Guide to the Skipwith Family papers , Mss. 65 Sk3

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Series 1: Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks

1760-1977

Scope and Contents

Skipwith Correspondence, Manuscripts, Manuscript Volumes, Fulwar Skipwith Notebooks, dated and undated. Boxes I-XX.

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Skipwith correspondence and other dated papers
1760-1977
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 id83679
  1760-1783
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id83680
    Gray Briggs, Dinwiddie County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1760
    Scope and Contents
    Indenture for the sale of a slave.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id83681
    Joseph Atkins, Lunenburg County, to William Hatsel, Isle of Wright County
    1760 February 4
    Scope and Contents
    Deed of conveyance for 390 acres of land in Lunenburg County
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id83682
    William Hamlin, to Mr Peyton Skipwith
    1761 January 13
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of twelve pounds to Mr. Sterling Thonton
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id83683
    John Thivear to Mr Peyton Skipwith
    1761 September 3
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for five pounds, nineteen shillings.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id83684
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, to Neil Buchanan
    1764
    Scope and Contents
    Account for one pound, nineteen shillings, and eleven pence. Also some rough accounts.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id84320
    James Duff, John Gillespie, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1764 July 18
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for the sale of a large, bay horse.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6a id84321
    Walter Peter to ?
    1765 November 4
    Scope and Contents
    Deed.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id84322
    William Cross, to Peyton Skipwith
    1767 February 28
    Scope and Contents
    Directions to pay Sterling Thornton five pounds, seven shillings, and four pence.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id84323
    Philip Whitehead Clayborne, and John Robinson, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1767 November 6
    Scope and Contents
    Indenture for the sale of slaves
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id84324
    Elliot's account
    1768
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id84325
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, to Mr Wilson Roscon Bayley
    1768 November 7
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 id84326
    Stephen Mallot, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1769 February 13
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for five pounds, ten shillings in payment for a pair of mill stones.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 id84327
    Matthew Harris to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1769 June 13
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of three pounds, twelve shillings which he is in need of. Letter was returned and endorsed by Harris as a receipt for the money, dated August 8, 1769.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13 id84328
    John Jefferies, Sr., to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1770 April 4
    Scope and Contents
    Directions for the payment to Mr. James Yancey of eight pounds, seven shillings, and six pence. Letter endorsed on April 4, 1770 by James Yancey and returned as a receipt.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13a id84329
    "Invoices of Sundry Goods & from Sundry persons...all from Europe."
    1771 February 20
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14 id84330
    Stephen Mallet, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1771 July 8
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for eleven pounds for two years of mill stones.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15 id84331
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Williamsburg, to Mr Robert Donald
    1772 March 24
    Scope and Contents
    Promissory note for sixty-seven pounds, six shillings, and nine pence.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15a id84332
    Jno Barnes ? to Miss Jean Miller later Lady Skipwith
    1772 December 9
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for two pair of shoes.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 16 id108137
    Richard Rowland, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1774 August 5
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for seventy pounds.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 17 id108138
    Thomas Mutter, Grassy Creek, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1775 March 20
    Scope and Contents
    About a horse.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 18 id108139
    James Hooper, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1775 March 22
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for £200 for the building of three mills by September next.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 19 id108140
    Matthias Speed, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1775
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of some money.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 20 id108141
    Receipt for one pound, ten shillings from Phineas Patison
    1776 June 27
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 21 id108142
    E Horton, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1778
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of some bacon and other provisions. The people in Richmond are in great want.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 22 id108143
    Sir Peyton Skipwith?, to Mr Joseph Gill
    1778 March
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for nine guineas. 2 pages. Autograph document.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 23 id108144
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, to William Hatsel
    1778 December 25
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for eighty pounds.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 24 id108145
    W.R., J.B., H.C., and D.R., to Peyton Skipwith
    1779
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for £130,000.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 25 id108146
    Thomas Mason, Williamsburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1779 May 1
    Scope and Contents
    Breeding horses.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 25a id108147
    Notes on land deed and a deed of trust
    1780-1789
    Scope and Contents
    Notes on land deed and a deed of trust for 12 Negroes from Sir Peyton? Skipwith to? Ferril and? Ferril to ? Moss, and ? Holmes.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 26 id108148
    A blank indenture
    1780
    Scope and Contents
    A blank indenture for payment of an unspecified account to Sir Peyton Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 27 id108149
    John Holt and others, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 July 18
    Scope and Contents
    The mating of several mares with his horse, Black and All Black.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 28 id108150
    Sir Peyton Skipwith to Benjamin Ferrell
    1780 February 5
    Scope and Contents
    Deed for title to some lands in consideration of £300.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 29 id108151
    Alex Wilie, Dumfries, to Miss Miller later Lady Skipwith
    1780 February 9
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt two pounds, two shillings, and two pence.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 30 id108152
    George Purdue, Smithfield, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 February 21
    Scope and Contents
    Price of some tobacco, etc.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 31 id108153
    Jesse Taylor, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 February 29
    Scope and Contents
    Bill for £795, fifteen shillings.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 32 id108154
    Hugh Miller, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 March 7
    Scope and Contents
    Transportation of some oats.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 33 id108155
    John H Cocke, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 March 19
    Scope and Contents
    Barley.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 34 id108156
    Pedin J. Hodges, Smithfield, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 March 25
    Scope and Contents
    Inspection and sale of some tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 35 id108157
    Thomas Pierce, Smithfield, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 March 25
    Scope and Contents
    Inspection and sale of some tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 36 id108158
    John Wills, Isle of Wight, to Lambert Couch, Colledge Landing
    1780 April 18
    Scope and Contents
    Payment for some bacon sold to Sir Peyton Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 37 id108159
    Thomas Fiveash, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 May 9
    Scope and Contents
    Delivery of 5000 pounds of tobacco to Mr. John C. Littlepage. Endorsed by J.C. Littlepage.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 38 id108160
    Ben Powell to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 May 10
    Scope and Contents
    Breeding some horses.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 39 id108162
    Joseph Scott, Nansemond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Hog Island
    1780 May 13
    Scope and Contents
    Does not intend to sell his mare.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 40 id108165
    William Edwards, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 May 17
    Scope and Contents
    Payment for horse breeding.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 41 id108167
    E Horton, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 May 19
    Scope and Contents
    The purchase of some bacon.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 42 id108171
    Campbell and Wheeler Account with Sir Peyton Skipwith, Slott?, and Donaldson, and Henry Sandifer
    1780 May 21
    Scope and Contents
    Account with Sir Peyton Skipwith, Slott?, and Donaldson, and Henry Sandifer.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 43 id108175
    Benjamin Williams, to Mr Dunlop, Cabin Point
    1780 June 18
    Scope and Contents
    Delivery of some bacon to Sir Peyton Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 44 id108178
    Ben Williams, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 June 18
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents Bacon.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 45 id108180
    William Seward, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 August 4
    Scope and Contents
    Last delivery of some corn.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 46 id108184
    J Cooper, Suffolk, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 August 15
    Scope and Contents
    Supply of some sugar.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 47 id108187
    William Littlepage, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 September 13
    Scope and Contents
    Tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 48 id108190
    A Craig, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 October
    Scope and Contents
    Entertaining expenses.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 49 id108193
    H. Randolph, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 October 5
    Scope and Contents
    Conveying the Brunswick District Court order to pay some money and tobacco to David Apperson.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 50 id108194
    Edward Harwood, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 October 14
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of some tobacco. Confusion in Harwood's estate following the death of his father. A large sum of money "for the purpose of raising a soldier."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 51 id108376
    John Harmanson, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 November 16
    Scope and Contents
    Escape of a prisoner who has fled to the enemy.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 52 id108377
    William Strachan, to John Ravenscroft
    1780 November 16
    Scope and Contents
    Bill for a wardrobe chest and a case.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 53 id108379
    Warner Lewis, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1780 November 22
    Scope and Contents
    Barley. Is anxious to meet Sir Peyton.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 54 id108383
    Thomas Walker, South Quay, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1781 January 30
    Scope and Contents
    Delivery of sugar.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 55 id108384
    Richard Blow, South Quay, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1781 February 1
    Scope and Contents
    Sugar.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 56 id108393
    John Hunnicutt, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1781 March 8
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for two hundred and five pounds, ten shillings.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 57 id108397
    P Blackbourn, Fredericksburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith ?
    1781 April 9
    Scope and Contents
    About Col. Eastleigh, Miss Skipwith, etc. "This cursed invasion has thrown everything into confusion."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 58 id108398
    Several bills and receipts for the sale of books by Alex Donaldson, William Creech, J. Dickson, all of Edinburg, to Miss Miller, later Lady Skipwith
    1781 April 14
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 59 id108400
    Robert Tucker, Sussex County, William Burge, Prince George County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1781 April 26
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for 160,000 pounds of tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 60 id108402
    Henry Sanhqus, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1781 April 26
    Scope and Contents
    Copy of a bond for a hundred and sixty thousand pounds of crop tobacco between Robert Tucker of Sussex County and William Burge of Prince George County and Sir Peyton Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 61 id108407
    Alex Wilie, to Miss Miller
    1781 July 14
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 61a id108409
    Account of estate of Dr. John
    1781 August 22 - 1783 June 8
    Scope and Contents
    Account of estate of Dr. John Ravenscroft, Cairnsmoore, Scotland, with Lillias (Miller) Ravenscroft.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 62 id108410
    List of expenses for furniture and plows
    1781 September 12
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 63 id108412
    William Holliday, to Miss Miller Lady Skipwith
    1781 December 5
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 64 id108413
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Surrey County, to Benjamin Waller
    1781 December 5
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for £300.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 65 id108414
    Affidavit of William Boyce before Surrey County Justices, Benjamin Edward Brown, and John Watkins
    1782 ?
    Scope and Contents
    Notations of a lease by Sir Peyton Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 66 id108415
    To Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1782
    Scope and Contents
    Various bills. receipts, etc. for spices, wine, and mutton.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 67 id108417
    B. Holmes, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1782 January 13
    Scope and Contents
    Statement of their account for linens.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 68 id108418
    John Tabb, Amelia, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1782 March 11
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of money with interest due since 1773.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 69 id108419
    Whitten ? Hill, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Hog Island
    1782 April 11
    Scope and Contents
    Procurement of two ship's carpenters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 70 id108423
    Samuel Beall, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1782 April 15
    Scope and Contents
    Statement of his account for salt. signed in Beall's behalf by B. Holmes.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 71 id108425
    John Hugh Williams, to Sir Peyton Skipwith ?
    1782 May 6
    Scope and Contents
    Ended the bargain he made with Mr. Smith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 72 id108426
    Robert Draughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1782 May 7
    Scope and Contents
    Requests the return of his Negro Stewart.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 73 id108429
    John Hethin?, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1782 May 10
    Scope and Contents
    Payment for 203 head of cattle delivered for the use of the French Army.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 74 id108433
    James Murdaugh, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1782 October 24
    Scope and Contents
    Has been ill, but will send him his money in a few days. Also the offer of an old dog - "very slow," but "is very true and good for a fox."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 75 id110129
    Willis Riddick, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Hog Island
    1782 October 24
    Scope and Contents
    Has spent all his available money in the purchase of a horse, but will pay him shortly.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 76 id110130
    Mary Seward, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1782 October 25
    Scope and Contents
    Two cows which were left in her care. Both died, but she may keep the hides.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 77 id110131
    Ben Williams, Warren, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1782 November 14
    Scope and Contents
    Cannot attend his sale. Also requests payment for some bacon
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 78 id110132
    List of bonds taken at Mill Farm for upland crop tobacco
    1782 November 15
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 79 id110133
    John S. Harmondson, Northampton, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1782 18 November
    Scope and Contents
    Imprisonment and sale of a person who was enslaved by Sir Peyton.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 80 id110134
    John Armistead, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1782 December 21
    Scope and Contents
    Survey of land bought by Sir Peyton Skipwith from William Natchell, together with Armistead's fee for surveying the land.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 81 id110135
    Manuscript containing some verse; also business jottings
    1783
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 82 id110136
    To Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1783
    Scope and Contents
    Various bills, receipts, etc., for shingles, shoes, wool, and spices.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 83 id110137
    Shore, McConnias, and Ritson, to Mr William Eastland, John Burton, Sherwood Hicks, and John Barkerville
    1783 January 8
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of their joint bond.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 84 id110138
    D. Stokes, Mecklinburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1783 January 12
    Scope and Contents
    Offer to defend him in his suit against Mr. Hooper.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 85 id110139
    Fragment of a letter from W. Fitzhugh?, Chatham
    1783 January 15
    Scope and Contents
    Health of the recipient.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 86 id110140
    Peter Holloway, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1783 February 11
    Scope and Contents
    Death of thirty-five head of Sir Peyton's cattle, and recompense for looking after the remainder.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 87 id110141
    William Call, Butchers Creek, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1783 April 16
    Scope and Contents
    Disposal of some corn.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 87a id110142
    William Call, Butchers Creek, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1783 April 25
    Scope and Contents
    Order for corn and meal. Hears news "that there is a certain general peace--a happy event to us."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 88 id110143
    Agreement between Mecklenburg County Court and Sir Peyton Skipwith for the maintenance of a bridge over Allen's Creek for eight years, on penalty of £130
    1783 May 12
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 89 id110144
    Henry Tazwell, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1783 May 15
    Scope and Contents
    About credit for £300.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 90 id110145
    Mat Marable, Finney Wood, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1783 June 6
    Scope and Contents
    Failure to pay for some salt. Threatens to take him to court.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 91 id110146
    William Call, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1783 June 16
    Scope and Contents
    Some corn and paints.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 92 id110147
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1783 June 17
    Scope and Contents
    Spare scythe stones.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 93 id110148
    William Howard, to Sir Peyton Skipwith ?
    1783 June 29
    Scope and Contents
    Contract.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 94 id110149
    Robert Turnball, Dinwiddie, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1783 July 30
    Scope and Contents
    Impending case for the settlement of a deed.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 95 id110150
    Colonel William Heth, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1783 August 3
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for the payment of some bonds.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 96 id110151
    Thomas Vaughan, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1783 August 4
    Scope and Contents
    Forwarding of various letters and newspapers.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 96a id110152
    Robert Tucker, Sussex County, and William Burge, Prince George County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1783 September 20
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for the sale of some lands and Negro slaves in part settlement of a previous bond for tobacco. Also part of a fuller bond, dated October 9, 1786 entered into between Robert Turnbull, Petersburg, and Robert Tucker.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 97 id110153
    William Jones, Bristol, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1783 November 18
    Scope and Contents
    Tobacco business. "The great advances my late partnership is in for our friends abroad, has laid me under very great and disagreeable inconveniences."
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 id110154
  1784-1785
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id110155
    ? to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1784
    Scope and Contents
    Various accounts, receipts, etc., for spices, shoe boots, buttons, and hinges.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2 id110156
    John Hyndman and Co., London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, James River, Va.
    1784 February 28
    Scope and Contents
    Reestablishment of their correspondence, disrupted during "the last unhappy war." Mr. Thomas Main will give further details in person.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3 id110157
    John Hyndman, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, James River, Va.
    1784 March 1
    Scope and Contents
    Is sending his partner and nephew, Mr. Main, to settle their account, a more expedient method of settling their claims than by the use of attorneys.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4 id110158
    John Meyer and Co., New York, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1784 April 10
    Scope and Contents
    Opening of correspondence with Messers. Berth and Sigrist, Amsterdam, for the consignment of tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id110159
    Three letters to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1784 April 21-28
    Scope and Contents
    Stray steer.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6 id110160
    W Baskerville, Mecklenburg County Court, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1784 May
    Scope and Contents
    Order to pay the expenses of two witnesses testifying at the suit of James Hooper.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id110426
    D Fisher, to Thomas Vaughan
    1784 May 4
    Scope and Contents
    Tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8 id110427
    Thomas Main, Smithfield, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1784 May 13
    Scope and Contents
    Acquaints him of his arrival in America.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9 id110432
    William Hepburn, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1784 May 15
    Scope and Contents
    Requests the use of his surveying equipment.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10 id110438
    Robert Ballard, to Thomas Vaughan
    1784 June 26
    Scope and Contents
    Money due to Sir Peyton.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11 id110443
    John Walters Gibbs, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1784 August 20
    Scope and Contents
    Has inquired for reliable purchasers for his goods which many will fetch eighty guineas.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12 id110446
    William Hazzard, Beauford, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Charleston
    1784 August 23
    Scope and Contents
    Invitation to stay at Beauford.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13 id110448
    Agreement between Sir Peyton Skipwith and Nicholas Everleigh of South Carolina on tobacco bonds
    1784 28 August
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14 id110449
    John Walters Gibbs to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1784 August 28
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of some Negroes. All the three potential purchasers were of substance.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15 id110450
    John Walter Gibbs, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1784 September 4
    Scope and Contents
    Mr. Hutchinson and Colonel Skirving would like to see him in person.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16 id110451
    Christopher Nealy, New Bern, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Richmond
    1784 September 30
    Scope and Contents
    Bill of exchange for some cattle.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17 id110452
    Mr McCurdo's Account
    1784 October
    Scope and Contents
    Mr. Campbell wishes to settle the matter in an English court.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18 id110453
    John Grayson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1784 October 17
    Scope and Contents
    Introducing himself on behalf of his firm Dawes, Stephenson, and Co., tobacco merchants.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18a id110454
    Thomas Pierce, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm
    1784 October 21
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of their tobacco account. Hopes he will spare him any further trouble.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 19 id110455
    Thomas Main, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1784 October 22
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of his tobacco. Hopes to meet him before he returns to England.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 20 id110456
    Jn. ? Holmes, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1784 November 12
    Scope and Contents
    Security for some tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 21 id110457
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm
    1784 December 9
    Scope and Contents
    Business matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 22 id110458
    Mack Goode, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1784 December 17
    Scope and Contents
    Mr. Ruffin's bond.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 23 id110459
    R Kello, Round Hill, Southampton, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm
    1784 December 21
    Scope and Contents
    Mr. Ruffin's case to pay his bond. "The most speedy and vigorous methods shall be pursued."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 24 id110460
    R Kello, Southampton, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, Mecklenburg
    1784 December 27
    Scope and Contents
    Mr. Fiveash's affair. Appended a statement of his account with Thomas Fiveash.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 25 id110461
    James Swinton, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1784 December 31
    Scope and Contents
    Memorandum of a bargain entered into for some cattle.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 26 id110462
    Business letters and receipts
    1785
    Scope and Contents
    Thread and butter
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 27 id110463
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, to John Brown
    1785
    Scope and Contents
    Statement of Sir Peyton's account with the General Court for various suits, etc.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 28 id111351
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, to the Sheriff of Mecklenburg
    1785
    Scope and Contents
    Tax account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 29 id111352
    John Connell, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County
    1785 January 8
    Scope and Contents
    Understands he is a lenient creditor. Requests that he may pay part of the bond that he is security to for Robert Connell.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 30 id111353
    James Geddy, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1785 January 13
    Scope and Contents
    Offer to sell his land. Requests a quick determination.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 31 id111354
    James Kerr, Jr., Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm
    1785 January 14
    Scope and Contents
    Letter from Mr. Nelson concerning the price of tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 32 id111355
    John McNeil, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1785 February 24
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for £1009..10..0.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 33 id111356
    W Baskerville, Mecklenburg County Court, to Francis Lewis
    1785 March
    Scope and Contents
    Notifying him of his appointment as Surveyor of the road in place of Thomas Vaughan.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 34 id111357
    Gray Briggs, "Wales," Va., to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1785 March 7
    Scope and Contents
    Bankruptcy suit filed by Mr. Murray's executors. Major portion of his debt is Mr. Allen's rather than Sir Peyton's.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 35 id111358
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, to Colonel J Burton
    1785 March 8
    Scope and Contents
    Purchase of his work horse.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 36 id111359
    Commonwealth of Virginia, to the Sheriff of ? County
    1785 March 10
    Scope and Contents
    A blank summons to call a witness to testify on behalf of Sir Peyton Skipwith in his dispute with J. Harmanson?
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 37 id111360
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1785 March 20
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of his taxes and other business.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 38 id111361
    William Howard, York County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1785 March 21
    Scope and Contents
    Payment for a Negro he has had since August 1782.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 39 id111362
    Ezekiel Smith, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, Va.
    1785 April 12
    Scope and Contents
    Is sorry but he has already sold the horse, but will try to procure him back. Thinks the horse is destined for New York. "He is an excellent covering horse and well calculated to get colts for the turf." Remarks on the severity of the laws against racing in his state.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 40 id111363
    Thomas Main, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, Mecklenburg
    1785 April 30
    Scope and Contents
    Some of his tobacco sold in 1775. Is glad to hear he wishes to renew his correspondence with their firm. Will do everything to protct his interests.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 41 id111364
    Ezekiel Smith, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, Va.
    1785 April 30
    Scope and Contents
    His letter came too late; had already sold the horse. However he expects to buy it back next season when he will have first preference. Further details about some of its colts - "I veryyly believe him to be as pure a blooded horse as any in America or England."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 42 id111365
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Buggs Place
    1785 May 6
    Scope and Contents
    Information regarding some cattle.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 43 id111366
    Edmund Wells, Liverpool
    1785 May 13
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for one large packing trunk purchased of Edmund Wells, trunk and case maker.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 44 id111367
    William Howard, York County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County
    1785 May 19
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents The payment of one of his notes. Has sent Captain Matthew Gibb to see him and hopes he "will consider the disadvantage I labour under by being so long kept out of the money."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 45 id111368
    Mr Donald, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1785 May 27
    Scope and Contents
    Discharging his bond for a tract fo land he had bought of Mr. Machary?
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 46 id111369
    Andrew Ronald, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm
    1785 May 28
    Scope and Contents
    Cannot undertake to prosecute his case.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 47 id111370
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Buggs-place
    1785 June 8
    Scope and Contents
    Mr. Ingram is doing his best to replevy his debt to him, but his scheme to do so must, by law, be approved by Sir Peyton his creditor. Also, the sale of some Negroes will not be permitted except with his approval.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 48 id111572
    Thomas Main, Smithfield, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, Mecklenburg
    1785 June 10
    Scope and Contents
    Freight to England. Will remain in America till next spring.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 49 id111573
    Henry Carleton, to Sir Peyton Skipwith or Mr. James Hicks, Mecklenburg
    1785 June 13
    Scope and Contents
    His dismissal as surveyor, but is wishing to survey their land as a private surveyor.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 50 id111574
    Thomas Main, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, Mecklenburg
    1785 June 15
    Scope and Contents
    His chartering of "a fine British butt vessel" to take his tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 51 id111575
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Buggs-place
    1785 June 19
    Scope and Contents
    Will shortly be going to Richmond and desires to know what business, if any, he would like him to transact there for him.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 52 id111576
    John Edwards, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1785 June 21
    Scope and Contents
    Purchase of some cattle. 1 page. Autograph letter signed.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 53 id111577
    T Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Buggs-place
    1785 June 27
    Scope and Contents
    Must delay his visit to Richmond to attend the court where Mrs. Humphries, wife of John Humphries, is to be examined for the murder of one of her negro girls.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 54 id111578
    John Young, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    July 1 1785
    Scope and Contents
    Requests the use of a small lumber cart to take home a box of glass.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 55 id111579
    John Edwards, Chesterfield near Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith Allen's Creek, Mecklenburg
    1785 July 6
    Scope and Contents
    Purchase of some cattle.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 56 id111580
    Thomas Main, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, Mecklenburg
    1785 July 7
    Scope and Contents
    Shipment of his tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 57 id111581
    John Hyndman and Co., London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, Va.
    1785 July 11
    Scope and Contents
    His tobacco--no offers as yet. Mr. Main will obtain freight for the goods he has ordered.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 58 id111582
    William Boyce, Surry County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County
    1785 July 15
    Scope and Contents
    Dispatch of his notes to Colonel Joseph Green of Wayne County, N. C. for the purchase of his cattle.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 59 id111583
    Thomas Main, Blandford, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, Mecklenburg
    1785 July 17
    Scope and Contents
    His tobacco which is now on board a ship ready to sail.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 60 id111742
    Roger Atkinson and Anne Atkinson of Dinwiddie County, to William Bigelow
    1785 July 19
    Scope and Contents
    Deed for the sale of some land to Bigelow on the Roanoke River.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 61 id111745
    Samuel Dedman, to ?
    1785 July 25
    Scope and Contents
    Survey of some land and a court case pending.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 62 id111749
    William Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1785 July 25
    Scope and Contents
    Agreement to serve as overseer at Bugs Farm or on one of his plantations.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 63 id111775
    Gray Skipwith, Brompton Row, London? to his father, Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg, Va.
    1785 July 29
    Scope and Contents
    His progress at school in England. Describes a visit with Mayor Grymes to see the palace of Windsor.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 64 id111786
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, to John Brown, Clerk in Chambers ?
    1785 August
    Scope and Contents
    Account of various legal costs.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 65 id111796
    John Edwards, Chesterfield, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Allan's Creek, Mecklenburg About some cattle he expects for North Carolina
    1785 August 1
    Scope and Contents
    Cattle he expects for North Carolina.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 66 id111826
    Thomas Shore, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, Mecklenburg
    1785 August 3
    Scope and Contents
    Is pleased to hear of his intention to deal in tobacco with his friends Messrs. Dawes, Stephenson and Co., London. Presents low price of tobacco and how prospects for the present growing crop are--"which added to the restless and uneasy situation of the Northern and Eastern states will probably cause some amendment in the European market."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 67 id111834
    Samuel Dedman, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County
    1785 August 8
    Scope and Contents
    Has plotted the mill pond.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 68 id111845
    William Short, London, Eng., to his uncle, Sir Peyton Skipwith n.p.
    1785 August 12
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents Just arrived in London; bad season for visiting the city, as all fashionable people have left for "watering places;" will leave in a day or two for the Hague, then for Paris by way of Flanders; Eng. in a state of chaos; Irish propositions uncertain; necessity of learning French to do business not only in France but everywhere on the continent; his son Gray should learn French, and Italian too perhaps; Jefferson, already a year in France, is obliged to speak much English, so his French does not improve; Col. David Humphries, legation secretary, the same; have tried harder than any American ever to learn French; has heard of his possible visit to Europe; hopes to see him; can send letters to Col. Forrest or Fulwar Skipwith; hopes he received papers left for him in Virginia; Hog Island gave concern, and hopes he got rid of it; his kind offer of assistance may be taken up, as have not heard from Mr. Benjamin Harrison, who agreed to handle affairs; ask for a letter of credit, to be used only in an emergency; has written in this vein before, but think letters miscarried; sends this through Col. Forrest and Fulwar Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 id111861
    Richard Hanson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1785 August 13
    Scope and Contents
    Is loading a ship for Bristol and reminds him of his promise to send twenty hogshead of tobacco ?
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 69 id111865
    Fragments of a letter for Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1785 August 23
    Scope and Contents
    Business matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 70 id111867
    Charles Davis, to Sir Peyton Skipwith About some scantling and plank
    1785 August 27
    Scope and Contents
    Scantling and plank.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 71 id112644
    Messrs. Minier, Mason, Teesdale, and Minier, of the Strand, London, to Mr. Hyndman and Co.
    1785 September 15
    Scope and Contents
    Goods on board the ship Robert.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 72 id112645
    John Hyndman and Co., London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Va.
    1785 September 19
    Scope and Contents
    Shipment of goods to him, including various types of seeds.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 73 id112646
    John Dun, Garlestern ?, to Mrs Ravenscroft, Cavongmoor
    1785 October 5.
    Scope and Contents
    Order for some prunes, raisins and currants.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 74 id112647
    John Hill, Prestwould, to Archibald Freeland
    1785 October 12
    Scope and Contents
    Prices of tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 75 id112648
    John Dempster, for Charles Elliot, to Miss M'Kenzie
    1785 October 15
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for puchase of some books including four volumes of Rabelais' books--"very scare."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 76 id112649
    Messrs Donaldson and Stotts, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg, in Richmond
    1785 October 15
    Scope and Contents
    Loading of his tobacco on board the vessel Tweed.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 77 id112651
    John Brown, Clerk in Chamber, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith and Benjamin Ferrell
    1785 October 25
    Scope and Contents
    Verdict and judgement of the General Court in favor of Skipwith in his suit against Ferrell. Damages of one penny plus cost.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 78 id112652
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1785 November 16
    Scope and Contents
    Injunction granted to Pineas Ingram staying the proceedings in his suit with Sir Peyton over the sale of some Negroes.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 79 id112653
    Peter? Trent, to Sir Peyton Skipwith Is willing to sell his land
    1785 December 3
    Scope and Contents
    Is willing to sell his land.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 80 id112654
    Robert Draughon, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1785 December 12
    Scope and Contents
    Fifty-five pounds, Virginia money, received of Thomas Vaughan.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 81 id112655
    Gray Skipwith, Brompton Row, to his father, Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg, Va.
    1785 December 15
    Scope and Contents
    Acknowledges his letter of 10 October. He is now second boy at Mr. Cotton's school where Major Grymes proposes he stays until August when he can go to Eton. Has had a letter from Uncle Miller.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 82 id112656
    Thomas Main, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1785 December 21
    Scope and Contents
    Financial matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 83 id112657
    Messrs. Donaldson and Stotts, Petersburg?, to Sir Peyton Skipwith. About bills, etc. on John Hyndman and Co.
    1785 December 26
    Scope and Contents
    Bills, etc. on John Hyndman and Co.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 id112658
  1786
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1 id112659
    Miscellaneous bills, receipts, and other business matters
    1786
    Scope and Contents
    Shoes, stockings, boots, salt, flour, spices, and bridles for horses.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2 id112660
    W McNeill, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786
    Scope and Contents
    List of horses delivered to Sir Peyton Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 3 id112661
    Thomas Main, Richmond, to Sir Peyton, Mill Farm, Mecklenburg
    1786 January 6
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt of some money.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4 id112802
    John Cameron, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1786 January 6
    Scope and Contents
    To meet his commitments, he will sell some land, and hopes to be allowed to "set up at your shop or mill."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5 id112805
    William Hepburn, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 January 9
    Scope and Contents
    Has been appointed by the Court as one of the gentlement to act as executor to an estate in which Hepburn has a third interest.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 6 id112810
    W Baskerville, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 January 10
    Scope and Contents
    Offer of a horse for £45.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 7 id112813
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith ?
    1786 January 10
    Scope and Contents
    His business in court and various other business matters. 2 pages.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 8 id112814
    Thomas Vaughan, Mecklenburg Court House, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 January 25
    Scope and Contents
    Disposal of a South Carolina Negro, etc.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 9 id112817
    Commonwealth of Virginia, to the Sheriff of Mecklenburg County
    1786 January 25
    Scope and Contents
    Order to impound part of the estate of Robert Harrison in payment for debts owed to Thomas Vaughan; Harrison being absconded.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 10 id112818
    Thomas Walker, Suffolk, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 January 26
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of 3000 lbs. of sugar on behalf of Sir Peyton Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 id112820
    William Hepburn, Fairfield, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 January 30
    Scope and Contents
    Colonel Green will view the road next Thursday.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id112821
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 February 2
    Scope and Contents
    Ingram's tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 13 id112822
    Messrs Donaldson and Stotts, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 February 8
    Scope and Contents
    Forwarding of five grindstones.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 14 id112823
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Bugs Farm
    1786 February 9
    Scope and Contents
    Breaking in of his horse to harness before his journey to Richmond.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 15 id112825
    John Ballaid to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 February 13
    Scope and Contents
    Collection of some apple and pear trees at Shrosburys.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 16 id112826
    William Hepburn ?, Fairfield, to Sir Peyton Skipwith ?
    1786 February 14
    Scope and Contents
    Letter regarding Colonel Green's report on the road.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 17 id112827
    William Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 February 17
    Scope and Contents
    Many favors which he acknowledges he has done for him.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 18 id112828
    List of books purchased by Jean Miller, later Lady Skipwith
    1786 March 1
    Scope and Contents
    Included are some for her brother, Hugh.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19 id112829
    L Smith, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 March 2
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for £12 and five barrels of Indian corn in payment for a dark bay horse.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20 id112830
    Thomas Vaughan, St James, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Buggs-Farm
    1786 March 4
    Scope and Contents
    Warrant in the case of Downes vs. Brown. The county of residence is left blank until it is found out "where the (delinquent) does live."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 21 id112831
    Messrs Donald and Burton, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Virginia Bills of loading for three hogs heads of his tobacco
    1786 March 7
    Scope and Contents
    Bills of loading for three hogs heads of his tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22 id112832
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 March 10
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of some money to Sir Peyton Skipwith and other financial business.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23 id113074
    Note reminding Sir Peyton Skipwith to attend court on April 17 as a witness on behalf of James Belches
    1786 March 13
    Scope and Contents
    Several suits pending that day.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 24 id113098
    Note reminding Sir Peyton Skipwith to attend court on April 17 as a witness on behalf of James Belches
    1786 March 13
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 25 id113108
    J Pinn to ?
    1786 March 15
    Scope and Contents
    Request for some rye grass seed. Also notice that the General Court is ready to take depositions in the recipients suit.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 26 id113113
    John Hyndman and Co, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 March 17
    Scope and Contents
    Account of the sale of twenty hogs heads of tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 27 id113124
    John Brown, to the Sheriff of Mecklenburg County
    1786 March 22
    Scope and Contents
    Summoning of Sir Peyton Skipwith to appear as a witness on behalf of Hugh Miller in his suit with James Belsches.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 28 id113133
    James Maury, Fredericksburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1786 March 25
    Scope and Contents
    His invitation to settle in Liverpool where he will be pleased to settle tobacco or transact any other business for Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 29 id113135
