Inventory of the Richard Billups Papers
1705-1857 Billups, Richard, 1705-1857
Mss. 65 B49
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Collection number Mss. 65 B49
Title Richard Billuups Papers,
1705-1857,
1774-1822.
Extent 4,308 items.
Creator
Richard Billups.
Language
English
Abstract Business, military and legal
papers, chiefly 1774-1822, of Richard Billups of Mathews and
Gloucester Counties, Virginia.
Restrictions on Access
Collection is open to all researchers.
Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use
Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any
materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of
Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the
copyright, if not Swem Library.
Preferred Citation
Richard Billups Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books
Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information
>Deposit: 4,006 items,
7/18/1941.
Richard Billups was a merchant; shipbuilder; shipowner;
justice of the peace; sheriff of Mathews County, Virginia,
1792-1795; major in the Virginia militia; leader in the
Methodist Episcopal Church; and member of the Virginia House
of Delegates, 1807-1817, from Matthews County.
Business, military and legal papers, chiefly 1774-1822, of
Richard Billups of Mathews and Gloucester Counties, Virginia.
Papers include accounts, land records, and correspondence and
some concern shipbuilding. Includes minutes, 1842, of a
temperance meeting and Methodist church records.
Organization
This collection is organized into 8 Series:
Arrangement
This collection is arranged chronologically by date. The
names mentioned with each folder are just a few of the many
names which appear on the documents included within that
folder.
Subjects:
Methodist
Church--Virginia.
Temperance--History--19th
century.
Geographical Names:
Gloucester County (Va.)-
-History.
Mathews County
(Va.)--History.
Occupations:
Shipbuilding--Virginia.
Gloucester County (Va.)-
-History.
Mathews County
(Va.)--History.
Box 1-5
Series 1: Accounts
Including plats of land, receipts, etc.
Accounts in the eighteenth century,
1757-1799.
Box-folder
1:1
Accounts,
1757.
Robert Whiting, John Billups.
Box-folder
1:2
Accounts,
1761.
Thos. Flowerdewe, Benjamine Cook.
Box-folder
1:3
Accounts,
1764-1765.
Taylor, Burton, Dellahaunty, Beatley.
Box-folder
1:4
Accounts,
1766.
George Hunley, Ziperus Degges.
Box-folder
1:5
Accounts,
1767.
Box-folder
1:6
Accounts,
1768-1769.
Stubblefield, Burton, Jarvis, Lyell.
Box-folder
1:7
Accounts,
1771.
John Billups, John Steer, John Foster, Jr.
Box-folder
1:8
Accounts,
1772.
John Foster, John Billups, Geo. Foster, Wm.
Armistead, etc.
Box-folder
1:9
Accounts,
1773.
John Billups, L. Smith, Wm. Reynolds,
Nelson.
Box-folder
1:10
Accounts,
1774.
Billups, L. Smith, Nelson, Reynolds,
Shackelford, David Jameson, Jr., Issac Foster,
small account booklet.
Box-folder
1:11
Accounts,
1775.
Armistead, John Billups, Reynolds,
Shackelford.
Box-folder
1:12
Accounts,
1776.
Thos. Gibbons, Thos. Flipper
Box-folder
1:13
Accounts,
1777.
John Fowler, Mathias James.
Box-folder
1:14
Accounts,
1778.
John and Richard Billups, Thos. Billups.
Box-folder
1:15
Accounts,
1779.
Billups, John Weston, Delahaunty, Taylor.
Box-folder
1:16
Accounts,
1780.
Billups, John Fowler, John Avery, Joshua Gayle,
Rispess.
Box-folder
1:17
Accounts,
1781.
Richard and John Billups, Thos. Lilly.
Box-folder
1:18
Accounts,
1782.
Box-folder
1:19
Accounts,
1783.
Respess, Mathews, Foster, Pennock, Risby,
Billups.
Box-folder
1:20
Accounts,
1784.
John Lilly, Billups, John Foster, Henry
Forrest, etc.
Box-folder
1:21
Accounts,
1785.
John and Isaac Foster, Richard Risby, Billups,
etc.
Box-folder
1:22
Accounts,
1786.
R. Risby, Estate of John Foster, Billups.
Box-folder
1:23
Accounts,
1787.
James Callis, Repass, Billups, Risby.
Box-folder
1:24
Accounts,
1788.
Estate of Wm. Lilly, Respass, Risby, Billups,
etc.
Box-folder
1:25
Accounts,
1789.
Respass, Lilly, Callis, Knight, etc.
