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Peter family papers RM.1186

Peter family papers RM.1186


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Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

PO Box 3600
Mount Vernon, VA 22121
Telephone: 703-799-3600
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Repository
Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
Identification
RM.1186
Title
Peter family papers 1772-1932
Quantity
12 Linear Feet, 46 boxes
Creator
Washington, George, 1732-1799
Creator
Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
Creator
Washington, Martha, 1731-1802
Creator
Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis, 1776-1831
Creator
Law, Thomas, 1756-1834
Creator
Costin, William, 1780?-1842
Creator
Law, John, 1784?-1822
Creator
Rogers, Lloyd Nicholas, approximately 1788-1860
Creator
Rogers, Edmund Law
Creator
Peter, Robert, 1726-1806
Creator
Peter, Thomas, 1769-1834
Creator
Peter, Martha Parke Custis, 1777-1854
Creator
Kennon, Britannia Wellington Peter, 1815-1911
Creator
Peter, George, 1779-1861
Creator
Peter, Armistead, 1840-1902
Creator
Peter, Agnes, 1840-1902
Language
English .

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Preferred Citation

[Name and date of item], Peter Family papers, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia.


Biographical / Historical

The Peters were a prominent family in Washington, D.C. during the eighteenth and nineteen centuries. Martha Parke Custis, Martha Washington's granddaughter, married into the Peter family in 1795.

George Washington (1732-1799) : George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at a modest farm in Westmoreland County, Virginia to parents Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. In 1749, George Washington was appointed surveyor for Culpepper County. In 1752, he started his military career in the Virginia militia. During the Revolutionary War he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and later was elected as the first President of the United States of America. He lived with his wife, Martha Washington, at Mount Vernon, where he passed away December 14, 1799.

Martha Washington (1731-1802) : Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born on June 2, 1731 to parents John and Frances Jones Dandridge. She married her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on May 15, 1750. Together they had four children, two of whom died in childhood. On July 8, 1757, her husband unexpectedly died, leaving her a widow with their two remaining children, John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis. On January 6, 1759, Martha Dandridge Custis married George Washington. Martha Parke Custis or Patsy, died at the age of 17. On February 3, 1774, John Parke Custis married Eleanor Calvert, and together they had four children who survived to adulthood. However, on November 5, 1781, John Parke Custis passed away, and the younger two of his children went to live at Mount Vernon with their grandmother. Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died on May 22, 1802.

Tobias Lear (1762-1816) : Tobias Lear was born in 1762. He was employed by George Washington in 1786 to manage expense reports to Congress and also as the personal tutor to Martha Washington's grandchildren. In 1790 Tobias Lear married Mary "Polly" Long; however she died in 1793. Lear then married Martha Washington's niece, Frances Bassett Washington, but she died shortly they were married. Lear married for a third time to Frances Dandridge Henley, another niece of Martha Washington. He died in 1816.

Elizabeth (Betsy, Beth, Eliza) Parke Custis Law (1776-1831) : Wife to Thomas Law, Eliza Parke Custis Law was born on August 21, 1776. She was the daughter of John (Jacky) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert. Upon the death of her father in 1781, Eliza's two younger siblings, George Washington (Washy) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Parke Custis went to live with their grandmother, Martha Washington, and her second husband, George Washington. Eliza and her other sister Martha stayed at home with their mother. Shortly after, their mother remarried Dr. David Stuart and had thirteen more children. On March 21, 1796, Eliza Parke Custis Law married Thomas Law and together they had one child, Eliza Law. In 1804, the couple separated and their daughter went to live with her father. They officially divorced in 1811. Eliza Parke Custis Law lived with one of her uncles for a time after the separation, and soon purchased a house in Alexandria called "Mount Washington." Eliza Law Rogers died in 1822, leaving behind a husband (Lloyd Nicholas Rogers) and two children. Eliza Parke Custis Law died on December 31, 1831.

Thomas Law (1756-1834) : Thomas Law was born on October 23, 1756 in Cambridge, England. He started his career working for the East India Trading Company and began building his reputation, as well as his income. In 1794, he left England to start a new life in America where he began to invest in lands, particularly in the nation's capital. Over time, Law became extremely passionate about the arts, particularly poetry, which he wrote and published. He even founded the first dance society, theater, and the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis on March 21, 1796. Together they had one child, Eliza Law, who married Lloyd Nicholls Rogers in 1817. Thomas Law died in 1834.

William Costin (1780-1842) : William Costin was a prominent free black man in early 19th-century Washington DC. He was a messenger for the Bank of Washington and ran a hack business in the city. In 1800, he married his cousin Philadelphia ("Delphy"), a dower slave of Martha Washington. Upon Martha Washington's death in 1802, Delphy became the property of Eliza Parke Custis Law, wife to Thomas Law. Delphy and their children were granted freedom shortly after, and the couple decided to stay in Washington, D.C. Together the Costins had seven children. He died in 1842.

John Law (1784-1822) : John Law was born in India about 1784 to Thomas Law and an unidentified Indian woman. In 1794 Thomas Law came to America after living about two decades in India; presumably John and his brothers came with him. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis in 1796 and raised the boys until their separation around 1804. John Law graduated from Harvard University in 1804; he was a member of the Columbian Dragoons in 1811; and was the commissioner to adjust the Yazoo claims in 1814. He died on October 4, 1822.

Lloyd Nicholas Rogers (1787 or 1788-1860) : Lloyd Nicholas Rogers was born on September 20, 1788 to parents Nicholas and Eleanor Buchanan Rogers. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers married Eliza Law Rogers in 1817. Together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers and Eleanor Agnes Rogers. They lived on Druid Hill which had been passed down by Lloyd's Scottish father. Very shortly after the death of Lloyd's father in 1822, Eliza also died. In 1829, Rogers was married to Hortensia Monroe Hay who was the granddaughter of James Monroe. Together, they had an additional three daughters, Harriet, Hortensia, and Mary Custis. Lloyd was a proprietor of his estate and practiced law out of his home on Druid Hill. Hortensia died in the 1850s, leaving Lloyd all alone. All of his children except for Eleanor had already married and moved out. Eleanor would not marry until 1862, following her father's death. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers died on November 12, 1860.

Edmund Law Rogers (1818-1896) : Edmund Law Rogers was born in 1818 to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers and Eliza Law Rogers. He grew up and lived in Baltimore all of his life, and was a founding member of the Maryland and Harvard Club, as well as a member of various other organizations, such as, the Sons of the Revolution and the Baltimore Historical Society. He spoke several different languages and was a lover of the arts. He married Charlotte Matilda Plater and together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers, Jr., and Charlotte Plater Rogers. He died of paralysis on January 24, 1896.

Robert Peter (1726-1806) : Robert Peter was born in 1726 in Scotland to Thomas Peter and Jean Dunlop, who were prosperous merchants. He immigrated to the United States around 1745, but there is no definite reason why he chose to leave. He first settled in the town, Bladensburg, along the Anacostia River. In 1751, Georgetown was established, and Robert purchased a lot in the town the following year, and slowly began to build up his land holdings. His land holdings grew to be quite extensive, including owning the entire square from M, K, and 31st Streets, and Wisconsin Ave. From 1789 to 1798, Robert Peter was the first mayor of Georgetown. On December 27, 1767, he married Elizabeth Scott, and together they had 10 children, one of whom died as an infant. Their names were: Thomas, Alexander, Elizabeth, Walter, Robert, Jean, Margaret, David, George, and James. He died in 1806.

Thomas Peter (1769-1834) : Thomas Peter was born January 4, 1769 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. Thomas Peter married Martha Parke Custis, granddaughter to Martha Washington, in 1795. Together, they had eight children. Martha Eliza Eleanor, Columbia Washington, John Parke Custis, Robert Thomas, George Washington, America Pinckney, Martha Custis Castania (who died young), and Britannia Wellington. In 1805, Thomas and Martha purchased eight-and-a-half acres in "Georgetown Heights." [For more information on Tudor Place, see Tudor Place: Historic House and Gardens.] They later hired architect Dr. William Thornton to design and build Tudor Place located in Georgetown. It was completed in 1816 and still stands today. Thomas Peter was a prominent lawyer of the time and was one of the executors of Martha Washington's will. He died April 16, 1834.

Martha (Patty) Parke Custis Peter (1777-1854) : was born to John Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert Custis on December 31, 1777. She was one of four children in their family to survive to adulthood: Eliza Parke, Martha Parke, Eleanor Parke (Nelly), and George Washington (Washy) Parke. Following the death of their father in 1781, Patty and her older sister, Eliza, lived with their mother and stepfather, Dr. David Stuart, and their large family, while their younger siblings, Nelly and Washy, lived with their grandparents at Mount Vernon. There were frequent visits to Mount Vernon in both childhood and following her marriage to Thomas Peter in 1795. She died July 13 or 15, 1854.

Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon (1815-1911) : Britannia Wellington Peter was born January 28, 1815, as the youngest child of Martha Parke (Patty) Custis Peter and Thomas Peter. In 1842, she married Commodore Beverley Kennon, and together they had one child, Martha Custis Kennon, on October 18, 1843. Commodore Kennon died from a gun explosion on the frigate Princeton on February 28, 1844. Martha Custis Kennon married Dr. Armistead Peter in 1867. When Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon's mother passed in 1854, she inherited Tudor Place, where she lived until her death in 1911.

Major George Peter (1779-1861) : Major George W. Peter was born on September 28, 1779 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. He was married three times during his life. First, to Ann Plater in 1809. Together they had two children, George and Thomas. His wife and two children all died in 1814. Secondly, in 1815 he married Agnes Buchanon Freeland. They had five children, Robert, Ann, James, Agnes, and David. Agnes, his wife, died in 1825. Only a month later, he again married, this time to Sarah Norfleet Freeland, the sister of his second wife. Together, they had nine children: Sarah Agnes, George, Alexander Scott, Margaret Dick, Elizabeth, Armistead, Walter Gibson, William, and Katherine Norfleet. Major George Peter was an officer in the army, a representative in Congress, and a farmer. During his career in the army, he was first appointed first lieutenant 2nd, Artillery and Engineers on February 16, 1801. He was promoted to Captain on November 3, 1807, and finally was transferred to the Light Artillery in May of 1808. He resigned in June 11, 1809. In 1815, he was elected to Congress to cover the sixth district in Maryland. He would continue this appointment until after 1828. He died June 22, 1861.

Dr. Armistead Peter (1840-1902) : Dr. Armistead Peter was one of George Peter's sons from his third marriage to Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter. He was born on February 23, 1840. Dr. Armistead Peter was a cousin to his wife Martha Custis Kennon Peter, whom he married in 1867. Together, Martha and Armistead had five children: Walter Gibson, Armistead, Beverley Kennon, George Freeland, and Agnes. He and Martha Custis Kennon Peter both moved into Tudor Place and Dr. Armistead Peter converted a portion of the house for his medical practice. He created a very successful business as one of the best doctors in the city of Washington. During the Civil War he was employed by the U.S. Army as ward surgeon, as well as serving in a smallpox hospital. Martha Custis Kennon Peter died suddenly in 1886. Armistead died in 1902, his mother-in-law, Britannia W. Peter Kennon outliving both of them. The land in Bethesda was divided between their four children. After Britannia W. Peter Kennon died, the house was left to her grandson, Armistead Peter II. Dr. Armistead Peter died on January 28, 1902.

Agnes Peter (1880-1957) : Agnes Peter, born on February 3, 1880, was the daughter of Dr. Armistead Peter and Martha Custis Kennon Peter. She lived in France for a period of time during WWI conducting work for the YMCA. Agnes Peter was the director of a Foyer du Soldat and helped to receive soldiers and refugees. She was also in charge of the Graves Registration Section in Rheims. She was the first woman in France to be awarded the silver Medal of Honor for her distinguished services to the country during the war. In 1946, when she was 73, she married Nobel Prize winner, Dr. John R. Mott, who is most acclaimed for his work creating international Christian programs with a goal to establish peace. She died in 1957.

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of papers collected by various members of the Peter families. It includes letters from George Washington, letters of condolence to Martha Washington after George Washington's death, estate documents, Major George Peter's military papers, land plats and surveys, photo albums, letterbooks, and notebooks that tell of the life of this prominent family in Virginia and the City of Washington.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in the following series and subseries. Within each series, materials are generally separated by format and listed chronologically, with undated materials listed last.

Series 1. Papers of George Washington
Series 2. Papers of Tobias Lear
Series 3. Miscellaneous
Series 4. Papers of Martha Washington
Series 5. Papers of Eliza Parke Custis Law
Series 6. Papers of Thomas Law : Subseries 6.1. Legal Documents, Subseries 6.2. Correspondence
Series 7. Papers of William Costin
Series 8. Papers of John Law
Series 9. Papers of Lloyd Nicholas Rogers
Series 10. Papers of Edmund Law Rogers
Series 11. Papers of Robert Peter : Subseries 11.1. Accounts, Subseries 11.2. Financial Documents, Subseries 11.3. Legal Documents, Subseries 11.4. Land Documents, Subseries 11.5. Estate Documents
Series 12. Papers of Thomas Peter : Subseries 12.1. Financial Documents, Subseries 12.2. Land Documents, Subseries 12.3. Estate Documents, Subseries 12.4. Correspondence
Series 13. Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1824-1909 : Subseries 13.1. Financial Documents, Subseries 13.2. Legal Documents, Subseries 13.3. Correspondence

Related Material

Peter family owned books are cataloged in the Library Catalog. The 23 titles (36 volumes) are searchable in the the Catalog's Peter Family Collection .

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818
  • Anderson, James, 1745-1807
  • Anderson, John
  • Atherton, Charles H. (Charles Humphrey), 1773-1853
  • Bernard, Simon, 1779-1839
  • Blair, John D. (John Durbarrow), 1759-1823
  • Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821
  • Bunting, Charles
  • Costin, William, 1780?-1842
  • Craik, James, 1730-1814
  • Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857
  • Dandridge, Bartholomew, approximately 1774-1802
  • De Kalb, Johann, 1721-1780
  • Dearborn, Henry, 1751-1829
  • Decatur, Susan Wheeler
  • Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824
  • Elgar, Joseph
  • Griffith, William, 1766-1826
  • Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
  • Hanson, Alexander Contee, 1786-1819
  • Hay, George, 1765-1830
  • Kemp, James, 1764-1827
  • Kennon, Beverley, 1793-1844
  • Kennon, Britannia Wellington Peter, 1815-1911
  • Key, Philip Barton, 1757-1815
  • Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
  • Lafayette, Georges Washington Louis Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1779-1849
  • Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
  • Law, Edmund, 1790-1829
  • Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis, 1776-1831
  • Law, John, 1784?-1822
  • Law, Thomas, 1756-1834
  • Le Mayeur, Jean Pierre
  • Lear, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Lincoln), 1792-1832
  • Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
  • Lee, Henry, 1756-1818
  • Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-1852
  • Lewis, Lawrence, 1767-1839
  • Lewis, Lorenzo, 1803-1847
  • Lovering, William (Architect)
  • Madison, James, 1751-1836
  • Maltitz, Apollonius August von, 1795-1870
  • Mercereau, John, 1732-1820
  • Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850
  • Peter, Agnes, 1840-1902
  • Peter, Armistead, 1840-1902
  • Peter, Armistead, 1870-1960
  • Peter, George Freeland, 1875–1953
  • Peter, George Washington, 1801-1877
  • Peter, George, 1779-1861
  • Peter, Martha Custis Kennon, 1843-1886
  • Peter, Martha Parke Custis, 1777-1854
  • Peter, Robert, 1726-1806
  • Peter, Thomas, 1769-1834
  • Peter, Walter G. (Walter Gibson), 1868-1945
  • Peter, Walter Gibson, 1842-1863
  • Pinckney, Mary Stead, approximately 1751-1812
  • Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864
  • Ringgold, Tench
  • Rogers, Edmund Law
  • Rogers, Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, 1797-1822
  • Rogers, Lloyd Nicholas, approximately 1788-1860
  • Rogers, William, 1751-1824
  • Scott, Gustavus, 1753-1800
  • Sedgwick, Theodore, 1746-1813
  • Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835
  • Smith, George (Blacksmith)
  • Stabler, Edward, 1769-1831
  • Stuart, David, 1753-1814
  • Stuart, Eleanor Calvert Custis, approximately 1758-1811
  • Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828
  • Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864
  • Thornton, William, 1759-1828
  • Townsend, Justine Van Rensselaer, 1828-1912
  • Trumbull, Jonathan, 1740-1809
  • Tyler, John, 1790-1862
  • Varick, Richard, 1753-1831
  • Wadsworth, Peleg, 1748-1829
  • Washington, Bushrod, 1762-1829
  • Washington, George, 1732-1799
  • Washington, Martha, 1731-1802
  • White, Alexander, 1738-1804

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Thomas Law House (Washington D.C.)
  • United States -- History -- War of 1812

Container List

Series 1. Papers of George Washington
Text Shelf: I:1 1794-1800English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 01
    Eliza Parke Custis to George Washington
    Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis, 1776-18311794 September 7English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed from Eliza, Hope Park, asking her grandfather for a picture of him. Docketed in Washington's hand on verso.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 02
    George Washington to Eliza Parke Custis
    Washington, George, 1732-17991794 September 14English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autographed letter signed (signature cut out) George Washington, German Town, to Eliza Parke Custis. Washington offers his granddaughter advice on love and marriage.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 03
    George and Martha Washington to Thomas Law
    Washington, George, 1732-1799Washington, Martha, 1731-18021796 March 28English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter in Washington's hand, initialed by both George and Martha. George and Martha Washington, Philadelphia, to Thomas Law. The Washingtons congratulate Law on his marriage to their grandaughter Eliza.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 04
    George Washington to Thomas Peter
    Washington, George, 1732-17991797 June 14English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed by George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter, discussing the purchase of English cattle.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 05
    George Washington to Thomas Peter
    Washington, George, 1732-1799
    1 pages
    1798 May 18English.
    Scope and Contents
  • Text box: 1 folder: 06
    Thomas Peter to George Washington
    Peter, Thomas, 1769-1834
    2 pages
    1799 January 28English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in Washington's hand.Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Washington, Mount Vernon. Peter asks Washington to secure a spot for his brother in the Army and shares rumors about a bill coming up in Congress.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 07
    George Washington to Thomas Peter
    Washington, George, 1732-1799
    1 pages
    1799 May 5English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel and seal. George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about the sale of tobacco.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 08
    George Washington to Thomas Peter
    Washington, George, 1732-1799
    1 pages
    1799 December 3English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel.George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about farming and congratulates Thomas and Patsy on the birth of their son.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 09
    John Mercereau to George Washington
    Mercereau, John, 1732-1820
    1 pages
    1799 December 24English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. John Mercereau, Union Township, to George Washington. John Mercereau, a businessman who served with his brother and nephew in a spy ring during the Revolutionary War, writes to Washington asking if he may come and visit, reflecting that no memories give him greater satisfaction than those he spent "Devoted to my Countrys Service." Tragically, Mercereau did not know that Washington had died 10 days before his letter was sent.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 10
    Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr. to George Washington
    Dandridge, Bartholomew, approximately 1774-1802
    1 pages
    1800 January 15English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., London, to George Washington. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., writes to his uncle about his business ventures from London. He had not yet received word of Washington's death on December 14, 1799.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 11
    Paper wrapper labeled Letters from General Washington in the years 98 and 99
    1 Leaves
    undatedEnglish.
Series 2. Papers of Tobias Lear
Text Shelf: I:1 1785-1790English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 12
    Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart to Tobias Lear
    Stuart, Eleanor Calvert Custis, approximately 1758-1811
    4 pages
    probably 1790 February 7English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter unsigned in the hand of Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart and most likely addressed to Tobias Lear. The letter is dated 7 February with no year but was most likely written in 1790, since it mentions Lear's first marriage, which occured in 1790.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 13
    Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart to Tobias Lear
    Stuart, Eleanor Calvert Custis, approximately 1758-18111790 February 28English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 14
    Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart to Tobias Lear
    Stuart, Eleanor Calvert Custis, approximately 1758-1811
    2 pages
    probably 1790 SeptemberEnglish.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed, undated, with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart to Tobias Lear, New York. Docketed in Lear's hand as received 2 October 1790. Eleanor writes of her unhappiness at being parted from her children Nelly and Wash.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 15
    Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart to Tobias Lear
    Stuart, Eleanor Calvert Custis, approximately 1758-1811
    3 pages
    1790 October 3English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, Mount Vernon, to Tobias Lear, New York. Eleanor writes about the lottery and her family, noting that "My Dear Nelly & Wash. are still spoilt by Grand Mama but chearfully obey every word I say to them."

