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Richard Billups Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Deposit: 4,006 items, 7/18/1941. Deposit: 302 items, 4/12/1942.
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 Mathews County. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .
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: 1. Accounts 2. Account Books 3. Legal Papers 4. Letters 5. Military Papers 6. Society Papers 7. Printed Material 8. Oversized Material 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.
Other Information:
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Box: 1-5. Including plats of land, receipts, etc.
Box 1-2
Robert Whiting, John Billups.
Thos. Flowerdewe, Benjamine Cook.
Taylor, Burton, Dellahaunty, Beatley.
George Hunley, Ziperus Degges.
Jas. Davis, etc.
Stubblefield, Burton, Jarvis, Lyell.
John Billups, John Steer, John Foster, Jr.
John Foster, John Billups, Geo. Foster, Wm. Armistead, etc.
John Billups, L. Smith, Wm. Reynolds, Nelson.
Billups, L. Smith, Nelson, Reynolds, Shackelford, David Jameson, Jr., Issac Foster, small account booklet.
Armistead, John Billups, Reynolds, Shackelford.
Thos. Gibbons, Thos. Flipper.
John Fowler, Mathias James.
John and Richard Billups, Thos. Billups.
Billups, John Weston, Delahaunty, Taylor.
Billups, John Fowler, John Avery, Joshua Gayle, Rispess.
Richard and John Billups, Thos. Lilly.
Billups, Richard Risby.
Respess, Mathews, Foster, Pennock, Risby, Billups.
John Lilly, Billups, John Foster, Henry Forrest, etc.
John and Isaac Foster, Richard Risby, Billups, etc.
R. Risby, Estate of John Foster, Billups.
James Callis, Repass, Billups, Risby.
Estate of Wm. Lilly, Respass, Risby, Billups, etc.
Respass, Lilly, Callis, Knight, etc.
Respass, Foster, Forrest, Knight, Charlton, Jones, Tinsley, etc.
Rispass, Roberts, Foster, Mathews, etc.
Many names on accounts with Clerk or Sheriff, Mathews County.
Rispess, Risby, Anderson, Lilly, Gayle, Davis land plats.
Many names on accounts with Clerk or sheriff, Mathews County.
Lilly, Foster, Respass, Jarvis, Anderson, Dudley, Knight, etc.
Many names on accounts with Clerk or Sheriff, Mathews County.
More accounts as Folder 3; general account names as above including Rispess, Gwathmey, Dabnet. Etc.
Respass, Cooke, Tabb, many sheriff's accounts, etc.
Respass, Dixon, Foster, Anderso, Hunley, Reynolds, Callis, etc.
Repspass, Forrest, Degges, Hurst, Knight, LeRoy Cole, etc.
Respass, Eddens, Knight, Van Bibber, Dudley, etc.
Respass, Smith, Foster, Knight Schacelford, Patterson, etc.
Box 3-5.
Parker, Lilly, Smith, Callis, Foster, Forrest, Respass, Knight, etc.
Smith, Knight, Respess, Gayle, David, Brounley, Saunders, etc.
Lilly Smith, Respess, Knight, Foster, Degges, Hudgin, etc.
Smith, Parrott, Mays, Knight, Respass, etc.
Jarvis, Lilly, Knight, Callis, Brown, Gayle, Eddins, etc.
Degges, Eddins, Knight, Lilly, Brown, Foster, etc.
Foster, Forrest, Eddens, Boswell, Knight, Brounley, etc.
Eddens, Lilly, Armistead, Foster, Tabb, Wjite, Burniston (?).
Accounts in connection with building of new schooner "Courtney Norton."
Foster, Forrest, Dudley, Morgan, Burling, Brounley, etc.
Cole, Degges, Timberlake, Williams, Forest, White, Davis, Tyree, Hudgin, Tomkins, etc.
Dawson, Eddens, Bahannon, Forrest, Foster, Burneston, Burling, Mann Page, etc.
Cole, Jarvis, Forrest, Gayle, Widgeon, Lane, etc.
Respress, Foster, Hudgin, Eddens, Callis, Roberts, etc.
Plat of ground; Foster, Smith, Knight, Eddens, Winder, etc. Includes a list of attendees at the May 21, 1814 Quarterly Gloucester Circuit meeting (Mathews, King and Queen, Mathews and possibly others) and their collection amounts.
Foster, Degges, Smith, Morgan, etc.
Cramp, Lewis, Davis, Bohannon, Stevens, Foster, etc.
Foster, Tompkins, Brounley, Hugin, Tomblin, Minter, etc.
Bramhall, Robens, Tompkins, Foster, Hayes, Eddens, etc.
Bounley, Foster, James, Ransone, Bramhall, King, etc.
Minster, Tompkins, Armistead, Diggs, Foster, etc.
March, Tompkins, Armistead, Foster, etc.
Callis, Foster, Davis, Respass, etc.
Tompkins, Winder, Wjite, James, Diggs, etc.
Forrest, Deggs, Knight, Callis, Tompkins, Edwards, etc.
Morgan, Tompkins, Davis, Diggs, etc.
Hudgin, Tompkins, Jarvis, etc.
Diggs, Tabb, Minter, Smith, Tompkins, etc.
Dunston, Stoakes, Tompkins, March, etc.
Stokes, March, Tompkins, Davis, Gambill, etc.
Foushee, Freeman, Tompkins, Crawford, Neale, etc.
