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Concerning Tench Ringgold and property dealings in the City of Washington.","Manuscript descriptions of the architectural plans for the Thomas Law House, designed by architect William Lovering and built circa 1794 on the 689 square in the City of Washington.","Thomas Law, Washington City, discusses his plan for construction of New Jersey Avenue on lot 744 of Washington City, along the public canal.","Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White, Washington City, to Thomas Law","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. George Washington Parke Custis, Philadelphia to Thomas Law, Federal City. George Washington Parke Custis writes to Law of the pleasure he will have in serving Washington City, which is to be \"the pride of future ages\" and \"the metropolis of America.\"","A manuscript copy of the address read by W. M. Duncanson at a meeting of the Managers of Washington Canal Lottery - Law, Carroll, Young, and Duncanson. Their reply is copied on the verso.","Autograph letter signed. Duncanson writes that Thomas Law has resigned his title to Lot 744 of Washington City in favor of Tench Ringgold.","Unsigned, undated manuscript, docketed \"Tench Ringgold Arbitration.\"","James Piercy, City of Washington, to Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White. Three manuscript copies by Thomas Munroe of letters written by James Piercy to the Commissioners of the City of Washington about his claims to lot 744.","Manuscript copy made by Thomas Munroe of a letter written by the Commissioners of the City of Washington to James Piercy in response to Piercy's claims on lot 744. Scott and Thornton write to Piercy that \"no intention exists of granting you the square you mention.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, City of Washington","Lloyd Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, Washington City","Thomas Law to Lloyd Rogers, Baltimore","Writing from New Orleans in 1832, John Taylor reports that fifty to sixty people a day are dying from yellow fever and smallpox.","Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Washington, to Thomas Law, London","Letter written by Lawrence Lewis to William \"Billy\" Costin requesting Costin's service in transporting his family from Mr. Charles Carter's residence in Culpepper County to their home. Lewis provides a suggested route and expected arrival date stating, 'you must not disappoint me.' A postscript in the hand of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis requests additional and immediate transportation for herself to Philadelphia. She offers Costin's mother payment in Pork if she will accompany them on the trip. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel.","Undated note from Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis asking \"Billy\" to ask her sister Betsy to send the things by which she [Eleanor] wrote to her for. Directs Billy to be very careful of them as they are easily broken. Autograph note signed E Lewis, 1 page.","Autograph letter signed with integral adddress panel.","Autograph letter signed. George Washington Parke Custis writes William \"Billy\" Costin at the Bank of Washington. He mentions he expects to go with Lafayette to visit Woodlawn.","5 letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law. The first letter is addressed to John at George Town College and the other four to Harvard University.","Edmund Law, Washington, to John Law, Baltimore","5 dated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","Letter discussing the court martial of Commodore James Barron, who would later kill Commodore Stephen Decatur in duel in 1820.","4 undated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","15 undated letters and notes written by Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. John Law asks William Thornton if he can borrow a book on calvary maneuvers.","2 letters written by William Thornton in response to John Law's August 10, 1807 letter.","An undated letter from John Law to his half sister, Eliza Law. He writes that he is sending sweetmeats from Woodlawn by William, as promised.","William D. Sims, Pittsburgh, to John Law, Washington City","Three letters","A series of four letters and their draft copies written over the course of two days by John Law to his father, criticizing his conduct, particularly in regards to Eliza Law's marriage to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers.","5 letters written by Thomas Law to his son John Law, Washington City, around 1817, addressing John's criticisms of him, his divorce, and his friendship with Elizabeth Bordley Gibson.","Autograph letter signed. A letter of reconciliation sent by John Law to his father.","Draft of letter from Lloyd Nicholas Rogers, New York, to Major-General Henry Lee discussing the life of Baron de Kalb.","2 letters about the sale of property in Washington.Lenman and Brother, Washington City, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.","Documents related to the sale of property in Washington.","Correspondence about the sale of property in Washington.","2 letters about the sale of property in Washington. N. Callan, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.","Bond of conveyance for Lot No. 1 in Square 260 in Washington City, District of Columbia.","1 survey plat of lots in Washington along Canal St, and 2 pages of notes listing the prices of lots and the names of their purchasers.","Letter from the Commisioners of the Sinking Fund of the Corporation of Washington. William McCormick, Registers Office, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers.","An indenture form reassigning a parcel of property in Washington City. The Deed of Trust form is marked at the top of the first page \"Printed and Sold by Robert A. Waters, D. st., bet. 9th \u0026 10th.\"","1 page autograph letter signed by George Washington Parke Custis to Edmund Law Rogers, with additional letter from Martha Custis Williams, Arlington House, written on verso. Custis writes, \"From the very graphic account you gave Martha Williams of your visit to Mr Fenno, I see but a poor chance of my Drama being brought out [in Baltimore].\" He asks Rogers to inquire of his \"theater going friends\" if any other Baltimore theatres will perform the work. If not, he asks Rogers to return the book care of William Adam Bookseller Pennsylvania Avenie Washington.","In her letter, Williams passes on a request from \"Aunt B\" (Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon) to send the \"little manuscript book, containing an inventory of the Mt Vernon relics at Tudor Place, as she is much at a loss, with regard to the history of many things in the House.\" Britannia Peter had inherited Tudor Place the year before, in 1854. Williams adds to Rogers that she hopes he will not make too much effort to have Uncle Custis's play produced because \"Cousin Mary Lee and all his family are so much opposed to it.\" Williams hopes Custis will focus on finishing his Recollections instead.","Bill for $21 addressed to Edmund Law Rogers for advertising the sale of lots in the City of Washington in the newspaper the National Intelligencer.","Unsigned indenture for the sale of lots in the City of Washington. Docketed in pencil \"sale not made.\"","Invoices, notes, and receipts from accounts between Robert Peter and the firm O'Neill and Dearkins. Includes an invoice for tobacco, sugar, corduroy, gauze, linen, chocolate, silk, muslin, paper, wine, ribbons, pins, cotton, and tea.","Unknown list of accounts, believed to be from Robert Peter.","Pages from account book with the note \"These leaves was received by James S Webber from Mrs. Esther H Webber wife of Mr Levi Webber of Vassalboro Kennebeck Co. Maine being a part of account Book of Charles Webber, my Grand Father, his own handwriting. Received by me June 22 1878.\" The accounts include invoices for cod fish, bacon, molasses, tea, rum, sugar, silk, shoes, brandy, wine, coffee, and corn.","Includes accounts for flour, pork, beef, lamb, and veal.","Bond for the conveyance of a parcel of property called Black Oak Thickett in Frederick County, Maryland.","rent paid","Page of rent payment accounts in unknown hand.","Bond of Thomas Nicholls of John to Robert Peter","Bond of Isaiah and Edward Nicholls to Robert Peter","Lawsuit against Robert Peter by James Gordon, Henry Riddell, John Campbell, John Campbell Junior, Alexander Low, and William Ingram","Three documents related to disputed accounts between Robert Peter and Benjamin Ray. One with a note by John T. Mason dated February 27, 1799, \"He has no shadow of right to one shilling on this [account].\"","List of Robert Peter's court appearances","Court documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 5 manuscripts.","Court documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 19 small manuscript receipts","Survey of land called Bealls Plaines in what became Washington City, along Goose Creek, later renamed Tiber Creek.","Manuscript on parchment with large seal attached by a ribbon.","1766, Survey to Forrest, May 12, 1773, (six documents) Bladenburg, Sept., 21, 1766; Rock Creek, Nov. 13, 1766 \"to Robert Peter, merchant in Georgetown.\"","One undated note by Thomas Peter and one letter from William Dearkins and Ben Stoddert to Stephen Chiswell about resurveying about 200 acres called Partnership granted to Elting Williams.","The Resurvey of Brandy and transfer of several named enslaved people.","A letter about resurveying a parcel of propery called Hazard. George Scott to Robert Peter, George Town.","Four autograph documents dealing with land ownership. Two notes on fragments; one half sheet giving history of a property in Prince George's County; and an 8 page survey document, with reference to points on a drawn survey, of Cross Basket, Balantyre, and other properties (9 lots) belonging to Robert Peter and divided amongst George and Thomas Peter.","Certificate and plat for 5 3/4 acres of vacant land granted by special warrant to Robert Peter out of the Western Shore Land Office of Washington County in the District of Columbia. Surveyed by Joseph Elgar, Jr. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Hand colored survey plat showing the division of Robert Peter's Square in George Town. Docketed on verso \"Plat belonging to Thomas Peter's Square in George Town.\"","Tobacco sales","Tabacco Sales, Real Estate, Transfer of enslaved people","Deed of trust book is dated 1790","One dollar printed in Annapolis by F. Green, 7 December 1775. Two thirds of a dollar printed in Philadelphia by Hall and Sellers, 17 February 1776.","List of items purchased by Martha Washington from Macleod \u0026 Lumsdon, dated at the top 18 February 1800, Alexandria. The accounts, dated 8 July and 9 August, include entries for 47 panes of glass, oil, paint for 30 mahoghany chairs, paint for a wine cooler, varnishing, picture frame gilding, and glazing. Signed by Macleod \u0026 Lumdsdon at the bottom, noting that the above money was received in full 9 October 1800.","Receipt signed \"Daniel Lecock\" for payment received by the hands of James Anderson on behalf of Martha Washington for 790 bushels of corn on 2 May 1800.","Receipt for $25 paid by Thomas Carwood to James Anderson for 100 barrels of fish from Mount Vernon.","Accounts dated February 13, March 11, and April 12, 1800 for newspaper advertisements and handbills purchased by Martha Washington from Ellis Price, printer of The Columbian Mirror and Alexandria Gazette. Items Martha purchased include 26 advertisements for a house to rent, an advertisement about the Mount Vernon fishery, 23 advertisements about the donkey Knight of Malta, and notice about the runaway slave Marcus.","Accounts dated 23 April-23 September 1800 for weaving yards of cotton, wool, and other fabrics. The payments are marked as having been paid \"By balance due the Estate of General Washington,\" by cash, by 41 gallons of whiskey, and barrells of herring. The final payment is marked as received from James Anderson on 10 November 1801.","Bill addressed to the Estate of Mrs. Martha Washington, Deceased for $200 due to James Craik for medical services rendered Mrs. Washington during her last illness and $5 for cash paid Heyskill for the hire of his carriage. A signed oath by Jacob Hoffman testifies to the validity of the charges.","Receipt of payment from Thomas Peter to Lawrence Lewis for three hundred dollars for one hundred barrels of corn sold to Mount Vernon for the use of the estate. Signed by John Anderson.","Receipt written by Dr. David Stuart for the receipt from Thomas Peter for five guineas, the leagcy left by Martha Washington to Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart.","Payment from Thomas Law to Griffith Coombs for repairs to Martha Washington's townhome in the District Columbia occupied by Henry Dearborn. Payment marked by Coombs as received in full from Thomas Peter on August 23, 1802.","Twenty dollars wages paid to Richard Burnett of the City of Washingon by Thomas Peter for the year 1802.","Payment of $50 received by George Smith of Woodlawn from Thomas Peter on 12 January 1803 for hire as a blacksmith at Mount Vernon in the year 1802. Signed by George Smith (his mark) and Lawrence Lewis. George Smith was one of George Washington's slaves who was freed after Washington's death. His wife, Lydia, was one of Martha Washington's dower slaves and was inherited by Nelly Parke Custis Lewis of Woodlawn.","Receipt for one hundred pounds Virginia currency received by Benjamin Lincoln Lear from Thomas Peter, one of the executors of Martha Washington's estate.","Accounts of Mr. James Dunlop with Thomas Peter, for horses, ploughs, and an enslaved woman named Peg. Peg is likely one of the slaves Martha Parke Custis Peter inherited from the Custis estate.","Receipt for funeral arrangements paid by Thomas Peter to William King on December 4, 1820 following the death of his twenty-three-year-old daughter Columbia Washington Peter. The arrangements include a \"walnut coffin lined,\" silver plate and engraving, and rental of horses, a hearse, and attendants.","H. B. Morris, Philadelphia, to Thomas Peter, Georgetown. Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A letter about bank accounts and stock certificates.","Bill from Dr. Warfield to Thomas Peter for a visit to a \"black man in the night\" on March 5, 1824 which resulted in the amputation of the man's leg.","Two bills from P.L. Dupont paid by Martha Parke Custis Peter for dancing lessons for her daughter Britannia.","Two stock share certificates for the Patowmack Company (Potomac Company). Share No. 89 is for Martha Peter, and No. 91 for Thomas Peter.","Land office papers for the resurvey of Bear Denn, Daniels Discovery, and Partnership in Maryland","With unknown survey plat on verso.","Aquila Johns to Thomas Peter on sale of Seneca plantation","Autograph letter signed by Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter, wife of Thomas Peter's brother George, relinquishing right title and interest on a tract of land called Forrest, property of her husband, in order to pay his debts.","Letter about resurveying property owned by George Washington Peter.","List of property in Montgomery County Maryland owned by Thomas Peter","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Regarding financial matters.","Horatio Edmondson of Taylor County, Maryland","Pamphlet stitch binding with marbled paper covers. Contains notes about purchases made by Thomas Peter 1813-1814.","Calling card from Le Baron de Maltitz, Secretaire de la Legation Imperiale de Russie. Manuscript date 1823 on verso.","John Dandridge writes to Thomas Peter, George Town, asking to borrow money from the estate of Martha Washington.","Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed, with envelope. Josiah Quincy, Cambridge, to Martha Parke Custis Peter, Georgetown. Josiah Quincy thanks Martha Parke Custis Peter for her generous reeption of his children at Tudor Place and thanks her for the relic of George Washington that she sent back with them.","A contemporary manuscript copy of a letter in which Nelly Parke Custis describes having seen George Washington writing his farewell address at Mount Vernon. When the address was finished, she says he asked her to bring him silk string, and she watched him stitch the address together in front of her. Nelly writes this as a rebuke to one of Alexander Hamilton's sons, who claims his father wrote the farewell address.","A list of accounts between the Estate of George Washington and Alexandria apothecary Edward Stabler, including purchases for Turlington's Balsam, castor oil, arsenic, balsam copaiva, British oil, salts, purified Salt Petre, cantharides, ipecacuanha, laudanum, tumeric, and opodildo. Payments are marked as received from James Anderson. Autograph document, 1 page.","Manuscript titled \"A List of Negroes belonging to Mrs. Washington.\" A list of 121 enslaved persons who were Martha's dower slaves. Unlike the slaves owned by George Washington, Martha's slaves were not freed after her death and were inherited by the Custis descendants. Men, boys, women, and girls and listed in separate columns, each further broken down into the places where they worked: Mansion house, River Farm, Muddy Hole, and Union Farm. Five women - Amy, Alice, Peg, Agnes, and Old Judy - are listed as \"Free but yet remain.\"","Signed certificate from the executors of General George Washington to the Clerk of Fairfax.","Accounts from 1802 for furniture and household goods purchased by George Washington Parke Custis from the Estate of Martha Washington. The final payment was made in 1826, and the account is signed by Thomas Peter, executor of the estate.","A list of the household belongings sold by Thomas Peter from the personal estate of Martha Washington. Includes a listing of who purchased each item and the price it sold for.","Signed indenture for sale of land in the City of Washington.","Articles of agreement between George Calvert and Thomas Peter with Thomas Law, agreeing that Thomas Law and his wife Eliza Parke Custis Law will live separately. Eliza will receive $1500 per year from Law, and all the interest from her inheritance from George Washington will go to her and her daughter.","3 sheets of accounts between the estate of Robert Peter and James Dunlop, including the sale of \"5 negroes willed Mrs. Peter.\" These are some of Martha's dower slaves inherited by Martha Parke Custis Peter. One additional account between Jonathan Hicks and the heirs of Robert Peter, dated 1809-1811.","Receipt written by Lawrence Lewis acknowledging receipt from Thomas Peter of three hundred and twenty-six dollars eighteen cent left to his son Lorenzo Lewis as a legacy from Martha Washington.","Receipt signed by George Washington Parke Custis acknowledging the receipt from Thomas Peter of one thousand dollars as a legacy left to his daughter from the late Martha Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Thomas Peter, George Town, to Bushrod Washington, Mount Vernon. Thomas Peter writes to Bushrod about money owed for two purchases he made from the estate of George Washington.","Two documents related to a settlement made by John Dandridge against George Washington Parke Custis and Thomas Peter, executors of Martha Washington's estate. One is a 1829 decree from the U. S. Circuit Court, signed by William Thomas Carroll; and the other is an account of money owed to John Dandridge signed by Benjamin Lincoln Lear, 1830 June 21. Autograph documents signed (2).","3 documents related to the death of Beverley Kennon, husband of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, who died aboard the USS Princeton during the 1844 Peacemaker accident: a newspaper clipping with an excerpt from a sermon by Reverend Mr. Magoon on the Princeton Tragedy, a plan of the burying ground belonging to Mrs. Beverly Kennon, and a certificate from the Vestry of Washington Parish granting Mrs. Beverley Kennon four sites in the Washington Parish Burial Ground.","Receipts for two legacies received of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, executor of Martha Parke Custis Peter's estate. One is for a grandson named Thomas Peter and another for her grandson John Parke Custis Peter.","Manuscript resolution of the Senate of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, offering sympathy to the families of those killed aboard the USS Princeton during the Peacemaker accident. This copy was given by the President of the United States to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, whose husband, Beverley Kennon, was killed in the accident.","Printed form signed by Britannia W. Peter Kennon and witnessed by William Purcell, esquire, Judge of the Orphans' Court of Washington county, District of Columbia.","A list of collections and payments made to sundry persons to settle the estate of Martha Parke Custis Peter.","Document bound with blue ribbon, with envelope. Last will and testament of Ann Gertrude Wightt, a former nun at the Georgetown Visitation Convent who later lived at Tudor Place. Autograph document, 8 pages.","Autograph letter, with envelope. Ann Gertrude Wightt, Rochester, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place","Papers related to the sale of Lot 9 in Square 72 of Washington City to William A. Gordon. Letter from William E. Edmonston to William A. Gordon, 1891 May 30. Two letters from William A. Gordon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1891 June 3 and 1889 October 4. Typescript signed by William Gordon of Declaration of Trust for sale of Lot Nine, Square Seventy Two in Washington City, D.C..","Indenture made between Britannia Wellington Kennon, party of the first part, and Walter Gibson Peter, Armistead Peter Jr., and George Freeland Peter, parties of the second part, all of the District of Columbia, regarding relics and heirlooms at Tudor Place acquired by Britannia W. Peter Kennon from her mother Martha Custis Peter grand-daughter of Martha the wife of George Washington, known in the family as \"The Mount Vernon Heirlooms.\" Other relics are from the estates of Thomas Peter and Beverley Kennon. Britannia wishes that these relics be preserved by her descendants and that none of them be sold or disposed of.","These include pictures, miniatures, engravings, glass, china, silver, jewelry, furniture, needlework, and other relics, including a sago palm formerly belonging to Martha Parke Custis Peter. The relics and heirlooms are to be divided into five parts after Britannia's death and delivered to her grandchildren.","A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (New York : Printed and published by William A. Davies) Inscribed Britannia W. Peter.","Autograph letter signed. Beverley Kennon, Navy Yard, Washington, to Reverend W. Hoff, George Town. Kennon asks Reverend Hoff to be present at Mrs. Peter's place in George Town on the 8th to marry him to Britannia W. Peter.","2 autograph letters signed.","Autograph letter signed on mourning stationary, with envelope and black seal. John Tyler, Washington, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. President John Tyler offers his condolences to Britannia W. Peter Kennon on the death of her husband, Beverley Kennon, during the Peacemaker accident aboard the USS Princeton.","G. T. Kennon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place","Autograph letter signed with envelope docketed \"A letter written to Uncle Bev. by my mother while at boarding school given to me after Uncle Bev's death by Aunt G.\". Martha Custis Kennon, Georgetown, to Beverley Kennon Jr. Beverley Kennon Jr. was Martha Custis Kennon's half brother.","According to Martha Custis Peter, this illustration was at the Tudor Place.","W. Van Ness, New York, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown","Department of the Interior, Pension Office, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown","Mrs. Charles Carroll Simms to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Georgetown","Mattie D. Abbot to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place. From the Secretary of the Ladies Aid Society of Christ Church accepting Britannia Kennon's resignation as President.","Letters from James Mackubin, Ellicott City, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon","Two letters from Justine Van Rensselaer Townsend, Vice Regent of New York for the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. In the 26 November 1890 letter, Justine asks Britannia to help the Ladies determine what is genuine at the upcoming 1890 Thomas Birch's Sons sale of Washington relics in Philadelphia. The sale will include \"General Washington's papers, a clock, a punch bowl, and many other things.\"","Invitation from The Board of World's Fair Managers of Virginia inviting Britannia W. Peter Kennon to be present at the ceremonies of Virginia Day at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Enclosed with an envelope and the calling card of Mrs. William Radford Beale.","Calling cards for Martha Custis Kennon and Armistead Peter. At home card with envelope for Britannia W. Peter Kennon, engraved by Dempsey \u0026 O. Toole of Baltimore \u0026 Washington.","Engraved form ceritifying that \"Cream Ladle No 68944 is an exact reproduction of one onwed by General and Mrs. Washington and used for a number of years at Mr. Vernon.\" The ladle was produced by Galt \u0026 Bro. Jewellers, Silversmiths, Stationers, Washington D.C..","Regarding the purchase of a clock.","Typescript lists of letters and items from Mount Vernon that were part of  Britannia W. Peter Kennon's collection at Tudor Place.","Unbound notebook with list of items and letters from Mount Vernon that belonged to Britannia W. Peter Kennon at Tudor Place. Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia's grandchildren.Includes furniture and household items.","Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia W. Peter Kennon's grandchildren.","Manuscript list of books, jewelry, and locks of hair at Tudor Place","Includes both manuscript and typescript inventories of books, furniture, and objects from Tudor Place.","Newsclippings and correspondence related to Washington relics loaned by Walter G. Peter to the National Museum in the early 1900s.","Lent by Walter G. Peter from the Britannia W. Peter Kennon Collection of Washington Relics.","R. Davidson, Pinckneyville, to George Peter, George Town","Includes a $5 charge on 23 October 1813 for a coffin \"for a black man.\" On 9 February 1814, Peter was charged $50.00 for a lined coffin covered with black cloth, among other expenses, possibly following the death of his first wife, Ann Plater Peter, or one of their young sons.","Thomas Anderson, Clarksburgh, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed with printed cash form from the Office of Discount and Deposit, Washington.","Joseph Delaplaine, Philadelphia, to George Peter. Deplaine requests Major Peter's portrait for his gallery.","U. McInder, Petersburg, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter","W. Coor, Rockville, to George Peter","Partially printed form from the District of Columbia. Major Peter grants Charles A. Burnett power of attorney to sell, assign, and transfer his 50 shares of stock in the Books of the Washington Turnpike Company.","Letter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter","Charles Bunting, Montgomery County, to George Peter","James H., Georgetown, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Lear writes regarding two suits againist Mrs. Sarah Peter.","John Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter","Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Printed letter with manuscript additions, from B. L. Lear, Attorney of the Bank, Bank of the United States.","W. W. Ramsay, Washington, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Washington, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Washington City, to George Peter","B. H., Rockville, to George Peter","Clement Cod, Georgetown, to George Peter","William Thompson, Union School, to George Peter","Michael Keepers, Frederick Town, to George Peter","John Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter","G. D., George Town, to George Peter","J. Orme, Georgetown, to George Peter","W. Sellman, Clarksburg, to George Peter","Samuel C. Ulens, Poolesville, to George Peter","J. Higgins, Poolesville, to George Peter","Jesse V., Poolesville, to George Peter, Darnestown","J. Falls, Baltimore, to George Peter","Geo. Howson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter","Alfred Spates, Cumberland, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Baltimore, to George Peter","W. Matthews, George Town, to George Peter","Geo. Hownson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter","Benj. Fawcett, Colesville, to George Peter","J. Williams, Washington D.C., to George Peter","A letter from the Treasuries Office of the Baltimore and Ohion Railroad Company, offering Peter free tickets to pass over the roads of their company.","Printed election ballot for \"The Constitution and Union Ticket,\" promising \"Civil and Religious Liberty.\" George Peter is listed as the candidate for Commisioner of Public Works.","A list of clothing purchased by Martha Washington from William Jones of Alexandria. Includes suits purchased for enslaved workers Daniel, Marcus, Christopher, and Frank. According to notes on the verso, payments were received from James Anderson on 12 April 1800 and 15 May 1800.","Five receipts for goods and services paid for by James Anderson in 1800, including repairs to old shoes, paper lampblack, freight for one box from Philadelphia, 93 yards of cloth, and leather.","Promissory notes from George Peter","Promissory notes and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Bills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Bills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Promissory notes and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro","Bills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro.","Undated Bills and accounts of George Peter","George H. Peter, Carlise, writes to his uncle asking for money for an upcoming vacation.","3 letters from James Peter to his uncle George Peter.","George Peter, George Town","3 letters sent by James Freeland Peter to his father from Alexandria, Buffalo, and Detroit.","Manuscript acrostic written for Uncle George Peter.","Sarah Peter, Georgetown, to George Peter","4 letters from George Peter, Jr., to his father.","Typescript list of \"Things from Mt. Vernon\" with manuscript annotations by George Freeland Peter of which Peter heirs inherited the items.","Typescript and manuscript inventories of items fro Tudor Place, with notes on which Peter heirs inherited them.","Identification key to \"The battle at Bunker's Hill\" engraved by Johann Gotthard Müller after the painting by John Trumbull. Printed in London by A. C. de Poggi.","Accounts for shoes, boots, and repairs, including shoes for enslaved people.","Major George Peter's troops are invited to attend Divine Service. \"It is hoped they will attend \u0026 conduct themselves with a reverence suited to the character of Christian soldiers, who have taken arms in defence of their homes \u0026 country \u0026 who look for success \u0026 preservation to the favor of the Almighty Giver of all victory.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel and red wax seal.","2 letters to George Peter from his brother David Peter, George Town.","Deed of sale for land purchased by Peter on Gay Street and Dumarton Street in George Town.","A list of 322 volumes, showing title, number of volumes, size, and type of bookbinding.","8 letters and 1 receipt, mostly addressed to George Peter from his niece, Jane Beverley and her husband, James.","printed pages","Roger Brooke Taney, Annapolis, to George Peter regarding upcoming elections [December 20] to the U. S. Senate specifically the potential election of Mr. [Alexander C.] Hanson as a means to heal and reconcile the differences in the Federal Party. Also discuss Mr. Washington's 'zeal and industry' in supporting Hanson's candidacy. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages. Docketed 'Roger B. Taney - Hanson \u0026 Washington'","W. Cook, Hyates Town,","William Brewer, Aix la Chapelle, to George Peter","James Summers, New Market, to George Peter","G. Dalls S., Colesville, to George Peter, Poolesville","Elisha Jones, Clarksburg, to George Peter","Includes the papers granting George and Sarah Peter guardianship of David Peter's children Elizabeth, William, Jane, George H., and James.","trust, property, and expenses of land","material and clothing","Receipt for the purchase of Lot No. 15 in Square No. 170 in the City of Washington.","Receipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.","3 copies of the will of Sarah Freeland, George Peter's mother-in-law.","appraisal authorization of Alexander Broome and Samuel Darby","Accounts of Margaret Dick with William Parson. Includes an account for shoes soled and nailed for James Peter.","Medical bills, pharmacy, doctor","tuition bills","Letter, T.H. Paul to George Peter. Letter, Unknown  to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States.","Receipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.","typescript copy","deed of conveyance","Indenture, George Peter to Thomas Peter, Land from estate of Robert Peter, Jr.","copies of letters","Military exemption for Armistead Peter","Bill, George Peter, Esq. to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1869 February 11; Col. Richard L. Maury, Attorney, to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1876 October 10","Includes story of Abraham Lincoln and the Maryland Barbecue by Agnes Peter","Memento for either Walter Gibson Peter or W. Orton Williams from Mrs. Laura Cassaway, small American flag and small ivory mirror with flower [Fragile]","Includes receipt of letter, 1873 January 24. Letter regarding interest in farm from Robert Dick.","lock of hair","From Binder 1","From Binder 1","From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- Fragmented letter - From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Four envelopes","Goes up to Britannia W. Peter Kennon -From Binder 1","Condolence letter","Signed by Governor Horatio Sharpe","Indenture, September 30, 1791; Resurvey of Forrest, 1796. Document signed by Gov. Haywood","Resurvey of Pipe Tomhock; Copy of Platt (sic) and Illustrations, August 14, 1798; July 11, 1766, Explanation of Survey, September 19, 1797, May 26, 1796, February 16, 1797","Deed, Elizabeth and John Scrivenor, April 18, 1799, June 11, 1799, Resurvey of Brandy, June 9, 1792, June 18, 1792","December 24, 1871, wrapper","List of enslaved persons, livestock, and tools sold at Slashes, Sugar Lands, and Rock Creek Quarters totaling $9,308.00. Autograph document, 3 pages, with docket.","Bernard Gilpin firmly bound to Thomas Peter for $5520","wove paper","Photocopy, \"Account Book 1, Robert Peter, Esq. with the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings; On division of the Tract, Mexico within the City of Washington, Exclusive of what are called \"Old divisions of squares\" and water lots of which no account is key by the Commissioners. 21 pp. Note from Walter Gibson Peter re: History of book, how it ended up in the Library of Congress Thomas Peter","signed by James Madison, B. Crowninshield, Secretary of the Navy","James Madison signature","The most important ones delivered to F.S. Keys Esq. and recorded in suit pending in Court Dt. Columbia","9 manuscripts","under the orders of Lt. Col. E. Robert, USTE","Building 3044 O Street","copies","Includes Allison's Forrest Enlarged; Fort Grubby Hill, July 1, 1732","Includes Indenture, Daniel Veetch, February 19, 1758 Document signed by Gov. Horatio Sharpe","Bathsheba","First found in Thomas Peter's Letterbooks","Photos, Photos from Survey (4) and Ivory Cross [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon] Interesting small religious carved cross, made from Mother-of-Pearl","Letter, William A. Coffin to Britannia Kennon, February 23, 1889; Brouchure for Exhibition, April 30, 1889; Letter, A. W. Drake to Britannia Kennon, January 29, 1889, May 16, 1889, including: carte de visite of George Washington and calling card of Mr. A. W. Drake (Photo) [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon]","First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","First found in Major George Peter's Letterbooks","Frenzel Gallery, Georgetown. Moved from Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.","Includes Sir Thomas Nicholson, William Scott Blair, General Scott of Malenie, Robert Buchanan, William Dunlop, Elizabeth Roberton, J. Horsburgh, Lord Abbots Hall, Isabel Corbet, Cunningham Scott. First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.","First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter","Containing photographs of Peter relatives","Pictures of Tudor Place, Vacation, Content Farm, Ellen Beale Peter 1931 (Walter Gibson's Wife) Made by Walter Gibson Peter, [Loose photographs], Half Full.","Elizabeth Peter, wife of Robert Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter [Note: Some loose pages]","Book of tobacco sales, list of enslaved persons belonging to Robert Peter, and lots of Robert Peter in the City of Washington with division by squares for the Commissioners and how they are disposed. The bound volume is made up of 178 pages. Pages 52-147 are blank. At some point the volume is flipped and entries are begun at the back of the book from pages 178-154. For viewing purposes those pages have been reoriented and reordered.","\"Tobacco Book,\" All letters received pertaining to his business of selling tobacco in Europe and trading across the Atlantic, including captains, lawyers, and buyers in Europe.","Includes personal letters that were sent to the family, photocopied letters from Thomas and General Washington, various financial papersNot in order [Documents are fragile and book in poor condition]. Made by Walter Gibson Peter.","Contains photographs and letters. Created by Walter Gibson Peter, received documents from Britannia W. Peter Kennon.","Commissions, Letters, Orders, etc. Relating to service in the U.S. Army and Major Georgetown Field Artillery, Created by Walter Gibson Peter. Items signed by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.","Corps of the Artillerists, New Orleans and Fort McHenry, Garrison and Regimental Orders, Major George Peter; Order and prisoner tries and punishments, List from Fort McHenry, Morning Reports [Note: Book in poor condition]","Ledger of real estate holdings of George Peter with Robert Peter and James Peter [pages 2-17]. Also includes, \"The following Table exhibits a view of the Squares and Lots, the Number of square feet therein contained, and the value of the same, now owned by Capt. George Peter, in the City of Washington\" [pages 74-78]. Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 88 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-7, 10-11, 14-17, 74, 76, and 78. The remaining page are blank. In 1813, the ledger is flipped and a single page (page 88) includes a list of names under the title 'Rent Roll for 1813.'","Ledger for the estate of Robert Peter maintained by his son Thomas Peter. The bond volume contains 176 pages, partially completed. Accounts are entered on pages 6-54, pages 55-173 are blank, and pages 174-176 include bank notes at the Bank of Columbia and the Branch Bank of Washington City. A scrap of paper with calculations was found between pages 49 and 50 and is included in the digitization.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","Lessons and Exercises in Vocal Music by Benjamin Carr","Contains letters, pictures, U.S. Navy Commissions (James Madison, John Tyler, and Franklin Pierce), invitations, and a memorandum of Britannia and Beverley made by Walter Gibson Peter- Grandson to Britannia.","After resigning from the army, notes made from Walter George Peter. Includes letters, a list of enlaved people from Montanaverde, bills, and business transactions.","Repairs made on properties of Robert Peter, Jr.  Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 98 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-5, 8-23, and 26-33. The remaining pages are blank.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","Copies made February 1 and 2, 1849 by Edmund Law Rogers at Tudor Place, the residence of his Great-Aunt Martha Peter.","Communion Alms, Christmas and Easter Offerings, June 5, 1850. In Memory of Mrs. Britannia Wellington Kennon, From the Trustees of the Louise Home, 1911.","Four account books. Account Money paid for the Estate of Mrs. Martha Peter","\"Commenced the practice of medicine the latter end of March 1867. Left town the first of May 1867 and returned June 28th- recommended practicing 8th of July, etc., Expense Log and Visiting List\"","First found in Dr. Armistead Peter's files. 9 volumes, dated 1863, 1866, 1870, 1873, 1876, 1878, 1889, 1892, and 1896.","List of patients from practice and paid or unpaid, in alphabetical order, Bills Due, Cash Paid to Mrs. Peter, other accounts, small pox vaccination count","Notes on visits, family seal, copied letters, list of articles from Mount Vernon, notes about clothes and jewelry; Copy of Album was acquired by Martha Custis Peter, great-great granddaughter to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, which Britannia had given to her grandson, Walter Gibson Peter. Her father was Walter Gibson Peter, Jr.","contains dried flowers","Includes folders of France and WWI soldiers","Contains deeds, inventories, and papers pertaining to Robert Peter's estates and his sons, Robert, James, David, George, and Thomas. Various notes about David Peter's death, and letters from George Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter. [Note: There are loose pages]","Includes voice and music notes for the saxon ground, will you come to the bower, nobody coming to marry me, the rose, rondo, and others.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","No. 5116, volume 190, covering the coronation of George VI.","Printed volume, includes a facsimile handwritten section entitled \"accounts, G. Washington with the United States, commencing June 1775, and ending June 1773, comprehending a space of eight years.\"","Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon","Washington, George, 1732-1799","Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816","Washington, Martha, 1731-1802","Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis, 1776-1831","Law, Thomas, 1756-1834","Costin, William, 1780?-1842","Law, John, 1784?