Box-folder
1:26
Accounts,
1790.
Respass, Foster, Forrest, Knight, Charlton,
Jones, Tinsley, etc.
Box-folder
1:27
Accounts,
1791.
Rispass, Roberts, Foster, Mathews, etc.
Box-folder
1:28
Accounts,
1792.
Many names on accounts with Clerk or Sheriff,
Mathews County.
Box-folder
1:29
Accounts,
1792.
Rispess, Risby, Anderson, Lilly, Gayle, Davis
land plats.
Box-folder
2:1
Accounts,
1793
Many names on accounts with Clerk or sheriff,
Mathews County.
Box-folder
2:2
Accounts,
1793.
Lilly, Foster, Respass, Jarvis, Anderson,
Dudley, Knight, etc.
Box-folder
2:3
Accounts,
1794.
Many names on accounts with Clerk or Sheriff,
Mathews County.
Box-folder
2:4
Accounts,
1794.
More accounts as Folder 3; general account
names as above including Rispess, Gwathmey,
Dabnet. Etc.
Box-folder
2:5
Accounts,
1795.
Respass, Cooke, Tabb, many sheriff's accounts,
etc.
Box-folder
2:6
Accounts,
1796.
Respass, Dixon, Foster, Anderso, Hunley,
Reynolds, Callis, etc.
Box-folder
2:7
Accounts,
1797.
Repspass, Forrest, Degges, Hurst, Knight,LeRoy
Cole, etc.
Box-folder
2:8
Accounts,
1798.
Respass, Eddens, Knight, Van Bibber, Dudley,
etc.
Box-folder
2:9
Accounts,
1799.
Respass, Smith, Foster, Knight Schacelford,
Patterson, etc.
Accounts in the nineteenth century,
1800-1857.
Box-folder
3:1
Accounts,
1800.
Parker, Lilly, Smith, Callis, Foster, Forrest,
Respass, Knight, etc.
Box-folder
3:2
Accounts,
1801.
Smith, Knight, Respess, Gayle, David, Brounley,
Saunders, etc.
Box-folder
3:3
Accounts,
1802.
Lilly Smith, Respess, Knight, Foster, Degges,
Hudgin, etc.
Box-folder
3:4
Accounts,
1803.
Smith, Parrott, Mays, Knight, Respass, etc.
Box-folder
3:5
Accounts,
1804.
Jarvis, Lilly, Knight, Callis, Brown, Gayle,
Eddins, etc.
Box-folder
3:6
Accounts,
1805.
Degges, Eddins, Knight, Lilly, Brown, Foster,
etc.
Box-folder
3:7
Accounts,
1806.
Foster, Forrest, Eddens, Boswell, Knight,
Brounley, etc.
Box-folder
3:8
Accounts,
1807.
Eddens, Lilly, Armistead, Foster, Tabb, Wjite,
Burniston (?).
Box-folder
3:9
Accounts,
1807.
Accounts in connection with building of new
schooner "County Norton."
Box-folder
3:10
Accounts,
1808.
Foster, Forrest, Dudley, Morgan, Burling,
Brounley, etc.
Box-folder
3:11
Accounts,
1809.
Cole, Degges, Timberlake, Williams, Forest,
White, Davis, Tyree, Hudgin, Tomkins, etc.
Box-folder
4:1
Accounts,
1810.
Dawson, Eddens, Bahannon, Forrest, Foster,
Burneston, Burling, Mann Page, etc.
Box-folder
4:2
Accounts,
1811.
Cole, Jarvis, Forrest, Gayle, Widgeon, Lane,
etc.
Box-folder
4:3
Accounts,
1812.
Respress, Foster, Hudgin, Eddens, Callis,
Roberts, etc.
Box-folder
4:4
Accounts,
1813.
Box-folder
4:5
Accounts,
1814.
Plat of ground; Foster, Smith, Knight, Eddens,
Winder, etc.
Box-folder
4:6
Accounts,
1815.
Foster, Degges, Smith, Morgan, etc.
Box-folder
4:7
Accounts,
1816.
Cramp, Lewis, Davis, Bohannon, Stevens, Foster,
etc.
Box-folder
4:8
Accounts,
1817.
Foster, Tompkins, Brounley, Hugin, Tomblin,
Minter, etc.
Box-folder
4:9
Accounts,
1818.
Bramhall, Robens, Tompkins, Foster, Hayes,
Eddens, etc.
Box-folder
4:10
Accounts,
1819.
Bounley, Foster, James, Ransone, Bramhall,
King, etc.
