Use Restrictions

Public Domain. There are no known restrictions.

Access Restrictions

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Alternative Form Available

This document was digitized and is available here.

Preferred Citation

Letter from Joseph Janney of Leesburg, Virginia, C0357, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Acquisition Information

The donor is unknown.

Processing Information

Reprocessing completed by Amanda Brent in June 2019. EAD markup completed by Amanda Brent in June 2019. This collection used to be a part of the Virginia historical documents collection, C0034.

Historical Information

The town of Leesburg, Virginia was established in 1758. After originally being in the possession of Lord Thomas Fairfax, the land on which Leesburg would be founded was eventually sold to Francis Awbrey in 1730. By 1757 the site was chosen as the location for the Loudoun County Courthouse by the Assembly of Virginia, which led to the town being officially named Leesburg, after the Lee family, the following year.

Scope and Content

Letter from Joseph Janney of Leesburg, Virginia concerning the shipment of goods, written in 1773.

Arrangement

This is a single item collection.

Related Material

The Special Collections Research Center also holds many other collections on historic Virginia, including the Randolph H. Historical Virginia collection.

The Thomas Balch Library holds many records on Leesburg, Loudoun County, and local Virginia history.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Leesburg (Va.)
• Shipping
• Virginia, Northern
• Virginia, Northern -- History