Ralph Wormeley papers, 1783-1802, Middlesex and Richmond counties, Virginia [microform] : also Great Britain, accession number 1939

Author: Wormeley, Ralph, 1744-1806
Published: Bethesda, MD : University Publications of America, [2001]
Copyright Date: ©2001
Physical Description: 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
Additional Creators: University of Virginia. Library

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Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Series E, Selections from the University of Virginia Library. Part 6, Virginia plantations ; reel.40-0031

Summary

The collection includes a letterbook,1783-1802, of Ralph Wormeley (1745-1806), tobacco planter of Rosegill, Middlesex County, Va., to British merchants and other Virginia residents. Topics include sale and shipping of tobacco, insurance on tobacco cargo, claims against the United States for reimbursement of war losses and pre-Revolutionary debts, and effects of American legislation on commerce. Topics also include the sale of tobacco for John Tayloe's estate, guardianship of John Tayloe's son, the benefits of English education and Eton, opinion of the U.S. Constitution, sale and delivery of African American slaves (1797), and the sudden insanity and death of Ralph Wormeley's son (1801).

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Tayloe, John, 1721-1779—Estate
Wormeley, Ralph, 1744-1806—Archives
Eton College—History—Sources
African Americans—Virginia—History—18th century—Sources
Commercial law—United States—History—1783-1815—Sources
Constitutional history—United States—Sources
Decedents' estates—Virginia—History—18th century—Sources
Education—England—History—Sources
Guardian and ward—Virginia—History—Sources
Marine insurance—United States—History—18th century—Sources
Mental illness—Virginia—History—Sources
Merchants—Great Britain—History—18th century—Sources
Plantation owners—Virginia—History—18th century—Sources
Slave trade—Virginia—History—18th century—Sources
Enslaved persons—Virginia—History—18th century—Sources
Tobacco industry—Virginia—Middlesex County—History—Sources
Great Britain—History—War of American Independence, 1775-1783—Claims
Middlesex County (Va.)—History—Sources
United States—History—Revolution, 1775-1783—Claims
Virginia—History—18th century—Sources

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Ralph Wormeley papers, 1783-1802, Middlesex and Richmond counties, Virginia [microform] : also Great Britain, accession number 1939

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