    Charles Copland, to Sir Peyton Skipwith ?
    1786 April 7
    Scope and Contents
    Legal matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 30 id113138
    R Corre, to W Francis Lewis
    1786 April 8
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for seven shillings and six pence, and for fifteen shillings for seven tithes due in Surry County from Sir Peyton Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 31 id113140
    Messrs Donaldson and Stotts, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 April 10
    Scope and Contents
    Shipping costs to England. "The late sales of tobacco in Britain are very far from being pleasant ones."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 32 id113142
    Smith Hutchinson and Co., Glasgow, to Richard Bate, merchant of Petersburg, Va.
    1786 April 14
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice of goods shipped aboard the Helena by Hugh Miller, merchant. Insured to the value of £100 by Archibald Govan.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 33 id113143
    T Vaughan, St James, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Bugs Farm About overpayment of tax by Sir Peyton Skipwith for the year 1783
    1786 April 15
    Scope and Contents
    Overpayment of tax by Sir Peyton Skipwith for the year 1783.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 34 id113147
    Fragment concerning tobacco owed Sir Peyton Skipwith following a judgment in his favor in the General Court
    1786 April 16
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 35 id113155
    Messrs. Donald and Burton, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Virginia
    1786 April 25
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of his tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 36 id113159
    Francis Lewis, to Sir Peyton Skipwith Sir Peyton Skipwith, to Thomas Vaughan
    1786 April 27
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of eighteen barrels of Indian corn to Thomas Vaughan. Sale of the Indian corn by Francis Lewis.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 37 id113160
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 May 1
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for the payment of the certificate tax.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 38 id113163
    Messrs Shore, McConnus and Retson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm
    1786 May 1
    Scope and Contents
    Dispatch of some of his tobacco on board their vessel. "It is said that a difference in Insurance of from 2 to 5 Guineas is made between British and American bottoms."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 39 id113977
    Thomas Main, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, Mecklenburg
    1786 May 15
    Scope and Contents
    His departure for England. Hopes he may see him there shortly.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 40 id113978
    Samuel Donaldson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 May 16
    Scope and Contents
    Advises him to make other arrangements for shipping his goods to England.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 41 id113979
    William Hepburn, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 May 30
    Scope and Contents
    Bad weather and its interruption of various projects.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 42 id113980
    ? to Peyton Skipwith?
    1786 June 4
    Scope and Contents
    Is sorry his letter caused him so much distress, especially at the time of his illness. In his suit against Wills, he was awarded only £5 as against £50-60 which he ought to have received. Testimony of Collin Wills was that he struck his father with a sword. The jury was biased and he thought it best to let the matter alone rather than order a new trial.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 43 id113981
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 June 10
    Scope and Contents
    Mr. Brown's ticket.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 44 id113982
    John Bollard, Jr, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 June 11
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of his debt. Had been made difficult by the "blowing up" of his mill.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 45 id113983
    List of Negroes; rough plan of a house and other memoranda
    1786 June 12
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 46 id113984
    R & W Denniston, to Miss Miller
    1786 June 15
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for payment for some linen and other household goods.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 47 id113985
    Thomas Vaughan, St James, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Bugs Farm
    1786 June 20
    Scope and Contents
    A suit; advises caution.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 48 id113986
    Messrs Donaldson and Stotts, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1786 June 24
    Scope and Contents
    Provision of shipping and freight rates for his tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 49 id113998
    Messrs Shore, McConnus, and Retson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1786 June 26
    Scope and Contents
    Shipping of his tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 50 id114000
    Edmund Read, Charlotte, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1786 July 5
    Scope and Contents
    Delivery of some clover and grass seed.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 51 id114001
    Thomas Vaughan, St James, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Bugs Farm
    1786 July 6
    Scope and Contents
    Delivery of turnip seeds, etc.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 52 id114002
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Virginia, to Messrs John Hyndman and Co, London
    1786 July 9
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents Shipping and sale of his tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 53 id114004
    Messrs Donaldson and Stotts, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 July 10
    Scope and Contents
    Freight for his tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 54 id114008
    A list of tobacco pitched out for Mr Donaldson, Petersburg
    1786 July 11
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 55 id114010
    Messrs Donaldson and Stotts, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm
    1786 July 13
    Scope and Contents
    Shipping and insurance arrangements for his tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 56 id114011
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Bugs-Farm
    1786 July 14
    Scope and Contents
    Saddle for a horse.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 57 id114012
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Bugs-Farm
    1786 July 15
    Scope and Contents
    Requests twenty dollars to balance his tax account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 58 id114013
    Messrs Donald and Burton, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Virginia
    1786 July 17
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of three hogsheads of tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 59 id114214
    Richard Hanson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1786 July 19
    Scope and Contents
    Shipping some tobacco to Bristol.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 60 id114218
    Samuel Garland, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1786 July 22
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of some lands in Lunenburg County belonging to Mr. Upshaw.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 61 id114224
    Osborn Jeffreys, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, Va.
    1786 July 29
    Scope and Contents
    Exchange of some grass seeds.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 62 id114227
    Jonathan Cook, Nottoway, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Roanoke
    1786 July 31
    Scope and Contents
    Offers to act as overseer on Mr. Perier's plantation which he understands he intends to purchase.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 63 id114230
    Thomas Evans, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 August 3
    Scope and Contents
    Cure of his "fellow Sam." Hopes he can perform a reasonable cure on his jaw.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 64 id114232
    Messrs Donaldson and Stotts, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 August 4
    Scope and Contents
    Freight rates for tobacco on board the British vessel, Mary.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 65 id114233
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Bugs-Farm
    1786 August 7
    Scope and Contents
    Copy of the judgement in the case of Downes vs. Mr. Brown
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 66 id114235
    Thomas Vaughan, St James, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Bugs-Farm
    1786 August 9
    Scope and Contents
    Subpoena served on Mr. Miles "who I have some reason to think will be a very beneficial witness in your favour."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 67 id114238
    John Connel, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 August 10
    Scope and Contents
    Requests that he will not insist on payment of his debt until his crop is harvested.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 68 id114245
    John Grayson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 August 15
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents Business for the house of Dawes Stephenson, and Co., of London. There is a "fine new British built vessel" in the River.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 69 id114248
    Thomas Main, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, Va.
    1786 August 24
    Scope and Contents
    His "agreeable passage" back to England.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 70 id114249
    John Hyndman and Co, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm
    1786 August 25
    Scope and Contents
    Lack of comments from him or Messers. Donaldson and Stotts regarding his tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 71 id114250
    Montgomery James Bunyam, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 September
    Scope and Contents
    State of twenty hogsheads of tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 72 id114251
    Messrs Donaldson and Stotts, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1786 September 1
    Scope and Contents
    State of their accounts.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 73 id114252
    Sir Peyton Skipwith ?, Prestwould, Va, to Messrs. John R. Grymes and Co.
    1786 September 8
    Scope and Contents
    Tobacco and other business. "Our crop this year will be uncommonly short and I fear but undifferent in quality, owing to the wet weather."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 74 id114253
    Edward Finch, Mecklenburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg Court House
    1786 September 11
    Scope and Contents
    Apologizes for not seeing him regarding the indents, but was detained by the ill health of his family.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 75 id114255
    Messrs. Donaldson and Stotts, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm
    1786 September 12
    Scope and Contents
    Shipment of his tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 76 id114258
    Samuel Smith, Abrahams Plains, Greenville County, N. C. , to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, Va.
    1786 September 14
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of some oxen. Not possible for the moment, since he does nto care to be paid in paper money, the only currency at present available in Va.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 77 id114264
    Francis Thornton, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, Va.
    1786 September 26
    Scope and Contents
    Has viewed the land belonging to Mr. Bigelow and values it at two hundred pounds, Va currency.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 78 id114265
    William Bigelow, to Sir Peyton Skipwith Bill for the sale of twenty-one horses and colts
    1786 September 28
    Scope and Contents
    Bill for the sale of twenty-one horses and colts.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 79 id114268
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Bugs-Farm
    1786 September 28
    Scope and Contents
    Delivery of some letters, and his readiness to see him the following morning.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 80 id114269
    William Bigelow, Dinwiddie County and Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 September 28
    Scope and Contents
    His bond for fifteen hundred pounds for lands on the Roanoke River, Warren County, N. C. , and also for some dwellings on the south side of Old Street, Petersburg.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 81 id114274
    William Bigelow, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 September 28
    Scope and Contents
    A bond for fifteen hundred pounds, Virginia currency, for the title of certain lands in Warren County, N. C. , and certain buildings and land in Petersburg,
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 82 id114275
    Thomas Burnett, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 September 29
    Scope and Contents
    Will do all he can to raise the money and pay him that evening. Does not blame him. "I acknowledge I have forfeited my trust."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 83 id114278
    Hugh Miller, Carnsmoor, to John Temple
    1786 September 30
    Scope and Contents
    His expectation of a meeting between them. Hopes to be able to set out soon for America.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 84 id114279
    Robert Pasley, Chesterfield County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, Va.
    1786 September 30
    Scope and Contents
    Settlement of a bond.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 85 id114280
    Thomas Burnett, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 October 2
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of his account with Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 86 id114281
    John Temple, to Hugh Miller, Carnsmoor
    1786 October 4
    Scope and Contents
    His failure to see him.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 87 id114282
    Messrs Donaldson and Stotts, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 October 14
    Scope and Contents
    Will be happy to see him when he comes down for the races.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 88 id114283
    Alexander Trent, Cumberland County, and Peterfield Trent, Chesterfield County, to Richard Kennon, Mecklenburg County
    1786 November 4
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for £1220-17 for the purchase of some lands.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 89 id114284
    Panock, Nicolson, and Skipwith, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 November 17
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice and statement of Sir Peyton's account with Panock, Nicolson, and Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 90 id114285
    John Morison, Edinburgh, to Hugh Miller, Carnsmoor, Newton Stewart
    1786 November 22
    Scope and Contents
    Mr. Taylor has been so busy that he has not had time to write.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 91 id114286
    John Crews?, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 December 3
    Scope and Contents
    Construction of some ditches.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 92 id114456
    William Vaughan, to ?
    1786 December 6
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt and settlement of some debts.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 93 id114476
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Bugs-Farm
    1786 December 6
    Scope and Contents
    Expects soon to have a balance of £130 in favor of Messers. Pinnock and Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 94 id114481
    John Crews, to Sir Peyton Skipwith ?
    1786 December 7
    Scope and Contents
    Has measured the great ditch and finds it 2260 yards long. Also includes ? to ?. Regarding the purchase of some land.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 95 id114503
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm, to George Craghead
    December 13 1786
    Scope and Contents
    Is making up a large shipment of tobacco with difficulty and would be glad to receive any tobacco collected on his account. Also includes George Craghead, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm. December 14, 1786. Explains why he has not yet collected any of his tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 96 id114508
    John Ballard, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1786 December 14
    Scope and Contents
    John Ballard, to Sir Peyton Skipwith. About the purchase of some tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 97 id114512
    John Baird, Blandford, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1786 December 15
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of some money outstanding to him, which he does not like to press for but now needs.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 98 id114515
    Thomas Vaughan, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill-Farm
    1786 December 20
    Scope and Contents
    Debt to Colonel William Randolph.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 99 id114524
    Messrs Donaldson and Stotts, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1786 December 23
    Scope and Contents
    Scarcity of cash, the high discount on bills, and other business concerning the tobacco trade.
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 id114527
  1787-1789
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1 id114528
    Various bills and receipts for clothing items and furnishings
    1787
    Scope and Contents
    Various bills and receipts for clothing items, including a cap, bonnet, velvet, silk, and buttons, furnishings, including a skillet, spoons, fans, and forks, salt, sewing tools, and a wagon.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2 id114532
    Account of invoice and charges of the store at the Ferry for sugar, rum, a pot and a brass cork
    1787
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3 id114534
    John Brown, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1787
    Scope and Contents
    Testimony regarding his suit against Pines Ingram, William Smith, John Smith, Thomas Ingram, and John Ingram.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4 id114536
    John Brown, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1786 January 1
    Scope and Contents
    His suit against Mattart. Unlikely to obtain judgement within less than two years; "The evil is in the law."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5 id114537
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg Court
    1786 January 8
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of the debt for the horse.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6 id114538
    Halcoatt Townes, Halifax County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1787 January 20
    Scope and Contents
    His brother Henry's estate and debts which he has now taken responsibility for.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 7 id120193
    William McTair, Fairfield County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1787 January 22
    Scope and Contents
    Settlement of his debt. Begs him to give him till July and not seize his securities.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 8 id120194
    William Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County
    1787 January 26
    Scope and Contents
    Usefulness of his tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 9 id120195
    John R Grymes, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1787 February 5
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice of sundry goods shipped on board the Bridget.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 10 id120196
    Thomas Main, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, Va.
    1787 February 26
    Scope and Contents
    Tobacco sales, etc.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 11 id120197
    Isaac Hicks, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1787 March 8
    Scope and Contents
    About the purchase of some land.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 12 id120198
    James Trimble, Mecklenburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1787 March 15
    Scope and Contents
    Illness of Mr. Archibald who on doctor's advice is returning to Europe. In the future, his business in America will be confined to the collection of debts.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 13 id120199
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    March 15 1787
    Scope and Contents
    Suit against W. Pool. Has obtained a judgement against him, and also in his suit against John Cox.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 14 id120200
    William Hepburn, Fairfield, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1787 March 19
    Scope and Contents
    Inability to see him.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15 id120201
    Thomas Burnett, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Buggs-Farm
    1787 March 21
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of some of Mr. Poole's property and the settlement of his debts.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 16 id120202
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, to Stott and Donaldson
    1787 March 28
    Scope and Contents
    Statement of their account for mustard, thread, buttons, stockinette, and silk.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 17 id120203
    Jacob Shaler, Mecklenburg County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1787 April
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for thirty pounds for the construction of two chimneys and hearths.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 18 id120204
    A Eustis, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1787 April 14
    Scope and Contents
    Price of lime.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 19 id120205
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, to Messrs. Dawes, Stephenson & Co.
    1787 April 14
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of his tobacco. The proceeds to be entrusted to John R. Grymes who has the care and management of his son.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20 id120206
    J Herren, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1787 May 16.
    Scope and Contents
    Bill of his on J. Hyndman & Co. which has been returned to him.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 21 id120207
    Thomas Main, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1787 May 30
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice of tobacco sales from the ship Montgomery.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 22 id120208
    George Purdie, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1787 May 30
    Scope and Contents
    Two bonds which he took care of.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 23 id120209
    Messrs Blodget and Eustis, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Elm Hill, Mecklenburg
    1787 June 1
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of some lime.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 24 id120328
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, to William Alexander Boyd
    1787 June 9
    Scope and Contents
    Debt for £8-2-6. Also includes Alexander Boyd, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, June 9, 1787.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25 id120329
    John Whighan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Elm Farm
    1787 June 10
    Scope and Contents
    A list of men using the ferry and the sums due from them.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id120344
    Henry Sandiffers, Poverty Hill, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Elm Hill
    1787 June 12
    Scope and Contents
    License for a tavern and the purchase of some nails.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 27 id120348
    George Craghead, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1787 June 23
    Scope and Contents
    Business matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 28 id120349
    Gray Briggs, Wales, to Sir Peyton Skipwith ?
    1787 June 29
    Scope and Contents
    Request for some grass seed for his orchard.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 29 id120350
    Thomas Main, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1787 July 5
    Scope and Contents
    Account of the sale of his tobacco received by George Edward Henderson.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 30 id120351
    Thomas Main, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1787 July 6
    Scope and Contents
    Tobacco business. Is sorry that any part of his conduct could have caused ill feeling between them.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 31 id120352
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, to Charles Royster
    1787 July 18
    Scope and Contents
    Suit by Skipwith against Royster. Also miscellaneous notes by Skipwith regarding some slaves and other items.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 32 id122191
    John Hill, Mecklenburg, for Peyton Short, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1787 September 3
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for settlement of debts owed to him by Jacob Mettart and James Swinton, of Petersburg.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 33 id122192
    Ambrose Ellis, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1787 October 15
    Scope and Contents
    Payment for his tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 34 id122193
    John Cameron, Petersburg, to Sir Petyon Skipwith, Mill Farm, Mecklenburg
    1787 October 18
    Scope and Contents
    His recent illness.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 35 id122194
    Dawes, Stephenson, & Co., London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1787 October 29
    Scope and Contents
    Account of his tobacco sold in London.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 36 id122195
    Peyton Short, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1787 November 2
    Scope and Contents
    Statement of his account for a wagon and slaves.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 37 id122196
    Sir Peyton Skipwith ?, to Peyton Short
    1787 November 2
    Scope and Contents
    Rights and title to a bond. Also other jottings regarding business accounts, etc.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 38 id122197
    Freeland Lenox & Co, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg Are sending him a hamper of London port wine
    1787 November 13
    Scope and Contents
    Are sending him a hamper of London port wine.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 39 id122198
    Sam Goode, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Elm Hill
    1787 November 20
    Scope and Contents
    His attendance at the Court House.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 40 id122361
    Sam Goode, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Elm Hill
    1787 December 21
    Scope and Contents
    His borrowing money on his account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 41 id122366
    Various miscellaneous bills, receipts, and accounts for slaves, shingles, and sugar
    1788
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 42 id122367
    Thomas Fiveash, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Hog Island
    1788
    Scope and Contents
    Early delivery of some tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 43 id122368
    Colonel R. Kennon, to Sir Peyton Skipwith ?
    1788
    Scope and Contents
    Survey of a plot of tobacco land.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 44 id122799
    James Marshall, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1788
    Scope and Contents
    Deed for the sale of some land.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 45 id122806
    Thomas Vaughan, St James's to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Buggs-place
    1788
    Scope and Contents
    Price of tobacco in Petersburg, he requests to know.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 46 id122816
    William Clinch, Jr., Poplar Spring, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, Va.
    1788 January 2
    Scope and Contents
    Settlement of John Holt's estate and the provision of money for the education of his orphans--hopes he will befriend them.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 47 id122817
    Messers Mutter & Brown, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1788 January 7
    Scope and Contents
    Bill for various goods.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 48 id122820
    William Hepburn, Fairfield, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1788 February 26
    Scope and Contents
    Legal provisions of an ejectment, "an action, commonly used for the trying of titles, and recovery of lands, etc., illegally withheld from the right owner."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 49 id122825
    Ann Walke, Surrey County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County
    1788 March 11
    Scope and Contents
    Disposal of the Holt estate.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 50 id122827
    J. Pinn, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1788 March 13
    Scope and Contents
    Money for the purchase of corn. Had prevented the suit brought by Murray's prosecutors against him from being heard this court.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 51 id122828
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1788 March 13
    Scope and Contents
    Court matters. Advises him to discuss the suit against Billy Heale, because of the cost of witnesses, etc.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 52 id122829
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, to Philip Moody
    1788 March 20
    Scope and Contents
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, to Philip Moody. Bond for a hundred and twenty pounds, Virginia currency
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 53 id122830
    List of planks at Sir Peyton Skipwith's saw mill at Elm Hill
    1788 March 23
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 54 id122831
    Dinwiddie, Crawford & Co., to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1788 March 31
    Scope and Contents
    Statement of his account since December 1785.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 55 id122832
    Stephen Mallet, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1788 April 24
    Scope and Contents
    Delivery of some corn or money. "I hope you will not fail to send me one or the other."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 56 id122833
    George Nicolson?, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mill Farm
    1788 May 4
    Scope and Contents
    Tobacco bond. Is to deliver it up to Colonel Penn.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 57 id122834
    Samuel Couch, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County
    1788 May 16
    Scope and Contents
    Sheep shearing and other farming matters. Has spoken to Major Boyce "on account of your enormous tax in Surrey."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 58 id122835
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, to Henry Best
    1788 May 23
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for thirty five pounds, ten shillings, the balance due on the purchase of two Negro slaves.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 59 id122883
    Messrs Mutter & Brown, Granville County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1788 May 31
    Scope and Contents
    Delivery of some iron and a pair of gloves.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 60 id122907
    Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1788 June 17
    Scope and Contents
    Statement of his account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 61 id122910
    Messrs. Mutter & Brown, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1788 June 21
    Scope and Contents
    Their lack of several of the articles he ordered, including a weeding hoe.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 62 id122914
    Messrs. Stott & Donaldson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1788 June 30
    Scope and Contents
    Bill for various goods, including a table cloth and drapes.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 63 id122953
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1788 July 17
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt of a packet.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 64 id122967
    Sheriff, Mecklenburg County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith.
    1788 July 25
    Scope and Contents
    Tax account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 65 id122972
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1788 July 26
    Scope and Contents
    Statement of his account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 66 id122975
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Thomas Vaughan, and Richard Kennon, Mecklenburg County, to William Murray and William Yates
    1788 July 30
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for forty seven pounds, fifteen shillings.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 67 id122977
    Sir Peyton Skipwith and Thomas Vaughan, Mecklenburg County, to William Murray and William Yates
    1788 July 30
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for seven hundred pounds, seven shillings and eight pence. The bond endorsed on the back as having been discharged is signed, William Allen, 3 August 1789.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 68 id122981
    Messrs Mutter & Brown, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1788 August 2
    Scope and Contents
    Delivery of some goods, including some osnaburg fabric and nails, and the state of their account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 69 id122993
    Messrs. Mutter & Brown, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1788 August 18
    Scope and Contents
    Bill for various goods, including thread, cloth, linen, buttons, buckles, and nails.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 70 id123002
    Messrs. Mutter & Brown, Grassy Creek, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1788 August 25
    Scope and Contents
    Purchase of some nails and buttons.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 71 id123014
    Thomas Massey, Elm Hill, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1788 September 2
    Scope and Contents
    Tobacco and the disposal of other goods of his.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 72 id123022
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, to Miss Jean Miller, Elm Hill
    1788 September 7
    Scope and Contents
    The Reverend Mr. John Scot and his desire "to complete a union on which my future happiness so much and so immediately depends."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 73 id123037
    Adam Craig, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1788 September 9
    Scope and Contents
    Collection of some fees.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 74 id123054
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, to Nathaniel Burwell
    1788 September 9
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for two hundred pounds.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 75 id123062
    Messrs Mutter & Brown, Grassy Creek, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1788 October 4
    Scope and Contents
    Articles requested by him.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 76 id123079
    R. Hylton, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1788 October 12
    Scope and Contents
    His marriage, legal difficulties, in the laws of Virginia.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 77 id123105
    Thomas Vaughan, Sheriffs Dell, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1788 November 3
    Scope and Contents
    Court matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 78 id123124
    Thomas Edmunds, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Corotman?
    1788 December 3
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for some Negroes he made with Mr. Peyton? Short.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 79 id123138
    Miscellaneous bill receipts for slaves, clothing and spices, and other business documents
    1789
    Scope and Contents
    Miscellaneous bill receipts for slaves, clothing and spices, and other business documents.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 80 id123143
    Holman Rice, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1789 January 13
    Scope and Contents
    Purchase of some land on Butchers Creek. The plantation is in bad repair.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 81 id123160
    Corbin Griffin, York, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1789 January 20
    Scope and Contents
    Debt due to Colonel Edward Harwood, payment in money or tobacco as he pleases.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 82 id123162
    John Ingram, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 February 9
    Scope and Contents
    Bond of one hundred pounds for the delivery of four slaves.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 83 id123173
    Campbell Wheeler, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith ?
    1789 February 9
    Scope and Contents
    Purchase of some wine.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 84 id124699
    John Moss, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 February 11
    Scope and Contents
    Sum of money due from him to the esate of Colonel William Harwood.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 85 id124700
    Peyton Short, Fayettes, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 February 12
    Scope and Contents
    His illness since arriving in Louisville. "Your land is started in a most growing part of the country...faster than any other part of Kentucky." High price of uncultivated land "owing to the astonishing migration to the Western Country." General export of tobacco down the Mississippi.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 86 id124701
    S Hogg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 February 16
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for thirteen pounds, ten shillings, and nine pence.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 87 id124702
    Thomas Walker, Surrey County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 February 16
    Scope and Contents
    About some money due to his wife.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 88 id124703
    Holman Rice, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1789 February 22
    Scope and Contents
    Personal matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 89 id124704
    Calculation of Sir Peyton Skipwith's ? of tobacco sales for the previous year
    1789 March 10
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 90 id124705
    Edward Carrington, Powhatan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1789 March 15
    Scope and Contents
    About the purchase of some land.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 91 id124706
    George Purdie, Smithfield, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1789 March 25
    Scope and Contents
    Doctor Olwer; wishes he could help "but we seem quite full of gentlemen of his profession in this part of the country."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 92 id124707
    Ralph Hylton, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Elm Hill, Mecklenburg County
    1789 March 29
    Scope and Contents
    Presentation of some of hsi bills to Messers Stott and Donaldson.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 92a id124708
    John Stark Ravenscroft, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va, to his aunt, Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould, Mecklenburg County, Va.
    1789 March 30
    Scope and Contents
    Accepts their offer after school ends in April; mentions his mother's Lillias (Miller) Ravenscroft marriage to Mr. Patrick Steward in Scotland.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 93 id124709
    Dawes, Stephenson & Co, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 April 4
    Scope and Contents
    Account of tobacco received and sold from on board the vessel Termagant.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 94 id124710
    Samuel Goode, to Lady Skipwith, Elm Hill
    1789 April 10
    Scope and Contents
    Hop roots.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 95 id124711
    Messrs. Stott & Donaldson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 April 10
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice for buttons, cambrick, flannel, pepper, ginger, mustard, nutmeg, cinnamon, raisins, and salt.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 96 id124712
    John Young, Senior, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 April 16
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of thirteen pounds to Mr. William Richards. Also includes Sir Peyton Skipwith, to Thomas Vaughan,, 1789 April 20
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 97 id124713
    Messrs. Mutter & Brown, Grassy Creek, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 April 23
    Scope and Contents
    Supply of various goods.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 98 id124714
    George Hay, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 May 5
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for two bonds on which he is bringing suits in the District Court of Petersburg.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 99 id124715
    Humphrey Richards, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1789 May 6
    Scope and Contents
    Lease for his storehouse and lumber house at the ferry.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 100 id124716
    Messrs. Stott & Donaldson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 May 7
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice of goods sent to him, including salt, wine, brass knobs, a hat, flannel, and diapers.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 101 id124717
    Henry Pennington and Thomas Johnson, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 May 29
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for 5,692 lbs. of tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 102 id124718
    Messrs. Stott & Donaldson, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 June 8
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice of goods purchased.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 103 id124719
    Messrs. Campbell & Wheeler, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, Mecklenburg
    1789 June 19
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of some land.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 104 id124720
    Messrs. Stott & Donaldson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 June 19
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice for goods purchased, including wine and butter.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 105 id124721
    James Eastham, Halifax, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1789 June 22
    Scope and Contents
    Number of his slaves.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 106 id124722
    Messrs Stott & Donaldson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 June 30
    Scope and Contents
    Statement of their account for buttons.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 106a id124723
    John Stark Ravenscroft, William and Mary, to his aunt, Lady Skipwith, Prestwould, Mecklenburg County
    1789 July 8
    Scope and Contents
    Asks about her pregnancy; gives news of relatives and friends in Scotland; discusses mental attitudes toward the loss of a child; is preparing to give a speech at the College on August 1.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 107 id124724
    John New, Manchester, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1789 24 July
    Scope and Contents
    Title to a deed.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 108 id124725
    Messrs. Stott & Donaldson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 July 27
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice for goods purchased, including sugar and tea.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 109 id125113
    Theodore B. Ruffin, Dunhill, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1789 July 30
    Scope and Contents
    Purchase of a horse.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 110 id125114
    Messrs. Mutter & Brown, Granville County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1789 August 4
    Scope and Contents
    Goods purchased, including nails, and the state of his account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 111 id125117
    John Grayson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1789 August 6
    Scope and Contents
    Shipment of tobacco, and related business.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 112 id125122
    Messrs. Stott & Donaldson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 August 25
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice of goods purchased by him, including putty, knives, chalk, and shoes.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 113 id125123
    Messrs. Stott & Donaldson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1789 August 31
    Scope and Contents
    Statement of their account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 114 id125130
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, to Lady Skipwith, Elm Hill
    1789 September 17
    Scope and Contents
    Their daughter Helen Skipwith, later Helen Coles and his need to attend to business.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 115 id125142
    Thomas Burnett, to Sir Peyton Skipwith.
    1789 November 3
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of the balance outstanding to him.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 116 id125148
    William Barksdale, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1789 November 14
    Scope and Contents
    Shipment of his tobacco to London.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 117 id125151
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, to Lady Skipwith
    1789 November 16
    Scope and Contents
    Pay the bearer of this letter, Mr. Allison, thirty shillings.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 118 id125152
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, to Col. W. R. ?
    1789 December 25
    Scope and Contents
    Agreement regarding the purchase of some land in Mecklenburg County.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 id125157
  1790-1973
  1790-1793
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 1 id125159
    Miscellaneous bills and receipts for sugar loaf, cambrick, shoes, backgammon, and a tea kettle, and other business documents
    1790
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 2 id125163
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Elm Hill, to Colonel William Johnson
    1790 January 6
    Scope and Contents
    Purchase of a colt. Also included Colonel William Johnson to Sir Peyton Skipwith. Regrets that he has sold the animal.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 3 id125165
    William Ball, Stafford City, Muddy Creek, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Roanoke
    1790 January 17
    Scope and Contents
    Lewis Payne, an "industrious young man." Also would he pay the two hundred pounds oustanding to him.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 4 id125363
    Thomas Vaughan, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1790 January 20
    Scope and Contents
    Their account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 5 id125375
    George Hay, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1790 January 29
    Scope and Contents
    Purchase of some land.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 6 id125403
    Dawes, Stephenson, & Co., London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1790 January 29
    Scope and Contents
    Account of the sale of his tobacco received from on board the Lady St. John.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 7 id125429
    Abraham Fontaine, Hanover, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, in Mecklenburg County
    1790
    Scope and Contents
    State of his suit against Mr. Robinson.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 8 id125441
    Dawes, Stephenson, & Co, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith About the sale of his tobacco received from on board the Hartley
    1790 February 17
    Scope and Contents
    Dawes, Stephenson, & Co., London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith. About the sale of his tobacco received from on board the Hartley.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 9 id125463
    Samuel Hopkins, Logsdale, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1790 February 18
    Scope and Contents
    His decision to be of service to him.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 10 id125468
    George Hay, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County
    1790 March 10
    Scope and Contents
    Progress of his two suits in the Petersburg district court. Also enclosed is a receipt for two bonds dated March 10, 1790.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 11 id125471
    William Cole, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1790 March 12
    Scope and Contents
    Legal matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 12 id125486
    Thomas Fiveash, Suffolk, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Hog Island
    1790 March 14
    Scope and Contents
    Merchandise contracted for, being ready.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 13 id125487
    James Campbell, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, Mecklenburg
    1790 March 17
    Scope and Contents
    His title to some land.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 14 id125488
    George Hay, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1790 March 19
    Scope and Contents
    Subpoenas for witnesses for his suits pending in the Brunswick district court.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 15 id125493
    John Grayson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1790 March 23
    Scope and Contents
    Tobacco sales and shipments, "the markets in Europe are glutted with Tobaco...I think there must be a demand for France as soon as the Commotions have subsided."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 16 id125496
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, to Thomas Greenwood
    1790 April 1
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for forty pounds.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 17 id125500
    Sir Peyton Skipwith and Robert Burchet?, Mecklenburg County, to Nathaniel Burwell
    1790 April 2
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for one hundred and eighty pounds.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 18 id125504
    Holman Rice, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1790 April 15
    Scope and Contents
    The moving of rock from Mr. Ross's plantation.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 19 id125658
    John Grayson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1790 April 17
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of his tobacco. "Our house does not possess the talent of flattery."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 20 id125659
    James Campbell, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, Mecklenburg
    1790 April 24
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of his property. Demands secure terms and no bad or defective title.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 21 id125660
    Corbin Griffin, Sheriff of York County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1790 April 26
    Scope and Contents
    Outstanding taxes for 1783.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 22 id125661
    Samuel Donaldson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1790 May 12
    Scope and Contents
    Their tobacco account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 23 id125662
