Virginia miscellany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; British Diplomatic and consular service; Virginia; Land tenure; Surveyors; Virginia. General Assembly; Seal; Virginia. Council; Colonies; Smallpox; History
Description: Facsimile of a petition (1621) to the British ambassador to France to allow French and Walloon colonists to settle in Virginia; letter (circa 1658) of the Virginia Council to Richard Cromwell, another letter (1746) relating to lands in the Northern Neck purchased by Lord Thomas Fairfax, and fragment of a letter (1749) pertaining to Eleazer Robertson; three letters (1711, 1718) of the Virginia General Assembly documenting land sales by John and Frances Custis and Daniel McCarty; annotated chart (1748) showing results of a smallpox epidemic in Virginia; list (1757) of Virginia county surveyors; two letters (circa 1772-1775) of John Murray, Earl of Dunmore and governor of Virginia; photocopy, typescript, and facsimile of the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776); and photocopy of a sketch (1781) of the Virginia commonwealth seal.
Notes: Many items were previously cataloged separately.

Open to research.

In part, photocopies and facsimiles. [S.l.].

Exchange, New York Public Library, 1936.

Transfer, Library of Congress Division of Accessions, 1930.

Purchases, 1917-1921.

Collection material in English.

Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.