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Preferred Citation

Burwell Family Papers, Manuscript MS 64.4, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Acquisition Information

Purchase, 1964.

Alternative Form

All but the printed materials are available on microfilm M-1557, and M-1558. Some items are available in transcription TR/06 and TR/59.

Biographical/Historical Information

Carter Burwell of James City County studied at the College of William and Mary in 1734. He married Lucy Ludwell Grymes.

Nathaniel Burwell, born in 1750, was the son of Carter and Lucy Burwell. He inherited Carter's Grove but moved to Clark County in the Shenandoah Valley where he built and lived in Carter Hall. He married Susanna Grymes in 1772. She bore him eight children before her death in 1788. After Susanna's death, Burwell married Lucy Page Baylor who also bore him eight children. He died in 1814.

Scope and Content Information

Account books kept by Carter Burwell (1716-1756) and his son, Nathaniel Burwell (1750-1814), for their plantation, Carter's Grove, James City County, Va. One account book contains accounts of their neighbor, James Bray (d. 1744), who ran a tannery and shoemaking shop at his plantation; others contain accounts for the building of Carter's Grove. Also, a Book of Common Prayer and a Bible owned by Carter Burwell and four stud horse advertisements and an equine poster concerning the pedigree and performance of the "late Eclipse."

Accounts include the names of James Anderson, Gov. Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, John Bracken, Mrs. Ann Burwell, Armistead Burwell, John Carter, George Charleton, Josiah Chowning, Mrs. Davenport, Dr. John Minson Galt, William Gooch, Philip Grymes, Matthew Hubbard, William Moody, Hugh Nelson, John Norton, Dr. William Pasteur, Dr. John de Sequeyra, Richard Taliaferro, William Trebell, Robert Waller, Henry Wetherburn, Thomas Wharton, Ralph Wormeley, and many others.

Index Terms

Family Names:

• Burwell family.

Persons:

• Anderson, James, ca. 1740-1809.
• Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, Baron de, ca. 1718-1770.
• Bracken, John, d. 1818.
• Burwell, Armistead.
• Burwell, Carter, 1716- 1756.
• Burwell, Ann.
• Burwell, Nathaniel, 1750-1814.
• Carter, John.
• Charleton, George.
• Chowning, Josiah, d. 1772.
• Davenport, Mrs.
• De Sequeyra, John, 1712-1795.
• Galt, John M., 1744-1808.
• Gooch, William, Sir, 1681- 1751.
• Grymes, Philip.
• Hubbard, Matthew
• Moody, William.
• Nelson, Hugh.
• Norton, John 1719-1777.
• Pasteur, William, d. 1791.
• Taliaferro, Richard, d. ca. 1789.
• Trebell, William, d. 1789.
• Waller, Robert.
• Wetherburn, Henry, d. 1760.
• Wharton, Thomas, ca. 1712-ca. 1748.
• Wormeley, Ralph, 1715- 1790.

Subjects:

• Horses--Breeding.
• Plantations--Virginia--James City County.
• Shoemakers--Virginia.
• Tanning--Virginia.
• Architecture, Colonial--Virginia--James City County.
• Horse shows--Virginia.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Ledgers (account books)--Virginia--James City County--19th century.
• Obituaries-- Virginia--19th century.

Geographical Names:

• Carter's Grove (Va.)