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Williamsburg, Virginia
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Finding Aid Authors: Special Collections Staff.
Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation:
Dangerfield Lewis Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information:
Purchased: 1,173 items, 1930.
Biographical Information:
Dangerfield Lewis and his father George
Lewis were residents of
King
George
County
, Virginia.
George
Lewis was the son of Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington, the sister of
George
Washington. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research
Center Wiki: .
Scope and Contents
Letters, accounts, and legal papers of Dangerfield Lewis of "Marmion" and "Chatterton," King
George
County
, Northern Neck, Virginia. His correspondence concerns plantation management.
The collection includes account books, 1821-1829 as well as agreements with overseers, bonds for the hiring of enslaved persons and papers concerning escaped enslaved persons.
Also includes accounts, 1816-1846, of his father George
Lewis, son of Col. Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington (sister of
George
Washington). There is a letter [1801 ?] from an enslaved person to John A. Lomax and other correspondence of the John Tayloe
Lomax family of "Menokin", Richmond
County
, Virginia. Correspondents include William F. Grymes, John Taliaferro, and Henry T. Washington.
Arrangement of Materials:
Organization: This collection has been organized into 3 series: 1. Letters, 2. Accounts, 3. Papers. Series 1. Letters, has been divided into the following subseries: 1. Dated Letters, 2. Fragmentary and Undated Letters. Series 2. Accounts, has been divided into the following subseries: 1. Accounts of Dangerfield Lewis, 2. Accounts of Various Persons. Arrangement: Each series are arranged chronologically by date.
Related Material
Mss. Acc. 2006.06 Plat of "Marmion" in King
George
County
, Virginia
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Agriculture--Southern States--History--19th century
- Agriculture--Virginia--19th century
- Chatterton (
King
George
County
, Va.)
- Correspondence
- Financial records
- Fugitive slaves--Virginia
- Lawyers--Virginia--History
- Legal documents
- Lewis,
George
, d. 1821
- Lomax, John A
- Lomax, John Tayloe, 1781-1862
- Marmion (
King
George
County
, Va.)
- Menokin (Richmond
County
, Va.)
- Plantation life
- Plantations
- Slavery--Virginia--19th century
- Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century
General
Other Information:
Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00025.frame
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Lewis, Dangerfield
- Lewis, George
- Lewis, George, d. 1821
- Lomax, John A
- Lomax, John A.
- Lomax, John Tayloe, 1781-1862
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Chatterton (King George County, Va.)
- Marmion (King George County, Va.)
- Menokin (Richmond County, Va.)
Container List
Folder: 1-2. 69 items.
- id165973
Letters1799-1852Scope and Contents
Folder 1-2. 60 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165974
1799-1829 Letters
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165975
William Bronaugh to [?].1799
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165976 21 Nov 1800
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165977
30 June 1801 [?]
Scope and Contents
Probably a black slave driver.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165978 2 Dec 1810
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165979 23 Dec 1810
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165980 3 June 1811
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165981 29 Nov 1812
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165982
John Tayloe Lomax, at Menokin, to Dangerfield Lewis, at Chatterton.3 Jan 1813
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165983 29 Nov 1815
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165984 15 March 1816
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165985
John Tayloe Lomax, at Menokin, to [?].1 July 1816
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165986
D[angerfield] L[ewis] to [?].19 Nov 1817
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165987 March 1818
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165988
A[?] A. Smith to John Minor.31 May 1818
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165989
G.F. Thornton to Mrs. Dangerfield Lewis.3 Sept 1818
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165990 8 Sept 1820
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165991
S. Lewis, at Clifton Hill, [Kentucky] to Dangerfield Lewis, at Marmion,20 June 1822
King
George
County
, Virginia.
