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Petitions to Remove the College from Williamsburg Collection 0.90 Linear Feet

Box 1 contains photostats of petitions and supporting documents, testimonies, and memorials on the subject of moving the College of William and Mary from Williamsburg to Richmond, Virginia. The petitions and testimonies were collected by the Colleges and Education Committee of the Virginia General Assembly as part of its action on a bill proposing to move the school.

  1. College of William and Mary

Preston Family Papers 90.00 Linear Feet

Preston Family

This inventory, chiefly 1786-1815, represents three generations of the Preston family, and likewise can be divided into the following:

  1. College of William and Mary

Sigma Alpha Epsilon records 0.20 Linear Feet 1 hollinger box

Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Virginia Kappa Chapter

This collection contains newspaper clippings, fliers, newsletters, a petition, member and alumni lists, photographs and other materials from Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Virginia Kappa at William & Mary.

  1. College of William and Mary

Summers County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers 41.27 Linear Feet Summary: 41 ft. 3.25 in. (97 document cases, 5 in. each); (5 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each); (1 ledger, 1.5 in)

West Virginia. County Court (Summers County)
County court records consisting primarily of marriage records and sheriff settlements relating to roads, schools, and poor funds. There are also estate administration papers; lunacy proceedings; Board of Education records; receipts and bank records; other misc. records, and an account book of the firm of Meador and Graham in Hinton, WV. There are also some papers of former clerks E. H. Peck and P. B. Pack.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Thomas B. Martin Executors' Petition 0.01 Linear Foot

Wythe, George, 1726-1806

Petition, ca. 1799, of Gabriel Jones of Rockingham County, Va., (Robert Macky [Robert Mackey ?] of Winchester, Va. and John S. Woodcock of Frederick County, [Va.] executors of Thomas B[ryan] Martin to George Wythe, judge of the High Court of Chancery, asking for an injunction in the sale of Martin's lands in lawsuit [Commonwealth v. Martin's Executors]. Bears note by George Wythe awarding injunction.

  1. College of William and Mary

W. H. Macon Papers 0.01 Linear Foot

Papers, 1848-1866, of Dr. W. H. Macon of New Kent County, Va. Includes accounts, 1798, and a draft of his petition, 1866, to the U. S. Senate for the restoration of his full citizenship after the Civil War. 11 items.

  1. College of William and Mary

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