    John Grayson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1790 May 17
    Scope and Contents
    Freight for his tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 24 id125663
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, to Messers J. & H. Freeland, Manchester
    1790 May 25
    Scope and Contents
    The payment of his Revenue lent to Mr. Thomas Vaughan.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 25 id125664
    Thomas Brown, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, Mecklenburg
    1790 May 31
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for some corn, Brown writing on behalf of Stott & Donaldson.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 26 id125665
    Edmund Leigh to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1790 May 31
    Scope and Contents
    Report on the progress of the various tasks on the plantations.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 27 id125666
    Patrick Wodrow, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1790 June 5
    Scope and Contents
    Correspondence with Major P.L. Gryms. Has not heard from Sir Peyton's son since March when he was in good health.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 28 id125667
    John Wigham, Mecklenburg County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1790 July 22
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for twenty-three pounds, four shillings and nine pence.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 29 id125668
    Judgement of the Prince George County Court in the suit of James Belsches, Junior, against Lawson, Price & Company, Donaldson and Stott and Robert Donaldson
    1790 August
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 30 id125669
    W. Alston, Clifton, South Carolina, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1790 August 12
    Scope and Contents
    The delivery of a carriage and horses. Will pay him in bank notes which "pass as specie in every state in the Union," there being a shortage of specie.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 31 id125670
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, to Lady Skipwith
    1790 August 15
    Scope and Contents
    Business and family matters. Is endeavoring "to get several sums due from Colonel Washington and others."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 32 id125671
    Daniel Call, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1790 August 16
    Scope and Contents
    Will attend to his interests.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 33 id125672
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, to Thomas Greenwood
    1790 August 20
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for seventy pounds with Thomas Greenwood, guardian to the orphans of Robert Greenwood.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 34 id125673
    John Armisted to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1790 August 28
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of Robert Atkinson for wagon freight.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 35 id125674
    Thomas Massey to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1790 September 17
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of some money to Robert Birchett. Receipt for payment on the back, signed Robert Birchett, dated1792 September 27.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 35a id125680
    John Stark Ravenscroft, Petersburg, Va., to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, Va.
    1790 September 18
    Scope and Contents
    Discusses some bills of exchange which are in litigation, and some land Skipwith inquired about.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 36 id125683
    Messers Montgomery & Henry, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith?
    1790 November 29
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice of goods purchased, including linen.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 37 id125686
    William Duncan to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1790 December 12
    Scope and Contents
    Bill and receipt of varous expenses and services rendered, including some wine and ale.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 38 id125692
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, to Lady Skipwith
    1790 December 25
    Scope and Contents
    A Christmas box and other small matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 39 id125701
    Miscellaneous receipts, bills, tax assessments, etc pertaining to the business affairs of Sir Peyton Skipwith, including documents for shingles, an easy chair, chain, and slaves
    1791
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 40 id125713
    Montgomery & Henry, Richmond, to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1791 January 25
    Scope and Contents
    The goods purchased by her.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 41 id125722
    Daniel Williams, Granville County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1790 February 13
    Scope and Contents
    The payment of some money
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 42 id125723
    Judgement of the Prince George County Court in favor of the plaintiff James Belsches, Junior, against Lawson, Price & Co, the case against Donaldson, Stott and Robert Donaldson having been dismissed
    1791 March
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 43 id125724
    Daniel Call to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1791 March 17
    Scope and Contents
    Subpoenas and witnesses for his suits in the Brunswick District Court.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 44 id125725
    Lewis Deupree to William Willis
    1791 May 17
    Scope and Contents
    Survey and plan of some land.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 45 id125726
    Thomas Rutherfoord, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1791 April 1
    Scope and Contents
    Port wine and Irish beef tongue.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 46 id125727
    Arnoldus Vanderhurst, Charleston, to John Mitchell
    1791 April 8
    Scope and Contents
    Declaration of his authority as a justice of the city of Charleston and a public notary.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 47 id125728
    Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1791 May 19
    Scope and Contents
    State of his account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 48 id125729
    Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1791 June 13
    Scope and Contents
    State of his account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 49 id125730
    Ebenezer Stott & Co., Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1791 August 19
    Scope and Contents
    Various business matters including his offer to purchase some land belonging to Mr. Price.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 50 id125733
    Ebenzer Stott & Co., Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1791 August 27
    Scope and Contents
    The sale of some land of Mr. Price in payment for taxes.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 51 id125734
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, to Lady Skipwith
    1791 October 6
    Scope and Contents
    Domestic matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 52 id125735
    Samuel Beall to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1791 December 6
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 53 id125736
    Bressie Lewis for Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1791 December 10
    Scope and Contents
    Statement and receipt for the balance of his account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 54 id125737
    W. McKenzie, Manchester, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1791 December 15
    Scope and Contents
    The disposal of some land in Kentucky belonging to the estate of John Hartwell
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 55 id125738
    John Grayson, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1791 December 25
    Scope and Contents
    The best time to ship his tobacco. Some apprehension that the market "will be glutted with stemmed Tob."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 56 id125739
    Miscellaneous receipts, bills, tax accounts, etc relating to the business affairs of Sir Peyton Skipwith, including documents for slaves, wheels, and a coach
    1792
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 57 id125740
    Examination of Richard Street relating to the suit being brought by the Executors of William Harwood's estate against Sir Peyton Skipwith Testimony concerning the removal and damage of some tobacco in 1781 during the British invasion
    1792
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 58 id125745
    William Bridgewater to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 January 2
    Scope and Contents
    His lack of a cart and the delivery of some pork.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 59 id125750
    William McKenzie, Manchester, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 January 16
    Scope and Contents
    The disposal of some land in the district of Kentucky.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 60 id125755
    Lewis Payne to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 January 19
    Scope and Contents
    A receipt for some money.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 61 id125758
    John Mayo to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 February 29
    Scope and Contents
    Bill & receipt for bridge tolls.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 62 id125761
    Mary Cooke to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 March 5
    Scope and Contents
    Bill for some articles furnished for his daughter.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 63 id125768
    Dan Call, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 March 30
    Scope and Contents
    His suits pending in the Brunswick district court.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 64 id125771
    Harrison Randolph for the Commonwealth of Virginia to the sheriff of Mecklenburg County
    1792 March 30
    Scope and Contents
    Blank orders to summon a witness to testify on behalf of Sir Peyton Skipwith in his suit pending with the Executors for Edward Harward.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 65 id125825
    Edmund Leigh to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 April 9
    Scope and Contents
    Several small business matters. Also his pending trip to Georgia.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 66 id125826
    Robert Campbell, Orange City, N. C. , to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 April 10
    Scope and Contents
    Some Lusirn? Lucerne? seed.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 67 id125827
    Daniel Call to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 April 28
    Scope and Contents
    Mr. Ruffin's injunction to the suit brought against him.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 68 id125828
    Edmund Leigh to Daniel Gordon
    1792 May
    Scope and Contents
    The delivery of a desk, shoes, and buckles.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 69 id125829
    Ebenezer Stott & Co., Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 May 1
    Scope and Contents
    Freight on board a ship bound for London.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 70 id125831
    Martin Gillis, Jr. to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 May 6
    Scope and Contents
    The bad condition of the road and the desirability of a bridge over the creek near his house. .
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 71 id125832
    J. And William Dickson, Baltimore, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 May 12
    Scope and Contents
    Money oustanding on his account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 72 id125833
    Edmund Leigh to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 May 17
    Scope and Contents
    Information on the power of an attorney.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 73 id125834
    Jacob Hoffman, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 May 31
    Scope and Contents
    The construction of three stills.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 74 id125835
    Ebenezer Stott & Co., Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 May 31
    Scope and Contents
    Various business matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 75 id125836
    William Wiseham, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 June 1
    Scope and Contents
    His consignment of tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 76 id125837
    Abel Morgan, Richmond, to Lewis Payne
    1792 June 2
    Scope and Contents
    The mill stone business.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 77 id125838
    Richard Hanson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 June 4
    Scope and Contents
    Judgement and execution for debt against him.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 78 id125839
    John Grayson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 June 5
    Scope and Contents
    The quantity of tobacco he wishes shipped.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 79 id125840
    John Grayson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 June 16
    Scope and Contents
    Arrangements for shipping his tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 80 id130248
    Brookes Robertson, Charlotte County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 June 22
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 81 id130426
    Holman Rice to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 July 22
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 82 id130428
    William McKenzie, Machester to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 July 24
    Scope and Contents
    The "Futility of the Deed" granted for some land in Kentucky.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 83 id130429
    William Wiseham, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 July 29
    Scope and Contents
    Tobacco business.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 83a id130431
    Daniel Call, Petersburg, Va., to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Baronet of Prestwould, Mecklenburg Co., Va.
    1792 August 10
    Scope and Contents
    Concerning legal business.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 84 id130435
    Lewis Payne to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 August 18
    Scope and Contents
    The construction of a mill; also the employment of "Pling."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 85 id130436
    Harrison Randolph for the Commonwealth of Virginia to the Sheriff of Mecklenburg? County
    1792 August 30
    Scope and Contents
    Blank Order to summon a witness to attend the suit pending in the Brunswick district court between Sir Peyton Skipwith and the Executors for William Harwood.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 86 id130438
    Daniel Call, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 September 7
    Scope and Contents
    Various court and legal matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 86a id130451
    John Stark Ravenscroft, Petersburg, Va., to his aunt, Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould, Mecklenburg Co., Va.
    1792 September 8
    Scope and Contents
    Discusses his ill health and doctor's remedies; Mrs. McMurdo expected to die after the premature birth of a daughter, and distrust of the "Gentlemen accoucheurs"; mentions defunct "Jermyn Bakeres" ?.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 87 id130452
    Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 September 13
    Scope and Contents
    The inspection of his tobacco and other business matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 88 id130453
    Robert Burton, Cury Grove, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 September 29
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of some cash.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 89 id130458
    Memoranda by Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1792 October 27
    Scope and Contents
    His account with Messrs. J. & A. Freeland.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 90 id130459
    James Field to Sir Peyton Skipwith?
    1792 November 14
    Scope and Contents
    The payment of rent for the blacksmith's shop.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 91 id130460
    William Prichard to Lady Skipwith
    1792 December 4
    Scope and Contents
    His collection of books.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 91a id130463
    Document signed by Lewish Burwell and Samuel Hopkins
    1792 December 12
    Scope and Contents
    Public auction of the Lawson Price estate (land), in Mecklenburg County. March 1794. Document concerns in the court case of James Belsches, Jr. U.S. "Lawson price and Company" brought before the Prince George County Court.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 92 id130464
    Jacob Bugg to Sir Peyton Skipworth
    1792 December 24
    Scope and Contents
    Deal for the sale and possession of some land.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 93 id130465
    Miscellaneous bills, receipts, tax accounts, etc of Sir Peyton Skipwith, including documents for slaves, cinnamon, raisins, salt, ginger, wine, cloth, linen, flannel, blankets, glassware, tea kettles, doors, shingles, windows, grindstones, a wagon and a hoe
    1793
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 94 id130466
    Joseph Boyce to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793
    Scope and Contents
    Bills on Glasgow and London.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 95 id130467
    James Greenwood to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793
    Scope and Contents
    A visit to his sister to get her to make a pair of overalls.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 96 id130468
    Judgement of the Prince George County Court in the suit brought by James Belsches, Jr against Lawson Price
    1793 January
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 97 id130469
    Edward Pegram, Jr. to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 January 1
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of the sum obtained in his suit against the Nicholas's.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 98 id130470
    Sir Peyton Skipwith and Henry Skipwith to Carter Page
    1793 January 4
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for two hundred and sixty-two pounds.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 99 id130471
    William Fry to Colonel Henry Skipwith
    1793 January 28
    Scope and Contents
    Note on Captain Hay in favor of Mr. Baker which he wishes presented to Sir Peyton
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 100 id130473
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, to ?
    1793 February 15
    Scope and Contents
    His readiness to advocate his claim against H. Carlton. Explains the history of the suit which began over default on a bond.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 101 id130474
    List of flowers and vegetables bought from Minton Collins, Richmond, by Peyton Skipwith
    1793 March 1
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 102 id130476
    W. Toushee, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 March 2
    Scope and Contents
    The sale of his land in Halifax County .
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 103 id130478
    Thomas Main, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 March 4
    Scope and Contents
    The settlement of their account. "the war with France makes it necessary to prefer an American bottom," if payment is to be made in produce.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 104 id130480
    Samuel Myers and brothers, Petersburg, to Colonel Francis Eppes
    1793 March 14
    Scope and Contents
    His order for Imperial Tea.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 105 id130481
    James Greenwood to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 March 15
    Scope and Contents
    Request for a pair of shoes.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 106 id130482
    Henry Banks, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 March 16
    Scope and Contents
    Some property near Washington and also business matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 107 id130484
    Joseph Boyce, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 March 16
    Scope and Contents
    The sale of his tobacco and the granting of credit thereon.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 108 id130485
    Thomas Jeffreys to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 March 27
    Scope and Contents
    His account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 109 id130486
    James Greenwood to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 April 28
    Scope and Contents
    His request for his horse to visit "Uncle Greenwood."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 110 id130487
    John Williamson, Charleston, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 April 30
    Scope and Contents
    The sale of his horse and the balance owing on the negro.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 111 id130488
    Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 May 8
    Scope and Contents
    Various court matters. Also his alarm at the price of tobacco and his intention to sow more wheat in the fall.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 112 id130489
    Peter Stokes to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 May 13
    Scope and Contents
    Tax returns on his still.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 113 id130490
    William Willis, Amelia, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 May 14
    Scope and Contents
    The purchase of a horse.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 114 id130491
    Holman Rice to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 May 19
    Scope and Contents
    The delivery of a letter.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 114a id130492
    John Stark Ravenscroft, n.p., to his aunt, Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould, Mecklenburg, Co., Va.
    1793 June 15
    Scope and Contents
    Sends some "Books of amusement or entertainment"; mentions Mr. R his wife?; has heard nothing from Britain for a long time.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 115 id130780
    Peter Stokes to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 July 9
    Scope and Contents
    The law concerning the possession of stills.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 116 id130781
    John Moss, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 July 27
    Scope and Contents
    Business from his suit against Colonel William Harwood.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 117 id130782
    Joseph Boyce, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 July 31
    Scope and Contents
    The payment of some money he owes him.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 118 id130783
    Thomas Wilson to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 August 4
    Scope and Contents
    Various correspondence and other business matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 119 id130784
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, to James Campbell
    1793 August 17
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for three hundred and seventy-five pounds.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 120 id130785
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenbug County to Jacob Bugg
    1793 August 29
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for one hundred and sixty-six pounds.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 121 id130786
    Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 September 17
    Scope and Contents
    Various business matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 121a id130787
    John Stark Ravenscroft, n.p., to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, Mecklenburg Co., Va.
    1793 September 28
    Scope and Contents
    His ague and fever; mentions his wife and Mr. Inge; the price of locally made goods is falling and the scarcity of money has affected the price of land.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 122 id130788
    Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 October 8
    Scope and Contents
    Court and other legal matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 123 id130789
    Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 November 2
    Scope and Contents
    Court business.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 124 id130790
    Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 November 10
    Scope and Contents
    Various business matters.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 125 id130791
    Sir Peyton Skipwith to Peyton Short
    1793 November 29
    Scope and Contents
    Appointment of Short to be his attorney to sell lands claimed by him in the state of Kentucky.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 126 id130792
    Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1793 December 18
    Scope and Contents
    The price of some pork.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 id130793
  1794-1797
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 1 id130794
    Accounts of debts charged against Skipwith for the payment of persons appearing in his behalf in court
    1794
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 2 id130795
    Miscellaneous bills of receipt and debt: Memo of business done by John Hill - July 16, 1794, John Inge for two pounds, thirteen shillings, and four pence - September 3, 1794, John Davis for levies taxes to the Sherriff of Mecklenburg County - Oct 3, 1794, Richmond store debtor to Robert Birchett - October 5, 1794, Jacob Skelor for Mason's work - October 30, 1794
    1794
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 3 id130796
    One page of the Virginia Gazette
    1794
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 4 id130797
    Sir Peyton Skipwith in account with James Hix for iron and steel
    1794
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 5 id130798
    Receipt from Benjamin Morgan to Sir Peyton Skipwith for fourteen pounds Virginia currency for the purpose of buying a work horse
    1794 January 3
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 6 id130799
    James Freeman to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1794 January 8
    Scope and Contents
    Promissory note.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 7 id130800
    Account of Nathaniel Moss with Peyton Skipwith
    1794 January 27
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 8 id130801
    R Gamble Merchant of Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1794 February 20
    Scope and Contents
    The Skipwith accounts; Sir Peyton's recent consignment of tobacco which did not get shipped to England; and a recent smallpox epidemic in Richmond.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 9 id130802
    Micajah Burton's order on William Hayes for five pounds and two shillings
    1794 February 25
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 10 id130803
    James Maury, Liverpool, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1794 March 6
    Scope and Contents
    Maury's receiving thirty-nine Hogs heads of Skipwith tobacco at what appeared to be an inconvenient time for market selling. Maury honors a draft of Skipwith for three hundred pounds.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 11 id130804
    Daniel Call, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1794 March 28
    Scope and Contents
    Wonders why Skipwith did not send answer in case of Holts errs.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 12 id130805
    Brunswick District April Court 1794 Cuthbert vs, Skipwith, copy of judgement
    1794 April
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 13 id130806
    John Hill for Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1794 April 5
    Scope and Contents
    Note for two pounds, twelve shillings, and eleven pence.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 14 id130807
    William Haye's receipt in full
    1794 April 14
    Scope and Contents
    Caleb Johnston eight pounds.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 15 id130808
    D. Stokes to Sir Peyton Skipwith ?
    1794 April 14
    Scope and Contents
    Concerns Skipwith's court involvements with one Mr. Baird.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 16 id130809
    John Hill to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1794 April 17
    Scope and Contents
    Informing him of the high water level of several ponds on his property. Including memo informing Sir Skipwith of the leveling off of the water near Robert Birchett's store, Sept. 26, 1794. Reverse, a listing of various salt orders placed by Sir. Peyton in 1793.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 17 id130810
    Isham Trotter ?, Brunswick County, to Thomas Vaughan
    1794 April 26
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 18 id130811
    Sir Peyton Skipwith account with James Campbell.
    1794 May 13
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 19 id130812
    Receipt from Alexander Campbell for sum received as witness for Sir Peyton Skipwith in case Skipwith vs Baird
    1794 May 20
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 20 id130813
    Bill and Shepard's account for saddle with Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1794 May 22
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 21 id130814
    Sir Peyton Skipwith in account with Robert Gamble
    1794 May 22
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 22 id130815
    James Campbell, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1794 June 4
    Scope and Contents
    Consignment of wheat sent by Skipwith to Campbell of Petersburg. Campbell discusses both the fluctuating prices of wheat and tobacco, and suggets that Skipwith might find a more favorable market for tobacco abroad.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 23 id130816
    Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1794 June 10
    Scope and Contents
    Skipwith's legal entanglements with V. Holloway.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 24 id130817
    Receipt from James Geddy to Sir Peyton Skipwith for various articles purchased, including clocks, clasps, and buckles
    1794 June 15
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 25 id130818
    John Moss, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1794 June 18
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 26 id130819
    Thomas Vaughan, Sheriff Deputy of Mecklenburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Baronet at Mecklenburg, July Court 1794
    1794 July 14
    Scope and Contents
    Court litigation involving tobacco, between Skipwith and W. Barberville.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 27 id130820
    Jacob Shalor to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Baronet
    1794 August 2
    Scope and Contents
    Shalor's inability to pay a debt owed Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 28 id130821
    Joseph Boyce, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1794 August 6
    Scope and Contents
    Tobacco and the disposal of promissory notes.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 29 id130822
    James Maury, Liverpool, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Virginia
    1794 September 25
    Scope and Contents
    Skipwith's latest consignment of tobacco sent to England.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 30 id130823
    Robert Burchett to Sir Peyton Skipwith. William Gray to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1794 October 24 and 26
    Scope and Contents
    Notes concern various financial transanctions of Lady Jean Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 31 id130824
    John W. Hill to Jacob Shalor
    1794 October 26
    Scope and Contents
    Skipwith's contract with Shalor for masonry work, and his desire to have said work suspended due to bad weather.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 32 id130825
    Measurement of work done in stone at Prestwould Sir Peyton Skipwith's building done by Jacob Shalor
    1794 October 27
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id130826
    State of Colonel Robert Burton's bond by L Wirthington
    1794 November 11
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 34 id130827
    Concerning furniture Sir Peyton Skipwith bought of Robert Birchett
    1794December 13
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id130828
    State of William Wilburn's crop raised in 1794, upon the estate of Sir Peyton Skipwith at Lawsons with Wilburn's receipts in full
    1795
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id130829
    An itemized bill to Sir Peyton Skipwith from Mr Baskervill for the court costs involves in the Skipwith-Birchett court litigations
    1795
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 37 id130830
    Accounts of Sir Peyton Skipwith with Thomas Vaughan
    1795
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 38 id130831
    ? to ?
    1795
    Scope and Contents
    Impending suit against Sir. Peyton Skipwith by Colonel Harwood. including: "Fishing Days Here Disposed of, 1795" and "A list of the small boys that will be able to real tobacco down in the fall 1795."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 39 id130832
    Miscellaneous receipts and bills of Sir Peyton Skipwith for slaves and boots
    1795
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 40 id130833
    Colonel Hopkins to Sir. Peyton Skipwith
    1795 January 11
    Scope and Contents
    Debts due from Jacob Bugg, holder of bond from Skipwith. Mentions intended removal to Kentucky, desires to make contacts via Skipwith among friends.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 41 id130834
    James Maury, Esq. to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1795 January 17
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice of goods to be shipped from Liverpool, including a diamond for cutting glass, putty, window glass, and salt.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 42 id130835
    W. Clinch, Executor of John Holt, Deceased and guardian to John Holt, infant, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1795 March 1
    Scope and Contents
    Court litigation instituted by Clinch against Skipwith in the High Court of Chancery on behalf of the Holt heirs.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 43 id130836
    Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of Mecklenburg, to Sir. Peyton Skipwith, Baronet
    1795 March 15
    Scope and Contents
    Warns Skipwith of the impending difficulties in the court proceedings instituted against him by the Holt heirs of Surry County.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 44 id130837
    Robert Robson to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1795 May 6
    Scope and Contents
    Job that Robson was not able to perform as expected.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 45 id130839
    Peter Stokes to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1795 May 12
    Scope and Contents
    The disputed title of a Negro purchased fom the sheriff of Lunenburg County by Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 46 id130838
    ? to ?
    1795 May 26
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 47 id130840
    William Munford to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1795 May 30
    Scope and Contents
    As Skipwith's lawyer, Munford advised his client on actions that were to be taken in the "Donald Affair" in which Skipwith is defendant. Munford also advised Skipwith on matters pertaining to two other court cases involving Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 48 id130841
    Col. R. Gamble, Richmond, to Sir Pyton Skipwith, Esq., Bar.
    1795 July 29
    Scope and Contents
    Transactions made through Mr. James Maury of London, for goods in exchange for tobacco crop.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 49 id130842
    Col. R. Gamble, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Esq., Bar.
    1795 July 31
    Scope and Contents
    Transactions made through Mr. James Maury of London, for goods in exchange for tobacco crop.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 50 id130843
    Two documents, both signed by Adam Craig, clerk of the county court of Henrico, concerning the case of Gibbons vs Craig
    1795 July 31
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 51 id130844
    List containing the names of witnesses and the sums due them from Sir Peyton Skipwith, for whom they testified in the case of Skipwith vs Birchett
    1795 August
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 52 id130845
    Robert Birchett to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1795 August 11
    Scope and Contents
    Notice of plan to take William Gray's disposition at Robert Armistead's Tavern, 1795 August 31, 1795.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 53 id130846
    Thomas Vaughan, Sheriff Deputy of Mecklenburg County and Tax Collector, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Baronet, at Prestwould
    1795 August 25
    Scope and Contents
    Arrangements for the payment of taxes by Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 54 id130847
    Edward Hardwood to Sir Peyton Skipwith and Thomas Vaughan, Esq.
    1795
    Scope and Contents
    Notice of court proceeding against them. Concerns the confiscation of thirteen slaves from the Hardwood Estates for the nonpayment of bonds.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 54a id130848
    Jean Skipwith to James Maury with invoices concerning hardware, wall paper, and paint for Prestwould
    1795
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 55 id130849
    Questions to be asked Mr William Gray of Mecklenburg Co; Gristmiller in Petersburg at Armistead's Tavern
    1795 August 31
    Scope and Contents
    Court litigation between Sir Peyton Skipwith and Robert Birchett over wheat.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 56 id130850
    James Maury, Liverpool, Eng., to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Virginia
    1795 September 3
    Scope and Contents
    As the Skipwith London agent, Maury encourages Sir Peyton to abandon further shipment of tobacco to London "earlier than the summer following its growth."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 56a id130851
    Statement of John Gilbert Penniston's claim against Sir Peyton Skipwith, 1786-1795, signed by John Hill, "agent for Sir Peyton Skipwith"
    1795 September 4
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 57 id130852
    Receipt from one James Scott of Brunswick District Court to Sir Peyton Skipwith for the sum of five pounds in full for five weeks work for Scott's stonemason Fortis
    1795 September 30
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 58 id130853
    Edwin Fort to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Esquire
    1795 November 3
    Scope and Contents
    Court litigation in which Skipwith was plaintiff.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 58a id130854
    Accounts of Cooper Perkins & Co, Birmingham, Eng and Edwards & Penny, Liverpool, Eng, with James Maury, Liverpool, Eng, for hardware, paints and drugs shipment to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1795 December 15 - 1796 February 16
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 59 id130855
    James King et. al., Merchants of Glasgow, Scotland, to George Wythe, Judge of the Virginia High Court Chancery
    circa 1795-1801
    Scope and Contents
    Petition regarding their suit against John Martin involving a debt and the assignment of a bond of Sir Peyton Skipwith's.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 60 id130856
    Boundaries of E Cottey's one hundred acres of land
    1796
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 61 id130857
    Miscellaneous bills and receipts concerning court suits, land deals in Kentucky and other plantation business of Skipwith, including documents for mustard, molasses, a boy's hat, and casks for nails
    1796
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 62 id130858
    Sam Hopkins to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1796 January 12
    Scope and Contents
    Skipwith's ferry operated by Hopkins and the necessity of improving roads leading to and from said ferry.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 63 id131238
    R. Gamble, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Esq., Baronet
    1796 January 14
    Scope and Contents
    Problem of shipping and receiving goods from England, especially tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 64 id131241
    James Maury, Liverpool Eng., to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould, Va.
    1796 March 13
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 65 id131243
    Mr. James Maury, Liverpool, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould, Va.
    1796 March 13
    Scope and Contents
    Goods ordered by Lady Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 66 id131246
    Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1796 March 25
    Scope and Contents
    His suit against Peter Holloway.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 67 id131250
    James Maury, Liverpool, Eng, to Mr Daniel McCallum, Osbornes James River, Virginia
    1796 March 30
    Scope and Contents
    Goods shipped from Liverpool for Sir Peyton Skipwith and placed under the care of Mr. McCallum, including a leaf table.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 68 id131253
    John Hill to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1796 April 3
    Scope and Contents
    Used as miscellaneous note paper.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 69 id131255
    Receipt for debts paid. Including a short memo on some land bordering the Norfolk River ad the deposition of Joseph Clarkson who is to testify on a matter concerning Sir Peyton Skipwith and his former dealings with Hog Island, Surry Co.
    1796 April 20
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 70 id131260
    Unknown writer to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1796 April 23
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 71 id131262
    William Baskervill, County Clerk of Mecklenburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith Concerns court suit between Sir Skipwith and Robert Birchett; the document names Skipwith's witnesses in the case
    1796 April 28
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 72 id131265
    Notice penned by John Hill of the loss of one "bright bayhorse" from Peyton Short and offering a reward for finder
    1796 June 24
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 73 id131267
    Sir Peyton Skipwith to Thomas Vaughan Bond of thirteen pounds, four shillings, and one penny
    1796 June 25
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 74 id131270
    Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Baronet, Prestwould
    1796 September
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of taxes in gold by Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 75 id131272
    Sir Peyton Skipwith to Mr. McCrocy, Petersburg
    1796 October 2
    Scope and Contents
    Skipwith's involvement in court litigation with Robert Birchett over a wheat contract. Skipwith wants to retain McCrocy as his lawyer.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 76 id131276
    Miscellaneous notes and accounts
    1796 August - September
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 77 id131279
    Notice served to Robert Birchett, Petersburg, by John Hill for Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1796 September 7
    Scope and Contents
    States that Skipwith was to call witnesses to refute the previous testimony of Birchett.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 78 id131280
    Sir Peyton Skipwith to Casper Fleisher Bill listing various expenses
    1796 September 13
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 79 id131281
    A statement by Sam White, a furniture-maker, defending his furniture, in a dispute involving the Mssrs Frank Eppes and Henry Skipwith
    1796 September 14
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 80 id131282
    Sir Peyton Skipwith to Mr. Robert Birchett
    1796 September 16
    Scope and Contents
    Notice left at Robert Birchett's house on 16 Sept. 1796 by John Hill.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 81 id131283
    Thomas Vaughan, Deputy of William Davis, Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1796 September 17
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt of payment for Baird Judgement.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 82 id131284
    Sir Peyton Skipwith's list of holdings and the taxes due upon them
    1796 September 21
    Scope and Contents
    Also contains a penned reply by Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of Mecklenburg County noting receipt of taxes.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 83 id131285
    Receipt to Sir Peyton Skipwith from William Munford, Attorney at Law
    1796 September 21
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 84 id131286
    Memo from Lady Jean Skipwith to John Hill, Prestwould
    1796 September 25
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 85 id131287
    Col William Helk, Bern Hundred, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1796 September 30
    Scope and Contents
    Duties owed on goods delivered to Sir Peyton Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 86 id131288
    Mecklenburg County Quarterly Court orders for Sir Peyton Skipwith to pay his witnesses in the suit of Skipwith vs Birchett
    1796 October
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 87 id131289
    William Gray's affidavit in support of Sir Peyton Skipwith's case against Robert Birchett, being unable to attend court The Notarized copy of Gray's affidavit, attested by William Prentis, Recorder
    1796 October 5
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 88 id131290
    Henry Carleton to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1796 October 9
    Scope and Contents
    Carleton's belated payment of debts to Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 89 id131291
    Sir Peyton Skipwith's list of holdings and the taxes due upon them
    1796 October 13
    Scope and Contents
    Including reply by Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, noting recipt of taxes.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 90 id131292
    Henry Carleton to Sir Peyton Skipwith Elm Hill
    1796 October 16
    Scope and Contents
    Mr. Carleton's repeated failure to pay a debt due in September and his desire to pay Skipwith in kind with horses and tobacco with an extension of the debt until December.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 91 id131293
    Surveyor's Note
    1796 November 16
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 92 id131294
    Invoice of goods purchased by Sir Peyton Skipwith from John and William Bell, including thread, buttons, cloth, tea, knives, and forks
    1796 November 27
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 93 id131295
    Statement of account of Sir Peyton Skipwith with Harwood Executors by John Hill Expense account of court costs involved in court litigation of which Skipwith was plaintiff
    1796 December 11
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 94 id131296
    John Bell, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1796 December 21
    Scope and Contents
    Business transactions between Peyton and Bell.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 95 id131298
    "A list of the hands to be emplyed at the Horse Shoe Plantation, Blue-Stone ? Plantation, and the Upper Plantation in the island" A portion of the Skipwith's contract with Richard Bailey as overseer of several of his plantations
    1797
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 96 id131299
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, Va, to John Inge, Mecklenburg County, Va.
    1797
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for 181 pounds, 9 shillings, and 4 pence.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 97 id131300
    Miscellaneous receipts for wine, sugar, chains, child's chains, boots, and scythe blades
    1797
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 98 id131301
    Miscellaneous bills and acounts for silk, fabric, boards, planks, iron, boxes, nail rods, bacon, tea, and gun powder
    1797
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 99 id131302
    Nathaniel Moss's receipt for ten pounds, three shillings, and seven pence Edmund Bugg's receipt for one pound, one shilling
    1797 January 6
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 100 id131303
    Col. Heth, City Point, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1797 January 7
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 101 id131305
    Spencer Spud to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Bart., Prestwould
    1797 January 14
    Scope and Contents
    Payment of a bond.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 102 id131307
    John Bell, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1797 January 18
    Scope and Contents
    Complaints by Skipwith over several grindstones purchased from Bell's brother.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 103 id131308
    Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of Mecklenburg to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Baronet, Prestwould
    1797 January 29
    Scope and Contents
    Newspapers sent to Vaughan by Skipwith, and Skipwith's court litigation with Mssrs. Bugg and Birchett.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 104 id131310
    James Brown's account with Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1797 February 19
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 105 id131311
    Release from William Walker to John Hill Gives Hill the power to dispose of 100 acres of land
    1797 February 23
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 106 id131312
    John Lester, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County
    1797 March 4
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents Stone lime sent to Skipwith and the most recent tobacco prices.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 107 id131313
    Richard C. Laurel, Jr. Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1797 March 10
    Scope and Contents
    Court litigations and the decrees of the court of appeals.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 108 id131831
    Plat of 326 acres of land formerly the property of Amos Hicks, deceased, surveyed at the request of Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1797 March 20
    Scope and Contents
    Letter of certification by John Holloway.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 109 id131832
    Sir Peyton Skipwith's account with Thomas Vaughan
    1797 April - August
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 110 id131833
    John Hill for Sir Peyton Skipwith to Peyton Short, esq, transferring land to William A Coune
    1797 April 1
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 111 id131834
    Joshua Singleton to John Hill agent for Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1797 April 29
    Scope and Contents
    Land transaction, Singleton would like to pay with a horse.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 112 id131835
    Court orders for Skipwith to pay the witness expenses for two witnesses in his court litigation against Alexander Donald
    1797 May
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 113 id131836
    Fragment
    1797 May 17
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 114 id131837
    Fragment of a Survey
    1797 May 18
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 115 id131838
    Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of Mecklenburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Baronet
    1797 May 28
    Scope and Contents
    Taxes due for previous year from various individuals, including William Davis, Sheriff of Mecklenburg.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 116 id131839
    Receipt from Alexander W Small ?, Deputy Sheriff, Halifax County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1797 June 7
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 117 id131840
    Gamble and Temple account with Sir Peyton Skipwith by C Mathews for screws and brass pins
    1797 June 8
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 118 id131841
    E. Jamies for Gracie and Anderson, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1797 June 16
    Scope and Contents