  • Subseries 2.1 Miscellaneous
    Text Shelf: I:1 1785-1862English.
    • Text box: 1 folder: 16
      Marquis de Lafayette to James Madison
      Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
      1 pages Autograph letter signed. Docketed on verso in hand of Madison.
      1785 June 1English.
    • Text box: 1 folder: 17
      Confederate currency
      1862English.
Series 3. Papers of Martha Washington
Text Shelf: I:1 Text Shelf: I:2 1799-1802English.
  • Text box: 1 folder: 18
    Lucretia Constance Radcliffe to Martha Washington
    3 pages
    1799 August 13English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in hand of George Washington. Lucretia Constance Radcliffe, Charleston, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Mrs. Radcliffe writes seeking an Army commission for her son and sends a packet of crane feathers and melon seeds. She also sends news of Major Pinkney.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 19 folder: OUT
    Resolution of the Sixth Congress of the United States at the First Session
    2 pages
    1799 December 24English.
    Scope and Contents

    Manuscript resolution of the "Sixth Congress of the United States: At the first session Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine" stating that a marble monument to George Washington be erected in the City of Washington and that his remains be interred beneath it. It is also resolved that a funeral procession from Comgress Hall to the German Lutheran Church shall take place on Thursday, December 26, 1799, and that the nation will wear crepe arm bands for thirty days of mourning.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 20
    Maria S. Ross to Martha Washington
    1799 December 24English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Maria S. Ross, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. A condolence letter from Maria S. Ross of Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Martha Washington on the death of her husband.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 21
    Tobias Lear to Maria S. Ross
    Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
    1 pages
    1800 January 10English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter, copy. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response to Maria Ross's condolence letter to Martha Washington.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 22 folder: OUT
    Abigail Adams to Martha Washington
    Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818
    1 pages
    1799 December 25English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel with seal of John Adams. Abigail Adams, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Condolence letter written by Abigail Adams to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 23
    Martha Washington to Abigail Adams
    Washington, Martha, 1731-1802
    1 pages
    1799 December 31English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Martha Washington's response to Abigail Adams's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 24
    Mary Stead Pinckney to Martha Washington
    Pinckney, Mary Stead, approximately 1751-1812
    2 pages
    1799 December 26English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Mary Stead Pinckney, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Pinckney also sends her regards and congratulations to Nelly Parke Custis Lewis, who was recovering from the birth of her first child, Frances Parke Lewis.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 25
    Jonathan Trumbull to Martha Washington
    Trumbull, Jonathan, 1740-1809
    2 pages
    1799 December 30English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Governor of Connecticut, Lebanon, Connecticut, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 26
    Elias Boudinot to Martha Washington
    Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821
    3 pages
    1800 January 2English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Elias Boudinot, New Jersey Congressman and Director of the United States Mint, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 27
    Tobias Lear to Elias Boudinot
    Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
    1 pages
    1800 January 18English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Elias Boudinot. Tobias Lear's response on behalf of Martha Washington to Elias Boudinot's condolence letter.

  • Text box: 1 folder: 28
    Bushrod Washington to Martha Washington
    Washington, Bushrod, 1762-1829
    2 pages
    1800 January 4English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Bushrod Washington, Walnut Farm, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bushrod writes to Martha about purchasing corn from Colonel Washington.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 01
    Ann Huntington to Martha Washington
    1 pages
    1800 January 4English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter written by Ann Huntington, New London, Connecticut, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington.

  • Text Shelf: Oversized
    Alexander Hamilton to Martha Washington
    Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-18041800 January 12English.
  • Text box: 2 folder: 02
    Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton
    Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
    1 pages
    1800 January 23English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Hamilton's condolence letter.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 03
    Reverend Samuel Miller to Martha Washington
    Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850
    1 pages
    1800 January 14English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter from Reverend Samuel Miller, New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington. He writes that he is inclosing a discourse he recently delivered on the occasion of Washington's death.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 04
    Tobias Lear to Reverend Samuel Miller
    Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
    1 pages
    1800 January 27English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Samuel Miller's, New York, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 05
    Stephen Williamson to Martha Washington
    4 pages
    1800 January 16English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Stephen Williamson, Philadelphia, State Prison, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Stephen Williamson introduces himself as the captain of a company in the Rhode Island Regiment who served under Washington in the Revolutionary War. He recounts a dream he had in which she gives birth to a son following Washington's death. He also tells Martha the details of his arrest for buying a stolen horse and requests her assistance in getting him out of prison.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 06
    Henry Knox to Martha Washington
    Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
    2 pages
    1800 January 17English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Former Secretary of War Henry Knox, Montpelier, St. Georges, sends Martha his condolences after the passing of George Washington.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 07
    Tobias Lear to Henry Knox
    Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
    1 pages
    1800 February 9English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Henry Knox's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 08
    Richard Varick to Martha Washington
    Varick, Richard, 1753-1831
    2 pages
    1800 January 28English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Mayor of New York City Richard Varick offers his condolences to Martha after the death of George Washington. He also incloses, on behalf of the Common Council of New York City, an oration delivered on the occassion of Washington's death by Gouverneur Morris.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 09
    Tobias Lear to Richard Varick
    Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
    2 pages
    1800 February 15English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Richard Varick's, New York, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 10
    Richard Washington to Martha Washington
    1 pages
    1800 January 31English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Richard Washington,Bermuda, a former business associate of Washington's in London, offers his condolences to Martha after George Washington's death.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 12
    Theodore Sedgwick to Martha Washington
    Sedgwick, Theodore, 1746-1813
    1 pages
    1800 February 17English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Sedgwick writes that he is inclosing a second edition of General Lee's funeral oration.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 13
    Tobias Lear to Theodore Sedgwick
    Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
    1 pages
    1800 February 22English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha in response to Theodore Sedgwick's condolence letter after the death of George Washington.

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    Marquis de Lafayette to Martha Washington
    Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
    2 pages
    1800 February 28English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter written by the Marquis de Lafayette, La Grange, to Martha after the death of George Washington.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 15
    Auguste Belin to Martha Washington
    1 pages
    1800 March 5English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. A condolence letter from Auguste Belin, Secretary of the Loge Française l'Aménité of Philidelphia, a freemason lodge of French and Saint-Dominguen émigrés. Belin writes that he is inclosing copies of a funeral oration performed at the lodge in honor of George Washington's death.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 16
    Tobias Lear to Auguste Belin
    Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
    1 pages
    1800 May 15English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Auguste Belin's, Philadelphia, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 17
    Reverend William Rogers to Martha Washington
    Rogers, William, 1751-1824
    1 pages
    1800 March 6English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter. Condolence note from Reverend William Rogers, Philadelphia, to Martha on the death of George Washington. Rogers writes that he is enclosing a copy of a funeral oration he delivered in Washington's honor.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 18
    Tobias Lear to Reverend William Rogers
    Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
    1 pages
    1800 March 28English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks William Rogers for sending "a copy of the Religious Exercises, at the time of the Eulogy, at the German Reformed Church."

  • Text box: 2 folder: 19
    Tobias Lear to Gilbert Stuart
    Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
    2 pages
    1800 March 10English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, requests that Gilbert Stuart's original portrait of Washington be given to Martha, in exchange for fair compensation. Lear writes that Martha has expressed no desire for her own portrait, but Lear thinks it would be nice to display alongside the portrait of Washington.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 20
    Charles H. Atherton to Martha Washington
    Atherton, Charles H. (Charles Humphrey), 1773-1853
    1 pages
    1800 March 23English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Condolence note written by Charles Humphrey Atherton, Amherst, New Hampshire, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Atherton writes that he is enclosing a funeral oration delivered at the request of the citizens of Amherst, New Hampshire in Washington's honor.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 21
    Tobias Lear to Charles H. Atherton
    Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
    1 pages
    1800 April 23English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Charles H. Atherton's, Amherst, New Hampshire, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 22
    Georges Washington de Lafayette to Martha Washington
    Lafayette, Georges Washington Louis Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1779-1849
    1 pages
    1800 March 24English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Georges Washington de Lafayette, La Grange, son of the Marquis de Lafayette, writes a condolence note to Martha after the death of George Washington. Georges writes of Washington's "parental kindness" when he visited Mount Vernon and says, "How far was I to imagine when I left your family that it would be a last farewell."

  • Text box: 2 folder: 23
    Thomas Porter to Martha Washington
    1 pages
    1800 March 24English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Condolence letter written by Alexandria merchant Thomas Porter to Martha after the death of George Washington. Porter writes that he is sending an eulogy along with the letter.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 24
    Reverend James Kemp to Martha Washington
    Kemp, James, 1764-1827
    1 pages
    1800 March 26English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A condolence letter written by Revered James Kemp, Cambridge, Maryland, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Kemp writes that he is enclosing a copy of a sermon he delivered on the day appointed by Congress to honor George Washington.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 25
    Tobias Lear to Reverend James Kemp
    Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
    1 pages
    1800 April 20English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha Washington to James Kemp's, Cambridge, Maryland, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 26
    Peleg Wadsworth to Martha Washington
    Wadsworth, Peleg, 1748-1829
    2 pages
    1800 March 26English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Peleg Wadsworth, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Wadsworth requests, on behalf of his daughter, a relic of the late General.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 27
    Tobias Lear to Peleg Wadsworth
    Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
    1 pages
    1800 April 5English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Peleg Wadsworth's condolence letter after the death of George Washington. Lear writes that he is enclosing a lock of Washington's hair for Wadsworth's daughter as requested.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 28
    Tobias Lear to Reverend John D. Blair
    Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
    1 pages
    1800 April 5English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks Reverend John D. Blair for sending his condolences and two orations delivered in Richmond on February 22 in honor of George Washington.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 29
    William Griffith to Martha Washington
    Griffith, William, 1766-1826
    1 Leaves
    1800 April 14English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. William Griffiths, Burlington, New Jersey, offers his condolences on behalf of the citizens of Burlington, New Jersey to Martha after the death of George Washington.

  • Text box: 2 folder: 30
    Tobias Lear to William Griffith
    Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
    1 pages
    1800 April 23English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha to William Griffith's, Burlington, New Jersey, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.

  • Text box: 3 folder: 01
    Theodore Sedgwick to Martha Washington
    Sedgwick, Theodore, 1746-1813
    1 pages
    1800 April 15English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon

  • Text box: 3 folder: 02
    Dr. Jean Pierre Le Mayeur to Martha Washington
    Le Mayeur, Jean Pierre
    1 pages
    1800 May 1English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed "John Lemayere." Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs, was George Washington's dentist during the Revolutionary War. He writes his condolences to Martha on the death of Washington, apologizing that his servant lost the first condolence letter he had written on February 24.

  • Text box: 3 folder: 03
    Tobias Lear to Dr. Jean Pierre Le Mayeur
    Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816
    1 pages
    1800 May 15English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Dr. Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs

  • Text box: 3 folder: 04
    Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr. to Martha Washington
    Dandridge, Bartholomew, approximately 1774-1802
    3 pages
    1800 May 25English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bartholomew Dandridge Jr. writes his aunt inquiring about letters sent to him from Washington before his death that Dandridge never received.

  • Text box: 3 folder: 05
    John Sinclair to Martha Washington
    Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835
    2 pages
    1800 June 2English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. Sir John Sinclair, London, writes to Martha in praise of her late husband and sends her a volume of his letters.

  • Text box: 3 folder: 06
    Martha Washington's daybook
    Washington, Martha, 1731-18021802 February-AprilEnglish.
Series 4. Papers of Eliza Parke Custis Law
Text Shelf: I:2 1819-1830English.
  • Text box: 3 folder: 07
    Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers to Elizabeth Parke Custis Law
    Rogers, Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, 1797-18221819-18211819 December 51821 November 10undated December 5English.
    Scope and Contents

    3 letters written by Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers to her mother between December 5, 1819 - November 21, 1821.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Access to letters may be restricted because of fragile condition.

  • Text box: 3 folder: 08
    General Simon Bernard to Elizabeth Parke Custis Law
    Bernard, Simon, 1779-18391828-18301828 March 281829 May 51829 October 11830 February 51830 February 141830 May 21undated April 17English.
    Scope and Contents

    7 letters written by Brigadier General Simon Bernard, Washington City, to Eliza Parke Custis Law between March 28, 1828 and May 21, 1830.

  • Text box: 3 folder: 09
    Lloyd Rogers to Elizabeth Parke Custis Law
    3 pages
    undated May 30English.
    Scope and Contents

    Lloyd Rogers to Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Alexandria

Series 5. Papers of Thomas Law
Text Shelf: I:2 1794-1833English.
  • Subseries 5.1. Legal Documents
    English.
    • Text box: 3 folder: 10
      Pratt, Francis, and others, vs. Thomas Law
      3 pages
      English.
      Scope and Contents

      Printed legal document: Statement of the defendant's case. Docketed on verso "Papers relating to case of Law v. Morris Nicholson & Greenleaf."

    • Text box: 3 folder: 11
      Statement of Thomas Law in property dispute
      17 pages
      1796 December 19English.
      Scope and Contents

      Manuscript legal statement of Thomas Law in regards to a property dispute in Washington City between William Mayne Duncason and Tench Ringgold.

    • Text box: 3 folder: 12
      Memoranda of an agreement made between William Mayne Duncason and Tench Ringgold
      1797 January 9English.
      Scope and Contents

      Manuscript memoranda regarding property dispute over square 744 in the City of Washington.

    • Text box: 3 folder: 13
      Tench Ringgold to James Piercy
      Ringgold, Tench1797 April 12English.
    • Text box: 3 folder: 13
      Thomas Law to Mr. Barry
      Law, Thomas, 1756-1834undatedEnglish.
    • Text box: 3 folder: 13
      Thomas Law to unidentified recipient
      Law, Thomas, 1756-1834undatedEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      Autograph letter signed. Concerning Tench Ringgold and property dealings in the City of Washington.

    • Text box: 3 folder: 13
      Receipt for money given by Thomas Law to Tench Ringgold for land in the City of Washington
      Law, Thomas, 1756-18341797 December 30English.
    • Text box: 3 folder: 14
      Particular Description and Manner of building a house for Thomas Law
      11 pages
      circa 1794English.
      Scope and Contents

      Manuscript descriptions of the architectural plans for the Thomas Law House, designed by architect William Lovering and built circa 1794 on the 689 square in the City of Washington.

    • Text box: 3 folder: 15
      Drafts of legal arguments in property dispute between Thomas Law and Tench Ringgold
      7 pages
      1804 February 3English.
    • Text box: 3 folder: 16
      Legal notes and statements of defense for property dispute involving Thomas Law
      1794-1816English.
    • Text box: 3 folder: 17
      Lawyer's notes from property dispute involving Thomas Law
      1794-1796English.
  • Subseries 5.2. Correspondence
    English.
    • Text box: 3 folder: 18
      Thomas Law to Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White
      Law, Thomas, 1756-18341795 September 30English.
      Scope and Contents

      Thomas Law, Washington City, discusses his plan for construction of New Jersey Avenue on lot 744 of Washington City, along the public canal.

    • Text box: 3 folder: 18
      Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White to Thomas Law
      Scott, Gustavus, 1753-1800Thornton, William, 1759-1828White, Alexander, 1738-18041795 October 1English.
      Scope and Contents

      Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White, Washington City, to Thomas Law

    • Text box: 3 folder: 19
      George Washington Parke Custis to Thomas Law
      Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857
      2 pages
      1796 June 3English.
      Scope and Contents

      Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. George Washington Parke Custis, Philadelphia to Thomas Law, Federal City. George Washington Parke Custis writes to Law of the pleasure he will have in serving Washington City, which is to be "the pride of future ages" and "the metropolis of America."

    • Text box: 3 folder: 20
      William Mayne Duncanson to the Managers of the Canal Lottery
      1796 December 16English.
      Scope and Contents

      A manuscript copy of the address read by W. M. Duncanson at a meeting of the Managers of Washington Canal Lottery - Law, Carroll, Young, and Duncanson. Their reply is copied on the verso.

    • Text box: 3 folder: 20
      William Mayne Duncanson to Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White
      1797 February 15English.
      Scope and Contents

      Autograph letter signed. Duncanson writes that Thomas Law has resigned his title to Lot 744 of Washington City in favor of Tench Ringgold.

    • Text box: 3 folder: 21
      Statement that the Commisioners had no objections to second agreement with Tench Ringgold
      1 pages
      circa 1797English.
      Scope and Contents

      Unsigned, undated manuscript, docketed "Tench Ringgold Arbitration."

    • Text box: 3 folder: 22
      James Piercy to Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White
      3 Leaves
      1797 September 29-October 311797 September 291797 October 51797 October 31English.
      Scope and Contents

      James Piercy, City of Washington, to Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White. Three manuscript copies by Thomas Munroe of letters written by James Piercy to the Commissioners of the City of Washington about his claims to lot 744.

    • Text box: 3 folder: 22
      Gustavus Scott and William Thornton to James Piercy
      Scott, Gustavus, 1753-1800Thornton, William, 1759-1828
      1 pages
      1797 November 2English.
      Scope and Contents

      Manuscript copy made by Thomas Munroe of a letter written by the Commissioners of the City of Washington to James Piercy in response to Piercy's claims on lot 744. Scott and Thornton write to Piercy that "no intention exists of granting you the square you mention."

    • Text box: 3 folder: 23
      C. Cockull to Thomas Law
      1797 May 16English.
    • Text box: 3 folder: 25
      L. de Roumefort Bouchard to Thomas Law
      1810-18121810 April 281812 November 141812 November 29French.
    • Text box: 3 folder: 26
      Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers to Thomas Law
      Rogers, Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, 1797-1822
      2 pages
      1821 December 2English.
      Scope and Contents

      Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, City of Washington

    • Text box: 3 folder: 26
      Lloyd Rogers to Thomas Law
      Rogers, Lloyd Nicholas, approximately 1788-1860
      3 pages
      1823 January 2English.
      Scope and Contents

      Lloyd Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, Washington City

    • Text box: 3 folder: 26
      Thomas Law to Lloyd Rogers
      Law, Thomas, 1756-18341832 January 27English.
      Scope and Contents

      Thomas Law to Lloyd Rogers, Baltimore

    • Text box: 3 folder: 27
      John Taylor to Thomas Law
      1 pages
      1832 March 10English.
      Scope and Contents

      Writing from New Orleans in 1832, John Taylor reports that fifty to sixty people a day are dying from yellow fever and smallpox.

    • Text box: 3 folder: 28
      Elizabeth Parke Custis Law to Thomas Law
      Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis, 1776-1831
      3 pages
      undated November 28English.
      Scope and Contents

      Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Washington, to Thomas Law, London

    • Text box: 3 folder: 29
      Booklet, Thomas Law, thoughts on the moral system
      1833
Series 6. Papers of William Costin
Text Shelf: I:2 1813-1824English.
  • Text box: 4 folder: 01
    Lawrence Lewis to William Costin, with postscript from Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis
    Lewis, Lawrence, 1767-1839Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-18521813 October 6English.

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    Letter written by Lawrence Lewis to William "Billy" Costin requesting Costin's service in transporting his family from Mr. Charles Carter's residence in Culpepper County to their home. Lewis provides a suggested route and expected arrival date stating, 'you must not disappoint me.' A postscript in the hand of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis requests additional and immediate transportation for herself to Philadelphia. She offers Costin's mother payment in Pork if she will accompany them on the trip. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel.

  • Text box: 4 folder: 01
    Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis to William Costin
    Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-18521816 June 2English.

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    Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis to William Costin
    Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-1852
    1 Leaves
    undatedEnglish.

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    Undated note from Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis asking "Billy" to ask her sister Betsy to send the things by which she [Eleanor] wrote to her for. Directs Billy to be very careful of them as they are easily broken. Autograph note signed E Lewis, 1 page.

  • Text box: 4 folder: 02
    George Calvert to William Costin
    1 pages
    1819 April 1English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral adddress panel.

  • Text box: 4 folder: 03
    George Washington Parke Custis to William Costin
    Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857
    1 pages
    1824 December 8English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. George Washington Parke Custis writes William "Billy" Costin at the Bank of Washington. He mentions he expects to go with Lafayette to visit Woodlawn.

Series 7. Papers of John Law
Text Shelf: I:2 1799-1817English.
  • Text box: 4 folder: 04
    Elizabeth Parke Custis Law to John Law
    Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis, 1776-18311799-18021799 January 201802 February 211802 July 4probably 1802 September 251802 December 25English.
    Scope and Contents

    5 letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law. The first letter is addressed to John at George Town College and the other four to Harvard University.

