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GUIDE AND INVENTORIES TO MANUSCRIPTS IN THE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SECTION JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. LIBRARY COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. ELIZABETH JACQUELIN AMBLER PAPERS. DMS1954.5 2. HELEN M. ANDERSON PAPERS. MS1989.13 3. JAMES ANDERSON ACCOUNT BOOKS. MS1962.2 4. ROBERT ANDERSON PAPERS. MS1972.2 5. ROBERT ANDERSON PAPERS, ADDITION ONE. MS1978.1 6. L'ARCHITECTURE OU L'ART DE BIEN BASTIR. MS1981.13 7. ARITHMETIC EXERCISE BOOK. MS1965.6 8. EDMUND BAGGE ACCOUNT BOOK. MS1941.9 9. BAYLOR FAMILY PAPERS. MS1959.1 10. BLATHWAYT PAPERS. MS1946.2 11. BOOKPLATE COLLECTION. MS1990.1 12. THOMAS T. BOULDIN PAPERS. MS1987.3 13. BOWYER-HUBARD PAPERS. MS1929.1 14. WILLIAM BROGRAVE ESTATE AUCTION ACCOUNT BOOK. MS1989.7 15. BURWELL PAPERS. MS1964.4 16. NATHANIEL BURWELL LEDGER AND PAPERS. MS1981.12 17. DR. SAMUEL POWELL BYRD PAPERS. MS1939.4 18. WILLIAM BYRD II PAPERS. MS1940.2 19. DR. JAMES CARTER INVOICE BOOK. MS1939.8 20. ROBERT CARTER LETTER BOOKS. MS1957.1 21. ROBERT CARTER III WASTE BOOK. MS1957.2 22. COACH AND CARRIAGE PAPERS. MS1980.2 23. COACH DRAWINGS. MS1948.3 24. ROBERT SPILSBE COLEMAN ARITHMETIC EXERCISE BOOK. MS1973.4 80. ROSE MUSIC BOOKS. MS1973.3 81. SERVANTS' INDENTURES. MS1970.3 82. ANDREW SHEPHERD ACCOUNT BOOK. MS1966.1 83. DAVID SHEPHERD CIPHERING BOOK. MS1971.3 84. THOMAS H. SHERWOOD LETTERS. MS1983.4 85. (COLLECTION RETURNED TO SHIRLEY PLANTATION) 86. SHOE DEALER'S ACCOUNT BOOK. MS1950.5 87. LT. COL. JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE PAPERS. MS1930.6 88. SMITH-DIGGES PAPERS. MS1931.7 89. TURNER SOUTHALL RECEIPT BOOK. MS1931.3 90. WILLIAM SPENCER DIARY. MS1937.2 91. SPOTSWOOD PAPERS. MS1948.2 92. CHARLES STEUART PAPERS. DMS1955.4 93. DONALD STREETER COLLECTION. MS1985.4 94. MORDECAI B. SWEENEY PAPERS. MS1931.22 95. TAZEWELL PAPERS. MS1931.4 96. TEAGLE-LEE PAPERS. MS1950.6 97. EDWARD THORNE ARITHMETIC BOOK. MS1980.3.1 98. CHRISTOPHER TOMPKINS ACCOUNT BOOK. MS1940.3 99. ST. GEORGE TUCKER COLLECTION. MS1942.4 100. VETERINARIAN'S HORSE REMEDY BOOK. MS1991.14 101. 1749 VIRGINIA ALMANACK 102. 1753 VIRGINIA ALMANACK 103. 1757 VIRGINIA ALMANACK (JERDONE) 104. 1760 VIRGINIA ALMANACK (WALLER) 105. 1762 VIRGINIA ALMANACK (JERDONE) 106. 1764 VIRGINIA ALMANACK (B. TERREL) 107. 1771 VIRGINIA ALMANACK (JOHN PAGE) 108. 1774 VIRGINIA ALMANACK (LAND DEEDS) 109. 1774 VIRGINIA ALMANACK (JOHN PAGE) 110. 1775 VIRGINIA ALMANACK (THOMAS BOLLING) 111. 1776 VIRGINIA ALMANACK (ROBERT W. CARTER) 112. 1776 VIRGINIA ALMANACK (JOHN PAGE) 113. 1779 VIRGINIA ALMANACK (M. COCKBURN) 114. 1799 LOVER’S ALMANAC 115. REVISAL OF THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA. MS1930.5 116. WADSWORTH AND CARTER RECEIPTS. MS1984.2 117. DR. ROBERT WALKER'S MEDICAL COMMONPLACE BOOK. MS1931.24 118. WALLER FAMILY PAPERS. MS1954.6 119. WEAVER'S DRAFT NOTEBOOK. MS1989.6 120. WEAVER'S DRAFT NOTEBOOK/ACCOUNT BOOK. MS1989.22 121. THOMAS WHARTON ACCOUNT BOOK. MS1932.14 122. WILLIAMSBURG AND JAMES CITY COUNTY, VIRGINIA TAX BOOK. MS1928.2 123. CALEB WILSON RECEIPTS. MS1934.7 124. WISE-WARE FAMILY PAPERS. MS1980.5 125. YORK COUNTY, VIRGINIA SHERIFF'S EXECUTION BOOK. MS1943.2 126. ACCOUNTS, RECEIPTS, AND BILLS 127. APPOINTMENTS 128. DEEDS AND LEASES 129. LAND GRANTS 130. SURVEYS, PLATS AND DRAWINGS 131. LETTERS 132. NEWSPAPERS 133. WILLS 134. SEALS 135. MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS 136. MISCELLANEOUS PRINTED MATERIAL 137. MISCELLANEOUS VOLUMES 138. 