    Articles purchased by Skipwith, such as nails, hooks, springs, and hoes, including an itemized list.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 119 id131842
    Peyton Short, Woodford County, Ky, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, Va.
    1797 June 17
    Scope and Contents
    Money owed Skipwith by Short and a request for Skipwith to procure "about twenty likely negroes."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 120 id131843
    James Brown to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1797 July 24
    Scope and Contents
    State of Skipwith's tobacco crop, and the prices it should fetch once on the market.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 121 id131844
    Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1797 August 2
    Scope and Contents
    Enumerated list of Skipwith's taxes for 1797.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 122 id131845
    Sir Peyton Skipwith's account with Richard & Davidson including receipt for eleven pounds, thirteen shillings, and nine pence
    1797 August 10
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 123 id131846
    Sir Peyton Skipwith's account with John and William Bell
    1797 August 12
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 124 id131847
    "Account of the time Mr Young's Jim (Mason) worked at Sir Peyton Skipwith's"
    1797 August 24
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 125 id131848
    William Munford, "Richland," to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1797 September 16
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 126 id131849
    John and William Bell, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1797 September 18
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents Skipwith's account with them.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 127 id131850
    Court order ordering Skipwith to pay fees of Jesse Dortch and acted as his witness in the suit against Donald and Co
    1797 October
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents Including receipt of payment.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 128 id131851
    Account of debts accumulated by Skipwith in his court litigation with John Baird
    1797 October
    Scope and Contents
    Including receipt of payment.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 129 id131852
    Court order ordering Skipwith to pay fees of Nathaniel Moss who served as his witness in the suit against Donald and Co.
    1797 October
    Scope and Contents
    Nathaniel Moss's receipt - October 9, 1797.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 130 id131853
    John and William Bell Merchants of Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1797 October 9
    Scope and Contents
    Business transaction.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 131 id131854
    ? Dunscomb, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1797 October 17
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 132 id131855
    Sir Peyton Skipwith's bond for one hundred and fifty pounds with Robert Marshall
    1797 November 18
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 7 id131856
  1798-1804
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 1 id131857
    Sir Peyton Skipwith's account with the Sheriff of Mecklenburg for taxes and county levies for 1798
    1798
    Scope and Contents
    Including receipt for payment.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 2 id131858
    Miscellaneous bills and receipts of Sir Peyton Skipwith for cloth, a saddle, linen, red clover, parsnip, garden pots, furniture, and slaves
    1798
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 3 id131859
    Peyton Short, Esq in account with Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1798 January - February
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 4 id131860
    Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1798 January 31
    Scope and Contents
    Account of Benjamin Harrison for taxes for the year 1792 with the Sheriff of Mecklenburg County.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 5 id131861
    Sir Peyton Skipwith in account with Thomas Vaughan
    1798 February
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 5a id131862
    Manuscript map entitled "Sir Peyton Skipwith's land AD 1798," John Hill, Cartographer
    1798 February 1
    Scope and Contents
    Map caption: "On the first day of February began, and on the 15th compleated a Survey of the within Tract of Sir Peyton Skipwith's Land A.D. 1798. Laid down by a Scale of 80 poles to an Inch by John Hill."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 6 id131863
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, to Philip L. Grymes, Esq.
    1798 February 8
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 7 id131864
    Note of agreement between Skipwith ? and William Harrison
    1798 February 12
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 8 id131865
    Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1798 February 22
    Scope and Contents
    Mr. Cunningham's transaction with Vaughan dealing with corn and its receipt and transportation, and other business.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 9 id131866
    Sir Peyton Skipwith's account with Prichard and Davidson, Merchants, for books
    1798 March 25
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 10 id131867
    Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of mecklenburg County to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1798 April 29
    Scope and Contents
    Matters relating to Skipwith's court litigations with Robert Birchett ?
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 11 id131868
    Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1798 June 2
    Scope and Contents
    Skipwith's financial and legal transactions.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 12 id131869
    Sir Peyton Skipwith to William and Archibald Thayte, Attorneys at Law, Blundford
    1798 June 25
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 13 id131870
    Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1798 July 4
    Scope and Contents
    "Bag of money" left at Mr. Vaughan's by Skipwith's agent, John Hill.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 14 id131871
    Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1798 October 1
    Scope and Contents
    Skipwith's request of a 20 pound loan.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 15 id131872
    Surveyor's note Surveyed for Thomas Marshall and John Hill, agent for Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1798 November 12
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 16 id131873
    Statement by the magistrated of Mecklenburg Co on the case between Sir Peyton Skipwith, Bart, plaintiff, and James King, Alexander Brown, Robert Crawford, Robert Dinwiddie, David Russel, Charles Duncan, and Robert Turnbull
    1799
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 17 id131874
    Miscellaneous bills of receipt, including documents for slaves
    1799
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 18 id131875
    Fragment from the European Magazine for the year 1799
    1799
    Scope and Contents
    Home remedy and treatment for yellow fever.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 19 id131877
    Holt and Donaldson, Merchants of Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1799 January 9
    Scope and Contents
    Materials sent to Lady Jean Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 20 id131878
    Obligation, Sir Peyton Skipwith to James Marshall
    1799 April 2
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for two thousand five hundred pounds.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 21 id131880
    James Gatewood to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1799 April 29
    Scope and Contents
    requesting the use of a horse.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 22 id131881
    Thomas Vaughan to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1799 May 28
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents Concerning T. Burnett.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 22a id131883
    Account of Kent luck and Kent with Dawes, Stephenson & Co, London, for carpeting, mirrors, furniture and fabrics for Prestwould?
    1799 July 26
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 23 id131885
    Billing list of articles ordered and obtained from Dawes, Stephenson & Co of London by Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1799 July 31
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 24 id131887
    Billing lists of articles ordered from Dawes, Stephenson & Co of London by Sir Peyton Skipwith, including mustard, paper hangings, and salt petre
    1799 August 3
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 25 id131888
    Peter Williams, Prince George County to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Petersburg
    1799 August 29
    Scope and Contents
    Skipwith's suit against King, Dinwiddie, Crawford, & Duncan.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 26 id131890
    Court costs for case of Robert Birchett vs Sir Peyton Skipwith and Thomas Vaughan
    1799 September
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 27 id131892
    Sir Peyton Skipwith grants full power to his Lawyer/Agent, John Hill to dispose of a tract of land adjoining the town of Romney
    1799 September 9
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 28 id131893
    Indenture of release of claim to land by Sir Peyton Skipwith to James Marshall
    1799 September 9
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 29 id131895
    Two orders from the Brunswick District Court requiring Skipwith to pay witnesses for his case against Alexander Donald & Company
    1799 October
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 30 id131897
    Wynnes & Hills statements of Robert Pasley's debt
    1799 October 13
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 31 id131899
    List of articles, including toys and cosmetics, purchased by Lady Jean Skipwith from William Moore, Apothecary
    1799 November
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 32 id131900
    Sir Peyton Skipwith in account with Martin Elliot
    1799 November
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 33 id131901
    List of articles Lady Jean Skipwith bought of Rap & Douglas - November 23, 1799, Colquihoun, Gatewood & Co - November 25, 1799, and McCrury and Nelson, including almanacks, and cambrick muslin
    1799 November
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 34 id131903
    Billing list from Colquihoun, Gatewood & Company, Merchants of Petersburg, to Mr John S Ravenscroft, for items such as pots, spice, and pepper
    1799 November 23
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 34a id131904
    Account of Sir Peyton Skipwith with Samuel White for furniture.
    1799 November 26
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 35 id131906
    Edward Brodnax's account with William Munford Balance due $274
    1800
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 36 id131908
    Bond of Sir Peyton Skipwith and Richard H Walker with Thomas Vaughan, acting executor for John S Clark, deceased for one hundred and thirteen pounds and ten shillings
    1800 January 16
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 37 id131910
    Thomas Vauhan's receipt for bond to Clark's estates
    1800 January 16
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 38 id131912
    John and William Bell, Merchants of Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1800 February 8
    Scope and Contents
    Settling of accounts with Mr. Cunningham and Skipwith's future business.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 id131913
    Statement by Thomas Vaughan in relation to Sir Peyton Skipwith and Sheriff of Mecklenburg County
    1800 March
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id131915
    Matford ? Vaughan, Wife of Thomas Vaughan, Deputy Sheriff of Mecklenburg County to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1800 March 16
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 41 id131916
    William Cunningham's receipt from Harts & Wright
    1800 April 7
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 42 id131918
    List of purchases made from W W Richardson by Messrs Dawes and Stephenson in behalf of Sir Peyton Skipwith, including a calendar, a catalogue, and Travels of Anacharsis
    1800 April 21
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 43 id131919
    Sir Peyton Skipwith's receipt with Clausel Clausel
    1800 May 23
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 44 id131920
    Sir Peyton Skipwith in account with Robert Marshall, by William Cunningham for flour
    1800 June 19
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 45 id131921
    John Bell, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1800 July 1
    Scope and Contents
    Bell's handling of a shipment of Skipwith's tobacco destined for London. including invoice for 60 hogs heads of tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 46 id131922
    Goods bought of W and S Jones, London, Optical and Mathematical instrument makers
    1800 July 3
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 47 id131923
    Messrs Dawes, Stephenson & Co, London, bought of A Maxwell, a mahogany medicine chest for their client Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1800 July 3
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 48 id131924
    Account of Sir Peyton Skipwith, direct tax, Halifax County Including receipt
    1800 July 28
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 49 id131925
    Sir Peyton Skipwith's account with Marshall & Wilson for salt
    1800 November - 1801 August
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 50 id131926
    Sir Peyton Skipwith in account with Archibald Gracie, Gracie, Anderson & Co.
    1800 November 20
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 51 id132175
    List of good bought of James Stokes by Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1800 November 21
    Scope and Contents
    Including looking glasses and brass andirons.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 52 id132177
    List of goods bought of John Richard, Philadelphia, by Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1800 November 21
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 53 id132179
    Current account of Sir Peyton Skipwith with Moore Bowden and Co, Petersburg, for salt, bacon, osnaburg, and buttons
    1801
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 54 id132180
    Estimate of a crop of hemp at Prestwould
    1801
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 55 id132181
    Dawes, Stephenson & Co of London to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1801 February 23
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 56 id132184
    John & William Bell, Merchants of Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1801 February 28
    Scope and Contents
    Interests and payments on a bond. Also mention of Skipwith's trip to England for the coming summer.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 57 id132187
    Thomas Bennett of Petersburg to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1801 April 24
    Scope and Contents
    Bennett advises Skipwith not to ship his tobacco from Edenton to Norfolk for shipment to England. Instead he wants the tobacco brought to Petersburg, and placed in his care.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 58 id132188
    Thomas Bennett, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1801 May 13
    Scope and Contents
    Shipment of Skipwith's tobacco to England
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 59 id132189
    List of goods bought by Maryan Blackbourn of Thomas Colquhoun and Co, including muslin, wilebo?ce, and pearl buttons
    1801 May 15
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 60 id132190
    Thomas Bennett, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1801 June 17
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents Shipment of Skipwith's tobacco to England and some personal papers which Skipwith also wanted to send.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 61 id132191
    Messrs Richardson bought of Clarke & Yellowley, London, Stationers
    1801 June 25
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 62 id132192
    Messrs Dawes & Stephenson and Co, London, bought of WJ and J Richardson a list of books for Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1801 July 10
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 63 id132193
    William Hanall ?, Petersburg to Conway Whittle, Baltimore
    1801 July 29
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents Asking him to host Sir Peyton Skipwith during his stay in Norfolk.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 64 id132194
    Messrs Dawes and Stephenson & Co account with W J and J Richardson list of books for Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1801 August 13
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 65 id132195
    Archibald Gracie, New York City, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestonville
    1801 August 29
    Scope and Contents
    Gracie agrees to dispose of Skipwith's bills on Messrs. Dawes & Stephenson & Co. of London.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 66 id132420
    George Wilson, Norfolk, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County
    1801 August 29
    Scope and Contents
    Reporting sales of tobacco and accounts of land offered for sale.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 67 id132421
    John Nicholson, Baltimore, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1801 August 29
    Scope and Contents
    1801 wheat market, esp. with the West Indies and abroad in Europe. Mentions Mr. Dawson, Tom Payne, Mr. Jefferson, in addition to a pending treaty between U.S. and ?. Also speaks of rumor that England and France had concluded peace.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 68 id132422
    J. Gillingham and Co., Baltimore
    1801 September 18
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt to Alexander and James Fulton for Sir Peyton Skipwith, Esq.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 69 id132423
    Andrew Woodson to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1801 October 27
    Scope and Contents
    Subject of court litigation between Skipwith and Samuel Bray of Hampshire County Ky.?
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 70 id132424
    Archibald Gracie, New York City to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Marshallsville, Va.
    1801 October 27
    Scope and Contents
    Skipwith's business with Messrs. Dawes, Stephenson & Co. of London. Also contains comment on a fever epidemic which had suspended business throughout New York City.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 71 id132425
    William Cunningham, Esq agent of Sir Peyton Skipwith bought of B Holloway, including sugar, coffee, linen, cloth, and a closet lock with knobs
    1801 November 4
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 72 id132426
    Acknowledgement of debt between John G Baptist and Isaac Bracken
    1801 November 8
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 73 id132427
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, to Messrs. Gracie Anderson & Co., Petersburg
    1801 November 12
    Scope and Contents
    Requesting that they advance George Nicholas Skipwith $1,883.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 74 id132428
    Request from Skipwith through his agent William Cunningham that Messrs Gracie, Anderson and Co of Petersburg pay Captain Robert Marshall, $20000
    1801 November 19
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 75 id132429
    Gracie, Anderson and Company of Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1801 December 14
    Scope and Contents
    Skipwith's request for $4800.00
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 76 id132430
    Current account of Sir Peyton Skipwith with Thomas Bennett
    1802
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 77 id132431
    Miscellaneous bills of receipt
    1802
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 78 id132432
    Gracie, Anderson & Co., Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Marshallsville, Mecklenburg
    1802 January 11
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 79 id132433
    List of books purchased by Messrs Dawes & Stephenson Co, London from Messrs W J and J Richardson
    1802 February 7
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 80 id132434
    Billing list from John Wabraven of Baltimore for items purchased, including a parasol, a tea caddy, a nutmeg grater, and a tea chest,
    1802 May 15
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 81 id132435
    J. T. & William Dickson to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1802 May 17
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice and receipt for goods purchased.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 82 id132436
    Peyton Short to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1802 June 30
    Scope and Contents
    Fulwar Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 83 id132437
    Sir Peyton Skipwith's bill with Moore & Bowden for furniture, handkerchiefs, blue cloth, and buttons
    1802 October 4
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 84 id132438
    Lady Jean Skipwith bought of Kent & Browne, Baltimore, including tea, sugar, and nutmeg
    1802 October 15
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 85 id132439
    Lady Jean Skipwith bought of Samuel and John Lewis, Baltimore
    1802 October 15
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 86 id132440
    Lists of goods Lady Jean Skipwith bought from Thomas and Cald? and Co, Baltimore
    1802 October 16
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 87 id132441
    Miscellaneous bills of receipt for items, including salt
    1803
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 88 id132442
    Bond between Peyton Skipwith, Jr. and Marston G. Clark for 27 pounds, 10 shillings, payable October 1, 1803
    1803 January 15
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 89 id132443
    John Hill's survey of 545 acres of land for Sir Peyton Skipwith on Flat Rock Creek, Russell Co, Va, plat and description
    1803 January 22
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 90 id132444
    Thomas Bennett Ship Captain, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1803 January 26
    Scope and Contents
    Informs Skipwith of the dissolving of Dawes, Stephenson & Co.'s partnership with John Grayson, and Grayson's venture into business for himself.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 91 id132445
    Francis Williamson to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1803 February 2
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents Seeks permission to carry a hogshead of tobacco across Skipwith's plantation to market.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 92 id132446
    Bond between Sir Peyton Skipwith and Charles Duncan for 272 pounds and 10 shillings, payable June 10, 1803
    1803 February 4
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 93 id132447
    ? to Lady Jean Skipwith?
    1803 February 26
    Scope and Contents
    Unknown writer's daughter Margaret.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 94 id132448
    Josiah Collins, Edenton, N.C., to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1803 March 9
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 95 id132449
    Thomas Bennett Ship Captain, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1803 April 5
    Scope and Contents
    Information relating to the dissolving of the business partnership of Dawes, Stephenson, Grayson & Co. Bennett informs Skipwith of his ship's departure for London via Falmouth.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 96 id132450
    Messrs. Grayson & Noble, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1803 May 18
    Scope and Contents
    State of England during the war with France, esp. in terms of their not being able to get American consignments of tobacco to England. Makes personal arrangement with Skipwith for the receipt of his crop.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 97 id132451
    Bill of Sale and receipt for four horses from Samuel Hargrave to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1803 June 13
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 98 id132452
    Luman Bishop, Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1803 July 20
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents Skipwith's interests in purchasing mules.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 99 id132453
    ? to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1803 August 10
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 100 id132454
    Messrs Grayson & Noble, London, bought of Clementi, Banger, Hyde, Collard & Davis, Manufacturers of musical instruments invoice of items purchased on behalf of Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1803
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 100a id132455
    Am? Van Bibber, North End, Matthews County, Va., to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1803 September 3
    Scope and Contents
    Purchase of some slaves, and "grazing" as a business; describes the soil in his area, and his grasses it supports; comments on his method of crop rotation.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 101 id132456
    Messrs. Grayson & Noble, London, to Sir peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1803 September 12
    Scope and Contents
    Lady Skipwith's order for music books. Also contains information on the prices for tobacco in Europe "notwithstanding the blockade of the Elbe & other restrictions on commerce."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 102 id132457
    T. Poole & Riddick, Suffolk, Va, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1803 September 19
    Scope and Contents
    Nine hogsheads of tobacco being transported from Suffolk to Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 103 id132458
    Plat of land surveyed by John Hill for Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1803 December 9
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 104 id132459
    John Rainy, Christiansville, Va, to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1803 December 13
    Scope and Contents
    Direction along the main road to Richmond.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 105 id132460
    Miscellaneous bills of receipt, including documents for wheel repair, a hoe and iron
    1804
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 106 id132461
    Sir Peyton Skipwith to Messrs Fulton by William Cunningham
    1804 December
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 107 id132462
    Sir Peyton Skipwith in account with Alexander and James Fulton
    1804
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 108 id132463
    List of slaves, with names, some ages, and prices
    1804 January
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 109 id132464
    "On the Death of Kendall Coles" by Ann Paneaost (Pancoast) ?
    1804 February 12
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 110 id132465
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, to E Carrington Bond for $1,33330
    1804 March 12
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 111 id132466
    Daniel Ludlow of the firm of Daniel Ludlow and Co., New York City, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1804 April 17
    Scope and Contents
    Skipwith's request in his market investments; also discusses the New York market for tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 112 id132468
    Thomas Bennett Ship Captain and agent for Messrs Grayson & Noble of London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1804 May 6
    Scope and Contents
    Informing Skipwith of his plans to charter an American ship for the customers of Grayson & Noble. Also requests that Skipwith send along 1 1/2 dozen of "good bacon hams."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 113 id132470
    Thomas Bennett Ship Captain, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1804 May 28
    Scope and Contents
    Requesting that Skipwith decide whether or not he wants to ship his tobacco to England aboard the ship Alexander at City Point Hopewell.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 114 id132473
    Thomas Bennett Ship Captain, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1804 June 10
    Scope and Contents
    Giving additional information concerning the ship Alexander, such as freight rates for the transporting of Skipwith's tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 115 id132474
    Thomas Bennett Ship Captain, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1804 August 25
    Scope and Contents
    Date of departure of a ship from City Point Hopewell for England.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 116 id132477
    Thomas Bennett Ship Captain, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1804 September 14
    Scope and Contents
    Bennet's receipt in Petersburg of 14 hogsheads of Rolla tobacco for shipment to Messrs. Grayson & Noble, London.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 117 id132479
    Thomas Bennett Ship Captain, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1804 October 21
    Scope and Contents
    Bennett's receipt of Skipwith's tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 118 id132482
    Messrs. Grayson & Noble, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1804 December 1
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of 4 hogsheads of Potson tobacco sent by Skipwith. Grayson complains of the inability to sell an additional 74 hogsheads of Rolla tobacco because of Skipwith's faulty methods of packing tobacco for shipment.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 119 id132484
    Sir Peyton Skipwith bought of Clementi, Banger, Hyde, Collard, and Davis, manufacturers of musical instruments, list of music
    1804 December 3
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 8 id132486
  1805-1810
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 1 id132488
    State of account of Messrs. Grayson & Noble, London, with Sir Peyton Skipwith's estate
    1805
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 3 id132490
    Legal form for a bond
    1805
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 4 id132492
    Miscellaneous bills of receipt, including documents for nails, a padlock, and carpeting
    1805
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 5 id132495
    Isaac M Coulling of Richmond, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1805 January 7
    Scope and Contents
    Suit against Dinwiddie Crawford & Co.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 6 id132497
    John Hill's memo concerning Sir Peyton Skipwith's land "near Thornton Yancey's and bordering on No. Carolina."
    1805 January 19
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents .
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 7 id132499
    Decree of Nash County, N C , leaving the estate of William Skipwith Mearns, deceased, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Baronet
    1805 February
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 8 id132502
    Grayson & Noble, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1805 February 15
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of 71 hogsheads of Rolla tobacco for Skipwith and their receipt of samples of Dumfries tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 9 id132505
    Thomas Bennett Ship Captain & agent for Messrs. Grayson & Noble of London, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1805 February 26
    Scope and Contents
    Goods ordered by Skipwith now arrived in Petersburg on board the Protectress.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 10 id132507
    Messrs. Grayson & Noble, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, Mecklenburg County, Va.
    1805 February 28
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt and sale of four hogsheads of tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 11 id132510
    Robert Gamble of Richmond to Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1805 March 8
    Scope and Contents
    Availability of ships sailing to Liverpool able to carry Skipwith's tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 12 id132512
    Low and Wallace, New York, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, Va.
    1805 March 25
    Scope and Contents
    Goods purchased by Skipwith and being forwarded to him in the care of Thomas Bennett of Petersburg.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 13 id132514
    B. Marshall, Marshallsville, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1805 April 1
    Scope and Contents
    Bills of loading for six hogsheads of tobacco shipped on the Good Intent for New York.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 14 id132515
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Baronet, in account for sale of four hogsheads of Dumfries tobacco with Capt Beard
    1805 April 10
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 15 id132517
    Messrs. Grayson & Noble, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, Va.
    1805 April 10
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents Two bills for 200 pounds and 300 pounds that Skipwith had deposited with them. Also discussion on the London tobacco market and the necessity of Skipwith's shipping only that tobacco fit for "home consumption."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 16 id132518
    James Maury, Liverpool, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1805 April 11
    Scope and Contents
    Business transactions including the purchasing of cotton materials for Skipwith and the prices of tobacco on the Liverpool market.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 17 id132519
    W. Baskervill, ? Grove, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Elm Hill
    1805 April 17
    Scope and Contents
    Baskervill's use of one of Skipwith's servants to transport some articles.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 18 id132520
    Low and Wallace, New York, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, Marshallsville, Va.
    1805 April 23
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt of Skipwith's shipment of six hogsheads of tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 19 id132856
    Summons concerning suit between Sir Peyton Skipwith and his kinsman, Peyton Short
    1805 April 30
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 20 id132857
    John Somervill, Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould
    1805 May 25
    Scope and Contents
    Some bound volumes of music purchased by Lady Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 21 id132858
    Memorandum of an agreement between Sir Peyton Skipwith and Samuel Scott concerning building costs
    1805 June 17
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 22 id132860
    Promissory note for $1,000.00. Signed by C. D.
    1805 July 14
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 23 id132862
    William Cunningham, Prestwould, to Thomas Bennett
    1805 July 20
    Scope and Contents
    Disposal of two bills of exchange drawn upon Messrs. Grayson & Noble of London by Sir Peyton Skipwith for 200 pounds a piece.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 24 id132863
    Messrs. Grayson & Noble, London, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, Mecklenburg County, Va.
    1805 July 26
    Scope and Contents
    Their approval of transactions allowing James Maury of Liverpool to draw up the Skipwith account to cover purchases made in behalf of Sir Peyton. The high rate of insurance for shipping due to Spanish Privateers.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 25 id132868
    Patrick Ogilluy, for Somervill & Conrad, Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould
    1805 August 8
    Scope and Contents
    Order for books, including an itemized list.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 26 id132870
    James Maury, Liverpool, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, Va.
    1805 September 6
    Scope and Contents
    Purchases made by Skipwith and the tobacco market in Liverpool; including invoice.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 27 id132872
    Thomas Bennett, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould
    1805 September 25
    Scope and Contents
    Transportation of Skipwith's tobacco crop to London.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 28 id132874
    John Stewart, Petersburg, to Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, Mecklenburg
    1805 September 25
    Scope and Contents
    Mare.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 29 id132877
    Christopher S. Clausel, for W. & Bennett Marshall, Marshallville, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould
    1805 October 16
    Scope and Contents
    Goods purchased by Lady Skipwith, including shoemakers' pinchers and nippers, with an itemized list.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 30 id132879
    Messrs. Halliday and Hintons, Petersburg, to William Cunningham, Mecklenburg, in behalf of the estate of Sir Peyton Skipwith
    1805 October 21
    Scope and Contents
    Goods purchased, including cloth.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 31 id132881
    Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould, to Peyton Short
    1805 December 17
    Scope and Contents
    Death of Sir Peyton Skipwith on October 11, 1805 and the death of his youngest son. Lady Skipwith as sole executor of her husband's Virginia estates asks Short to settle a court suit that had been pending between Short and Sir Peyton over some bonds of M. Fulwar Skipwith's.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 32 id132882
    ? to Lady Jean Skipwith Discussing business and legal matters after Sir Peyton's death
    1806?
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 33 id132885
    Lady Jean Skipwith's account current with Bell ? and McNae from 1806 through 1808 for tea, salt, cheese, knives and forks, linen, and buttons
    1806
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 34 id132887
    Lady Jean Skipwith in account with William Potts & Co for salt and nails
    1806
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 35 id132889
    Sir Peyton Skipwith, Prestwould, Mecklenburg, to Grayson & Noble, London
    1806
    Scope and Contents
    Skipwith's decision to sell his tobacco within the United States.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 36 id132896
    Miscellaneous bills of receipt, including documents for skillets, a coffee kettle, a brass roller drawer, velvet, buttons, linen, hinges, and salt
    1806
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 37 id132898
    George Chapman's receipt to Lady Jean Skipwith for $60 for a pair of mill stones
    1806 January 2
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 38 id132901
    Andrew Woodrow, Romney, Va, now W. Va. to Lady Jean Skipwith, Marshallsville, Mecklenburg County, Va.
    1806 January 25
    Scope and Contents
    "A tract of land near this place belonging to late Sir Peyton Skipwith."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 39 id132902
    Brown & ? of Petersburg, to William Cunningham
    1806 January 27
    Scope and Contents
    Cask of nails purchased by Lady Skipwith, including invoice.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 40 id132903
    Brown & ?, Petersburg, to William Cunningham, Prestwould
    1806 February 8
    Scope and Contents
    Lady Skipwith's payment for a cask of nails, including receipt.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 id132904
    Brown & ?, Petersburg, to William Cunningham, Prestwould
    1806 March 3
    Scope and Contents
    Payment for cask of nails, mentions the receipt of "a bad dollar," including receipt.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id132906
    Low & Wallace, New York, to William Cunningham
    1806 May 3
    Scope and Contents
    Balance of the account with the estate of the late Sir Peyton Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 43 id132908
    James Maury, Liverpool, Eng., to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould, Va.
    1806 June 28
    Scope and Contents
    Error in business transactions between Maury and Grayson & Noble of London involving the Skipwith account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 43a id132911
    John Stark Ravenscroft, n.p., to his aunt, Lady Jean Skipwith, n.p.
    1806 July 6
    Scope and Contents
    Sir Peyton Skipwith's will in relation to a disagreement with Mr. ? Skipwith, and legacies to other children; warns her not to wear herself out in worrying over money matters; mentions his wife and daughter?
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 44 id132912
    Grayson & Noble of London, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould, Va.
    1806 July 7
    Scope and Contents
    Concerns Lady Skipwith's inquiries as to the balance of payment in the Skipwith account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 45 id132914
    Bells ? and McCraw, Petersburg, to William Cunningham, Prestwould.
    1806 August 2
    Scope and Contents
    Disposal and sale of wheat received from Cunningham and Lady Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 46 id132917
    Lady Jean Skipwith in account with Thomas Palmer
    1806 September 17
    Scope and Contents
    Statement of expenses and receipt for the building of a mill on Cox Creek.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 47 id132920
    Lady Jean Skipwith to Philip Lockett, Mecklenburg County
    1806 October 8
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for $525.00. Reverse: receipt for $500.00 paid by Lady Skipwith on December 28, 1808.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 48 id132921
    Lady Jean Skipwith to Francis Lockett, Mecklenburg County
    1806 October 8
    Scope and Contents
    Bond for $525.00. Reverse: March 22, 1808. William Marshall, attorney for Francis Lockett assigns bond to Walter Alver, Orange Co., North Carolina.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 49 id132922
    W. Mcindore?, Petersburg, to William Cunningham, Mecklenburg
    1806 October 30
    Scope and Contents
    Business transactions concerning a "draft of the oven" and a note for $134.25.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 50 id132924
    Memo of William Cunningham's expenses in a trip to Richmond and Petersburg
    1806 December 12 - 24
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 51 id132926
    Invoice and receipt for oven and safes from W McIndore? for John Osborne to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1806 December 22
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 52 id132928
    Lady Jean Skipwith to William Potts & Co Current account with Potts Reverse: quotations taken from Agnes, Vol 1, p 92-100, in the hand of Lady Jean Skipwith
    1807
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 53 id132929
    John Somervill, Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1807
    Scope and Contents
    Order of books for Lady Skipwith, including an invoice.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 54 id132930
    Miscellaneous bills of receipt for a brass cork, wagons, buttons, velvet, pepper, potatoes, and tape
    1807
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 55 id132932
    Sommervill and Conrad, Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1807 March
    Scope and Contents
    Books ordered and paid for by Lady Skipwith including invoice and receipt.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 56 id132935
    Francis Williamson, Mecklenburg, to William Cunningham, Bluestone
    1807 March 4
    Scope and Contents
    Whether or not Cunningham wanted the timber on a tract of land that Williamson wants to cultivate.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 57 id132936
    Memo of William Cunningham's traveling expenses in a trip to Petersburg with tobacco
    1807 April 16
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 58 id132937
    William Potts, Petersburg, to William Cunningham
    1807 May 14
    Scope and Contents
    Patterned material that Lady Skipwith ordered, but which could not be had. Potts sends substitution.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 59 id132939
    ?, Richmond, to Lady Jean Skipwith?
    1807 June 7
    Scope and Contents
    Merchantile company of Alexander and James Fulton of Petersburg, and the late Sir Peyton's heirs.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 60 id133819
    P Luck ?, for R Maitland and Christian, Petersburg, to William Cunningham
    1807 August 7
    Scope and Contents
    Former business transactions between Maitland and Christian, and Sir Peyton Skipwith, deceased.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 61 id133820
    P. Luck ?, for R. Maitland & Christian, Petersburg, to William Cunningham, Prestwould
    1807 August 24
    Scope and Contents
    Notice of payment for an order of grain. Also references to the shortage of fine salt.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 62 id133821
    Lady Skipwith's bonds with Francis & Philip Lockett, Mecklenburg County
    1807 September 18
    Scope and Contents
    Each bond for $525.00 and due at Christmas, 1807.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 63 id133822
    The Commonwealth of Virginia to the Sheriff of Mecklenburg County
    1807 November 9
    Scope and Contents
    Commanding him to present a summons to Jean Skipwith to appear before Mecklenburg County Court for negligence as proprietress of a ferry across the Roanoke River.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 64 id133823
    Deposition Testimony of Spettle Pullice on behalf of Lady Jean Skipwith in her court litigation with Andrew Young over the mill on "Cocks Creek"
    1807 December 8
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 65 id133825
    Miscellaneous bills of receipt for a comb, ribbons, linen, sheets, wool, silk, cotton, buttons, thread, forks, and book bindings
    1808
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 66 id133826
    Lady Skipwith's receipt for payment to George Barnes for the rent of Abner Lockett's land
    1808 January 1
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 67 id133828
    Somervill & Conrad, Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould
    1808 February 27
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt of two pounds and eight shillings and also six dollars for one year's subscription to the Portfolio.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 68 id133829
    John Bell, Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould
    1808 April 1
    Scope and Contents
    Business transactions between Lady Skipwith, George Nicholas Skipwith and Peyton Skipwith. Bell claims money cannot be paid until the repeal of the embargo law.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 69 id133831
    John H. Cocke, Esq., Evanspoint, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould, Mecklenburg
    1808 July
    Scope and Contents
    Request that Lady Skipwith supply him with enough grape seeds to get him in stock.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 70 id133833
    John Bell, Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould
    1808 July 9
    Scope and Contents
    Bell expresses his regrets that he cannot, due to the embargo, follow Lady Skipwith's wishes concerning the payment of his tobacco bond. Also mentions, in margin, the total lack of cotton to be had from Charleston or St. Mary's.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 71 id133835
    Lady Jean Skipwith to Robert Marshall Promissory note for $22000
    1808 August 24
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 72 id133836
    P. Luck? for R. Maitland & Christian, Petersburg, to William Cunningham, Prestwould
    1808 September 29
    Scope and Contents
    Concerning the receipt of Lady Skipwith's wheat, and the shipment of a quantity of salt to Prestwould, including invoice.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 73 id133837
    P. Luck? for R. Maitland & Christian, Petersburg, to William Cunningham, Prestwould
    1808 October 20
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt of a shipment of wheat from Lady Skipwith and the sale of butter sent earlier.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 74 id133838
    P Luck? for R Maitland and Christian, Petersburg, to William Cunningham
    1808 November 1
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt of a quantity of wheat and butter sent to Petersburg for sale.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 75 id133839
    Miscellaneous bills of receipt for book locks, buttons, shoes, cotton, bobbin, boots, strings, and sugar
    1809
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 76 id133840
    William Potts & Co, Petersburg, to William Cunningham, Prestwould
    1809 January 4
    Scope and Contents
    Lady Skipwith's pending orders for tea, almonds, raisins, and china.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 77 id133841
    George Barnes, Guardian of Abraham Lockett, to Lady Skipwith
    1809 January 6
    Scope and Contents
    Memo of Lady Skipwith's renting for one year the land of Abraham Lockett, orphan.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 78 id133842
    Lady Jean Skipwith to Robert Marshall
    1809 January 22
    Scope and Contents
    Promissory note for $15000
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 79 id133843
    Philip Lockett and William Marshall to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1809 January 23
    Scope and Contents
    Obligation to Lady Skipwith for $50.00 unless they can settle disputed title of ownership of land (2 1/2 acres) sold to her.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 80 id133845
    Daniel Epes and Company, Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould, Mecklenburg
    1809 March 14
    Scope and Contents
    Shipment of an order of "cotton cards" to Lady Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 81 id133847
    William Potts by William Johnston, Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould
    1809 March 25
    Scope and Contents
    Lady Skipwith's tobacco crop. Including receipt.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 82 id133848
    Lady Jean Skipwith to Colonel W. Gill
    1809 Ap[ril 8
    Scope and Contents
    Promissory note for $100.00.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 83 id133850
    Mackenzie Christian & Co, Peterburg, to James Cunningham, Prestwould
    1809 May 20
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt of two loads of wheat from Lady Skipwith. Including invoice of goods purchased by Lady Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 84 id133851
    R. Maitland & Christian by P. Luck ?, Petersburg, to James Cunningham, Prestwould
    1809 July 3
    Scope and Contents
    Lady Skipwith's wheat account. including receipt.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 85 id133852
    Daniel Epes & Co., Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1809 August 16
    Scope and Contents
    invoice of items purchased, including hinges, screws, and glue.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 86 id133854
    Mackenzie Christian & Co, Peterburg, to James Cunningham, Prestwould
    1809 August 31
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt of Lady Skipwith's shipment of wheat.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 87 id133856
    James Hicks, Senior, Mercer County, Ky, to John S. Ravenscroft, Lunenberg Courthouse, Va.
    1809 September 5
    Scope and Contents
    Hick's recollections of Sir Peyton Skipwith's mill. Offers to send deposition to aid Lady Skipwith in her court suit with the Young family.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 88 id133858
    W. H. Haxall, Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould
    1809 September 28
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 89 id133860
    Thomas Palmer in account with Lady Jean Skipwith for mill work done for Palmer
    1809 October 9
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 90 id133862
    Invoice and bill for items purchased by James Cunningham for Lady Jean Skipwith from John V. Willcox & Co. of Petersburg, including a saw, knives, files, and locks
    1809 December 21
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 91 id133863
    Lady Jean Skipwith to George Barns, guardian of Abraham Lockett
    1809 December 30
    Scope and Contents
    Memo of Lady Skipwith's transactions with Barns to rent a portion of Lockett's lands.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 92 id133864
    Lady Jean Skipwith in account with Mackenzie Christian & Co. of Petersburg
    1810
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 93 id133874
    Lady Jean Skipwith in account with William H Haxell
    1810
