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Philip Lightfoot Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Purchased: 1,277 items,
1938.
Acc. No. 1997.61; Gift: 1 item,
1997.
Philip Lightfoot of Culpeper County, Virginia served as a lieutenant in the Continental Army Artillery from 1778-1781. He was commissioned as lieutenant in the Virginia militia and as captain in the 8th U. S. Infantry Regiment. His heir [Philip Lightfoot, Jr.] put in a claim for his Revolutionary War service pension in 1831 so he was apparently dead by that year.
Papers of Philip Lightfoot of Culpeper County, Virginia including his commissions as lieutenant in the Second Battalion, 5th Regiment, Virginia militia and as captain in the 8th U. S. Infantry Regiment and papers relating to his service in the U. S. Army including records of a recruiting party, enlistment pledges, muster rolls, records of rewards offered for deserters and descriptions of U. S. Army uniforms. There are legal papers in the collection and accounts and business correspondence of merchants in Culpeper (James L. Markham, Samuel Porter, and Merrick Starr). Apparently, the later papers in the collection belong to another Philip Lightfoot [perhaps a son.] One of the two men or perhaps, both, were lawyers. The collection contains a letter, 5 July 1809, written by William Wirt as well as four pages of genealogical information on the Lightfoot family including slave births.
The collection is organized into 9 series: 1. Military papers of Philip Lightfoot; 2. Letters; 3. Accounts and invoices; 4. Papers relating to accounts collected by Philip Lightfoot; 5. Legal papers; 6. Papers of James L. Markham; 7. Papers of Samuel Porter; 8. Papers of Merrick Starr; 9. Miscellaneous.
ArrangementSeries 2, 6 and 7 are arranged chronologically; series 3-5 are arranged alphabetically.
An entry for 21 December 1799 gives a detailed description of the uniforms of the United States.
chronological
chronological
Signed by Henry Lee.
chronological
The forms in this manual are filled in with ink and dated 5 April 1799.
chronologically
Enclosure: List of fees in Madison County, due John Brown, clerk of the Court of Appeals, 1794-1802.
A receipt for money received from Philip Lightfoot appears on the same sheet.
Note: The account of Isaac Stone with James Vass appears on the same sheet.
This letter contains an account of the trip to Kentucky.
Also a tinted photostat.
Alphabetically.
Includes a memorandum book.
Alphabetically.
Alphabetically.
Trust deed to a tract of land in Rappahannock County, Virginia, for the benefit of William Slaughter.
Suit in Rappahannock County.
Release of lien on slaves.
Bill of sale for a Negro slave.
Deed to a tract of land in Culpeper County, Virginia.
Suit in Culpeper County.
Suit in Culpeper County.
Suit in Culpeper County.
Suit in Culpeper County.
Culpeper County.
Estate, including extract of will.
Suit in Culpeper County.
Quitrent deed to a tract of land in Orange County, Virginia.
Suit.
Suits in Culpeper County.
Suit in Culpeper County.
Suit.
Suit in Richmond, Virginia.
Deed to a tract of land in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Estate.
Suit in Orange County, Virginia.
Suit in Madison County, Virginia.
Power of Attorney.
Bill of sale for a Negro slave.
Suit in Culpeper County, Virginia.
Will.
Declaration of Philip Lightfoot's military service in 1812, for the purpose of obtaining bounty land.
Power of attorney for sale of a tract of land in Kentucky.
Indemnity bond.
Suit.
Suit.
Agreement concerning the sale of a slave.
Suit in Culpeper County, Virginia.
Deed to a tract of land in Culpeper County.
Estate.
Estate.
Estate.
Suit.
Suit in Culpeper County, Virginia.
Suit in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland.
Suit.
Estate, Culpeper County, Virginia.
Suit in Culpeper County.
Suit in Culpeper County, Virginia.
Deed to a tract of land in Culpeper County, Virginia, 1765.
Suit in Albemarle County, Virginia.
Suit in High Court of Chancery, Richmond.
Deed of sale covering lands in Culpeper County, Virginia, and slaves and personal property devised by Marshall Petty, deceased, to John S. Petty.
Deed conveying certain Negroes and personal property in trust for the benefit of James and Susannah Slaughter.
Trust deed covering three tracts of land in Culpeper County, Virginia.
Deed to a tract of land in Culpeper County, Virginia.
Estate.
Court order directing Edward Stevens and David Jameson, commissioners, to convey two tracts of land in Culpeper County, Virginia, to Jeremiah Strother.
Memorandum of suits against H. Dod and Nimrod Berry, Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
Suit in Culpeper County, Virginia.
Deed to a tract of land in Madison County, Virginia.
Suit in Fredericksburg District Court.
Suit in Culpeper County, Virginia.
Suit.
Report of a jury on possible injury to property due to the proposal of John C. Williams to raise his mill dam on Cedar Run, Culpeper County, 1803, not signed.
Deed to a tract of land in Culpeper County, Virginia.
Deed to a tract of land in Culpeper County, Virginia.
Bill of sale for a Negro boy.
Including one surveyor's plat.
chronologically.
An Account appears on the same page.
Included are letters for the following dates: 25 June, 9 July, 16 July, 23 July 1811.
Three accounts appear on the same sheet.
An account of James Tutt with Markham and Breedlove appears on the same sheet.
Mutilated.
alphabetically.
chronologically.
An account appears on the same sheet.
This letter, written on a printed circular, includes a copy of a letter from Worrell, Jennings & Co., to Samuel Porter, 11 December 1815.
Alphabetically by records creator, unknown and fragments at the end.
Articles of association.
Petition of the citizens of Culpeper County to the House of Delegates requesting that the county be divided.
Recommendation for the position of deputy to a county clerk.
Certificate of residence in Culpeper County.
Two memorandum books containing personal accounts and accounts collected for clients.
Legal notes and forms.
Photograph of a portrait, (1562-1625).
Obituary in the handwriting of Philip Lightfoot.
Request for membership in the Stevensburg Lodge.
Acts of the legislature.
Certificate of office as justice of the peace.