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Colonial Williamsburg

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187
Primary Collecting Areas:
A. Lawrence Kocher Collection, Donald Streeter Collection, Francis, Nicholson Papers, John Norton and Sons Papers, Major-Marable Family Papers, Richard Corbin Papers, Robert Anderson Papers, Singleton P. Moorehead Collection, William Blathwayt Papers, 18th century Williamsburg imprints, 18th century Virginia manuscripts, 18th century Music, Early trade manuals, British legislation regarding the American colonies, Visual works depicting Williamsburg
Description:
The John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library is dedicated to advancing knowledge of colonial British America, the American Revolution, the early United States, and the history of the Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg. Unique to the library is the body of research on the buildings, people, trades, and material culture of 18th-century Williamsburg.
POC: Douglas Mayo
Phone: (757) 565-8521
Phone: (757) 565-8520
Fax: (757) 565-8528
Start Over Repository Colonial Williamsburg Subjects Deeds--Virginia--Williamsburg--1815.

Deneufville Family Papers, 1785-ca. 1850.

Deneufville Family. Jean Augustine Deneufville, 1763-1838. Peter Robert Deneufville, d. 1809.

Papers, primarily 1785-1815, of brothers Jean Augustine (1763-1838) and Peter Robert Deneufville (d. 1809). Included are letters from merchants, customers, and friends; bonds; receipts; a copy of Peter Robert Deneufville's will in which he stipulates that his slave Betty and her children be freed and given some articles of clothing and bedding and fifty pounds Virginia currency; a letter between two of Augustine's granddaughters; a land grant from the governor of Georgia, Edward Telfair, to Daniel McLane; and indentures between various Deneufville relatives. Names prominent in the papers include Robert Anderson, Andrew Buchanan, James Lee, John Saunders, John Taliaferro, Edward Teagle, and Dr. Wiscart.

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