Box-folder
4:11
Accounts,
1820.
Minster, Tompkins, Armistead, Diggs, Foster,
etc.
Box-folder
4:12
Accounts,
1821.
March, Tompkins, Armistead, Foster, etc.
Box-folder
4:13
Accounts,
1822.
Callis, Foster, Davis, Respass, etc.
Box-folder
4:14
Accounts,
1823.
Tompkins, Winder, Wjite, James, Diggs, etc.
Box-folder
4:15
Accounts,
1824.
Forrest, Deggs, Knight, Callis, Tompkins,
Edwards, etc.
Box-folder
4:16
Accounts,
1825.
Morgan, Tompkins, Davis, Diggs, etc.
Box-folder
4:17
Accounts,
1826.
Hudgin, Tompkins, Jarvis, etc.
Box-folder
5:1
Accounts,
1827.
Diggs, Tabb, Minter, Smith, Tompkins, etc.
Box-folder
5:2
Accounts,
1828.
Dunston, Stoakes, Tompkins, March, etc.
Box-folder
5:3
Accounts,
1829.
Stokes, March, Tompkins, Davis, Gambill,
etc.
Box-folder
5:4
Accounts,
1830.
Foushee, Freeman, Tompkins, Crawford, Neale,
etc.
Box-folder
5:5
Accounts,
1831.
March, Stoaks, Tompkins, Davis, etc.
Box-folder
5:6
Accounts,
1832.
Stoaks, Smith, Moore, Owins, Tompkins, Hudgin,
etc.
Box-folder
5:7
Accounts,
1833.
Stoaks, Edwards, Minter, Kane, Walker, etc.
Box-folder
5:8
Accounts,
1834.
Stoaks, Silverthorn, Goodrich, Hodges, etc.
Box-folder
5:9
Accounts,
1835.
Stoaks, White, Diggs, armstrong, Tabb, etc.
Box-folder
5:10
Accounts,
1836.
Brounly, Richardson, Stoakes, Hall, Lane,
etc.
Box-folder
5:11
Accounts,
1837.
Roy, Jones, Stoakes, Minter, Roberts, James,
etc.
Box-folder
5:12
Accounts,
1838-1839.
Ransome, Stoakes, Lane, Belvin, James, etc.
Box-folder
5:13
Accounts,
1840.
Stoakes, Evans Roberts, Foster, Lumpkin,
Ransone, etc.
Box-folder
5:14
Accounts,
1841.
Stoakes, Knight, Respess, Jarvis, Evans,
etc.
Box-folder
5:15
Accounts,
1842.
Stoakes, Callis, Bonsal, March, etc.
Box-folder
5:16
Accounts,
1843-1844.
Brounly, Stokes, Foster, etc.
Box-folder
5:17
Accounts,
1845.
Thomas, Stoakes, Sibley, Lane, Foster, Brounly,
etc.
Box-folder
5:18
Accounts,
1846.
Box-folder
5:19
Accounts,
1847-1848.
Box-folder
5:20
Accounts,
1849-1850.
Box-folder
5:21
Accounts,
1851-1857.
Hudgins, Marchant, Hundley, Taylor, Foster,
etc.
Accounts,
n.d.
Box 6-7
Series 2:Account Books
Box-folder
6:1
Account and Memo Book, unnamed merchant,
1773-1786.
Box-folder
6:2
Account book or ledger, unnamed merchant,
1777-1779.
Box-folder
6:3
Account book, unnamed merchant,
1785-1787.
Box-folder
6:4
Invoice Book, Richard Billups,
1797-1798.
Box 6
Memo and pocket book - for? Billups,
Kingston Parish,
1778-1799.
Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of
box, each identified with a slip as to title and
date.
Box 6
Account book, rum sales - Probably Richard
Billups,
1785-1786.
Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of
box, each identified with a slip as to title and
date.
Box 6
Sheriff's ledger kept by Richard Billups,
1792-1794
Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of
box, each identified with a slip as to title and
date.
Box 6
Sheriff's account book, Richard Billups,
1795-1805
Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of
box, each identified with a slip as to title and
date.
Box 6
Account book of Richard Billups,
1797-1814
Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of
box, each identified with a slip as to title and
date.
Box 6
Account book, Richard Billups, merchant
and surveyor,
1797-1822.
Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of
box, each identified with a slip as to title and
date.
Box 6
Printed almanac interleaved with accounts
and memos of Richard Billups,
1811-1814.
Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of
box, each identified with a slip as to title and
date.
