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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
3600 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
Mount Vernon, VA 22121
Primary Collecting Areas:
George and Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, Founding Era and Early Republic, Historic preservation, Decorative arts, Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
Description:

The Fred W. Smith National Library includes general collections, special collections and archives as a resource for scholars, students, and those interested in George Washington, colonial America and the Revolutionary and founding eras.

The library's general collections include secondary source materials on the Washington and Custis families, and the colonial and founding eras.

The Special Collections materials highlight the lives of George and Martha Washington as well as their descendants through correspondence, financial materials, and original books from George and Martha Washington's library.

The archives of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association holds the historic institutional records of the organization dating back to its founding in 1853.

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Start Over Repository The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon Date range 1784

Account book, tobacco book, negros the property of Robert Peter taken November, lots in the city of Washington, 1784/1797 178 pages Box 37

Book of tobacco sales, list of enslaved persons belonging to Robert Peter, and lots of Robert Peter in the City of Washington with division by squares for the Commissioners and how they are disposed. The bound volume is made up of 178 pages. Pages 52-147 are blank. At some point the volume is flipped and entries are begun at the back of the book from pages 178-154. For viewing purposes those pages have been reoriented and reordered.

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  2. Peter family papers, 1722/1932
  3. Series 18. Letterbooks, Notebooks, and Bound Volumes, 1685/1932

Accounts of Robert Peter with Bernard O'Neill and Williams Dearkins, 1781/1795 Box 5, Folder 13

Invoices, notes, and receipts from accounts between Robert Peter and the firm O'Neill and Dearkins. Includes an invoice for tobacco, sugar, corduroy, gauze, linen, chocolate, silk, muslin, paper, wine, ribbons, pins, cotton, and tea.

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  2. Peter family papers, 1722/1932
  3. Series 10. Papers of Robert Peter, 1722/1852
  4. Subseries 10.1. Accounts

A chorographical map, of the country, round Philadelphia : carte particuliere, des environs de Philadelphie, 1780/1789 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 8, Section 4

Shows "Genl. Howe's track" from Elk River to Philadelphia, "Genl. Washington's track," and "Grand American Winter Camp, Jan. 1778" at Valley Forge. Shows most of New Jersey and parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. BPL

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  2. Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection, 1740/1799

A new and correct chart of the coast of East Florida, and part of West Florida and Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Florida or Cannel of Bahama, Bahama Islands or Lucayos, Bahama Banks and Martyrs, with the soundings, roks, banks, currents, shoals & nautical remarks, composed from a great number of new actual surveys and other original materials, regulated and corrected by astronomical observations, 1784 1 Sheets Closed Stacks, Drawer 32

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  2. Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection, 1740/1799

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