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Bray Papers, 1730/1817 201.00 Linear Feet

Associates of Dr. Bray (Organization)

Negative photostats of papers, 1730-1817, of the Bray Associates, a division of the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, which was instrumental in providing libraries for the churches in America and setting up schools for the Christian education of free and enslaved Black children.

  1. College of William and Mary

Brigadier General Andrew Lewis letter, 1776 .01 Linear Feet 1 legal size folder

Letter written on June 12, 1776 by Brigadier General Andrew Lewis to Major General Charles Lee. Lewis was an Irish born veteran of the French and Indian War and Lord Dunmore's War.He was made brigadier general in March 1776 and stationed in Virginia during the Revolutionary War. Major General Charles Lee, was second in command to George Washington of the Continental Army.The letter was written while General Lewis commanded forces to defend the areas of Norfolk and Hampton from Governor Dunmore, and concerns how Lewis plans to defeat Lord Dunmore at the Battle of Gwynn's Island.

  1. College of William and Mary

Broadside, Instructions to the Commanders of the Private Ships or Vessels of War, 1776 Box 5, Folder 1776.04.03

Printed document 1 page. Broadside signed by John Jay [then President of Congress] with instructions to the Commanders of the Private Ships or Vessels of War, instructing then that they will have Commissions of Letters of Marque and Reprisal, authoring them to make Captures of British Vessels and Cargoes.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 5, 1776/1777

Brooks F. McCabe, Collector, Papers, 1770/2019 2.58 Linear Feet 3 document cases, 5 in. each; 1 index card box, 12 in.; 1 flat storage box, 4 in.

Two personal diaries of R.E. McCabe of Charleston, West Virginia, containing notes on trips to Europe (1924) and California (1937). On the California trip he briefly describes Kansas City, Boulder, Denver, Santa Fe, Taos, and Los Angeles, muses on real estate values, and notes oil rigs and pipelines. There is a short genealogy of the Hayward family. The diaries also include references to the Ward, Fleming, Brooks, and Watson families. Also includes photographs of members of the Ward, Fleming, Brooks, and Watson families.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Brown Family Papers, Photographs and Maps, 1765/1959 8.3 Linear Feet 8 ft. 4 1/4 in. (9 document cases, 5 in. each); (3 records cartons, 15 in. each); (1 small flat storage box, 3 in.); (2 large storage boxes, 3 in. each); (1 folder, 1/4 in.); (1 scrapbook, 1 in.)

Brown family
Papers, photographs and maps of a wealthy Morgantown family with interests in real estate and coal mining. Most of the business papers are those of J. M. G. Brown, a West Virginia University law school alumnus, who was president of Scotts Run Fuel Corporation. Brown was also a housing developer whose company, Suburban Real Estate of Morgantown, was a competitive concern not only locally but throughout north central West Virginia and southwest Pennsylvania. There are papers indicating his attempts to open Morgantown to airline service. His sister, Mary Virginia Brown was a genealogist and local historian noted for A History of the Negroes of Monongalia County. Among her papers are genealogies of the Bannister, Brown, Bushey, Dorsey, Suter and Williams families. There are also original documents of Colonel William McCleary, an early settler of Morgantown. There is also a manuscript "List of Taxable Property for 1786, Monongalia County," including five pages listing residents and their "tithables," horses, and cattle.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Bruton and Middleton Parishes: Parish Register (Transcription), #148, 1662/1792 Volume 37

1. 1966 transcription of Bruton and Middleton Parish Register (omitting most data regarding enslaved people), which includes baptisms, confirmations, marriages, communicants, and burials in the Virginia colonial parish from 1662 to 1792. 2. 2004 transcription by John Vogt which corrected 1966 errors and omissions.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.) records, 1662/2010, bulk 1900/2000
  3. Series 1: Administrative Records
  4. Manuscript Volumes

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