Professional papers of Donald M. Sweig (William and Mary B. A. 1973 Ph. D 1982. Includes research notes, and correspondence
regarding publication of articles in The William and Mary Quarterly, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, and Prologue.
These papers include the correspondence, draft and original photographs/negatives to accompany article in VMHB on seal of
the College, drafts and proofs of articles, research notes and census data tied to his master's thesis at George Mason University
(M. A. 1975), as well as photocopies of primary sources concerning free Black people in northern Virginia (primarily Fairfax
county, Loudoun county, Arlington county and Fredericksburg). There are also newspaper clippings of his activities as historian
for Fairfax County, Virginia.
Index and deeds of emancipation and apprenticeship for Black people
1700's
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id70327
Index and deeds of emancipation and apprenticeship for Black people
1700's
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id70328
Index and deeds of emancipation and apprenticeship for Black people
1700's
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id70352
Articles and Notes
1970-1990
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id70357
Notes for Potomac Importation Paper
1980's
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id70359
Notes and Revisions Potomac Importation Paper
1980's
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id70360
Copies and Edit of Potomac River Importation Paper
1980's
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id70361
Correspondence related to Potomac Importation paper
1980s
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id70362
Revisions of Potomac Importation Paper
1980's
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id70363
Revision and Correspondence for Potomac Importation Paper
1980's
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 id70364
Correspondence on Potomac Importation Paper
1980's
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 id70365
Correspondence and Journal Photocopies
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13 id70366
Correspondence on Potomac Importation Article
1980's
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14 id70367
Correspondence on Galley Proofs of Potomac Importation Article
1980's
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15 id70368
Loudoun County Free Negroes
1780-1860
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 17 id70346
Offprints
1970-1990
Scope and Contents
A Brief History of Fairfax County by Donald M. Sweig (Heritage Resources Information Series: Number 1) Brochure written by
Sweig: The Legacy of the Constitution and Fairfax County Courts were Appointed in Convenient Places by Donald M. Sweig "The
Virginia Non-importation Association Broadside of 1770 and Fairfax County: A Study in Local Participation" reprinted by the
Office of Comprehensive Planning from the VMHB. "Reassessing the Human Dimension of the Interstate Slave Trade" by Sweig from
Prologue Spring 1980 Moxham, Robert Morgan, The Great Hunting Creek Land Grants (1974) "A New-Found Washington Letter of 1774
and the Fairfax Resolves A New-Found Washington Letter of 1774 and the Fairfax Resolves" by Donald M. Sweig The William and
Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 40, No. 2 (April, 1983), pp. 283-291 "The Importation of African Slaves to the Potomac
River, 1732-1772" by Donald M. Sweig The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Oct., 1985), pp. 507-524
Mixed Materials Box: 2 id70370
Box 2
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18 id70371
Kephardt documents from New Jersey
1840-1860
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 19 id70372
Article by Sweig on George Washington and a family of enslaved persons
Scope and Contents
Published in September 25, 1983 Washington Post. Includes typescripts and newspaper article copies.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 20 id70373
Article from Niles Register concerning the sale of enslaved persons by Bushrod Washington
1821
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 21 id70374
Four copies of receipts for enslaved people and tabulations from Bruim v. Kephardt (Fairfax County Chancery Suit)
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 22 id70375
Paper written for History 511 under Dr. Gleissner
1974
Scope and Contents
Paper written April 24, 1974 on the Revolutionary Activity and Ideology in Fairfax County, Va. 1774-1776 (Fairfax Resolves)
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 23 id70376
Notes and correspondence with William M. E. Rachal (Virginia Historical Society)
1974 January
Scope and Contents
Information relating to "A Capital on the Potomac" January 1979 VMHB.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 24 id70377
Freedman's Village article by Susan Gilpin
1984
Scope and Contents
Post Civil War Arlington near Pentagon site.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 25 id70378
Honesty family genealogy (Ohio family of Black persons)
1982
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 26 id70379
Notes and correspondence with William M. E. Rachal (Virginia Historical Society)
1979 January
Scope and Contents
Information relating to "A Capital on the Potomac" January 1979 VMHB.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 27 id70380
Notes and correspondence with William M. E. Rachal (Virginia Historical Society)
1979 January
Scope and Contents
Information relating to "A Capital on the Potomac" January 1979 VMHB.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 28 id70381
Notes for Capital on the Potomac
1970-1980's
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 29 id70382
Research materials article concerning Sweig in a newspaper called the Gazette
1983 November 10
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 30 id70384
Indentures copies of deeds
1780-1860
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 31 id70385
William and Mary Photo
1868
Mixed Materials Box: 3 id70391
Box 3
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 32 id70392
Patricia Hickin
Scope and Contents
(Gentle Agitator: Samuel M. Janney and the Antislavery Movement in Virginia, 1842-1851)
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 33 id70393
Articles on hiring of enslaved people and enslavement by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Scope and Contents
(Flexibility and Profit in Slave Hiring System of Fairfax County, Va.)
