Guide to the Bray Papers , Mss. 65 Pst B73

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Electronic Format:

Negative photocopy. Washington : Library of Congress.

Preferred Citation:

Bray Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Purchase

Scope and Contents

Negative photostats of papers, 1730-1817, of the Bray Associates, a division of the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, which was instrumental in providing libraries for the churches in America and setting up schools for the Christian education of free and enslaved Black children.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

African Americans--Education--Virginia
African Americans--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Church of England--History--18th century
Church of England--Virginia--History--18th century
Education--Virginia--Williamsburg--18th century
Photostats
Slavery--Virginia--18th century
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain)
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--18th century

Container List

Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id307705

Catalogue of Books Supplied by Dr. Bray's Associates

1753-1817

Scope and Contents

12 photostat pages with lists of books, entitled "Catalogues of Books for Home and Foreign Libraries, AD 1753 to AD 1817." One list is headed "1760/61 Books sent to the Rev. Dr. Dawson at Williamsburg, Virginia....for the use of the negroe schools founded there..."

Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id307707

Account Books (a): Correspondence of Dr. Bray's Associates About the Negro School in Williamsburg

1760-1773, 1939

Scope and Contents

25 photostats of letters of Dr. Bray's Associates about subscriptions to the Negro School in Williamsburg, Virginia. Letters addressed to Robert Carter Nicholas, Rev. Dr. Dawson, William Hunter, and Rev. Dr. Josiah Johnson. Correspondents include Rev. Mr. Waring and others. Topics include subscriptions, rules to be observed by the owners of negroes and other matters. Includes Vol. 48 of the "Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society" article entitled "Thomas Bray's Associates and Their Work Among the Negroes" by Edgar Legare Pennington, dated 1939.

Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 5 id307713

Minute Book, Volume II, of Dr. Bray's Associates

1768-1808

Scope and Contents

Photostat copies of Vol. II, years 1768-1808 of Dr. Bray's Associates Minute Book. Includes pages 22, 36, 37, 39, 40, 45, 50, 51, 54, 55, 56, 64 and 67.