Scope and ContentsPostmarked Morganfield, Kentucky.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165992
J. Fergusson, at Westham Cottage, to Dangerfield Lewis, at Fredericksburg.17 Aug 1822
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165993 15 Oct 1822
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165995
A[?] A. Smith to D[angerfield] Lewis, at Marmion.26 Nov 1822
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165996 19 July 1823
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165998 8 Oct 1823
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165999 27 Dec 1823
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id166000 28 Feb 1824
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id166003 5 May 1824
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id166005 6 Aug 1824
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id166007 23 Nov 1824
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id166009
18 May 1825
Scope and Contents
Receipt signed by James Townsend on back of sheet.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id166010
G.B. Wallace to Dangerfield Lewis, at Marmion.21 Nov 1826
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id166012
John Hooe, at Mt. Pleasant, to Dangerfield Lewis, at Marmion.26 Nov 1826
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id166015
Ann P.[?] Minor to Dangerfield Lewis, at Marmion.2 Dec 1826
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id166016
E. Smith to Dangerfield Lewis, at Marmion.7 Jan 1827
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id166018 9 Aug 1827
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id166020
William A. Knox to W. Rollow, at Marlborough.28 Aug 1827
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id166021 15 Oct 1828
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id166022 5 Aug 1829
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id166023
James Williams, at Fredericksburg, to Dangerfield Lewis.27 Sept 1829
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id166025
P.W, Thornton to D[angerfield] Lewis, at Marmion.2 Oct 1829
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165975
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166760
1830-1852 Letters
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166027
Henry T. Washington, at Chatterton, to Dangerfield Lewis, at Marmion.22 Feb 1830
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166087
[Dangerfield Lewis], at Marmion, to [Henry T. Washington, at Chatterton].28 Feb 1830
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166089
D[angerfield] Lewis, at Marmion, to [Henry T. Washington, at Chatterton].1 March 1830
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166092 10 Nov 1830
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166094 26 Nov 1830
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166096 21 Dec 1830
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166098 1 Feb 1831
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166100 3 Feb 1831
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166101 14 March 1831
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166103
21 Feb 1832
Scope and Contents
Including account: Dangerfield Lewis to William Prentiss, Cr.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166105 17 Oct 1833
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166106 26 Nov 1833
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166108
William Buehler, at Bedford, to John Smawley or David Barrick, St. Clairsville Hotel, 2nd Tavern.10 Aug 1834
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166109 30 June 1839
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166111 23 Oct 1840
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166112
William F. McLean, at Alexandria, D.C., to [Dangerfield] Lewis, at27 Aug 1843
King
George
[Court House], Virginia.
Scope and ContentsEnclosure: Business card of William McLean, grocer and commission merchant, at Alexandria, D.C.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166114
G.W. Lewis to his uncle, Dangerfield Lewis, at Marmion.9 Sept 1843
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166768 23 May 1844
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166769
Elisha Peny, at Baltimore, to Lucinda Elington, at Fredericksburg, Virginia/14 Oct 1844
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166772 26 Nov 1845
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166774 6 Feb 1846
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166776
Green Suttle & Co., at Alexandria, to Dangerfield Lewis.27 Sept 1852
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166027
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id165974
- id166780
Fragmentary and undated lettersundatedScope and Contents
9 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166784
James Ewell to [?].UndatedScope and Contents
Printed circular, advertising the Medical Companion.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166785 Undated
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166788 Undated
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166790
John A. Lapsley to [?] Sears.Undated
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166793
D[angerfield] L[ewis] to [?].Undated
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166794 Undated
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166796
Ann P[?] Minor to Mrs. L. Lewis.Undated
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166798
[?] William J. Washington to Dangerfield Lewis, at Society Hill.Undated
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166799
Henry T. Washington, at Chatterton, to Dangerfield Lewis, at Marmion.Undated
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id166784
Folder 3-10
- id166809
Accounts of Dangerfield Lewis1807-1854, and undatedScope and Contents
Folder 3-7.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 3 id166813
Accounts of Dangerfield Lewis, debtor.1807-1829Scope and Contents
306 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 3a id166815
Accounts of Dangerfield Lewis, debtor.1826-1828Scope and Contents
1 bound volume. Note: This volume includes a list of live stock of Dangerfield Lewis.
- Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 3b id166819
Accounts of Dangerfield Lewis, debtor.1821-1829Scope and Contents
1 bound volume. Note: This volume includes three unidentified plats of land.
- Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 4 id166821
Accounts of Dangerfield Lewis, debtor.1830-1832Scope and Contents
61 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 5 id166822
Accounts of Dangerfield Lewis, debtor.1833-1854Scope and Contents
189 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 6 id166828
Accounts of Dangerfield Lewis, debtor.UndatedScope and Contents
36 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 7 id166833
Accounts of Dangerfield Lewis, creditor.1818-1844Scope and Contents
98 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 7 id166835
Accounts of Dangerfield Lewis, creditor.UndatedScope and Contents
12 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 3 id166813
- id166837
Accounts of various persons1815-1854, and undatedScope and Contents
Folder 8-10.
- Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 8 id166842
Accounts of Miss [?] Lewis1835-1848Scope and Contents
9 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 8 id166849
Accounts of Miss A. Lewis1843Scope and Contents
6 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 8 id166853
Accounts of Mrs. D. Lewis1829-1832Scope and Contents
5 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 8 id166855
Accounts of Fielding Lewis.1829-1843Scope and Contents
14 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 8 id166856
Accounts of Henry B. Lewis.1846Scope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 8 id166857
1819-1846
Scope and Contents
15 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 8 id166858
Accounts of Thomas M. Lewis.UndatedScope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 9 id166860
Accounts of various persons1818-1844Scope and Contents
127 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 9 id166861
Accounts of various personsundatedScope and Contents
10 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 10 id166863
Unidentified accounts1815-1854Scope and Contents
37 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 10 id166866
Unidentified accountsundatedScope and Contents
33 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 8 id166842
Includes legal documents, newspaper clippings, subscriptions, poetry and more.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166900
1819
Scope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166903
1823
Scope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166906
Note to Dan Call requesting his legal opinion as to the equity of Dangerfield Lewis in the estate of his father,Undated.
George
Lewis.
Scope and Contents1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166908
Undated
Scope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166909
Certificate of sale for taxes and receipt for taxes paid on 12,000 acres of land in Logan1803
County
, Kentucky belonging to
George
Lewis.
Scope and Contents1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166912
Data concerning the sale of Marmion and Deep Bottom.UndatedScope and Contents
4 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166914
Agreement for sale of 40 acres of land in1815
King
George
County
by Dangerfield Lewis to David R. Jones.
Scope and Contents2 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166916
Plats of land.UndatedScope and Contents
Unidentified. 2 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166920
Statement by Mary Fowkes granting Dangerfield Lewis right of way through her property.1830Scope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166921
Copy of a court order appointing Dangerfield Lewis precinct road surveyor.UndatedScope and Contents
1 item.Copy. Mutilated.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166922
Agreement of Dangerfield Lewis with overseer, Nathan Burchell.UndatedScope and Contents
1 item. Mutilated.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166924
Agreement of Dangerfield Lewis with overseer, John Hicks.1822Scope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166926
Agreement of Dangerfield Lewis with overseer, Sigismund Massey.1837Scope and Contents
1 item.Mutilated.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166929
Agreement of Dangerfield Lewis with overseer, James Bruce.1823Scope and Contents
3 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166931
Dangerfield Lewis to Wily Roy Mason & C.M. Braxton, commissioners under a decree in the case of Washington's guardian vs. Braxton.1843Scope and Contents
1 item. Bond for the hire of a slave.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166933
Fielding Lewis to Wily Roy Mason.1842Scope and Contents
1 item. Bond for the hire of two enslaved persons.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166935
Papers concerning an escaped enslaved person.1818Scope and Contents
2 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166937
Statement concerning a merino ram presented to Dangerfield Lewis.1814Scope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166939
Certificate of special bail entered by Dangerfield Lewis and Robert Sanford for Fielding Holliday in a suit brought by John Campbell in Allegany1825
County
, Maryland.