March, Stoaks, Tompkins, Davis, etc.
Stoaks, Smith, Moore, Owins, Tompkins, Hudgin, etc.
Stoaks, Edwards, Minter, Kane, Walker, etc.
Stoaks, Silverthorn, Goodrich, Hodges, etc.
Stoaks, White, Diggs, armstrong, Tabb, etc.
Brounly, Richardson, Stoakes, Hall, Lane, etc.
Roy, Jones, Stoakes, Minter, Roberts, James, etc.
Ransome, Stoakes, Lane, Belvin, James, etc.
Stoakes, Evans Roberts, Foster, Lumpkin, Ransone, etc.
Stoakes, Knight, Respess, Jarvis, Evans, etc.
Stoakes, Callis, Bonsal, March, etc.
Brounly, Stokes, Foster, etc.
Thomas, Stoakes, Sibley, Lane, Foster, Brounly, etc
Stoakes, Evans, etc.
Stoakes, Lilly, etc.
Hudgins, etc.
Hudgins, Marchant, Hundley, Taylor, Foster, etc.
Lilly, Respess, Foster, Deggs, etc.
Appleman, De la Roche, Deggs, etc.
Respess, Hunley, Forrest, Shackelford, etc.
Respess, Armistead, Knight, Foster, etc.
Foster, Rispess, Mathews, Ransome, Callis, Gregory.
Tabb, Lewis, Lilly, Foster, etc.
Plats of land. Eddins, Foster, Elliott, Booker, Ransome.
Account Books, Cash Memo, and Day Books. Box 6-7.
27 pages.
14 pages.
30 pages.
45 pages.
14 pages.
25 pages.
Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.
Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.
Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.
Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.
Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.
Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.
Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.
Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.
150 pages.
10 pages.
Box: 8-9
Poor condition. Deed. 300 acres conveyed to Joseph Billups by (?) Smithers on Winter Harbor (located in current Kingston Parish, Mathews County.) 1726.
Rum import certificate, Baltimore, 1777.
Will of John Billups, July 20, 1785. Import certificate, Fredericksburg 1788.
Survey by Richard Billups for Hughes Family members for property on the east side of the East River, possibly behind the Glebe. 1791.
Respess, Flitchett, Foster, Wjite.
Ransome, Gayle, Callis, Gregory, Davis
Brown, Langley, Respess, White, Hunley, Foster.
Gayle, Brown.
Taylor, Richard Billups, etc.
Taylor, Richard Billups, Respess.
Billups-Patterson, Lewis, etc.
Billups, Shackelford
Hudgins, Blake, Respess, etc.
Respess, etc.
Billups.
Gibbons, etc.
Brounley, etc.
Gibbon, etc.
Petition regards Richard Billups, Eddins, Gayle, etc.
Smith, Foster, etc.
Minutes of the House of Delegates Feb. 5, 1810. Litchfield, Williams, Forrest, White, etc.
Winder, Lilly, etc.
Smith, etc.
Degges, Brounley, etc.
Davis, Lewis, Degges, Callis, etc.
Hudgins, Daniel, Foster, Swann, etc.
Lyne, etc.
Degge, Tompkins, Forest, etc.
Ransone, Diggs, Whting, etc.
Lilly, Hunley, Jarvis, Booker, Smith, Degge, Gayle, etc.
Diggs, Armistead, Winder, Foster, Knight, etc.
Bohannon, Burcher, Ransone, etc.
Bohannon, Foster, Gayle, Ransone, etc.
Foster, Hudgins, Ransone, etc.
Eddins, etc.
Knight, Foster, Winder, Anderson (Marriage licenses)
Tax levy note book; Geo Paul marriage license; Hurst-Stewart marriage license.
Diggs, Hunley, Edwards, Jarvis, Ransone, etc.
Miller, Bayly, White, Foster, etc.
Hudgins, White, Richardson, Thomas, Williams, etc.
Hudgins, White, Pratt, Owens, Bassett, etc.
Edwards, Foster, Davis, Richardson, Hudgins, etc.
Davis, Lane, James, Hurst, Calles, etc.
Court docket for May term; Griffin.
Box-folder: 9:18-25
Wilkins, Respess, Smith, etc.
Patterson, Tabb, Jones, etc.
Brown, Gibbons, Patterson, Tyree, etc.
Lilly, Ransone, Fowler, Muire, Jackson, etc.
McCandlish, Tabb, Stevens, James, Lilly, Gayle, etc.
Eddins, Stoaks, Dudley, etc.
Smith, Stoakes, March, Callis, Gayle, etc.
Minter, brig construction, etc.
Box-folder: 9:26-28
Gayle, Hughes, Hudgins, Van Bibber, Hurst, etc.
Lists of men, Weedon, Gayle, etc.
Nicholas, Gayle, Callis; lists of men, etc. Includes 2 items with no date.
Society Papers, Church Meetings and School Compositions Box-Folder 9:29-30
Quarterly meeting minutes, lists of names.
Total Abstinence Society Minutes, 1842; religious notes; composition on astronomy by Martha E. Stoakes, undated.
Sale of the Glebe lands with regard to logs sold, work done; and a map, etc.
Literary fund broadsides, Richmond 1811-1812. Clippings, undated.
Box-folder: 10:1-12
2 copies.
Account of William Jarrott, Wilkerson Hunley, George Hunley, Edward Hughes, and 2 maps of Property, one dated October 22, 1712.