Title: John Robinson Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1810-1837

Creator:

• Robinson, John, 1753-1826

Call Number: McCormick Mss BD

Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of John Robinson, a wealthy unmarried planter and whiskey distiller in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Included is brief correspondence, receipts, agreements, orders for sales of liquor, notes of purchases at a general store, his will, an inventory of his estate sold at his “Hart's Bottom Plantation” in 1826, and accounts for the hire and sale of Negro slaves inherited from Robinson by Washington College at Lexington.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mcc000bd

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Box   1	Receipts, correspondence, promissory notes, orders for whiskey, and purchases at a general store; inventory and accounts re his estate, 1810-1837, undated
Box   1 Volume   1	John Robinson's memorandum book, 1823-1826
Box   1 Volume   2	Inventory of the sale of personal property of John Robinson, made by the executors at Robinson's plantation, Hart's Bottom, 1826
Box   1 Volume   3	Accounts of Negro hire for slaves inherited by Washington College from John Robinson estate, including persons who hired them and the amounts paid, 1826-1837