Box 6
Accounts of collections and sermons,
memos, unidentified clergyman,
1839-1840.
Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of
box, each identified with a slip as to title and
date.
Box-folder
7:1
Account book, unidentified merchant,
1797-1880.
150 pages.
Box-folder
7:2
Cash book, cover bears name John Billups,
1798-1801.
14 pages.
Box-folder
7:3
Account book with index; Richard Billups?,
.1800-1801
27 pages.
Box-folder
7:4
Account or day book; Richard Billups?,
1800-1801.
30 pages.
Box-folder
7:5
Account or day book; Richard Billups?,
1800-1802.
45 pages.
Box-folder
7:6
Account book, unidentified merchant,
1802.
10 pages.
Box-folder
7:7
Accountbook, Richard Billups,
1802-1803.
14 pages.
Box-folder
7:8
Account book unidentified merchant,
1803.
14 pages.
Box-folder
7:9
Account book, Richard Billups?,
1804-1807.
25 pages.
Box 8-9
Series 3: Legal Papers
Box-folder
8:1
Legal Papers - deed,
1726.
Poor condition.
Box-folder
8:2
Indenture between Robert Whiting and John
Hanbur,
1753.
Box-folder
8:3
Legal Papers,
1770-1779.
Rum import certificate, Baltimore, 1777.
Box-folder
8:4
Legal Papers,
1780-1789.
Will of John Billups, July 20, 1785. Import
certificate, Fredericksburg 1788.
Box-folder
8:5
Deed with survey, Richard Billups,
1791.
Box-folder
8:6
Legal Papers,
1793.
Respess, Flitchett, Foster, Wjite.
Box-folder
8:7
Legal Papers,
1794.
Ransome, Gayle, Callis, Gregory, Davis.
Box-folder
8:8
Legal Papers,
1795.
Brown, Langley, Respess, White, Hunley,
Foster.
Box-folder
8:9
Legal Papers,
1796.
Box-folder
8:10
Legal Papers,
1797.
Taylor, Richard Billups, etc.
Box-folder
8:11
Legal Papers,
1798.
Taylor, Richard Billups, Respess.
Box-folder
8:12
Legal Papers,
1799.
Billups-Patterson, Lewis, etc.
Box-folder
8:13
Legal Papers,
1800.
Box-folder
8:14
Legal Papers,
1801.
Hudgins, Blake, Respess, etc.
Box-folder
8:15
Legal Papers,
1802-1803.
Box-folder
8:16
Legal Papers,
1804.
Box-folder
8:17
Legal Papers,
1805.
Box-folder
8:18
Legal Papers,
1806.
Box-folder
8:19
Legal Papers,
1807.
Box-folder
8:20
Petition to House of Delegates,
1808.
Petition regards Richard Billups, Eddins, Gayle,
etc.
Box-folder
8:21
Legal Papers,
1809.
Box-folder
8:22
Legal Papers,
1810-1811.
Minutes of the House of Delegates Feb. 5, 1810.
Litchfield, Williams, Forrest, White, etc.
Box-folder
8:23
Legal Papers,
1812-13.
Box-folder
8:24
Legal Papers,
1814.
Box-folder
8:25
Legal Papers,
1815.
Box-folder
8:26
Legal Papers,
1817.
Davis, Lewis, Degges, Callis, etc.
Box-folder
8:27
Legal Papers,
1818.
Hudgins, Daniel, Foster, Swann, etc.
Box-folder
8:28
Legal Papers,
1819.
Box-folder
9:1
Legal Papers,
1820.
Degge, Tompkins, Forest, etc.
Box-folder
9:2
Legal Papers,
1821.
Ransone, Diggs, Whting, etc.
Box-folder
9:3
Legal Papers,
1822.
Lilly, Hunley, Jarvis, Booker, Smith, Degge,
Gayle, etc.
Box-folder
9:4
Legal Papers,
1823-1824.
Diggs, Armistead, Winder, Foster, Knight, etc.
Box-folder
9:5
Legal Papers,
1825.
Bohannon, Burcher, Ransone, etc.
Box-folder
9:6
Legal Papers,
1826.
Bohannon, Foster, Gayle, Ransone, etc.
Box-folder
9:7
Legal Papers,
1827-1830.
Foster, Hudgins, Ransone, etc.
Box-folder
9:8
Legal Papers,
1831.
Box-folder
9:9
Legal Papers,
1836-1837.
Knight, Foster, Winder, Anderson (Marriage
licenses)
Box-folder
9:10
Legal Papers,
1838-1839.