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 94 id133866
    Miscellaneous bills of receipt for bookcase bolts, scissors, bowls, a pad lock, ladies' gloves, buttons, spades, screws, hinges, and a sugar loaf
    1810
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 95 id133868
    J. Hayward, Franklin, Va., to John S. Ravenscroft of Mecklenburg County
    1810 February 28
    Scope and Contents
    Divison of Sir Peyton Skipwith's estate (d. 1805) among his living relatives.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 96 id133870
    Benjamin Kimball, Richmond, to James Cunningham, Prestwould
    1810 May 10
    Scope and Contents
    Cunningham's orders for sugar and cloth, and the change in previous prices.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 97 id133876
    Elizabeth Beverly (Munford) Kennan, Norfolk, to Lady Jean Skipwith?
    1810 November 1
    Scope and Contents
    Writer's travels on the lower peninsula, visiting friends and relatives. Comments on Williamsburg and Hampton, also life in naval Norfolk.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 98 id133877
    E Green to ? Note requesting the use of the ferry at Prestwould
    1810 December 27
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 99 id133879
    James Cunningham for Lady Jean Skipwith to George Barnes
    1810 December 31
    Scope and Contents
    Guardian of Abraham Lockett. Memo of agreement to rent from Barnes a tract of land. Made by Cunningham in Lady Skipwith's behalf.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 id133880
  1811-1820
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 1 id133881
    William Waller Hening, Clerk of the Chancery District Court of Richmond to Lady Jean Skipwith, executrix of Peyton Skipwith. Clerk fees for suits against King, and Dinwiddie, Crawford & Co.
    1811
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 2 id133883
    Miscellaneous bills of receipts for buttons, cambrick, ribbon, hinges, saw, caps, screws, and cutting knives
    1811
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 3 id133884
    Lady Skipwith in account with William H Haxall for salt, flour, potatoes, herring, nails, and iron bars
    1811
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 4 id133885
    James Cunningham for Lady Jean Skipwith In account with B Burwell
    1811
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 5 id133886
    James Cunningham's bill of expenses going and returning to Richmond and Petersburg
    1811 April 19
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 6 id133887
    John Williams, Richmond, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould, Mecklenburg County
    1811 August 9
    Scope and Contents
    Balance due Rowley? Grymes from the estate of Lady Skipwith's late husband, Sir Peyton Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 7 id133888
    Lady Jean Skipwith of Prestwould to Robert Marshall
    1811 September 10
    Scope and Contents
    Promissory note for $50.00.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 8 id133889
    John R. Jones, Richmond to William Cunningham
    1811 October 24
    Scope and Contents
    Bill and invoice of books purchased.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 9 id133890
    ? to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1811 December 3
    Scope and Contents
    Goods purchased for Lady Skipwith. Reverse: invoice of goods purchased.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 10 id133891
    William Waller Hening, Clerk of the Superior Court of Chancery in Virginia to the Sheriff of ?
    1811 December 3
    Scope and Contents
    Suit against Lady Skipwith as executrix of her late husband's estates by Dinwiddie, Crawford and Co. of Petersburg.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 11 id133892
    Miscellaneous bills of receipt for an almanac, a peacock plough, and farming equipment
    1812
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 12 id133893
    John Somervill, Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1812 March 31
    Scope and Contents
    Correction of a billing mistake on some books ordered by Lady Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 13 id133894
    R. Apperson, Mecklenburg Courthouse to Lady Skipwith, Prestwould
    1812 May 20
    Scope and Contents
    Apperson's proposed trip to Richmond and his promise to transact some business concerning Lady Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 14 id133895
    William H. Haxall, Petersburg, to James Cunningham, Prestwould
    1812 June 5
    Scope and Contents
    Price of bar iron ordered by Lady Skipwith, including invoice.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 15 id133896
    Thomas Ogle, Philadelphia, to Humberstone Skipwith, son of Lady Skipwith, Marshallsville, Va.
    1812 September 21
    Scope and Contents
    Work done for Skipwith by Ogle, thanking Skipwith for his recommendations to others of Ogle's work.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 16 id133897
    William H Haxall, Petersburg, to James Cunningham, Prestwould, Mecklenburg County
    1812 December 22
    Scope and Contents
    Business transaction with Lady Skipwith, including list of bank notes.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 17 id133899
    George and Thomas Brown to Lady Skipwith Invoice and bill with receipt for goods purchased, including pins, thread, thimble, fringe, beads, flower pots, dishes, goblets, and bottles
    1813 May 3
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 18 id133901
    William Bullock to Lady Jean Skipwith Invoice and bill with receipt for goods purchased, including fans, locks, table?, pocketbok, gloves, beads, and hinges
    1813 August
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 19 id133902
    S. G. Brame of Raleigh, N. C. , to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1813 October 26
    Scope and Contents
    Bill for books.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 20 id133906
    James Bream and Andrew Dunn, Richmond, to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1813 December 17
    Scope and Contents
    Bill for two "stock locks" of $2.00.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 21 id133907
    John Parkhill to James Cunningham
    1813 December 18
    Scope and Contents
    Bill for $10.00.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 22 id133908
    James Cunningham for Lady Skipwith to George Barnes
    1813 December 25
    Scope and Contents
    Promissory note for $50.00
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 23 id133910
    S W Campbell to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1814 January 2
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 24 id133911
    Winifred Gales, Raleigh, N. C. , to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould
    1814 January 17
    Scope and Contents
    Lady Skipwith's book order and contains information concerning the types of books binding available.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 25 id133914
    Lady Jean Skipwith to George Barnes, guardian of Abner Lockett
    1814 January 29
    Scope and Contents
    Agreement for the rental of a tract of land for $25.00.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 26 id133915
    James Daniel & Co to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1814 November 10
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice and bill with receipt for goods purchased, including muslin, binding, thimbles, pins, nutmeg, and rice.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 27 id133916
    Alexander B. Puryear, Greensborough, N. C. , to James Cunningham, Mecklenburg County, Va.
    1815 February 8
    Scope and Contents
    Business transactions concerning the receipt and payment for bacon and hogs sent to Puryear.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 28 id133917
    Bill of James Cunningham's expenses to Richmond and Petersburg for Lady Skipwith
    1815 April
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 29 id133918
    Bell Tavern, Richmond, to James Cunningham
    1815 April 9
    Scope and Contents
    Bill for lodging and other services.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 30 id133919
    Staples & Snow of Richmond, to ?
    1815 April 10
    Scope and Contents
    Bill and receipt for purchase of "3 spades."
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 31 id133920
    Fitzwhylsonn & Potter, Richmond, to James Cunningham
    1815 April 10
    Scope and Contents
    Bill and receipt for goods purchased.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 32 id133921
    N. Denby for J. N. Field, Richmond, to James Cunningham
    1815 April 11
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 33 id133922
    Baylor Walker for S. G. Adams, Richmond, to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1815 April 11
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 34 id133923
    Jones and Pope to James Cunningham Bill and receipt for "7 pair cotton cards"
    1815 April 13
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 35 id133924
    William S Walton to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1815 June 16
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for $180.00 for building and setting up a wheat machine upon Lady Skipwith's estate.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 36 id134435
    Moses Thomas, Philadelphia, to Humberstone Skipwith
    1815 August 23
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice and bill with receipt for 11 books purchased.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 37 id134436
    Sam Pearce, Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1815 November 9
    Scope and Contents
    Bill and receipt for one piece of web.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 38 id134437
    Mabry and Cain of Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1815 November 11
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice and bill with receipt for goods purchased, including plows.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 39 id134438
    J B Riggen for Follet and Lea, Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1815 November 11
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice and bill with receipt for purchases, including cutting knives and a saw.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 40 id134439
    William Tufts for Peters & Giese, Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1815 November 11
    Scope and Contents
    Bill and receipt for items purchased, including saws.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 41 id134440
    George Duncan for Birchell & Somervill, Petersburg, to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1815 November 23
    Scope and Contents
    Bill and receipt for goods purchased, including muslin and chest locks.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 42 id134441
    Miscellaneous bills of receipt, including documents for butter, nails, cork, screwdrivers, cutting knives, a blanket, linen, and spinners
    1816
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 45 id134442
    George Barnes to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1816 January 5
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for $150.00 yearly rent on lands of Abner Lockett.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 46 id134443
    Lady Jean Skipwith in account with James Cunningham for his trip to Richmond, June 1816
    1816 June 16
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 47 id134444
    A. B. Puryear & Co. to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1816 June 21
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice and bill with receipt for purchases, including calico, buttons, thimble, and morocco shoes.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 48 id134445
    James Maury and Latham, Liverpool, to Lady Jean Skipwith, care of Messrs. William & H. Haxall, Petersburg
    1816 June 27
    Scope and Contents
    Shipment of goods from England to Lady Skipwith. Including, James Maury, Liverpool, to Lady Jean Skipwith, June 27, 1816. Also including, James Maury and Latham, Liverpool, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Sept. 5, 1816.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 49 id134446
    Messrs. Maury and Latham, Liverpool, Eng., to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1816 July 19
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice and bill for Lady Skipwith's purchase of carpeting.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 50 id134447
    J. Feits? to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1816 October
    Scope and Contents
    Concerns books which correspondent is sending Lady Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 51 id134448
    Miscellaneous bills of receipt for carriage, slaves, wagon plows, a rug, looking glasses, and spade shovels
    1817
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 52 id134449
    George Barnes to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1817 January 10
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for the rent of land from Thomas Lockett's orphans.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 53 id134450
    A. S. Boyd, Boydton, to Humberstone Skipwith, Clarksville, Va.
    1817 January 11
    Scope and Contents
    Acting as trustee for William M. Puryear, Boyd informs Skipwith of the depositing of $424.00 in the exchange bank of Va which is to be credited to a bond due Skipwith from Puryear.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 54 id134451
    Lady Jean Skipwith's account with Fitzwhylsonn & Potter for book binding fees
    1817 April 21
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 55 id134452
    Charles Schaffer, Philadelphia, to Humberstone Skipwith
    1817 May 21
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice and bill for goods purchased.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 56 id134453
    Moses Thomas, Philadelphia, to Humberstone? Skipwith
    1817 September 22
    Scope and Contents
    Invoice and bill for books purchased.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 57 id134454
    Humberstone Skipwith to Lady Jean Skipwith and S Skipwith
    1817 October 22
    Scope and Contents
    Humberstone Skipwith's account current with his mother and Selina? Skipwith for drafts and cash advanced.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 57a id134455
    Warner's Virginia Almanac for...1818. Published by Benjamin Warner, Richmond, Va.
    1817
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 58 id134456
    Miscellaneous receipts and bills of sale, including documents for a dictionary, novels, poetry, carpet, looking glasses, shovels, a hand saw, and screws
    1818
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 59 id134457
    Alexander B Puryear, Machester, to James Cunningham, Mecklenburg
    1818 March 10
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 60 id134458
    Henry Holt to Humberstone? Skipwith
    1819
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 61 id134459
    Miscellaneous receipts, bills of sale, and correspondence with suppliers for salt, a work stand, screws, chains, socks, cotton, carpet, a table, beds, and an almanac
    1819
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 62 id134460
    P E Tabb to Humberstone? Skipwith
    1819 February 11
    Scope and Contents
    Bill for cotillion party.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 63 id134461
    George Barnes, guardian to Abner Lockett, orphan of Mecklenburg County, to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1819 February 26
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for the rent of Abner Lockett's land for the year 1818.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 64 id134462
    G. J. Binford for Nelsons and Neale, Norfolk, to Lady Jean Skipwith
    1819 March 4
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for purchase of dimity and fringe.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 64a id134463
    Account of Mr. Humberstone Skipwith with Hugh Finley & Co., Baltimore, Md., for tables and chairs
    1819 March 9
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 65 id134464
    John Hastings, agent, Baltimore, to Humberstone Skipwith
    1819 March 10
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for purchases at the carpet and linen warehouse.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 66 id134465
    Hugh Finley and Company for Norfolk, to Humberstone? Skipwith
    1819 March 10
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for payment on the purchase of one sofa.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 67 id134466
    Nash?, Cocke and Co, Norfolk, to Humberstone Skipwith
    1819 March 12
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for items purchased, i.e., damask draperies and napkins.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 68 id134467
    Boucher and Brother, Norfolk, to Humberstone? Skipwith
    1819 March 13
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 69 id134468
    Vincent and Bonford, wholesale and retail dry goods store, Norfolk, to Mrs Sarah (Nivison)? Skipwith
    1819 March 15
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for purchase of 21 yards of curtain dimity.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 70 id134469
    Sautejau and Denis to Humberstone? Skipwith
    1819 March 15
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for purchase of 21 yards of furniture dimity.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 71 id134470
    Thomas Leaman to Richard Green for Humberstone? Skipwith
    1819 April-May
    Scope and Contents
    Bill for various purchases of nails, hinges, hooks, and staples.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 72 id134471
    Henry Holt to Humberstone? Skipwith
    1819 April
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for planking and scathing purchased.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 73 id134472
    Bird Nightingale and ?, Baltimore, to Humberstone Skipwith
    1819 April 1
    Scope and Contents
    Payment for shipping of one pair of snuffers.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 74 id134473
    Nathan Hastings & Co, Baltimore, to Humberstone? Skipwith
    1819 April 6
    Scope and Contents
    Received of Captain Ferguson on account of glass service sent Mr. Skipwith at Norfolk.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 75 id134474
    Joseph Swan to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould
    1819 April 22
    Scope and Contents
    Books purchased--Bachelor and Married Man, Women are Pour-et-Contre, Hawthorn Cottage, and New Tales…
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 76 id134475
    Boucher's and Brother, to R L Green for Humberstone? Skipwith
    1819 May 5
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for purchase of a quantity of nails.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 77 id134476
    John Tunis to Humberstone? Skipwith
    1819 May 10
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 78 id134477
    R L Green to Col Nivison
    1819 May 13
    Scope and Contents
    Promissory note, Including note of receipt of payment by David Scott, May 14, 1819. Also including note of Humberstone Skipwith paying Mrs. Nivison, July 10, 1819.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 79 id134478
    William F Wickham, Richmond, Va, to Humberstone Skipwith, Esq, Prestwould, Mecklenburg
    1819 May 31
    Scope and Contents
    Wickham's advice to Skipwith that he not bring suit against John Bell for a bond for $569.64 which was overdue
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 80 id134479
    Humberstone Skipwith to Primas Waller
    1819 June 18
    Scope and Contents
    Bill for mending plastering round the doors.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 81 id134480
    James Cunningham to R Apperson & Co.
    1819 June 21
    Scope and Contents
    Bill of sale for tobacco.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 82 id134481
    Joshua Moore to Humberstone Skipwith
    1819 July 12
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for purchase of goods, including broad top chairs.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 83 id134482
    Nelsons and Neale of Norfolk, to Mrs. Sarah (Nivision)? Skipwith
    1819 July 13
    Scope and Contents
    Receipt for 12 1/4 yards of furniture dimity purchased.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 84 id134483
    ? Skipwith to William Barron
    1819 July 14
    Scope and Contents
    Bill of sale for flower pots, a brass bell pull, and copper wire.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 85a id134484
    Account of Mr Humberstone Skipwith with James Woodward for furniture and silverware
    1819 July 20
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 86 id134485
    Miscellaneous receipts, bills of sale, and correspondence with suppliers for books, boards, and a looking glass
    1820
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 10 id134486
  1821-1825
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 1 id134487
    Miscellaneous receipts, correspondence with supplies, and a promissory note for goods including books for memoirs, an encyclopedia, a vest (male), shoes, tea, and nails
    1821
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 2 id134488
    Indenture between Mathew L Baptist, Lady Jean Skipwith, and James Cunningham for $30000
    1821
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 3 id134489
    A G Keen ?, Clarksville, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould
    1821 April 5
    Scope and Contents
    Asks for financial aid.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 4 id134490
    Indenture between John G Baptist and James Cunningham and Lady Jean Skipwith for $6,000
    1821 April 25
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 5 id134491
    Indenture between John G Baptist and James Cunningham and Lady Jean Skipwith
    1821 April 25
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 6 id134492
    D Briggs, Richmond, to Humberston Skipwith, Prestwould
    1821 June 1
    Scope and Contents
    Lawsuit of Skipwith and Murray.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 7 id134493
    A. & R. M. Cunningham, Petersburg, to James Cunningham, Ferry Hill, Mecklenburg
    1821 August 11
    Scope and Contents
    Will pay $1000.00 for Col. Green at Mecklenburg Court.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 8 id134494
    P. Puryear to James Cunningham, Prestwould
    1821 November 22
    Scope and Contents
    Purchase of wool.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 9 id134495
    P. Puryear to James Cunningham, Prestwould
    1821 November 27
    Scope and Contents
    Mr. Baily taking his slaves away.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 10 id134496
    A. & R. M. Cunningham, Petersburg, to James Cunningham, Prestwould
    1821 December 6
    Scope and Contents
    Concerning settlement in the case of Skipwith v. Murray.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 11 id134497
    Miscellaneous receipts, correspondence with suppliers especially A. & R. M. Cunningham, for goods including brandy, tea, rum, wine, nails, rod iron, and grindstone
    1822
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 12 id134498
    John Davis to Humberstone Skipwith, Elm Hill, Mecklenburg
    1822 July 11
    Scope and Contents
    Request for a loan of $3000.00.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 13 id134499
    Joseph Jones, Halifax County, to Lady Jean Skipwith, Mecklenburg
    1822 September 19
    Scope and Contents
    Request for a loan of $2000.00.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 14 id134500
    Conditions for a $10,000 loan to Mr Buford
    1822 October 1
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 15 id134501
    Martha C. Feild, n.p., to Lady Jean Skipwith, Prestwould
    1822 October 2
    Scope and Contents
    Death of Sarah (Nivison) Skipwith and the "prevailing Epidemick;" and returning some books.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 16 id134502
    Miscellaneous receipt and correspondence with suppliers, for goods including cinnamon, molasses, cotton, and a kettle
    1823
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 17 id134503
    Statement of John Davis's account
    1823 January 1
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 18 id134504
    Lease by Humberstone Skipwith to Alexander P Darragh for a house
    1823 February 20
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 19 id134505
    Statement of William Boyd's account
    1823 February 27
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 20 id134506
    Articles of agreement between Alexander Boyd and James Cunningham for the purchase of bacon, wheat, and tobacco
    1823 March 16
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 21 id134507
    R Apperson, Lombardy Grove, to Humberstone Skipwith, Elm Hill
    1823 July 28
    Scope and Contents
    Information on the price of oil, also asks him to visit.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 22 id134509
    James Boisseau, Petersburg, to James Cunningham, Mecklenburg
    1823 August 9
    Scope and Contents
    Information on prices of goods and statement of his account for sugar, coffee, and salt.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 23 id134508
    John Buford to James Cunningham, Mecklenburg
    1823 November 24
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 24 id134510
    John Buford to James Cunningham
    1823 November 27
    Scope and Contents
    Request for more time to arrange paying off his debt to Boyd.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 25 id134511
    Bond of John Buford to Lady Jean Skipwith for $20,000
    1823 December 17
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 26 id134512
    Indenture between John Buford and James Cunningham and Jean Skipwith for a debt of $10,000
    1823 December 17
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 27 id134513
    Miscellaneous receipts, accounts, drafts, and promissory notes for spades, cutting knives, and needles
    1824
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 28 id134514
    James Cunningham for Lady Jean Skipwith
    1824 January 2
    Scope and Contents
    Statement of money and bonds given John Buford.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 29 id134515
    J Baptist, Boydton, to James Cunningham, Prestwould
    1824 January 10
    Scope and Contents
    Legal notices which have been sent to parties in a lawsuit; will bring copies of the judgement.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 30 id134516
    Indenture between Littleton W and Ann Tazewell and Humberstone Skipwith
    1824 January 16
    Scope and Contents
    Purchase of land in Norfolk by Skipwith.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 31 id134517
    Memorandum of an agreement between Humberstone Skipwith and John Farmer
    1824 February 2
    Scope and Contents
    Farmer will manage Skipwith's Norfolk property.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 32 id134518
    Johnson, Moss & Dagger, Petersburg, to James Cunningham, Mecklenburg
    1824 February 25
    Scope and Contents
    Request for Cunningham to accept drafts written by John Buford on him.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 33 id134519
    James Cunningham, Prestwould, to A & R M Cunningham, Petersburg
    1824 March 17
    Scope and Contents
    Arrangements for loan to John Buford.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 34 id134520
    Alexander Cunningham, Petersburg, to Humberstone Skipwith, Elm Hill
    1824 April 11
    Scope and Contents
    Wheat prices and wine prices.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 35 id134521
    Jno & PE Tabb, Norfolk, to Humberstone Skipwith, Mecklenburg County
    1824 July 14
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of Mr. Boyd's flour.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 36 id134522
    Jno & P E Tabb, Norfolk, to Humberstone Skipwith, Elm Hill, Mecklenburg County
    1824 September 14
    Scope and Contents
    Sale of Mr. Boyd's flour.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 37 id134523
    James Cunningham to Colonel G Green, Lombardy Grove
    1824 September 22
    Scope and Contents
    Denies that Lady Skipwith plans to help Mr. Ravesncroft.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 38 id134524
    John Buford to James Cunningham, Prestwood, Mecklenburg
    1824 October 1
    Scope and Contents
    Loan for his brother; explains why Col. Green wrote Lady Skipwith about Mr. Ravenscroft.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 39 id134525
    James Cunningham to Jno. Buford, Mecklenburg
    1824 October 5
    Scope and Contents
    Will release his property if he pays his debt; if he pays the whole debt Lady Skipwith will make a loan to his brother.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 40 id134526
    John Buford to James Cunningham, Prestwould, Mecklenburg
    1824 October 15
    Scope and Contents
    Asks Cunningham to pay off some on Buford's debts.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 41 id134527
    Indenture between John and Sophia Buford, Grief Green Beverly Sydnor and Duncan Cameron
    1824 October 21
    Scope and Contents
    Cameron is lending money to Buford.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 42 id134528
    Miscellaneous receipts, accounts, and promissory notes for goods including hoes, essays, journals, salt and nails
    1825
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 43 id134529
    Alexander Cunningham, Petersburg, to James Cunningham, Prestwould
    1825 March 4
    Scope and Contents
    Concerning notices delivered.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 44 id134530
    John Tabb, Norfolk, to Humberstone Skipwith, Elm Hill, Mecklenburg
    1825 March 21
    Scope and Contents
    Account of sales of flour.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 45 id134531
    R. M. Cunningham, Petersburg, to James Cunningham, Roanoke, Mecklenburg County
    1825 April 25
    Scope and Contents
    Wants to buy crops.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 46 id134532
    R. M. Cunningham, Petersburg, to James Cunningham, Roanoke, Mecklenburg, County, Va.
    1825 May 10
    Scope and Contents
    Wants tobacco crop sent to Richmond; price not settled.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 47 id134533
    William Macintyre, Petersburg, to James Cunningham, Prestwould, Mecklenburg
    1825 June 25
    Scope and Contents
    Returns accounts with transfer from Lady Skipwith to Cunningham's account.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 48 id134534
    Belsches & Maskervill, to James Cunningham, Prestwould
    1825 October 21
    Scope and Contents
    Will deliver goods bought.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 49 id134535
    Memorandum of agreement between Humberstone Skipwith and Daniel Lyon
    1825 December 26
    Scope and Contents
    Skipwith's lease to Lyon of proprerty in Norfolk.
- Mixed Materials Box: 11 id134791
  1826-1833
  - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 1 id134792
    1826 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 1 id134793
      Various account for items purchased
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 1 id134794
      John Buford to Lady Jean Skipwith
      1826 March 31
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 1 id134795
      Francis N Branch, to James Cunningham
      1826 April 20
      Scope and Contents
      Will try to sell Lady Skipwith's tobacco.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 1 id134796
      William Bowie Cowan to James Cunningham
      1826 April 30
      Scope and Contents
      Hopes to provide good security for his debts.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 1 id134797
      James Cunningham to William Bowie Cowan
      1826 May 1
      Scope and Contents
      Sale of Lady Skipwith's tobacco crop.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 1 id134799
      Helen (Skipwith) Coles, Tallwood, to "brother" Humberstone Skipwith, Roanoke, Mecklenburg
      1826 June 4
      Scope and Contents
      Had a safe journey; Cunningham in Petersburg may be in financial trouble; Mrs. Tazewell is sick because of birth of her child; asks H. S. to send Franky to help Mrs. Tazewell.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 1 id134801
      Howell Taylor to Humberstone Skipwith
      1826 September 6
      Scope and Contents
      Drought killed his crop; asks for loan of $500.00.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 1 id134802
      G P Cooke to Humberstone Skipwith
      1826 November 2
  - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 2 id134804
    1827 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 2 id134805
      Various accounts and lists of bonds
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 2 id134807
      William Bowie Cowan to Humberstone Skipwith
      1827 February 28 April 6
      Scope and Contents
      Financial problems.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 2 id134809
      Legal documents relating to Cowan's debt
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 2 id134810
      Campfield Hedenberg to T A Skipwith
      1827 July 17
      Scope and Contents
      Will supply him with a sulky.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 3 id134811
    1828 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 3 id134812
      Various accounts and receipts and lists of bonds
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 3 id134813
      Indenture between William Bowie Cowan and W G Overton
      1828 March 15
      Scope and Contents
      Note for $7500.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 3 id134815
      Settlement of William Bowie Cowan's debt
      1828 October 23
  - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 4 id134816
    1829 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 4 id134817
      Humberstone Skipwith to John W Lewis
      1829 January 30
      Scope and Contents
      Attempts to settle his mother's estate's accounts.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 4 id134818
      H Goode to Humberstone Skipwith
      1829 March 18
      Scope and Contents
      Asks for loan of $3500.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 4 id134819
      Various receipts, accounts, court orders
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 4 id134820
      A. & P. Hamilton and Kevan, to Humberstone Skipwith
      1829 April 9
      Scope and Contents
      Data on tobacco sales.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 4 id134821
      Shares in the Roanoke Navigation Company
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 4 id134823
      A & P Hamilton and Kevan, to Humberstone Skipwith
      1829 November 30
      Scope and Contents
      Sends items from their store.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 4 id134825
      Accounts of sales of 1829 tobacco crop and cotton crop
  - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 4 id134826
    1830 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 5 id134827
      Various receipts, accounts, court orders, crop sales
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 5 id134829
      Envelopes addressed to Mrs Leila (Skipwith) Robertson later Mrs Humberstone Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 5 id134830
      Sam Christian to Humberstone Skipwith
      1830 June 12
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 5 id134831
      John W Lewis to Humberstone Skipwith
      1830 July 27
      Scope and Contents
      Wants to purchase corn.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 5 id134832
      List of bonds belonging to Humberstone Skipwith
  - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 5 id134833
    1831 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 6 id134834
      Various receipts, notes on crop sales
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 6 id134835
      Hamilton and Kevan Concerning sale of wheat; Skipwith store account
      1831 January 7
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 6 id134836
      Gordon and Townes, to Humberstone Skipwith
      1831 January 7
      Scope and Contents
      Sale of cotton.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 6 id134837
      Sally ? to Leila (Skipwith) Robertson Skipwith
      1831 March 8
      Scope and Contents
      Visited Baltimore; sympathy at death of her child.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 6 id134838
      John W Lewis to William M Swepson
      1831 May 16
      Scope and Contents
      Asks for Humberstone Skipwith's papers for lawsuit in New Orleans.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 7 id134839
    1832 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 7 id134840
      Various receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 7 id134841
      Correspondence on crop sales with Gordon & Townes and Hamilton & Kevan
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 7 id134842
      William J. Watkins to Humberstone Skipwith
      1832 January 27 February 14
      Scope and Contents
      Lawsuit.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 7 id134843
      Helen Skipwith Coles to Humberstone Skipwith
      1832 March 15
      Scope and Contents
      Glad his wife and child are now well.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 7 id134844
      James Cunningham to Humberstone Skipwith
      1832 August 8
      Scope and Contents
      Asks to borrow $1000.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 8 id134845
    1833 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 8 id134846
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 8 id134847
      Correspondence on crop sales with Hamilton & Kevan
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 8 id134848
      Article of agreement with Andrew Elam to be overseer
      1833 January 15
    - Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 8 id134849
      Leila (Skipwith) Robertson Skipwith to Humberstone Skipwith
      1833 June 30
      Scope and Contents
      Her health better; hopes to have another child.
- Mixed Materials Box: 12a id134850
  1834-1836
  - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 1 id134851
    1834 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 1 id134852
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 1 id134853
      Correspondence about crop sales
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 1 id134855
      Runaway slave captured
      1834. September 17
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 1 id134857
      Deed of Frances Stone to Eli Stone
      1834 October 27
  - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 2 id134858
    1835 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 2 id134860
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 2 id134861
      Correspondence about crop sales
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 2 id134863
      H. E. Watkins to Humberstone Skipwith
      1835 May 16
      Scope and Contents
      Asks to borrow $5000.00.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 2 id134865
      D. L. Hirk to Humberstone Skipwith
      1835 November 18
      Scope and Contents
      Asks to borrow $4000.00.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 3 id134866
    1836 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 3 id134868
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 3 id134869
      Correspondence on crop sales
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 3 id134870
      Deed of John C Bugg to Henry E Coleman
      1836 January 18
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 3 id134872
      Circular on Banks of the United States, signed by Nicholas Biddle
      1836 January 23
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 3 id134874
      W W Breedlove to Humberstone Skipwith
      1836 February 28
      Scope and Contents
      Skipwith's tax problems.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12a Folder: 3 id134876
      Deed of Humberstone Skipwith to Christopher Gale
      1836 July 12
- Mixed Materials Box: 12b id134878
  1837-1839
  - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 1 id134879
    1837 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 1 id134881
      Various receipts, accounts and bills
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 1 id134882
      Correspondence on crop sales and purchase of goods
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 1 id134883
      Charter of Bank of the United States--summary
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 1 id134885
      John Tabb to Humberstone Skipwith
      1837 May 11
      Scope and Contents
      Organization of The Exchange Bank of Va.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 1 id134887
      Correspondence on the bank
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 1 id134888
      Rawlins and Wills to Humbersone Skipwith
      1837 July 28
      Scope and Contents
      National economic difficulties and how they kept their business going; asks for his patronage.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 2 id134889
    1838 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 2 id134890
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 2 id134891
      Correspondence on crop sales and purchases of goods
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 2 id134892
      Report of The Tredegar Iron Co
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 2 id134893
      Rate schedule for Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad
      1838 June 11
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 2 id134894
      H. S. M. Nelson to Humberstone Skipwith
      1838 June 23
      Scope and Contents
      Asks to borrow $4000.00.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 2 id134895
      Thomas Goode to Humberstone Skipwith
      1838 September 30
      Scope and Contents
      Asks to borrow $30,000.00.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 3 id134896
    1839 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 3 id134897
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 3 id134898
      Correspondence on crop sales and purchase of goods
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 3 id134899
      Humberstone Skipwith correspondence
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 3 id134900
      Correspondence on H. S.'s stock transactions; collections of loans
    - Mixed Materials Box: 12b Folder: 3 id134901
      Report on operations of the Tredegar Iron Works
      1839 November 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 13 id135589
  1840-1843
  - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 1 id135590
    1840 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 1 id135591
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 1 id135592
      Correspondence on crop sales with Humberstone Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 1 id135593
      Requests to Humberstone Skipwith for loans
  - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 2 id135594
    1841 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 2 id135595
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 2 id135596
      Correspondence on crop sales with Humberstone Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 2 id135597
      1841 Financial report of Tredegar Iron Co.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 3 id135598
    1842 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 3 id135599
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 3 id135600
      Correspondence on crop sales with Humbertone Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 3 id135601
      List of taxable property of Humberstone Skipwith
      1842
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 3 id135602
      Articles of agreement for overseer Philip W. Moore
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 3 id135603
      Report of Board of Directors, Tredegar Iron Co.
      1842 September 16
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 3 id135604
      Financial report of the Upper Appomattox Company
      1842 September 30
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 3 id135605
      List of notes held by Humberstone Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 3 id135606
      Articles of agreement for overseer John Jones
  - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 4 id135607
    1843 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 4 id135608
      Various accounts and receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 4 id135609
      Correspondence on crop sales with Humberstone Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 4 id135610
      Nicholas Wills to Humberstone Skipwith
      1843 October 14
      Scope and Contents
      Liquidation of Tredegar Iron Works.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 4 id135611
      Articles of agreement for overseers Washington Wickerson and Philip W Moore
- Mixed Materials Box: 14 id135612
  1844-1847
  - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 1 id135613
    1844 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 1 id135614
      Various accounts and receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 1 id135615
      Correspondence on crop sales with Humberstone Skipwith
  - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 2 id135616
    1845 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 2 id135617
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 2 id135618
      Deed of Paul and Emily Venable to Humberstone Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 2 id135619
      Correspondence on crop sales and purchases by Humberstone Skipwith
  - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 3 id135620
    1846 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 3 id135621
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 3 id135622
      Correspondence on crop sales with Humberstone Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 3 id135623
      Correspondence on Clarksville Savings Bank
    - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 3 id135624
      Requests to Humberstone Skipwith for loans
  - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 4 id135625
    1847 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 4 id135626
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 4 id135627
      Correspondence on crop sales and purchases with Humberstone Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 4 id135628
      Fulwar Skipwith correspondence, report cards, and school bills from St. Paul's College, Long Island, N.Y.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 4 id135629
      Josiah Wells to Humberstone Skipwith Concerning Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad being bought and revised by Boston Capitalists
      1847 July 1
    - Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 4 id135630
      Articles of agreement for overseer James Davenport
- Mixed Materials Box: 15 id135631
  1848-1853
  - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 1 id135632
    1848 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 1 id135634
      Various accounts and receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 1 id135635
      Correspondence about crop sales with Humberstone Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 1 id135636
      Requests to Humberstone Skipwith for loans
  - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 2 id135633
    1849 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 2 id135637
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 2 id135638
      Humberstone Skipwith correspondence
  - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 3 id135639
    1850 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 3 id135640
      Correspondence on crop sales with Humberstone Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 3 id135641
      Various receipts and accounts
  - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 4 id135642
    1851 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 4 id135643
      Various accounts and receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 4 id135644
      Fulwar Skipwith report cards
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 4 id135645
      Correspondence on crop sales with Humberstone Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 4 id135646
      Pamphlet describing Philadelphia School for Young Ladies
  - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 5 id135647
    1852 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 5 id135648
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 5 id135649
      Fulwar Skipwith report cards from College of St. James, Booneboro, Md.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 5 id135650
      Broadside for Miss Bayard's School, Philadelphia, Pa.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 6 id135651
    1853 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 6 id135652
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 6 id135653
      Lists of notes due to Humberstone Skipwith, also list of bearer bonds
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 6 id135654
      Fulwar Skipwith report cards and letters
    - Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 6 id135655
      Correspondence on crop sales with Humberstone Skipwith.
- Mixed Materials Box: 16 id135657
  1854-1859
  - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 1 id135658
    1854 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 1 id135660
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 1 id135661
      Correspondence in crop sales and business of Humberstone Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 1 id135662
      Fulwar Skipwith report cards and correspondence
  - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 2 id135663
    1855 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 2 id135665
      Business correspondence of Humberstone Skipwith and correspondence on crop sales
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 2 id135666
      Commission merchants' broadsides and letters
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 2 id135667
      Various receipts and accounts
  - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 3 id135668
    1856 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 3 id135670
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 3 id135671
      Humberstone Skipwith business correspondence on crop sales
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 3 id135672
      Grey Skipwith report cards
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 3 id135673
      Meal list for Prestwould Negroes
  - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 4 id135669
    1857 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 4 id135674
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 4 id135675
      Humberstone Skipwith business correspondence on crop sales
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 4 id135676
      Fulwar Skipwith letters
  - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 5 id135677
    1858 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 5 id135678
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 5 id135679
      Business correspondence of Humberstone Skipwith and correspondence on crop sales
  - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 6 id135680
    1859 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 6 id135681
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 6 id135682
      Correspondence on crop sales with Humberstone Skipwith, also purchases
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 6 id135683
      Grey Skipwith and Fulwar Skipwith letters
    - Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 6 id135684
      Articles of agreement for overseer William H Norwell
- Mixed Materials Box: 17 id135685
  1860-1868
  - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 1 Mixed Materials Box: 1 id135686
    1860 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 1 Mixed Materials Box: 1 id135687
      Various receipts and accounts of Humberstone and Fulwar Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 1 Mixed Materials Box: 1 id135688
      Correspondence on crop sales with Humberstone Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 1 id135689
      Circular letter for Rowland and Reynolds Company, Norfolk, Va.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 1 id135690
      List of "out hands at upper? Quarter"
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 1 id135691
      Floor plan of a two-story home
  - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 2 id135692
    1861 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 2 id135693
      Correspondence on crop sales with Humberstone Skipwith and Fulwar Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 2 id135694
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 2 id135695
      Articles of agreement for overseer William H. Norwell
      1861 June 25
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 2 id135696
      Leila (Skipwith) Lee to Humberstone Skipwith
      