  • Text box: 4 folder: 05
    Elizabeth Parke Custis Law to John Law
    Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis, 1776-18311803-18041803 February 5approximately 1803 April 111803 April 151804 July 9English.
  • Text box: 4 folder: 06
    Edmund Law to John Law
    Law, Edmund, 1790-1829
    3 pages
    1804 May 18English.
    Scope and Contents

    Edmund Law, Washington, to John Law, Baltimore

  • Text box: 4 folder: 07
    Thomas Law to John Law
    Law, Thomas, 1756-18341804 August-September1804 August 31804 September 41804 September 25English.
  • Text box: 4 folder: 08
    Elizabeth Parke Custis Law to John Law
    Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis, 1776-18311807-18081807 July 241808 February 31808 August 261808 October 1225 November 1808English.
    Scope and Contents

    5 dated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.

  • Text box: 4 folder: 09
    Susan Wheeler Decatur to George Hay
    Decatur, Susan Wheeler
    1 pages
    probably 1807English.
    Scope and Contents

    Letter discussing the court martial of Commodore James Barron, who would later kill Commodore Stephen Decatur in duel in 1820.

  • Text box: 4 folder: 10
    Elizabeth Parke Custis Law to John Law
    Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis, 1776-1831undated
    Scope and Contents

    4 undated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.

  • Text box: 4 folder: 11
    John Law to Elizabeth Parke Custis Law
    Law, John, 1784?-1822
    3 pages
    1808 July 3English.
  • Text box: 4 folder: 12
    Elizabeth Parke Custis Law to John Law
    Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis, 1776-18311809-18101809 January 91809 October 21809 October 131809 November 61809 December 211810 February 201810 February 21English.
  • Text box: 4 folder: 13
    Elizabeth Parke Custis Law to John Law
    Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis, 1776-1831undatedEnglish.
    Scope and Contents

    15 undated letters and notes written by Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.

  • Text box: 4 folder: 13
    Elizabeth Parke Custis Law to Edmund Law
    Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis, 1776-1831
    2 pages
    undatedEnglish.
  • Text box: 4 folder: 14
    John Law to William Thornton
    Law, John, 1784?-1822
    1 pages
    1807 August 10English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. John Law asks William Thornton if he can borrow a book on calvary maneuvers.

  • Text box: 4 folder: 14
    John Law to William Thornton, draft copy
    Law, John, 1784?-1822
    1 pages
    1807 August 10English.
  • Text box: 4 folder: 14
    William Thornton to John Law
    Thornton, William, 1759-1828
    2 Sheets
    English.
    Scope and Contents

    2 letters written by William Thornton in response to John Law's August 10, 1807 letter.

  • Text box: 4 folder: 15
    John Law to Elizabeth Law Rogers
    Law, John, 1784?-1822
    1 pages
    9 March 1808English.
    Scope and Contents

    An undated letter from John Law to his half sister, Eliza Law. He writes that he is sending sweetmeats from Woodlawn by William, as promised.

  • Text box: 4 folder: 16
    William D. Sims to John Law
    1 pages
    1809 June 22English.
    Scope and Contents

    William D. Sims, Pittsburgh, to John Law, Washington City

  • Text box: 4 folder: 17
    Robert Brent to Joseph Forrest, John Law, and Peter Miller
    3 pages
    1809 August 14English.
  • Text box: 4 folder: 18
    Thomas Law to John Law
    Law, Thomas, 1756-18341802-18111802-07-101810 June 25circa 1811English.
    Scope and Contents

    Three letters

  • Text box: 4 folder: 19
    John Law to Thomas Law
    Law, John, 1784?-18221817 April 5-6English.

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    A series of four letters and their draft copies written over the course of two days by John Law to his father, criticizing his conduct, particularly in regards to Eliza Law's marriage to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers.

  • Text box: 4 folder: 20
    Thomas Law to John Law
    Law, Thomas, 1756-1834undatedEnglish.
    Scope and Contents

    5 letters written by Thomas Law to his son John Law, Washington City, around 1817, addressing John's criticisms of him, his divorce, and his friendship with Elizabeth Bordley Gibson.

  • Text box: 4 folder: 21
    John Law to Thomas Law
    Law, John, 1784?-1822
    2 pages
    circa 1817English.
    Scope and Contents

    Autograph letter signed. A letter of reconciliation sent by John Law to his father.

  • Text box: 4 folder: 21
    Thomas Law to John Law
    Law, Thomas, 1756-1834
    1 pages
    circa 1817English.
Series 8. Papers of Lloyd Nicholas Rogers
Text Shelf: I:2 1810-1857English.
  • Text box: 4 folder: 22
    Lloyd Nicholas Rogers to General Henry Lee, draft
    Rogers, Lloyd Nicholas, approximately 1788-1860
    11 pages
    1810 January 24English.

    Draft letter, Lloyd Nicholas Rogers to General Henry Lee, 1810 January 24: 2023-04-14


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    Draft of letter from Lloyd Nicholas Rogers, New York, to Major-General Henry Lee discussing the life of Baron de Kalb.

  • Text box: 4 folder: 23
    Receipts for lots in Washington purchased at auction by Lloyd Nicholas Rogers and Edmund Law Rogers
    6 Leaves
    1849 May-JuneEnglish.
  • Text box: 4 folder: 24
    Letters to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers about the sale of lots in Washington
    1849-18521849 June1852 April 61852 June 41852 December 281852 October 11English.
  • Text box: 4 folder: 25
    Letters to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers about the sale of lots in Washington
    1853-18571853 February 21854 March 31854 June 161845 August 251857 October 20English.
Series 9. Papers of Edmund Law Rogers
Text Shelf: I:3 1850-1857English.
  • Text box: 5 folder: 01
    Lenman and Brother to Edmund Law Rogers
    18491849 October 161849 December 26English.
    Scope and Contents

    2 letters about the sale of property in Washington.Lenman and Brother, Washington City, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.

  • Text box: 5 folder: 02
    Correspondence, receipts, and promissory notes between Edmund Law Rogers and James Adams
    Rogers, Edmund Law1849-1857English.
    Scope and Contents

    Documents related to the sale of property in Washington.

  • Text box: 5 folder: 03
    Correspondence between Edmund Law Rogers, William Warder, and James Adams
    Rogers, Edmund Law1849-18501849 July 51850 May 291850 June 24English.
    Scope and Contents

    Correspondence about the sale of property in Washington.

  • Text box: 5 folder: 04
    Letters to Edmund Law Rogers about selling lots in Washington
    1850-18551850 October 281852 May 41855 February 18English.
  • Text box: 5 folder: 05
    N. Callan to Edmund Law Rogers
    1850 August 17-23English.
    Scope and Contents

    2 letters about the sale of property in Washington. N. Callan, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.

  • Text box: 5 folder: 06
    Bond of conveyance from Edmund Law Rogers to James B. Ager and William McLean
    2 pages
    1850 December 19English.
    Scope and Contents

    Bond of conveyance for Lot No. 1 in Square 260 in Washington City, District of Columbia.

  • Text box: 5 folder: 07
    Prices of certain Lots in Washington and names of purchasers
    circa 1850English.
    Scope and Contents

    1 survey plat of lots in Washington along Canal St, and 2 pages of notes listing the prices of lots and the names of their purchasers.

  • Text box: 5 folder: 08
    William McCormick, Registrar of Washington D.C. to Edmund Law Rogers
    1 pages
    1852 January 28English.
    Scope and Contents

    Letter from the Commisioners of the Sinking Fund of the Corporation of Washington. William McCormick, Registers Office, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers.

  • Text box: 5 folder: 09
    Deed of trust indenture from John H. Phillips and Emeline W. Phillips to William H. Ward
    3 pages
    1852 December 7English.
    Scope and Contents

    An indenture form reassigning a parcel of property in Washington City. The Deed of Trust form is marked at the top of the first page "Printed and Sold by Robert A. Waters, D. st., bet. 9th & 10th."

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    George Washington Parke Custis and Martha Custis Williams to Edmund Law Rogers
    Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857
    3 pages
    1855 February 24English.
    Scope and Contents

    1 page autograph letter signed by George Washington Parke Custis to Edmund Law Rogers, with additional letter from Martha Custis Williams, Arlington House, written on verso. Custis writes, "From the very graphic account you gave Martha Williams of your visit to Mr Fenno, I see but a poor chance of my Drama being brought out [in Baltimore]." He asks Rogers to inquire of his "theater going friends" if any other Baltimore theatres will perform the work. If not, he asks Rogers to return the book care of William Adam Bookseller Pennsylvania Avenie Washington.

    In her letter, Williams passes on a request from "Aunt B" (Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon) to send the "little manuscript book, containing an inventory of the Mt Vernon relics at Tudor Place, as she is much at a loss, with regard to the history of many things in the House." Britannia Peter had inherited Tudor Place the year before, in 1854. Williams adds to Rogers that she hopes he will not make too much effort to have Uncle Custis's play produced because "Cousin Mary Lee and all his family are so much opposed to it." Williams hopes Custis will focus on finishing his Recollections instead.

  • Text box: 5 folder: 11
    Bill for advertising in the National Intelligencer
    1856 March 15English.
    Scope and Contents

    Bill for $21 addressed to Edmund Law Rogers for advertising the sale of lots in the City of Washington in the newspaper the National Intelligencer.

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    Deed in fee indenture from Edmund Law Rogers and Charlotte M. L. Rogers to Johnathan T. Walker
    3 pages
    1857 MayEnglish.
    Scope and Contents

    Unsigned indenture for the sale of lots in the City of Washington. Docketed in pencil "sale not made."

Series 10. Papers of Robert Peter
Text Shelf: I:3 Text Shelf: I:4 1722-1852English.
  • Subseries 10.1. Accounts
    English.
    • Text box: 5 folder: 13
      Accounts of Robert Peter with Bernard O'Neill and Williams Dearkins
      1781-1795English.
      Scope and Contents

      Invoices, notes, and receipts from accounts between Robert Peter and the firm O'Neill and Dearkins. Includes an invoice for tobacco, sugar, corduroy, gauze, linen, chocolate, silk, muslin, paper, wine, ribbons, pins, cotton, and tea.

    • Text box: 5 folder: 14
      Accounts unknown
      1 Leaves
      1791-1794English.
      Scope and Contents

      Unknown list of accounts, believed to be from Robert Peter.

    • Text box: 5 folder: 15
      Accounts of Robert Peter with Benjamin Ray
      1 Leaves
      1794-1797English.
    • Text box: 5 folder: 16
      Accounts of John Bankman with Robert Peter
      6 pages
      1796-1807English.
    • Text box: 5 folder: 17
      Accounts of James Offutt with Robert Peter
      1796-1810English.
    • Text box: 5 folder: 18
      Pages from account book of Charles Webber
      4 pages
      1797 October-NovemberEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      Pages from account book with the note "These leaves was received by James S Webber from Mrs. Esther H Webber wife of Mr Levi Webber of Vassalboro Kennebeck Co. Maine being a part of account Book of Charles Webber, my Grand Father, his own handwriting. Received by me June 22 1878." The accounts include invoices for cod fish, bacon, molasses, tea, rum, sugar, silk, shoes, brandy, wine, coffee, and corn.

    • Text box: 5 folder: 19
      Accounts of James Gannon with Robert Peter
      2 pages
      1797-1810English.
      Scope and Contents

      Includes accounts for flour, pork, beef, lamb, and veal.

    • Text box: 5 folder: 20
      Accounts of Thomas Nicholls with Robert Peter
      1803-1810English.
    • Text box: 5 folder: 21
      Accounts of Rhod Maginnis with Robert Peter
      1 pages
      1808-1813English.
  • Subseries 10.2. Financial Documents
    English.
    • Text box: 5 folder: 22
      Bond of conveyance from Phillip Holt and Thomas Howard to Robert Peter
      1 pages
      1762 August 1English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bond for the conveyance of a parcel of property called Black Oak Thickett in Frederick County, Maryland.

    • Text box: 5 folder: 23
      Accounts of John Robbins with Robert Peter
      1797-1810English.
    • Text box: 5 folder: 23
      Accounts of John Manly with Robert Peter
      1801-1810English.
    • Text box: 5 folder: 23
      Accounts of Arthur Steel with Robert Peter
      1805-1810English.
    • Text box: 5 folder: 24
      Accounts of Mary Atwood with Robert Peter
      1801-1810English.
      Scope and Contents

      rent paid

    • Text box: 5 folder: 25
      Accounts of rent payment
      1 pages
      1804-1805English.
      Scope and Contents

      Page of rent payment accounts in unknown hand.

    • Text box: 5 folder: 26
      Accounts of Thomas Nicholls of John with Robert Peter
      1 pages
      1794-1802English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bond of Thomas Nicholls of John to Robert Peter

    • Text box: 5 folder: 27
      Accounts of Isaiah and Edward Nicholls with Robert Peter
      1811-1812English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bond of Isaiah and Edward Nicholls to Robert Peter

    • Text box: 5 folder: 28
      Receipt for 14 hogs bought from Robert Peter by H. W. Blunt
      1852 December 22English.
    • Text box: 5 folder: 29
      Fragment of bond paid by Robert Peter
      1774English.
  • Subseries 10.3. Legal Documents
    English.
    • Text box: 6 folder: 01
      Legal Case
      1766 June 4-July 19
      fragment
      English.
    • Text box: 6 folder: 02
      Indenture deed between Ninian Edmondstone and William Douglass
      2 pages
      1766 July 2
      Fragment
      English.
    • Text box: 6 folder: 03
      Lawsuit, James Gordon and others against Robert Peter
      2 pages
      1785 October 18English.
      Scope and Contents

      Lawsuit against Robert Peter by James Gordon, Henry Riddell, John Campbell, John Campbell Junior, Alexander Low, and William Ingram

    • Text box: 6 folder: 04
      Court Case, Accounts disputed between Robert Peter and Benjamin Ray
      1795-1799English.
      Scope and Contents

      Three documents related to disputed accounts between Robert Peter and Benjamin Ray. One with a note by John T. Mason dated February 27, 1799, "He has no shadow of right to one shilling on this [account]."

    • Text box: 6 folder: 05
      Court Cases, Terms
      1796 May-OctoberEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      List of Robert Peter's court appearances

    • Text box: 6 folder: 06
      Court Cases
      11 Leaves
      1796-1797English.
      Scope and Contents

      Court documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 5 manuscripts.

    • Text box: 6 folder: 07
      Court Cases
      1799English.
      Scope and Contents

      Court documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 19 small manuscript receipts

  • Subseries 10.4. Land Documents
    English.
    • Text box: 6 folder: 08
      Survey of Bealls Plaines granted to Charles Beall
      1 pages
      1722 July 20English.
      Scope and Contents

      Survey of land called Bealls Plaines in what became Washington City, along Goose Creek, later renamed Tiber Creek.

    • Text box: 6 folder: 09
      Seal, Land grant to John Flint, Flint's Discovery in Prince George's County, Maryland
      1725 May 17English.
      Scope and Contents

      Manuscript on parchment with large seal attached by a ribbon.

    • Text box: 6 folder: 10
      Surveys of Brightwells Hunting Quarters and Lewis's Discovery
      1 pages
      1734 June 141742 November 6English.

      Surveys of Brightwells Hunting Quarters and Lewis's Discovery, 1734 June 14, 1742 November 6: 2023-10-11


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      Seal, Land grant to Stephen Lewis, Lewis' Discovery in Prince George's County, Maryland
      1 Leaves Form printed on parchment with large intact seal attached by a ribbon.
      1742 November 10English.
    • Text box: 6 folder: 12
      Survey and plat, Preston Marsh, Frederick County
      1750 January 2
      Fragment and fragile
      English.
    • Text box: 6 folder: 13
      Seal, Land grant to Josias Holland, Batchellor's Purchase in Frederick County, Maryland
      1 Leaves Form printed on parchment.
      1757 August 22English.
    • Text box: 6 folder: 14
      Seal, Land grant to Robert Peter, Plain Dealing Enlarged in Prince George's County, Maryland
      1 Leaves Form printed on parchment with large intact seal attached by a ribbon.
      1763 May 24English.
    • Text box: 6 folder: 15
      Seal, Land grant to Richard Henderson, Low Land in Frederick County, Maryland
      1 Leaves Form printed on parchment with large, intact seal attached by a ribbon.
      1764 February 20English.
    • Text box: 6 folder: 16
      Seal, Grant to Robert Peter, resurvey Bear Den in Frederick County, Maryland
      1 Leaves Form printed on parchment with large, intact seal attached by a ribbon.
      1765 March 19English.
    • Text box: 6 folder: 17
      Correspondence, surveys, and receipts related to land, Forrest and Running, purchased by Robert Peter
      1766-17731766 September 21-231766 November 131767 February 101773 May 12English.
      Scope and Contents

      1766, Survey to Forrest, May 12, 1773, (six documents) Bladenburg, Sept., 21, 1766; Rock Creek, Nov. 13, 1766 "to Robert Peter, merchant in Georgetown."

    • Text box: 6 folder: 18
      Seal, Land grant to Robert Peter, Hiccory Thicket in Montgomery County, Maryland
      1 pages Manuscript on parchment with seal attached by a ribbon.
      1781 May 12English.
    • Text box: 6 folder: 19
      Survey, Champions Delight, Peace of Plenty, Bethsheba, and Echoes Adventure
      probably 1790sEnglish.
    • Text box: 6 folder: 20
      Seal, Land grant to Robert Peter, Double Distilled Brandy in Montgomery County, Maryland
      1 Leaves Manuscript on parchment with seal attached by a ribbon.
      1791 September 30English.
    • Text box: 7 folder: 01
      Correspondence, William Deakins, Ben Stoddert to Stephen Chiswell related to surveying of Partnership
      Peter, Thomas, 1769-1834
      2 Leaves
      1794 April 24English.
      Scope and Contents

      One undated note by Thomas Peter and one letter from William Dearkins and Ben Stoddert to Stephen Chiswell about resurveying about 200 acres called Partnership granted to Elting Williams.

    • Text box: 7 folder: 02
      Seal, Land grant to Nathaniel Ducker, Poor Richard's Almanack in Montgomery County, Maryland
      1 Leaves Manuscript on parchment with large seal attached by a ribbon.
      1795 March 19English.
    • Text box: 7 folder: 03
      Seal, Land grant to Robert Peter for an addition to Bear's Den in Montgomery County, Maryland
      1 Leaves Manuscript on parchment with large seal attached by a ribbon.
      1795 October 17English.
    • Text box: 7 folder: 04
      Bill of sale, John Scrivenor to Richard Miles and William Scrivenor
      1789 December 21795 September 8English.
      Scope and Contents

      The Resurvey of Brandy and transfer of several named enslaved people.

    • Text box: 7 folder: 05
      Correspondence, George Scott to Robert Peter
      2 pages
      1796 February 6 English.
      Scope and Contents

      A letter about resurveying a parcel of propery called Hazard. George Scott to Robert Peter, George Town.

    • Text box: 7 folder: 06
      Seal, Land grant to Robert Peter, Mexico in Prince George's County, Maryland
      1 Leaves Manuscript on parchment with large seal attached by a ribbon.
      1796 October 28English.
    • Text box: 7 folder: 07
      Division of real estate lots owned by Robert Peter
      early 1800sEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      Survey of Cross Basket, Balantyre, and other areas

    • Text box: 7 folder: 08
      Certificate and plat of the fragment acres in Montgomery County surveyed for Robert Peter
      Elgar, Joseph
      1 pages
      1804 June 26English.

      Certificate and plat of the fragment acres in Montgomery County surveyed for Robert Peter, 1804 June 26: 2023-04-14


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      Certificate and plat for 5 3/4 acres of vacant land granted by special warrant to Robert Peter out of the Western Shore Land Office of Washington County in the District of Columbia. Surveyed by Joseph Elgar, Jr. Autograph document signed, 1 page.

    • Text box: 7 folder: 09
      Plat of the Division of the late Robert Peter's Square in George Town
      1 pages
      circa 1806
      fragile
      English.
      Scope and Contents

      Hand colored survey plat showing the division of Robert Peter's Square in George Town. Docketed on verso "Plat belonging to Thomas Peter's Square in George Town."

