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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 1825 Level Item

Account, estate of George Washington with Lawrence Lewis, 1825/1833 Box 50, Folder 1825.01.01

A.D. 2 pages. Lawrence Lewis's account with the Estate of Washington including expenses incurred by him from 1825 to 1833 for housing, food, clothing, medical attendance, and other items. Lewis states that all his other accounts with the Executor of the Estate are now settled and if anyone should desire to examine same he may do so. "On account of Old free Negroes of the Estate." Autograph document signed, folio size invoice.

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  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 50, 1824/1825

Account, James Taylor to George Fayette Washington, 1820/1827 Box 46, Folder 1820.10.17

A.D.S. 2 pages. Account of payment due Taylor from Washington mostly on taxes that Taylor had paid on behalf of Washington in Kentucky and Ohio. Possibly George Fayette Washington. Autograph document signed, docketed. Name on original manuscript appears as "George F. Washington."

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  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 46, 1820

Account, Thomas Peter with estate of George Washington, 1824/1845 Box 50, Folder 1824.00.00

D. 2 pages. Estate of Thos. Peter indebtedness to estate of G.W.--Receipted to G.W. Peter by John A. Washington, attorney in fact for G.W.P. Custis, surviving executor of G.W. Document, endorsed "Thomas Peter and wife," and "Washington Exer. v. Washington Legatees, marked "No. 21."

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 50, 1824/1825

Benjamin Lincoln Lear to George Peter, 1825 2 pages Box 12, Folder 03

Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Lear writes regarding two suits againist Mrs. Sarah Peter.

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  2. Peter family papers, 1722/1932
  3. Series 13. Papers of Major George Peter, 1800/1867
  4. Subseries 13.1. Business Correspondence
  5. Business Correspondence, 1823/1825

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