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Special Collections Research Center
William & Mary Special Collections Research CenterEarl Gregg Swem Library
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Williamsburg, Virginia
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Finding Aid Authors: Cynthia B. Brown.
Administrative Information
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Conditions Governing Access:
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Preferred Citation:
Richard G. Dunn Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information:
Purchased in 9/1928 and 1/1937.
Processing Information:
Processed by Cynthia B. Brown in 1983. Box and folder list inventory completed by Zach Woodward, SCRC staff, in March 2011.
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1835-1881, of Richard G. Dunn, City Point, Prince George County, Va. including accounts of him and his wife, Sarah A. Dunn but mostly consisting of accounts of Dunn as executor of the estates of Daniel Eppes and Lucretia Thweatt and as assignee of J.E. Hubard. Includes recipes, 1848, for plum cake.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Accounts
- Cookery--Southern States
- Cookery--Virginia
- Design drawings
- Dunn, Sarah A.
- Eppes, Daniel
- Executors and administrators--Virginia--History--19th century
- Financial records
- Hubard, J. F.
- Prince George County (Va.)--History--19th century
- Recipes
- Thweatt, Lucretia
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Dunn, Richard G.
- Dunn, Sarah A.
- Eppes, Daniel
- Hubard, J. F.
- Thweatt, Lucretia
Container List
Accounts, bills, and receipts for such items as staves, foodstuffs, fabrics, clothing, [doctor's?] visits, and wheat of Richard G. Dunn, Prince George Co., Va. 18 items.
Business correspondence of Richard G. Dunn, City Point, Prince George Co., Va., including a Prince George Co. court order, Jan. 1868, concerning the building of a bridge across Powell's creek. 3 items.
Business correspondence, account, and bill of Mrs. Sarah A. Dunn, Richmond, Va.; includes bill, 1 July 1878, from a wholesale and retail ice dealer, with a detailed letterhead showing a drawing of an ice wagon drawn by horses, and a man delivering ice; also includes two receipts, 1842, for plum cake with icing from E[?] R[?]; items regarding the boarding of the Misses Eppes; and a letter, 1881, written to Mrs. S. A. Dunn as Ex[ecu]t[ri]x of the estate of R. G. dunn. 6 items.
Accounts, bills, receipts, and business correspondence relating to Capt. Daniel Eppes, Petersburg, Va., and later to his estate, Richard G. Dunn, executor; includes receipt, October 1836, to Thomas Andrews for making a pine coffin, and other receipts for the schooling of Eppes children, and doctors' visits. 38 items.
Accounts, bills, and receipts of Richard G. Dunn as related to his position of assignee of J. E. Hubbard; includes a receipt, 17 December 1852, of R. G. Dunn serving as executor of the estate of Lucretia Thweatt. 5 items.
Bills, accounts, including ones for medical visits, receipts, and other business correspondence of the estate of Lucretia Thweatt, Prince George Co., Va., Richard G. Dunn, executor, with the name Mary T. Hubbard appearing frequently. 20 items.