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 34 id70394
Antebellum slave family charts and inventories of estates (photocopies)
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 35 id70395
Slave Probate Material
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 36 id70396
Handwritten and typed draft of paper "The Human Dimension of the Interstate Slave Trade
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 37 id70398
Misc Notes - Littlefield
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 38 id70399
Aggregate Census Data 1830,60,70,80
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 39 id70408
Census Material 1820
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 40 id70415
Census Material 1850
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 41 id70416
Black Fairfax Graphics
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 42 id70419
Sweig's Master's Thesis at GMU on Free Negroes in Northern Virginia
1975
Scope and Contents
Includes research notes and census data.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 43 id70421
Sweig's Master's Thesis at GMU on Free Negroes in Northern Virginia
1975
Scope and Contents
Includes research notes and census data – see citation below.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 44 id70422
Sweig's Master's Thesis at GMU on Free Negroes in Northern Virginia
1975
Scope and Contents
Includes research notes and census data.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 45 id70423
Copy of bastardy and servant cards from county court minute book index (Fairfax)
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 46 id70424
Black History Materials
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 47 id70425
Sweig Paper –"Land of the Unfree and Home of the Slave: A Preliminary Demographic Profile of the Slave and Servant Population"
Mixed Materials Box: 4 id70696
Box 4
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 48 id70697
Court Papers Free Blacks and Slaves
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 49 id70698
Research for Washington Letter Article
Scope and Contents
Off print of article (note) in WMQ April 1983 "New-Found Washington Letter and the Fairfax Resolves". Drafts, research notes,
transcripts of the letter and correspondence with the IEAHC regarding the publishing.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 50 id70699
George Mason
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 51 id70700
Black History
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 52 id70701
Loudon Free Black Typescript Pt 1
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 53 id70702
Loudon Free Black Typescript Pt 2
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 54 id70703
Loudon Free Black Typescript Pt 3
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 55 id70705
Fredericksburg Free Negroes
1790-1862
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 56 id70706
Arlington County Free Negro Registration
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 57 id70707
Research for Washington Letter Article
Mixed Materials Box: 5 id70708
Box 5
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 58 id70709
Verdt a College paper
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 59 id70710
Free Black Register Publicity
Scope and Contents
Publicity clippings regarding publication of Fairfax County Free Black Registers (one article includes info on West Ford
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 60 id70711
Indexing Court Records
Scope and Contents
Post articles regarding project to index colonial court records for Fairfax.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 61 id70712
Northern Neck map
Scope and Contents
Material relating to the Northern Neck map -- the Fairfax Line by Charles Morrison and 1777 statute relating to tax exemption.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 62 id70713
Broadside Study Materials
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 63 id70714
Virginia Independence Day
Scope and Contents
Articles relating to Virginia Independence Day in June 1976.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 64 id70715
Response to Black Register
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 65 id70716
Morton , Fowler and Baldwin
Scope and Contents
Fowler talk on King William and Queen Mary and obit of Morton, clippings relating to Fowler Henry VIII lecture, naming of
Morton Hall and J. T. Baldwin.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 66 id70717
Jefferson Materials
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 67 id70718
"Leopard Gally" WMQ Article
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 68 id70719
Non Importation Broadside Paper
Scope and Contents
Draft, proofs and correspondence relating to publication of Non-Importation Broadside article.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 69 id70720
Vert a College
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, draft and original photographs/negatives to accompany article on Seal of the College.
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 70 id70721
Land of the Unfree Paper
Scope and Contents
Three drafts of "and of the Unfree and Home of the Slave".
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 71 id70722
Tadman Thesis Pt1
1977
Scope and Contents
Copy of dissertation "Speculators and Slaves in the Old South; a Study of the American Domestic Slave Trade,1820-1860" by
Michael Tadman of the University of Hull England).
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