-1822","Rogers, Lloyd Nicholas, approximately 1788-1860","Rogers, Edmund Law","Peter, Robert, 1726-1806","Peter, Thomas, 1769-1834","Peter, Martha Parke Custis, 1777-1854","Kennon, Britannia Wellington Peter, 1815-1911","Peter, George, 1779-1861","Peter, Armistead, 1840-1902","Peter, Agnes, 1840-1902","Mercereau, John, 1732-1820","Dandridge, Bartholomew, approximately 1774-1802","Stuart, Eleanor Calvert Custis, approximately 1758-1811","Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834","Madison, James, 1751-1836","Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818","Pinckney, Mary Stead, approximately 1751-1812","Trumbull, Jonathan, 1740-1809","Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821","Washington, Bushrod, 1762-1829","Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804","Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850","Knox, Henry, 1750-1806","Varick, Richard, 1753-1831","Sedgwick, Theodore, 1746-1813","Rogers, William, 1751-1824","Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828","Atherton, Charles H.  (Charles Humphrey), 1773-1853","Lafayette, Georges Washington Louis Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1779-1849","Kemp, James, 1764-1827","Wadsworth, Peleg, 1748-1829","Blair, John D.  (John Durbarrow), 1759-1823","Griffith, William, 1766-1826","Le Mayeur, Jean Pierre","Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835","Rogers, Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, 1797-1822","Bernard, Simon, 1779-1839","Ringgold, Tench","Lovering, William (Architect)","Scott, Gustavus, 1753-1800","Thornton, William, 1759-1828","White, Alexander, 1738-1804","Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857","Lewis, Lawrence, 1767-1839","Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-1852","Law, Edmund, 1790-1829","Decatur, Susan Wheeler","Hay, George, 1765-1830","Lee, Henry, 1756-1818","De Kalb, Johann, 1721-1780","Elgar, Joseph","Anderson, James, 1745-1807","Craik, James, 1730-1814","Anderson, John","Stuart, David, 1753-1814","Dearborn, Henry, 1751-1829","Smith, George (Blacksmith)","Lear, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Lincoln), 1792-1832","Peter, George Washington, 1801-1877","Maltitz, Apollonius August von, 1795-1870","Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864","Stabler, Edward, 1769-1831","Lewis, Lorenzo, 1803-1847","Kennon, Beverley, 1793-1844","Peter, Martha Custis Kennon, 1843-1886","Peter, Walter G.  (Walter Gibson), 1868-1945","Peter, Armistead, 1870-1960","Peter, George Freeland, 1875–1953","Tyler, John, 1790-1862","Peter, Walter Gibson, 1842-1863","Townsend, Justine Van Rensselaer, 1828-1912","Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864","Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824","Bunting, Charles","Key, Philip Barton, 1757-1815","Hanson, Alexander Contee, 1786-1819","English \n.    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Papers of Robert Peter : Subseries 11.1. Accounts, Subseries 11.2. Financial Documents, Subseries 11.3. Legal Documents, Subseries 11.4. Land Documents, Subseries 11.5. Estate Documents Series 12. Papers of Thomas Peter : Subseries 12.1. Financial Documents, Subseries 12.2. Land Documents, Subseries 12.3. Estate Documents, Subseries 12.4. Correspondence Series 13. Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1824-1909 : Subseries 13.1. Financial Documents, Subseries 13.2. Legal Documents, Subseries 13.3. Correspondence"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Peters were a prominent family in Washington, D.C. during the eighteenth and nineteen centuries. Martha Parke Custis, Martha Washington's granddaughter, married into the Peter family in 1795.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eGeorge Washington (1732-1799)\u003c/emph\u003e: George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at a modest farm in Westmoreland County, Virginia to parents Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. In 1749, George Washington was appointed surveyor for Culpepper County. In 1752, he started his military career in the Virginia militia. During the Revolutionary War he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and later was elected as the first President of the United States of America. He lived with his wife, Martha Washington, at Mount Vernon, where he passed away December 14, 1799.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMartha Washington (1731-1802)\u003c/emph\u003e: Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born on June 2, 1731 to parents John and Frances Jones Dandridge. She married her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on May 15, 1750. Together they had four children, two of whom died in childhood. On July 8, 1757, her husband unexpectedly died, leaving her a widow with their two remaining children, John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis. On January 6, 1759, Martha Dandridge Custis married George Washington. Martha Parke Custis or Patsy, died at the age of 17. On February 3, 1774, John Parke Custis married Eleanor Calvert, and together they had four children who survived to adulthood. However, on November 5, 1781, John Parke Custis passed away, and the younger two of his children went to live at Mount Vernon with their grandmother. Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died on May 22, 1802.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eTobias Lear (1762-1816)\u003c/emph\u003e: Tobias Lear was born in 1762. He was employed by George Washington in 1786 to manage expense reports to Congress and also as the personal tutor to Martha Washington's grandchildren. In 1790 Tobias Lear married Mary \"Polly\" Long; however she died in 1793. Lear then married Martha Washington's niece, Frances Bassett Washington, but she died shortly they were married. Lear married for a third time to Frances Dandridge Henley, another niece of Martha Washington. He died in 1816.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eElizabeth (Betsy, Beth, Eliza) Parke Custis Law (1776-1831)\u003c/emph\u003e: Wife to Thomas Law, Eliza Parke Custis Law was born on August 21, 1776. She was the daughter of John (Jacky) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert. Upon the death of her father in 1781, Eliza's two younger siblings, George Washington (Washy) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Parke Custis went to live with their grandmother, Martha Washington, and her second husband, George Washington. Eliza and her other sister Martha stayed at home with their mother. Shortly after, their mother remarried Dr. David Stuart and had thirteen more children. On March 21, 1796, Eliza Parke Custis Law married Thomas Law and together they had one child, Eliza Law. In 1804, the couple separated and their daughter went to live with her father. They officially divorced in 1811. Eliza Parke Custis Law lived with one of her uncles for a time after the separation, and soon purchased a house in Alexandria called \"Mount Washington.\" Eliza Law Rogers died in 1822, leaving behind a husband (Lloyd Nicholas Rogers) and two children. Eliza Parke Custis Law died on December 31, 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThomas Law (1756-1834)\u003c/emph\u003e: Thomas Law was born on October 23, 1756 in Cambridge, England. He started his career working for the East India Trading Company and began building his reputation, as well as his income. In 1794, he left England to start a new life in America where he began to invest in lands, particularly in the nation's capital. Over time, Law became extremely passionate about the arts, particularly poetry, which he wrote and published. He even founded the first dance society, theater, and the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis on March 21, 1796. Together they had one child, Eliza Law, who married Lloyd Nicholls Rogers in 1817. Thomas Law died in 1834.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eWilliam Costin (1780-1842)\u003c/emph\u003e: William Costin was a prominent free black man in early 19th-century Washington DC. He was a messenger for the Bank of Washington and ran a hack business in the city. In 1800, he married his cousin Philadelphia (\"Delphy\"), a dower slave of Martha Washington. Upon Martha Washington's death in 1802, Delphy became the property of Eliza Parke Custis Law, wife to Thomas Law. Delphy and their children were granted freedom shortly after, and the couple decided to stay in Washington, D.C. Together the Costins had seven children. He died in 1842.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eJohn Law (1784-1822)\u003c/emph\u003e: John Law was born in India about 1784 to Thomas Law and an unidentified Indian woman. In 1794 Thomas Law came to America after living about two decades in India; presumably John and his brothers came with him. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis in 1796 and raised the boys until their separation around 1804. John Law graduated from Harvard University in 1804; he was a member of the Columbian Dragoons in 1811; and was the commissioner to adjust the Yazoo claims in 1814. He died on October 4, 1822.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLloyd Nicholas Rogers (1787 or 1788-1860)\u003c/emph\u003e: Lloyd Nicholas Rogers was born on September 20, 1788 to parents Nicholas and Eleanor Buchanan Rogers. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers married Eliza Law Rogers in 1817. Together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers and Eleanor Agnes Rogers. They lived on Druid Hill which had been passed down by Lloyd's Scottish father. Very shortly after the death of Lloyd's father in 1822, Eliza also died. In 1829, Rogers was married to Hortensia Monroe Hay who was the granddaughter of James Monroe. Together, they had an additional three daughters, Harriet, Hortensia, and Mary Custis. Lloyd was a proprietor of his estate and practiced law out of his home on Druid Hill. Hortensia died in the 1850s, leaving Lloyd all alone. All of his children except for Eleanor had already married and moved out. Eleanor would not marry until 1862, following her father's death. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers died on November 12, 1860.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eEdmund Law Rogers (1818-1896)\u003c/emph\u003e: Edmund Law Rogers was born in 1818 to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers and Eliza Law Rogers. He grew up and lived in Baltimore all of his life, and was a founding member of the Maryland and Harvard Club, as well as a member of various other organizations, such as, the Sons of the Revolution and the Baltimore Historical Society. He spoke several different languages and was a lover of the arts. He married Charlotte Matilda Plater and together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers, Jr., and Charlotte Plater Rogers. He died of paralysis on January 24, 1896.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eRobert Peter (1726-1806)\u003c/emph\u003e: Robert Peter was born in 1726 in Scotland to Thomas Peter and Jean Dunlop, who were prosperous merchants. He immigrated to the United States around 1745, but there is no definite reason why he chose to leave. He first settled in the town, Bladensburg, along the Anacostia River. In 1751, Georgetown was established, and Robert purchased a lot in the town the following year, and slowly began to build up his land holdings. His land holdings grew to be quite extensive, including owning the entire square from M, K, and 31st Streets, and Wisconsin Ave. From 1789 to 1798, Robert Peter was the first mayor of Georgetown. On December 27, 1767, he married Elizabeth Scott, and together they had 10 children, one of whom died as an infant. Their names were: Thomas, Alexander, Elizabeth, Walter, Robert, Jean, Margaret, David, George, and James. He died in 1806.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThomas Peter (1769-1834)\u003c/emph\u003e: Thomas Peter was born January 4, 1769 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. Thomas Peter married Martha Parke Custis, granddaughter to Martha Washington, in 1795. Together, they had eight children. Martha Eliza Eleanor, Columbia Washington, John Parke Custis, Robert Thomas, George Washington, America Pinckney, Martha Custis Castania (who died young), and Britannia Wellington. In 1805, Thomas and Martha purchased eight-and-a-half acres in \"Georgetown Heights.\" [For more information on Tudor Place, see Tudor Place: Historic House and Gardens.] They later hired architect Dr. William Thornton to design and build Tudor Place located in Georgetown. It was completed in 1816 and still stands today. Thomas Peter was a prominent lawyer of the time and was one of the executors of Martha Washington's will. He died April 16, 1834.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMartha (Patty) Parke Custis Peter (1777-1854)\u003c/emph\u003e: was born to John Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert Custis on December 31, 1777. She was one of four children in their family to survive to adulthood: Eliza Parke, Martha Parke, Eleanor Parke (Nelly), and George Washington (Washy) Parke. Following the death of their father in 1781, Patty and her older sister, Eliza, lived with their mother and stepfather, Dr. David Stuart, and their large family, while their younger siblings, Nelly and Washy, lived with their grandparents at Mount Vernon. There were frequent visits to Mount Vernon in both childhood and following her marriage to Thomas Peter in 1795. She died July 13 or 15, 1854.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBritannia Wellington Peter Kennon (1815-1911)\u003c/emph\u003e: Britannia Wellington Peter was born January 28, 1815, as the youngest child of Martha Parke (Patty) Custis Peter and Thomas Peter. In 1842, she married Commodore Beverley Kennon, and together they had one child, Martha Custis Kennon, on October 18, 1843. Commodore Kennon died from a gun explosion on the frigate Princeton on February 28, 1844. Martha Custis Kennon married Dr. Armistead Peter in 1867. When Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon's mother passed in 1854, she inherited Tudor Place, where she lived until her death in 1911.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMajor George Peter (1779-1861)\u003c/emph\u003e: Major George W. Peter was born on September 28, 1779 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. He was married three times during his life. First, to Ann Plater in 1809. Together they had two children, George and Thomas. His wife and two children all died in 1814. Secondly, in 1815 he married Agnes Buchanon Freeland. They had five children, Robert, Ann, James, Agnes, and David. Agnes, his wife, died in 1825. Only a month later, he again married, this time to Sarah Norfleet Freeland, the sister of his second wife. Together, they had nine children: Sarah Agnes, George, Alexander Scott, Margaret Dick, Elizabeth, Armistead, Walter Gibson, William, and Katherine Norfleet. Major George Peter was an officer in the army, a representative in Congress, and a farmer. During his career in the army, he was first appointed first lieutenant 2nd, Artillery and Engineers on February 16, 1801. He was promoted to Captain on November 3, 1807, and finally was transferred to the Light Artillery in May of 1808. He resigned in June 11, 1809. In 1815, he was elected to Congress to cover the sixth district in Maryland. He would continue this appointment until after 1828. He died June 22, 1861.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eDr. Armistead Peter (1840-1902)\u003c/emph\u003e: Dr. Armistead Peter was one of George Peter's sons from his third marriage to Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter. He was born on February 23, 1840. Dr. Armistead Peter was a cousin to his wife Martha Custis Kennon Peter, whom he married in 1867. Together, Martha and Armistead had five children: Walter Gibson, Armistead, Beverley Kennon, George Freeland, and Agnes. He and Martha Custis Kennon Peter both moved into Tudor Place and Dr. Armistead Peter converted a portion of the house for his medical practice. He created a very successful business as one of the best doctors in the city of Washington. During the Civil War he was employed by the U.S. Army as ward surgeon, as well as serving in a smallpox hospital. Martha Custis Kennon Peter died suddenly in 1886. Armistead died in 1902, his mother-in-law, Britannia W. Peter Kennon outliving both of them. The land in Bethesda was divided between their four children. After Britannia W. Peter Kennon died, the house was left to her grandson, Armistead Peter II. Dr. Armistead Peter died on January 28, 1902.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAgnes Peter (1880-1957)\u003c/emph\u003e: Agnes Peter, born on February 3, 1880, was the daughter of Dr. Armistead Peter and Martha Custis Kennon Peter. She lived in France for a period of time during WWI conducting work for the YMCA. Agnes Peter was the director of a Foyer du Soldat and helped to receive soldiers and refugees. She was also in charge of the Graves Registration Section in Rheims. She was the first woman in France to be awarded the silver Medal of Honor for her distinguished services to the country during the war. In 1946, when she was 73, she married Nobel Prize winner, Dr. John R. Mott, who is most acclaimed for his work creating international Christian programs with a goal to establish peace. She died in 1957.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Peters were a prominent family in Washington, D.C. during the eighteenth and nineteen centuries. Martha Parke Custis, Martha Washington's granddaughter, married into the Peter family in 1795.","George Washington (1732-1799) : George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at a modest farm in Westmoreland County, Virginia to parents Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. In 1749, George Washington was appointed surveyor for Culpepper County. In 1752, he started his military career in the Virginia militia. During the Revolutionary War he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and later was elected as the first President of the United States of America. He lived with his wife, Martha Washington, at Mount Vernon, where he passed away December 14, 1799.","Martha Washington (1731-1802) : Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born on June 2, 1731 to parents John and Frances Jones Dandridge. She married her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on May 15, 1750. Together they had four children, two of whom died in childhood. On July 8, 1757, her husband unexpectedly died, leaving her a widow with their two remaining children, John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis. On January 6, 1759, Martha Dandridge Custis married George Washington. Martha Parke Custis or Patsy, died at the age of 17. On February 3, 1774, John Parke Custis married Eleanor Calvert, and together they had four children who survived to adulthood. However, on November 5, 1781, John Parke Custis passed away, and the younger two of his children went to live at Mount Vernon with their grandmother. Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died on May 22, 1802.","Tobias Lear (1762-1816) : Tobias Lear was born in 1762. He was employed by George Washington in 1786 to manage expense reports to Congress and also as the personal tutor to Martha Washington's grandchildren. In 1790 Tobias Lear married Mary \"Polly\" Long; however she died in 1793. Lear then married Martha Washington's niece, Frances Bassett Washington, but she died shortly they were married. Lear married for a third time to Frances Dandridge Henley, another niece of Martha Washington. He died in 1816.","Elizabeth (Betsy, Beth, Eliza) Parke Custis Law (1776-1831) : Wife to Thomas Law, Eliza Parke Custis Law was born on August 21, 1776. She was the daughter of John (Jacky) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert. Upon the death of her father in 1781, Eliza's two younger siblings, George Washington (Washy) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Parke Custis went to live with their grandmother, Martha Washington, and her second husband, George Washington. Eliza and her other sister Martha stayed at home with their mother. Shortly after, their mother remarried Dr. David Stuart and had thirteen more children. On March 21, 1796, Eliza Parke Custis Law married Thomas Law and together they had one child, Eliza Law. In 1804, the couple separated and their daughter went to live with her father. They officially divorced in 1811. Eliza Parke Custis Law lived with one of her uncles for a time after the separation, and soon purchased a house in Alexandria called \"Mount Washington.\" Eliza Law Rogers died in 1822, leaving behind a husband (Lloyd Nicholas Rogers) and two children. Eliza Parke Custis Law died on December 31, 1831.","Thomas Law (1756-1834) : Thomas Law was born on October 23, 1756 in Cambridge, England. He started his career working for the East India Trading Company and began building his reputation, as well as his income. In 1794, he left England to start a new life in America where he began to invest in lands, particularly in the nation's capital. Over time, Law became extremely passionate about the arts, particularly poetry, which he wrote and published. He even founded the first dance society, theater, and the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis on March 21, 1796. Together they had one child, Eliza Law, who married Lloyd Nicholls Rogers in 1817. Thomas Law died in 1834.","William Costin (1780-1842) : William Costin was a prominent free black man in early 19th-century Washington DC. He was a messenger for the Bank of Washington and ran a hack business in the city. In 1800, he married his cousin Philadelphia (\"Delphy\"), a dower slave of Martha Washington. Upon Martha Washington's death in 1802, Delphy became the property of Eliza Parke Custis Law, wife to Thomas Law. Delphy and their children were granted freedom shortly after, and the couple decided to stay in Washington, D.C. Together the Costins had seven children. He died in 1842.","John Law (1784-1822) : John Law was born in India about 1784 to Thomas Law and an unidentified Indian woman. In 1794 Thomas Law came to America after living about two decades in India; presumably John and his brothers came with him. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis in 1796 and raised the boys until their separation around 1804. John Law graduated from Harvard University in 1804; he was a member of the Columbian Dragoons in 1811; and was the commissioner to adjust the Yazoo claims in 1814. He died on October 4, 1822.","Lloyd Nicholas Rogers (1787 or 1788-1860) : Lloyd Nicholas Rogers was born on September 20, 1788 to parents Nicholas and Eleanor Buchanan Rogers. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers married Eliza Law Rogers in 1817. Together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers and Eleanor Agnes Rogers. They lived on Druid Hill which had been passed down by Lloyd's Scottish father. Very shortly after the death of Lloyd's father in 1822, Eliza also died. In 1829, Rogers was married to Hortensia Monroe Hay who was the granddaughter of James Monroe. Together, they had an additional three daughters, Harriet, Hortensia, and Mary Custis. Lloyd was a proprietor of his estate and practiced law out of his home on Druid Hill. Hortensia died in the 1850s, leaving Lloyd all alone. All of his children except for Eleanor had already married and moved out. Eleanor would not marry until 1862, following her father's death. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers died on November 12, 1860.","Edmund Law Rogers (1818-1896) : Edmund Law Rogers was born in 1818 to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers and Eliza Law Rogers. He grew up and lived in Baltimore all of his life, and was a founding member of the Maryland and Harvard Club, as well as a member of various other organizations, such as, the Sons of the Revolution and the Baltimore Historical Society. He spoke several different languages and was a lover of the arts. He married Charlotte Matilda Plater and together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers, Jr., and Charlotte Plater Rogers. He died of paralysis on January 24, 1896.","Robert Peter (1726-1806) : Robert Peter was born in 1726 in Scotland to Thomas Peter and Jean Dunlop, who were prosperous merchants. He immigrated to the United States around 1745, but there is no definite reason why he chose to leave. He first settled in the town, Bladensburg, along the Anacostia River. In 1751, Georgetown was established, and Robert purchased a lot in the town the following year, and slowly began to build up his land holdings. His land holdings grew to be quite extensive, including owning the entire square from M, K, and 31st Streets, and Wisconsin Ave. From 1789 to 1798, Robert Peter was the first mayor of Georgetown. On December 27, 1767, he married Elizabeth Scott, and together they had 10 children, one of whom died as an infant. Their names were: Thomas, Alexander, Elizabeth, Walter, Robert, Jean, Margaret, David, George, and James. He died in 1806.","Thomas Peter (1769-1834) : Thomas Peter was born January 4, 1769 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. Thomas Peter married Martha Parke Custis, granddaughter to Martha Washington, in 1795. Together, they had eight children. Martha Eliza Eleanor, Columbia Washington, John Parke Custis, Robert Thomas, George Washington, America Pinckney, Martha Custis Castania (who died young), and Britannia Wellington. In 1805, Thomas and Martha purchased eight-and-a-half acres in \"Georgetown Heights.\" [For more information on Tudor Place, see Tudor Place: Historic House and Gardens.] They later hired architect Dr. William Thornton to design and build Tudor Place located in Georgetown. It was completed in 1816 and still stands today. Thomas Peter was a prominent lawyer of the time and was one of the executors of Martha Washington's will. He died April 16, 1834.","Martha (Patty) Parke Custis Peter (1777-1854) : was born to John Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert Custis on December 31, 1777. She was one of four children in their family to survive to adulthood: Eliza Parke, Martha Parke, Eleanor Parke (Nelly), and George Washington (Washy) Parke. Following the death of their father in 1781, Patty and her older sister, Eliza, lived with their mother and stepfather, Dr. David Stuart, and their large family, while their younger siblings, Nelly and Washy, lived with their grandparents at Mount Vernon. There were frequent visits to Mount Vernon in both childhood and following her marriage to Thomas Peter in 1795. She died July 13 or 15, 1854.","Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon (1815-1911) : Britannia Wellington Peter was born January 28, 1815, as the youngest child of Martha Parke (Patty) Custis Peter and Thomas Peter. In 1842, she married Commodore Beverley Kennon, and together they had one child, Martha Custis Kennon, on October 18, 1843. Commodore Kennon died from a gun explosion on the frigate Princeton on February 28, 1844. Martha Custis Kennon married Dr. Armistead Peter in 1867. When Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon's mother passed in 1854, she inherited Tudor Place, where she lived until her death in 1911.","Major George Peter (1779-1861) : Major George W. Peter was born on September 28, 1779 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. He was married three times during his life. First, to Ann Plater in 1809. Together they had two children, George and Thomas. His wife and two children all died in 1814. Secondly, in 1815 he married Agnes Buchanon Freeland. They had five children, Robert, Ann, James, Agnes, and David. Agnes, his wife, died in 1825. Only a month later, he again married, this time to Sarah Norfleet Freeland, the sister of his second wife. Together, they had nine children: Sarah Agnes, George, Alexander Scott, Margaret Dick, Elizabeth, Armistead, Walter Gibson, William, and Katherine Norfleet. Major George Peter was an officer in the army, a representative in Congress, and a farmer. During his career in the army, he was first appointed first lieutenant 2nd, Artillery and Engineers on February 16, 1801. He was promoted to Captain on November 3, 1807, and finally was transferred to the Light Artillery in May of 1808. He resigned in June 11, 1809. In 1815, he was elected to Congress to cover the sixth district in Maryland. He would continue this appointment until after 1828. He died June 22, 1861.","Dr. Armistead Peter (1840-1902) : Dr. Armistead Peter was one of George Peter's sons from his third marriage to Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter. He was born on February 23, 1840. Dr. Armistead Peter was a cousin to his wife Martha Custis Kennon Peter, whom he married in 1867. Together, Martha and Armistead had five children: Walter Gibson, Armistead, Beverley Kennon, George Freeland, and Agnes. He and Martha Custis Kennon Peter both moved into Tudor Place and Dr. Armistead Peter converted a portion of the house for his medical practice. He created a very successful business as one of the best doctors in the city of Washington. During the Civil War he was employed by the U.S. Army as ward surgeon, as well as serving in a smallpox hospital. Martha Custis Kennon Peter died suddenly in 1886. Armistead died in 1902, his mother-in-law, Britannia W. Peter Kennon outliving both of them. The land in Bethesda was divided between their four children. After Britannia W. Peter Kennon died, the house was left to her grandson, Armistead Peter II. Dr. Armistead Peter died on January 28, 1902.","Agnes Peter (1880-1957) : Agnes Peter, born on February 3, 1880, was the daughter of Dr. Armistead Peter and Martha Custis Kennon Peter. She lived in France for a period of time during WWI conducting work for the YMCA. Agnes Peter was the director of a Foyer du Soldat and helped to receive soldiers and refugees. She was also in charge of the Graves Registration Section in Rheims. She was the first woman in France to be awarded the silver Medal of Honor for her distinguished services to the country during the war. In 1946, when she was 73, she married Nobel Prize winner, Dr. John R. Mott, who is most acclaimed for his work creating international Christian programs with a goal to establish peace. She died in 1957."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Name and date of item], Peter Family papers, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["[Name and date of item], Peter Family papers, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePeter family owned books are cataloged in the Library Catalog. The 23 titles (36 volumes) are searchable in the\n\u003ca href=\"https://mountvernonlibrary.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=%2A\u0026amp;clusterResults=false\u0026amp;groupVariantRecords=false\u0026amp;subscope=wz%3A46368%3A%3Azs%3A39386\u0026amp;changedFacet=scope\"\u003ethe Catalog's Peter Family Collection\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esee Century Magazine, May 1890, p. 17\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials","Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Peter family owned books are cataloged in the Library Catalog. The 23 titles (36 volumes) are searchable in the\n the Catalog's Peter Family Collection .","see Century Magazine, May 1890, p. 17"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of papers collected by various members of the Peter families. It includes letters from George Washington, letters of condolence to Martha Washington after George Washington's death, estate documents, Major George Peter's military papers, land plats and surveys, photo albums, letterbooks, and notebooks that tell of the life of this prominent family in Virginia and the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed from Eliza, Hope Park, asking her grandfather for a picture of him. Docketed in Washington's hand on verso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutographed letter signed (signature cut out) George Washington, German Town, to Eliza Parke Custis. Washington offers his granddaughter advice on love and marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter in Washington's hand, initialed by both George and Martha. George and Martha Washington, Philadelphia, to Thomas Law. The Washingtons congratulate Law on his marriage to their grandaughter Eliza.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed by George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter, discussing the purchase of English cattle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in Washington's hand.Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Washington, Mount Vernon. Peter asks Washington to secure a spot for his brother in the Army and shares rumors about a bill coming up in Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel and seal. George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about the sale of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel.George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about farming and congratulates Thomas and Patsy on the birth of their son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. John Mercereau, Union Township, to George Washington. John Mercereau, a businessman who served with his brother and nephew in a spy ring during the Revolutionary War, writes to Washington asking if he may come and visit, reflecting that no memories give him greater satisfaction than those he spent \"Devoted to my Countrys Service.\" Tragically, Mercereau did not know that Washington had died 10 days before his letter was sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., London, to George Washington.  Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., writes to his uncle about his business ventures from London. He had not yet received word of Washington's death on December 14, 1799.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter unsigned in the hand of Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart and most likely addressed to Tobias Lear. The letter is dated 7 February with no year but was most likely written in 1790, since it mentions Lear's first marriage, which occured in 1790.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, undated, with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart to Tobias Lear, New York. Docketed in Lear's hand as received 2 October 1790. Eleanor writes of her unhappiness at being parted from her children Nelly and Wash.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, Mount Vernon, to Tobias Lear, New York. Eleanor writes about the lottery and her family, noting that \"My Dear Nelly \u0026amp; Wash. are still spoilt by Grand Mama but chearfully obey every word I say to them.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in hand of George Washington. Lucretia Constance Radcliffe, Charleston, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Mrs. Radcliffe writes seeking an Army commission for her son and sends a packet of crane feathers and melon seeds. She also sends news of Major Pinkney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript resolution of the \"Sixth Congress of the United States: At the first session Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine\" stating that a marble monument to George Washington be erected in the City of Washington and that his remains be interred beneath it. It is also resolved that a funeral procession from Comgress Hall to the German Lutheran Church shall take place on Thursday, December 26, 1799, and that the nation will wear crepe arm bands for thirty days of mourning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Maria S. Ross, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. A condolence letter from Maria S. Ross of Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Martha Washington on the death of her husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter, copy. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response to Maria Ross's condolence letter to Martha Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel with seal of John Adams. Abigail Adams, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Condolence letter written by Abigail Adams to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Martha Washington's response to Abigail Adams's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Mary Stead Pinckney, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Pinckney also sends her regards and congratulations to Nelly Parke Custis Lewis, who was recovering from the birth of her first child, Frances Parke Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Governor of Connecticut, Lebanon, Connecticut, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Elias Boudinot, New Jersey Congressman and Director of the United States Mint, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Elias Boudinot. Tobias Lear's response on behalf of Martha Washington to Elias Boudinot's condolence letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Bushrod Washington, Walnut Farm, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bushrod writes to Martha about purchasing corn from Colonel Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter written by Ann Huntington, New London, Connecticut,  to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Hamilton's condolence letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter from Reverend Samuel Miller, New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington. He writes that he is inclosing a discourse he recently delivered on the occasion of Washington's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Samuel Miller's, New York, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Stephen Williamson, Philadelphia, State Prison, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Stephen Williamson introduces himself as the captain of a company in the Rhode Island Regiment who served under Washington in the Revolutionary War. He recounts a dream he had in which she gives birth to a son following Washington's death. He also tells Martha the details of his arrest for buying a stolen horse and requests her assistance in getting him out of prison.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Former Secretary of War Henry Knox, Montpelier, St. Georges, sends Martha his condolences after the passing of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Henry Knox's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Mayor of New York City Richard Varick offers his condolences to Martha after the death of George Washington. He also incloses, on behalf of the Common Council of New York City, an oration delivered on the occassion of Washington's death by Gouverneur Morris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Richard Varick's, New York, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Richard Washington,Bermuda, a former business associate of Washington's in London, offers his condolences to Martha after George Washington's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Sedgwick writes that he is inclosing a second edition of General Lee's funeral oration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha in response to Theodore Sedgwick's condolence letter after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter written by the Marquis de Lafayette, La Grange, to Martha after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. A condolence letter from Auguste Belin, Secretary of the Loge Française l'Aménité of Philidelphia, a freemason lodge of French and Saint-Dominguen émigrés. Belin writes that he is inclosing copies of a funeral oration performed at the lodge in honor of George Washington's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Auguste Belin's, Philadelphia, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter. Condolence note from Reverend William Rogers, Philadelphia, to Martha on the death of George Washington. Rogers writes that he is enclosing a copy of a funeral oration he delivered in Washington's honor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks William Rogers for sending \"a copy of the Religious Exercises, at the time of the Eulogy, at the German Reformed Church.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, requests that Gilbert Stuart's original portrait of Washington be given to Martha, in exchange for fair compensation. Lear writes that Martha has expressed no desire for her own portrait, but Lear thinks it would be nice to display alongside the portrait of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence note written by Charles Humphrey Atherton, Amherst, New Hampshire, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Atherton writes that he is enclosing a funeral oration delivered at the request of the citizens of Amherst, New Hampshire in Washington's honor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Charles H. Atherton's, Amherst, New Hampshire, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Georges Washington de Lafayette, La Grange, son of the Marquis de Lafayette, writes a condolence note to Martha after the death of George Washington. Georges writes of Washington's \"parental kindness\" when he visited Mount Vernon and says, \"How far was I to imagine when I left your family that it would be a last farewell.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Condolence letter written by Alexandria merchant Thomas Porter to Martha after the death of George Washington. Porter writes that he is sending an eulogy along with the letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. A condolence letter written by Revered James Kemp, Cambridge, Maryland, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Kemp writes that he is enclosing a copy of a sermon he delivered on the day appointed by Congress to honor George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha Washington to James Kemp's, Cambridge, Maryland, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Peleg Wadsworth, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Wadsworth requests, on behalf of his daughter, a relic of the late General.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Peleg Wadsworth's condolence letter after the death of George Washington. Lear writes that he is enclosing a lock of Washington's hair for Wadsworth's daughter as requested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks Reverend John D. Blair for sending his condolences and two orations delivered in Richmond on February 22 in honor of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. William Griffiths, Burlington, New Jersey, offers his condolences on behalf of the citizens of Burlington, New Jersey to Martha after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha to William Griffith's, Burlington, New Jersey, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed \"John Lemayere.\" Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs, was George Washington's dentist during the Revolutionary War. He writes his condolences to Martha on the death of Washington, apologizing that his servant lost the first condolence letter he had written on February 24.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Dr. Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bartholomew Dandridge Jr. writes his aunt inquiring about letters sent to him from Washington before his death that Dandridge never received.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Sir John Sinclair, London, writes to Martha in praise of her late husband and sends her a volume of his letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 letters written by Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers to her mother between December 5, 1819 - November 21, 1821.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 letters written by Brigadier General Simon Bernard, Washington City, to Eliza Parke Custis Law between March 28, 1828 and May 21, 1830.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLloyd Rogers to Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Alexandria\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted legal document: Statement of the defendant's case. Docketed on verso \"Papers relating to case of Law v. Morris Nicholson \u0026amp; Greenleaf.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript legal statement of Thomas Law in regards to a property dispute in Washington City between William Mayne Duncason and Tench Ringgold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript memoranda regarding property dispute over square 744 in the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Concerning Tench Ringgold and property dealings in the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript descriptions of the architectural plans for the Thomas Law House, designed by architect William Lovering and built circa 1794 on the 689 square in the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Law, Washington City, discusses his plan for construction of New Jersey Avenue on lot 744 of Washington City, along the public canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White, Washington City, to Thomas Law\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. George Washington Parke Custis, Philadelphia to Thomas Law, Federal City. George Washington Parke Custis writes to Law of the pleasure he will have in serving Washington City, which is to be \"the pride of future ages\" and \"the metropolis of America.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA manuscript copy of the address read by W. M. Duncanson at a meeting of the Managers of Washington Canal Lottery - Law, Carroll, Young, and Duncanson. Their reply is copied on the verso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Duncanson writes that Thomas Law has resigned his title to Lot 744 of Washington City in favor of Tench Ringgold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned, undated manuscript, docketed \"Tench Ringgold Arbitration.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Piercy, City of Washington, to Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White. Three manuscript copies by Thomas Munroe of letters written by James Piercy to the Commissioners of the City of Washington about his claims to lot 744.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript copy made by Thomas Munroe of a letter written by the Commissioners of the City of Washington to James Piercy in response to Piercy's claims on lot 744. Scott and Thornton write to Piercy that \"no intention exists of granting you the square you mention.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, City of Washington\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLloyd Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, Washington City\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Law to Lloyd Rogers, Baltimore\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWriting from New Orleans in 1832, John Taylor reports that fifty to sixty people a day are dying from yellow fever and smallpox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Parke Custis Law, Washington, to Thomas Law, London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter written by Lawrence Lewis to William \"Billy\" Costin requesting Costin's service in transporting his family from Mr. Charles Carter's residence in Culpepper County to their home. Lewis provides a suggested route and expected arrival date stating, 'you must not disappoint me.' A postscript in the hand of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis requests additional and immediate transportation for herself to Philadelphia. She offers Costin's mother payment in Pork if she will accompany them on the trip. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated note from Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis asking \"Billy\" to ask her sister Betsy to send the things by which she [Eleanor] wrote to her for. Directs Billy to be very careful of them as they are easily broken. Autograph note signed E Lewis, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral adddress panel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. George Washington Parke Custis writes William \"Billy\" Costin at the Bank of Washington. He mentions he expects to go with Lafayette to visit Woodlawn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law. The first letter is addressed to John at George Town College and the other four to Harvard University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdmund Law, Washington, to John Law, Baltimore\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 dated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter discussing the court martial of Commodore James Barron, who would later kill Commodore Stephen Decatur in duel in 1820.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 undated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 undated letters and notes written by Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. John Law asks William Thornton if he can borrow a book on calvary maneuvers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters written by William Thornton in response to John Law's August 10, 1807 letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn undated letter from John Law to his half sister, Eliza Law. He writes that he is sending sweetmeats from Woodlawn by William, as promised.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam D. Sims, Pittsburgh, to John Law, Washington City\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA series of four letters and their draft copies written over the course of two days by John Law to his father, criticizing his conduct, particularly in regards to Eliza Law's marriage to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 letters written by Thomas Law to his son John Law, Washington City, around 1817, addressing John's criticisms of him, his divorce, and his friendship with Elizabeth Bordley Gibson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. A letter of reconciliation sent by John Law to his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of letter from Lloyd Nicholas Rogers, New York, to Major-General Henry Lee discussing the life of Baron de Kalb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters about the sale of property in Washington.Lenman and Brother, Washington City, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments related to the sale of property in Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about the sale of property in Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters about the sale of property in Washington. N. Callan, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond of conveyance for Lot No. 1 in Square 260 in Washington City, District of Columbia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 survey plat of lots in Washington along Canal St, and 2 pages of notes listing the prices of lots and the names of their purchasers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from the Commisioners of the Sinking Fund of the Corporation of Washington. William McCormick, Registers Office, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn indenture form reassigning a parcel of property in Washington City. The Deed of Trust form is marked at the top of the first page \"Printed and Sold by Robert A. Waters, D. st., bet. 9th \u0026amp; 10th.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page autograph letter signed by George Washington Parke Custis to Edmund Law Rogers, with additional letter from Martha Custis Williams, Arlington House, written on verso. Custis writes, \"From the very graphic account you gave Martha Williams of your visit to Mr Fenno, I see but a poor chance of my Drama being brought out [in Baltimore].\" He asks Rogers to inquire of his \"theater going friends\" if any other Baltimore theatres will perform the work. If not, he asks Rogers to return the book care of William Adam Bookseller Pennsylvania Avenie Washington.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn her letter, Williams passes on a request from \"Aunt B\" (Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon) to send the \"little manuscript book, containing an inventory of the Mt Vernon relics at Tudor Place, as she is much at a loss, with regard to the history of many things in the House.\" Britannia Peter had inherited Tudor Place the year before, in 1854. Williams adds to Rogers that she hopes he will not make too much effort to have Uncle Custis's play produced because \"Cousin Mary Lee and all his family are so much opposed to it.\" Williams hopes Custis will focus on finishing his Recollections instead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for $21 addressed to Edmund Law Rogers for advertising the sale of lots in the City of Washington in the newspaper the National Intelligencer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned indenture for the sale of lots in the City of Washington. Docketed in pencil \"sale not made.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoices, notes, and receipts from accounts between Robert Peter and the firm O'Neill and Dearkins. Includes an invoice for tobacco, sugar, corduroy, gauze, linen, chocolate, silk, muslin, paper, wine, ribbons, pins, cotton, and tea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnknown list of accounts, believed to be from Robert Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePages from account book with the note \"These leaves was received by James S Webber from Mrs. Esther H Webber wife of Mr Levi Webber of Vassalboro Kennebeck Co. Maine being a part of account Book of Charles Webber, my Grand Father, his own handwriting. Received by me June 22 1878.\" The accounts include invoices for cod fish, bacon, molasses, tea, rum, sugar, silk, shoes, brandy, wine, coffee, and corn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes accounts for flour, pork, beef, lamb, and veal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for the conveyance of a parcel of property called Black Oak Thickett in Frederick County, Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003erent paid\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePage of rent payment accounts in unknown hand.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond of Thomas Nicholls of John to Robert Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond of Isaiah and Edward Nicholls to Robert Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawsuit against Robert Peter by James Gordon, Henry Riddell, John Campbell, John Campbell Junior, Alexander Low, and William Ingram\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree documents related to disputed accounts between Robert Peter and Benjamin Ray. One with a note by John T. Mason dated February 27, 1799, \"He has no shadow of right to one shilling on this [account].\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of Robert Peter's court appearances\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 5 manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 19 small manuscript receipts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurvey of land called Bealls Plaines in what became Washington City, along Goose Creek, later renamed Tiber Creek.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript on parchment with large seal attached by a ribbon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1766, Survey to Forrest, May 12, 1773, (six documents) Bladenburg, Sept., 21, 1766; Rock Creek, Nov. 13, 1766 \"to Robert Peter, merchant in Georgetown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne undated note by Thomas Peter and one letter from William Dearkins and Ben Stoddert to Stephen Chiswell about resurveying about 200 acres called Partnership granted to Elting Williams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Resurvey of Brandy and transfer of several named enslaved people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter about resurveying a parcel of propery called Hazard. George Scott to Robert Peter, George Town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour autograph documents dealing with land ownership. Two notes on fragments; one half sheet giving history of a property in Prince George's County; and an 8 page survey document, with reference to points on a drawn survey, of Cross Basket, Balantyre, and other properties (9 lots) belonging to Robert Peter and divided amongst George and Thomas Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate and plat for 5 3/4 acres of vacant land granted by special warrant to Robert Peter out of the Western Shore Land Office of Washington County in the District of Columbia. Surveyed by Joseph Elgar, Jr. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHand colored survey plat showing the division of Robert Peter's Square in George Town. Docketed on verso \"Plat belonging to Thomas Peter's Square in George Town.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco sales\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTabacco Sales, Real Estate, Transfer of enslaved people\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of trust book is dated 1790\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne dollar printed in Annapolis by F. Green, 7 December 1775. Two thirds of a dollar printed in Philadelphia by Hall and Sellers, 17 February 1776.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of items purchased by Martha Washington from Macleod \u0026amp; Lumsdon, dated at the top 18 February 1800, Alexandria. The accounts, dated 8 July and 9 August, include entries for 47 panes of glass, oil, paint for 30 mahoghany chairs, paint for a wine cooler, varnishing, picture frame gilding, and glazing. Signed by Macleod \u0026amp; Lumdsdon at the bottom, noting that the above money was received in full 9 October 1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt signed \"Daniel Lecock\" for payment received by the hands of James Anderson on behalf of Martha Washington for 790 bushels of corn on 2 May 1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for $25 paid by Thomas Carwood to James Anderson for 100 barrels of fish from Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts dated February 13, March 11, and April 12, 1800 for newspaper advertisements and handbills purchased by Martha Washington from Ellis Price, printer of The Columbian Mirror and Alexandria Gazette. Items Martha purchased include 26 advertisements for a house to rent, an advertisement about the Mount Vernon fishery, 23 advertisements about the donkey Knight of Malta, and notice about the runaway slave Marcus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts dated 23 April-23 September 1800 for weaving yards of cotton, wool, and other fabrics. The payments are marked as having been paid \"By balance due the Estate of General Washington,\" by cash, by 41 gallons of whiskey, and barrells of herring. The final payment is marked as received from James Anderson on 10 November 1801.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill addressed to the Estate of Mrs. Martha Washington, Deceased for $200 due to James Craik for medical services rendered Mrs. Washington during her last illness and $5 for cash paid Heyskill for the hire of his carriage. A signed oath by Jacob Hoffman testifies to the validity of the charges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of payment from Thomas Peter to Lawrence Lewis for three hundred dollars for one hundred barrels of corn sold to Mount Vernon for the use of the estate. Signed by John Anderson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt written by Dr. David Stuart for the receipt from Thomas Peter for five guineas, the leagcy left by Martha Washington to Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment from Thomas Law to Griffith Coombs for repairs to Martha Washington's townhome in the District Columbia occupied by Henry Dearborn. Payment marked by Coombs as received in full from Thomas Peter on August 23, 1802.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwenty dollars wages paid to Richard Burnett of the City of Washingon by Thomas Peter for the year 1802.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of $50 received by George Smith of Woodlawn from Thomas Peter on 12 January 1803 for hire as a blacksmith at Mount Vernon in the year 1802. Signed by George Smith (his mark) and Lawrence Lewis. George Smith was one of George Washington's slaves who was freed after Washington's death. His wife, Lydia, was one of Martha Washington's dower slaves and was inherited by Nelly Parke Custis Lewis of Woodlawn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for one hundred pounds Virginia currency received by Benjamin Lincoln Lear from Thomas Peter, one of the executors of Martha Washington's estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of Mr. James Dunlop with Thomas Peter, for horses, ploughs, and an enslaved woman named Peg. Peg is likely one of the slaves Martha Parke Custis Peter inherited from the Custis estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for funeral arrangements paid by Thomas Peter to William King on December 4, 1820 following the death of his twenty-three-year-old daughter Columbia Washington Peter. The arrangements include a \"walnut coffin lined,\" silver plate and engraving, and rental of horses, a hearse, and attendants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. B. Morris, Philadelphia, to Thomas Peter, Georgetown. Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A letter about bank accounts and stock certificates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill from Dr. Warfield to Thomas Peter for a visit to a \"black man in the night\" on March 5, 1824 which resulted in the amputation of the man's leg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo bills from P.L. Dupont paid by Martha Parke Custis Peter for dancing lessons for her daughter Britannia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo stock share certificates for the Patowmack Company (Potomac Company). Share No. 89 is for Martha Peter, and No. 91 for Thomas Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand office papers for the resurvey of Bear Denn, Daniels Discovery, and Partnership in Maryland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith unknown survey plat on verso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAquila Johns to Thomas Peter on sale of Seneca plantation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed by Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter, wife of Thomas Peter's brother George, relinquishing right title and interest on a tract of land called Forrest, property of her husband, in order to pay his debts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter about resurveying property owned by George Washington Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of property in Montgomery County Maryland owned by Thomas Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Regarding financial matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHoratio Edmondson of Taylor County, Maryland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePamphlet stitch binding with marbled paper covers. Contains notes about purchases made by Thomas Peter 1813-1814.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCalling card from Le Baron de Maltitz, Secretaire de la Legation Imperiale de Russie. Manuscript date 1823 on verso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Dandridge writes to Thomas Peter, George Town, asking to borrow money from the estate of Martha Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Peter, George Town, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, with envelope. Josiah Quincy, Cambridge, to Martha Parke Custis Peter, Georgetown. Josiah Quincy thanks Martha Parke Custis Peter for her generous reeption of his children at Tudor Place and thanks her for the relic of George Washington that she sent back with them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA contemporary manuscript copy of a letter in which Nelly Parke Custis describes having seen George Washington writing his farewell address at Mount Vernon. When the address was finished, she says he asked her to bring him silk string, and she watched him stitch the address together in front of her. Nelly writes this as a rebuke to one of Alexander Hamilton's sons, who claims his father wrote the farewell address.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of accounts between the Estate of George Washington and Alexandria apothecary Edward Stabler, including purchases for Turlington's Balsam, castor oil, arsenic, balsam copaiva, British oil, salts, purified Salt Petre, cantharides, ipecacuanha, laudanum, tumeric, and opodildo. Payments are marked as received from James Anderson. Autograph document, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript titled \"A List of Negroes belonging to Mrs. Washington.\" A list of 121 enslaved persons who were Martha's dower slaves. Unlike the slaves owned by George Washington, Martha's slaves were not freed after her death and were inherited by the Custis descendants. Men, boys, women, and girls and listed in separate columns, each further broken down into the places where they worked: Mansion house, River Farm, Muddy Hole, and Union Farm. Five women - Amy, Alice, Peg, Agnes, and Old Judy - are listed as \"Free but yet remain.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned certificate from the executors of General George Washington to the Clerk of Fairfax.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts from 1802 for furniture and household goods purchased by George Washington Parke Custis from the Estate of Martha Washington. The final payment was made in 1826, and the account is signed by Thomas Peter, executor of the estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of the household belongings sold by Thomas Peter from the personal estate of Martha Washington. Includes a listing of who purchased each item and the price it sold for.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned indenture for sale of land in the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles of agreement between George Calvert and Thomas Peter with Thomas Law, agreeing that Thomas Law and his wife Eliza Parke Custis Law will live separately. Eliza will receive $1500 per year from Law, and all the interest from her inheritance from George Washington will go to her and her daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 sheets of accounts between the estate of Robert Peter and James Dunlop, including the sale of \"5 negroes willed Mrs. Peter.\" These are some of Martha's dower slaves inherited by Martha Parke Custis Peter. One additional account between Jonathan Hicks and the heirs of Robert Peter, dated 1809-1811.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt written by Lawrence Lewis acknowledging receipt from Thomas Peter of three hundred and twenty-six dollars eighteen cent left to his son Lorenzo Lewis as a legacy from Martha Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt signed by George Washington Parke Custis acknowledging the receipt from Thomas Peter of one thousand dollars as a legacy left to his daughter from the late Martha Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Thomas Peter, George Town, to Bushrod Washington, Mount Vernon. Thomas Peter writes to Bushrod about money owed for two purchases he made from the estate of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo documents related to a settlement made by John Dandridge against George Washington Parke Custis and Thomas Peter, executors of Martha Washington's estate. One is a 1829 decree from the U. S. Circuit Court, signed by William Thomas Carroll; and the other is an account of money owed to John Dandridge signed by Benjamin Lincoln Lear, 1830 June 21. Autograph documents signed (2).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 documents related to the death of Beverley Kennon, husband of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, who died aboard the USS Princeton during the 1844 Peacemaker accident: a newspaper clipping with an excerpt from a sermon by Reverend Mr. Magoon on the Princeton Tragedy, a plan of the burying ground belonging to Mrs. Beverly Kennon, and a certificate from the Vestry of Washington Parish granting Mrs. Beverley Kennon four sites in the Washington Parish Burial Ground.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts for two legacies received of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, executor of Martha Parke Custis Peter's estate. One is for a grandson named Thomas Peter and another for her grandson John Parke Custis Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript resolution of the Senate of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, offering sympathy to the families of those killed aboard the USS Princeton during the Peacemaker accident. This copy was given by the President of the United States to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, whose husband, Beverley Kennon, was killed in the accident.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted form signed by Britannia W. Peter Kennon and witnessed by William Purcell, esquire, Judge of the Orphans' Court of Washington county, District of Columbia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of collections and payments made to sundry persons to settle the estate of Martha Parke Custis Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument bound with blue ribbon, with envelope. Last will and testament of Ann Gertrude Wightt, a former nun at the Georgetown Visitation Convent who later lived at Tudor Place. Autograph document, 8 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter, with envelope. Ann Gertrude Wightt, Rochester, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers related to the sale of Lot 9 in Square 72 of Washington City to William A. Gordon. Letter from William E. Edmonston to William A. Gordon, 1891 May 30. Two letters from William A. Gordon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1891 June 3 and 1889 October 4. Typescript signed by William Gordon of Declaration of Trust for sale of Lot Nine, Square Seventy Two in Washington City, D.C..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndenture made between Britannia Wellington Kennon, party of the first part, and Walter Gibson Peter, Armistead Peter Jr., and George Freeland Peter, parties of the second part, all of the District of Columbia, regarding relics and heirlooms at Tudor Place acquired by Britannia W. Peter Kennon from her mother Martha Custis Peter grand-daughter of Martha the wife of George Washington, known in the family as \"The Mount Vernon Heirlooms.\" Other relics are from the estates of Thomas Peter and Beverley Kennon. Britannia wishes that these relics be preserved by her descendants and that none of them be sold or disposed of.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThese include pictures, miniatures, engravings, glass, china, silver, jewelry, furniture, needlework, and other relics, including a sago palm formerly belonging to Martha Parke Custis Peter. The relics and heirlooms are to be divided into five parts after Britannia's death and delivered to her grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (New York : Printed and published by William A. Davies) Inscribed Britannia W. Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Beverley Kennon, Navy Yard, Washington, to Reverend W. Hoff, George Town. Kennon asks Reverend Hoff to be present at Mrs. Peter's place in George Town on the 8th to marry him to Britannia W. Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 autograph letters signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed on mourning stationary, with envelope and black seal. John Tyler, Washington, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. President John Tyler offers his condolences to Britannia W. Peter Kennon on the death of her husband, Beverley Kennon, during the Peacemaker accident aboard the USS Princeton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. T. Kennon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with envelope docketed \"A letter written to Uncle Bev. by my mother while at boarding school given to me after Uncle Bev's death by Aunt G.\". Martha Custis Kennon, Georgetown, to Beverley Kennon Jr. Beverley Kennon Jr. was Martha Custis Kennon's half brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccording to Martha Custis Peter, this illustration was at the Tudor Place.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. Van Ness, New York, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDepartment of the Interior, Pension Office, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Charles Carroll Simms to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Georgetown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMattie D. Abbot to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place. From the Secretary of the Ladies Aid Society of Christ Church accepting Britannia Kennon's resignation as President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from James Mackubin, Ellicott City, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters from Justine Van Rensselaer Townsend, Vice Regent of New York for the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. In the 26 November 1890 letter, Justine asks Britannia to help the Ladies determine what is genuine at the upcoming 1890 Thomas Birch's Sons sale of Washington relics in Philadelphia. The sale will include \"General Washington's papers, a clock, a punch bowl, and many other things.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation from The Board of World's Fair Managers of Virginia inviting Britannia W. Peter Kennon to be present at the ceremonies of Virginia Day at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Enclosed with an envelope and the calling card of Mrs. William Radford Beale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCalling cards for Martha Custis Kennon and Armistead Peter. At home card with envelope for Britannia W. Peter Kennon, engraved by Dempsey \u0026amp; O. Toole of Baltimore \u0026amp; Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEngraved form ceritifying that \"Cream Ladle No 68944 is an exact reproduction of one onwed by General and Mrs. Washington and used for a number of years at Mr. Vernon.\" The ladle was produced by Galt \u0026amp; Bro. Jewellers, Silversmiths, Stationers, Washington D.C..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the purchase of a clock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript lists of letters and items from Mount Vernon that were part of  Britannia W. Peter Kennon's collection at Tudor Place.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnbound notebook with list of items and letters from Mount Vernon that belonged to Britannia W. Peter Kennon at Tudor Place. Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia's grandchildren.Includes furniture and household items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia W. Peter Kennon's grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript list of books, jewelry, and locks of hair at Tudor Place\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes both manuscript and typescript inventories of books, furniture, and objects from Tudor Place.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewsclippings and correspondence related to Washington relics loaned by Walter G. Peter to the National Museum in the early 1900s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLent by Walter G. Peter from the Britannia W. Peter Kennon Collection of Washington Relics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eR. Davidson, Pinckneyville, to George Peter, George Town\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a $5 charge on 23 October 1813 for a coffin \"for a black man.\" On 9 February 1814, Peter was charged $50.00 for a lined coffin covered with black cloth, among other expenses, possibly following the death of his first wife, Ann Plater Peter, or one of their young sons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Anderson, Clarksburgh, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with printed cash form from the Office of Discount and Deposit, Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Delaplaine, Philadelphia, to George Peter. Deplaine requests Major Peter's portrait for his gallery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eU. McInder, Petersburg, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. Coor, Rockville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePartially printed form from the District of Columbia. Major Peter grants Charles A. Burnett power of attorney to sell, assign, and transfer his 50 shares of stock in the Books of the Washington Turnpike Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Bunting, Montgomery County, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames H., Georgetown, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Lear writes regarding two suits againist Mrs. Sarah Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Printed letter with manuscript additions, from B. L. Lear, Attorney of the Bank, Bank of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. W. Ramsay, Washington, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unidentified, Washington, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unidentified, Washington City, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eB. H., Rockville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClement Cod, Georgetown, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Thompson, Union School, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMichael Keepers, Frederick Town, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. D., George Town, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Orme, Georgetown, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. Sellman, Clarksburg, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel C. Ulens, Poolesville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Higgins, Poolesville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJesse V., Poolesville, to George Peter, Darnestown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Falls, Baltimore, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeo. Howson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfred Spates, Cumberland, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unidentified, Baltimore, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. Matthews, George Town, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeo. Hownson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenj. Fawcett, Colesville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Williams, Washington D.C., to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter from the Treasuries Office of the Baltimore and Ohion Railroad Company, offering Peter free tickets to pass over the roads of their company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted election ballot for \"The Constitution and Union Ticket,\" promising \"Civil and Religious Liberty.\" George Peter is listed as the candidate for Commisioner of Public Works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of clothing purchased by Martha Washington from William Jones of Alexandria. Includes suits purchased for enslaved workers Daniel, Marcus, Christopher, and Frank. According to notes on the verso, payments were received from James Anderson on 12 April 1800 and 15 May 1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive receipts for goods and services paid for by James Anderson in 1800, including repairs to old shoes, paper lampblack, freight for one box from Philadelphia, 93 yards of cloth, and leather.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory notes from George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory notes and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory notes and bank notes from George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and bank notes from George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and bank notes from George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated Bills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge H. Peter, Carlise, writes to his uncle asking for money for an upcoming vacation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 letters from James Peter to his uncle George Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Peter, George Town\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 letters sent by James Freeland Peter to his father from Alexandria, Buffalo, and Detroit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript acrostic written for Uncle George Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Peter, Georgetown, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 letters from George Peter, Jr., to his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript list of \"Things from Mt. Vernon\" with manuscript annotations by George Freeland Peter of which Peter heirs inherited the items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript and manuscript inventories of items fro Tudor Place, with notes on which Peter heirs inherited them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdentification key to \"The battle at Bunker's Hill\" engraved by Johann Gotthard Müller after the painting by John Trumbull. Printed in London by A. C. de Poggi.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts for shoes, boots, and repairs, including shoes for enslaved people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMajor George Peter's troops are invited to attend Divine Service. \"It is hoped they will attend \u0026amp; conduct themselves with a reverence suited to the character of Christian soldiers, who have taken arms in defence of their homes \u0026amp; country \u0026amp; who look for success \u0026amp; preservation to the favor of the Almighty Giver of all victory.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel and red wax seal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters to George Peter from his brother David Peter, George Town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of sale for land purchased by Peter on Gay Street and Dumarton Street in George Town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of 322 volumes, showing title, number of volumes, size, and type of bookbinding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 letters and 1 receipt, mostly addressed to George Peter from his niece, Jane Beverley and her husband, James.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eprinted pages\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoger Brooke Taney, Annapolis, to George Peter regarding upcoming elections [December 20] to the U. S. Senate specifically the potential election of Mr. [Alexander C.] Hanson as a means to heal and reconcile the differences in the Federal Party. Also discuss Mr. Washington's 'zeal and industry' in supporting Hanson's candidacy. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages. Docketed 'Roger B. Taney - Hanson \u0026amp; Washington'\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. Cook, Hyates Town,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Brewer, Aix la Chapelle, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Summers, New Market, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. Dalls S., Colesville, to George Peter, Poolesville\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElisha Jones, Clarksburg, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the papers granting George and Sarah Peter guardianship of David Peter's children Elizabeth, William, Jane, George H., and James.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etrust, property, and expenses of land\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ematerial and clothing\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the purchase of Lot No. 15 in Square No. 170 in the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 copies of the will of Sarah Freeland, George Peter's mother-in-law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eappraisal authorization of Alexander Broome and Samuel Darby\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of Margaret Dick with William Parson. Includes an account for shoes soled and nailed for James Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMedical bills, pharmacy, doctor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etuition bills\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter, T.H. Paul to George Peter. Letter, Unknown  to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etypescript copy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003edeed of conveyance\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndenture, George Peter to Thomas Peter, Land from estate of Robert Peter, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecopies of letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMilitary exemption for Armistead Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill, George Peter, Esq. to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1869 February 11; Col. Richard L. Maury, Attorney, to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1876 October 10\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes story of Abraham Lincoln and the Maryland Barbecue by Agnes Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemento for either Walter Gibson Peter or W. Orton Williams from Mrs. Laura Cassaway, small American flag and small ivory mirror with flower [Fragile]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes receipt of letter, 1873 January 24. Letter regarding interest in farm from Robert Dick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003elock of hair\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- Fragmented letter - From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour envelopes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoes up to Britannia W. Peter Kennon -From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolence letter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by Governor Horatio Sharpe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndenture, September 30, 1791; Resurvey of Forrest, 1796. Document signed by Gov. Haywood\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResurvey of Pipe Tomhock; Copy of Platt (sic) and Illustrations, August 14, 1798; July 11, 1766, Explanation of Survey, September 19, 1797, May 26, 1796, February 16, 1797\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed, Elizabeth and John Scrivenor, April 18, 1799, June 11, 1799, Resurvey of Brandy, June 9, 1792, June 18, 1792\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDecember 24, 1871, wrapper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enslaved persons, livestock, and tools sold at Slashes, Sugar Lands, and Rock Creek Quarters totaling $9,308.00. Autograph document, 3 pages, with docket.