Scope and Contents1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166941
Inventory of stock, negroes and implements on the Cottage Farm.1818Scope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166943
Papers concerning an application of Dangerfield Lewis for the establishment of a public landing on the Potomac River on the Chatterton estate belonging to Henry T. Washington.1830Scope and Contents
4 items.[1 piece mutilated].
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 11 id166945
Day book of Dangerfield Lewis.1818-1825Scope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 12 id166949
Fitzhugh (?) estate.UndatedScope and Contents
1 item. Mutilated.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 12 id166952
Fitzhugh (Frances) estate.1832Scope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 12 id166954
Fitzhugh (Lucy) estate.1821-1832Scope and Contents
4 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 12 id166956
Grymes (Benjamin) estate.1828-1831Scope and Contents
2 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 12 id166964
Grymes (Margaret V.) estate.1831Scope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 12 id166965
A copy of a subscription for Mrs. Nancy Minor, to pay her transportation to Kentucky.1827Scope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 12 id166967
Paper concerning the arrest in of two escaped enslaved persons.1811Scope and Contents
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 12 id166969
A newspaper clipping concerning John Stewart, a runaway slave belonging to Henry Geat, of Virginia.1821
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 12 id166971
Memoranda giving addresses of various persons.UndatedScope and Contents
4 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 12 id166975
Memo contains data on certain books.Undated.Scope and Contents
1 item.Mutilated.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 12 id166977
VerseundatedScope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 12 id166981
Printed checks of the Farmers' Bank of Virginia, at Fredericksburg.UndatedScope and Contents
2 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 12 id166983
Unidentified pieces and fragments.UndatedScope and Contents
6 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 13 id166989
Newspaper clippings relating to Geo. Washington and the Washington family.UndatedScope and Contents
14 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 13 id166993
Pamphlet concerning the constitution of the Washington National Monument Society, Washington.1847Scope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 13 id166995
Newspaper clipping concerning the destruction by fire of "Bewdley," the old Ball homestead, in LancasterUndated
County
, Virginia, and a pen and ink sketch of the Ball coat of arms.
Scope and Contents2 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 13 id166996
Newspaper clipping concerning the Bradford family including a cut of the Bradford coat of arms.UndatedScope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 13 id167001
Newspaper clippings concerning the death of J.D. Bradford, a nephew of Jefferson Davis.Scope and Contents
2 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 13 id167002
Newspaper clipping concerning the Carroll family.UndatedScope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 13 id167003
Newspaper clipping concerning the Carter family of Virginia.Undated
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 13 id167004
Newspaper clipping about John Randolph Tucker's eulogy upon Jefferson Davis, delivered at Lexington, Virginia.UndatedScope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 13 id167005
Undated
Scope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 13 id167006
Newspaper clipping concerning the career of General Forest, C.S.A.UndatedScope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 13 id167007
Obituary notices of various members of the Lewis family.UndatedScope and Contents
4 items.Newspaper clippings.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 13 id167008
Newspaper clippings concerningUndated
King
George
County , Virginia, including sketches of Marmion, Walsingham, Canning, Millban, Belle Grove, Cleveland, Clave, Powhatan and Chatterton.
Scope and Contents7 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 13 id167009
Other clippings.UndatedScope and Contents
15 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 13 id167010
Business card of Oscar Hallwig, artist, of Baltimore, who copied the original Copley portraits of Betty and Fielding Lewis.UndatedScope and Contents
1 item.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 13 id167011
Two photographic negatives of a table of Colonial design.UndatedScope and Contents
2 items.Photographic negatives.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 14 id167013
Newspaper coversundatedScope and Contents
16 items.
- Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 14 id167014
Other covers and labelsundatedScope and Contents
13 items.