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Start Over Collection Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933 Date range 1778

Bound manuscript, Brigade book of the Brigade commanded by the Honorable Brigade General Poor by Brigade Major Ben Walker, 1778/1779 1 Volumes Box 108, Shelf Closed Stacks

Bound manuscript contains the returns kept for General Poor's Brigade, by Captain Benjamin Walker, at various camps, a few returns left unaccomplished, several general orders and records of courts-martial,and a legal docket ca. 1830. These daily inventories of soldiers and their equipment begin at Valley Forge in January 1778 and run through May 1779.

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  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 2. Ledgers and Bound Manuscripts

Document, An artist's proposal for subscription and receipt for the engraving America, 1778 Box 6, Folder 1778.04.16

This broadside was used as an advertisement to help fund engravings of Robert Edge Pine's painting that celebrated the American cause. It is filled out by Pine in manuscript on behalf of George William Fairfax who bought and sponsored five prints. Paid by George William Fairfax and signed by Robert Edge Pine

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 6, 1778/1779

Election notice, Tax Commissioners of Westmoreland County, 1778 Box 6, Folder 1778.03.10

A.D.S. 1 page. A notice of the election of Philip Smith, Joseph Lane, and Fleet Cox to act as Tax Commissioners for Westmoreland County; "freely and Indifferently" elected by Freeholders and Housekeepers. Signed by John Augustine Washington (1736-1787; brother of George Washington), Richard Lee, and Thomas Chilton.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 6, 1778/1779

Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933 approx. 60 Linear Feet

This collection of historic manuscripts dates from 1607-1933, with the bulk of materials dating from 1738-1868. The correspondence, journals and diaries, legal and financial records, estate documents, and printed ephemera in the collection primarily relate to the Washington and Custis families, the Revolutionary War, and society life in antebellum Washington D.C. and Virginia.

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Letter, Bushrod Washington to Hannah Washington, 1778 Box 6, Folder 1778.05.11

A.L.S. 1 page. Bushrod Washington writes his mother (Hannah Bushrod Washington) while a student at William and Mary College at age 16. He writes about world affairs and his activities at William and Mary. Autograph letter signed, address panel on verso.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 6, 1778/1779

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