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Special Collections Research Center
William & Mary Special Collections Research CenterEarl Gregg Swem Library
400 Landrum Dr
Williamsburg, Virginia
Business Number: 757-221-3090
spcoll@wm.edu
URL: https://libraries.wm.edu/libraries-spaces/special-collections
Terence Noziglia.
Administrative History:
Donald M. Sweig graduated from William and Mary with a B. A. in 1973 and a Ph.D in History in 1982. He was historian for Fairfax County, Virginiaa.
Scope and Contents
Professional papers of Donald M. Sweig (William and Mary B. A. 1973 Ph. D 1982. Includes research notes, and correspondence regarding publication of articles in The William and Mary Quarterly, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, and Prologue. These papers include the correspondence, draft and original photographs/negatives to accompany article in VMHB on seal of the College, drafts and proofs of articles, research notes and census data tied to his master's thesis at George Mason University (M. A. 1975), as well as photocopies of primary sources concerning free Black people in northern Virginia (primarily Fairfax county, Loudoun county, Arlington county and Fredericksburg). There are also newspaper clippings of his activities as historian for Fairfax County, Virginia.
Arrangement of Materials:
Arranged by topic.
Container List
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id70326
Index and deeds of emancipation and apprenticeship for Black people1700's
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id70327
Index and deeds of emancipation and apprenticeship for Black people1700's
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id70328
Index and deeds of emancipation and apprenticeship for Black people1700's
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id70352
Articles and Notes1970-1990
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id70357
Notes for Potomac Importation Paper1980's
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id70359
Notes and Revisions Potomac Importation Paper1980's
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id70360
Copies and Edit of Potomac River Importation Paper1980's
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id70361
Correspondence related to Potomac Importation paper1980s
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id70362
Revisions of Potomac Importation Paper1980's
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id70363
Revision and Correspondence for Potomac Importation Paper1980's
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 id70364
Correspondence on Potomac Importation Paper1980's
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 id70365
Correspondence and Journal Photocopies
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13 id70366
Correspondence on Potomac Importation Article1980's
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14 id70367
Correspondence on Galley Proofs of Potomac Importation Article1980's
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15 id70368
Loudoun County Free Negroes1780-1860
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 17 id70346
Offprints1970-1990Scope and Contents
A Brief History of Fairfax County by Donald M. Sweig (Heritage Resources Information Series: Number 1) Brochure written by Sweig: The Legacy of the Constitution and Fairfax County Courts were Appointed in Convenient Places by Donald M. Sweig "The Virginia Non-importation Association Broadside of 1770 and Fairfax County: A Study in Local Participation" reprinted by the Office of Comprehensive Planning from the VMHB. "Reassessing the Human Dimension of the Interstate Slave Trade" by Sweig from Prologue Spring 1980 Moxham, Robert Morgan, The Great Hunting Creek Land Grants (1974) "A New-Found Washington Letter of 1774 and the Fairfax Resolves A New-Found Washington Letter of 1774 and the Fairfax Resolves" by Donald M. Sweig The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 40, No. 2 (April, 1983), pp. 283-291 "The Importation of African Slaves to the Potomac River, 1732-1772" by Donald M. Sweig The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Oct., 1985), pp. 507-524
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18 id70371
Kephardt documents from New Jersey1840-1860
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 19 id70372
Article by Sweig on George Washington and a family of enslaved personsScope and Contents
Published in September 25, 1983 Washington Post. Includes typescripts and newspaper article copies.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 20 id70373
Article from Niles Register concerning the sale of enslaved persons by Bushrod Washington1821
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 21 id70374
Four copies of receipts for enslaved people and tabulations from Bruim v. Kephardt (Fairfax County Chancery Suit)
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 22 id70375
Paper written for History 511 under Dr. Gleissner1974Scope and Contents
Paper written April 24, 1974 on the Revolutionary Activity and Ideology in Fairfax County, Va. 1774-1776 (Fairfax Resolves)
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 23 id70376
Notes and correspondence with William M. E. Rachal (Virginia Historical Society)1974 JanuaryScope and Contents
Information relating to "A Capital on the Potomac" January 1979 VMHB.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 24 id70377
Freedman's Village article by Susan Gilpin1984Scope and Contents
Post Civil War Arlington near Pentagon site.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 25 id70378
Honesty family genealogy (Ohio family of Black persons)1982
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 26 id70379
Notes and correspondence with William M. E. Rachal (Virginia Historical Society)1979 JanuaryScope and Contents
Information relating to "A Capital on the Potomac" January 1979 VMHB.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 27 id70380
Notes and correspondence with William M. E. Rachal (Virginia Historical Society)1979 JanuaryScope and Contents
