Collection Summary

Creator:
Title: Miscellaneous English and American Legal Documents, 1559 - 1847
Accession: MSS 79-12
Description: 32 documents
Location: SC - Oversized
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Digitized Content: 0 objects
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Collection Description & Arrangement

Miscellaneous English and American documents that include indentures, wills, deeds, land titles and financial records. These documents span the years 1559 through 1847.

Acquisition Information

Date Received 1979
Donor Information No donors are known for any of the material.

Content List

Miscellaneous English Legal Documents

  • 1549 – 1559; Ornamented English Document [Recovery of Lands in the Parish of Elnig?]
  • 1575; Original Lease of the Great Farm called [Elsons?] between John Dingley and Roger [Mitchell]
  • 1614; Indenture between Thomas Flemyng and Edward Skymer
  • 1643; Indenture between Thomas Bodingfield and Thomas WItherdon
  • 1674; Indenture between Flint and Woodie
  • 1676; Bedford Deed between Charles Smith and Robert Earl of Suderland
  • 1678; Indenture signed by Henry Heylun and Lewis Dalton
  • 1679; Unidentified document recorded by William Bolton
  • 1684; Indenture between Joseph Dod and Samuel Chamblett
  • 1709; Bill of Exchange between Mathias Jones (London Merchant) and J. James Dunnidge (Notary) to John Goodwin (January 4th)
  • 1712; Will of Magdalen Lovett
  • 1717; [Acquittance?] signed by Will Soley
  • 1720; Indenture between Edmund Skinner and James Evers
  • 1729; Document regarding tobacco; Quadripartite Indenture between Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Spring, Simon Thomas and William Dix
  • 1731; Indenture between Edmund Skinner and James Evers
  • 1735; Document concerning Thomas Gooch
  • 1762; Will of Martha Noble
  • 1763; Sale of Trust Account
  • 1765; Document regarding William and Elizabeth Davison
  • 1774 – 1777; Account of Robert Conway, Exor. [Winder Kenner] with William Harcum
  • 1779; Rent records for the manors of Kingshall, Bendhall, Rowehall and Wascolies
  • 1783; Financial Record
  • 1798; Policy of assurance for Schooner Sally taken by Nicholas Welzerd
  • 1815; Document for Tarleton v. Holland and Burzon v. Staples

Miscellaneous American Legal Documents

  • 1776; Declaration of Independence [Copy]
  • 1804; Indenture. Sarah Malcolm and others to John Wilson, J. Wilson Deed [Used by Professor Dillard in his classes].
  • 1833; Deed of Chalkley Gillingham’s wife to Thomas Wedmesley
  • 1837; Indenture of Thomas Nalmesley and Fernandez and Rebecca Woodington to George W. Mills.
  • 1839; Indenture of George W. and Catherine Mills to Patrick McNally
  • 1847; Title of Land granted to James Skaggs. Signed by Thomas M. Randolph, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia

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