      Scope and Contents
      Family news.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 3 id135697
    1862 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 3 id135698
      Various receipts and accounts
  - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 4 id135699
    1863 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 4 id135701
      Various receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 4 id135702
      R. Rose to Mrs. Helen (Skipwith)? Wilmer
      1863 March 20
      Scope and Contents
      Helen's husband detained in Washington.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 4 Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id135703
      Deed of Fulwar Skipwith to Tucker S. Coles
      1863 October 10
  - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id135700
    1864 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id135704
      Tax receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id135705
      Miscellaneous receipts
  - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id135706
    1865 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id135707
      Various receipts and accounts
  - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id135708
    1866 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id135709
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id135710
      Four labor contracts to work for Fulwar Skipwith
  - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id135711
    1867 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id135712
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id135713
      Crop sales accounts
  - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id135714
    1868 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id135715
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id135716
      Labor contracts and Fulwar Skipwith
    - id135717
      T. T. Boswell letters
- Mixed Materials Box: 18 id135718
  1869-1881
  - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 1 id135719
    1869 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 1 id135726
      Various receipts and accounts
  - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 2 id135720
    1870 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 2 id135727
      Labor contracts with free blacks and Fulwar Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 2 id135728
      Deed of Fulwar Skipwith to Norfolk and Western Railroad
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 2 id135729
      Various receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 2 id135730
      List of contents of "General Information" boxes #1, 2, and 3.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 2 id135731
      Newspaper clipping on the 15th Amendment
  - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 3 id135721
    1871 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 3 id135732
      Various receipts and accounts
  - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 4 id135722
    1872 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 4 id135733
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 4 id135734
      Land survey for land in Mecklenburg Co., Va.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 5 id135723
    1873 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 5 id135735
      Work contract with free blacks
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 5 id135737
      Various receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 5 id135738
      Broadside from Richmond Bank of Commerce
  - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 6 id135724
    1874 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 6 id135739
      Grand Jury presentments, Mecklenburg Co., Va.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 6 id135740
      Deed of Fulwar Skipwith to J. J. Crowder
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 6 id135741
      Various receipts
  - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 7 id135725
    1875 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 7 id135742
      Labor contract with Fulwar Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 7 id135743
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 7 id135744
      Correspondence on crop sales
  - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 8 id135745
    1876 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 8 id135749
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 8 id135750
      Copy of W. T. Pennington's will
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 8 id135751
      Price list, James and John N. Gordon Company, wholesale grocers and dealers in metal and Nova Scotia grindstones
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 8 id135752
      Labor contract with Fulwar Skipwith
  - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 9 id135746
    1877 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 9 id135753
      Correspondence on crop sales with Fulwar Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 9 id135754
      Fulwar Skipwith correspondence with Lewis Wimbish on question of county government
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 9 id135755
      E. A. Williams to Fulwar Skipwith. Skipwith elected President of Roanoke Valley R. R. Co.
      1877 July 12
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 9 id135756
      Various receipts and accounts
  - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 10 id135747
    1878 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 10 id135757
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 10 id135758
      Correspondence on crop sales with Fulwar Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 10 id135759
      Newspaper clippings
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 10 id135760
      Copies of articles from the "Mecklenburg Democrat"
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 10 id135761
      Robert C Nelson to Fulwar Skipwith
      1878 December 10
      Scope and Contents
      County government.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 10 id135762
      Circular letter "The State Debt: To the People of the State of Virginia"
  - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 11 id135748
    1879 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 11 id135763
      Receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 11 id135764
      Commitment to Poor House, papers for Delia White
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 11 id135765
      Mecklenburg tax rate list
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 11 id135766
      Newspaper clippings
  - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 12 id135767
    1880 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 12 id135768
      Schedule of mortgage payments for land
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 12 id135769
      Grand Jury presentment
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 12 id135771
      Summons to court for F. Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 12 id135772
      Receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 12 id135773
      Newspaper clippings, includes 1880 Virginia census
  - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 13 id135774
    1881 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 13 id136034
      Receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 13 id136035
      Loan contract with Fulwar Skipwith, secured by crop lien
    - Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 13 id136036
      Audiet report of Mecklenburg Co. treasurer's office
- Mixed Materials Box: 19 id136038
  1882-1892
  - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 1 id136039
    1882 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents .
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 1 id136043
      Deed of Grey Skipwith to R. G. Chaffin
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 1 id136044
      Receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 1 id136045
      Deed of Fulwar Skipwith to A. M. Irwin
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 1 id136046
      Broadside, turnip and cabbage seeds
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 1 id136047
      Correspondence between Helen Skipwith and Edward Goode
  - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 2 id136040
    1883 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 2 id136048
      Accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 2 id136049
      Rules for conduct of the District Executive
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 2 id136050
      List of interest income
  - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 3 id136041
    1884 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 3 id136051
      Receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 3 id136052
      Temperance note
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 3 id136053
      Lists of surveyor of roads
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 3 id136054
      Extract from Electoral Board Law
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 3 id136055
      Newspaper clippings
  - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 4 id136042
    1885 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 4 id136056
      List of County Court juries
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 4 id136057
      Deed of Fulwar Skipwith to Thomas Easley
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 4 id136058
      Deed to Richmond and Mecklenburg R. R.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 4 id136059
      Helen Skipwith correspondence
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 4 id136060
      Accounts
  - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 5 id136061
    1886 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 5 id136066
      Newspaper clippings.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 5 id136067
      Receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 5 id136068
      Helen Skipwith correspondence
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 5 id136069
      Notes on Board of Supervisors meeting
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 5 id136070
      Grey Skipwith to Fulwar Skipwith
      1886 October 25
      Scope and Contents
      Hopes to help him with his present troubles, i.e. bankruptcy and forced sale of his land.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 5 id136071
      George A. Cunningham to Fulwar Skipwith
      1886 November 20
      Scope and Contents
      Asks to buy his house.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 5 id136072
      C. J. Faulkner to Fulwar Skipwith
  - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 6 id136062
    1887 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 6 id136073
      Accounts and receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 6 id136074
      Grey Skipwith letters
  - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 7 id136063
    1888 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 7 id136075
      Various accounts and receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 7 id136076
      C. J. Faulkner to Fulwar Skipwith
      
