Elizabeth G. Elliott Papers, 1755-1871.

Access and use

Location of collection:
Colonial Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Douglas Mayo
Phone: (757) 565-8521
Phone: (757) 565-8520
Fax: (757) 565-8528

Background

Scope and content:

Collection includes papers Elizabeth G. Eland memoranda books of Warwick County sheriff Thomas Moss, woodcutter Thomas Hogg, and Williamsburg attorney Sydney Smith.

Papers of Elizabeth G. Elliott include accounts, receipts, decrees, bonds, letters, and other material. Included are receipts for taxes from York and Warwick counties; accounts for building and repairing carriages or "gigs"; several accounts of doctors for treatment of slaves and Mrs. Elliott; receipts from carpenters for building coffins for slaves; many bonds for the annual rental of slaves; legal material concerning the estate of Kemp P. Elliott; a Robert Anderson letter (1848); accounts for hauling wood for Thomas Hogg, Jr.; receipts for board at the Eastern Lunatic Asylum for a slave; and Mrs. Elliott's estate matters administered by Daniel P. Curtis.

Several memoranda books apparently of Thomas Moss list taxpayers and amounts in Warwick County (1852-1856) and list hours worked by various individuals and many other accounts (1849- 1860). One memorandum book (1850-1853) lists execution of bond payments, carriage repairs, and writs in the circuit court of Warwick County. Account book (1788-1793) of lawyer J. Wickham lists personal and business expenses and expenditures with various individuals, ferriage expenses to the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and a satiric prose poem (1755) entitled: "On Sundry Inhabitants of Yorkto[wn] by Doctor Porterfield." Account book and loose papers (1853-1871) of Williamsburg attorney Sydney Smith concern debt cases; litigation; bond accounts; administration of rental, clothing, and medical needs of a slave for the slave owner; and medical account of the R. W. Bucktrout family with Leonard Henley.

Biographical / historical:

Elizabeth Elliott was a resident of Warwick and York counties. She was the widow of Kemp P. Elliott (d. ca. 1836).

Acquisition information:
Purchase, 1989.
Arrangement:

Chronologically arranged.

Physical description:
12 v. and 173 items.