Garret Minor papers
Language: eng
Subjects: Correspondence; Commerce; Merchants; Virginia; Land speculation; Virginia. Militia; Campaigns; Sawmills; Personal Finance; History
Description: Letters and accounts concerning business and military affairs in Virginia and Georgia.  Includes ledger (1765-1792) of accounts of Minor's sawmill and store, with material relating to Thomas Jefferson's account and to land speculation; correspondence relating to land speculation in Wilkes and Elbert counties, Ga., and to Revolutionary War campaigns in Virginia against the Earl of Dunmore (1776-1777) and Lord Cornwallis (1781); and military certificates signed by Beverley Randolph and Edmund Randolph.  Correspondents include Minor's brothers, Peter and Dabney Minor, and Anthony Sydnor and Charles Cosby, Samuel Gist, Thomas Jefferson, and James Tait.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 16,896.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977.

Purchase, 1905.

Sawmill owner, merchant, and militia officer, of Louisa County, Va.; first name alternately spelled Garrett.

Collection material in English.