      Scope and Contents
      Asks him to pay off his accounts.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 8 id136064
    1889 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 8 id136077
      Receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 8 id136078
      Grey Skipwith letters
  - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 9 id136065
    1890 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 9 id136079
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 9 id136080
      Fred S. Whalley to Fulwar Skipwith
      1890 January 9
      Scope and Contents
      Asks him to pay his bill.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 9 id136081
      Newspaper clipping Edward Bellamy's "The Coming Revolution"
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 9 id136082
      C. J. Faulkner to Fulwar Skipwith
      1890 September 4
      Scope and Contents
      Celia's divorce went through.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 9 id136083
      Newspaper clipping
      
      Scope and Contents
      Virginia census of 1890.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 10 id136084
    1891 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 10 id136086
      Various receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 10 id136087
      Grey Skipwith letters
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 10 id136088
      Constitution of National Farmers' Alliance
  - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 11 id136085
    1892 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 11 id136089
      Receipts and accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 11 id136090
      Newspaper clippings on populism and "The Episcopal Council"
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 11 id136091
      W. H. Ligon letters. Re: the ferry
    - Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 11 id136092
      Tucker S. Coles, Jr. letters.
      
      Scope and Contents
      Ferry
- Mixed Materials Box: 20 id136093
  1893-1977
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 1 id136094
    1893 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 1 id136101
      Receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 1 id136102
      Grey Skipwith correspondence
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 1 id136103
      Land plat for land in Mecklenburg Co., Va.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 1 id136104
      Populist ticket
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 2 id136095
    1894 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 2 id136105
      Receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 2 id136107
      Grey Skipwith letters
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 3 id136096
    1895 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 3 id136108
      Receipts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 3 id136109
      Ms. on Skipwith Family
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 4 id136097
    1896 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 4 id136110
      Broadside on legal holidays in Virginia
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 4 id136111
      Accounts and receipts
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 5 id136098
    1897 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 5 id136112
      Newspaper clippings
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 5 id136113
      Accounts and receipts
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 6 id136099
    1898 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 6 id136114
      Cancelled checks
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 7 id136100
    1899 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 7 id136115
      List of contents of tax account box
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 7 id136116
      Cancelled checks
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 7 id136118
      List of magazines, books, and newspapers given to Fulwar Skipwith by his nephew, Skipwith Wilmer
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 8 id136119
    1900 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 8 id136448
      Ralph Wilmer to Fulwar Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 8 id136450
      P M Brydin to Mrs Skipwith
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 8 id136451
      Lelia (Skipwith) Lee, to Annie (Ledyard) Skipwith, and Helen Skipwith, to Anne (Ledyard) Skipwith, both concerning the death of Fulwar Skipwith
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 10 id136120
    1902 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 10 id136452
      Harry Wood to Austin Skipwith
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 11 id136126
    1905 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 11 id136453
      3 statements as to place and date of birth
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 12 id136127
    1907 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 12 id136454
      Voter registration certificates from Mecklenburg Co. and Charlotte Co. and others. Held by Austin Skipwith as Mecklenburg Co. Registrar for R. L. Whittimore and others.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 12 id136455
      Testimonies as to places and dates of birth
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 13 id136128
    1908 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 13 id136456
      Voter registration certificates and testimonies as to date and place of birth
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 14 id136129
    1909 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 14 id136457
      Voter registration certificates and testimonies as to date and place of birth
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 15 id136130
    1910 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 15 id136458
      Voter registration certificates and testimonies as to date and place of birth
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 16 id136131
    1911 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 16 id136459
      Accounts
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 16 id136460
      Voter registration certificates and testimonies as to date and place of birth
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 16 id136461
      Cancelled checks
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 17 id136462
    1912 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 17 id136465
      Voter registration certificates
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 17 id136466
      Austin Skipwith correspondence
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 18 id136463
    1913-1919 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 18 id136468
      E. G. Pleasants to Austin L. Skipwith
      