    • Text box: 7 folder: 10
      Records of Robert Peter's lots in the Federal City
      1809 May 29English.
  • Subseries 10.5. Estate Documents
    English.
    • Text box: 7 folder: 11
      Accounts of Bennet H. Clements with Robert Peter
      1 pages
      1804-1810English.
      Scope and Contents

      Tobacco sales

    • Text box: 7 folder: 12
      Accounts of Lewis Beall and Archd. Mulliken with the estate of Robert Peter
      2 Leaves
      1807-1811English.
    • Text box: 7 folder: 13
      Accounts with the estate of Robert Peter
      1807-1808English.
      Scope and Contents

      Tabacco Sales, Real Estate, Transfer of enslaved people

    • Text box: 7 folder: 14
      Accounts of Thomas Cross with the estate of Robert Peter
      1 pages
      1808English.
    • Text box: 7 folder: 15
      Robert Peter's part of his Father's Estate
      2 pages
      circa 1808English.
    • Text box: 7 folder: 16
      Lots from the division of James Peter's estate
      2 Leaves
      circa 1808English.
    • Text box: 7 folder: 17
      List of livestock and slaves from the Peter estate
      1 pages
      circa 1808English.
    • Text box: 7 folder: 18
      Research on Robert Peter's Deed of Trust book at the Library of Congress
      1900sEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      Deed of trust book is dated 1790

Series 11. Papers of Thomas Peter
Text Shelf: I:4 Text Shelf: I:5 1732-1852English.
  • Subseries 11.1. Financial Documents
    English.
    • Text box: 7 folder: 19
      Colonial currency
      1775-1776English.
      Scope and Contents

      One dollar printed in Annapolis by F. Green, 7 December 1775. Two thirds of a dollar printed in Philadelphia by Hall and Sellers, 17 February 1776.

    • Text box: 7 folder: 20
      Accounts of Martha Washington with MacLeod & Lumsdon for sundries
      1 pages
      1800 February 181800 July 8-August 91800 October 9English.
      Scope and Contents

      List of items purchased by Martha Washington from Macleod & Lumsdon, dated at the top 18 February 1800, Alexandria. The accounts, dated 8 July and 9 August, include entries for 47 panes of glass, oil, paint for 30 mahoghany chairs, paint for a wine cooler, varnishing, picture frame gilding, and glazing. Signed by Macleod & Lumdsdon at the bottom, noting that the above money was received in full 9 October 1800.

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      Accounts of Martha Washington with Captain Daniel Lecoeke for 790 bushels of corn
      1 pages
      1800 May 2English.
      Scope and Contents

      Receipt signed "Daniel Lecock" for payment received by the hands of James Anderson on behalf of Martha Washington for 790 bushels of corn on 2 May 1800.

    • Text box: 7 folder: 21
      Receipt, James Anderson to Thomas Carwood, 100 Fish Barrels
      1800 May 15English.
      Scope and Contents

      Receipt for $25 paid by Thomas Carwood to James Anderson for 100 barrels of fish from Mount Vernon.

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      Accounts of Martha Washington with printer Ellis Price
      1 pages
      1800 May 27English.
      Scope and Contents

      Accounts dated February 13, March 11, and April 12, 1800 for newspaper advertisements and handbills purchased by Martha Washington from Ellis Price, printer of The Columbian Mirror and Alexandria Gazette. Items Martha purchased include 26 advertisements for a house to rent, an advertisement about the Mount Vernon fishery, 23 advertisements about the donkey Knight of Malta, and notice about the runaway slave Marcus.

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      Accounts of Martha Washington with William Keating
      1 pages
      1800 April 23-1801 November 10English.
      Scope and Contents

      Accounts dated 23 April-23 September 1800 for weaving yards of cotton, wool, and other fabrics. The payments are marked as having been paid "By balance due the Estate of General Washington," by cash, by 41 gallons of whiskey, and barrells of herring. The final payment is marked as received from James Anderson on 10 November 1801.

    • Text box: 7 folder: 24
      Receipt, James Craik medical services rendered during Martha Washington's illness
      1 pages
      1802 August 20English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bill addressed to the Estate of Mrs. Martha Washington, Deceased for $200 due to James Craik for medical services rendered Mrs. Washington during her last illness and $5 for cash paid Heyskill for the hire of his carriage. A signed oath by Jacob Hoffman testifies to the validity of the charges.

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      Receipt, Thomas Peter to Lawrence Lewis, one hundred barrels of corn sold to Mount Vernon for the use of the estate
      1802 September 6English.
      Scope and Contents

      Receipt of payment from Thomas Peter to Lawrence Lewis for three hundred dollars for one hundred barrels of corn sold to Mount Vernon for the use of the estate. Signed by John Anderson.

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      Receipt of legacy left to Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart by Martha Washington
      Stuart, David, 1753-1814
      1 pages
      1802 July 23English.
      Scope and Contents

      Receipt written by Dr. David Stuart for the receipt from Thomas Peter for five guineas, the leagcy left by Martha Washington to Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart.

    • Text box: 7 folder: 26
      Receipt, Thomas Peter to John Anderson, cow and two calves
      1802 August 15English.
    • Text box: 7 folder: 27
      Bill, Thomas Law to Griffith Coombs, regarding work on Mrs. Washington's house occupied by Mrs. Dearborn
      1802 August 23English.
      Scope and Contents

      Payment from Thomas Law to Griffith Coombs for repairs to Martha Washington's townhome in the District Columbia occupied by Henry Dearborn. Payment marked by Coombs as received in full from Thomas Peter on August 23, 1802.

    • Text box: 7 folder: 28
      Accounts of Alexander Henderson with Thomas Peter
      1 pages
      1802 DecemberEnglish.
    • Text box: 7 folder: 29
      Wages paid to Richard Burnett for the year 1802
      1803 April 1English.
      Scope and Contents

      Twenty dollars wages paid to Richard Burnett of the City of Washingon by Thomas Peter for the year 1802.

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      Wages paid to George Smith for hire as smith at Mount Vernon
      1803 January 12English.
      Scope and Contents

      Payment of $50 received by George Smith of Woodlawn from Thomas Peter on 12 January 1803 for hire as a blacksmith at Mount Vernon in the year 1802. Signed by George Smith (his mark) and Lawrence Lewis. George Smith was one of George Washington's slaves who was freed after Washington's death. His wife, Lydia, was one of Martha Washington's dower slaves and was inherited by Nelly Parke Custis Lewis of Woodlawn.

    • Text box: 8 folder: 01
      Accounts with the executors of Robert Peter's estate
      1803-1807English.
    • Text box: 8 folder: 02
      Receipts, Aquila Johns to Thomas Peter
      1803-1810English.
    • Text box: 8 folder: 03
      Receipts, dishes and linen bought by Thomas Peter
      1809 October 14English.
    • Text box: 8 folder: 04
      Receipt of legacy, Martha Washington to Benjamin Lincoln Lear
      1 pages
      1813 June 19English.
      Scope and Contents

      Receipt for one hundred pounds Virginia currency received by Benjamin Lincoln Lear from Thomas Peter, one of the executors of Martha Washington's estate.

    • Text box: 8 folder: 05
      Receipt, Thomas Peter to Joseph Dunlop
      1 pages
      1814 January 101810 January 1English.
      Scope and Contents

      Accounts of Mr. James Dunlop with Thomas Peter, for horses, ploughs, and an enslaved woman named Peg. Peg is likely one of the slaves Martha Parke Custis Peter inherited from the Custis estate.

    • Text box: 8 folder: 06
      Bill, William King to Thomas Peter, funeral arrangements for Columbia Washington Peter
      1 pages
      1820 December 4English.
      Scope and Contents

      Receipt for funeral arrangements paid by Thomas Peter to William King on December 4, 1820 following the death of his twenty-three-year-old daughter Columbia Washington Peter. The arrangements include a "walnut coffin lined," silver plate and engraving, and rental of horses, a hearse, and attendants.

    • Text box: 8 folder: 07
      Bills, tuition for Britannia Wellington Peter
      1820-1826English.
    • Text box: 8 folder: 08
      Receipts, payments between Thomas Peter and George Peter
      Peter, Thomas, 1769-1834
      2 Leaves
      1822-1829English.
    • Text box: 8 folder: 09
      Stock certificate, H. B. Morris to Thomas Peter
      2 pages
      1823 October 29English.
      Scope and Contents

      H. B. Morris, Philadelphia, to Thomas Peter, Georgetown. Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A letter about bank accounts and stock certificates.

    • Text box: 8 folder: 10
      Bill, Dr. Warfield to Thomas Peter, amputation of man's leg
      1824 March 51825 January 4English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bill from Dr. Warfield to Thomas Peter for a visit to a "black man in the night" on March 5, 1824 which resulted in the amputation of the man's leg.

    • Text box: 8 folder: 11
      Bills, tuition and dancing Lessons for Britannia Wellington Peter
      Kennon, Britannia Wellington Peter, 1815-1911Peter, Martha Parke Custis, 1777-1854
      2 pages
      1826 April 221828 April 16English.
      Scope and Contents

      Two bills from P.L. Dupont paid by Martha Parke Custis Peter for dancing lessons for her daughter Britannia.

    • Text box: 8 folder: 12
      Pew fee paid by Thomas Peter to St. John's Church
      1826 October 10English.
    • Text box: 8 folder: 13
      Shares, Patowmack Company Stock, No. 89 (Martha Peter) and 91 (Thomas Peter)
      2 Leaves
      1828 June 30English.
      Scope and Contents

      Two stock share certificates for the Patowmack Company (Potomac Company). Share No. 89 is for Martha Peter, and No. 91 for Thomas Peter.

  • Subseries 11.2. Land Documents
    • Text box: 8 folder: 14
      Resurvey, Blantyre in Annapolis, Partnership
      2 pages
      1732 March 25English.
      Scope and Contents

      Land office papers for the resurvey of Bear Denn, Daniels Discovery, and Partnership in Maryland

    • Text box: 8 folder: 15
      Survey, Lucy's Delight owned by James Robertson
      1760 August 6English.
    • Text box: 8 folder: 15
      Survey, Course and distances of 3 lots purchased by Thomas Peter in Hagerstown
      1809 December 20English.
    • Text box: 8 folder: 16
      Indenture and plat, between William Littlefield and Jacob Maters
      1 pages
      1767English.
      Scope and Contents

      With unknown survey plat on verso.

    • Text box: 8 folder: 17
      Sale, Seneca plantation, Aquila Johns to Thomas Peter
      3 Leaves
      1803 February 201803 March 141808 August 20English.
      Scope and Contents

      Aquila Johns to Thomas Peter on sale of Seneca plantation

    • Text box: 8 folder: 18
      Land relinquishment, Forrest, of Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter
      1 pages
      1829 October 23English.
      Scope and Contents

      Autograph letter signed by Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter, wife of Thomas Peter's brother George, relinquishing right title and interest on a tract of land called Forrest, property of her husband, in order to pay his debts.

    • Text box: 8 folder: 19
      Survey, William Chiswell to George Washington Peter
      1 pages
      1834 September 12English.
      Scope and Contents

      Letter about resurveying property owned by George Washington Peter.

    • Text box: 8 folder: 20
      Land, Montgomery County Maryland, owned by Thomas Peter
      circa 1830English.
      Scope and Contents

      List of property in Montgomery County Maryland owned by Thomas Peter

  • Subseries 11.3. Correspondence
    English.
    • Text box: 8 folder: 21
      Letter, Thomas Peter to Thomas Law
      Peter, Thomas, 1769-1834
      1 pages
      1798 November 22English.
      Scope and Contents

      Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Regarding financial matters.

    • Text box: 8 folder: 22
      Will and testament, Horatio Edmondson
      3 pages
      1810 August 3English.
      Scope and Contents

      Horatio Edmondson of Taylor County, Maryland

    • Text box: 8 folder: 23
      Notes by O. H. Williams and Robert Peter
      circa 1800-1810English.
    • Text box: 8 folder: 24
      Daybook, Thomas Peter
      Peter, Thomas, 1769-18341813-1814English.
      Scope and Contents

      Pamphlet stitch binding with marbled paper covers. Contains notes about purchases made by Thomas Peter 1813-1814.

    • Text box: 8 folder: 25
      Calling card, Le Baron de Maltitz
      1823English.
      Scope and Contents

      Calling card from Le Baron de Maltitz, Secretaire de la Legation Imperiale de Russie. Manuscript date 1823 on verso.

    • Text box: 9 folder: 01
      Leter, John Dandridge to Thomas Peter
      2 pages
      1823 April 22English.
      Scope and Contents

      John Dandridge writes to Thomas Peter, George Town, asking to borrow money from the estate of Martha Washington.

    • Text box: 9 folder: 02
      Letter, Thomas Peter to George Peter
      Peter, Thomas, 1769-18341830 April 25English.
      Scope and Contents

      Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Peter

    • Text box: 9 folder: 03
      Josiah Quincy to Martha Parke Custis Peter
      Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864
      2 pages
      1836 June 13English.
      Scope and Contents

      Autograph letter signed, with envelope. Josiah Quincy, Cambridge, to Martha Parke Custis Peter, Georgetown. Josiah Quincy thanks Martha Parke Custis Peter for her generous reeption of his children at Tudor Place and thanks her for the relic of George Washington that she sent back with them.

    • Text box: 9 folder: 04
      Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis to Lewis William Washington : copy
      Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-1852
      4 pages
      1852 January 31English.
      Scope and Contents

      A contemporary manuscript copy of a letter in which Nelly Parke Custis describes having seen George Washington writing his farewell address at Mount Vernon. When the address was finished, she says he asked her to bring him silk string, and she watched him stitch the address together in front of her. Nelly writes this as a rebuke to one of Alexander Hamilton's sons, who claims his father wrote the farewell address.

    • Text box: 9 folder: 05
      Letter, Photostat copies relating to Martha Washington's estate at the Library of Congress
      circa 1950English.
  • Subseries 11.4. Estate Documents
    English.
    • Text box: 9 folder: 06
      Indenture, unsigned between Thomas and George Peter and James Peter
      2 pages
      1800sEnglish.
    • Text box: 9 folder: 07
      Estate, Account of George Washington with Edward Stabler
      Stabler, Edward, 1769-1831
      1 pages
      1801 January 14English.
      Scope and Contents

      A list of accounts between the Estate of George Washington and Alexandria apothecary Edward Stabler, including purchases for Turlington's Balsam, castor oil, arsenic, balsam copaiva, British oil, salts, purified Salt Petre, cantharides, ipecacuanha, laudanum, tumeric, and opodildo. Payments are marked as received by James Anderson.

    • Text box: 9 folder: 08 folder: OUT
      Estate, list of enslaved people of Martha Washington
      2 pages
      1801 March 5English.

      A List of Negros Belonging to Mrs. Washington, 1801 March 5: 2016-07-05


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      Manuscript titled "A List of Negroes belonging to Mrs. Washington." A list of 121 enslaved persons who were Martha's dower slaves. Unlike the slaves owned by George Washington, Martha's slaves were not freed after her death and were inherited by the Custis descendants. Men, boys, women, and girls and listed in separate columns, each further broken down into the places where they worked: Mansion house, River Farm, Muddy Hole, and Union Farm. Five women - Amy, Alice, Peg, Agnes, and Old Judy - are listed as "Free but yet remain."

    • Text box: 9 folder: 09
      Certificate of remuneration, Executorship of Washington estate by George Washington Parke Custis
      1802 September 10English.
      Scope and Contents

      Signed certificate from the executors of General George Washington to the Clerk of Fairfax.

    • Text box: 9 folder: 10
      Estate, Martha Washington, George Washington Parke Custis
      1802-1826English.

      Account, George Washington Parke Custis, Esqr. to the Estate of Mrs. M.[artha] Washington, 1802-1826: 2023-06-19


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      Accounts from 1802 for furniture and household goods purchased by George Washington Parke Custis from the Estate of Martha Washington. The final payment was made in 1826, and the account is signed by Thomas Peter, executor of the estate.

    • Text box: 9 folder: 11
      Estate, Personal sales, Martha Washington : photocopy
      2 pages
      circa 1802English.
      Scope and Contents

      A list of the household belongings sold by Thomas Peter from the personal estate of Martha Washington. Includes a listing of who purchased each item and the price it sold for.

    • Text box: 9 folder: 12
      Deed of trust to George Calvert and Thomas Peter from Thomas Law
      4 pages
      1804 August 9English.
      Scope and Contents

      Signed indenture for sale of land in the City of Washington.

    • Text box: 9 folder: 12
      Articles of agreement between George Calvert and Thomas Peter with Thomas Law related to his separation from Elizabeth Parke Custis Law
      3 pages
      1804 August 9English.
      Scope and Contents

      Articles of agreement between George Calvert and Thomas Peter with Thomas Law, agreeing that Thomas Law and his wife Eliza Parke Custis Law will live separately. Eliza will receive $1500 per year from Law, and all the interest from her inheritance from George Washington will go to her and her daughter.

    • Text box: 9 folder: 13
      Estate, Robert Peter in account with James Dunlop and Jonathan Hicks
      1806-1812English.
      Scope and Contents

      3 sheets of accounts between the estate of Robert Peter and James Dunlop, including the sale of "5 negroes willed Mrs. Peter." These are some of Martha's dower slaves inherited by Martha Parke Custis Peter. One additional account between Jonathan Hicks and the heirs of Robert Peter, dated 1809-1811.

    • Text box: 9 folder: 14
      Estate, Michael Halmes to Robert Peter
      1 pages
      1807-1810English.
    • Text box: 9 folder: 15
      Indenture for conclusion, unsigned, between Aquila Johns and Thomas Peter
      3 pages
      1811 February 20English.
    • Text box: 9 folder: 16
      Receipt of legacy, left to Lorenzo Lewis by Martha Washington
      Lewis, Lawrence, 1767-1839
      1 pages
      1826 May 13English.
      Scope and Contents

      Receipt written by Lawrence Lewis acknowledging receipt from Thomas Peter of three hundred and twenty-six dollars eighteen cent left to his son Lorenzo Lewis as a legacy from Martha Washington.

    • Text box: 9 folder: 17
      Receipt of legacy, left to daughter of George Washington Parke Custis by Martha Washington
      Custis, George Washington Parke, 1781-1857
      1 pages
      1826 June 30English.
      Scope and Contents

      Receipt signed by George Washington Parke Custis acknowledging the receipt from Thomas Peter of one thousand dollars as a legacy left to his daughter from the late Martha Washington.

    • Text box: 9 folder: 18
      Estate sale, Thomas Peter to Bushrod Washington
      Peter, Thomas, 1769-1834
      2 pages
      1827 December 8English.
      Scope and Contents

      Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Thomas Peter, George Town, to Bushrod Washington, Mount Vernon. Thomas Peter writes to Bushrod about money owed for two purchases he made from the estate of George Washington.

    • Text box: 9 folder: 19
      Decree, John Dandridge against George Washington Parke Custis and Thomas Peter, executors of Martha Washington's estate
      1829-1830English.

      Decree, John Dandridge against George Washington Parke Custis and Thomas Peter, executors of Martha Washington's estate, 1829-1830: 2023-06-19


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      Two documents related to a settlement made by John Dandridge against George Washington Parke Custis and Thomas Peter, executors of Martha Washington's estate. One is a 1829 decree from the U. S. Circuit Court, signed by William Thomas Carroll; and the other is an account of money owed to John Dandridge signed by Benjamin Lincoln Lear, 1830 June 21. Autograph documents signed (2).

Series 12. Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon
Text Shelf: I:5 1824-1909English.
  • Subseries 12.1. Financial Documents
    English.
    • Text box: 9 folder: 20
      Receipt from George Washington Peter in trust for Martha Peter
      1842 February 4English.
    • Text box: 9 folder: 21
      Burial ground, 4 sites in Washington DC belonging to Beverley Kennon
      1844 March 11English.
      Scope and Contents

      3 documents related to the death of Beverley Kennon, husband of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, who died aboard the USS Princeton during the 1844 Peacemaker accident: a newspaper clipping with an excerpt from a sermon by Reverend Mr. Magoon on the Princeton Tragedy, a plan of the burying ground belonging to Mrs. Beverly Kennon, and a certificate from the Vestry of Washington Parish granting Mrs. Beverley Kennon four sites in the Washington Parish Burial Ground.

