Gilliams of the Brock Miscellaneous files, 1655-1908
Updated November 25, 2022
Overview:
The Brock Miscellaneous files, 1655-1908, are a collection of single and multiple documents arranged chronologically. Unlike the bulk of the Robert Alonzo Brock Collections, which were cataloged individually, the Miscellaneous files were cataloged as a group as maintained at the Huntington Library, with a database created to identify each document individually.
Included are a wide variety of business, organizational, personal, and military records collected by Robert Alonzo Brock. The records encompass not only Virginia, but many other East coast colonies and states. The collection includes accounts, affidavits, agreements, bills, bonds, correspondence, deeds, depositions, inventories, invitations, military records, orders, petitions, powers of attorney, promissory notes, receipts, reports, surveys, and warrants. Topics include agriculture, business, colonial history, genealogy, law suits, Native Americans, politics, slavery, social life, universities, and war.
| Creator | Title | Description | Additional Description | Geographic Area | Dates | Misc. Reel | Frame | Box Number |
| Dinwiddie & Company | Account to M. Gilliam | Mentioned: John and William Bell, C. Duncan. John Osborne | 1788-1796 | 5061 | 118 | 261 | ||
| Jones & Metcalf | Bill to Caleb Tate | Itemized for building materials, food and sundries; Robert Hannah, Beverly Roberson, Charles McCraw, Edmund Tate, Joseph Ship, Witts Mosely, Thomas W Cocke, Reeves Higginbotham, James Gilliam, Archibald Robinson, Edward Price, Charles Johnson, | | Richmond, VA | ca. 1801 | 5062 | 181 | 262 |
| Robert Morris and Dunnington | Letters and misc. bills and receipts | Yard goods, sundries, food, spices, tea, whiskey, clothing; John Pointer, Richard Thurman, Rieves Higginbotham, John Brown, Josiah Bialy, Stewart Taliaferro, Edward Lynch, William Edenfield, James Gilliam, James Mosley, Thomas Cocke, William Warwick, John Eckford, William Stanton, George Sullivan, William Powell, Henry Davis, Peter Detto, Charles Hoyle, Walter Muschell, Thomas S McClelland, Samuel Irvine, William Block, William B. Banks, G. P. & J. Lindenberger, John Clarke | Baltimore, MD, and Lynchburg, VA | 1803-1809 | 5063 | 17 | 263 | |
| Miles Selden Estate | Papers addressed to Bolling New, Administrator, consisting of bills, inventories, receipts etc. | Mentioned: Allen's Bridge, Petersburg, Littleberry Whitfield, Wallace & Stephens, Bragg & Jones, George Blow, Pleasant Honeycutt, William Park, Henry Pennington, Jesse Womble, Person Turner, A. W. Johnston, Hannah T. Williams, Anthony Mason, F. D. Peters, Heath Mason, David Pennington, Patsy Marable. Littleberry Lee, Charles Gilliam, Polly Gilliam, William H. Marable, William F. Ruffin, John Brown of Greensville County, VA, Blow & Petit, William Wyche, Lanier Rochelle, Henry Peters, Susanna Baird, Wallace Stevens, Hawkins Pond, David Heath, Robert Downman, | Sussex County, VA | 1816-1823 | 5065 | 78 | 265 | |
| Mary Cocke | Letter to ? | Mentioned: papers of the late Benjamin Cocke, Cocke vs. Haxell | Signed William Gilliam for Mary Cocke | City Point, VA | 24 Nov 1837 | 5070 | 128 | 270 |
| Charles F. Osborne | Letter to ? | Waller vs. Gilliam; Osborne vs. Waller | | NY | 8 Apr 1851 | 5075 | 27 | 275 |