Information relating to "A Capital on the Potomac" January 1979 VMHB.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 28 id70381
Notes for Capital on the Potomac1970-1980's
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 29 id70382
Research materials article concerning Sweig in a newspaper called the Gazette1983 November 10
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 30 id70384
Indentures copies of deeds1780-1860
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 31 id70385
William and Mary Photo1868
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 32 id70392
Patricia HickinScope and Contents
(Gentle Agitator: Samuel M. Janney and the Antislavery Movement in Virginia, 1842-1851)
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 33 id70393
Articles on hiring of enslaved people and enslavement by Elizabeth Brown PryorScope and Contents
(Flexibility and Profit in Slave Hiring System of Fairfax County, Va.)
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 34 id70394
Antebellum slave family charts and inventories of estates (photocopies)
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 35 id70395
Slave Probate Material
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 36 id70396
Handwritten and typed draft of paper "The Human Dimension of the Interstate Slave Trade
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 37 id70398
Misc Notes - Littlefield
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 38 id70399
Aggregate Census Data 1830,60,70,80
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 39 id70408
Census Material 1820
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 40 id70415
Census Material 1850
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 41 id70416
Black Fairfax Graphics
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 42 id70419
Sweig's Master's Thesis at GMU on Free Negroes in Northern Virginia1975Scope and Contents
Includes research notes and census data.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 43 id70421
Sweig's Master's Thesis at GMU on Free Negroes in Northern Virginia1975Scope and Contents
Includes research notes and census data – see citation below.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 44 id70422
Sweig's Master's Thesis at GMU on Free Negroes in Northern Virginia1975Scope and Contents
Includes research notes and census data.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 45 id70423
Copy of bastardy and servant cards from county court minute book index (Fairfax)
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 46 id70424
Black History Materials
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 47 id70425
Sweig Paper –"Land of the Unfree and Home of the Slave: A Preliminary Demographic Profile of the Slave and Servant Population"
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 48 id70697
Court Papers Free Blacks and Slaves
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 49 id70698
Research for Washington Letter ArticleScope and Contents
Off print of article (note) in WMQ April 1983 "New-Found Washington Letter and the Fairfax Resolves". Drafts, research notes, transcripts of the letter and correspondence with the IEAHC regarding the publishing.
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 50 id70699
George Mason
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 51 id70700
Black History
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 52 id70701
Loudon Free Black Typescript Pt 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 53 id70702
Loudon Free Black Typescript Pt 2
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 54 id70703
Loudon Free Black Typescript Pt 3
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 55 id70705
Fredericksburg Free Negroes1790-1862
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 56 id70706
Arlington County Free Negro Registration
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 57 id70707
Research for Washington Letter Article
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 58 id70709
Verdt a College paper
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 59 id70710
Free Black Register PublicityScope and Contents
Publicity clippings regarding publication of Fairfax County Free Black Registers (one article includes info on West Ford
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 60 id70711
Indexing Court RecordsScope and Contents
Post articles regarding project to index colonial court records for Fairfax.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 61 id70712
Northern Neck mapScope and Contents
Material relating to the Northern Neck map -- the Fairfax Line by Charles Morrison and 1777 statute relating to tax exemption.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 62 id70713
Broadside Study Materials
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 63 id70714
Virginia Independence DayScope and Contents
Articles relating to Virginia Independence Day in June 1976.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 64 id70715
Response to Black Register
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 65 id70716
Morton , Fowler and BaldwinScope and Contents
Fowler talk on King William and Queen Mary and obit of Morton, clippings relating to Fowler Henry VIII lecture, naming of Morton Hall and J. T. Baldwin.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 66 id70717
Jefferson Materials
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 67 id70718
"Leopard Gally" WMQ Article
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 68 id70719
Non Importation Broadside PaperScope and Contents
Draft, proofs and correspondence relating to publication of Non-Importation Broadside article.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 69 id70720
Vert a CollegeScope and Contents
Correspondence, draft and original photographs/negatives to accompany article on Seal of the College.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 70 id70721
Land of the Unfree PaperScope and Contents
Three drafts of "and of the Unfree and Home of the Slave".