    • Text box: 9 folder: 22
      Bill and Receipt, work completed at Beverley Kennon's gravesite
      1844-1845English.
    • Text box: 9 folder: 23
      Papers, business of Mr. John Farley and Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      1845-1849English.
    • Text box: 9 folder: 24
      Daybook, Martha Custis Peter
      Peter, Martha Parke Custis, 1777-18541852-1853English.
    • Text box: 9 folder: 25
      Receipts of legacies, left to Thomas Peter and JPC Peter by Martha Parke Custis Peter
      1855 November 6English.
      Scope and Contents

      Receipts for two legacies received of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, executor of Martha Parke Custis Peter's estate. One is for a grandson named Thomas Peter and another for her grandson John Parke Custis Peter.

    • Text box: 9 folder: 26
      Share, Bank of the Valley in Virginia belonging to Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      1855 May 25English.
    • Text box: 9 folder: 27
      Potomac Insurance Company policy on Tudor Place
      1862-1889English.
    • Text box: 9 folder: 28
      Receipt for interment of remains of the Peter family with Oak-Hill Cemetery Company
      1891 October 30-November 9English.
  • Subseries 12.2. Legal Documents
    English.
    • Text box: 10 folder: 01
      Will of Thomas Peter : copy
      Peter, Thomas, 1769-1834
      2 pages
      1826 February 11English.
    • Text box: 10 folder: 02
      Indenture, between Richard Smith and George W. Peter in trust for Martha Peter
      2 pages
      1829 October 10English.
    • Text box: 10 folder: 03
      Indenture, between Thomas Peter, executor of the last will and testament of Robert Peter Jr., and John Parke Custis Peter
      3 pages
      1830 October 16English.
    • Text box: 10 folder: 04
      Resolution of the Senate of Pennsylvania
      2 pages
      1844 March 1English.
      Scope and Contents

      Manuscript resolution of the Senate of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, offering sympathy to the families of those killed aboard the USS Princeton during the Peacemaker accident. This copy was given by the President of the United States to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, whose husband, Beverley Kennon, was killed in the accident.

    • Text box: 10 folder: 05
      Oath, Britannia Peter as administrator to the estate of Martha Parke Custis Peter
      1854 July 22English.
      Scope and Contents

      Printed form signed by Britannia W. Peter Kennon and witnessed by William Purcell, esquire, Judge of the Orphans' Court of Washington county, District of Columbia.

    • Text box: 10 folder: 06
      First and final account, Britannia W. Peter Kennon, executrix of Martha Custis Peter
      2 pages
      1855 October 25English.
      Scope and Contents

      A list of collections and payments made to sundry persons to settle the estate of Martha Parke Custis Peter.

    • Text box: 10 folder: 07
      Will and testament, Ann Gertrude Wightt
      1865 July 12English.

      Will and testament, Ann Gertrude Wightt, 1865 July 12: 2024-03-25


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      Document bound with blue ribbon, with envelope. Last will and testament of Ann Gertrude Wightt, a former nun at the Georgetown Visitation Convent who later lived at Tudor Place. Autograph document, 8 pages.

    • Text box: 10 folder: 07
      Letter, Ann Gertrude Wightt to Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      3 pages
      1865 July 13English.

      Letter, Ann Gertrude Wightt to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1865 July 13: 2024-03-25


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      Autograph letter, with envelope. Ann Gertrude Wightt, Rochester, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place

    • Text box: 10 folder: 08
      Declaration of Trust for sale of Lot Nine, Square Seventy Two in Washington City, D.C., William A. Gordon and Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      1889 - 1891English.
      Scope and Contents

      Papers related to the sale of Lot 9 in Square 72 of Washington City to William A. Gordon. Letter from William E. Edmonston to William A. Gordon, 1891 May 30. Two letters from William A. Gordon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1891 June 3 and 1889 October 4. Typescript signed by William Gordon of Declaration of Trust for sale of Lot Nine, Square Seventy Two in Washington City, D.C..

    • Text box: 10 folder: 09 folder: OUT
      Indenture, between Britannia W. Peter Kennon and her grandsons regarding Mount Vernon heirlooms at Tudor Place
      Kennon, Britannia Wellington Peter, 1815-1911
      7 pages
      1907 October 9English.
      Scope and Contents

      Indenture made between Britannia Wellington Kennon, party of the first part, and Walter Gibson Peter, Armistead Peter Jr., and George Freeland Peter, parties of the second part, all of the District of Columbia, regarding relics and heirlooms at Tudor Place acquired by Britannia W. Peter Kennon from her mother Martha Custis Peter grand-daughter of Martha the wife of George Washington, known in the family as "The Mount Vernon Heirlooms." Other relics are from the estates of Thomas Peter and Beverley Kennon. Britannia wishes that these relics be preserved by her descendants and that none of them be sold or disposed of.

      These include pictures, miniatures, engravings, glass, china, silver, jewelry, furniture, needlework, and other relics, including a sago palm formerly belonging to Martha Parke Custis Peter. The relics and heirlooms are to be divided into five parts after Britannia's death and delivered to her grandchildren.

    • Text box: 10 folder: 10
      Paper wrappers labeled Wills of Thomas & Martha Custis Peter
      circa 1850sEnglish.
  • Subseries 12.3. Correspondence
    English.
    • Text box: 10 folder: 11
      Recipe for currant wine
      1 pages
      1800sEnglish.
    • Text box: 10 folder: 12
      Title page, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, inscribed Britannia W. Peter
      Kennon, Britannia Wellington Peter, 1815-1911
      1 pages
      1824English.
      Scope and Contents

      A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (New York : Printed and published by William A. Davies) Inscribed Britannia W. Peter.

    • Text box: 10 folder: 13
      Note, Mr. Chandler to Britannia W. Peter
      1 pages
      1842 December 5English.
    • Text box: 10 folder: 14
      Letter, Beverley Kennon to Reverend W. Hoff
      Kennon, Beverley, 1793-1844
      1 pages
      1842 December 6English.
      Scope and Contents

      Autograph letter signed. Beverley Kennon, Navy Yard, Washington, to Reverend W. Hoff, George Town. Kennon asks Reverend Hoff to be present at Mrs. Peter's place in George Town on the 8th to marry him to Britannia W. Peter.

    • Text box: 10 folder: 14
      Letter, Beverley Kennon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      Kennon, Beverley, 1793-18441843 March 7-21English.
      Scope and Contents

      2 autograph letters signed.

    • Text box: 10 folder: 15
      Letter, John Tyler to Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      Tyler, John, 1790-1862
      3 pages
      1844 March 4English.
      Scope and Contents

      Autograph letter signed on mourning stationary, with envelope and black seal. John Tyler, Washington, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. President John Tyler offers his condolences to Britannia W. Peter Kennon on the death of her husband, Beverley Kennon, during the Peacemaker accident aboard the USS Princeton.

    • Text box: 10 folder: 16
      Letter, G.T. Kennon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      1845 April 20English.
      Scope and Contents

      G. T. Kennon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place

    • Text box: 10 folder: 17
      Letter, Martha Custis Kennon to Beverley Kennon Jr.
      Peter, Martha Custis Kennon, 1843-18861861 March 29English.
      Scope and Contents

      Autograph letter signed with envelope docketed "A letter written to Uncle Bev. by my mother while at boarding school given to me after Uncle Bev's death by Aunt G.". Martha Custis Kennon, Georgetown, to Beverley Kennon Jr. Beverley Kennon Jr. was Martha Custis Kennon's half brother.

    • Text box: 10 folder: 18
      Letters, Walter Gibson Peter to unknown
      Peter, Walter Gibson, 1842-18631862-1863English.
    • Text box: 10 folder: 19
      God Save the South : manuscript poem and illustration
      1863 November 1English.
      Scope and Contents

      According to Martha Custis Peter, this illustration was at the Tudor Place.

    • Text box: 10 folder: 20
      Letters, Armistead Peter Jr. and Anna William Peter to Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      2 Leaves
      1867 April 24-May 5English.
    • Text box: 10 folder: 21
      Letter, W. Van Ness to Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      2 pages
      1874 February 18English.
      Scope and Contents

      W. Van Ness, New York, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown

    • Text box: 10 folder: 22
      Letter, G. Clarke, Department of the Interior, Pension Office, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      1 pages
      1880 June 21English.
      Scope and Contents

      Department of the Interior, Pension Office, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown

    • Text box: 10 folder: 23
      In memoriam : printed booklet on the death of Martha Custis Peter
      10 Copies
      1886 September 8English.
    • Text box: 10 folder: 24
      Letter, Mrs. Charles Carroll Simms to Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      1886 SeptemberEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      Mrs. Charles Carroll Simms to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Georgetown

    • Text box: 10 folder: 25
      Letter, Mattie D. Abbot, Ladies Aid Society, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      1 pages
      1886 October 14English.
      Scope and Contents

      Mattie D. Abbot to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place. From the Secretary of the Ladies Aid Society of Christ Church accepting Britannia Kennon's resignation as President.

    • Text box: 10 folder: 26
      Letters, James Mackubin to Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      3 Leaves
      1881-1889English.
      Scope and Contents

      Letters from James Mackubin, Ellicott City, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon

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      Letters, Justine Van Rensselaer Townsend to Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      Townsend, Justine Van Rensselaer, 1828-1912
      2 Leaves
      1890-1892English.
      Scope and Contents

      Two letters from Justine Van Rensselaer Townsend, Vice Regent of New York for the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. In the 26 November 1890 letter, Justine asks Britannia to help the Ladies determine what is genuine at the upcoming 1890 Thomas Birch's Sons sale of Washington relics in Philadelphia. The sale will include "General Washington's papers, a clock, a punch bowl, and many other things."

    • Text box: 11 folder: 02
      Invitation to Virginia Day the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
      3 pages
      1893 August 9English.
      Scope and Contents

      Invitation from The Board of World's Fair Managers of Virginia inviting Britannia W. Peter Kennon to be present at the ceremonies of Virginia Day at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Enclosed with an envelope and the calling card of Mrs. William Radford Beale.

    • Text box: 11 folder: 03
      Notes, Thomas E. Waggaman, real estate broker, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      2 Leaves
      1894-1898English.
    • Text box: 11 folder: 04
      Letter, Britannia W. Peter Kennon to Sophie
      Kennon, Britannia Wellington Peter, 1815-1911
      1 Leaves
      1899 October 3English.
    • Text box: 11 folder: 05
      Cards, Dr. Armistead Peter and Miss Kennon
      April 23English.
      Scope and Contents

      Calling cards for Martha Custis Kennon and Armistead Peter. At home card with envelope for Britannia W. Peter Kennon, engraved by Dempsey & O. Toole of Baltimore & Washington.

    • Text box: 11 folder: 06
      Birthday ribbon and note, Harriet B. Coolidge to Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      1905 January 27English.
    • Text box: 11 folder: 07
      Certificate, Galt and Brothers reproduction of Mount Vernon cream ladle
      1 pages
      1909 February 16
      Scope and Contents

      Engraved form ceritifying that "Cream Ladle No 68944 is an exact reproduction of one onwed by General and Mrs. Washington and used for a number of years at Mr. Vernon." The ladle was produced by Galt & Bro. Jewellers, Silversmiths, Stationers, Washington D.C..

    • Text box: 11 folder: 08
      Note, Genevieve Griswold Kennon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      January 28, between circa 1860 and circa 1900English.
      Scope and Contents

      Regarding the purchase of a clock.

    • Text box: 11 folder: 09
      List, Mount Vernon items at Tudor Place
      1900sEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      Typescript lists of letters and items from Mount Vernon that were part of Britannia W. Peter Kennon's collection at Tudor Place.

    • Text box: 11 folder: 10
      List, Mount Vernon items
      1900sEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      Unbound notebook with list of items and letters from Mount Vernon that belonged to Britannia W. Peter Kennon at Tudor Place. Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia's grandchildren.Includes furniture and household items.

    • Text box: 11 folder: 11
      List, Mount Vernon items at Tudor Place divided by room
      1900sEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia W. Peter Kennon's grandchildren.

    • Text box: 11 folder: 12
      List, Tudor Place items, division of items to grandchildren
      1900sEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      Manuscript list of books, jewelry, and locks of hair at Tudor Place

    • Text box: 11 folder: 13
      List, Tudor Place items
      1900sEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      Includes both manuscript and typescript inventories of books, furniture, and objects from Tudor Place.

    • Text box: 11 folder: 14
      List, Items on loan to National Museum by Walter Peter
      between circa 1920 and circa 1940English.
      Scope and Contents

      Newsclippings and correspondence related to Washington relics loaned by Walter G. Peter to the National Museum in the early 1900s.

    • Text box: 11 folder: 15
      Letter, Martha Custis Peter regarding photocopy of album created by Britannia W. Peter Kennon
      1998 March 10English.
    • Text box: 11 folder: 16
      Label, Richard Champion relief portrait of George Washington
      1 pages
      probably 1923English.
      Scope and Contents

      Lent by Walter G. Peter from the Britannia W. Peter Kennon Collection of Washington Relics.

Series 13. Papers of Major George Peter
Text Shelf: I:6 Text Shelf: I:7 Text Shelf: I:8 1800-1867English.
  • Subseries 13.1. Business Correspondence
    English.
    • Business Correspondence
      1814-1817
      • Text box: 12 folder: 01
        George Peter account book
        Peter, George, 1779-1861
        1 Volumes
        1817-1818English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 01
        R. Davidson to George Peter
        1 pages
        1814 April 3English.
        Scope and Contents

        R. Davidson, Pinckneyville, to George Peter, George Town

      • Text box: 12 folder: 01
        Account of George Peter for burial expenses
        1 pages
        1813-1814English.
        Scope and Contents

        Includes a $5 charge on 23 October 1813 for a coffin "for a black man." On 9 February 1814, Peter was charged $50.00 for a lined coffin covered with black cloth, among other expenses, possibly following the death of his first wife, Ann Plater Peter, or one of their young sons.

      • Text box: 12 folder: 01
        A. Taney to George Peter
        2 pages
        1816 August 2English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 01
        Thomas Anderson to George Peter
        1 pages
        1817 January 7English.
        Scope and Contents

        Thomas Anderson, Clarksburgh, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 01
        Roger Brooke Taney to George Peter
        Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864
        3 pages
        1817 January 21English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 01
        A. Taney to George Peter
        2 pages
        1817 September 30English.
    • Business Correspondence
      1818-1821
      • Text box: 12 folder: 02
        Letter from unidentified Peter to George Peter
        2 pages
        1820 June 24English.
        Scope and Contents

        Autograph letter signed with printed cash form from the Office of Discount and Deposit, Washington.

      • Text box: 12 folder: 02
        Authorization to Henry B. Robertson for the recovery of goods from Robert Kilgorn
        1 Leaves
        1821 October 23English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 02
        Joseph Delaplaine to George Peter
        Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824
        2 pages
        1818 December 1English.
        Scope and Contents

        Joseph Delaplaine, Philadelphia, to George Peter. Deplaine requests Major Peter's portrait for his gallery.

      • Text box: 12 folder: 02
        U. McInder to George Peter
        1 pages
        1818 February 19English.
        Scope and Contents

        U. McInder, Petersburg, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 02
        Letter from unidentified to George Peter
        4 pages
        1822 December 26English.
        Scope and Contents

        Letter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 02
        S. Davis to George Peter
        3 pages
        1819 December 11English.
    • Business Correspondence
      1823-1825
      • Text box: 12 folder: 03
        W. Coor to George Peter
        1 pages
        1824 April 21English.
        Scope and Contents

        W. Coor, Rockville, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 03
        Power of attorney granted by George Peter to Charles A. Burnett
        2 pages
        1823 May 3English.
        Scope and Contents

        Partially printed form from the District of Columbia. Major Peter grants Charles A. Burnett power of attorney to sell, assign, and transfer his 50 shares of stock in the Books of the Washington Turnpike Company.

      • Text box: 12 folder: 03
        Letter from unidentified to George Peter
        5 pages
        1823 February 6English.
        Scope and Contents

        Letter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 03
        Charles Bunting to George Peter
        4 pages
        1825 October 5English.
        Scope and Contents

        Charles Bunting, Montgomery County, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 03
        Charles Bunting to George Peter
        Bunting, Charles
        3 pages
        1825 November 30English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 03
        James H., to George Peter
        2 pages
        1825 May 23English.
        Scope and Contents

        James H., Georgetown, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 03
        Benjamin Lincoln Lear to George Peter
        Lear, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Lincoln), 1792-1832
        2 pages
        1825 March 18English.
        Scope and Contents

        Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Lear writes regarding two suits againist Mrs. Sarah Peter.

    • Business Correspondence
      1826-1827
      • Text box: 12 folder: 04
        John Wootton to George Peter
        3 pages
        1826 June 20English.
        Scope and Contents

        John Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 04
        John Holghan to George Peter
        3 pages
        1827 October 9English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 04
        Benjamin Lincoln Lear to George Peter
        Lear, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Lincoln), 1792-1832
        1 pages
        1827 September 14English.
        Scope and Contents

        Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Printed letter with manuscript additions, from B. L. Lear, Attorney of the Bank, Bank of the United States.

      • Text box: 12 folder: 04
        Document from the case of the petition of Thomas Plater for a private road through the land of George Peter
        2 pages
        1821English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 04
        Bill addressed to George Peter
        1 pages
        1824 November 23English.
    • Business Correspondence
      1828-1829
      • Text box: 12 folder: 05
        W. W. Ramsay to George Peter
        1 pages
        1828 March 20English.
        Scope and Contents

        W. W. Ramsay, Washington, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 05
        J. B. Beverly to George Peter
        1 pages
        1828 January 1English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 05
        N. M. to George Peter
        1 pages
        1829 September 10English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 05
        S. Smith to George Peter
        2 pages
        1829 July 29English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 05
        J. Marbury to George Peter
        1 pages
        1829 November 20English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 05
        Letter from unidentified to George Peter
        1 pages
        1825 April 16English.
        Scope and Contents

        Letter from unidentified, Washington, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 05
        Letter from unidentified to George Peter
        1 pages
        1829 July 31English.
        Scope and Contents

        Letter from unidentified, Washington City, to George Peter

    • Business Correspondence
      1830-1835
      • Text box: 12 folder: 06
        B. H. to George Peter
        1 pages
        1830 March 28English.
        Scope and Contents

        B. H., Rockville, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 06
        Rezin Shace to George Peter
        1 pages
        1830 March 24English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 06
        Clement Cod to George Peter
        1 pages
        1830 January 8English.
        Scope and Contents

        Clement Cod, Georgetown, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 06
        Letter from unidentified to George Peter
        1 pages
        1831 April 20English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 06
        William Thompson to George Peter
        2 pages
        1831 March 22English.
        Scope and Contents

        William Thompson, Union School, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 06
        Michael Keepers to George Peter
        1 pages
        1831 March 22English.
        Scope and Contents

        Michael Keepers, Frederick Town, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 06
        Tobias E. Stansbay to George Peter
        2 pages
        1835 November 10English.
    • Business Correspondence
      1838-1840
      • Text box: 12 folder: 07
        John Wootton to George Peter
        2 pages
        1838 September 19English.
        Scope and Contents

        John Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 07
        Robert P. Dunlop to George Peter
        1 pages
        1839 December 6English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 07
        J. O. to George Peter
        2 pages
        1840 May 14English.
    • Business Correspondence
      1842-1849
      • Text box: 12 folder: 08
        G. D. to George Peter
        1 pages
        1842 November 3English.
        Scope and Contents

        G. D., George Town, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 08
        M. V. to George Peter
        1 pages
        1846English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 08
        J. Orme to George Peter
        1 pages
        1846 April 1English.
        Scope and Contents

        J. Orme, Georgetown, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 08
        W. Sellman to George Peter
        2 pages
        1849 December 3English.
        Scope and Contents

        W. Sellman, Clarksburg, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 08
        Samuel C. Ulens to George Peter
        1 pages
        1849 December 8English.
        Scope and Contents

        Samuel C. Ulens, Poolesville, to George Peter

    • Business Correspondence
      1855
      • Text box: 12 folder: 09
        Bill to George Peter from Darnestown post office
        2 pages
        1855-1856English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 09
        J. Higgins to George Peter
        1 pages with envelope
        1855 January 8English.
        Scope and Contents

        J. Higgins, Poolesville, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 09
        Jesse V. to George Peter
        1 pages
        1855 January 4English.
        Scope and Contents

        Jesse V., Poolesville, to George Peter, Darnestown

      • Text box: 12 folder: 09
        J. Falls to George Peter
        2 pages
        1855 December 4English.
        Scope and Contents

        J. Falls, Baltimore, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 09
        R. J. Brent to George Peter
        2 pages
        1855 December 29English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 09
        Geo. Howson Mason to George Peter
        1 pages
        1855 December 4English.
        Scope and Contents

        Geo. Howson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 09
        Alfred Spates to George Peter
        3 pages
        1855 December 22English.
        Scope and Contents

        Alfred Spates, Cumberland, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 09
        N. B. to George Peter
        1 pages
        1855 November 12English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 09
        Letter from unidentified to George Peter
        2 pages with envelope of the Balitmore Steam Packet Company
        1856 May 8English.
        Scope and Contents

        Letter from unidentified, Baltimore, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 09
        W. Matthews to George Peter
        2 pages with envelope
        1855 November 28English.
        Scope and Contents

        W. Matthews, George Town, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 09
        Geo. Hownson Mason to George Peter
        1 pages
        1855 December 17English.
        Scope and Contents

        Geo. Hownson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter

    • Business Correspondence
      1856
      • Text box: 12 folder: 10
        Benj. Fawcett to George Peter
        1 pages
        1856 May 26English.
        Scope and Contents

        Benj. Fawcett, Colesville, to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 10
        J. Williams to George Peter
        3 pages
        1856 March 18English.
        Scope and Contents

        J. Williams, Washington D.C., to George Peter

      • Text box: 12 folder: 10
        J. Marbury, Georgetown D.C., to George Peter
        3 pages
        1856 April 30English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 10
        John Fisher, Westminster, to George Peter
        1 pages
        1856 February 13English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 10
        J. J. Atkinson to George Peter
        1 pages
        1853 November 28English.
        Scope and Contents

        A letter from the Treasuries Office of the Baltimore and Ohion Railroad Company, offering Peter free tickets to pass over the roads of their company.