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBernard Gilpin firmly bound to Thomas Peter for $5520\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewove paper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy, \"Account Book 1, Robert Peter, Esq. with the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings; On division of the Tract, Mexico within the City of Washington, Exclusive of what are called \"Old divisions of squares\" and water lots of which no account is key by the Commissioners. 21 pp. Note from Walter Gibson Peter re: History of book, how it ended up in the Library of Congress Thomas Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esigned by James Madison, B. Crowninshield, Secretary of the Navy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Madison signature\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe most important ones delivered to F.S. Keys Esq. and recorded in suit pending in Court Dt. Columbia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e9 manuscripts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eunder the orders of Lt. Col. E. Robert, USTE\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBuilding 3044 O Street\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecopies\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Allison's Forrest Enlarged; Fort Grubby Hill, July 1, 1732\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Indenture, Daniel Veetch, February 19, 1758 Document signed by Gov. Horatio Sharpe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBathsheba\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Thomas Peter's Letterbooks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos, Photos from Survey (4) and Ivory Cross [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon] Interesting small religious carved cross, made from Mother-of-Pearl\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter, William A. Coffin to Britannia Kennon, February 23, 1889; Brouchure for Exhibition, April 30, 1889; Letter, A. W. Drake to Britannia Kennon, January 29, 1889, May 16, 1889, including: carte de visite of George Washington and calling card of Mr. A. W. Drake (Photo) [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Major George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Major George Peter's Letterbooks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrenzel Gallery, Georgetown. Moved from Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Sir Thomas Nicholson, William Scott Blair, General Scott of Malenie, Robert Buchanan, William Dunlop, Elizabeth Roberton, J. Horsburgh, Lord Abbots Hall, Isabel Corbet, Cunningham Scott. First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContaining photographs of Peter relatives\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePictures of Tudor Place, Vacation, Content Farm, Ellen Beale Peter 1931 (Walter Gibson's Wife) Made by Walter Gibson Peter, [Loose photographs], Half Full.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Peter, wife of Robert Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter [Note: Some loose pages]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook of tobacco sales, list of enslaved persons belonging to Robert Peter, and lots of Robert Peter in the City of Washington with division by squares for the Commissioners and how they are disposed. The bound volume is made up of 178 pages. Pages 52-147 are blank. At some point the volume is flipped and entries are begun at the back of the book from pages 178-154. For viewing purposes those pages have been reoriented and reordered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Tobacco Book,\" All letters received pertaining to his business of selling tobacco in Europe and trading across the Atlantic, including captains, lawyers, and buyers in Europe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes personal letters that were sent to the family, photocopied letters from Thomas and General Washington, various financial papersNot in order [Documents are fragile and book in poor condition]. Made by Walter Gibson Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains photographs and letters. Created by Walter Gibson Peter, received documents from Britannia W. Peter Kennon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCommissions, Letters, Orders, etc. Relating to service in the U.S. Army and Major Georgetown Field Artillery, Created by Walter Gibson Peter. Items signed by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorps of the Artillerists, New Orleans and Fort McHenry, Garrison and Regimental Orders, Major George Peter; Order and prisoner tries and punishments, List from Fort McHenry, Morning Reports [Note: Book in poor condition]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLedger of real estate holdings of George Peter with Robert Peter and James Peter [pages 2-17]. Also includes, \"The following Table exhibits a view of the Squares and Lots, the Number of square feet therein contained, and the value of the same, now owned by Capt. George Peter, in the City of Washington\" [pages 74-78]. Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 88 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-7, 10-11, 14-17, 74, 76, and 78. The remaining page are blank. In 1813, the ledger is flipped and a single page (page 88) includes a list of names under the title 'Rent Roll for 1813.'\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLedger for the estate of Robert Peter maintained by his son Thomas Peter. The bond volume contains 176 pages, partially completed. Accounts are entered on pages 6-54, pages 55-173 are blank, and pages 174-176 include bank notes at the Bank of Columbia and the Branch Bank of Washington City. A scrap of paper with calculations was found between pages 49 and 50 and is included in the digitization.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Major George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLessons and Exercises in Vocal Music by Benjamin Carr\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains letters, pictures, U.S. Navy Commissions (James Madison, John Tyler, and Franklin Pierce), invitations, and a memorandum of Britannia and Beverley made by Walter Gibson Peter- Grandson to Britannia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter resigning from the army, notes made from Walter George Peter. Includes letters, a list of enlaved people from Montanaverde, bills, and business transactions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairs made on properties of Robert Peter, Jr.  Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 98 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-5, 8-23, and 26-33. The remaining pages are blank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Major George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Major George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies made February 1 and 2, 1849 by Edmund Law Rogers at Tudor Place, the residence of his Great-Aunt Martha Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCommunion Alms, Christmas and Easter Offerings, June 5, 1850. In Memory of Mrs. Britannia Wellington Kennon, From the Trustees of the Louise Home, 1911.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour account books. Account Money paid for the Estate of Mrs. Martha Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Commenced the practice of medicine the latter end of March 1867. Left town the first of May 1867 and returned June 28th- recommended practicing 8th of July, etc., Expense Log and Visiting List\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Dr. Armistead Peter's files. 9 volumes, dated 1863, 1866, 1870, 1873, 1876, 1878, 1889, 1892, and 1896.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of patients from practice and paid or unpaid, in alphabetical order, Bills Due, Cash Paid to Mrs. Peter, other accounts, small pox vaccination count\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on visits, family seal, copied letters, list of articles from Mount Vernon, notes about clothes and jewelry; Copy of Album was acquired by Martha Custis Peter, great-great granddaughter to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, which Britannia had given to her grandson, Walter Gibson Peter. Her father was Walter Gibson Peter, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003econtains dried flowers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes folders of France and WWI soldiers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains deeds, inventories, and papers pertaining to Robert Peter's estates and his sons, Robert, James, David, George, and Thomas. Various notes about David Peter's death, and letters from George Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter. [Note: There are loose pages]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes voice and music notes for the saxon ground, will you come to the bower, nobody coming to marry me, the rose, rondo, and others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Major George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNo. 5116, volume 190, covering the coronation of George VI.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted volume, includes a facsimile handwritten section entitled \"accounts, G. 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It includes letters from George Washington, letters of condolence to Martha Washington after George Washington's death, estate documents, Major George Peter's military papers, land plats and surveys, photo albums, letterbooks, and notebooks that tell of the life of this prominent family in Virginia and the City of Washington.","Autograph letter signed from Eliza, Hope Park, asking her grandfather for a picture of him. Docketed in Washington's hand on verso.","Autographed letter signed (signature cut out) George Washington, German Town, to Eliza Parke Custis. Washington offers his granddaughter advice on love and marriage.","Autograph letter in Washington's hand, initialed by both George and Martha. George and Martha Washington, Philadelphia, to Thomas Law. The Washingtons congratulate Law on his marriage to their grandaughter Eliza.","Autograph letter signed by George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter, discussing the purchase of English cattle.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in Washington's hand.Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Washington, Mount Vernon. Peter asks Washington to secure a spot for his brother in the Army and shares rumors about a bill coming up in Congress.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel and seal. George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about the sale of tobacco.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel.George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about farming and congratulates Thomas and Patsy on the birth of their son.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. John Mercereau, Union Township, to George Washington. John Mercereau, a businessman who served with his brother and nephew in a spy ring during the Revolutionary War, writes to Washington asking if he may come and visit, reflecting that no memories give him greater satisfaction than those he spent \"Devoted to my Countrys Service.\" Tragically, Mercereau did not know that Washington had died 10 days before his letter was sent.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., London, to George Washington.  Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., writes to his uncle about his business ventures from London. He had not yet received word of Washington's death on December 14, 1799.","Autograph letter unsigned in the hand of Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart and most likely addressed to Tobias Lear. The letter is dated 7 February with no year but was most likely written in 1790, since it mentions Lear's first marriage, which occured in 1790.","Autograph letter signed, undated, with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart to Tobias Lear, New York. Docketed in Lear's hand as received 2 October 1790. Eleanor writes of her unhappiness at being parted from her children Nelly and Wash.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, Mount Vernon, to Tobias Lear, New York. Eleanor writes about the lottery and her family, noting that \"My Dear Nelly \u0026 Wash. are still spoilt by Grand Mama but chearfully obey every word I say to them.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in hand of George Washington. Lucretia Constance Radcliffe, Charleston, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Mrs. Radcliffe writes seeking an Army commission for her son and sends a packet of crane feathers and melon seeds. She also sends news of Major Pinkney.","Manuscript resolution of the \"Sixth Congress of the United States: At the first session Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine\" stating that a marble monument to George Washington be erected in the City of Washington and that his remains be interred beneath it. It is also resolved that a funeral procession from Comgress Hall to the German Lutheran Church shall take place on Thursday, December 26, 1799, and that the nation will wear crepe arm bands for thirty days of mourning.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Maria S. Ross, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. A condolence letter from Maria S. Ross of Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Martha Washington on the death of her husband.","Autograph letter, copy. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response to Maria Ross's condolence letter to Martha Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel with seal of John Adams. Abigail Adams, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Condolence letter written by Abigail Adams to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Martha Washington's response to Abigail Adams's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Mary Stead Pinckney, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Pinckney also sends her regards and congratulations to Nelly Parke Custis Lewis, who was recovering from the birth of her first child, Frances Parke Lewis.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Governor of Connecticut, Lebanon, Connecticut, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Elias Boudinot, New Jersey Congressman and Director of the United States Mint, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Elias Boudinot. Tobias Lear's response on behalf of Martha Washington to Elias Boudinot's condolence letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Bushrod Washington, Walnut Farm, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bushrod writes to Martha about purchasing corn from Colonel Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter written by Ann Huntington, New London, Connecticut,  to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Hamilton's condolence letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter from Reverend Samuel Miller, New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington. He writes that he is inclosing a discourse he recently delivered on the occasion of Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Samuel Miller's, New York, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Stephen Williamson, Philadelphia, State Prison, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Stephen Williamson introduces himself as the captain of a company in the Rhode Island Regiment who served under Washington in the Revolutionary War. He recounts a dream he had in which she gives birth to a son following Washington's death. He also tells Martha the details of his arrest for buying a stolen horse and requests her assistance in getting him out of prison.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Former Secretary of War Henry Knox, Montpelier, St. Georges, sends Martha his condolences after the passing of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Henry Knox's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Mayor of New York City Richard Varick offers his condolences to Martha after the death of George Washington. He also incloses, on behalf of the Common Council of New York City, an oration delivered on the occassion of Washington's death by Gouverneur Morris.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Richard Varick's, New York, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Richard Washington,Bermuda, a former business associate of Washington's in London, offers his condolences to Martha after George Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Sedgwick writes that he is inclosing a second edition of General Lee's funeral oration.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha in response to Theodore Sedgwick's condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter written by the Marquis de Lafayette, La Grange, to Martha after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. A condolence letter from Auguste Belin, Secretary of the Loge Française l'Aménité of Philidelphia, a freemason lodge of French and Saint-Dominguen émigrés. Belin writes that he is inclosing copies of a funeral oration performed at the lodge in honor of George Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Auguste Belin's, Philadelphia, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter. Condolence note from Reverend William Rogers, Philadelphia, to Martha on the death of George Washington. Rogers writes that he is enclosing a copy of a funeral oration he delivered in Washington's honor.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks William Rogers for sending \"a copy of the Religious Exercises, at the time of the Eulogy, at the German Reformed Church.\"","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, requests that Gilbert Stuart's original portrait of Washington be given to Martha, in exchange for fair compensation. Lear writes that Martha has expressed no desire for her own portrait, but Lear thinks it would be nice to display alongside the portrait of Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence note written by Charles Humphrey Atherton, Amherst, New Hampshire, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Atherton writes that he is enclosing a funeral oration delivered at the request of the citizens of Amherst, New Hampshire in Washington's honor.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Charles H. Atherton's, Amherst, New Hampshire, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Georges Washington de Lafayette, La Grange, son of the Marquis de Lafayette, writes a condolence note to Martha after the death of George Washington. Georges writes of Washington's \"parental kindness\" when he visited Mount Vernon and says, \"How far was I to imagine when I left your family that it would be a last farewell.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Condolence letter written by Alexandria merchant Thomas Porter to Martha after the death of George Washington. Porter writes that he is sending an eulogy along with the letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A condolence letter written by Revered James Kemp, Cambridge, Maryland, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Kemp writes that he is enclosing a copy of a sermon he delivered on the day appointed by Congress to honor George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha Washington to James Kemp's, Cambridge, Maryland, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Peleg Wadsworth, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Wadsworth requests, on behalf of his daughter, a relic of the late General.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Peleg Wadsworth's condolence letter after the death of George Washington. Lear writes that he is enclosing a lock of Washington's hair for Wadsworth's daughter as requested.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks Reverend John D. Blair for sending his condolences and two orations delivered in Richmond on February 22 in honor of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. William Griffiths, Burlington, New Jersey, offers his condolences on behalf of the citizens of Burlington, New Jersey to Martha after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha to William Griffith's, Burlington, New Jersey, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon","Autograph letter signed \"John Lemayere.\" Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs, was George Washington's dentist during the Revolutionary War. He writes his condolences to Martha on the death of Washington, apologizing that his servant lost the first condolence letter he had written on February 24.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Dr. Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bartholomew Dandridge Jr. writes his aunt inquiring about letters sent to him from Washington before his death that Dandridge never received.","Autograph letter signed. Sir John Sinclair, London, writes to Martha in praise of her late husband and sends her a volume of his letters.","3 letters written by Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers to her mother between December 5, 1819 - November 21, 1821.","7 letters written by Brigadier General Simon Bernard, Washington City, to Eliza Parke Custis Law between March 28, 1828 and May 21, 1830.","Lloyd Rogers to Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Alexandria","Printed legal document: Statement of the defendant's case. Docketed on verso \"Papers relating to case of Law v. Morris Nicholson \u0026 Greenleaf.\"","Manuscript legal statement of Thomas Law in regards to a property dispute in Washington City between William Mayne Duncason and Tench Ringgold.","Manuscript memoranda regarding property dispute over square 744 in the City of Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Concerning Tench Ringgold and property dealings in the City of Washington.","Manuscript descriptions of the architectural plans for the Thomas Law House, designed by architect William Lovering and built circa 1794 on the 689 square in the City of Washington.","Thomas Law, Washington City, discusses his plan for construction of New Jersey Avenue on lot 744 of Washington City, along the public canal.","Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White, Washington City, to Thomas Law","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. George Washington Parke Custis, Philadelphia to Thomas Law, Federal City. George Washington Parke Custis writes to Law of the pleasure he will have in serving Washington City, which is to be \"the pride of future ages\" and \"the metropolis of America.\"","A manuscript copy of the address read by W. M. Duncanson at a meeting of the Managers of Washington Canal Lottery - Law, Carroll, Young, and Duncanson. Their reply is copied on the verso.","Autograph letter signed. Duncanson writes that Thomas Law has resigned his title to Lot 744 of Washington City in favor of Tench Ringgold.","Unsigned, undated manuscript, docketed \"Tench Ringgold Arbitration.\"","James Piercy, City of Washington, to Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White. Three manuscript copies by Thomas Munroe of letters written by James Piercy to the Commissioners of the City of Washington about his claims to lot 744.","Manuscript copy made by Thomas Munroe of a letter written by the Commissioners of the City of Washington to James Piercy in response to Piercy's claims on lot 744. Scott and Thornton write to Piercy that \"no intention exists of granting you the square you mention.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, City of Washington","Lloyd Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, Washington City","Thomas Law to Lloyd Rogers, Baltimore","Writing from New Orleans in 1832, John Taylor reports that fifty to sixty people a day are dying from yellow fever and smallpox.","Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Washington, to Thomas Law, London","Letter written by Lawrence Lewis to William \"Billy\" Costin requesting Costin's service in transporting his family from Mr. Charles Carter's residence in Culpepper County to their home. Lewis provides a suggested route and expected arrival date stating, 'you must not disappoint me.' A postscript in the hand of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis requests additional and immediate transportation for herself to Philadelphia. She offers Costin's mother payment in Pork if she will accompany them on the trip. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel.","Undated note from Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis asking \"Billy\" to ask her sister Betsy to send the things by which she [Eleanor] wrote to her for. Directs Billy to be very careful of them as they are easily broken. Autograph note signed E Lewis, 1 page.","Autograph letter signed with integral adddress panel.","Autograph letter signed. George Washington Parke Custis writes William \"Billy\" Costin at the Bank of Washington. He mentions he expects to go with Lafayette to visit Woodlawn.","5 letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law. The first letter is addressed to John at George Town College and the other four to Harvard University.","Edmund Law, Washington, to John Law, Baltimore","5 dated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","Letter discussing the court martial of Commodore James Barron, who would later kill Commodore Stephen Decatur in duel in 1820.","4 undated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","15 undated letters and notes written by Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. John Law asks William Thornton if he can borrow a book on calvary maneuvers.","2 letters written by William Thornton in response to John Law's August 10, 1807 letter.","An undated letter from John Law to his half sister, Eliza Law. He writes that he is sending sweetmeats from Woodlawn by William, as promised.","William D. Sims, Pittsburgh, to John Law, Washington City","Three letters","A series of four letters and their draft copies written over the course of two days by John Law to his father, criticizing his conduct, particularly in regards to Eliza Law's marriage to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers.","5 letters written by Thomas Law to his son John Law, Washington City, around 1817, addressing John's criticisms of him, his divorce, and his friendship with Elizabeth Bordley Gibson.","Autograph letter signed. A letter of reconciliation sent by John Law to his father.","Draft of letter from Lloyd Nicholas Rogers, New York, to Major-General Henry Lee discussing the life of Baron de Kalb.","2 letters about the sale of property in Washington.Lenman and Brother, Washington City, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.","Documents related to the sale of property in Washington.","Correspondence about the sale of property in Washington.","2 letters about the sale of property in Washington. N. Callan, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.","Bond of conveyance for Lot No. 1 in Square 260 in Washington City, District of Columbia.","1 survey plat of lots in Washington along Canal St, and 2 pages of notes listing the prices of lots and the names of their purchasers.","Letter from the Commisioners of the Sinking Fund of the Corporation of Washington. William McCormick, Registers Office, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers.","An indenture form reassigning a parcel of property in Washington City. The Deed of Trust form is marked at the top of the first page \"Printed and Sold by Robert A. Waters, D. st., bet. 9th \u0026 10th.\"","1 page autograph letter signed by George Washington Parke Custis to Edmund Law Rogers, with additional letter from Martha Custis Williams, Arlington House, written on verso. Custis writes, \"From the very graphic account you gave Martha Williams of your visit to Mr Fenno, I see but a poor chance of my Drama being brought out [in Baltimore].\" He asks Rogers to inquire of his \"theater going friends\" if any other Baltimore theatres will perform the work. If not, he asks Rogers to return the book care of William Adam Bookseller Pennsylvania Avenie Washington.","In her letter, Williams passes on a request from \"Aunt B\" (Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon) to send the \"little manuscript book, containing an inventory of the Mt Vernon relics at Tudor Place, as she is much at a loss, with regard to the history of many things in the House.\" Britannia Peter had inherited Tudor Place the year before, in 1854. Williams adds to Rogers that she hopes he will not make too much effort to have Uncle Custis's play produced because \"Cousin Mary Lee and all his family are so much opposed to it.\" Williams hopes Custis will focus on finishing his Recollections instead.","Bill for $21 addressed to Edmund Law Rogers for advertising the sale of lots in the City of Washington in the newspaper the National Intelligencer.","Unsigned indenture for the sale of lots in the City of Washington. Docketed in pencil \"sale not made.\"","Invoices, notes, and receipts from accounts between Robert Peter and the firm O'Neill and Dearkins. Includes an invoice for tobacco, sugar, corduroy, gauze, linen, chocolate, silk, muslin, paper, wine, ribbons, pins, cotton, and tea.","Unknown list of accounts, believed to be from Robert Peter.","Pages from account book with the note \"These leaves was received by James S Webber from Mrs. Esther H Webber wife of Mr Levi Webber of Vassalboro Kennebeck Co. Maine being a part of account Book of Charles Webber, my Grand Father, his own handwriting. Received by me June 22 1878.\" The accounts include invoices for cod fish, bacon, molasses, tea, rum, sugar, silk, shoes, brandy, wine, coffee, and corn.","Includes accounts for flour, pork, beef, lamb, and veal.","Bond for the conveyance of a parcel of property called Black Oak Thickett in Frederick County, Maryland.","rent paid","Page of rent payment accounts in unknown hand.","Bond of Thomas Nicholls of John to Robert Peter","Bond of Isaiah and Edward Nicholls to Robert Peter","Lawsuit against Robert Peter by James Gordon, Henry Riddell, John Campbell, John Campbell Junior, Alexander Low, and William Ingram","Three documents related to disputed accounts between Robert Peter and Benjamin Ray. One with a note by John T. Mason dated February 27, 1799, \"He has no shadow of right to one shilling on this [account].\"","List of Robert Peter's court appearances","Court documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 5 manuscripts.","Court documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 19 small manuscript receipts","Survey of land called Bealls Plaines in what became Washington City, along Goose Creek, later renamed Tiber Creek.","Manuscript on parchment with large seal attached by a ribbon.","1766, Survey to Forrest, May 12, 1773, (six documents) Bladenburg, Sept., 21, 1766; Rock Creek, Nov. 13, 1766 \"to Robert Peter, merchant in Georgetown.\"","One undated note by Thomas Peter and one letter from William Dearkins and Ben Stoddert to Stephen Chiswell about resurveying about 200 acres called Partnership granted to Elting Williams.","The Resurvey of Brandy and transfer of several named enslaved people.","A letter about resurveying a parcel of propery called Hazard. George Scott to Robert Peter, George Town.","Four autograph documents dealing with land ownership. Two notes on fragments; one half sheet giving history of a property in Prince George's County; and an 8 page survey document, with reference to points on a drawn survey, of Cross Basket, Balantyre, and other properties (9 lots) belonging to Robert Peter and divided amongst George and Thomas Peter.","Certificate and plat for 5 3/4 acres of vacant land granted by special warrant to Robert Peter out of the Western Shore Land Office of Washington County in the District of Columbia. Surveyed by Joseph Elgar, Jr. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Hand colored survey plat showing the division of Robert Peter's Square in George Town. Docketed on verso \"Plat belonging to Thomas Peter's Square in George Town.\"","Tobacco sales","Tabacco Sales, Real Estate, Transfer of enslaved people","Deed of trust book is dated 1790","One dollar printed in Annapolis by F. Green, 7 December 1775. Two thirds of a dollar printed in Philadelphia by Hall and Sellers, 17 February 1776.","List of items purchased by Martha Washington from Macleod \u0026 Lumsdon, dated at the top 18 February 1800, Alexandria. The accounts, dated 8 July and 9 August, include entries for 47 panes of glass, oil, paint for 30 mahoghany chairs, paint for a wine cooler, varnishing, picture frame gilding, and glazing. Signed by Macleod \u0026 Lumdsdon at the bottom, noting that the above money was received in full 9 October 1800.","Receipt signed \"Daniel Lecock\" for payment received by the hands of James Anderson on behalf of Martha Washington for 790 bushels of corn on 2 May 1800.","Receipt for $25 paid by Thomas Carwood to James Anderson for 100 barrels of fish from Mount Vernon.","Accounts dated February 13, March 11, and April 12, 1800 for newspaper advertisements and handbills purchased by Martha Washington from Ellis Price, printer of The Columbian Mirror and Alexandria Gazette. Items Martha purchased include 26 advertisements for a house to rent, an advertisement about the Mount Vernon fishery, 23 advertisements about the donkey Knight of Malta, and notice about the runaway slave Marcus.","Accounts dated 23 April-23 September 1800 for weaving yards of cotton, wool, and other fabrics. The payments are marked as having been paid \"By balance due the Estate of General Washington,\" by cash, by 41 gallons of whiskey, and barrells of herring. The final payment is marked as received from James Anderson on 10 November 1801.","Bill addressed to the Estate of Mrs. Martha Washington, Deceased for $200 due to James Craik for medical services rendered Mrs. Washington during her last illness and $5 for cash paid Heyskill for the hire of his carriage. A signed oath by Jacob Hoffman testifies to the validity of the charges.","Receipt of payment from Thomas Peter to Lawrence Lewis for three hundred dollars for one hundred barrels of corn sold to Mount Vernon for the use of the estate. Signed by John Anderson.","Receipt written by Dr. David Stuart for the receipt from Thomas Peter for five guineas, the leagcy left by Martha Washington to Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart.","Payment from Thomas Law to Griffith Coombs for repairs to Martha Washington's townhome in the District Columbia occupied by Henry Dearborn. Payment marked by Coombs as received in full from Thomas Peter on August 23, 1802.","Twenty dollars wages paid to Richard Burnett of the City of Washingon by Thomas Peter for the year 1802.","Payment of $50 received by George Smith of Woodlawn from Thomas Peter on 12 January 1803 for hire as a blacksmith at Mount Vernon in the year 1802. Signed by George Smith (his mark) and Lawrence Lewis. George Smith was one of George Washington's slaves who was freed after Washington's death. His wife, Lydia, was one of Martha Washington's dower slaves and was inherited by Nelly Parke Custis Lewis of Woodlawn.","Receipt for one hundred pounds Virginia currency received by Benjamin Lincoln Lear from Thomas Peter, one of the executors of Martha Washington's estate.","Accounts of Mr. James Dunlop with Thomas Peter, for horses, ploughs, and an enslaved woman named Peg. Peg is likely one of the slaves Martha Parke Custis Peter inherited from the Custis estate.","Receipt for funeral arrangements paid by Thomas Peter to William King on December 4, 1820 following the death of his twenty-three-year-old daughter Columbia Washington Peter. The arrangements include a \"walnut coffin lined,\" silver plate and engraving, and rental of horses, a hearse, and attendants.","H. B. Morris, Philadelphia, to Thomas Peter, Georgetown. Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A letter about bank accounts and stock certificates.","Bill from Dr. Warfield to Thomas Peter for a visit to a \"black man in the night\" on March 5, 1824 which resulted in the amputation of the man's leg.","Two bills from P.L. Dupont paid by Martha Parke Custis Peter for dancing lessons for her daughter Britannia.","Two stock share certificates for the Patowmack Company (Potomac Company). Share No. 89 is for Martha Peter, and No. 91 for Thomas Peter.","Land office papers for the resurvey of Bear Denn, Daniels Discovery, and Partnership in Maryland","With unknown survey plat on verso.","Aquila Johns to Thomas Peter on sale of Seneca plantation","Autograph letter signed by Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter, wife of Thomas Peter's brother George, relinquishing right title and interest on a tract of land called Forrest, property of her husband, in order to pay his debts.","Letter about resurveying property owned by George Washington Peter.","List of property in Montgomery County Maryland owned by Thomas Peter","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Regarding financial matters.","Horatio Edmondson of Taylor County, Maryland","Pamphlet stitch binding with marbled paper covers. Contains notes about purchases made by Thomas Peter 1813-1814.","Calling card from Le Baron de Maltitz, Secretaire de la Legation Imperiale de Russie. Manuscript date 1823 on verso.","John Dandridge writes to Thomas Peter, George Town, asking to borrow money from the estate of Martha Washington.","Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed, with envelope. Josiah Quincy, Cambridge, to Martha Parke Custis Peter, Georgetown. Josiah Quincy thanks Martha Parke Custis Peter for her generous reeption of his children at Tudor Place and thanks her for the relic of George Washington that she sent back with them.","A contemporary manuscript copy of a letter in which Nelly Parke Custis describes having seen George Washington writing his farewell address at Mount Vernon. When the address was finished, she says he asked her to bring him silk string, and she watched him stitch the address together in front of her. Nelly writes this as a rebuke to one of Alexander Hamilton's sons, who claims his father wrote the farewell address.","A list of accounts between the Estate of George Washington and Alexandria apothecary Edward Stabler, including purchases for Turlington's Balsam, castor oil, arsenic, balsam copaiva, British oil, salts, purified Salt Petre, cantharides, ipecacuanha, laudanum, tumeric, and opodildo. Payments are marked as received from James Anderson. Autograph document, 1 page.","Manuscript titled \"A List of Negroes belonging to Mrs. Washington.\" A list of 121 enslaved persons who were Martha's dower slaves. Unlike the slaves owned by George Washington, Martha's slaves were not freed after her death and were inherited by the Custis descendants. Men, boys, women, and girls and listed in separate columns, each further broken down into the places where they worked: Mansion house, River Farm, Muddy Hole, and Union Farm. Five women - Amy, Alice, Peg, Agnes, and Old Judy - are listed as \"Free but yet remain.\"","Signed certificate from the executors of General George Washington to the Clerk of Fairfax.","Accounts from 1802 for furniture and household goods purchased by George Washington Parke Custis from the Estate of Martha Washington. The final payment was made in 1826, and the account is signed by Thomas Peter, executor of the estate.","A list of the household belongings sold by Thomas Peter from the personal estate of Martha Washington. Includes a listing of who purchased each item and the price it sold for.","Signed indenture for sale of land in the City of Washington.","Articles of agreement between George Calvert and Thomas Peter with Thomas Law, agreeing that Thomas Law and his wife Eliza Parke Custis Law will live separately. Eliza will receive $1500 per year from Law, and all the interest from her inheritance from George Washington will go to her and her daughter.","3 sheets of accounts between the estate of Robert Peter and James Dunlop, including the sale of \"5 negroes willed Mrs. Peter.