Tax levy note book; Geo Paul marriage license;
Hurst-Stewart marriage license.
Box-folder
9:11
Legal Papers,
1840-1849.
Diggs, Hunley, Edwards, Jarvis, Ransone, etc.
Box-folder
9:12
Legal Papers,
1850-1851.
Miller, Bayly, White, Foster, etc.
Box-folder
9:13
Legal Papers,
1852.
Hudgins, White, Richardson, Thomas, Williams,
etc.
Box-folder
9:14
Legal Papers,
1853.
Hudgins, White, Pratt, Owens, Bassett, etc.
Box-folder
9:15
Legal Papers,
1854.
Edwards, Foster, Davis, Richardson, Hudgins,
etc.
Box-folder
9:16
Legal Papers,
1855.
Davis, Lane, James, Hurst, Calles, etc.
Box-folder
9:17
Legal Papers,
n.d.
Court docket for May term; Griffin.
Box-folder
8:18-25
Series 4: Letters and Memos
Box-folder
9:18
Letters,
1772-1776.
Wilkins, Respess, Smith, etc.
Box-folder
9:19
Letters,
1790-1798.
Patterson, Tabb, Jones, etc.
Box-folder
9:20
Letters,
1801-1806.
Brown, Gibbons, Patterson, Tyree, etc.
Box-folder
9:21
Letters,
1810-1819.
Lilly, Ransone, Fowler, Muire, Jackson, etc.
Box-folder
9:22
Letters,
1820-1827.
McCandlish, Tabb, Stevens, James, Lilly, Gayle,
etc.
Box-folder
9:23
Letters,
1835-1838.
Eddins, Stoaks, Dudley, etc.
Box-folder
9:24
Letters,
1841-1847.
Smith, Stoakes, March, Callis, Gayle, etc.
Box-folder
9:25
Letters,
n.d.
Minter, brig construction, etc.
Box-folder
9:26-28
Series 5: Military Papers
Box-folder
9:26
Military Papers,
1797-1808.
Gayle, Hughes, Hudgins, Van Bibber, Hurst,
etc.
Box-folder
9:27
Military Papers,
1812-1813.
Lists of men, Weedon, Gayle, etc.
Box-folder
9:28
Military Papers,
1814-1822,
n.d.
Nicholas, Gayle, Callis; lists of men, etc.
Includes 2 items with no date.
Box-folder
9:29-30
Series 6:Society Papers
Box-folder
9:29
Society Papers,
1811-1835.
Quarterly meeting minutes, lists of names.
Box-folder
9:30
Society Papers,
1842,
n.d.
Total Abstinence Society Minutes, 1842; religious
notes; composition on astronomy by Martha E. Stoakes,
no date.
Box-folder
9:31
Sale of the Glebe lands with regard to logs sold,
work done; and a map, etc.
Box-folder
9:32
Printed Material,
1811-1812,
n.d.
Series 7: Printed Material
Literary fund broadsides, Richmond 1811-1812.
Clippings, no date.
Box-folder
10:1-12
Series 8: Oversized Material
Box-folder
10:1
Will of George Billups of Milford Haven,
Gloucester County, Virginia,
6 January
1705.
2 copies.
Box-folder
10:1
Will of Richard Billups of Kingston
Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia,
31 January
1751.
Box-folder
10:1
Will of Wilckerson Hunley of Kingston
Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia,
27 February
1747.
Box-folder
10:2
Court Orders,
1772-1795.
Box-folder
10:3
Oversized Material,
1712,
n.d.
Account of William Jarrott, Wilkerson Hunley,
George Hunley, Edward Hughes, and 2 maps of Property,
one dated 22 Oct. 1712.
Box-folder
10:4
Minutes of the vestry of Kingston Parish
and legal papers,
16 April
1785.
Box-folder
10:5
Minutes of Methodist meetings in
Gloucester County, Virginia,
1806,
1813.
Box-folder
10:6
Wills,
1784,
1785.
Box-folder
10:7
Deeds, indentures of George Billups, John
Billups, and John Mathews,
n.d.
Box-folder
10:8
Receipts,
1769-1774.
Box-folder
10:9
Receipts,
1796-1799.
Box-folder
10:10
Legal papers,
n.d..
Box-folder
10:11
Papers dealing with the estate of Richard
Billups and William A. Lilley,
1785.
Box-folder
10:12
Papers relating to the estate of John
Lilly and Zadoc Litchfield; Richard Billups,
executor,
n.d.
Box 10
Account book volume containing
genealogical information inside the back cover,
1777-1797.
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