      • Text box: 12 folder: 10
        W. Smith Reese, Annapolis, to W. Bowie
        1 pages
        1856 March 10English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 10
        W. Bowie, Rockville, to George Peter
        1 pages
        1856 January 8English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 10
        John Legrand, Washington, to George Peter
        1 pages
        1856 June 1English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 10
        Bond holders of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company to the Board of Public Works of the State of Maryland
        2 pages contemporary manuscript copy
        1850sEnglish.
    • Business Correspondence
      1857-1864
      • Text box: 12 folder: 11
        Judson Mitchell, Georgetown, to George Peter
        1 pages
        1857 May 27English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 11
        Josiah Harding to George Peter
        1 pages
        1857 January 20English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 11
        Dawson, Georgetown, to George Peter
        1 pages
        1857 March 24English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 11
        J. S. Williams, Washington, to George Peter
        3 pages
        1864 December 12English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 11
        Letter from unidentified to George Peter
        4 pages
        circa 1860English.
    • Business Correspondence
      undated
      • Text box: 12 folder: 12
        Nicholas L. to George Peter, Darnestown
        2 pages
        circa 1830English.
      • Text box: 12 folder: 12
        Roger Brooke Taney to George Peter
        Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864
        1 pages
        1810sEnglish.
    • Business
      undated
      • Text box: 12 folder: 13
        The Constitution and Union Ticket election ballot
        1 pages
        1860sEnglish.
        Scope and Contents

        Printed election ballot for "The Constitution and Union Ticket," promising "Civil and Religious Liberty." George Peter is listed as the candidate for Commisioner of Public Works.

  • Subseries 13.2. Bills and Notes
    English.
    • Bills and notes
      1800-1810
      • Text box: 13 folder: 01
        Accounts of Martha Washington with William Jones
        1 pages 11 x 16 cm
        1800 February 4English.
        Scope and Contents

        A list of clothing purchased by Martha Washington from William Jones of Alexandria. Includes suits purchased for enslaved workers Daniel, Marcus, Christopher, and Frank. According to notes on the verso, payments were received from James Anderson on 12 April 1800 and 15 May 1800.

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        Receipts paid by James Anderson
        5 Leaves
        1800English.
        Scope and Contents

        Five receipts for goods and services paid for by James Anderson in 1800, including repairs to old shoes, paper lampblack, freight for one box from Philadelphia, 93 yards of cloth, and leather.

      • Text box: 13 folder: 01
        Bills and bank notes from George Peter
        16 Leaves
        1806-1811English.
    • Text box: 13 folder: 02
      Bills and notes
      26 Leaves
      1810-1818English.
      Scope and Contents

      Promissory notes from George Peter

    • Text box: 13 folder: 03
      Checks
      38 Leaves
      1810-1814English.
      Scope and Contents

      Promissory notes and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.

    • Text box: 13 folder: 04
      Checks
      48 Leaves
      1815-1816English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.

    • Text box: 13 folder: 05
      Checks
      28 Leaves
      1816-1821English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.

    • Text box: 13 folder: 06
      Bills and notes
      52 Leaves
      1810-1813English.
      Scope and Contents

      Promissory notes and bank notes from George Peter

    • Text box: 13 folder: 07
      Bills and notes
      46 Leaves
      1814-1815English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bills and bank notes from George Peter

    • Text box: 13 folder: 08
      Bills and notes
      22 Leaves
      1816-1818English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bills and bank notes from George Peter

    • Text box: 13 folder: 09
      Bills and notes
      24 Leaves
      1820-1830English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bills and accounts of George Peter

    • Text box: 14 folder: 01
      Bills and notes
      23 Leaves
      1832-1835English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bills and accounts of George Peter

    • Text box: 14 folder: 02
      Bills and notes
      14 Leaves
      1836English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bills and accounts of George Peter

    • Text box: 14 folder: 03
      Bills and notes
      20 Leaves
      1837-1840English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bills and accounts of George Peter

    • Text box: 14 folder: 04
      Bills and notes
      25 Leaves
      1841-1846English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bills and accounts of George Peter

    • Text box: 14 folder: 05
      Bills and notes
      31 Leaves
      1846-1848English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bills and accounts of George Peter

    • Text box: 14 folder: 06
      Bills and notes
      36 Leaves
      1850-1856English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bills and accounts of George Peter

    • Text box: 15 folder: 01
      Bills and notes
      13 Leaves
      1856-1859English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bills and accounts of George Peter

    • Text box: 15 folder: 02
      Bills and notes
      12 Leaves
      1833-1840English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro

    • Text box: 15 folder: 03
      Bills and notes
      10 Leaves
      1841-1850English.
      Scope and Contents

      Bills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro.

    • Text box: 15 folder: 04
      Bills and notes
      13 Leaves
      1800sEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      Undated Bills and accounts of George Peter

  • Subseries 13.3. Family Correspondence
    English.
    • Text box: 15 folder: 05
      Letter, George H. Peter to George Peter
      1 pages
      1827 September 12English.
      Scope and Contents

      George H. Peter, Carlise, writes to his uncle asking for money for an upcoming vacation.

    • Text box: 15 folder: 06
      Letters, James Peter to George Peter
      3 Leaves
      1827-1836English.
      Scope and Contents

      3 letters from James Peter to his uncle George Peter.

    • Text box: 15 folder: 07
      Letter, W. H. Peter to George Peter
      2 pages
      1827 December 30English.
      Scope and Contents

      George Peter, George Town

    • Text box: 15 folder: 08
      Letters, Jane Beverley to George Peter
      2 Leaves
      1827-18281827 December 231828 March 5English.
    • Text box: 15 folder: 09
      Letters, James Freeland Peter to George Peter
      3 Leaves
      1838-18461838 June 61845 March 051846 December 29English.
      Scope and Contents

      3 letters sent by James Freeland Peter to his father from Alexandria, Buffalo, and Detroit.

    • Text box: 15 folder: 10
      Letter, Acrostic to George Peter
      1 pages
      1851 July 6English.
      Scope and Contents

      Manuscript acrostic written for Uncle George Peter.

    • Text box: 15 folder: 11
      Letter, Sarah Peter to George Peter
      2 pages with envelope
      1852 June 18English.
      Scope and Contents

      Sarah Peter, Georgetown, to George Peter

    • Text box: 15 folder: 12
      Letter, Roberta Peter to George Peter
      3 pages
      1854 Octobber 11English.
    • Text box: 15 folder: 13
      Letters, George Peter, Jr., to George Peter
      4 Leaves
      1855-1856English.
      Scope and Contents

      4 letters from George Peter, Jr., to his father.

    • Text box: 15 folder: 14
      List, items from Mount Vernon
      Peter, George Freeland, 1875–1953
      4 pages
      1900sEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      Typescript list of "Things from Mt. Vernon" with manuscript annotations by George Freeland Peter of which Peter heirs inherited the items.

    • Text box: 15 folder: 15
      List, items from Tudor Place
      21 pages
      1900sEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      Typescript and manuscript inventories of items fro Tudor Place, with notes on which Peter heirs inherited them.

  • Subseries 13.4. Personal Correspondence
    • Text box: 16 folder: 01
      Letter, James Kiniaid to Major George Peter
      1725 May 6English.
    • Text box: 16 folder: 02
      Bunker's Hill identification key
      1798 AprilEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      Identification key to "The battle at Bunker's Hill" engraved by Johann Gotthard Müller after the painting by John Trumbull. Printed in London by A. C. de Poggi.

    • Text box: 16 folder: 03
      Accounts, James Morsell, Thomas Bond, Thomas Corcoran, and James Corcoran
      1797, 1874
      • Text box: 16 folder: 03
        Accounts of James Sewall Morsell with Thomas Corcoran
        2 pages
        1797-1804English.
        Scope and Contents

        Accounts for shoes, boots, and repairs, including shoes for enslaved people.

      • Text box: 16 folder: 03
        Accounts of Thomas Bond with James Corcoran
        1 pages
        1874 February 8English.
    • Text box: 16 folder: 04
      Military Papers, Morning report of the garrison of Fort Fayette
      2 pages
      1801 June 29English.
    • Text box: 16 folder: 05
      Military Papers
      1805-1814
      • Text box: 16 folder: 05
        Receipts of George Peter
        2 Leaves
        1805-18141805 April 41814 June 13English.
      • Text box: 16 folder: 05
        Copy of general orders, Head Quarters, New Orleans
        2 pages
        1806 January 9English.
      • Text box: 16 folder: 05
        Morning report of the garrison of Fort Adams, commanded by Lt. Geo. Peter
        2 pages
        1806 November 11English.
      • Text box: 16 folder: 05
        Morning report of a detachment under the command of Captain George Peter
        2 Leaves
        1809 March 4English.
      • Text box: 16 folder: 05
        Detachment orders, Benedict Heights
        2 Leaves
        1814 June 25English.
        Scope and Contents

        Major George Peter's troops are invited to attend Divine Service. "It is hoped they will attend & conduct themselves with a reverence suited to the character of Christian soldiers, who have taken arms in defence of their homes & country & who look for success & preservation to the favor of the Almighty Giver of all victory."

      • Text box: 16 folder: 05
        Morning return of the detachment of calvary commanded by Major G. Peter
        1 pages
        1814 June 26English.
    • Text box: 16 folder: 06
      Military Papers
      1808
      • Text box: 16 folder: 06
        Letter, J. S. S., Fort McHenry, to Captain George Peter, Light Artillery, Pittsburgh
        1 pages
        1808 December 26English.
        Scope and Contents

        Autograph letter signed with integral address panel and red wax seal.

      • Text box: 16 folder: 06
        Letter, Unidentified, Carlisle Barracks, to Captain George Peter
        1 pages
        1808 December 25English.
    • Text box: 16 folder: 07
      Manifest,130 hogsheads, tobacco shipped in the name of Major George Peter by Washington Bowie
      4 pages
      1808-1815English.
    • Text box: 16 folder: 08
      Notes, Robert and David Peter
      1808-1823
    • Text box: 16 folder: 09
      Letters, David Peter to George Peter
      1809 March 6-May 29English.
      Scope and Contents

      2 letters to George Peter from his brother David Peter, George Town.

    • Text box: 16 folder: 10
      Military Extract, Philip Barton Key to Secretary of the Navy
      1 pages
      1809 October 10English.
    • Text box: 16 folder: 11
      Indenture, Thomas Plater to Charles Gassaway
      3 pages
      1810 October 1English.
    • Text box: 16 folder: 12
      Receipts, Union Bank of Georgetown
      1810-1816English.
    • Text box: 16 folder: 13
      Indenture, Thomas Beall to George Peter
      5 pages
      1811 July 12English.
      Scope and Contents

      Deed of sale for land purchased by Peter on Gay Street and Dumarton Street in George Town.

    • Text box: 16 folder: 14
      Estate, Thomas Dick
      5 pages
      1811 November 15English.
      Scope and Contents

      A list of 322 volumes, showing title, number of volumes, size, and type of bookbinding.

    • Text box: 16 folder: 15
      Checks, from George Peter
      30 Leaves
      1811-1853English.
    • Text box: 16 folder: 16
      Letters, James B. Beverly and Jane Beverly to George Peter
      1813-1822English.
      Scope and Contents

      8 letters and 1 receipt, mostly addressed to George Peter from his niece, Jane Beverley and her husband, James.

    • Text box: 16 folder: 17
      Pamphlet, Federalism Betrayed
      1816 August 6
      Scope and Contents

      printed pages

    • Text box: 16 folder: 18
      Letter, Ninian Pinkney, Council Chamber, to George Peter, Notification as Member of Congress
      1 pages
      1816 November 28English.
    • Text box: 16 folder: 19
      Pamphlet, Broadside, to the voters of Montgomery County
      1816
    • Text box: 16 folder: 20
      Letters, Political Climate
      1816-1856
      • Text box: 16 folder: 20
        Letter, Roger Brooke Taney to George Peter
        Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864
        2 pages
        1816 December 14English.

        Letter, Roger Brooke Taney to George Peter, 1816 December 14: 2023-08-16


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        Scope and Contents

        Roger Brooke Taney, Annapolis, to George Peter regarding upcoming elections [December 20] to the U. S. Senate specifically the potential election of Mr. [Alexander C.] Hanson as a means to heal and reconcile the differences in the Federal Party. Also discuss Mr. Washington's 'zeal and industry' in supporting Hanson's candidacy. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages. Docketed 'Roger B. Taney - Hanson & Washington'

      • Text box: 16 folder: 20
        Letter, W. Cook to George Peter
        1 pages
        1817 December 6English.
        Scope and Contents

        W. Cook, Hyates Town,

      • Text box: 16 folder: 20
        Letter, William Brewer to George Peter
        2 pages
        1817 December 27English.
        Scope and Contents

        William Brewer, Aix la Chapelle, to George Peter

      • Text box: 16 folder: 20
        Letter, Unidentified to George Peter
        2 pages
        1824 March 19English.
      • Text box: 16 folder: 20
        Letter, James Summers to George Peter
        3 pages
        1829 March 10English.
        Scope and Contents

        James Summers, New Market, to George Peter

      • Text box: 16 folder: 20
        Letter, G. Dalls S. to George Peter
        1 pages
        1848 May 19English.
        Scope and Contents

        G. Dalls S., Colesville, to George Peter, Poolesville

      • Text box: 16 folder: 20
        Letter, Elisha Jones to George Peter
        1 pages
        1856 May 29English.
        Scope and Contents

        Elisha Jones, Clarksburg, to George Peter

    • Text box: 16 folder: 21
      Estate, David Peter Guardianship papers
      1817English.
      Scope and Contents

      Includes the papers granting George and Sarah Peter guardianship of David Peter's children Elizabeth, William, Jane, George H., and James.

    • Text box: 17 folder: 01
      Estate, Elizabeth Peter
      1 pages
      1822 December 16English.
    • Text box: 17 folder: 02
      Pamphlet, to the citizens of Montgomery County
      1823 September 15
    • Text box: 17 folder: 03
      Letters, B. Beverly to George Peter
      1823-1825
    • Text box: 17 folder: 04
      Accounts, George Peter
      1823-1898English.
    • Text box: 17 folder: 05
      Accounts, George Peter with C. Hardin
      1 pages
      1824 November 22English.
    • Text box: 17 folder: 05
      Accounts, George Peter with Thomas Poole
      1836-1850English.
    • Text box: 17 folder: 06
      Indenture, George Peter and Margaret Dick and Robert Dick
      3 pages
      1825 February 16English.
    • Text box: 17 folder: 07
      Indenture, George Peter and Sarah Freeland
      1825 November 10
    • Text box: 17 folder: 08
      Book of sales of George Peter
      1826-1841
      Scope and Contents

      trust, property, and expenses of land

    • Text box: 17 folder: 09
      Bills, George Peter
      1826-1855English.
      Scope and Contents

      material and clothing

    • Text box: 17 folder: 10
      Letters, to George Peter
      1826-ND
    • Text box: 17 folder: 11
      Receipt, Thomas Peter to Margaret Dick
      1 pages
      1827 November 7English.
      Scope and Contents

      Receipt for the purchase of Lot No. 15 in Square No. 170 in the City of Washington.

    • Text box: 17 folder: 12
      Letter, Samuel Governeur to George Peter
      1829 November 10
    • Text box: 17 folder: 13
      Account statements, Leonard Candler to George Peter
      1829-1849English.
      Scope and Contents

      Receipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.

    • Text box: 17 folder: 14
      Will, Sarah Freeland
      1831 February 24English.
      Scope and Contents

      3 copies of the will of Sarah Freeland, George Peter's mother-in-law.

    • Text box: 17 folder: 15
      Estate, Sarah Freeland
      1831 February 24
      Scope and Contents

      appraisal authorization of Alexander Broome and Samuel Darby

    • Text box: 17 folder: 16
      Receipt, Margaret Dick to W. Parsons
      1 pages
      1833English.
      Scope and Contents

      Accounts of Margaret Dick with William Parson. Includes an account for shoes soled and nailed for James Peter.

    • Text box: 17 folder: 17
      Subscriptions to Newspapers
      1833-1844
    • Text box: 17 folder: 18
      Receipts, George Peter
      4 Leaves
      1834-1856English.
      Scope and Contents

      Medical bills, pharmacy, doctor

    • Text box: 17 folder: 19
      Letters, F.S. Key and James Dunlop to George Peter
      1835-1836
    • Text box: 17 folder: 20
      Taxes
      1837-1840
    • Text box: 17 folder: 21
      Receipts, George Peter
      4 Leaves
      1839-1852English.
      Scope and Contents

      tuition bills

    • Text box: 17 folder: 22
      Pamphlet, Letter from the Secretary of State
      1841 December 23
    • Text box: 18 folder: 01
      Taxes
      1845-1848
    • Text box: 18 folder: 02
      Receipts, Seneca Mills to George Peter
      3 pages
      1846-1856English.
    • Text box: 18 folder: 03
      Pamphlet, Broadside, Taylor Meeting
      1848 March 6
    • Text box: 18 folder: 04
      Letters, Bounty Lands
      1850-1852
      Scope and Contents

      Letter, T.H. Paul to George Peter. Letter, Unknown to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States.

    • Text box: 18 folder: 05
      Taxes
      1850-1857
    • Text box: 18 folder: 06
      Account statements, Leonard W. Candler to George Peter
      1850-1866English.
      Scope and Contents

      Receipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.

    • Text box: 18 folder: 07
      Circular, Industrial Exhibition of 1851
      1850 October 25
    • Text box: 18 folder: 08
      Letters and Stock, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
      1853-1856
    • Text box: 18 folder: 09
      Pamphlet, Laws and Resolutions Relating to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
      1855
    • Text box: 18 folder: 10
      Will, George Peter
      Peter, George, 1779-1861
      4 pages
      1856 March 24English.
      Scope and Contents

      typescript copy

    • Realia box: 18 folder: 11
      Dried flowers
      1857 March 17
    • Realia box: 18 folder: 12
      Souvenir, Inauguration Ball for Grover Cleveland
      1885 March 4
    • Text box: 18 folder: 13
      Broadside, Lottery to Benefit St. Mary's College, undated
    • Text box: 18 folder: 14
      Estate, Inventory and Slave list owned by David Peter
      5 pages
      undatedEnglish.
    • Text box: 18 folder: 15
      Indenture, Robert Dick to Stephen N.C. White
      2 pages
      1800sEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      deed of conveyance

    • Text box: 18 folder: 16
      Indenture, George Peter to Thomas Peter
      3 pages
      1800sEnglish.
      Scope and Contents

      Indenture, George Peter to Thomas Peter, Land from estate of Robert Peter, Jr.