20TH-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE AND RESEARCH COLLECTIONS 139. JAMES MAURY SERMONS. MS1991.15 140. VEST FAMILY PAPERS. MS1991.17 141. JOHN S. MAJOR ARITHMETIC BOOK. MS1992.2 142. DIXON FAMILY PAPERS. MS1992.3 143. POTTER'S FORMULA LOG BOOK. MS1992.4 144. NAVIGATIONAL EXERCISE BOOK. MS1992.5 145. RANDOLPH- DE POTESTAD FAMILY PAPERS. MS1993.1 146. MEDICAL RECORD BOOK. MS1996.11 147. DELOS SMITH PAPERS. MS1990.6 148. PETER MARTIN MANUSCRIPT. MS1993.8 149. SCRIPT FOR MIRANDA. MS1993.4 150. MINUTES OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF ARCHITECTS. MS1996.6 151. CW ADVISORY ARCHITECTS’ COMMITTEE MEETINGS: MINUTES. MS1996.7 152. HISTORY OF VIRGINIA. R. L. MORTON. MS1993.9 153. WILLIAM FLEMING COLLECTION. MS1996.12 154. THE GENTLEMAN'S JOCKEY… MS1994.8 155. RECEIPTS FOR HORSES. MS1994.9 156. ARCHER HOUSE PHOTOGRAPH. MS1994.3 157. ROBERT WALTON PATTERN BOOK. MS1996.17 158. LIST OF MOTTOES. MS1993.2 159. BURIED TREASURE OF WILLIAMSBURG. IVOR NOËL HUME. MS1993.3 160. ANAH CLARK ACCOUNT BOOK. MS1994.5 161. RESEARCH FILES ON COLONIAL SHOES. MS1993.11 162. PHILIBERT PAPERS. MS1990.3 163. ROBINSON FAMILY PAPERS. MS1994.6 164. FRANK SEWALL SKETCH COLLECTION. MS1996.40 165. MILL BOOK, ACCOUNTS AND MEMORANDUM OF JOHN A. BURWELL. MS1996.3 166. JOHN A. BARROWS PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION. MS1996.22 167. ELIZABETH COZENS PATTERN BOOK. MS1996.24 168. ST. GEORGE TUCKER HOUSE COLLECTION. MS1994.7 169. JOSEPH P. WEBB PAPERS. MS1989.9 170. DICKINSON FAMILY PAPERS. MS2001.9 171. INDEPENDENCE HALL RECEIPTS. MS2000.1 172. THE CRISIS (1775). MS2001.13 (Transferred to books E211.C75, 1X oversize) 1 ELIZABETH JACQUELIN AMBLER PAPERS, 1780-1832, 25 pieces. DMS 54.5. Correspondence from Elizabeth Jacquelin Ambler Brent Carrington (1765-1847), elder daughter of Jacquelin and Rebecca Burwell Ambler, includes letters to her friends, Mildred Smith Dudley of Yorktown, Virginia, and Frances Caines of Bristol, England. These letters, Elizabeth's own copies of the originals, describe her family's difficulties during the American Revolution; the sudden death of her first husband; and the unfortunate life of one of her childhood friends, who succumbed to the charm of the Comte de Rochambeau’s son and bore Lewis Warrington, later a noted American naval hero. [For more on this saga see: Catherine Kerrison, “By the Book: Eliza Brent Carrington and Conduct Literature in Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia,” Va. Mag. Of Hist. & Biog., 105 (1997), 27-52.] Letters to her sister, Ann Ambler Fisher, are Eliza's attempts to describe their family and its antecedents; their life in Yorktown before the Revolution; the hardships of their flight from the British; and the changes the war made in their lives. Included are character sketches of their parents and their brother- in-law, Chief Justice John Marshall. Some passages concerning her later life explain why she retained these letters. Also included is Eliza's copy of an 1815 letter from John A. B. Fisher to his mother, discussing his parents' reaction to his desire to become a minister. Ten of the letters are published, with some editing and alteration, in Atlantic Monthly, LXI, (Oct., 1899), pp. 535-549. Microfilm (M-1120) and transcript (TR/53) copies available. INVENTORY ELIZA JACQUELIN AMBLER PAPERS, 1780-1826 1780 Mildred Smith [Dudley], York, to Eliza Jacquelin Ambler. 