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 71 id70722
Tadman Thesis Pt11977Scope and Contents
Copy of dissertation "Speculators and Slaves in the Old South; a Study of the American Domestic Slave Trade,1820-1860" by Michael Tadman of the University of Hull England).
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 72 id70723
Tadman Thesis Pt2
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 73 id70724
Tadman Thesis Pt 3
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 74 id70727
Import Certificates and Tabulations
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 75 id70728
Slave Purchase Records New Orleans 1830s
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 76 id70729
Human Dimension of Slave Trade
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 77 id70730
Franklin and ArmfieldScope and Contents
Bills of Lading and Photos of Slave Pens.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 78 id70731
Mitamora Manifest1836 March 9
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 79 id70732
Brig Ariel1834 October 8
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 80 id70733
Brig Uncas1834 April 17
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 81 id70734
Schooner Lafayette1836 January 27
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 82 id70735
Lafayette Manifest 51832 February 13
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 83 id70736
Brig Tribune Manifest1835 November 7
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 84 id70737
Brig Uncas manifest1835 September 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 85 id70738
Brig Uncas Manifest1839 November 19
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 86 id70741
Tribune Manifest1836 December 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 87 id70742
Angora manifest1841 October 15
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 88 id70743
Katherine Jackson Manifest1836 November 19
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 89 id70744
Brig Uncas Manifest1836 October 15
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 90 id70745
Tribune Manifest1831 December 3
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 91 id70746
Brig Tribune Manifest 41831 November 12
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 92 id70747
Schooner Lafayette Manifest 31831 October 15
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 93 id70748
Lafayette Manifest 21831 March 13
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 94 id70749
Tribune Manifest 6-N1832 March 19
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 95 id70750
Brig Ajax Manifest 15-N1832 February 13
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 96 id70751
Orion Manifest1834
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 97 id70752
Spreadsheet - Manifest
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 98 id70753
Orion manifest 14N1834 November 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 99 id70754
Potomac Manifest1838
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 100 id70755
Notes and Spreadsheet
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 101 id70756
Katherine Jackson Manifest1838
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 102 id70757
Tribune Manifest 361835 February 26
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 103 id70758
Uncas Manifest1835 February 15
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 104 id70759
Isaac Franklin Manifest 321836 November 15
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 105 id70760
Isaac Franklin Manifest 261835 December 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 106 id70761
Tribune manifest 251835 November 16
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 107 id70762
Isaac Franklin manifest 301835 October 6
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 108 id70763
Uncas Manifest 271835 March 26
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 109 id70764
Tribune Manifest 291835 October 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 110 id70765
Uncas Manifest 231835 November 6
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 111 id70766
Tribune Manifest 71832 November 26
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 112 id70767
Comet Manifest 101829 January 26
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 113 id70768
United States - Manifest 211828 October 22
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 114 id70769
Spread sheet - Norfolk Manifests
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 115 id70770
James Monroe Manifest1831 March 10
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 116 id70771
Brig Tribune Manifest 111834 April 18
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 117 id70772
Uncas Manifest 101834 January 13
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 118 id70774
Brig Tribune manifest 91833 October 16
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 119 id70775
Uncas Manifest 241835 December 26
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 120 id70776
Renown Manifest 81833 May 24
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 121 id70777
Brig Tribune Manifest 61832 March 14
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 122 id70778
Franklin and Armfield manifest list