    • Text box: 18 folder: 17
      Letters, Mr. J.B. Beverley to W. G. Peter, undated
      Scope and Contents

      copies of letters

    • Text box: 18 folder: 18
      Letter, Georgetown and Tenallytown Railway Co., undated
Series 14. Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter
1853-1929
  • Subseries 14.1. Financial Documents
    • Text box: 19 folder: 01
      Bills and Receipts
      1861-1866
    • Text box: 19 folder: 02
      IRS Receipt for Special Tax, Occupation of Physician
      1863-1870
    • Text box: 19 folder: 03
      Bills and Receipts, livery and stables
      1866-1869
    • Text box: 19 folder: 04
      Bills and Receipts
      1867-1869
    • Text box: 19 folder: 05
      Bills and Receipts
      1870-1873
    • Text box: 19 folder: 06
      Bills and Receipts, livery and stables
      1870-1874
    • Text box: 19 folder: 07
      Pew Rent, Vestry of Christ church
      1864-1866
    • Text box: 19 folder: 08
      Receipt, total due George Peter from the estate of W.G. Peter
      1865 July 6
    • Text box: 19 folder: 09
      Checks, Farmers and Mechanics National Bank
      1868-1871
    • Text box: 19 folder: 10
      Interest, Farm in Montgomery County
      1872 November 23
    • Text box: 19 folder: 11
      Bills and Receipts
      1874-1875
    • Text box: 19 folder: 12
      Corcoran Fire Insurance Company Policy, House on 9th and Maryland Ave., SW
      1879 December 4
    • Text box: 19 folder: 13
      Proxy, Georgetown and Tenallytown Railway Company
      1894 January 26
    • Text box: 19 folder: 14
      Checks, Farmers and Mechanics National Bank
      1901-1902
  • Subseries 14.2. Business Documents
    • Text box: 19 folder: 15
      Military Exemption
      1863 August 26
      Scope and Contents

      Military exemption for Armistead Peter

    • Text box: 19 folder: 16
      Obstetric Engagements
      1863
    • Text box: 19 folder: 17
      Military Pass
      1864 August 17
    • Text box: 19 folder: 18
      Legal Documents
      1869-1876
      Scope and Contents

      Bill, George Peter, Esq. to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1869 February 11; Col. Richard L. Maury, Attorney, to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1876 October 10

    • Text box: 19 folder: 19
      Agreement, Build house in Montgomery County
      1879 July 1
    • Text box: 19 folder: 20
      Survey, 3044 O street
      1881 November 22
    • Text box: 19 folder: 21 and 22
      Letters, Building 3044 O street
      1882
    • Text box: 19 folder: 23
      Contract, Austin Herr, Fannie W. Herr, George W. Cissell, Thomas W. Smith, and Howard Davis
      1892 July 25
  • Subseries 14.3. Correspondence
    • Text box: 20 folder: 01
      Broadside, Taylor Meeting
      1848 March 6
      Scope and Contents

      Includes story of Abraham Lincoln and the Maryland Barbecue by Agnes Peter

    • Text box: 20 folder: 02
      Letter, to Walter Gibson Peter
      1862 April 15
    • Realia box: 20 folder: 03
      Mementos
      1863 February 13
      Scope and Contents

      Memento for either Walter Gibson Peter or W. Orton Williams from Mrs. Laura Cassaway, small American flag and small ivory mirror with flower [Fragile]

    • Text box: 20 folder: 04
      Letters, George Tiemann to Dr. Armistead Peter
      1863-1865
    • Text box: 20 folder: 05
      Letters, to Dr. Armistead Peter
      1865-1888
    • Text box: 20 folder: 06
      Letter, James Freeland Peter to brother, Armistead Peter
      1873 January 28
      Scope and Contents

      Includes receipt of letter, 1873 January 24. Letter regarding interest in farm from Robert Dick.

    • Text box: 20 folder: 07
      Letters, to Dr. Armistead Peter
      1892-1900
    • Text box: 20 folder: 08
      Letters, to Dr. Armistead Peter, undated
    • Text box: 20 folder: 09
      Letter, S. Weir Mitchell to Dr. Armistead Peter, undated
    • Text box: 20 folder: 10
      Letter, Kris Kringle to Anges Peter, undated
  • Subseries 14.4. Martha Custis Kennon Peter
    • Text box: 20 folder: 11
      Letter, E. Butler, Jr. to "Aunt Peter", Martha Custis Kennon Peter
      1853 June 24
    • Text box: 20 folder: 12
      Letter, "A Visit from St. Nicholas", copy by Martha Custis Kennon Peter
      1857 December 16
    • Text box: 20 folder: 13
      Letter, "A Prayer for the Friend", copy by Britannia Kennon to Martha Custis Kennon
      1862 June 27
    • Text box: 20 folder: 14
      Letter, W.D. Kennon to Martha Custis Kennon
      1866 May 6
    • Realia box: 20 folder: 15
      Letter, W.B. Sinclair to Martha Custis Kennon Peter
      1867 February 8
    • Text box: 20 folder: 16
      Letters, Martha Custis Kennon Peter to Dr. Armistead Peter
      1870-1885
    • Text box: 20 folder: 17
      Letters, Condolences for the death of Martha Custis Kennon Peter
      1886 September
    • Text box: 20 folder: 18
      Newspaper, Tudor Place
      1929 December 20
    • Text box: 20 folder: 19
      Tudor Place, Children's Division of Contents 1-3
    • Text box: 20 folder: 20
      Tudor Place, Children's Division of Contents 4-7
    • Text box: 20 folder: 21
      Tudor Place, Children's Division of Contents 8-11
    • Text box: 20 folder: 22
      Tudor Place, Children's Division of Contents 12-14
    • Text box: 20 folder: 23
      Tudor Place, Children's Division of Contents 15-17
    • Text box: 20 folder: 24
      Letters, to Martha Custis Kennon Peter from Lynnwood, undated
    • Text box: 20 folder: 25
      Notes, Dr. Armistead Peter to Martha Custis Kennon Peter, undated
      Scope and Contents

      lock of hair

    • Text box: 20 folder: 26
      Invitation, Mr. and Mrs. Kennon Peter, to view "pictures by Rossiter, now on exhibition at the Capitol", undated
Series 15. Papers of Agnes Peter
1888-undated
  • Text box: 21 folder: 01
    Report Cards
    1888-1889
  • Text box: 21 folder: 02
    Genealogical Studies, "Henderson Family in America," "William Dick of Edinbourgh," and "Kennon Family in Virginia"
    undated
  • Text box: 21 folder: 03
    Genealogical Studies, List of marriages from the 1500s, "Books of References", "Description of the Sheriffdom of Lanark and Renfrew", "Testament of James Law, Archbishop of Glasgow", and Peter Family Tree
    undated
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    Genealogical Studies, "Suggested reading from the Register House", "Description of Sheriffdom of Lenark and Renfrew", "Murray of Philiphaugh", "The History of Selkirkshire", "The History of Peebleshire"
    undated
    Scope and Contents

    From Binder 1

  • Text box: 21 folder: 05
    Genealogical Studies, "Dunlop References", "History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland", "The Drummonds", "Campbell, House of Argyll", "The Peter Family of Paisley"
    undated
    Scope and Contents

    From Binder 1

  • Text box: 21 folder: 06
    Genealogical Studies, "The History of Edinburgh", "Robert Mackildowny", "Dunlop"
    undated
    Scope and Contents

    From Binder 1

  • Text box: 21 folder: 07
    Genealogical Studies, "Timeline for Scottish and British History", "Census of 1776", "Story behind Washington, D.C.", "Glasgow Burgh Records", "The Stuarts at the College of Justice"
    undated
    Scope and Contents

    Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1

  • Text box: 21 folder: 08
    Genealogical Studies, "Thomas Peter of Paisley", "The History at Paisley", "Scottish Referendum"
    undated
    Scope and Contents

    Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1

  • Text box: 21 folder: 09
    Genealogical Studies, "History of Chapel-on-Leader", "History of the Stuarts", "George-town", "Henry Clay"
    undated
    Scope and Contents

    Genealogical Studies- Fragmented letter - From Binder 1

  • Text box: 21 folder: 10
    Genealogical Studies, "Copy of Letters from Dr. Armistead Peter and Britannia Kennon", "The Coat of Arms of General George Peter", "Description of Major George Peter"
    undated
    Scope and Contents

    Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1

  • Text box: 21 folder: 11
    Genealogical Studies, Travel Log, "History of Maryland", "Glassford Papers", "Marriage of Robert Peter's children", "Joshua Willard Parker", "Plan of Washington"
    undated
    Scope and Contents

    Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1

  • Text box: 21 folder: 12
    Genealogical Studies, Agnes Peter, Elizabeth Peter, "Georgetown during the Revolution", "The Importation of Tea", "John and James Peter", "Death of Major George Peter"
    undated
    Scope and Contents

    Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1

  • Text box: 21 folder: 13
    Envelopes, Agnes Peter
    1937 May 23
    Scope and Contents

    Four envelopes

  • Text box: 22 folder: 01
    Genealogical Studies, "Deed of Trust, Robert Peter and Gen. George Washington", "The Widow's Mite", "Georgetown, A Port of Entry"
    undated
  • Text box: 22 folder: 02
    Genealogical Studies, "Glassford and Company"
    undated
  • Text box: 22 folder: 03
    Genealogical Studies, Tobacco
    undated
  • Text box: 22 folder: 04
    Genealogical Studies, Scott Wills and Scott Holdings
    undated
  • Text box: 22 folder: 05
    Genealogical Studies, Walter Peter of Chapel descendants
    undated
    Scope and Contents

    Goes up to Britannia W. Peter Kennon -From Binder 1

  • Text box: 22 folder: 06
    Genealogical Studies, Dunlop descendants
    undated
  • Text box: 22 folder: 07
    Genealogical Studies, Peter family tree
    undated
  • Text box: 22 folder: 08
    Genealogical Studies, Kennon family tree
    undated
  • Text box: 22 folder: 09
    Genealogical Studies, Custis family tree
    undated
  • Text box: 22 folder: 10
    Genealogical Studies, Clavert family tree
    undated
  • Text box: 22 folder: 11
    Genealogical Studies, Robert Peter, "The History of Maryland", The Last Will"
    undated
  • Text box: 22 folder: 12
    Genealogical Studies, Robert Peter, "The Last Will"
    undated
  • Text box: 22 folder: 13
    Genealogical Studies, Blythswood and Campbell
    undated
  • Text box: 22 folder: 14
    Genealogical Studies, Dunlops
    undated
  • Text box: 22 folder: 15
    Genealogical Studies, Dunlops
    undated
  • Text box: 23 folder: 01
    Genealogical Studies, Dunlop of Garnkirk
    undated
  • Text box: 23 folder: 02
    Genealogical Studies, Roberton of Bedley
    undated
  • Text box: 23 folder: 03
    Genealogical Studies, Dunlop in America, Colquhoun of Luss, and Somerville of Cambusnethan
    undated
  • Text box: 23 folder: 04
    Genealogical Studies, Garnkirk, Dunlop of Scotland
    undated
  • Text box: 23 folder: 05
    Genealogical Studies, Dunlop of Scotland
    undated
  • Text box: 23 folder: 06
    Genealogical Studies, Peter of Crossbasket
    undated
  • Text box: 23 folder: 07
    Genealogical Studies, Peter of Crossbasket
    undated
  • Text box: 23 folder: 08
    Genealogical Studies, Cardarroch and Cadder
    undated
  • Text box: 23 folder: 09
    Genealogical Studies, Cardarroch and Cadder
    undated
  • Text box: 23 folder: 10
    Genealogical Studies, Crossbasket, Cordiner, Kirkwood, and Lockhead
    undated
  • Text box: 23 folder: 11
    Genealogical Studies, Ure
    undated
  • Text box: 23 folder: 12
    Genealogical Studies, Bellenden
    undated
  • Text box: 24 folder: 01
    Genealogical Studies, Whitslaid
    undated
  • Text box: 24 folder: 02
    Genealogical Studies, Whitslaid
    undated
  • Text box: 24 folder: 03
    Genealogical Studies, Whitslaid
    undated
  • Text box: 24 folder: 04
    Genealogical Studies, Hunter and Peter of Chappell
    undated
  • Text box: 24 folder: 05
    Genealogical Studies, Peter of Chappell
    undated
  • Text box: 24 folder: 06
    Genealogical Studies, Peter of Chappell
    undated
  • Text box: 24 folder: 07
    Genealogical Studies, Lindsay
    undated
  • Text box: 24 folder: 08
    Genealogical Studies, Home
    undated
  • Text box: 24 folder: 09
    Genealogical Studies, Scott in Scotland
    undated
  • Text box: 24 folder: 10
    Genealogical Studies, Scott in America
    undated
  • Text box: 24 folder: 11
    Genealogical Studies, Dalmahoy, Eleis, Nisbet, Udward
    undated
  • Text box: 24 folder: 12
    Genealogical Studies, Beverley and Calvert
    undated
  • Text box: 24 folder: 13
    Genealogical Studies, Dandridge and Custis
    undated
  • Text box: 24 folder: 14
    Genealogical Studies, Custis
    undated
  • Text box: 25 folder: 01
    Genealogical Studies, Evelyn, Freeland, Rowland Jones
    undated
  • Text box: 25 folder: 02
    Genealogical Studies, Maceon, Norfleet
    undated
  • Text box: 25 folder: 03
    Genealogical Studies, Peter in Perth
    undated
  • Text box: 25 folder: 04
    Genealogical Studies, Peter's of Dunnichen
    undated
  • Text box: 25 folder: 05
    Genealogical Studies, Arbroath
    undated
  • Text box: 25 folder: 06
    Genealogical Studies, Arbroath
    undated
  • Text box: 25 folder: 07
    Genealogical Studies, Canterland
    undated
  • Text box: 25 folder: 08
    Genealogical Studies, 18th Century
    undated
  • Text box: 25 folder: 09
    Genealogical Studies, 18th Century and Peter (Petrie)
    undated
  • Text box: 25 folder: 10
    Genealogical Studies, Notes and excerpts from books
    undated
  • Text box: 25 folder: 11
    Genealogical Studies, Notes and excerpts from books
    undated
  • Text box: 25 folder: 12
    Genealogical Studies, Notes and excerpts from books
    undated
  • Text box: 25 folder: 13
    Genealogical Studies, Notes and excerpts from books
    undated
Series 16. Oversize
1712-1932
  • Subseries 16.1 Martha Washington
    • Text box: 26 folder: 01
      Condolence letter, Alexander Hamilton to Martha Washington
      1800 January 12
      Scope and Contents

      Condolence letter

    • Text box: 26 folder: 02
      Condolence letter, Reverend John D. Blair to Martha Washington
      1800 March 27
  • Subseries 16.2 Thomas Law
    • Text box: 26 folder: 03
      Memorandum, Thomas Law and Tench Riggold
      1796 December 19
  • Subseries 16.3 Robert Peter
    • Text box: 26 folder: 04
      Indenture, Brightwolls Hunting
      1720 April 18, 1734 June 14
    • Text box: 26 folder: 05
      Indenture, Italy
      1712 September 12, 1748 March 25
    • Text box: 26 folder: 06
      Deed, Robert Peter to Adam Austin, Benjamin Becraft, Jr.
      1755 March 22
    • Text box: 26 folder: 07
      Indenture, Lucy's Delight
      1760 February 20, 1760 August 6
    • Text box: 26 folder: 08
      Indenture, Success
      1760 July 20, 1760 October 29
    • Text box: 26 folder: 09
      Indenture, The Vineyard, Mill Seat, Widow's Mite, Addition to the Vineyard
      1760 December 24
    • Text box: 26 folder: 10
      Indenture, James Coffee
      1763 December 16
    • Text box: 26 folder: 11
      Deed, Richard Henderson
      1764 February 20
      Scope and Contents

      Signed by Governor Horatio Sharpe

    • Text box: 26 folder: 12
      Resurvey, Brandy
      1764 May 20
    • Text box: 26 folder: 13
      Resurvey, Beggar's Lott, John Cobbs
      1766 February 15
    • Text box: 26 folder: 14
      Deed of Mortgage, Robert Ennis
      1765 October 17, 1766 October 28
    • Text box: 26 folder: 15
      Deed, John Wanford
      1766 October 8, 1766 November 19
    • Text box: 26 folder: 16
      Indenture, Peter Gwynn
      1766 October 29
    • Text box: 26 folder: 17
      Deed, Philip Holt
      1767 October 30, 1767 November 19
    • Text box: 26 folder: 18
      Indenture, Thomas Samuel, John Snowden, Sugar Land Lots, Sugar Bottom, Balantyre
      1767 November 24
    • Text box: 26 folder: 19
      Deed, David Ross, Sarah Needham, William Needham
      1768 January 13
    • Text box: 26 folder: 20
      Indenture, Richard Henderson
      1769 January 11
    • Text box: 26 folder: 21
      Deed, George Wetson
      1769 March 23-27
    • Text box: 26 folder: 22
      Deed, Thomas Birdwhistle to Robert Peter, The Second Resurvey on the Friend in Need
      1770 December 13-18
    • Text box: 26 folder: 23
      Deed, Samuel Beall, Ormes' Luck
      1772 March 21
    • Text box: 26 folder: 24
      Indenture, William Douglass, Goodwill
      1773 November 22
    • Text box: 26 folder: 25
      Deed, Adam Austin
      1773 December 9
    • Text box: 26 folder: 26
      Accounts, O.Neill and Deakins
      1774-1796
    • Text box: 26 folder: 27
      Accounts, William Deakins
      1776-1791
    • Text box: 26 folder: 28
      Resurvey, Crossbasket
      1783 May 24, 1783 July 30
    • Text box: 26 folder: 29
      Bill of Sale, William Talbott and Hezeiah Magruder
      1785 October 19
    • Text box: 26 folder: 30
      Field Notes, Georgetown
      1785
    • Text box: 26 folder: 31
      Survey, Addition to Bears Dean
      1789 January 12
    • Text box: 26 folder: 32
      Deed, William Hocker
      1789 December 14, 1790 January 17
    • Text box: 26 folder: 33
      Indenture, Thomas Birdwhistle
      1789 December 14, 1790 January 12
    • Text box: 26 folder: 34
      Indenture
      1791 September 30
      Scope and Contents

      Indenture, September 30, 1791; Resurvey of Forrest, 1796. Document signed by Gov. Haywood

    • Text box: 26 folder: 35
      Indenture, Blantyre
      1764 March 7, 1791 October 8
    • Text box: 26 folder: 36
      Deed, John D. Coffee
      1793 November 7
    • Text box: 26 folder: 37
      Plats and Courses, Adjoining Belts Buckle
      1793 December
    • Text box: 26 folder: 38
      Plats and Certificate, Resurvey of Thrice Enlarged
      1795 June 17
    • Text box: 26 folder: 39
      Resurvey, Stephen Newton Chiswell
      1796 March 4
    • Text box: 26 folder: 40
      Deed, Philip Hocker
      1797 August 24, 1797 December 14
    • Text box: 26 folder: 41
      Resurvey, Pipe Tomhock
      1766-1798
      Scope and Contents

      Resurvey of Pipe Tomhock; Copy of Platt (sic) and Illustrations, August 14, 1798; July 11, 1766, Explanation of Survey, September 19, 1797, May 26, 1796, February 16, 1797

    • Text box: 26 folder: 42
      Deed, Elizabeth and John Scrivenor
      1792-1799
      Scope and Contents

      Deed, Elizabeth and John Scrivenor, April 18, 1799, June 11, 1799, Resurvey of Brandy, June 9, 1792, June 18, 1792

    • Text box: 26 folder: 43
      Bill of Sale, William Smith
      1799 September 11
    • Text box: 26 folder: 44
      Resurvey, the Beginning
      1800 September 10
    • Text box: 26 folder: 45
      Accounts, adjustment of Deakins
      1800 October 17
    • Text box: 26 folder: 46
      Indenture, John McDonald to Robert Peter, Fork of Grubby Hill
      1802 January 27
    • Text box: 26 folder: 47
      Resurvey, Pipe Tomahawk, Thomas, George, and David Peter
      1803 March 4
      Scope and Contents

      December 24, 1871, wrapper

    • Text box: 26 folder: 48
      Annexed Plats, Charles Hungerford, Friendship and Aix la Chappelle
      1804 June 26
    • Text box: 26 folder: 49
      Estate, Draft
      1806-1809
    • Text box: 26 folder: 50
      Estate, Deceased at Slashes Quarters
      1808 January 25
    • Text box: 26 folder: 51
      Plat, Peter Brothers, Sugarlands
      1808 May 21
    • Text box: 26 folder: 52
      Contract, Bernard Gilpin bound to Thomas Peter
      1809 July
      Scope and Contents