1780 Eliza Jacquelin Ambler to Mildred Smith [Dudley]. 1781 Eliza Jacquelin Ambler, Richmond/Louisa, to Mildred Smith [Dudley], Richmond re British invasion. 1782 Mildred Smith [Dudley], Yorktown, to Eliza Jacquelin Ambler, describing town after evacuation and birth of French officer’s child. February 1785 Eliza Jacquelin Ambler to [Mildred Smith Dudley], Richmond, re her beaux. 10 July 1785 Eliza Jacquelin Ambler to Mildred Smith [Dudley], re her husband’s death. 10 January 1786 Eliza Jacquelin Ambler, Williamsburg, to Mildred Smith [Dudley], Williamsburg. 1786 Eliza Jacquelin Ambler to Miss [Frances] C[aines], Bristol, England mentioning Rachel C. Warrington’s love child [Louis] by a French viscount. 1792 Eliza Jacquelin Ambler to Miss [Frances] C[aines], re Lewis Warrington. March, 1795 Eliza Jacquelin Ambler, Richmond, to Miss [Frances] Caines, Bristol, mentioning brother-in-law John Marshall as minister to France. 10 October 1796 Reminiscences concerning family history, [Eliza Jacquelin Ambler to Ann Ambler Fisher]. 1802 Eliza Jacquelin Ambler to Miss [Frances] C[aines]. 1 January 1807 Eliza Jacquelin Ambler to Ann [Nancy] Fisher re gift of young slave girl Janetta and character of their mother. [1807-1809] Eliza Jacquelin Ambler to Ann Nancy Fisher re character of their father. 1809 Eliza Jacquelin Ambler to Nancy [Fisher] re annoyances of Dunmore versus the mild reign of Botetourt. March 1809 Eliza Jacquelin Ambler to [Ann] Nancy [Fisher]. 1810 Eliza Jacquelin Ambler to [Ann] Nancy [Fisher]. November, 1810 Eliza Jacquelin Ambler to [Ann] Nancy [Fisher]. [1810] Eliza Jacquelin Ambler to [Ann] Nancy [Fisher]. 1 May 1815 J. A. B. Fisher to Mother [Ann Fisher], Yale College, New Haven, CT. Mentions Dr. Dwight and his wish to be minister of the gospel. November 1820[6] Eliza Jacquelin Ambler, Richmond, to Frances Caines, Bristol, re Lewis Warrington’s rise in Navy. 11 March 1823 Eliza Jacquelin Ambler to [Ann] Nancy [Fisher]. N. D. “Variety or the Vicissitudes of Life,” being a story of Revolutionary era events in Yorktown and Williamsburg, 7 pp. N. D. Binding. 1X Oversize 2 HELEN M. ANDERSON PAPERS, 1818-1912, 24 pieces. MS1989.13. Correspondence mostly between Helen Maxwell Anderson and U. S. Army officers occupying Williamsburg during the War Between the States in 1862. Papers document the seizure of wine from Mrs. Anderson's house, its storage at the Eastern State Insane Asylum, Anderson's attempts to retrieve the wine, and the ultimate dispensing of the wine by the provost marshall. Correspondents include Lt. John Simpson, Lt. Col. S. E. Smith, and Capt. Flanagan. Documents also included are the will of Sarah (Mrs. Francis) Jerdone (1818), the will of Robert S. Bright (1912) and an autobiographical essay by Robert A. Bright (born in 1839 in Williamsburg). INVENTORY HELEN M. ANDERSON PAPERS, 1818-1912. 28 Dec 1818 Copy of 1813 will of Sarah (Mrs. Francis) Jerdone, Louisa Co., VA. with codicil and executors’ bond sent to Robert Anderson, Williamsburg. 10 pp. 6 May 1862 Request for protection. Helen Maxwell Anderson, Williamsburg, to General George McClellan with response from C. D. Jameson. n.d. [May 1862?] Safe guard for Mrs. Anderson certifies house searched and is not to be entered again. By order of Lt. Col. Smith and Lt. W. J. Simpson. 13 September 1862 Letter. H. M. Anderson, Williamsburg to Maj.