      Scope and Contents
      Postcard.
    - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 18 id136469
      Shipping list for machinery
  - Mixed Materials Box: 20 Mixed Materials Box: 19 id136464
    1946-1977 Papers
    
    Scope and Contents
    Correspondence and other material concerning the history of the Skipwith pianoforte and its acquisition and subsequent care and use by the College of William and Mary; includes 2 8" x 10" black and white photographs (P1 and P2) of the pianoforte, and xerox copies from the Broadwood Porters books, 16 July 1816, indicating the original sale and delivery of the pianoforte; printed auction catalogue, 1946, listing "English Harpsichord (beautiful)"; and the Silvery Jubilee Catalogue, 1969, of the Colt Clavier Collection. Also includes the 2003 Conservation Report of the pianoforte by John R. Watson and Louis Dolive of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. 48 items.
id136510
Undated Manuscripts
Undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 2 id136493
  Accounts and memoranda of John Hill, agent for Sir Peyton Skipwith
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 3 id136494
  List of rooms and prices on stationary of Mrs. John W. Price, Jr., of Prestwould
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 4 id136495
  Letters to Anne (Ledyard) Skipwith
  
  Scope and Contents
  Includes one about a piano tuner from Cynthia Beverley (Tucker) Washington Coleman; and another from Lelia (Skipwith) Lee about their travels in Dresden and Berlin, Germany, and Paris, France.
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 5 id136496
  Letters, accounts, and notes associated with Fulwar Skipwith
  
  Scope and Contents
  Including a letter from "cousin" Mary Skipwith Roberts of New Orleans, a letter form Fulwar to his father, Humberstone Skipwith, and a memo on rebuilding the bridge across Bluestone Creek.
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 6 id136497
  Letter and account associated with Grey Skipwith
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 7 id136498
  Letters to Helen Skipwith, the daughter of Fulwar Skipwith
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 8 id136499
  Correspondence of Humberstone Skipwith
  
  Scope and Contents
  Mainly relating to farm and financial matters; including a letter from John W. Lewis on the estate of "Major Nelson," and William B. R. on a mysterious door opening; financial matters of Lady Jean (Miller) Skipwith from William F. Wickham; and several from William Jeter and John B. Tunstall.
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 9 id136500
  Legal and financial memoranda, and accounts of Humberstone Skipwith,
  
  Scope and Contents
  including a list of Negroes purchased at "John? Bufords Sale," and an order for parts for a mill ?.
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 10 id136501
  Fragments and envelopes associated with Humberstone Skipwith, including his callng card
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 11 id136502
  Correspondence of Lady Jean (Miller) Skipwith
  
  Scope and Contents
  Including a letter to Sir Peyton Skipwith, one from Jean Feild inviting her to visit, a fragment of a poem in Lady Jean's handwriting, and an account.
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 12 id136503
  Correspondence of Sir Peyton Skipwith, primarily on legal, family, or financial matters
  
  Scope and Contents
  Including letters from Peyton Short, Leila (Skipwith) Carter Tucker, Fulwar Skipwith (a cousin of Sir Peyton), and several from Richard Eggleston, as well as two letters from Sir Peyton to Lady Jean Skipwith.
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 13 id136504
  Accounts, receipts, and memos of Sir Peyton Skipwith for a variety of items, including saw mill equipment and building supplies
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 14 id136505
  Legal memoranda and fragments relating to Sir Peyton Skipwith, including a part of his will
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 15 id136506
  Accounts and notes relating to "Mr Skipwith," most likely either Humberstone or Fulwar, including repair of a house in Norfolk and five lodging bills
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 16 id136507
  Accounts of "Mrs" and "Miss" Skipwith, most likely the wives and daughters of Humberstone or Fulwar, including mention of foodstuffs, sewing, clothes, fabrics, and music
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 17 id136508
  Letters on family matters from Helen (Skipwith) Wilmer, and her children Helen, Skipwith, and William, to her half-brothers, Fulwar and Grey; and 2 accounts
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 18 id136512
  Letters, often fragmentary, to unknown recipients, including a number from women, and 2 cards by children
  
  Scope and Contents
  Items with no obvious Skipwith connection.
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 19 id136513
  Accounts and financial memos
  
  Scope and Contents
  Items with no obvious Skipwith connection.
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 20 id136514
  Notes on legal matters, including a memo on claims against British tobacco merchants
  
  Scope and Contents
  Items with no obvious Skipwith connection.
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 21 id136515
  Broadsides "Directions for the Preparation of BonesforFertilizing Material"; "To the Business of Richmond" on the benefits of the Richmond and Mecklenburg Railroad; "Rates of Transportation on the Petersburg, Va Rail Road" with extracts from an act of the General Assembly, 3 January 1833
  
  Scope and Contents
  See also Medium Oversize File.
  - Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 21 id213059
    Rates of Transportation
    1833 January 3
    Scope and Contents
    "Rates of Transportation on the Petersburg, Va. Rail Road" with extracts from an act of the General Assembly, 3 January 1833.
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 22 id136516
  Essay "Lady Corneilia's Spinet", by Mary Polk Winn, about Sir Peyton Skipwith
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 23 id136517
  Print of St. Paul's College, Long Island, N.Y.
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 24 id136519
  Photograph of Humberstone Skipwith, from a miniature
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 25 id136520
  Photograph of unidentified woman, probably late 19th century
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 26 id136522
  Photograph of Charles IX of Spain, from a miniature given by him to William Short in 1791
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 27 id136524
  Photograph of marble bust of a woman
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 28 id136526
  Eleven photographs headed "L. J. Morgan, Kodak Finishing, Clarksville, Va."
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 28 id136527
    Photographs of Wright Brothers Memorial, Kitty Hawk, N.C.
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 28 id136528
    Photograph of waterside cottage and pier, Nags Head, N.C.
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 28 id136529
    Photograph of Nags Head, N.C.? scene.
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 28 id136530
    Photograph of Barbara Price (Mrs. John W.) at Nags Head, N.C.?
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 28 id136531
    Photograph of Price family, n.p.
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 28 id136532
    Photograph of Barbara Price (Mrs. John W.) at Prestwould, Mecklenburg Co., Va.?
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 28 id136533
    Photograph of Dr. John W. Price, Jr., n.p.
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
  - Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 28 id136534
    Photographs of Prestwould, Mecklenburg Co., Va.
    
    Scope and Contents
    Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 29 id136535
  Photograph of unidentified young woman, probably late 19th century
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 30 id136536
  Papers and clippings regarding the Farmer's Alliance
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 31 id136537
  French lessons
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 32 id136538
  Garden notes, including those by Lady Jean Skipwith
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 33 id136539
  House plans, including photostat
  
  Scope and Contents
  See Medium Oversize File.
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 34 id136540
  Notes, accounts, poll tax lists, voting tallies, and drafts of letters and petitions regarding Mecklenburg Co., Va. government
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 35 id136541
  Verses and music to a song
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 36 id136542
  Notes on slaves
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 37 id136543
  Notes regarding surveying; land plats, including a plat for "Peyton Skipwith's Kentucky Land"; a fragment of a deed; and notes on other land matters
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 38 id136544
  Blanks for a deed of trust, and for bills of exchange
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 39 id136545
  Unidentifiable miscellaneous manuscripts, including memoranda on materials for a saw mill, tolls on the Roanoke Canal, and a list of tools
  
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 40 id136546
  Two fabric pockets with tie strings, attributed to Lady Jean (Miller) Skipwith, with accompanying explanatory materials
  
  Scope and Contents
  See Manuscript Artifact Collection.
- Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 1 id136488
  Letter of Selina (Skipwith) Coles to "brother," Fulwar Skipwith
  
  Scope and Contents
  A visit; and letters of Claudia Stuart Coles to her uncle, Fulwar Skipwith, about a ferry.
id136547
Manuscript Volumes
- Mixed Materials Box: 22 Folder: 1 id136548
  Sir Peyton Skipwith's ledger of accounts for goods and services
  1762-1785
- Mixed Materials Box: 22 Folder: 2 id136549
  Sir Peyton Skipwith's ledger of accounts and memoranda
  1775-1801
  Scope and Contents
  Indexed.
- Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 1 id137522
  Johhn Hill's Memo book for Sir Peyton Skipwith
  1795-1797
- Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 2 id137523
  Inventory and appraisal for slaves, livestock, tools, crops and furniture, probably relating to settlement of Sir Peyton Skipwith's estate, and including table for calculation of laborer's wages and cash account, 1805-1806
  circa 1805-1806
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 3 id137524
  Bank of Virginia passbook, Norfolk, Humberstone Skipwith
  1825-1840
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 4 id137525
  Lady Jean Skipwith's indexed manuscript volume of shrubs, trees and flowers
  ante 1826
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 5 id137526
  "The History of the World Before the Flood" and other "Lectures" on the ancient world, with signature of Anne (Ledyard) Skipwith
  1836
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 6 id137527
  Accounts
  1840
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 7 id137528
  Letters, in French, from ?, Paris, France, to "Monsieur"
  1857 October 29 - December 27
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 8 id137529
  Notebook on molasses, spinners, and shoes given out
  1864-1865
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 9 id137530
  Rough drafts of Fulwar Skipwith letters
  circa 1870's
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 1 id137532
  Notebook of math, list of delinquent taxes, and drafts of speeches
  1879
  Scope and Contents
  Indexed.
- Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 2 id137533
  Miscellaneous notes, letter drafts, and accounts of Fulwar Skipwith
  1882-1888
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 3 id137534
  Scrapbook of Annie L Skipwith, consisting of clippings of poems, articles on conduct, riddles and pictures, pasted over a letterbook of John Hill, "agent for Sir Peyton Skipwith", including a poem, "Dull Times", Mason County State of Kentucky, March 15, 1797, signed by John Hill
  1883
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 4 id137535
  List of corn crops
  circa 1890's
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 5 id137536
  Rough drafts of Fulwar Skipwith letters, written in an 18th century book of blank bills of exchange
  1895
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 6 id137537
  Rough drafts of Fulwar Skipwith letters, written in an 18th century book of blank bills of exchange
  1895
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 7 id137538
  Drafts of Fulwar Skipwith letters on the back of 18th century printed blanks for bills of lading
  circa 1899
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 8 id137539
  Account of books Austin Skipwith?, listing household expenses and laborers' fees for both men and women
  circa 1900
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 9 id137540
  Fulwar Skipwith's lists of books on various subjects
  ante 1901
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 25 Folder: 1 id137542
  Notes on agriculture and home remedies
  Undated
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 25 Folder: 2 id137543
  Notes on the Bible, Shakespeare, Proverbs
  Undated
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 25 Folder: 3 id137544
  Notes on gardening
  Undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 25 Folder: 4 id137545
  Copy of Sir Peyton Skipwith will, including Lady Jean Skipwith will, Humberstone Skipwith will, copies of deeds to Skipwith lands, and plat of Prestwould and other lands
  Undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 25 Folder: 5 id137546
  French lessons, #75-162
  Undated
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 25 Folder: 6 id137547
  French lessons, #177-238, with sketches of heads and a vocabulary list
  Undated
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 25 Folder: 7 id137548
  French lessons
  Undated
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
id137549
Fulwar Skipwith's notebooks of account memos of things to be done, crop notes, and laborer's accounts

Scope and Contents
Notebook No. 10 1873 was not with the collection when it was received.
- Mixed Materials Box: 26 Folder: 2 id137551
  Note Book No. 2
  1866
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 26 Folder: 3 id137552
  Note Book No. 3
  1867
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 26 Folder: 4 id137553
  Note Book No. 4
  1868
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 26 Folder: 5 id137554
  Note Book No. 5
  1869
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 26 Folder: 6 id137555
  Note Book No. 6
  1869-1870
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 26 Folder: 7 id137556
  Note Book No. 7
  1871
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 26 Folder: 8 id137557
  Note Book No. 8
  1872
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 26 Folder: 9 id137558
  Note Book No. 9
  1872-1873
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 26 Folder: 10 id137559
  Note Book No. 11
  1874
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 1 id137563
  Note Book No. 12
  1874-1875
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 2 id137564
  Note Book No. 13
  1875-1876
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 3 id137565
  Note Book No. 14
  1876-1877
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 4 id137566
  Note Book No. 15
  1878-1880
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 5 id137568
  Note Book No. 16
  1880-1881
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 6 id137569
  Note Book No. 17
  1882-1884
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 7 id137570
  Account Book No. 18
  1885
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 8 id137571
  Account Book No. 19
  1886
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 9 id137572
  Record of tobacco stripping
  1869-1870
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 10 id137573
  Record of tobacco stripping
  1871-1872
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 11 id137575
  "Account of weights of stripped tobacco"
  1873-1880
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 1 id137578
  Articles sold laborers 3rd quarter
  1872
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 2 id137579
  Time, Scale, and Extra Labor--Pocket Account Book
  1872-1886
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 3 id137581
  Articles furnished laborers
  1873-1874
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 4 id137582
  Account Book with laborers 3rd quarter 1874
  1874
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 5 id137583
  Laborers' Account Book
  1874-1882
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 6 id137584
  Account Book with laborers 1st quarter
  1875
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 7 id137585
  Account Book for last 3 quarters of the year 1875
  1875
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 8 id137586
  Laborers' Account Book
  1876
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 9 id137588
  Laborers' Account Book for 1878
  1878
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 10 id137589
  Laborers' Account Book
  1879-1880
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 11 id137590
  Laborers' Account Book
  1881
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 12 id137591
  Laborers' Account Book
  1883-1884
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 13 id137592
  Laborers' Account Book
  1885
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 14 id137593
  Laborers' Account Book
  1886
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 15 id137594
  Laborers' Account Book
  1878
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 16 id137595
  Ledger--Accounts with laborers
  1888-1889
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials Box: 28 Folder: 17 id137596
  Original map container for James Wyld's The World on Mercator's Projection, with Fulwar Skipwith's signature, and the year "1864" written on the front bookplate
  
  Scope and Contents
  (Note: Map transferred to Map Collection).
- Mixed Materials Box: 26 Folder: 1 id137550
  Note Book No. 1
  1865
  Scope and Contents
  Scope and Contents

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