Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Isaac Zane Letter to Benjamin Williams or John Croudson, Manuscript #MS 1935.1, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Acquisition Information

Purchase, 1935

Biographical Information

None available.

Scope and Content

Concerns the Williamsburg Convention and mentions the election of Patrick Henry as Governor and the appointment of a Privy Council. Dunmore is still on Gwynns Island. A vessel was sent to Martinico {sic} {Martinique} with the news of the Declaration of Independence, and reports that the French are pleased. Ha s been busy with business transactions, including dealings with John Backhouse of Liverpool, Benjamin Fawcett, James Hunter, Joseph Jones, Edward McGuire, James Madison, Henry Mitchell, William Moore, John Pemberton, and Martin Pickett. Gives orders to begin manufacturing cannon balls.

Arrangement

1 item.

Index Terms

Persons:

• Backhouse, John
• Croudson, John
• Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809
• Fawcett, Benjamin
• Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799
• Hunter, James
• Jones, Joseph, 1727-1805
• Madison, James, 1751-1836
• McGuire, Edward, d. 1806
• Mitchell, Henry
• Moore, William
• Pemberton, John, 1727-1795
• Pickett, Martin
• Williams, Benjamin, fl. 1776
• Zane, Isaac, 1743-1795

Corporate Names:

• United States. Army - Ordnance and ordnance stores
• Virginia. Convention (1776)

Subjects:

• Iron industry and trade - Maryland - History - Revolution - 1775-1783
• Merchants - Virginia - Biography

Geographical Names:

• United States - History - Revolution - 1775-1783 - Foreign public opinion
• Virginia - History - Revolution - 1775-1783