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An excerpt from the National Intelligencer article published posthumously by Gen. Mason's friends about the recent duel.

A reprint of a Times-Mirror article in the Gunston Hall quarterly newsletter.

A reader of the Virginia Gazette sent a letter to the printer, a copy of a letter sent from a clergyman to a King’s Attorney. In it, the clergyman opposes the opening of any new Ordinaries in the county, complaining about cards, dice, horse-racing,…

Rawleigh, having large rooms and the capacity to hold large groups, could be used for lectures and classes. At
Rawleigh tavern, Mr. William Verlings was scheduled to give two lectures on Monday and Tuesday night, at 6pm. These lectures were…

Roger Dixon put an ad in the Virginia Gazette advertising 3000 acres of land in Albemale, 1500 acres in Culpeper on the Hedgemann river, and his tavern in at Culpeper courthouse in Fairfax town. He describes it as large and commodious, “with…

The Virginia Gazette mentions that Lord Charles Greville Montague, governor of South Carolina in 1768, went to dinner with his wife to the Raleigh tavern with the President and other “members” of his Council. The Raleigh tavern is mentioned in many…

Bathsheba Crane describes the town of Westminster, Vermont. She extols the virtues of Vermont and its people, as well as its beautiful landscape. She also describes the old Tory Tavern in romantic terms, describing its elegance and beauty, as well as…

Table of Liverpool slave traders sending 500 or more slaves to the Chesapeake.from the chapter by Lorena S. Walsh, “Liverpool’s Slave Trade to the Colonial Chesapeake: Slaving on the Periphery,” in Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery, ed. David…

A diary written by the midwife Martha Ballard from 1785 to 1812 with entries describing her daily life as a midwife in Colonial Northern United States.