\" These are some of Martha's dower slaves inherited by Martha Parke Custis Peter. One additional account between Jonathan Hicks and the heirs of Robert Peter, dated 1809-1811.","Receipt written by Lawrence Lewis acknowledging receipt from Thomas Peter of three hundred and twenty-six dollars eighteen cent left to his son Lorenzo Lewis as a legacy from Martha Washington.","Receipt signed by George Washington Parke Custis acknowledging the receipt from Thomas Peter of one thousand dollars as a legacy left to his daughter from the late Martha Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Thomas Peter, George Town, to Bushrod Washington, Mount Vernon. Thomas Peter writes to Bushrod about money owed for two purchases he made from the estate of George Washington.","Two documents related to a settlement made by John Dandridge against George Washington Parke Custis and Thomas Peter, executors of Martha Washington's estate. One is a 1829 decree from the U. S. Circuit Court, signed by William Thomas Carroll; and the other is an account of money owed to John Dandridge signed by Benjamin Lincoln Lear, 1830 June 21. Autograph documents signed (2).","3 documents related to the death of Beverley Kennon, husband of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, who died aboard the USS Princeton during the 1844 Peacemaker accident: a newspaper clipping with an excerpt from a sermon by Reverend Mr. Magoon on the Princeton Tragedy, a plan of the burying ground belonging to Mrs. Beverly Kennon, and a certificate from the Vestry of Washington Parish granting Mrs. Beverley Kennon four sites in the Washington Parish Burial Ground.","Receipts for two legacies received of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, executor of Martha Parke Custis Peter's estate. One is for a grandson named Thomas Peter and another for her grandson John Parke Custis Peter.","Manuscript resolution of the Senate of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, offering sympathy to the families of those killed aboard the USS Princeton during the Peacemaker accident. This copy was given by the President of the United States to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, whose husband, Beverley Kennon, was killed in the accident.","Printed form signed by Britannia W. Peter Kennon and witnessed by William Purcell, esquire, Judge of the Orphans' Court of Washington county, District of Columbia.","A list of collections and payments made to sundry persons to settle the estate of Martha Parke Custis Peter.","Document bound with blue ribbon, with envelope. Last will and testament of Ann Gertrude Wightt, a former nun at the Georgetown Visitation Convent who later lived at Tudor Place. Autograph document, 8 pages.","Autograph letter, with envelope. Ann Gertrude Wightt, Rochester, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place","Papers related to the sale of Lot 9 in Square 72 of Washington City to William A. Gordon. Letter from William E. Edmonston to William A. Gordon, 1891 May 30. Two letters from William A. Gordon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1891 June 3 and 1889 October 4. Typescript signed by William Gordon of Declaration of Trust for sale of Lot Nine, Square Seventy Two in Washington City, D.C..","Indenture made between Britannia Wellington Kennon, party of the first part, and Walter Gibson Peter, Armistead Peter Jr., and George Freeland Peter, parties of the second part, all of the District of Columbia, regarding relics and heirlooms at Tudor Place acquired by Britannia W. Peter Kennon from her mother Martha Custis Peter grand-daughter of Martha the wife of George Washington, known in the family as \"The Mount Vernon Heirlooms.\" Other relics are from the estates of Thomas Peter and Beverley Kennon. Britannia wishes that these relics be preserved by her descendants and that none of them be sold or disposed of.","These include pictures, miniatures, engravings, glass, china, silver, jewelry, furniture, needlework, and other relics, including a sago palm formerly belonging to Martha Parke Custis Peter. The relics and heirlooms are to be divided into five parts after Britannia's death and delivered to her grandchildren.","A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (New York : Printed and published by William A. Davies) Inscribed Britannia W. Peter.","Autograph letter signed. Beverley Kennon, Navy Yard, Washington, to Reverend W. Hoff, George Town. Kennon asks Reverend Hoff to be present at Mrs. Peter's place in George Town on the 8th to marry him to Britannia W. Peter.","2 autograph letters signed.","Autograph letter signed on mourning stationary, with envelope and black seal. John Tyler, Washington, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. President John Tyler offers his condolences to Britannia W. Peter Kennon on the death of her husband, Beverley Kennon, during the Peacemaker accident aboard the USS Princeton.","G. T. Kennon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place","Autograph letter signed with envelope docketed \"A letter written to Uncle Bev. by my mother while at boarding school given to me after Uncle Bev's death by Aunt G.\". Martha Custis Kennon, Georgetown, to Beverley Kennon Jr. Beverley Kennon Jr. was Martha Custis Kennon's half brother.","According to Martha Custis Peter, this illustration was at the Tudor Place.","W. Van Ness, New York, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown","Department of the Interior, Pension Office, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown","Mrs. Charles Carroll Simms to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Georgetown","Mattie D. Abbot to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place. From the Secretary of the Ladies Aid Society of Christ Church accepting Britannia Kennon's resignation as President.","Letters from James Mackubin, Ellicott City, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon","Two letters from Justine Van Rensselaer Townsend, Vice Regent of New York for the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. In the 26 November 1890 letter, Justine asks Britannia to help the Ladies determine what is genuine at the upcoming 1890 Thomas Birch's Sons sale of Washington relics in Philadelphia. The sale will include \"General Washington's papers, a clock, a punch bowl, and many other things.\"","Invitation from The Board of World's Fair Managers of Virginia inviting Britannia W. Peter Kennon to be present at the ceremonies of Virginia Day at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Enclosed with an envelope and the calling card of Mrs. William Radford Beale.","Calling cards for Martha Custis Kennon and Armistead Peter. At home card with envelope for Britannia W. Peter Kennon, engraved by Dempsey \u0026 O. Toole of Baltimore \u0026 Washington.","Engraved form ceritifying that \"Cream Ladle No 68944 is an exact reproduction of one onwed by General and Mrs. Washington and used for a number of years at Mr. Vernon.\" The ladle was produced by Galt \u0026 Bro. Jewellers, Silversmiths, Stationers, Washington D.C..","Regarding the purchase of a clock.","Typescript lists of letters and items from Mount Vernon that were part of  Britannia W. Peter Kennon's collection at Tudor Place.","Unbound notebook with list of items and letters from Mount Vernon that belonged to Britannia W. Peter Kennon at Tudor Place. Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia's grandchildren.Includes furniture and household items.","Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia W. Peter Kennon's grandchildren.","Manuscript list of books, jewelry, and locks of hair at Tudor Place","Includes both manuscript and typescript inventories of books, furniture, and objects from Tudor Place.","Newsclippings and correspondence related to Washington relics loaned by Walter G. Peter to the National Museum in the early 1900s.","Lent by Walter G. Peter from the Britannia W. Peter Kennon Collection of Washington Relics.","R. Davidson, Pinckneyville, to George Peter, George Town","Includes a $5 charge on 23 October 1813 for a coffin \"for a black man.\" On 9 February 1814, Peter was charged $50.00 for a lined coffin covered with black cloth, among other expenses, possibly following the death of his first wife, Ann Plater Peter, or one of their young sons.","Thomas Anderson, Clarksburgh, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed with printed cash form from the Office of Discount and Deposit, Washington.","Joseph Delaplaine, Philadelphia, to George Peter. Deplaine requests Major Peter's portrait for his gallery.","U. McInder, Petersburg, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter","W. Coor, Rockville, to George Peter","Partially printed form from the District of Columbia. Major Peter grants Charles A. Burnett power of attorney to sell, assign, and transfer his 50 shares of stock in the Books of the Washington Turnpike Company.","Letter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter","Charles Bunting, Montgomery County, to George Peter","James H., Georgetown, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Lear writes regarding two suits againist Mrs. Sarah Peter.","John Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter","Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Printed letter with manuscript additions, from B. L. Lear, Attorney of the Bank, Bank of the United States.","W. W. Ramsay, Washington, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Washington, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Washington City, to George Peter","B. H., Rockville, to George Peter","Clement Cod, Georgetown, to George Peter","William Thompson, Union School, to George Peter","Michael Keepers, Frederick Town, to George Peter","John Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter","G. D., George Town, to George Peter","J. Orme, Georgetown, to George Peter","W. Sellman, Clarksburg, to George Peter","Samuel C. Ulens, Poolesville, to George Peter","J. Higgins, Poolesville, to George Peter","Jesse V., Poolesville, to George Peter, Darnestown","J. Falls, Baltimore, to George Peter","Geo. Howson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter","Alfred Spates, Cumberland, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Baltimore, to George Peter","W. Matthews, George Town, to George Peter","Geo. Hownson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter","Benj. Fawcett, Colesville, to George Peter","J. Williams, Washington D.C., to George Peter","A letter from the Treasuries Office of the Baltimore and Ohion Railroad Company, offering Peter free tickets to pass over the roads of their company.","Printed election ballot for \"The Constitution and Union Ticket,\" promising \"Civil and Religious Liberty.\" George Peter is listed as the candidate for Commisioner of Public Works.","A list of clothing purchased by Martha Washington from William Jones of Alexandria. Includes suits purchased for enslaved workers Daniel, Marcus, Christopher, and Frank. According to notes on the verso, payments were received from James Anderson on 12 April 1800 and 15 May 1800.","Five receipts for goods and services paid for by James Anderson in 1800, including repairs to old shoes, paper lampblack, freight for one box from Philadelphia, 93 yards of cloth, and leather.","Promissory notes from George Peter","Promissory notes and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Bills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Bills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Promissory notes and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro","Bills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro.","Undated Bills and accounts of George Peter","George H. Peter, Carlise, writes to his uncle asking for money for an upcoming vacation.","3 letters from James Peter to his uncle George Peter.","George Peter, George Town","3 letters sent by James Freeland Peter to his father from Alexandria, Buffalo, and Detroit.","Manuscript acrostic written for Uncle George Peter.","Sarah Peter, Georgetown, to George Peter","4 letters from George Peter, Jr., to his father.","Typescript list of \"Things from Mt. Vernon\" with manuscript annotations by George Freeland Peter of which Peter heirs inherited the items.","Typescript and manuscript inventories of items fro Tudor Place, with notes on which Peter heirs inherited them.","Identification key to \"The battle at Bunker's Hill\" engraved by Johann Gotthard Müller after the painting by John Trumbull. Printed in London by A. C. de Poggi.","Accounts for shoes, boots, and repairs, including shoes for enslaved people.","Major George Peter's troops are invited to attend Divine Service. \"It is hoped they will attend \u0026 conduct themselves with a reverence suited to the character of Christian soldiers, who have taken arms in defence of their homes \u0026 country \u0026 who look for success \u0026 preservation to the favor of the Almighty Giver of all victory.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel and red wax seal.","2 letters to George Peter from his brother David Peter, George Town.","Deed of sale for land purchased by Peter on Gay Street and Dumarton Street in George Town.","A list of 322 volumes, showing title, number of volumes, size, and type of bookbinding.","8 letters and 1 receipt, mostly addressed to George Peter from his niece, Jane Beverley and her husband, James.","printed pages","Roger Brooke Taney, Annapolis, to George Peter regarding upcoming elections [December 20] to the U. S. Senate specifically the potential election of Mr. [Alexander C.] Hanson as a means to heal and reconcile the differences in the Federal Party. Also discuss Mr. Washington's 'zeal and industry' in supporting Hanson's candidacy. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages. Docketed 'Roger B. Taney - Hanson \u0026 Washington'","W. Cook, Hyates Town,","William Brewer, Aix la Chapelle, to George Peter","James Summers, New Market, to George Peter","G. Dalls S., Colesville, to George Peter, Poolesville","Elisha Jones, Clarksburg, to George Peter","Includes the papers granting George and Sarah Peter guardianship of David Peter's children Elizabeth, William, Jane, George H., and James.","trust, property, and expenses of land","material and clothing","Receipt for the purchase of Lot No. 15 in Square No. 170 in the City of Washington.","Receipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.","3 copies of the will of Sarah Freeland, George Peter's mother-in-law.","appraisal authorization of Alexander Broome and Samuel Darby","Accounts of Margaret Dick with William Parson. Includes an account for shoes soled and nailed for James Peter.","Medical bills, pharmacy, doctor","tuition bills","Letter, T.H. Paul to George Peter. Letter, Unknown  to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States.","Receipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.","typescript copy","deed of conveyance","Indenture, George Peter to Thomas Peter, Land from estate of Robert Peter, Jr.","copies of letters","Military exemption for Armistead Peter","Bill, George Peter, Esq. to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1869 February 11; Col. Richard L. Maury, Attorney, to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1876 October 10","Includes story of Abraham Lincoln and the Maryland Barbecue by Agnes Peter","Memento for either Walter Gibson Peter or W. Orton Williams from Mrs. Laura Cassaway, small American flag and small ivory mirror with flower [Fragile]","Includes receipt of letter, 1873 January 24. Letter regarding interest in farm from Robert Dick.","lock of hair","From Binder 1","From Binder 1","From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- Fragmented letter - From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Four envelopes","Goes up to Britannia W. Peter Kennon -From Binder 1","Condolence letter","Signed by Governor Horatio Sharpe","Indenture, September 30, 1791; Resurvey of Forrest, 1796. Document signed by Gov. Haywood","Resurvey of Pipe Tomhock; Copy of Platt (sic) and Illustrations, August 14, 1798; July 11, 1766, Explanation of Survey, September 19, 1797, May 26, 1796, February 16, 1797","Deed, Elizabeth and John Scrivenor, April 18, 1799, June 11, 1799, Resurvey of Brandy, June 9, 1792, June 18, 1792","December 24, 1871, wrapper","List of enslaved persons, livestock, and tools sold at Slashes, Sugar Lands, and Rock Creek Quarters totaling $9,308.00. Autograph document, 3 pages, with docket.","Bernard Gilpin firmly bound to Thomas Peter for $5520","wove paper","Photocopy, \"Account Book 1, Robert Peter, Esq. with the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings; On division of the Tract, Mexico within the City of Washington, Exclusive of what are called \"Old divisions of squares\" and water lots of which no account is key by the Commissioners. 21 pp. Note from Walter Gibson Peter re: History of book, how it ended up in the Library of Congress Thomas Peter","signed by James Madison, B. Crowninshield, Secretary of the Navy","James Madison signature","The most important ones delivered to F.S. Keys Esq. and recorded in suit pending in Court Dt. Columbia","9 manuscripts","under the orders of Lt. Col. E. Robert, USTE","Building 3044 O Street","copies","Includes Allison's Forrest Enlarged; Fort Grubby Hill, July 1, 1732","Includes Indenture, Daniel Veetch, February 19, 1758 Document signed by Gov. Horatio Sharpe","Bathsheba","First found in Thomas Peter's Letterbooks","Photos, Photos from Survey (4) and Ivory Cross [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon] Interesting small religious carved cross, made from Mother-of-Pearl","Letter, William A. Coffin to Britannia Kennon, February 23, 1889; Brouchure for Exhibition, April 30, 1889; Letter, A. W. Drake to Britannia Kennon, January 29, 1889, May 16, 1889, including: carte de visite of George Washington and calling card of Mr. A. W. Drake (Photo) [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon]","First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","First found in Major George Peter's Letterbooks","Frenzel Gallery, Georgetown. Moved from Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.","Includes Sir Thomas Nicholson, William Scott Blair, General Scott of Malenie, Robert Buchanan, William Dunlop, Elizabeth Roberton, J. Horsburgh, Lord Abbots Hall, Isabel Corbet, Cunningham Scott. First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.","First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter","Containing photographs of Peter relatives","Pictures of Tudor Place, Vacation, Content Farm, Ellen Beale Peter 1931 (Walter Gibson's Wife) Made by Walter Gibson Peter, [Loose photographs], Half Full.","Elizabeth Peter, wife of Robert Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter [Note: Some loose pages]","Book of tobacco sales, list of enslaved persons belonging to Robert Peter, and lots of Robert Peter in the City of Washington with division by squares for the Commissioners and how they are disposed. The bound volume is made up of 178 pages. Pages 52-147 are blank. At some point the volume is flipped and entries are begun at the back of the book from pages 178-154. For viewing purposes those pages have been reoriented and reordered.","\"Tobacco Book,\" All letters received pertaining to his business of selling tobacco in Europe and trading across the Atlantic, including captains, lawyers, and buyers in Europe.","Includes personal letters that were sent to the family, photocopied letters from Thomas and General Washington, various financial papersNot in order [Documents are fragile and book in poor condition]. Made by Walter Gibson Peter.","Contains photographs and letters. Created by Walter Gibson Peter, received documents from Britannia W. Peter Kennon.","Commissions, Letters, Orders, etc. Relating to service in the U.S. Army and Major Georgetown Field Artillery, Created by Walter Gibson Peter. Items signed by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.","Corps of the Artillerists, New Orleans and Fort McHenry, Garrison and Regimental Orders, Major George Peter; Order and prisoner tries and punishments, List from Fort McHenry, Morning Reports [Note: Book in poor condition]","Ledger of real estate holdings of George Peter with Robert Peter and James Peter [pages 2-17]. Also includes, \"The following Table exhibits a view of the Squares and Lots, the Number of square feet therein contained, and the value of the same, now owned by Capt. George Peter, in the City of Washington\" [pages 74-78]. Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 88 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-7, 10-11, 14-17, 74, 76, and 78. The remaining page are blank. In 1813, the ledger is flipped and a single page (page 88) includes a list of names under the title 'Rent Roll for 1813.'","Ledger for the estate of Robert Peter maintained by his son Thomas Peter. The bond volume contains 176 pages, partially completed. Accounts are entered on pages 6-54, pages 55-173 are blank, and pages 174-176 include bank notes at the Bank of Columbia and the Branch Bank of Washington City. A scrap of paper with calculations was found between pages 49 and 50 and is included in the digitization.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","Lessons and Exercises in Vocal Music by Benjamin Carr","Contains letters, pictures, U.S. Navy Commissions (James Madison, John Tyler, and Franklin Pierce), invitations, and a memorandum of Britannia and Beverley made by Walter Gibson Peter- Grandson to Britannia.","After resigning from the army, notes made from Walter George Peter. Includes letters, a list of enlaved people from Montanaverde, bills, and business transactions.","Repairs made on properties of Robert Peter, Jr.  Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 98 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-5, 8-23, and 26-33. The remaining pages are blank.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","Copies made February 1 and 2, 1849 by Edmund Law Rogers at Tudor Place, the residence of his Great-Aunt Martha Peter.","Communion Alms, Christmas and Easter Offerings, June 5, 1850. In Memory of Mrs. Britannia Wellington Kennon, From the Trustees of the Louise Home, 1911.","Four account books. Account Money paid for the Estate of Mrs. Martha Peter","\"Commenced the practice of medicine the latter end of March 1867. Left town the first of May 1867 and returned June 28th- recommended practicing 8th of July, etc., Expense Log and Visiting List\"","First found in Dr. Armistead Peter's files. 9 volumes, dated 1863, 1866, 1870, 1873, 1876, 1878, 1889, 1892, and 1896.","List of patients from practice and paid or unpaid, in alphabetical order, Bills Due, Cash Paid to Mrs. Peter, other accounts, small pox vaccination count","Notes on visits, family seal, copied letters, list of articles from Mount Vernon, notes about clothes and jewelry; Copy of Album was acquired by Martha Custis Peter, great-great granddaughter to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, which Britannia had given to her grandson, Walter Gibson Peter. Her father was Walter Gibson Peter, Jr.","contains dried flowers","Includes folders of France and WWI soldiers","Contains deeds, inventories, and papers pertaining to Robert Peter's estates and his sons, Robert, James, David, George, and Thomas. Various notes about David Peter's death, and letters from George Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter. [Note: There are loose pages]","Includes voice and music notes for the saxon ground, will you come to the bower, nobody coming to marry me, the rose, rondo, and others.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","No. 5116, volume 190, covering the coronation of George VI.","Printed volume, includes a facsimile handwritten section entitled \"accounts, G. 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Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.","The collection is divided into three series: Manuscripts, Publications, and Oversize. The folders are arranged in chronological order within each series.","Series 1. Manuscripts\nSeries 2. Publications\nSeries 3. Oversize","Pater Noster Row, London: R. Baldwin, 1754","London : Printed for Daniel Browne, 1721","Paris: c. 1720-1747","Paris : J. F. La Harpe, 1780","Charing Cross, London: Sold by T. Jefferys, 1758","London: Printed for Robt. Sayer, 1775","Paris: 1789","LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 718","LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 75","LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 712","This collection consist of 47 documents, 10 maps, and 1 map slipcase collected by Ted and Mary Wendell. The collection pertains to George Washington and includes 25 documents written, annotated, or signed by Washington. Much of the material concerns the Revolutionary War, western land claims following the French and Indian War, and British and American governmental records. The dates of the material range from 1721-1826.","Land survey with plat map by George Washington for John Elswick, detailing 437 acres on Lost River in Augusta County (now Hampshire County, WV). Two additional people are listed in the document: John Lonem and Samuel McHandry (C.C.-chainmen). The docket on verso notes, 'Deed drawn in Thomas Walter's name'. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Land survey with plat map by George Washington for Walter Shirley, detailing 311 acres in Frederick County, VA. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Land survey with plat map by George Washington for Mary Johnston, detailing 400 acres between Bullskin Run and Long Marsh Run in Frederick County, VA (now Jefferson County, WV). Three additional names listed of those who assisted with the survey - John Johnston, James McCarmick (C.C.- chainmen) and Benjamin Pearson (marker). Docketed in Washington's writing. Autograph document signed, 2 pages.","Letter from George Washington, written by Washington's secretary, John Kirkpatrick, to Peter Hog (or Hoge) with instructions to build a chain of forts along the frontiers from Fort Dinwiddie towards the Mayo River. Washington explains that this was decided by a Council of War at Fort Cumberland. He orders Hog to Augusta Courthouse to raise a militia to assist his own company in erecting the forts and urges vigilance against attack: 'you are, while upon this work to keep out constant covering parties, and above all things guard against a surprize'. Washington states that Hog's men will receive double pay for every day they work while construction is under way and he advises Hog about acquiring the necessary building tools. Letter signed, 2 pages.","Land grant to Thomas Martin for his service in the French and Indian War, under the Proclamation of 1763. Granted in New York and signed by Edwin Chandler. The docket reads 'Received New York the 20 January 1767 of Mr. Christopher Roosevelt the sum of ten shillings for my property of lands allotted me' and is signed by Thomas Martin. Manuscript document, signed by Thomas Martin, 2 pages.","Letter from Wills Hill, Lord Hillsborough, to Horatio Sharpe, Proprietary Governor of Maryland. Acting as the agent of King George III, Hillsborough orders Sharpe to submit a 'complete Collection, either in Manuscript, or Print, of the Laws of the Propriety under your Government' at the first opportunity. Letter signed, 1 page.","Order of council concerning George Washington's formal petition on behalf of himself and other veterans of the French and Indian War to receive the 200,000 acres of land promised by Governor Dinwiddie in the Proclamation of 1754. The council has approved the petition and the petitioners will be allowed five years to survey their grants. The docket is in Washington's writing, titled 'Order of Council 15th December 1769. Respecting the 200,000 acres of land petitioned for'. Manuscript document, with autograph note by George Washington, 1 page.","Land agreement between George Washington and George Muse, granting Washington one-third of the bounty lands Muse was entitled to under Governor Dinwiddie's Proclamation of 1754. This agreement stipulates that Washington and his heirs are responsible for the costs of surveying and securing the one-third share. Witnessed and signed by Fielding Lewis, James Hunter, and Charles Washington, as well as George Washington and George Muse. Autograph document signed, 1 page, with 2 partial red wax seals.","Land survey with plat map by William Crawford for George Washington, detailing 587 acres on the Ohio River known as the Round Bottom tract. Two additional men are named as 'chainmen'. Docket note, in Washington's writing, reads 'Memorandum of the warrants laid upon this tract', with names and acreage listed. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Copy of an order of council, in George Washington's writing, concerning Washington's proposals for apportioning the 200,000 acres of land promised by Governor Dinwiddie in the Proclamation of 1754 to Washington and other veterans of the French and Indian War. The council accepted Washington's proposals for the division of the bounty lands already surveyed. The order goes on to list the individual claimants and their authorized patents, with listed acreage. Listed claimants include George Washington, George Muse, George Mercer, and Joshua Fry. Autograph document, 1 page.","Land survey without plat map by William Crawford for John Fry, detailing 1525 acres. A note in George Washington's writing indicates that this surveyed land is patented to Joshua Fry, John Fry's father, by an Order of Council dated November 6, 1772. This order apportioned bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War by the Proclamation of 1754. The note continues that the patent will be issued to John Fry, as Joshua Fry's heir. Six additional men are listed as 'chainmen' and 'marker'. Document is signed and docketed by George Washington. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Letter from George Washington to Jonathan Boucher concerning the tenancy of Washington's lands on the Ohio River. Washington thanks Boucher and a Dr. Barton for their assistance and asks Boucher to provide Dr. Barton with an enclosed advertisement (not identified). Washington goes into detail about the land and his estimation of its value based on location and the probability of the establishment of a new colony on the Ohio. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Order of council written and signed by John Blair, Clerk of the Council, concerning stipulations for lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War in the Proclamation of 1763. Thomas Walker is listed as the main petitioner. Docketed in George Washington's writing. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Account of transactions and costs between George Washington and George Mercer, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions detail Washington's efforts to secure bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754 on behalf of Mercer and his brother. The docket, in Washington's writing, lists a total cost of £40.11.11. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Account of the proposed costs for exploring, surveying, and patenting bounty lands granted to Richard Smith as a veteran of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754. Smith's listed part of the 200,000 granted acres is 500 acres. Signed by George Washington. Docket reads, \"Pay the within contents of One pound, three shillings, and Eight pence to Captn William Crawford' and is dated February 25, 1774 and signed by Washington as well as William Crawford. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.","Account of the costs between George Washington and the estate of Captain Robert Stobo, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions detail Washington's efforts to secure bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754 on behalf of Stobo. The docket fragment, in Washington's writing, lists a total cost of £40.6.7. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Letter from George Washington to William Preston concerning land granted to him under the Proclamation of 1754, which granted bounty lands to veterans of the French and Indian War. Washington explains that the land, located on the Great Kanawha River (in present-day West Virginia), was surveyed by William Crawford. Washington asks Preston to certify this survey so that it can be submitted under the later Proclamation of 1763 in order to acquire additional lands. Washington expresses his displeasure at the idea that he will be excluded from these additional bounty lands if they are reserved solely for British regulars: 'I can see no cause why Americans (who have serv'd his Majesty in the late War with as much fidelity, and without presumption, with as much Success, as his British Troops) should be stigmatiz'd...'. Washington goes on to guarantee that he will pay Preston the same fees for approving Crawford's survey as he would if Preston were to make the survey himself. Autograph letter with signature missing (lower section of the sheet is missing), 3 pages.","Fragment of three words, from a letter from George Washington to William Preston. The letter concerns Washington's land on the Great Kanawha River (in present-day West Virginia) acquired under the Proclamation of 1754 and the Proclamation of 1763. This fragment contains three words cut from the letter, 'of it, upon', and is from the missing lower section of the third page. For the remaining letter, see  2024-SC-009-017. Autograph letter unsigned.","Letter from George Washington to Peter Hog (or Hoge) concerning Captain William Crawford. Washington requests Hog's assistance in attaining a commission for Crawford as assistant surveyor to Colonel Thomas Lewis in Augusta County, VA. Washington explains that Lord John Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, has recommended this appointment. He goes on to express regret that Captain Crawford was unable to attend a meeting of the Sandy Creek claimants at Winchester on March 5th. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Account of transactions and costs between George Washington and George William Fairfax, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions range June 15-December 20, 1774, and include costs for 'cash sent to the Annapolis printer advertizing Belvoir and the sale of goods there', etc. Docket note lists a total of £238.11.10. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Letter from Guy Carleton, British Governor of Quebec, to John Powell, Deputy Paymaster General. Carleton directs Powell to pay 1369 pounds, 19 shillings, and 2 pence sterling to Mr. Bryce McCumming, Paymaster of the 31st regiment, for the subsistence of the regiment from June 25-August 24, 1776. Letter signed, 1 page.","Letter from George Washington to John Hancock. Referring to himself in the third person as 'General', Washington thanks Hancock for the gift of fish sent to his camp at Morristown, NJ. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Letter from George Washington to Battaile Muse, Washington's agent for his tenanted lands in Frederick, Fauquier, Berkeley, and Loudoun counties. Washington details the purchasing of various crops such as wheat and clover and discusses market values in Alexandria, VA. Autograph letter signed, 3 pages, with integral address panel.","Land survey plat by George Washington of a tract along Four Mile Run in Arlington County, VA. One notation reads, 'This dotted line from the hickory to the Run gives and takes about 5 1/2 acres of land'. Autograph document, 1 page.","Assessment of the lands and estates of George Washington, with discussion about acreage of certain holdings and description of crop yields and land rents. The document notes, \"General Washington possesses 10-100 acres in one body where he lives Constantly employs 250 hands 24 ploughs sowed in the year 1778 600 bushels oats 700 acres wheat..\". Specifies livestock holdings as well. Includes a survey without plat map of an unspecified holding, with reference to shared borders with Gilbert Lane, Guisbert Lane, and Samuel Stout. Manuscript document, 1 page.","Appointment of Azor Orne as an elector of the President and Vice President, dated November 17, 1792. Signed on the left side by John Hancock as Governor of Massachusetts and countersigned by Under Secretary, John Avery. Manuscript document signed, 1 page, with paper seal affixed to the upper right corner.","Letter from Joseph Habersham, Postmaster General, to the Postmaster at Machias, Maine. Habersham requests that any letters addressed to George Washington Lafayette (son of the Marquis de Lafayette), Mr. Motier, or Mr. Frestel (George Washington Lafayette's tutor) be directed to President George Washington and forwarded without delay. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel.","Letter from John Quincy Adams, on behalf of George Washington, to the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. Adams, having served as the Resident Minister of the US to the Batavian Republic, is moving to another post. This letter, in which Adams refers to himself in the third person, conveys a desire for continued harmony and friendship between the two republics. Signed in Adam's writing, 'G. Washington'. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Two indenture forms. The first indenture is the purchase agreement by which George Washington and George Clinton sell 254 acres located south of the Mohawk River in Herkimer County, NY, part of a tract of land called Coxburgh, to four named parties: Thomas Hart, Deodatus Clark, Rufus Willard, and Judah Stebbins. The listed purchase price is £192. Signed twice by George Clinton, once for himself and once as George Washington's attorney. The second indenture form is blank with docket information on the reverse referencing the first indenture. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 3 pages.","Memorandum by George Washington concerning the provisions for the rent of his bounty lands on the Great Kanawha River. Washington details leasing plans for 23,216 acres of land for the next 100 years, including a written chart of the rents from 1798 to 1897. Autograph document signed, 3 pages.","Account and written receipt of payment for back taxes on two tracts of land on the Ohio River in Kanawha County, paid by George Washington to Augustus Woodward. The account of the money owed by Washington for the years 1791-1796 is written and signed by George Alderson, Sheriff of Kanawha County, and details the amount owed as $109.22. John Reynolds signs as a witness for Alderson's authority as Sheriff. A written receipt on verso is in George Washington's writing and confirms payment in a check on the Bank of Alexandria. Receipt is signed by Augustus Woodward. Manuscript document signed, with autograph note by George Washington, 2 pages.","Letter from George Washington to Israel Shreve concerning Shreve's delinquent bond payments to Washington. Washington states '...to be plain, I never expect to obtain what is due from you, to me, but by a resort to a Court of Justice'. If Shreve can provide the Sheriff with the payment he owes, the Sheriff has been instructed to stay the legal proceedings that are about to be brought against him. Washington continues that he cannot extend more time to Shreve and that he expects the late payment as well as the next payment when it is due. Autograph letter signed, 3 pages.","Bond between Lawrence Lewis, the executor of George Washington's estate, William Augustine Washington, and Thomas Lee Jr., for $230.00 for the sale of a bull from Mount Vernon. Typescript document, signed by William Augustine Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Thomas Lee Jr. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 1 page.","Letter from Bushrod Washington to William Augustine Washington concerning George Washington's estate. William is to receive $326.10 for his share of George Washington's U.S. stocks. Bushrod explains that a large part of the stock which George Washington lent to the Potomac Company has been paid to Mr. Lewis for the payment of debts, and Washington's western lands should be divided as soon as possible. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages, with integral address panel.","Letter from Isaac Story to Thomas Jefferson concerning Story's desire for a commission. He has not had his authority as a Commissioner of Bankruptcy restored and he details his financial and legal experience. He indicates that he is including a geometrical illustration of the square root that he sent to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (not identified) as proof of his abilities. He goes on to praise George Washington and John Adams, stating of Adams, 'I was conversant with him from a child, as he was often in my Father's office'. He mentions his nephew, Joseph Story. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","British Order in Council signed by King George III concerning payment for shipping of British goods by London merchant, George Barclay, to Daniel Clarke in New Orleans. The document details an owed sum of £30,000 and upwards. George III grants permission for Barclay and company to load neutral ships with goods such as gold, silver, and indigo in Havana, River Plata, or Vera Cruz. Signed 'Spencer' at conclusion. Document signed, 3 pages, with blind embossed stamp and wax-sealed paper stamp.","Letter from George Clinton to Benjamin Walker concerning lands owned jointly by Clinton and George Washington which, following the death of George Washington, have been transferred to his nephew and namesake, George Washington. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Certificate of freedom for a man named James Dusenbury in the city and county of New York. This document confirms Dusenbury's free status and provides his physical description as five foot two inches, dark eyes, with gray hair, and a listed age of around 62. His birthplace is listed as Queen's County, NY, and his free status was established in 1798. Signed by Andrew Lawrence as a witness and by Richard Cunningham, an Alderman of New York City. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 1 page.","Fragment of a document regarding lease payments with incomplete notes in George Washington's writing. Typescript document with autograph notes, 1 page.","This map was engraved by John Gibson and published in The London Magazine or Gentleman's Intelligencer, vol. 23 (June, 1754). It depicts the region from Lake Ontario southwest to the New River, and shows forts, trails, waterfalls, and general locations of Native American tribe settlements.","Broadside by Andrew Van Bibber in Baltimore, MD, advertising lands for sale or rent along the Little Kanawha River. The advertisement references President George Washington's land holdings on the Great Kanawha River and his formation of an 'extensive and valuable settlement'. Van Bibber states he will accept produce, paper, property, or enslaved people as payment. Manuscript note on verso, dated 12 November 1825, concerns 2000 acres of land and a Michael Ryan and Mr. Keys. Typescript document, 1 page.","Printed Congressional act from the fourth Congress of the U.S. in the second session. Concerning additional duties on certain imported goods, including brown sugar, sugar-candy, and cocoa. Typescript document, 1 page.","This map of French Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley is from,'A new general atlas, containing a geographical and historical account of all the empires, kingdoms, and other dominions of the world', 1721. Includes information about Native American settlements.","Map of Canada, and the East Coast of America including Florida, Virginia, New York, North and South Carolina, as well as the course of the Mississippi River. The map was engraved by Herman Van Loon and was part of Nicholas de Fer's 'Atlas Curieux'. Includes notes and a list of coordinates for various locations on the right side, as well as locations of various Native American settlements. The cartouche notes that this copy of the map is available from I.F. Benard (Jacques-François Benard), son-in-law of Nicholas de Fer, who took over the business after de Fer's death in 1720. Benard et al continued to sell de Fer's unaltered maps into the 1740s, dating this edition from c.1720-1747, with the original made in 1702.","Document signed by Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, granting 89 acres of land in Brunswick County, VA, to Ebenezer Shearman in the name of King George II. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.","Covers the area from the Great Lakes to South Carolina and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River. Shows provinces, towns, forts, tribal territories, and Native American settlements. Appears in Giles Robert de Vaugondy's 'Atlas Universal', 1757.","Map of the Midwestern and Southern states, including Florida and Louisiana. Shows topographic features, locations of forts and missions, and Native American settlements. Appears in Jean Françoise de la Harpe's 'Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages ... atlas', 1780.","Copied from the 1755 original, includes historical notes and 3 distance tables. It also locates hundreds of European and Native American settlements and depicts networks of roads and trails. Includes notations for Dartmouth College, the location of 'elephant bones', salt and limestone deposits, petroleum in western Pennsylvania, and coal in Ohio.","One map slipcase, associated with map titled 'A general map of the middle British colonies, in America...' by Lewis Evans and engraved by J. Gibson, 1758. Marbled board slipcase.","Document titled 'The General Account of His Majesty's Quit Rents for the Province of New York Stated by Andrew Elliot Esq:r Receiver General Constituted Thereto by His Majesty's Letters Patent Commencing the 29th day of September 1765 and Ending the 29th day of September 1766'. Provides detailed accounts of the rents paid in proclamation money on New York lands to the British Crown. Signed at the conclusion by General Andrew Elliot, Receiver General of New York; Goldsbrow Banyar, Deputy Auditor-General of New York; and Sir Henry Moore, Governor of New York. Manuscript document signed, 2 pages.","Document titled 'The General Account of His Majesty's Quit Rents for the Province of New York Stated by Andrew Elliot Esq:r Receiver General Constituted Thereto by His Majesty's Letters Patent Commencing the 29th day of September 1766 and Ending the 29th day of September 1767'. Provides detailed accounts of the rents paid in proclamation money on New York lands to the British Crown. Signed at the conclusion by General Andrew Elliot, Receiver General of New York; Goldsbrow Banyar, Deputy Auditor-General of New York; and Sir Henry Moore, Governor of New York. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.","Deed of land granted from Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, to Henry Whiting concerning a 951 acre tract in Berkeley County called Swan Ponds. The surveyor is listed as Guy Broadwater and Richard Rigg, with neighbors listed as Rutherford, Turner, Wilson, Fairfax, and Vanmeter abutting. Document signed by Lord Fairfax, 1 page, with paper seal over wax.","Map of Virginia and Maryland based on surveys by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, accurately delineating boundaries, roads, settlements, and Native American trails, and incorporating considerable new geographical information. It was issued in 1775 for inclusion in Thomas Jeffery's 'American Atlas'.","Document signed by George Clinton, Governor of New York, granting 300 acres of land in the township of Clinton in Montgomery County to Edward Carpenter. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions and green ribbon seal fragment, 1 page.","The map was published to accompany 'Prospectus pour l'éstablissement sur les rivières d'Ohio et de Scioto en Amérique', 1789. The prospectus and map were issued by the Scioto Company, which was associated with the Ohio Company. The map shows Ohio from Lake Erie south to the Ohio River, and as far west as the Scioto.","Identifies individual land grants in the area that would become Ohio. Note printed near top center of map indicates map is meant to be colored.","Map showing the route of the proposed Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, with the route highlighted in red. Includes elevation profile in 3 segments, and 'Tranverse section of the canal'. Statement of responsibility: 'Reduced from the general map annexed to the report upon the contemplated canal and drawn, by Lieut. Farley, U.S.A. ; etched by Wm. Harrison, Georgetown, D.C. ; letter'd by D.R. Harrison'.","A fragment of this letter is separate: [2024-SC-009-018] Letter fragment, George Washington to William Preston.","This fragment is torn and separated from the larger letter: [2024-SC-009-017] Letter, George Washington to William Preston.","Auction description indicates this map was stored in an accompanying slipcase [2024-SC-009-049b].","Auction description indicates this slipcase was used to encase the accompanying map 'A general map of the middle British colonies, in America...', 1758 [2024-SC-009-049a].","Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon","Washington, George, 1732-1799","George, King of Great Britain, III, 1738-1820","Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848","Hancock, John, 1737-1793","Washington, Bushrod, 1762-1829","Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756","Gibson, J. 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The collection pertains to George Washington and includes 25 documents written, annotated, or signed by Washington. Much of the material concerns the Revolutionary War, western land claims following the French and Indian War, and British and American governmental records. The dates of the material range from 1721-1826.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand survey with plat map by George Washington for John Elswick, detailing 437 acres on Lost River in Augusta County (now Hampshire County, WV). Two additional people are listed in the document: John Lonem and Samuel McHandry (C.C.-chainmen). The docket on verso notes, 'Deed drawn in Thomas Walter's name'. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand survey with plat map by George Washington for Walter Shirley, detailing 311 acres in Frederick County, VA. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand survey with plat map by George Washington for Mary Johnston, detailing 400 acres between Bullskin Run and Long Marsh Run in Frederick County, VA (now Jefferson County, WV). Three additional names listed of those who assisted with the survey - John Johnston, James McCarmick (C.C.- chainmen) and Benjamin Pearson (marker). Docketed in Washington's writing. Autograph document signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from George Washington, written by Washington's secretary, John Kirkpatrick, to Peter Hog (or Hoge) with instructions to build a chain of forts along the frontiers from Fort Dinwiddie towards the Mayo River. Washington explains that this was decided by a Council of War at Fort Cumberland. He orders Hog to Augusta Courthouse to raise a militia to assist his own company in erecting the forts and urges vigilance against attack: 'you are, while upon this work to keep out constant covering parties, and above all things guard against a surprize'. Washington states that Hog's men will receive double pay for every day they work while construction is under way and he advises Hog about acquiring the necessary building tools. Letter signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand grant to Thomas Martin for his service in the French and Indian War, under the Proclamation of 1763. Granted in New York and signed by Edwin Chandler. The docket reads 'Received New York the 20 January 1767 of Mr. Christopher Roosevelt the sum of ten shillings for my property of lands allotted me' and is signed by Thomas Martin. Manuscript document, signed by Thomas Martin, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Wills Hill, Lord Hillsborough, to Horatio Sharpe, Proprietary Governor of Maryland. Acting as the agent of King George III, Hillsborough orders Sharpe to submit a 'complete Collection, either in Manuscript, or Print, of the Laws of the Propriety under your Government' at the first opportunity. Letter signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder of council concerning George Washington's formal petition on behalf of himself and other veterans of the French and Indian War to receive the 200,000 acres of land promised by Governor Dinwiddie in the Proclamation of 1754. The council has approved the petition and the petitioners will be allowed five years to survey their grants. The docket is in Washington's writing, titled 'Order of Council 15th December 1769. Respecting the 200,000 acres of land petitioned for'. Manuscript document, with autograph note by George Washington, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand agreement between George Washington and George Muse, granting Washington one-third of the bounty lands Muse was entitled to under Governor Dinwiddie's Proclamation of 1754. This agreement stipulates that Washington and his heirs are responsible for the costs of surveying and securing the one-third share. Witnessed and signed by Fielding Lewis, James Hunter, and Charles Washington, as well as George Washington and George Muse. Autograph document signed, 1 page, with 2 partial red wax seals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand survey with plat map by William Crawford for George Washington, detailing 587 acres on the Ohio River known as the Round Bottom tract. Two additional men are named as 'chainmen'. Docket note, in Washington's writing, reads 'Memorandum of the warrants laid upon this tract', with names and acreage listed. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of an order of council, in George Washington's writing, concerning Washington's proposals for apportioning the 200,000 acres of land promised by Governor Dinwiddie in the Proclamation of 1754 to Washington and other veterans of the French and Indian War. The council accepted Washington's proposals for the division of the bounty lands already surveyed. The order goes on to list the individual claimants and their authorized patents, with listed acreage. Listed claimants include George Washington, George Muse, George Mercer, and Joshua Fry. Autograph document, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand survey without plat map by William Crawford for John Fry, detailing 1525 acres. A note in George Washington's writing indicates that this surveyed land is patented to Joshua Fry, John Fry's father, by an Order of Council dated November 6, 1772. This order apportioned bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War by the Proclamation of 1754. The note continues that the patent will be issued to John Fry, as Joshua Fry's heir. Six additional men are listed as 'chainmen' and 'marker'. Document is signed and docketed by George Washington. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from George Washington to Jonathan Boucher concerning the tenancy of Washington's lands on the Ohio River. Washington thanks Boucher and a Dr. Barton for their assistance and asks Boucher to provide Dr. Barton with an enclosed advertisement (not identified). Washington goes into detail about the land and his estimation of its value based on location and the probability of the establishment of a new colony on the Ohio. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder of council written and signed by John Blair, Clerk of the Council, concerning stipulations for lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War in the Proclamation of 1763. Thomas Walker is listed as the main petitioner. Docketed in George Washington's writing. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of transactions and costs between George Washington and George Mercer, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions detail Washington's efforts to secure bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754 on behalf of Mercer and his brother. The docket, in Washington's writing, lists a total cost of £40.11.11. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the proposed costs for exploring, surveying, and patenting bounty lands granted to Richard Smith as a veteran of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754. Smith's listed part of the 200,000 granted acres is 500 acres. Signed by George Washington. Docket reads, \"Pay the within contents of One pound, three shillings, and Eight pence to Captn William Crawford' and is dated February 25, 1774 and signed by Washington as well as William Crawford. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the costs between George Washington and the estate of Captain Robert Stobo, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions detail Washington's efforts to secure bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754 on behalf of Stobo. The docket fragment, in Washington's writing, lists a total cost of £40.6.7. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from George Washington to William Preston concerning land granted to him under the Proclamation of 1754, which granted bounty lands to veterans of the French and Indian War. Washington explains that the land, located on the Great Kanawha River (in present-day West Virginia), was surveyed by William Crawford. Washington asks Preston to certify this survey so that it can be submitted under the later Proclamation of 1763 in order to acquire additional lands. Washington expresses his displeasure at the idea that he will be excluded from these additional bounty lands if they are reserved solely for British regulars: 'I can see no cause why Americans (who have serv'd his Majesty in the late War with as much fidelity, and without presumption, with as much Success, as his British Troops) should be stigmatiz'd...'. Washington goes on to guarantee that he will pay Preston the same fees for approving Crawford's survey as he would if Preston were to make the survey himself. Autograph letter with signature missing (lower section of the sheet is missing), 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragment of three words, from a letter from George Washington to William Preston. The letter concerns Washington's land on the Great Kanawha River (in present-day West Virginia) acquired under the Proclamation of 1754 and the Proclamation of 1763. This fragment contains three words cut from the letter, 'of it, upon', and is from the missing lower section of the third page. For the remaining letter, see  2024-SC-009-017. Autograph letter unsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from George Washington to Peter Hog (or Hoge) concerning Captain William Crawford. Washington requests Hog's assistance in attaining a commission for Crawford as assistant surveyor to Colonel Thomas Lewis in Augusta County, VA. Washington explains that Lord John Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, has recommended this appointment. He goes on to express regret that Captain Crawford was unable to attend a meeting of the Sandy Creek claimants at Winchester on March 5th. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of transactions and costs between George Washington and George William Fairfax, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions range June 15-December 20, 1774, and include costs for 'cash sent to the Annapolis printer advertizing Belvoir and the sale of goods there', etc. Docket note lists a total of £238.11.10. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Guy Carleton, British Governor of Quebec, to John Powell, Deputy Paymaster General. Carleton directs Powell to pay 1369 pounds, 19 shillings, and 2 pence sterling to Mr. Bryce McCumming, Paymaster of the 31st regiment, for the subsistence of the regiment from June 25-August 24, 1776. Letter signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from George Washington to John Hancock. Referring to himself in the third person as 'General', Washington thanks Hancock for the gift of fish sent to his camp at Morristown, NJ. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from George Washington to Battaile Muse, Washington's agent for his tenanted lands in Frederick, Fauquier, Berkeley, and Loudoun counties. Washington details the purchasing of various crops such as wheat and clover and discusses market values in Alexandria, VA. Autograph letter signed, 3 pages, with integral address panel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand survey plat by George Washington of a tract along Four Mile Run in Arlington County, VA. One notation reads, 'This dotted line from the hickory to the Run gives and takes about 5 1/2 acres of land'. Autograph document, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAssessment of the lands and estates of George Washington, with discussion about acreage of certain holdings and description of crop yields and land rents. The document notes, \"General Washington possesses 10-100 acres in one body where he lives Constantly employs 250 hands 24 ploughs sowed in the year 1778 600 bushels oats 700 acres wheat..\". Specifies livestock holdings as well. Includes a survey without plat map of an unspecified holding, with reference to shared borders with Gilbert Lane, Guisbert Lane, and Samuel Stout. Manuscript document, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of Azor Orne as an elector of the President and Vice President, dated November 17, 1792. Signed on the left side by John Hancock as Governor of Massachusetts and countersigned by Under Secretary, John Avery. Manuscript document signed, 1 page, with paper seal affixed to the upper right corner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Joseph Habersham, Postmaster General, to the Postmaster at Machias, Maine. Habersham requests that any letters addressed to George Washington Lafayette (son of the Marquis de Lafayette), Mr. Motier, or Mr. Frestel (George Washington Lafayette's tutor) be directed to President George Washington and forwarded without delay. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Quincy Adams, on behalf of George Washington, to the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. Adams, having served as the Resident Minister of the US to the Batavian Republic, is moving to another post. This letter, in which Adams refers to himself in the third person, conveys a desire for continued harmony and friendship between the two republics. Signed in Adam's writing, 'G. Washington'. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo indenture forms. The first indenture is the purchase agreement by which George Washington and George Clinton sell 254 acres located south of the Mohawk River in Herkimer County, NY, part of a tract of land called Coxburgh, to four named parties: Thomas Hart, Deodatus Clark, Rufus Willard, and Judah Stebbins. The listed purchase price is £192. Signed twice by George Clinton, once for himself and once as George Washington's attorney. The second indenture form is blank with docket information on the reverse referencing the first indenture. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum by George Washington concerning the provisions for the rent of his bounty lands on the Great Kanawha River. Washington details leasing plans for 23,216 acres of land for the next 100 years, including a written chart of the rents from 1798 to 1897. Autograph document signed, 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount and written receipt of payment for back taxes on two tracts of land on the Ohio River in Kanawha County, paid by George Washington to Augustus Woodward. The account of the money owed by Washington for the years 1791-1796 is written and signed by George Alderson, Sheriff of Kanawha County, and details the amount owed as $109.22. John Reynolds signs as a witness for Alderson's authority as Sheriff. A written receipt on verso is in George Washington's writing and confirms payment in a check on the Bank of Alexandria. Receipt is signed by Augustus Woodward. Manuscript document signed, with autograph note by George Washington, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from George Washington to Israel Shreve concerning Shreve's delinquent bond payments to Washington. Washington states '...to be plain, I never expect to obtain what is due from you, to me, but by a resort to a Court of Justice'. If Shreve can provide the Sheriff with the payment he owes, the Sheriff has been instructed to stay the legal proceedings that are about to be brought against him. Washington continues that he cannot extend more time to Shreve and that he expects the late payment as well as the next payment when it is due. Autograph letter signed, 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond between Lawrence Lewis, the executor of George Washington's estate, William Augustine Washington, and Thomas Lee Jr., for $230.00 for the sale of a bull from Mount Vernon. Typescript document, signed by William Augustine Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Thomas Lee Jr. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Bushrod Washington to William Augustine Washington concerning George Washington's estate. William is to receive $326.10 for his share of George Washington's U.S. stocks. Bushrod explains that a large part of the stock which George Washington lent to the Potomac Company has been paid to Mr. Lewis for the payment of debts, and Washington's western lands should be divided as soon as possible. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages, with integral address panel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Isaac Story to Thomas Jefferson concerning Story's desire for a commission. He has not had his authority as a Commissioner of Bankruptcy restored and he details his financial and legal experience. He indicates that he is including a geometrical illustration of the square root that he sent to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (not identified) as proof of his abilities. He goes on to praise George Washington and John Adams, stating of Adams, 'I was conversant with him from a child, as he was often in my Father's office'. He mentions his nephew, Joseph Story. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBritish Order in Council signed by King George III concerning payment for shipping of British goods by London merchant, George Barclay, to Daniel Clarke in New Orleans. The document details an owed sum of £30,000 and upwards. George III grants permission for Barclay and company to load neutral ships with goods such as gold, silver, and indigo in Havana, River Plata, or Vera Cruz. Signed 'Spencer' at conclusion. Document signed, 3 pages, with blind embossed stamp and wax-sealed paper stamp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from George Clinton to Benjamin Walker concerning lands owned jointly by Clinton and George Washington which, following the death of George Washington, have been transferred to his nephew and namesake, George Washington. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of freedom for a man named James Dusenbury in the city and county of New York. This document confirms Dusenbury's free status and provides his physical description as five foot two inches, dark eyes, with gray hair, and a listed age of around 62. His birthplace is listed as Queen's County, NY, and his free status was established in 1798. Signed by Andrew Lawrence as a witness and by Richard Cunningham, an Alderman of New York City. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragment of a document regarding lease payments with incomplete notes in George Washington's writing. Typescript document with autograph notes, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis map was engraved by John Gibson and published in The London Magazine or Gentleman's Intelligencer, vol. 23 (June, 1754). It depicts the region from Lake Ontario southwest to the New River, and shows forts, trails, waterfalls, and general locations of Native American tribe settlements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBroadside by Andrew Van Bibber in Baltimore, MD, advertising lands for sale or rent along the Little Kanawha River. The advertisement references President George Washington's land holdings on the Great Kanawha River and his formation of an 'extensive and valuable settlement'. Van Bibber states he will accept produce, paper, property, or enslaved people as payment. Manuscript note on verso, dated 12 November 1825, concerns 2000 acres of land and a Michael Ryan and Mr. Keys. Typescript document, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Congressional act from the fourth Congress of the U.S. in the second session. Concerning additional duties on certain imported goods, including brown sugar, sugar-candy, and cocoa. Typescript document, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis map of French Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley is from,'A new general atlas, containing a geographical and historical account of all the empires, kingdoms, and other dominions of the world', 1721. Includes information about Native American settlements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Canada, and the East Coast of America including Florida, Virginia, New York, North and South Carolina, as well as the course of the Mississippi River. The map was engraved by Herman Van Loon and was part of Nicholas de Fer's 'Atlas Curieux'. Includes notes and a list of coordinates for various locations on the right side, as well as locations of various Native American settlements. The cartouche notes that this copy of the map is available from I.F. Benard (Jacques-François Benard), son-in-law of Nicholas de Fer, who took over the business after de Fer's death in 1720. Benard et al continued to sell de Fer's unaltered maps into the 1740s, dating this edition from c.1720-1747, with the original made in 1702.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument signed by Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, granting 89 acres of land in Brunswick County, VA, to Ebenezer Shearman in the name of King George II. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers the area from the Great Lakes to South Carolina and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River. Shows provinces, towns, forts, tribal territories, and Native American settlements. Appears in Giles Robert de Vaugondy's 'Atlas Universal', 1757.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of the Midwestern and Southern states, including Florida and Louisiana. Shows topographic features, locations of forts and missions, and Native American settlements. Appears in Jean Françoise de la Harpe's 'Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages ... atlas', 1780.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopied from the 1755 original, includes historical notes and 3 distance tables. It also locates hundreds of European and Native American settlements and depicts networks of roads and trails. Includes notations for Dartmouth College, the location of 'elephant bones', salt and limestone deposits, petroleum in western Pennsylvania, and coal in Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne map slipcase, associated with map titled 'A general map of the middle British colonies, in America...' by Lewis Evans and engraved by J. Gibson, 1758. Marbled board slipcase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument titled 'The General Account of His Majesty's Quit Rents for the Province of New York Stated by Andrew Elliot Esq:r Receiver General Constituted Thereto by His Majesty's Letters Patent Commencing the 29th day of September 1765 and Ending the 29th day of September 1766'. Provides detailed accounts of the rents paid in proclamation money on New York lands to the British Crown. Signed at the conclusion by General Andrew Elliot, Receiver General of New York; Goldsbrow Banyar, Deputy Auditor-General of New York; and Sir Henry Moore, Governor of New York. Manuscript document signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument titled 'The General Account of His Majesty's Quit Rents for the Province of New York Stated by Andrew Elliot Esq:r Receiver General Constituted Thereto by His Majesty's Letters Patent Commencing the 29th day of September 1766 and Ending the 29th day of September 1767'. Provides detailed accounts of the rents paid in proclamation money on New York lands to the British Crown. Signed at the conclusion by General Andrew Elliot, Receiver General of New York; Goldsbrow Banyar, Deputy Auditor-General of New York; and Sir Henry Moore, Governor of New York. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land granted from Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, to Henry Whiting concerning a 951 acre tract in Berkeley County called Swan Ponds. The surveyor is listed as Guy Broadwater and Richard Rigg, with neighbors listed as Rutherford, Turner, Wilson, Fairfax, and Vanmeter abutting. Document signed by Lord Fairfax, 1 page, with paper seal over wax.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Virginia and Maryland based on surveys by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, accurately delineating boundaries, roads, settlements, and Native American trails, and incorporating considerable new geographical information. It was issued in 1775 for inclusion in Thomas Jeffery's 'American Atlas'.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument signed by George Clinton, Governor of New York, granting 300 acres of land in the township of Clinton in Montgomery County to Edward Carpenter. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions and green ribbon seal fragment, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe map was published to accompany 'Prospectus pour l'éstablissement sur les rivières d'Ohio et de Scioto en Amérique', 1789. The prospectus and map were issued by the Scioto Company, which was associated with the Ohio Company. The map shows Ohio from Lake Erie south to the Ohio River, and as far west as the Scioto.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdentifies individual land grants in the area that would become Ohio. Note printed near top center of map indicates map is meant to be colored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap showing the route of the proposed Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, with the route highlighted in red. Includes elevation profile in 3 segments, and 'Tranverse section of the canal'. Statement of responsibility: 'Reduced from the general map annexed to the report upon the contemplated canal and drawn, by Lieut. Farley, U.S.A. ; etched by Wm. 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The collection pertains to George Washington and includes 25 documents written, annotated, or signed by Washington. Much of the material concerns the Revolutionary War, western land claims following the French and Indian War, and British and American governmental records. The dates of the material range from 1721-1826.","Land survey with plat map by George Washington for John Elswick, detailing 437 acres on Lost River in Augusta County (now Hampshire County, WV). Two additional people are listed in the document: John Lonem and Samuel McHandry (C.C.-chainmen). The docket on verso notes, 'Deed drawn in Thomas Walter's name'. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Land survey with plat map by George Washington for Walter Shirley, detailing 311 acres in Frederick County, VA. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Land survey with plat map by George Washington for Mary Johnston, detailing 400 acres between Bullskin Run and Long Marsh Run in Frederick County, VA (now Jefferson County, WV). Three additional names listed of those who assisted with the survey - John Johnston, James McCarmick (C.C.- chainmen) and Benjamin Pearson (marker). Docketed in Washington's writing. Autograph document signed, 2 pages.","Letter from George Washington, written by Washington's secretary, John Kirkpatrick, to Peter Hog (or Hoge) with instructions to build a chain of forts along the frontiers from Fort Dinwiddie towards the Mayo River. Washington explains that this was decided by a Council of War at Fort Cumberland. He orders Hog to Augusta Courthouse to raise a militia to assist his own company in erecting the forts and urges vigilance against attack: 'you are, while upon this work to keep out constant covering parties, and above all things guard against a surprize'. Washington states that Hog's men will receive double pay for every day they work while construction is under way and he advises Hog about acquiring the necessary building tools. Letter signed, 2 pages.","Land grant to Thomas Martin for his service in the French and Indian War, under the Proclamation of 1763. Granted in New York and signed by Edwin Chandler. The docket reads 'Received New York the 20 January 1767 of Mr. Christopher Roosevelt the sum of ten shillings for my property of lands allotted me' and is signed by Thomas Martin. Manuscript document, signed by Thomas Martin, 2 pages.","Letter from Wills Hill, Lord Hillsborough, to Horatio Sharpe, Proprietary Governor of Maryland. Acting as the agent of King George III, Hillsborough orders Sharpe to submit a 'complete Collection, either in Manuscript, or Print, of the Laws of the Propriety under your Government' at the first opportunity. Letter signed, 1 page.","Order of council concerning George Washington's formal petition on behalf of himself and other veterans of the French and Indian War to receive the 200,000 acres of land promised by Governor Dinwiddie in the Proclamation of 1754. The council has approved the petition and the petitioners will be allowed five years to survey their grants. The docket is in Washington's writing, titled 'Order of Council 15th December 1769. Respecting the 200,000 acres of land petitioned for'. Manuscript document, with autograph note by George Washington, 1 page.","Land agreement between George Washington and George Muse, granting Washington one-third of the bounty lands Muse was entitled to under Governor Dinwiddie's Proclamation of 1754. This agreement stipulates that Washington and his heirs are responsible for the costs of surveying and securing the one-third share. Witnessed and signed by Fielding Lewis, James Hunter, and Charles Washington, as well as George Washington and George Muse. Autograph document signed, 1 page, with 2 partial red wax seals.","Land survey with plat map by William Crawford for George Washington, detailing 587 acres on the Ohio River known as the Round Bottom tract. Two additional men are named as 'chainmen'. Docket note, in Washington's writing, reads 'Memorandum of the warrants laid upon this tract', with names and acreage listed. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Copy of an order of council, in George Washington's writing, concerning Washington's proposals for apportioning the 200,000 acres of land promised by Governor Dinwiddie in the Proclamation of 1754 to Washington and other veterans of the French and Indian War. The council accepted Washington's proposals for the division of the bounty lands already surveyed. The order goes on to list the individual claimants and their authorized patents, with listed acreage. Listed claimants include George Washington, George Muse, George Mercer, and Joshua Fry. Autograph document, 1 page.","Land survey without plat map by William Crawford for John Fry, detailing 1525 acres. A note in George Washington's writing indicates that this surveyed land is patented to Joshua Fry, John Fry's father, by an Order of Council dated November 6, 1772. This order apportioned bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War by the Proclamation of 1754. The note continues that the patent will be issued to John Fry, as Joshua Fry's heir. Six additional men are listed as 'chainmen' and 'marker'. Document is signed and docketed by George Washington. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Letter from George Washington to Jonathan Boucher concerning the tenancy of Washington's lands on the Ohio River. Washington thanks Boucher and a Dr. Barton for their assistance and asks Boucher to provide Dr. Barton with an enclosed advertisement (not identified). Washington goes into detail about the land and his estimation of its value based on location and the probability of the establishment of a new colony on the Ohio. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Order of council written and signed by John Blair, Clerk of the Council, concerning stipulations for lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War in the Proclamation of 1763. Thomas Walker is listed as the main petitioner. Docketed in George Washington's writing. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Account of transactions and costs between George Washington and George Mercer, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions detail Washington's efforts to secure bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754 on behalf of Mercer and his brother. The docket, in Washington's writing, lists a total cost of £40.11.11. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Account of the proposed costs for exploring, surveying, and patenting bounty lands granted to Richard Smith as a veteran of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754. Smith's listed part of the 200,000 granted acres is 500 acres. Signed by George Washington. Docket reads, \"Pay the within contents of One pound, three shillings, and Eight pence to Captn William Crawford' and is dated February 25, 1774 and signed by Washington as well as William Crawford. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.","Account of the costs between George Washington and the estate of Captain Robert Stobo, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions detail Washington's efforts to secure bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754 on behalf of Stobo. The docket fragment, in Washington's writing, lists a total cost of £40.6.7. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Letter from George Washington to William Preston concerning land granted to him under the Proclamation of 1754, which granted bounty lands to veterans of the French and Indian War. Washington explains that the land, located on the Great Kanawha River (in present-day West Virginia), was surveyed by William Crawford. Washington asks Preston to certify this survey so that it can be submitted under the later Proclamation of 1763 in order to acquire additional lands. Washington expresses his displeasure at the idea that he will be excluded from these additional bounty lands if they are reserved solely for British regulars: 'I can see no cause why Americans (who have serv'd his Majesty in the late War with as much fidelity, and without presumption, with as much Success, as his British Troops) should be stigmatiz'd...'. Washington goes on to guarantee that he will pay Preston the same fees for approving Crawford's survey as he would if Preston were to make the survey himself. Autograph letter with signature missing (lower section of the sheet is missing), 3 pages.","Fragment of three words, from a letter from George Washington to William Preston. The letter concerns Washington's land on the Great Kanawha River (in present-day West Virginia) acquired under the Proclamation of 1754 and the Proclamation of 1763. This fragment contains three words cut from the letter, 'of it, upon', and is from the missing lower section of the third page. For the remaining letter, see  2024-SC-009-017. Autograph letter unsigned.","Letter from George Washington to Peter Hog (or Hoge) concerning Captain William Crawford. Washington requests Hog's assistance in attaining a commission for Crawford as assistant surveyor to Colonel Thomas Lewis in Augusta County, VA. Washington explains that Lord John Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, has recommended this appointment. He goes on to express regret that Captain Crawford was unable to attend a meeting of the Sandy Creek claimants at Winchester on March 5th. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Account of transactions and costs between George Washington and George William Fairfax, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions range June 15-December 20, 1774, and include costs for 'cash sent to the Annapolis printer advertizing Belvoir and the sale of goods there', etc. Docket note lists a total of £238.11.10. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Letter from Guy Carleton, British Governor of Quebec, to John Powell, Deputy Paymaster General. Carleton directs Powell to pay 1369 pounds, 19 shillings, and 2 pence sterling to Mr. Bryce McCumming, Paymaster of the 31st regiment, for the subsistence of the regiment from June 25-August 24, 1776. Letter signed, 1 page.","Letter from George Washington to John Hancock. Referring to himself in the third person as 'General', Washington thanks Hancock for the gift of fish sent to his camp at Morristown, NJ. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Letter from George Washington to Battaile Muse, Washington's agent for his tenanted lands in Frederick, Fauquier, Berkeley, and Loudoun counties. Washington details the purchasing of various crops such as wheat and clover and discusses market values in Alexandria, VA. Autograph letter signed, 3 pages, with integral address panel.","Land survey plat by George Washington of a tract along Four Mile Run in Arlington County, VA. One notation reads, 'This dotted line from the hickory to the Run gives and takes about 5 1/2 acres of land'. Autograph document, 1 page.","Assessment of the lands and estates of George Washington, with discussion about acreage of certain holdings and description of crop yields and land rents. The document notes, \"General Washington possesses 10-100 acres in one body where he lives Constantly employs 250 hands 24 ploughs sowed in the year 1778 600 bushels oats 700 acres wheat..\". Specifies livestock holdings as well. Includes a survey without plat map of an unspecified holding, with reference to shared borders with Gilbert Lane, Guisbert Lane, and Samuel Stout. Manuscript document, 1 page.","Appointment of Azor Orne as an elector of the President and Vice President, dated November 17, 1792. Signed on the left side by John Hancock as Governor of Massachusetts and countersigned by Under Secretary, John Avery. Manuscript document signed, 1 page, with paper seal affixed to the upper right corner.","Letter from Joseph Habersham, Postmaster General, to the Postmaster at Machias, Maine. Habersham requests that any letters addressed to George Washington Lafayette (son of the Marquis de Lafayette), Mr. Motier, or Mr. Frestel (George Washington Lafayette's tutor) be directed to President George Washington and forwarded without delay. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel.","Letter from John Quincy Adams, on behalf of George Washington, to the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. Adams, having served as the Resident Minister of the US to the Batavian Republic, is moving to another post. This letter, in which Adams refers to himself in the third person, conveys a desire for continued harmony and friendship between the two republics. Signed in Adam's writing, 'G. Washington'. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Two indenture forms. The first indenture is the purchase agreement by which George Washington and George Clinton sell 254 acres located south of the Mohawk River in Herkimer County, NY, part of a tract of land called Coxburgh, to four named parties: Thomas Hart, Deodatus Clark, Rufus Willard, and Judah Stebbins. The listed purchase price is £192. Signed twice by George Clinton, once for himself and once as George Washington's attorney. The second indenture form is blank with docket information on the reverse referencing the first indenture. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 3 pages.","Memorandum by George Washington concerning the provisions for the rent of his bounty lands on the Great Kanawha River. Washington details leasing plans for 23,216 acres of land for the next 100 years, including a written chart of the rents from 1798 to 1897. Autograph document signed, 3 pages.","Account and written receipt of payment for back taxes on two tracts of land on the Ohio River in Kanawha County, paid by George Washington to Augustus Woodward. The account of the money owed by Washington for the years 1791-1796 is written and signed by George Alderson, Sheriff of Kanawha County, and details the amount owed as $109.22. John Reynolds signs as a witness for Alderson's authority as Sheriff. A written receipt on verso is in George Washington's writing and confirms payment in a check on the Bank of Alexandria. Receipt is signed by Augustus Woodward. Manuscript document signed, with autograph note by George Washington, 2 pages.","Letter from George Washington to Israel Shreve concerning Shreve's delinquent bond payments to Washington. Washington states '...to be plain, I never expect to obtain what is due from you, to me, but by a resort to a Court of Justice'. If Shreve can provide the Sheriff with the payment he owes, the Sheriff has been instructed to stay the legal proceedings that are about to be brought against him. Washington continues that he cannot extend more time to Shreve and that he expects the late payment as well as the next payment when it is due. Autograph letter signed, 3 pages.","Bond between Lawrence Lewis, the executor of George Washington's estate, William Augustine Washington, and Thomas Lee Jr., for $230.00 for the sale of a bull from Mount Vernon. Typescript document, signed by William Augustine Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Thomas Lee Jr. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 1 page.","Letter from Bushrod Washington to William Augustine Washington concerning George Washington's estate. William is to receive $326.10 for his share of George Washington's U.S. stocks. Bushrod explains that a large part of the stock which George Washington lent to the Potomac Company has been paid to Mr. Lewis for the payment of debts, and Washington's western lands should be divided as soon as possible. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages, with integral address panel.","Letter from Isaac Story to Thomas Jefferson concerning Story's desire for a commission. He has not had his authority as a Commissioner of Bankruptcy restored and he details his financial and legal experience. He indicates that he is including a geometrical illustration of the square root that he sent to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (not identified) as proof of his abilities. He goes on to praise George Washington and John Adams, stating of Adams, 'I was conversant with him from a child, as he was often in my Father's office'. He mentions his nephew, Joseph Story. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","British Order in Council signed by King George III concerning payment for shipping of British goods by London merchant, George Barclay, to Daniel Clarke in New Orleans. The document details an owed sum of £30,000 and upwards. George III grants permission for Barclay and company to load neutral ships with goods such as gold, silver, and indigo in Havana, River Plata, or Vera Cruz. Signed 'Spencer' at conclusion. Document signed, 3 pages, with blind embossed stamp and wax-sealed paper stamp.","Letter from George Clinton to Benjamin Walker concerning lands owned jointly by Clinton and George Washington which, following the death of George Washington, have been transferred to his nephew and namesake, George Washington. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Certificate of freedom for a man named James Dusenbury in the city and county of New York. This document confirms Dusenbury's free status and provides his physical description as five foot two inches, dark eyes, with gray hair, and a listed age of around 62. His birthplace is listed as Queen's County, NY, and his free status was established in 1798. Signed by Andrew Lawrence as a witness and by Richard Cunningham, an Alderman of New York City. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 1 page.","Fragment of a document regarding lease payments with incomplete notes in George Washington's writing. Typescript document with autograph notes, 1 page.","This map was engraved by John Gibson and published in The London Magazine or Gentleman's Intelligencer, vol. 23 (June, 1754). It depicts the region from Lake Ontario southwest to the New River, and shows forts, trails, waterfalls, and general locations of Native American tribe settlements.","Broadside by Andrew Van Bibber in Baltimore, MD, advertising lands for sale or rent along the Little Kanawha River. The advertisement references President George Washington's land holdings on the Great Kanawha River and his formation of an 'extensive and valuable settlement'. Van Bibber states he will accept produce, paper, property, or enslaved people as payment. Manuscript note on verso, dated 12 November 1825, concerns 2000 acres of land and a Michael Ryan and Mr. Keys. Typescript document, 1 page.","Printed Congressional act from the fourth Congress of the U.S. in the second session. Concerning additional duties on certain imported goods, including brown sugar, sugar-candy, and cocoa. Typescript document, 1 page.","This map of French Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley is from,'A new general atlas, containing a geographical and historical account of all the empires, kingdoms, and other dominions of the world', 1721. Includes information about Native American settlements.","Map of Canada, and the East Coast of America including Florida, Virginia, New York, North and South Carolina, as well as the course of the Mississippi River. The map was engraved by Herman Van Loon and was part of Nicholas de Fer's 'Atlas Curieux'. Includes notes and a list of coordinates for various locations on the right side, as well as locations of various Native American settlements. The cartouche notes that this copy of the map is available from I.F. Benard (Jacques-François Benard), son-in-law of Nicholas de Fer, who took over the business after de Fer's death in 1720. Benard et al continued to sell de Fer's unaltered maps into the 1740s, dating this edition from c.1720-1747, with the original made in 1702.","Document signed by Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, granting 89 acres of land in Brunswick County, VA, to Ebenezer Shearman in the name of King George II. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.","Covers the area from the Great Lakes to South Carolina and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River. Shows provinces, towns, forts, tribal territories, and Native American settlements. Appears in Giles Robert de Vaugondy's 'Atlas Universal', 1757.","Map of the Midwestern and Southern states, including Florida and Louisiana. Shows topographic features, locations of forts and missions, and Native American settlements. Appears in Jean Françoise de la Harpe's 'Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages ... atlas', 1780.","Copied from the 1755 original, includes historical notes and 3 distance tables. It also locates hundreds of European and Native American settlements and depicts networks of roads and trails. Includes notations for Dartmouth College, the location of 'elephant bones', salt and limestone deposits, petroleum in western Pennsylvania, and coal in Ohio.","One map slipcase, associated with map titled 'A general map of the middle British colonies, in America...' by Lewis Evans and engraved by J. Gibson, 1758. Marbled board slipcase.","Document titled 'The General Account of His Majesty's Quit Rents for the Province of New York Stated by Andrew Elliot Esq:r Receiver General Constituted Thereto by His Majesty's Letters Patent Commencing the 29th day of September 1765 and Ending the 29th day of September 1766'. Provides detailed accounts of the rents paid in proclamation money on New York lands to the British Crown. Signed at the conclusion by General Andrew Elliot, Receiver General of New York; Goldsbrow Banyar, Deputy Auditor-General of New York; and Sir Henry Moore, Governor of New York. Manuscript document signed, 2 pages.","Document titled 'The General Account of His Majesty's Quit Rents for the Province of New York Stated by Andrew Elliot Esq:r Receiver General Constituted Thereto by His Majesty's Letters Patent Commencing the 29th day of September 1766 and Ending the 29th day of September 1767'. Provides detailed accounts of the rents paid in proclamation money on New York lands to the British Crown. Signed at the conclusion by General Andrew Elliot, Receiver General of New York; Goldsbrow Banyar, Deputy Auditor-General of New York; and Sir Henry Moore, Governor of New York. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.","Deed of land granted from Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, to Henry Whiting concerning a 951 acre tract in Berkeley County called Swan Ponds. The surveyor is listed as Guy Broadwater and Richard Rigg, with neighbors listed as Rutherford, Turner, Wilson, Fairfax, and Vanmeter abutting. Document signed by Lord Fairfax, 1 page, with paper seal over wax.","Map of Virginia and Maryland based on surveys by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, accurately delineating boundaries, roads, settlements, and Native American trails, and incorporating considerable new geographical information. It was issued in 1775 for inclusion in Thomas Jeffery's 'American Atlas'.","Document signed by George Clinton, Governor of New York, granting 300 acres of land in the township of Clinton in Montgomery County to Edward Carpenter. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions and green ribbon seal fragment, 1 page.","The map was published to accompany 'Prospectus pour l'éstablissement sur les rivières d'Ohio et de Scioto en Amérique', 1789. The prospectus and map were issued by the Scioto Company, which was associated with the Ohio Company. The map shows Ohio from Lake Erie south to the Ohio River, and as far west as the Scioto.","Identifies individual land grants in the area that would become Ohio. Note printed near top center of map indicates map is meant to be colored.","Map showing the route of the proposed Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, with the route highlighted in red. Includes elevation profile in 3 segments, and 'Tranverse section of the canal'. Statement of responsibility: 'Reduced from the general map annexed to the report upon the contemplated canal and drawn, by Lieut. Farley, U.S.A. ; etched by Wm. Harrison, Georgetown, D.C. ; letter'd by D.R. 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Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.","The collection is divided into three series: Manuscripts, Publications, and Oversize. The folders are arranged in chronological order within each series.","Series 1. Manuscripts\nSeries 2. Publications\nSeries 3. Oversize","Pater Noster Row, London: R. Baldwin, 1754","London : Printed for Daniel Browne, 1721","Paris: c. 1720-1747","Paris : J. F. La Harpe, 1780","Charing Cross, London: Sold by T. Jefferys, 1758","London: Printed for Robt. Sayer, 1775","Paris: 1789","LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 718","LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 75","LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 712","This collection consist of 47 documents, 10 maps, and 1 map slipcase collected by Ted and Mary Wendell. The collection pertains to George Washington and includes 25 documents written, annotated, or signed by Washington. Much of the material concerns the Revolutionary War, western land claims following the French and Indian War, and British and American governmental records. The dates of the material range from 1721-1826.","Land survey with plat map by George Washington for John Elswick, detailing 437 acres on Lost River in Augusta County (now Hampshire County, WV). Two additional people are listed in the document: John Lonem and Samuel McHandry (C.C.-chainmen). The docket on verso notes, 'Deed drawn in Thomas Walter's name'. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Land survey with plat map by George Washington for Walter Shirley, detailing 311 acres in Frederick County, VA. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Land survey with plat map by George Washington for Mary Johnston, detailing 400 acres between Bullskin Run and Long Marsh Run in Frederick County, VA (now Jefferson County, WV). Three additional names listed of those who assisted with the survey - John Johnston, James McCarmick (C.C.- chainmen) and Benjamin Pearson (marker). Docketed in Washington's writing. Autograph document signed, 2 pages.","Letter from George Washington, written by Washington's secretary, John Kirkpatrick, to Peter Hog (or Hoge) with instructions to build a chain of forts along the frontiers from Fort Dinwiddie towards the Mayo River. Washington explains that this was decided by a Council of War at Fort Cumberland. He orders Hog to Augusta Courthouse to raise a militia to assist his own company in erecting the forts and urges vigilance against attack: 'you are, while upon this work to keep out constant covering parties, and above all things guard against a surprize'. Washington states that Hog's men will receive double pay for every day they work while construction is under way and he advises Hog about acquiring the necessary building tools. Letter signed, 2 pages.","Land grant to Thomas Martin for his service in the French and Indian War, under the Proclamation of 1763. Granted in New York and signed by Edwin Chandler. The docket reads 'Received New York the 20 January 1767 of Mr. Christopher Roosevelt the sum of ten shillings for my property of lands allotted me' and is signed by Thomas Martin. Manuscript document, signed by Thomas Martin, 2 pages.","Letter from Wills Hill, Lord Hillsborough, to Horatio Sharpe, Proprietary Governor of Maryland. Acting as the agent of King George III, Hillsborough orders Sharpe to submit a 'complete Collection, either in Manuscript, or Print, of the Laws of the Propriety under your Government' at the first opportunity. Letter signed, 1 page.","Order of council concerning George Washington's formal petition on behalf of himself and other veterans of the French and Indian War to receive the 200,000 acres of land promised by Governor Dinwiddie in the Proclamation of 1754. The council has approved the petition and the petitioners will be allowed five years to survey their grants. The docket is in Washington's writing, titled 'Order of Council 15th December 1769. Respecting the 200,000 acres of land petitioned for'. Manuscript document, with autograph note by George Washington, 1 page.","Land agreement between George Washington and George Muse, granting Washington one-third of the bounty lands Muse was entitled to under Governor Dinwiddie's Proclamation of 1754. This agreement stipulates that Washington and his heirs are responsible for the costs of surveying and securing the one-third share. Witnessed and signed by Fielding Lewis, James Hunter, and Charles Washington, as well as George Washington and George Muse. Autograph document signed, 1 page, with 2 partial red wax seals.","Land survey with plat map by William Crawford for George Washington, detailing 587 acres on the Ohio River known as the Round Bottom tract. Two additional men are named as 'chainmen'. Docket note, in Washington's writing, reads 'Memorandum of the warrants laid upon this tract', with names and acreage listed. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Copy of an order of council, in George Washington's writing, concerning Washington's proposals for apportioning the 200,000 acres of land promised by Governor Dinwiddie in the Proclamation of 1754 to Washington and other veterans of the French and Indian War. The council accepted Washington's proposals for the division of the bounty lands already surveyed. The order goes on to list the individual claimants and their authorized patents, with listed acreage. Listed claimants include George Washington, George Muse, George Mercer, and Joshua Fry. Autograph document, 1 page.","Land survey without plat map by William Crawford for John Fry, detailing 1525 acres. A note in George Washington's writing indicates that this surveyed land is patented to Joshua Fry, John Fry's father, by an Order of Council dated November 6, 1772. This order apportioned bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War by the Proclamation of 1754. The note continues that the patent will be issued to John Fry, as Joshua Fry's heir. Six additional men are listed as 'chainmen' and 'marker'. Document is signed and docketed by George Washington. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Letter from George Washington to Jonathan Boucher concerning the tenancy of Washington's lands on the Ohio River. Washington thanks Boucher and a Dr. Barton for their assistance and asks Boucher to provide Dr. Barton with an enclosed advertisement (not identified). Washington goes into detail about the land and his estimation of its value based on location and the probability of the establishment of a new colony on the Ohio. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Order of council written and signed by John Blair, Clerk of the Council, concerning stipulations for lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War in the Proclamation of 1763. Thomas Walker is listed as the main petitioner. Docketed in George Washington's writing. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Account of transactions and costs between George Washington and George Mercer, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions detail Washington's efforts to secure bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754 on behalf of Mercer and his brother. The docket, in Washington's writing, lists a total cost of £40.11.11. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Account of the proposed costs for exploring, surveying, and patenting bounty lands granted to Richard Smith as a veteran of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754. Smith's listed part of the 200,000 granted acres is 500 acres. Signed by George Washington. Docket reads, \"Pay the within contents of One pound, three shillings, and Eight pence to Captn William Crawford' and is dated February 25, 1774 and signed by Washington as well as William Crawford. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.","Account of the costs between George Washington and the estate of Captain Robert Stobo, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions detail Washington's efforts to secure bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754 on behalf of Stobo. The docket fragment, in Washington's writing, lists a total cost of £40.6.7. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Letter from George Washington to William Preston concerning land granted to him under the Proclamation of 1754, which granted bounty lands to veterans of the French and Indian War. Washington explains that the land, located on the Great Kanawha River (in present-day West Virginia), was surveyed by William Crawford. Washington asks Preston to certify this survey so that it can be submitted under the later Proclamation of 1763 in order to acquire additional lands. Washington expresses his displeasure at the idea that he will be excluded from these additional bounty lands if they are reserved solely for British regulars: 'I can see no cause why Americans (who have serv'd his Majesty in the late War with as much fidelity, and without presumption, with as much Success, as his British Troops) should be stigmatiz'd...'. Washington goes on to guarantee that he will pay Preston the same fees for approving Crawford's survey as he would if Preston were to make the survey himself. Autograph letter with signature missing (lower section of the sheet is missing), 3 pages.","Fragment of three words, from a letter from George Washington to William Preston. The letter concerns Washington's land on the Great Kanawha River (in present-day West Virginia) acquired under the Proclamation of 1754 and the Proclamation of 1763. This fragment contains three words cut from the letter, 'of it, upon', and is from the missing lower section of the third page. For the remaining letter, see  2024-SC-009-017. Autograph letter unsigned.","Letter from George Washington to Peter Hog (or Hoge) concerning Captain William Crawford. Washington requests Hog's assistance in attaining a commission for Crawford as assistant surveyor to Colonel Thomas Lewis in Augusta County, VA. Washington explains that Lord John Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, has recommended this appointment. He goes on to express regret that Captain Crawford was unable to attend a meeting of the Sandy Creek claimants at Winchester on March 5th. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Account of transactions and costs between George Washington and George William Fairfax, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions range June 15-December 20, 1774, and include costs for 'cash sent to the Annapolis printer advertizing Belvoir and the sale of goods there', etc. Docket note lists a total of £238.11.10. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Letter from Guy Carleton, British Governor of Quebec, to John Powell, Deputy Paymaster General. Carleton directs Powell to pay 1369 pounds, 19 shillings, and 2 pence sterling to Mr. Bryce McCumming, Paymaster of the 31st regiment, for the subsistence of the regiment from June 25-August 24, 1776. Letter signed, 1 page.","Letter from George Washington to John Hancock. Referring to himself in the third person as 'General', Washington thanks Hancock for the gift of fish sent to his camp at Morristown, NJ. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Letter from George Washington to Battaile Muse, Washington's agent for his tenanted lands in Frederick, Fauquier, Berkeley, and Loudoun counties. Washington details the purchasing of various crops such as wheat and clover and discusses market values in Alexandria, VA. Autograph letter signed, 3 pages, with integral address panel.","Land survey plat by George Washington of a tract along Four Mile Run in Arlington County, VA. One notation reads, 'This dotted line from the hickory to the Run gives and takes about 5 1/2 acres of land'. Autograph document, 1 page.","Assessment of the lands and estates of George Washington, with discussion about acreage of certain holdings and description of crop yields and land rents. The document notes, \"General Washington possesses 10-100 acres in one body where he lives Constantly employs 250 hands 24 ploughs sowed in the year 1778 600 bushels oats 700 acres wheat..\". Specifies livestock holdings as well. Includes a survey without plat map of an unspecified holding, with reference to shared borders with Gilbert Lane, Guisbert Lane, and Samuel Stout. Manuscript document, 1 page.","Appointment of Azor Orne as an elector of the President and Vice President, dated November 17, 1792. Signed on the left side by John Hancock as Governor of Massachusetts and countersigned by Under Secretary, John Avery. Manuscript document signed, 1 page, with paper seal affixed to the upper right corner.","Letter from Joseph Habersham, Postmaster General, to the Postmaster at Machias, Maine. Habersham requests that any letters addressed to George Washington Lafayette (son of the Marquis de Lafayette), Mr. Motier, or Mr. Frestel (George Washington Lafayette's tutor) be directed to President George Washington and forwarded without delay. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel.","Letter from John Quincy Adams, on behalf of George Washington, to the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. Adams, having served as the Resident Minister of the US to the Batavian Republic, is moving to another post. This letter, in which Adams refers to himself in the third person, conveys a desire for continued harmony and friendship between the two republics. Signed in Adam's writing, 'G. Washington'. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Two indenture forms. The first indenture is the purchase agreement by which George Washington and George Clinton sell 254 acres located south of the Mohawk River in Herkimer County, NY, part of a tract of land called Coxburgh, to four named parties: Thomas Hart, Deodatus Clark, Rufus Willard, and Judah Stebbins. The listed purchase price is £192. Signed twice by George Clinton, once for himself and once as George Washington's attorney. The second indenture form is blank with docket information on the reverse referencing the first indenture. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 3 pages.","Memorandum by George Washington concerning the provisions for the rent of his bounty lands on the Great Kanawha River. Washington details leasing plans for 23,216 acres of land for the next 100 years, including a written chart of the rents from 1798 to 1897. Autograph document signed, 3 pages.","Account and written receipt of payment for back taxes on two tracts of land on the Ohio River in Kanawha County, paid by George Washington to Augustus Woodward. The account of the money owed by Washington for the years 1791-1796 is written and signed by George Alderson, Sheriff of Kanawha County, and details the amount owed as $109.22. John Reynolds signs as a witness for Alderson's authority as Sheriff. A written receipt on verso is in George Washington's writing and confirms payment in a check on the Bank of Alexandria. Receipt is signed by Augustus Woodward. Manuscript document signed, with autograph note by George Washington, 2 pages.","Letter from George Washington to Israel Shreve concerning Shreve's delinquent bond payments to Washington. Washington states '...to be plain, I never expect to obtain what is due from you, to me, but by a resort to a Court of Justice'. If Shreve can provide the Sheriff with the payment he owes, the Sheriff has been instructed to stay the legal proceedings that are about to be brought against him. Washington continues that he cannot extend more time to Shreve and that he expects the late payment as well as the next payment when it is due. Autograph letter signed, 3 pages.","Bond between Lawrence Lewis, the executor of George Washington's estate, William Augustine Washington, and Thomas Lee Jr., for $230.00 for the sale of a bull from Mount Vernon. Typescript document, signed by William Augustine Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Thomas Lee Jr. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 1 page.","Letter from Bushrod Washington to William Augustine Washington concerning George Washington's estate. William is to receive $326.10 for his share of George Washington's U.S. stocks. Bushrod explains that a large part of the stock which George Washington lent to the Potomac Company has been paid to Mr. Lewis for the payment of debts, and Washington's western lands should be divided as soon as possible. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages, with integral address panel.","Letter from Isaac Story to Thomas Jefferson concerning Story's desire for a commission. He has not had his authority as a Commissioner of Bankruptcy restored and he details his financial and legal experience. He indicates that he is including a geometrical illustration of the square root that he sent to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (not identified) as proof of his abilities. He goes on to praise George Washington and John Adams, stating of Adams, 'I was conversant with him from a child, as he was often in my Father's office'. He mentions his nephew, Joseph Story. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","British Order in Council signed by King George III concerning payment for shipping of British goods by London merchant, George Barclay, to Daniel Clarke in New Orleans. The document details an owed sum of £30,000 and upwards. George III grants permission for Barclay and company to load neutral ships with goods such as gold, silver, and indigo in Havana, River Plata, or Vera Cruz. Signed 'Spencer' at conclusion. Document signed, 3 pages, with blind embossed stamp and wax-sealed paper stamp.","Letter from George Clinton to Benjamin Walker concerning lands owned jointly by Clinton and George Washington which, following the death of George Washington, have been transferred to his nephew and namesake, George Washington. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Certificate of freedom for a man named James Dusenbury in the city and county of New York. This document confirms Dusenbury's free status and provides his physical description as five foot two inches, dark eyes, with gray hair, and a listed age of around 62. His birthplace is listed as Queen's County, NY, and his free status was established in 1798. Signed by Andrew Lawrence as a witness and by Richard Cunningham, an Alderman of New York City. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 1 page.","Fragment of a document regarding lease payments with incomplete notes in George Washington's writing. Typescript document with autograph notes, 1 page.","This map was engraved by John Gibson and published in The London Magazine or Gentleman's Intelligencer, vol. 23 (June, 1754). It depicts the region from Lake Ontario southwest to the New River, and shows forts, trails, waterfalls, and general locations of Native American tribe settlements.","Broadside by Andrew Van Bibber in Baltimore, MD, advertising lands for sale or rent along the Little Kanawha River. The advertisement references President George Washington's land holdings on the Great Kanawha River and his formation of an 'extensive and valuable settlement'. Van Bibber states he will accept produce, paper, property, or enslaved people as payment. Manuscript note on verso, dated 12 November 1825, concerns 2000 acres of land and a Michael Ryan and Mr. Keys. Typescript document, 1 page.","Printed Congressional act from the fourth Congress of the U.S. in the second session. Concerning additional duties on certain imported goods, including brown sugar, sugar-candy, and cocoa. Typescript document, 1 page.","This map of French Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley is from,'A new general atlas, containing a geographical and historical account of all the empires, kingdoms, and other dominions of the world', 1721. Includes information about Native American settlements.","Map of Canada, and the East Coast of America including Florida, Virginia, New York, North and South Carolina, as well as the course of the Mississippi River. The map was engraved by Herman Van Loon and was part of Nicholas de Fer's 'Atlas Curieux'. Includes notes and a list of coordinates for various locations on the right side, as well as locations of various Native American settlements. The cartouche notes that this copy of the map is available from I.F. Benard (Jacques-François Benard), son-in-law of Nicholas de Fer, who took over the business after de Fer's death in 1720. Benard et al continued to sell de Fer's unaltered maps into the 1740s, dating this edition from c.1720-1747, with the original made in 1702.","Document signed by Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, granting 89 acres of land in Brunswick County, VA, to Ebenezer Shearman in the name of King George II. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.","Covers the area from the Great Lakes to South Carolina and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River. Shows provinces, towns, forts, tribal territories, and Native American settlements. Appears in Giles Robert de Vaugondy's 'Atlas Universal', 1757.","Map of the Midwestern and Southern states, including Florida and Louisiana. Shows topographic features, locations of forts and missions, and Native American settlements. Appears in Jean Françoise de la Harpe's 'Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages ... atlas', 1780.","Copied from the 1755 original, includes historical notes and 3 distance tables. It also locates hundreds of European and Native American settlements and depicts networks of roads and trails. Includes notations for Dartmouth College, the location of 'elephant bones', salt and limestone deposits, petroleum in western Pennsylvania, and coal in Ohio.","One map slipcase, associated with map titled 'A general map of the middle British colonies, in America...' by Lewis Evans and engraved by J. Gibson, 1758. Marbled board slipcase.","Document titled 'The General Account of His Majesty's Quit Rents for the Province of New York Stated by Andrew Elliot Esq:r Receiver General Constituted Thereto by His Majesty's Letters Patent Commencing the 29th day of September 1765 and Ending the 29th day of September 1766'. Provides detailed accounts of the rents paid in proclamation money on New York lands to the British Crown. Signed at the conclusion by General Andrew Elliot, Receiver General of New York; Goldsbrow Banyar, Deputy Auditor-General of New York; and Sir Henry Moore, Governor of New York. Manuscript document signed, 2 pages.","Document titled 'The General Account of His Majesty's Quit Rents for the Province of New York Stated by Andrew Elliot Esq:r Receiver General Constituted Thereto by His Majesty's Letters Patent Commencing the 29th day of September 1766 and Ending the 29th day of September 1767'. Provides detailed accounts of the rents paid in proclamation money on New York lands to the British Crown. Signed at the conclusion by General Andrew Elliot, Receiver General of New York; Goldsbrow Banyar, Deputy Auditor-General of New York; and Sir Henry Moore, Governor of New York. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.","Deed of land granted from Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, to Henry Whiting concerning a 951 acre tract in Berkeley County called Swan Ponds. The surveyor is listed as Guy Broadwater and Richard Rigg, with neighbors listed as Rutherford, Turner, Wilson, Fairfax, and Vanmeter abutting. Document signed by Lord Fairfax, 1 page, with paper seal over wax.","Map of Virginia and Maryland based on surveys by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, accurately delineating boundaries, roads, settlements, and Native American trails, and incorporating considerable new geographical information. It was issued in 1775 for inclusion in Thomas Jeffery's 'American Atlas'.","Document signed by George Clinton, Governor of New York, granting 300 acres of land in the township of Clinton in Montgomery County to Edward Carpenter. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions and green ribbon seal fragment, 1 page.","The map was published to accompany 'Prospectus pour l'éstablissement sur les rivières d'Ohio et de Scioto en Amérique', 1789. The prospectus and map were issued by the Scioto Company, which was associated with the Ohio Company. The map shows Ohio from Lake Erie south to the Ohio River, and as far west as the Scioto.","Identifies individual land grants in the area that would become Ohio. Note printed near top center of map indicates map is meant to be colored.","Map showing the route of the proposed Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, with the route highlighted in red. Includes elevation profile in 3 segments, and 'Tranverse section of the canal'. Statement of responsibility: 'Reduced from the general map annexed to the report upon the contemplated canal and drawn, by Lieut. Farley, U.S.A. ; etched by Wm. Harrison, Georgetown, D.C. ; letter'd by D.R. Harrison'.","A fragment of this letter is separate: [2024-SC-009-018] Letter fragment, George Washington to William Preston.","This fragment is torn and separated from the larger letter: [2024-SC-009-017] Letter, George Washington to William Preston.","Auction description indicates this map was stored in an accompanying slipcase [2024-SC-009-049b].","Auction description indicates this slipcase was used to encase the accompanying map 'A general map of the middle British colonies, in America...', 1758 [2024-SC-009-049a].","Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon","Washington, George, 1732-1799","George, King of Great Britain, III, 1738-1820","Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848","Hancock, John, 1737-1793","Washington, Bushrod, 1762-1829","Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756","Gibson, J. 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The collection pertains to George Washington and includes 25 documents written, annotated, or signed by Washington. Much of the material concerns the Revolutionary War, western land claims following the French and Indian War, and British and American governmental records. The dates of the material range from 1721-1826.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand survey with plat map by George Washington for John Elswick, detailing 437 acres on Lost River in Augusta County (now Hampshire County, WV). Two additional people are listed in the document: John Lonem and Samuel McHandry (C.C.-chainmen). The docket on verso notes, 'Deed drawn in Thomas Walter's name'. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand survey with plat map by George Washington for Walter Shirley, detailing 311 acres in Frederick County, VA. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand survey with plat map by George Washington for Mary Johnston, detailing 400 acres between Bullskin Run and Long Marsh Run in Frederick County, VA (now Jefferson County, WV). Three additional names listed of those who assisted with the survey - John Johnston, James McCarmick (C.C.- chainmen) and Benjamin Pearson (marker). Docketed in Washington's writing. Autograph document signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from George Washington, written by Washington's secretary, John Kirkpatrick, to Peter Hog (or Hoge) with instructions to build a chain of forts along the frontiers from Fort Dinwiddie towards the Mayo River. Washington explains that this was decided by a Council of War at Fort Cumberland. He orders Hog to Augusta Courthouse to raise a militia to assist his own company in erecting the forts and urges vigilance against attack: 'you are, while upon this work to keep out constant covering parties, and above all things guard against a surprize'. Washington states that Hog's men will receive double pay for every day they work while construction is under way and he advises Hog about acquiring the necessary building tools. Letter signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand grant to Thomas Martin for his service in the French and Indian War, under the Proclamation of 1763. Granted in New York and signed by Edwin Chandler. The docket reads 'Received New York the 20 January 1767 of Mr. Christopher Roosevelt the sum of ten shillings for my property of lands allotted me' and is signed by Thomas Martin. Manuscript document, signed by Thomas Martin, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Wills Hill, Lord Hillsborough, to Horatio Sharpe, Proprietary Governor of Maryland. Acting as the agent of King George III, Hillsborough orders Sharpe to submit a 'complete Collection, either in Manuscript, or Print, of the Laws of the Propriety under your Government' at the first opportunity. Letter signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder of council concerning George Washington's formal petition on behalf of himself and other veterans of the French and Indian War to receive the 200,000 acres of land promised by Governor Dinwiddie in the Proclamation of 1754. The council has approved the petition and the petitioners will be allowed five years to survey their grants. The docket is in Washington's writing, titled 'Order of Council 15th December 1769. Respecting the 200,000 acres of land petitioned for'. Manuscript document, with autograph note by George Washington, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand agreement between George Washington and George Muse, granting Washington one-third of the bounty lands Muse was entitled to under Governor Dinwiddie's Proclamation of 1754. This agreement stipulates that Washington and his heirs are responsible for the costs of surveying and securing the one-third share. Witnessed and signed by Fielding Lewis, James Hunter, and Charles Washington, as well as George Washington and George Muse. Autograph document signed, 1 page, with 2 partial red wax seals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand survey with plat map by William Crawford for George Washington, detailing 587 acres on the Ohio River known as the Round Bottom tract. Two additional men are named as 'chainmen'. Docket note, in Washington's writing, reads 'Memorandum of the warrants laid upon this tract', with names and acreage listed. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of an order of council, in George Washington's writing, concerning Washington's proposals for apportioning the 200,000 acres of land promised by Governor Dinwiddie in the Proclamation of 1754 to Washington and other veterans of the French and Indian War. The council accepted Washington's proposals for the division of the bounty lands already surveyed. The order goes on to list the individual claimants and their authorized patents, with listed acreage. Listed claimants include George Washington, George Muse, George Mercer, and Joshua Fry. Autograph document, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand survey without plat map by William Crawford for John Fry, detailing 1525 acres. A note in George Washington's writing indicates that this surveyed land is patented to Joshua Fry, John Fry's father, by an Order of Council dated November 6, 1772. This order apportioned bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War by the Proclamation of 1754. The note continues that the patent will be issued to John Fry, as Joshua Fry's heir. Six additional men are listed as 'chainmen' and 'marker'. Document is signed and docketed by George Washington. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from George Washington to Jonathan Boucher concerning the tenancy of Washington's lands on the Ohio River. Washington thanks Boucher and a Dr. Barton for their assistance and asks Boucher to provide Dr. Barton with an enclosed advertisement (not identified). Washington goes into detail about the land and his estimation of its value based on location and the probability of the establishment of a new colony on the Ohio. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder of council written and signed by John Blair, Clerk of the Council, concerning stipulations for lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War in the Proclamation of 1763. Thomas Walker is listed as the main petitioner. Docketed in George Washington's writing. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of transactions and costs between George Washington and George Mercer, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions detail Washington's efforts to secure bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754 on behalf of Mercer and his brother. The docket, in Washington's writing, lists a total cost of £40.11.11. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the proposed costs for exploring, surveying, and patenting bounty lands granted to Richard Smith as a veteran of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754. Smith's listed part of the 200,000 granted acres is 500 acres. Signed by George Washington. Docket reads, \"Pay the within contents of One pound, three shillings, and Eight pence to Captn William Crawford' and is dated February 25, 1774 and signed by Washington as well as William Crawford. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the costs between George Washington and the estate of Captain Robert Stobo, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions detail Washington's efforts to secure bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754 on behalf of Stobo. The docket fragment, in Washington's writing, lists a total cost of £40.6.7. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from George Washington to William Preston concerning land granted to him under the Proclamation of 1754, which granted bounty lands to veterans of the French and Indian War. Washington explains that the land, located on the Great Kanawha River (in present-day West Virginia), was surveyed by William Crawford. Washington asks Preston to certify this survey so that it can be submitted under the later Proclamation of 1763 in order to acquire additional lands. Washington expresses his displeasure at the idea that he will be excluded from these additional bounty lands if they are reserved solely for British regulars: 'I can see no cause why Americans (who have serv'd his Majesty in the late War with as much fidelity, and without presumption, with as much Success, as his British Troops) should be stigmatiz'd...'. Washington goes on to guarantee that he will pay Preston the same fees for approving Crawford's survey as he would if Preston were to make the survey himself. Autograph letter with signature missing (lower section of the sheet is missing), 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragment of three words, from a letter from George Washington to William Preston. The letter concerns Washington's land on the Great Kanawha River (in present-day West Virginia) acquired under the Proclamation of 1754 and the Proclamation of 1763. This fragment contains three words cut from the letter, 'of it, upon', and is from the missing lower section of the third page. For the remaining letter, see  2024-SC-009-017. Autograph letter unsigned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from George Washington to Peter Hog (or Hoge) concerning Captain William Crawford. Washington requests Hog's assistance in attaining a commission for Crawford as assistant surveyor to Colonel Thomas Lewis in Augusta County, VA. Washington explains that Lord John Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, has recommended this appointment. He goes on to express regret that Captain Crawford was unable to attend a meeting of the Sandy Creek claimants at Winchester on March 5th. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of transactions and costs between George Washington and George William Fairfax, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions range June 15-December 20, 1774, and include costs for 'cash sent to the Annapolis printer advertizing Belvoir and the sale of goods there', etc. Docket note lists a total of £238.11.10. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Guy Carleton, British Governor of Quebec, to John Powell, Deputy Paymaster General. Carleton directs Powell to pay 1369 pounds, 19 shillings, and 2 pence sterling to Mr. Bryce McCumming, Paymaster of the 31st regiment, for the subsistence of the regiment from June 25-August 24, 1776. Letter signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from George Washington to John Hancock. Referring to himself in the third person as 'General', Washington thanks Hancock for the gift of fish sent to his camp at Morristown, NJ. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from George Washington to Battaile Muse, Washington's agent for his tenanted lands in Frederick, Fauquier, Berkeley, and Loudoun counties. Washington details the purchasing of various crops such as wheat and clover and discusses market values in Alexandria, VA. Autograph letter signed, 3 pages, with integral address panel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand survey plat by George Washington of a tract along Four Mile Run in Arlington County, VA. One notation reads, 'This dotted line from the hickory to the Run gives and takes about 5 1/2 acres of land'. Autograph document, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAssessment of the lands and estates of George Washington, with discussion about acreage of certain holdings and description of crop yields and land rents. The document notes, \"General Washington possesses 10-100 acres in one body where he lives Constantly employs 250 hands 24 ploughs sowed in the year 1778 600 bushels oats 700 acres wheat..\". Specifies livestock holdings as well. Includes a survey without plat map of an unspecified holding, with reference to shared borders with Gilbert Lane, Guisbert Lane, and Samuel Stout. Manuscript document, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of Azor Orne as an elector of the President and Vice President, dated November 17, 1792. Signed on the left side by John Hancock as Governor of Massachusetts and countersigned by Under Secretary, John Avery. Manuscript document signed, 1 page, with paper seal affixed to the upper right corner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Joseph Habersham, Postmaster General, to the Postmaster at Machias, Maine. Habersham requests that any letters addressed to George Washington Lafayette (son of the Marquis de Lafayette), Mr. Motier, or Mr. Frestel (George Washington Lafayette's tutor) be directed to President George Washington and forwarded without delay. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Quincy Adams, on behalf of George Washington, to the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. Adams, having served as the Resident Minister of the US to the Batavian Republic, is moving to another post. This letter, in which Adams refers to himself in the third person, conveys a desire for continued harmony and friendship between the two republics. Signed in Adam's writing, 'G. Washington'. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo indenture forms. The first indenture is the purchase agreement by which George Washington and George Clinton sell 254 acres located south of the Mohawk River in Herkimer County, NY, part of a tract of land called Coxburgh, to four named parties: Thomas Hart, Deodatus Clark, Rufus Willard, and Judah Stebbins. The listed purchase price is £192. Signed twice by George Clinton, once for himself and once as George Washington's attorney. The second indenture form is blank with docket information on the reverse referencing the first indenture. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum by George Washington concerning the provisions for the rent of his bounty lands on the Great Kanawha River. Washington details leasing plans for 23,216 acres of land for the next 100 years, including a written chart of the rents from 1798 to 1897. Autograph document signed, 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount and written receipt of payment for back taxes on two tracts of land on the Ohio River in Kanawha County, paid by George Washington to Augustus Woodward. The account of the money owed by Washington for the years 1791-1796 is written and signed by George Alderson, Sheriff of Kanawha County, and details the amount owed as $109.22. John Reynolds signs as a witness for Alderson's authority as Sheriff. A written receipt on verso is in George Washington's writing and confirms payment in a check on the Bank of Alexandria. Receipt is signed by Augustus Woodward. Manuscript document signed, with autograph note by George Washington, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from George Washington to Israel Shreve concerning Shreve's delinquent bond payments to Washington. Washington states '...to be plain, I never expect to obtain what is due from you, to me, but by a resort to a Court of Justice'. If Shreve can provide the Sheriff with the payment he owes, the Sheriff has been instructed to stay the legal proceedings that are about to be brought against him. Washington continues that he cannot extend more time to Shreve and that he expects the late payment as well as the next payment when it is due. Autograph letter signed, 3 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond between Lawrence Lewis, the executor of George Washington's estate, William Augustine Washington, and Thomas Lee Jr., for $230.00 for the sale of a bull from Mount Vernon. Typescript document, signed by William Augustine Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Thomas Lee Jr. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Bushrod Washington to William Augustine Washington concerning George Washington's estate. William is to receive $326.10 for his share of George Washington's U.S. stocks. Bushrod explains that a large part of the stock which George Washington lent to the Potomac Company has been paid to Mr. Lewis for the payment of debts, and Washington's western lands should be divided as soon as possible. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages, with integral address panel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Isaac Story to Thomas Jefferson concerning Story's desire for a commission. He has not had his authority as a Commissioner of Bankruptcy restored and he details his financial and legal experience. He indicates that he is including a geometrical illustration of the square root that he sent to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (not identified) as proof of his abilities. He goes on to praise George Washington and John Adams, stating of Adams, 'I was conversant with him from a child, as he was often in my Father's office'. He mentions his nephew, Joseph Story. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBritish Order in Council signed by King George III concerning payment for shipping of British goods by London merchant, George Barclay, to Daniel Clarke in New Orleans. The document details an owed sum of £30,000 and upwards. George III grants permission for Barclay and company to load neutral ships with goods such as gold, silver, and indigo in Havana, River Plata, or Vera Cruz. Signed 'Spencer' at conclusion. Document signed, 3 pages, with blind embossed stamp and wax-sealed paper stamp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from George Clinton to Benjamin Walker concerning lands owned jointly by Clinton and George Washington which, following the death of George Washington, have been transferred to his nephew and namesake, George Washington. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of freedom for a man named James Dusenbury in the city and county of New York. This document confirms Dusenbury's free status and provides his physical description as five foot two inches, dark eyes, with gray hair, and a listed age of around 62. His birthplace is listed as Queen's County, NY, and his free status was established in 1798. Signed by Andrew Lawrence as a witness and by Richard Cunningham, an Alderman of New York City. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragment of a document regarding lease payments with incomplete notes in George Washington's writing. Typescript document with autograph notes, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis map was engraved by John Gibson and published in The London Magazine or Gentleman's Intelligencer, vol. 23 (June, 1754). It depicts the region from Lake Ontario southwest to the New River, and shows forts, trails, waterfalls, and general locations of Native American tribe settlements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBroadside by Andrew Van Bibber in Baltimore, MD, advertising lands for sale or rent along the Little Kanawha River. The advertisement references President George Washington's land holdings on the Great Kanawha River and his formation of an 'extensive and valuable settlement'. Van Bibber states he will accept produce, paper, property, or enslaved people as payment. Manuscript note on verso, dated 12 November 1825, concerns 2000 acres of land and a Michael Ryan and Mr. Keys. Typescript document, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted Congressional act from the fourth Congress of the U.S. in the second session. Concerning additional duties on certain imported goods, including brown sugar, sugar-candy, and cocoa. Typescript document, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis map of French Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley is from,'A new general atlas, containing a geographical and historical account of all the empires, kingdoms, and other dominions of the world', 1721. Includes information about Native American settlements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Canada, and the East Coast of America including Florida, Virginia, New York, North and South Carolina, as well as the course of the Mississippi River. The map was engraved by Herman Van Loon and was part of Nicholas de Fer's 'Atlas Curieux'. Includes notes and a list of coordinates for various locations on the right side, as well as locations of various Native American settlements. The cartouche notes that this copy of the map is available from I.F. Benard (Jacques-François Benard), son-in-law of Nicholas de Fer, who took over the business after de Fer's death in 1720. Benard et al continued to sell de Fer's unaltered maps into the 1740s, dating this edition from c.1720-1747, with the original made in 1702.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument signed by Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, granting 89 acres of land in Brunswick County, VA, to Ebenezer Shearman in the name of King George II. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCovers the area from the Great Lakes to South Carolina and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River. Shows provinces, towns, forts, tribal territories, and Native American settlements. Appears in Giles Robert de Vaugondy's 'Atlas Universal', 1757.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of the Midwestern and Southern states, including Florida and Louisiana. Shows topographic features, locations of forts and missions, and Native American settlements. Appears in Jean Françoise de la Harpe's 'Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages ... atlas', 1780.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopied from the 1755 original, includes historical notes and 3 distance tables. It also locates hundreds of European and Native American settlements and depicts networks of roads and trails. Includes notations for Dartmouth College, the location of 'elephant bones', salt and limestone deposits, petroleum in western Pennsylvania, and coal in Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne map slipcase, associated with map titled 'A general map of the middle British colonies, in America...' by Lewis Evans and engraved by J. Gibson, 1758. Marbled board slipcase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument titled 'The General Account of His Majesty's Quit Rents for the Province of New York Stated by Andrew Elliot Esq:r Receiver General Constituted Thereto by His Majesty's Letters Patent Commencing the 29th day of September 1765 and Ending the 29th day of September 1766'. Provides detailed accounts of the rents paid in proclamation money on New York lands to the British Crown. Signed at the conclusion by General Andrew Elliot, Receiver General of New York; Goldsbrow Banyar, Deputy Auditor-General of New York; and Sir Henry Moore, Governor of New York. Manuscript document signed, 2 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument titled 'The General Account of His Majesty's Quit Rents for the Province of New York Stated by Andrew Elliot Esq:r Receiver General Constituted Thereto by His Majesty's Letters Patent Commencing the 29th day of September 1766 and Ending the 29th day of September 1767'. Provides detailed accounts of the rents paid in proclamation money on New York lands to the British Crown. Signed at the conclusion by General Andrew Elliot, Receiver General of New York; Goldsbrow Banyar, Deputy Auditor-General of New York; and Sir Henry Moore, Governor of New York. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land granted from Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, to Henry Whiting concerning a 951 acre tract in Berkeley County called Swan Ponds. The surveyor is listed as Guy Broadwater and Richard Rigg, with neighbors listed as Rutherford, Turner, Wilson, Fairfax, and Vanmeter abutting. Document signed by Lord Fairfax, 1 page, with paper seal over wax.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap of Virginia and Maryland based on surveys by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, accurately delineating boundaries, roads, settlements, and Native American trails, and incorporating considerable new geographical information. It was issued in 1775 for inclusion in Thomas Jeffery's 'American Atlas'.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument signed by George Clinton, Governor of New York, granting 300 acres of land in the township of Clinton in Montgomery County to Edward Carpenter. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions and green ribbon seal fragment, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe map was published to accompany 'Prospectus pour l'éstablissement sur les rivières d'Ohio et de Scioto en Amérique', 1789. The prospectus and map were issued by the Scioto Company, which was associated with the Ohio Company. The map shows Ohio from Lake Erie south to the Ohio River, and as far west as the Scioto.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdentifies individual land grants in the area that would become Ohio. Note printed near top center of map indicates map is meant to be colored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap showing the route of the proposed Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, with the route highlighted in red. Includes elevation profile in 3 segments, and 'Tranverse section of the canal'. Statement of responsibility: 'Reduced from the general map annexed to the report upon the contemplated canal and drawn, by Lieut. Farley, U.S.A. ; etched by Wm. 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The collection pertains to George Washington and includes 25 documents written, annotated, or signed by Washington. Much of the material concerns the Revolutionary War, western land claims following the French and Indian War, and British and American governmental records. The dates of the material range from 1721-1826.","Land survey with plat map by George Washington for John Elswick, detailing 437 acres on Lost River in Augusta County (now Hampshire County, WV). Two additional people are listed in the document: John Lonem and Samuel McHandry (C.C.-chainmen). The docket on verso notes, 'Deed drawn in Thomas Walter's name'. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Land survey with plat map by George Washington for Walter Shirley, detailing 311 acres in Frederick County, VA. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Land survey with plat map by George Washington for Mary Johnston, detailing 400 acres between Bullskin Run and Long Marsh Run in Frederick County, VA (now Jefferson County, WV). Three additional names listed of those who assisted with the survey - John Johnston, James McCarmick (C.C.- chainmen) and Benjamin Pearson (marker). Docketed in Washington's writing. Autograph document signed, 2 pages.","Letter from George Washington, written by Washington's secretary, John Kirkpatrick, to Peter Hog (or Hoge) with instructions to build a chain of forts along the frontiers from Fort Dinwiddie towards the Mayo River. Washington explains that this was decided by a Council of War at Fort Cumberland. He orders Hog to Augusta Courthouse to raise a militia to assist his own company in erecting the forts and urges vigilance against attack: 'you are, while upon this work to keep out constant covering parties, and above all things guard against a surprize'. Washington states that Hog's men will receive double pay for every day they work while construction is under way and he advises Hog about acquiring the necessary building tools. Letter signed, 2 pages.","Land grant to Thomas Martin for his service in the French and Indian War, under the Proclamation of 1763. Granted in New York and signed by Edwin Chandler. The docket reads 'Received New York the 20 January 1767 of Mr. Christopher Roosevelt the sum of ten shillings for my property of lands allotted me' and is signed by Thomas Martin. Manuscript document, signed by Thomas Martin, 2 pages.","Letter from Wills Hill, Lord Hillsborough, to Horatio Sharpe, Proprietary Governor of Maryland. Acting as the agent of King George III, Hillsborough orders Sharpe to submit a 'complete Collection, either in Manuscript, or Print, of the Laws of the Propriety under your Government' at the first opportunity. Letter signed, 1 page.","Order of council concerning George Washington's formal petition on behalf of himself and other veterans of the French and Indian War to receive the 200,000 acres of land promised by Governor Dinwiddie in the Proclamation of 1754. The council has approved the petition and the petitioners will be allowed five years to survey their grants. The docket is in Washington's writing, titled 'Order of Council 15th December 1769. Respecting the 200,000 acres of land petitioned for'. Manuscript document, with autograph note by George Washington, 1 page.","Land agreement between George Washington and George Muse, granting Washington one-third of the bounty lands Muse was entitled to under Governor Dinwiddie's Proclamation of 1754. This agreement stipulates that Washington and his heirs are responsible for the costs of surveying and securing the one-third share. Witnessed and signed by Fielding Lewis, James Hunter, and Charles Washington, as well as George Washington and George Muse. Autograph document signed, 1 page, with 2 partial red wax seals.","Land survey with plat map by William Crawford for George Washington, detailing 587 acres on the Ohio River known as the Round Bottom tract. Two additional men are named as 'chainmen'. Docket note, in Washington's writing, reads 'Memorandum of the warrants laid upon this tract', with names and acreage listed. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Copy of an order of council, in George Washington's writing, concerning Washington's proposals for apportioning the 200,000 acres of land promised by Governor Dinwiddie in the Proclamation of 1754 to Washington and other veterans of the French and Indian War. The council accepted Washington's proposals for the division of the bounty lands already surveyed. The order goes on to list the individual claimants and their authorized patents, with listed acreage. Listed claimants include George Washington, George Muse, George Mercer, and Joshua Fry. Autograph document, 1 page.","Land survey without plat map by William Crawford for John Fry, detailing 1525 acres. A note in George Washington's writing indicates that this surveyed land is patented to Joshua Fry, John Fry's father, by an Order of Council dated November 6, 1772. This order apportioned bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War by the Proclamation of 1754. The note continues that the patent will be issued to John Fry, as Joshua Fry's heir. Six additional men are listed as 'chainmen' and 'marker'. Document is signed and docketed by George Washington. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Letter from George Washington to Jonathan Boucher concerning the tenancy of Washington's lands on the Ohio River. Washington thanks Boucher and a Dr. Barton for their assistance and asks Boucher to provide Dr. Barton with an enclosed advertisement (not identified). Washington goes into detail about the land and his estimation of its value based on location and the probability of the establishment of a new colony on the Ohio. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Order of council written and signed by John Blair, Clerk of the Council, concerning stipulations for lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War in the Proclamation of 1763. Thomas Walker is listed as the main petitioner. Docketed in George Washington's writing. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Account of transactions and costs between George Washington and George Mercer, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions detail Washington's efforts to secure bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754 on behalf of Mercer and his brother. The docket, in Washington's writing, lists a total cost of £40.11.11. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Account of the proposed costs for exploring, surveying, and patenting bounty lands granted to Richard Smith as a veteran of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754. Smith's listed part of the 200,000 granted acres is 500 acres. Signed by George Washington. Docket reads, \"Pay the within contents of One pound, three shillings, and Eight pence to Captn William Crawford' and is dated February 25, 1774 and signed by Washington as well as William Crawford. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.","Account of the costs between George Washington and the estate of Captain Robert Stobo, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions detail Washington's efforts to secure bounty lands granted to veterans of the French and Indian War under the Proclamation of 1754 on behalf of Stobo. The docket fragment, in Washington's writing, lists a total cost of £40.6.7. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Letter from George Washington to William Preston concerning land granted to him under the Proclamation of 1754, which granted bounty lands to veterans of the French and Indian War. Washington explains that the land, located on the Great Kanawha River (in present-day West Virginia), was surveyed by William Crawford. Washington asks Preston to certify this survey so that it can be submitted under the later Proclamation of 1763 in order to acquire additional lands. Washington expresses his displeasure at the idea that he will be excluded from these additional bounty lands if they are reserved solely for British regulars: 'I can see no cause why Americans (who have serv'd his Majesty in the late War with as much fidelity, and without presumption, with as much Success, as his British Troops) should be stigmatiz'd...'. Washington goes on to guarantee that he will pay Preston the same fees for approving Crawford's survey as he would if Preston were to make the survey himself. Autograph letter with signature missing (lower section of the sheet is missing), 3 pages.","Fragment of three words, from a letter from George Washington to William Preston. The letter concerns Washington's land on the Great Kanawha River (in present-day West Virginia) acquired under the Proclamation of 1754 and the Proclamation of 1763. This fragment contains three words cut from the letter, 'of it, upon', and is from the missing lower section of the third page. For the remaining letter, see  2024-SC-009-017. Autograph letter unsigned.","Letter from George Washington to Peter Hog (or Hoge) concerning Captain William Crawford. Washington requests Hog's assistance in attaining a commission for Crawford as assistant surveyor to Colonel Thomas Lewis in Augusta County, VA. Washington explains that Lord John Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, has recommended this appointment. He goes on to express regret that Captain Crawford was unable to attend a meeting of the Sandy Creek claimants at Winchester on March 5th. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Account of transactions and costs between George Washington and George William Fairfax, in Washington's writing. The listed transactions range June 15-December 20, 1774, and include costs for 'cash sent to the Annapolis printer advertizing Belvoir and the sale of goods there', etc. Docket note lists a total of £238.11.10. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Letter from Guy Carleton, British Governor of Quebec, to John Powell, Deputy Paymaster General. Carleton directs Powell to pay 1369 pounds, 19 shillings, and 2 pence sterling to Mr. Bryce McCumming, Paymaster of the 31st regiment, for the subsistence of the regiment from June 25-August 24, 1776. Letter signed, 1 page.","Letter from George Washington to John Hancock. Referring to himself in the third person as 'General', Washington thanks Hancock for the gift of fish sent to his camp at Morristown, NJ. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Letter from George Washington to Battaile Muse, Washington's agent for his tenanted lands in Frederick, Fauquier, Berkeley, and Loudoun counties. Washington details the purchasing of various crops such as wheat and clover and discusses market values in Alexandria, VA. Autograph letter signed, 3 pages, with integral address panel.","Land survey plat by George Washington of a tract along Four Mile Run in Arlington County, VA. One notation reads, 'This dotted line from the hickory to the Run gives and takes about 5 1/2 acres of land'. Autograph document, 1 page.","Assessment of the lands and estates of George Washington, with discussion about acreage of certain holdings and description of crop yields and land rents. The document notes, \"General Washington possesses 10-100 acres in one body where he lives Constantly employs 250 hands 24 ploughs sowed in the year 1778 600 bushels oats 700 acres wheat..\". Specifies livestock holdings as well. Includes a survey without plat map of an unspecified holding, with reference to shared borders with Gilbert Lane, Guisbert Lane, and Samuel Stout. Manuscript document, 1 page.","Appointment of Azor Orne as an elector of the President and Vice President, dated November 17, 1792. Signed on the left side by John Hancock as Governor of Massachusetts and countersigned by Under Secretary, John Avery. Manuscript document signed, 1 page, with paper seal affixed to the upper right corner.","Letter from Joseph Habersham, Postmaster General, to the Postmaster at Machias, Maine. Habersham requests that any letters addressed to George Washington Lafayette (son of the Marquis de Lafayette), Mr. Motier, or Mr. Frestel (George Washington Lafayette's tutor) be directed to President George Washington and forwarded without delay. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel.","Letter from John Quincy Adams, on behalf of George Washington, to the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. Adams, having served as the Resident Minister of the US to the Batavian Republic, is moving to another post. This letter, in which Adams refers to himself in the third person, conveys a desire for continued harmony and friendship between the two republics. Signed in Adam's writing, 'G. Washington'. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","Two indenture forms. The first indenture is the purchase agreement by which George Washington and George Clinton sell 254 acres located south of the Mohawk River in Herkimer County, NY, part of a tract of land called Coxburgh, to four named parties: Thomas Hart, Deodatus Clark, Rufus Willard, and Judah Stebbins. The listed purchase price is £192. Signed twice by George Clinton, once for himself and once as George Washington's attorney. The second indenture form is blank with docket information on the reverse referencing the first indenture. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 3 pages.","Memorandum by George Washington concerning the provisions for the rent of his bounty lands on the Great Kanawha River. Washington details leasing plans for 23,216 acres of land for the next 100 years, including a written chart of the rents from 1798 to 1897. Autograph document signed, 3 pages.","Account and written receipt of payment for back taxes on two tracts of land on the Ohio River in Kanawha County, paid by George Washington to Augustus Woodward. The account of the money owed by Washington for the years 1791-1796 is written and signed by George Alderson, Sheriff of Kanawha County, and details the amount owed as $109.22. John Reynolds signs as a witness for Alderson's authority as Sheriff. A written receipt on verso is in George Washington's writing and confirms payment in a check on the Bank of Alexandria. Receipt is signed by Augustus Woodward. Manuscript document signed, with autograph note by George Washington, 2 pages.","Letter from George Washington to Israel Shreve concerning Shreve's delinquent bond payments to Washington. Washington states '...to be plain, I never expect to obtain what is due from you, to me, but by a resort to a Court of Justice'. If Shreve can provide the Sheriff with the payment he owes, the Sheriff has been instructed to stay the legal proceedings that are about to be brought against him. Washington continues that he cannot extend more time to Shreve and that he expects the late payment as well as the next payment when it is due. Autograph letter signed, 3 pages.","Bond between Lawrence Lewis, the executor of George Washington's estate, William Augustine Washington, and Thomas Lee Jr., for $230.00 for the sale of a bull from Mount Vernon. Typescript document, signed by William Augustine Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Thomas Lee Jr. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 1 page.","Letter from Bushrod Washington to William Augustine Washington concerning George Washington's estate. William is to receive $326.10 for his share of George Washington's U.S. stocks. Bushrod explains that a large part of the stock which George Washington lent to the Potomac Company has been paid to Mr. Lewis for the payment of debts, and Washington's western lands should be divided as soon as possible. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages, with integral address panel.","Letter from Isaac Story to Thomas Jefferson concerning Story's desire for a commission. He has not had his authority as a Commissioner of Bankruptcy restored and he details his financial and legal experience. He indicates that he is including a geometrical illustration of the square root that he sent to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (not identified) as proof of his abilities. He goes on to praise George Washington and John Adams, stating of Adams, 'I was conversant with him from a child, as he was often in my Father's office'. He mentions his nephew, Joseph Story. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.","British Order in Council signed by King George III concerning payment for shipping of British goods by London merchant, George Barclay, to Daniel Clarke in New Orleans. The document details an owed sum of £30,000 and upwards. George III grants permission for Barclay and company to load neutral ships with goods such as gold, silver, and indigo in Havana, River Plata, or Vera Cruz. Signed 'Spencer' at conclusion. Document signed, 3 pages, with blind embossed stamp and wax-sealed paper stamp.","Letter from George Clinton to Benjamin Walker concerning lands owned jointly by Clinton and George Washington which, following the death of George Washington, have been transferred to his nephew and namesake, George Washington. Autograph letter signed, 1 page.","Certificate of freedom for a man named James Dusenbury in the city and county of New York. This document confirms Dusenbury's free status and provides his physical description as five foot two inches, dark eyes, with gray hair, and a listed age of around 62. His birthplace is listed as Queen's County, NY, and his free status was established in 1798. Signed by Andrew Lawrence as a witness and by Richard Cunningham, an Alderman of New York City. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions, 1 page.","Fragment of a document regarding lease payments with incomplete notes in George Washington's writing. Typescript document with autograph notes, 1 page.","This map was engraved by John Gibson and published in The London Magazine or Gentleman's Intelligencer, vol. 23 (June, 1754). It depicts the region from Lake Ontario southwest to the New River, and shows forts, trails, waterfalls, and general locations of Native American tribe settlements.","Broadside by Andrew Van Bibber in Baltimore, MD, advertising lands for sale or rent along the Little Kanawha River. The advertisement references President George Washington's land holdings on the Great Kanawha River and his formation of an 'extensive and valuable settlement'. Van Bibber states he will accept produce, paper, property, or enslaved people as payment. Manuscript note on verso, dated 12 November 1825, concerns 2000 acres of land and a Michael Ryan and Mr. Keys. Typescript document, 1 page.","Printed Congressional act from the fourth Congress of the U.S. in the second session. Concerning additional duties on certain imported goods, including brown sugar, sugar-candy, and cocoa. Typescript document, 1 page.","This map of French Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley is from,'A new general atlas, containing a geographical and historical account of all the empires, kingdoms, and other dominions of the world', 1721. Includes information about Native American settlements.","Map of Canada, and the East Coast of America including Florida, Virginia, New York, North and South Carolina, as well as the course of the Mississippi River. The map was engraved by Herman Van Loon and was part of Nicholas de Fer's 'Atlas Curieux'. Includes notes and a list of coordinates for various locations on the right side, as well as locations of various Native American settlements. The cartouche notes that this copy of the map is available from I.F. Benard (Jacques-François Benard), son-in-law of Nicholas de Fer, who took over the business after de Fer's death in 1720. Benard et al continued to sell de Fer's unaltered maps into the 1740s, dating this edition from c.1720-1747, with the original made in 1702.","Document signed by Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, granting 89 acres of land in Brunswick County, VA, to Ebenezer Shearman in the name of King George II. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.","Covers the area from the Great Lakes to South Carolina and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River. Shows provinces, towns, forts, tribal territories, and Native American settlements. Appears in Giles Robert de Vaugondy's 'Atlas Universal', 1757.","Map of the Midwestern and Southern states, including Florida and Louisiana. Shows topographic features, locations of forts and missions, and Native American settlements. Appears in Jean Françoise de la Harpe's 'Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages ... atlas', 1780.","Copied from the 1755 original, includes historical notes and 3 distance tables. It also locates hundreds of European and Native American settlements and depicts networks of roads and trails. Includes notations for Dartmouth College, the location of 'elephant bones', salt and limestone deposits, petroleum in western Pennsylvania, and coal in Ohio.","One map slipcase, associated with map titled 'A general map of the middle British colonies, in America...' by Lewis Evans and engraved by J. Gibson, 1758. Marbled board slipcase.","Document titled 'The General Account of His Majesty's Quit Rents for the Province of New York Stated by Andrew Elliot Esq:r Receiver General Constituted Thereto by His Majesty's Letters Patent Commencing the 29th day of September 1765 and Ending the 29th day of September 1766'. Provides detailed accounts of the rents paid in proclamation money on New York lands to the British Crown. Signed at the conclusion by General Andrew Elliot, Receiver General of New York; Goldsbrow Banyar, Deputy Auditor-General of New York; and Sir Henry Moore, Governor of New York. Manuscript document signed, 2 pages.","Document titled 'The General Account of His Majesty's Quit Rents for the Province of New York Stated by Andrew Elliot Esq:r Receiver General Constituted Thereto by His Majesty's Letters Patent Commencing the 29th day of September 1766 and Ending the 29th day of September 1767'. Provides detailed accounts of the rents paid in proclamation money on New York lands to the British Crown. Signed at the conclusion by General Andrew Elliot, Receiver General of New York; Goldsbrow Banyar, Deputy Auditor-General of New York; and Sir Henry Moore, Governor of New York. Manuscript document signed, 1 page.","Deed of land granted from Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, to Henry Whiting concerning a 951 acre tract in Berkeley County called Swan Ponds. The surveyor is listed as Guy Broadwater and Richard Rigg, with neighbors listed as Rutherford, Turner, Wilson, Fairfax, and Vanmeter abutting. Document signed by Lord Fairfax, 1 page, with paper seal over wax.","Map of Virginia and Maryland based on surveys by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, accurately delineating boundaries, roads, settlements, and Native American trails, and incorporating considerable new geographical information. It was issued in 1775 for inclusion in Thomas Jeffery's 'American Atlas'.","Document signed by George Clinton, Governor of New York, granting 300 acres of land in the township of Clinton in Montgomery County to Edward Carpenter. Typescript document signed, with manuscript completions and green ribbon seal fragment, 1 page.","The map was published to accompany 'Prospectus pour l'éstablissement sur les rivières d'Ohio et de Scioto en Amérique', 1789. The prospectus and map were issued by the Scioto Company, which was associated with the Ohio Company. 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