      Bernard Gilpin firmly bound to Thomas Peter for $5520

    • Text box: 26 folder: 53
      Indenture, Aquila Johns
      1810 October 3, 1811 March 16
    • Text box: 26 folder: 54
      Will and Testament, Robert Peter
      1812 August 29
    • Text box: 26 folder: 55
      Plat, Mount Pleasant
      undated, circa 1840
      Scope and Contents

      wove paper

    • Text box: 26 folder: 56
      Account Book 1, Robert Peter, photocopy, undated
      Scope and Contents

      Photocopy, "Account Book 1, Robert Peter, Esq. with the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings; On division of the Tract, Mexico within the City of Washington, Exclusive of what are called "Old divisions of squares" and water lots of which no account is key by the Commissioners. 21 pp. Note from Walter Gibson Peter re: History of book, how it ended up in the Library of Congress Thomas Peter

    • Text box: 26 folder: 57
      Plat, Forrest, undated
    • Text box: 26 folder: 58
      Wrapper, papers relating to Sugar Bottom, undated
  • Subseries 16.4 Britannia W. Peter
    • Text box: 26 folder: 59
      Commission, Beverley Kennon, Lieutenant, USN
      1813 July 24
      Scope and Contents

      signed by James Madison, B. Crowninshield, Secretary of the Navy

    • Text box: 26 folder: 60
      Oak Hill Cemetery Company, Lots
      1865 July 31
    • Text box: 26 folder: 61
      Expression of Loss, Britannia Kennon from the Trustees of the Louise Home
      1911
  • Subseries 16.5 Major George Peter
    • Text box: 27 folder: 01
      Muster Rolls
      1792-1803
    • Text box: 27 folder: 02
      Plan of Nineteen Manoevurs, Lt. J. English
      1801
    • Text box: 27 folder: 03
      Military Papers, General James Wilkinson
      1804-1806
    • Text box: 27 folder: 04
      Deed and Survey, Sugarlands
      1806 December 28
    • Text box: 27 folder: 05
      Bond, Isaiah and Edward Nicholls
      1810 December 14
    • Text box: 27 folder: 06
      Plats, Seneca Quarry Farm
      1810 August 1, 1889 November
    • Text box: 27 folder: 07
      Commission
      1813 April 19
      Scope and Contents

      James Madison signature

    • Text box: 27 folder: 08
      Survey, Washington Bowie
      1817 March 18
    • Text box: 27 folder: 09
      Stock Certificates, Georgetown and Leesburg Turnpike, Co.
      1817 August 20
    • Text box: 27 folder: 10
      Letter, from Mr. Beverley Kennon
      1824
      Scope and Contents

      The most important ones delivered to F.S. Keys Esq. and recorded in suit pending in Court Dt. Columbia

    • Text box: 27 folder: 11
      Broadside, Nineteenth Congress Session, List of Members of Senate and House
      1825 December 5, 1826 May 22
    • Text box: 27 folder: 12
      Correspondence
      1852-1854
      Scope and Contents

      9 manuscripts

    • Text box: 27 folder: 13
      Newspapers, Maryland
      1820,1847,1855
    • Text box: 27 folder: 14
      Newspapers, Maryland
      1811, 1831, 1836, 1848, 1854
    • Text box: 27 folder: 15
      Newspapers, New Jersey and Philadelphia
      1778, 1792, 1817
    • Text box: 27 folder: 16
      Newspapers, New York
      1790, 1848
    • Text box: 27 folder: 17
      Newspapers, Massachusetts
      1795
    • Text box: 27 folder: 18
      Newspapers, Washington, D.C.
      1809, 1829, 1847, 1881
    • Text box: 27 folder: 19
      Newspapers, Washington, D.C.
      1798, 1814, 1847, 1855
    • Text box: 27 folder: 20
      Newspapers, Washington, D.C.
      1848, 1857
    • Text box: 27 folder: 21
      Newspapers, Washington, D.C.
      1824, 1836, 1882
    • Text box: 27 folder: 22
      Newspaper Fragments, Political, undated
    • Text box: 27 folder: 23
      Newspaper Fragments, Market Value, undated
    • Text box: 27
      Scrapbook, Walter Gibson Peter, undated
  • Subseries 16.6 Dr. Armistead Peter
    • Text box: 27 folder: 24
      Survey, Kennebeck River
      1826
      Scope and Contents

      under the orders of Lt. Col. E. Robert, USTE

    • Text box: 27 folder: 25
      Newspapers, The American Whig, The National Republican
      1848, 1881
    • Text box: 27 folder: 26
      Potomac Insurance Co
      1882-1883
      Scope and Contents

      Building 3044 O Street

  • Subseries 16.7 Agnes Peter
    • Text box: 27 folder: 27
      Bounty Lands
      1894-1948
      Scope and Contents

      copies

    • Text box: 27 folder: 28
      YMCA Certificates, National War Work Council for loyal service
      1918-1921
  • Subseries 16.8 Miscellaneous
    • Text box: 27 folder: 29
      Indenture, Daniel Carroll and Stephen Lewis
      1742 March 3, 1742 March 24
    • Text box: 27 folder: 30
      Indenture, Michael Jones to Thomas MacPherson
      1744 May 26, 1744 June 28
    • Text box: 27 folder: 31
      Indenture, Michael Dowden, Luck's All Beginning
      1748 January 1
    • Text box: 27 folder: 32
      Act, Charles Carroll, John Bradford, Daniel Carroll, An act to remedy the defects in an indenture of Bargain and Sale,
      1748 May 30, 1748 June 13
    • Text box: 27 folder: 33
      Indenture, William Ross and Sarah Needham
      1758 July 15
    • Text box: 27 folder: 34
      Land Patent, Prince George's County
      1762 September 29
      Scope and Contents

      Includes Allison's Forrest Enlarged; Fort Grubby Hill, July 1, 1732

    • Text box: 27 folder: 35
      Plat and Certificate, Doe Neck
      1764 March 5
      Scope and Contents

      Includes Indenture, Daniel Veetch, February 19, 1758 Document signed by Gov. Horatio Sharpe

    • Text box: 27 folder: 36
      Resurvey, The Cheat
      1715 August 20, 1760 March 3
    • Text box: 27 folder: 37
      Deed, George Scott to Notley Young
      1765 August 27
    • Text box: 27 folder: 38
      Indenture, Robert Dawes, William Rider, Trinity
      1768 August 17
    • Text box: 27 folder: 39
      Deed, William Wickman to Neal Magginis
      1781 January 1-3
    • Text box: 27 folder: 40
      Deed, Tyson Beall to Thomas Allen Beall
      1789 December 8, 1790 March 8
      Scope and Contents

      Bathsheba

    • Text box: 27 folder: 41
      Indenture, Charles Gassaway to Thomas Plater
      1801 September 19-25
    • Text box: 27 folder: 42
      Indenture, Joseph Milligan and Anna Reinagle
      1814 April 1
    • Text box: 27 folder: 43
      Survey, Conjurors Disappointment, Frogland
      1815 September 15
    • Text box: 27 folder: 44
      Map, view of the city of Washington
      1792, 1911, inscribed 1914 December 3
    • Text box: 27 folder: 45
      Letter, Lawerence Martin, Chief of Division of Map, Library of Congress to Walter Gibson Peter, Vaughn Plan of Mount Vernon
      1932 July 17
Series 17. Photographs
1800-1889
  • Graphic Materials box: 28 folder: 01
    Photographs, Thomas and Martha Peter
    Scope and Contents

    First found in Thomas Peter's Letterbooks

  • Graphic Materials box: 28 folder: 02
    Photograph, Mary Custis Lee
  • Graphic Materials box: 28 folder: 03
    Photographs, Survey, Ivory Cross
    Scope and Contents

    Photos, Photos from Survey (4) and Ivory Cross [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon] Interesting small religious carved cross, made from Mother-of-Pearl

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    Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits and Relics
    1889
    Scope and Contents

    Letter, William A. Coffin to Britannia Kennon, February 23, 1889; Brouchure for Exhibition, April 30, 1889; Letter, A. W. Drake to Britannia Kennon, January 29, 1889, May 16, 1889, including: carte de visite of George Washington and calling card of Mr. A. W. Drake (Photo) [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon]

  • Graphic Materials box: 28 folder: 05
    Photographs, Tudor Place
    Scope and Contents

    First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon

  • Graphic Materials box: 28 folder: 06
    Photograph and envelope, George Peter
    Scope and Contents

    First found in Papers of Major George Peter

  • Graphic Materials box: 28 folder: 07
    Photographs, Grave site and house
    Scope and Contents

    First found in Major George Peter's Letterbooks

  • Graphic Materials box: 28 folder: 08
    Photograph, Carte de Viste
    Scope and Contents

    Frenzel Gallery, Georgetown. Moved from Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.

  • Graphic Materials box: 28 folder: 09
    Photographs, Cartes de Viste
    Scope and Contents

    Includes Sir Thomas Nicholson, William Scott Blair, General Scott of Malenie, Robert Buchanan, William Dunlop, Elizabeth Roberton, J. Horsburgh, Lord Abbots Hall, Isabel Corbet, Cunningham Scott. First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.

  • Graphic Materials box: 28 folder: 10
    Letter and photograph, Mildred Lee to Martha Custis Kennon Peter
    Scope and Contents

    First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter

  • Graphic Materials box: 29
    Photographs Album, Cartes de Visite
    Scope and Contents

    Containing photographs of Peter relatives

  • Graphic Materials box: 29
    Photographs Album, Tudor Place and Peter Family
    Scope and Contents

    Pictures of Tudor Place, Vacation, Content Farm, Ellen Beale Peter 1931 (Walter Gibson's Wife) Made by Walter Gibson Peter, [Loose photographs], Half Full.

  • Graphic Materials box: 30 folder: 01
    Glass plate negative, John Parke Custis miniature
  • Graphic Materials box: 30 folder: 02
    Glass plate negative, George and Martha Washington miniatures
  • Graphic Materials box: 30 folder: 03
    Glass plate negative, Verso of George and Martha Washington miniatures
  • Graphic Materials box: 30 folder: 04
    Glass plate negative, Martha Washington miniature
  • Graphic Materials box: 30 folder: 01
    Glass plate negative, Alexander Hamilton to Martha Washington
    1800 January 12
  • Graphic Materials box: 31 folder: 02
    Glass plate negative, Henry Knox to Martha Washington
    1800 January 17
  • Graphic Materials box: 31 folder: 03
    Glass plate negative, G.W. Lafayette to Martha Washington
    1800 March 24
  • Graphic Materials box: 31 folder: 04
    Glass plate negative, blank plate
  • Graphic Materials box: 31
    Photographs Album
    1873
Series 18. Letterbooks, Notebooks, and Bound Volumes
1685-1932
  • Text box: 35
    Letterbook, letters, newspaper articles, legal documents, plats and surveys
    1685-1805
    Scope and Contents

    Elizabeth Peter, wife of Robert Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter [Note: Some loose pages]

  • Text box: 37
    Account book, tobacco book, negros the property of Robert Peter taken November, lots in the city of Washington
    Peter, Robert, 1726-1806
    178 pages
    1784-1797
    Scope and Contents

    Book of tobacco sales, list of enslaved persons belonging to Robert Peter, and lots of Robert Peter in the City of Washington with division by squares for the Commissioners and how they are disposed. The bound volume is made up of 178 pages. Pages 52-147 are blank. At some point the volume is flipped and entries are begun at the back of the book from pages 178-154. For viewing purposes those pages have been reoriented and reordered.

  • Text box: 37
    Letterbook, Business letters of Robert Peter
    2 Volumes 21 x 34 cm. Bound leather volume, embossed with Letter Book on front cover.
    1785
    Scope and Contents

    "Tobacco Book," All letters received pertaining to his business of selling tobacco in Europe and trading across the Atlantic, including captains, lawyers, and buyers in Europe.

  • Text box: 41
    Letterbook, letters and papers of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Peter
    1798
    Scope and Contents

    Includes personal letters that were sent to the family, photocopied letters from Thomas and General Washington, various financial papersNot in order [Documents are fragile and book in poor condition]. Made by Walter Gibson Peter.

  • Mixed Materials box: 34
    Scrapbook, relating to the estate of Martha Washington
    1800-1831
    Scope and Contents

    Contains photographs and letters. Created by Walter Gibson Peter, received documents from Britannia W. Peter Kennon.

  • Text box: 39
    Estate, Thomas Dick
    1 Volumes fragile 21 x 34 cm
    1803
  • Text box: 38
    Letterbook, Major George Peter
    1 Volumes 26 x 36 cm, bound red leather.
    1805-1855
    Scope and Contents

    Commissions, Letters, Orders, etc. Relating to service in the U.S. Army and Major Georgetown Field Artillery, Created by Walter Gibson Peter. Items signed by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

  • Text box: 37
    Orderly Book, Major George Peter
    1 Volumes 21 x 33 cm bound volume
    1806-1808
    Scope and Contents

    Corps of the Artillerists, New Orleans and Fort McHenry, Garrison and Regimental Orders, Major George Peter; Order and prisoner tries and punishments, List from Fort McHenry, Morning Reports [Note: Book in poor condition]

  • Text box: 38
    Major George Peter's Real Estate Ledger
    1 Volumes 20 x 33 cm
    1809-1813
    Scope and Contents

    Ledger of real estate holdings of George Peter with Robert Peter and James Peter [pages 2-17]. Also includes, "The following Table exhibits a view of the Squares and Lots, the Number of square feet therein contained, and the value of the same, now owned by Capt. George Peter, in the City of Washington" [pages 74-78]. Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 88 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-7, 10-11, 14-17, 74, 76, and 78. The remaining page are blank. In 1813, the ledger is flipped and a single page (page 88) includes a list of names under the title 'Rent Roll for 1813.'

  • Text box: 36
    Daybook, Thomas Peter for the estate of Robert Peter
    1 Volumes 21 x 33 cm. Bound volume.
    1809-1832
  • Text box: 32
    Pocket Remembrancer
    1811
    Scope and Contents

    First found in Papers of Major George Peter

  • Music box: 39
    Music book, Columbia W. Peter
    1 Volumes
    1812
    Scope and Contents

    Lessons and Exercises in Vocal Music by Benjamin Carr

  • Text box: 40
    Letterbook, Beverley Kennon, Beverley Kennon II, and Britannia Peter Kennon
    1 Volumes 27 x 36 cm
    1814-1911
    Scope and Contents

    Contains letters, pictures, U.S. Navy Commissions (James Madison, John Tyler, and Franklin Pierce), invitations, and a memorandum of Britannia and Beverley made by Walter Gibson Peter- Grandson to Britannia.

  • Text box: 41
    Letterbook, Major George Peter
    1815-1856
    Scope and Contents

    After resigning from the army, notes made from Walter George Peter. Includes letters, a list of enlaved people from Montanaverde, bills, and business transactions.

  • Text box: 38
    Repairs book for real estate of Robert Peter, Jr.
    1 Volumes 20 x 33 cm
    1816
    Scope and Contents

    Repairs made on properties of Robert Peter, Jr. Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 98 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-5, 8-23, and 26-33. The remaining page are blank.

  • Text box: 33
    The Gentleman's Annual Pocket Remembrancer
    1818
    Scope and Contents

    First found in Papers of Major George Peter

  • Text box: 33
    The Gentleman's Annual Pocket Remembrancer
    1819
    Scope and Contents

    First found in Papers of Major George Peter

  • Text box: 42
    Account book, David Peter Estate
    1833-1857
  • Text box: 40
    Copybook, Edmund Law Rogers at Tudor Place
    1849 February 1-2
    Scope and Contents

    Copies made February 1 and 2, 1849 by Edmund Law Rogers at Tudor Place, the residence of his Great-Aunt Martha Peter.

  • Text box: 39
    Account book, St. John's Church
    1850 June 5
    Scope and Contents

    Communion Alms, Christmas and Easter Offerings, June 5, 1850. In Memory of Mrs. Britannia Wellington Kennon, From the Trustees of the Louise Home, 1911.

  • Text box: 39
    Account books, Britannia Peter
    1854, 1855, 1854-1856, 1858-1859
    Scope and Contents

    Four account books. Account Money paid for the Estate of Mrs. Martha Peter

  • Text Shelf: K : 6
    Bible, belonging to Martha Custis Kennon
    767 pages leather bound in poor condition 11 x 18 cm
    1854English.
  • Text box: 39
    Sketchbook, Martha Kennon Peter
    1 Volumes 20 x 17 cm
    1857 October 9
  • Text box: 45
    Daily journal, Dr. Armistead Peter
    1862-1865
    Scope and Contents

    "Commenced the practice of medicine the latter end of March 1867. Left town the first of May 1867 and returned June 28th- recommended practicing 8th of July, etc., Expense Log and Visiting List"

  • Text box: 44
    Physician's Visiting List
    1863-1896
    Scope and Contents

    First found in Dr. Armistead Peter's files. 9 volumes, dated 1863, 1866, 1870, 1873, 1876, 1878, 1889, 1892, and 1896.

  • Text box: 46
    Account book, Dr. Armistead Peter
    1865-1870
  • Text box: 45
    Account book, Dr. Armistead Peter
    1872-1875
    Scope and Contents

    List of patients from practice and paid or unpaid, in alphabetical order, Bills Due, Cash Paid to Mrs. Peter, other accounts, small pox vaccination count

  • Text box: 32
    Calendar holder, empty
    1903
  • Text box: 40
    In Memory of Mrs. Britannia Wellington Kennon
    1911
  • Text box: 39
    Album, Britannia Peter
    1 Volumes 18 x 24 cm. Bound black volume, with gold embossed Album on the front cover.
    Scope and Contents

    Notes on visits, family seal, copied letters, list of articles from Mount Vernon, notes about clothes and jewelry; Copy of Album was acquired by Martha Custis Peter, great-great granddaughter to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, which Britannia had given to her grandson, Walter Gibson Peter. Her father was Walter Gibson Peter, Jr.

  • Text box: 39
    Album, Miss Britannia W. Peter Kennon
    1 Volumes 13 x 14 cm. Gold Gilt.
    Scope and Contents

    contains dried flowers

  • Graphic Materials box: 43
    Album, Postcards, Britannia W. Peter Kennon
  • Graphic Materials box: 42
    Album, Postcards, Britannia W. Peter Kennon
    Scope and Contents

    Includes folders of France and WWI soldiers

  • Realia box: 39
    Handkerchief, belonging to Britannia W. Kennon
  • Text box: 36
    History of the Dunlop Family
    1 Volumes 19 x 21cm. Bound blue leather.
  • Text box: 35
    Letterbook, Landholdings of Robert Peter as divided among his heirs
    Scope and Contents

    Contains deeds, inventories, and papers pertaining to Robert Peter's estates and his sons, Robert, James, David, George, and Thomas. Various notes about David Peter's death, and letters from George Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter. [Note: There are loose pages]

  • Music box: 36
    Music book, Columbia W. Peter
    1 Volumes 25 x 35 cm. Bound volume, with name Columbia W. Peter embossed on front cover.
    Scope and Contents

    Includes voice and music notes for the saxon ground, will you come to the bower, nobody coming to marry me, the rose, rondo, and others.

  • Graphic Materials box: 32
    Pocket Remembrancer, lockets of hair
    Scope and Contents

    First found in Papers of Major George Peter

  • Text box: 46
    Scrapbook, Newspaper articles on George Washington and descendants
  • Graphic Materials box: 47
    Scrapbook, Locks of hair
  • Mixed Materials box: 48
    The illustrated London new coronation record number 1937
    1 Volumes
    1937English.
  • Mixed Materials box: 48
    The illustrated London news, coronation week double number
    1 Volumes
    1937 May 8English.
    Scope and Contents

    No. 5116, volume 190, covering the coronation of George VI.

  • Mixed Materials box: 48
    Christmas, an American annual of Christmas literature and art, volume 6
    1 Volumes
    1936English.
  • Text box: 48
    Monuments of Washington's patriotism
    1 Volumes
    1838English.
    Scope and Contents

    Printed volume, includes a facsimile handwritten section entitled "accounts, G. Washington with the United States, commencing June 1775, and ending June 1773, comprehending a space of eight years."

  • Text box: 48
    General Washington's revolutionary book of accounts, completely in his own handwriting in facsimile, by Peter Force
    1 Volumes
    1838English.
  • Text box: 49
    Notebook, A Collection of facts pertaining to the Peter family in America the Indians who inhabited this country and Georgetown on the Potomac