Bray-PapersBray PapersGuide to the Bray Papers Mss. 65 Pst B73Finding Aid Authors: Special Collections Staff.Special Collections Research Center

2007-08-13

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-05-15 12:35:29 -0400.The collection description/finding aid is written in English Special Collections Research Center Bray Papers Associates of Dr. Bray (Organization) Mss. 65 Pst B73 /repositories/2/resources/367 201.00 Linear Feet 1730-1817 English Acquisition Information:

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Negative photocopy. Washington : Library of Congress.

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Bray Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

 Scope and Contents

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.

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 Photostats African Americans--Education--Virginia African Americans--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Church of England--History--18th century Church of England--Virginia--History--18th century Slavery--Virginia--18th century Williamsburg (Va.)--History--18th century Education--Virginia--Williamsburg--18th century Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain) Catalogue of Books Supplied by Dr. Bray's Associatesid307705/repositories/2/archival_objects/367091753-181711Scope and Contents

12 photostat pages with lists of books, entitled "Catalogues of Books for Home and Foreign Libraries, AD 1753 to AD 1817." One list is headed "1760/61 Books sent to the Rev. Dr. Dawson at Williamsburg, Virginia....for the use of the negroe schools founded there..."

Account Books (a): Correspondence of Dr. Bray's Associates About the Negro School in Williamsburgid307707/repositories/2/archival_objects/367101760-1773, 193912Scope and Contents

25 photostats of letters of Dr. Bray's Associates about subscriptions to the Negro School in Williamsburg, Virginia. Letters addressed to Robert Carter Nicholas, Rev. Dr. Dawson, William Hunter, and Rev. Dr. Josiah Johnson. Correspondents include Rev. Mr. Waring and others. Topics include subscriptions, rules to be observed by the owners of negroes and other matters. Includes Vol. 48 of the "Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society" article entitled "Thomas Bray's Associates and Their Work Among the Negroes" by Edgar Legare Pennington, dated 1939.

American Correspondence of Dr. Bray's Associatesid307709/repositories/2/archival_objects/367111743-176313Minute Book, Volume I, of Dr. Bray's Associatesid307711/repositories/2/archival_objects/367121745-176714Scope and Contents

Photostat copies of Vol. 1, years 1745-1767 of Dr. Bray's Associates Minute Book. Includes pages 54 - 271, with many gaps.

Minute Book, Volume II, of Dr. Bray's Associatesid307713/repositories/2/archival_objects/367131768-180815Scope and Contents

Photostat copies of Vol. II, years 1768-1808 of Dr. Bray's Associates Minute Book. Includes pages 22, 36, 37, 39, 40, 45, 50, 51, 54, 55, 56, 64 and 67.

Minute Book, Volume III, of Dr. Bray's Associatesid307715/repositories/2/archival_objects/367141730-173116Scope and Contents

Photostat copies of Vol. III, years 1730-1731 of Dr. Bray's Associates Minute Book. Includes pages 18, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 28.