| Maryland, Citizens now resident in Virginia | Petition on behalf of the 1st Regiment of Maryland Volunteers serving in the cause of the Confederacy to the Council of the City of Richmond, Committee on Arms | Mentioned: Army of the Potomac, Capt. J. Lyle, Clark's Company attached to Col. Gilliam's regiment in northwestern Virginia | ca. 1861 | 5082 | 111 | 282 | ||
| T. C. Tuppin | Letter to George W. Gilliam | Your claim on the estate of S. H. [Lanin] for $5500; M. Power, administrator of the estate, proposes to pay in Confederate money | | Jackson | 22 Mar 1863 | 5085 | 54 | 285 |
| J. R. Gilliam | Letter to "Dear Marshall" | Mentioned: John Flournoy rode over your land and declined taking it; tobacco, wheat, Corn, Thomas Bryant killed three turkeys, Claiborne Forbes killed two, I killed three turkeys; John Gilliam; sweet potatoes, cider, beef, respects to George W., Charles & Sarah, Mother sends her love | | Buckingham County, VA | 27 Oct 1867 | 5092 | 131 | 292 |
| John G. Dew | Letter to Marshall M. Gilliam | Mentioned: Miss Wilcox from Charles City County | | King and Queen County, VA | 20 Aug 1868 | 5093 | 110 | 293 |
| Lucy S. Douglas | Letters to the Court of Appeals regarding her father's will | Mentioned: Judge May, my mother, Mrs. Gilliam, John Gilliam, Slaves, my father's will, Uncle Reuben, Lucy Carter of Shirley, MacFarland, Peachy Grafton, Susan Gilliam, Marcus Gilliam, Judge Gholson, Robert Gilliam, Mr. Pollard, Uncle M. Shelton, Elizabeth Burham, Sarah [Straehan], Mosely Brown, Sam Garland, Commissioner Wilder, Chapman Johnson, payment of Harrison on Elk Island, Bolling Osborne, Jane Curry, Elizabeth Buchanan, William Mosely, Osborne vs. Waller | | Lynchburg, VA | March-April 1872 | 5097 | 30 | 297 |
| James G. M. Ramsey | Letter to ? | Mentioned: Bolivar Christian's address on the Scotch Irish, William Henry Foote, D.D. I am too old to assist you in the preparation of your "Rambles Around;" death of my brother, Colonel W. B. A. Ramsey; old Mr. Gilliam was the father-in-law not the father of Hugh Dunlap; as an octogenarian, they elected me President of the Tennessee Historical Society | Knoxville, TN | 20 May 1874 | 5098 | 51 | 298 | |
| L. D. Isbell | Letter to Marshall M. Gilliam | Mentioned: Charles H. Sackett, Stephen A. Glover of Buckingham County, Virginia and his claim for collection by suit, the court house burned while the suit was appealed and all records were lost. George D. Saunders represented the defense | Letterhead of the Judge of County Court of Chariton County | Keyesville, MO | 5 Mar 1877 | 5101 | 24 | 301 |
| Bon Air Land Improvement Company of Virginia | Ledger balance | Stiles & Gilliam, Trustees; Bonds, Ott & McPhail, Trustees, M. S. James & Son. S. Ford, W. G. Taylor, Secretary, F. Colston, J. W. Holt, George J. Hundley | | VA | 30 Sep 1883 | 5103 | 81 | 303 |
| Virginia Horticultural & Pomological Society | List of Subscribers, as members of the society | Executive Committee: John M. Allen, Charles B Williams, John J. Werth, William H. Haxall, John H. Claiborne, William T. Sutherlin, James T. Johnson, Charles H. Dimmock; Officers: William Gilham, J. C. Shields, Franklin Davis, I. S. Tower | Two hundred and forty-two original signatures of subscribers | 1 Jan 1868 | 5093 | 2 | 293 | |
| Benjamin H. Magruder | Letter to George S. Palmer | Mentioned: the death of Professor [Socrates] Maupin, Professor Gilham as his replacement, please send me his antecedents | | Keswick | 30 Oct 1871 | 5096 | 97 | 296 |
Sources
- Library of Virginia. Brock Miscellaneous files, 1655-1908