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    <title>Burwell Bassett family papers, 1695-1840</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Bassett, Burwell</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1764-1841</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <abstract>Incoming letters, wills and other estate papers, Bassett family genealogical material, and ship manifests and bills of lading, including several of Hyndman, Lancaster &amp; Company, tobacco brokers of London, England.  Subjects include national political and fiscal matters.  Correspondents include William Byrd of Westover, Francis Fauquier, Sir William Gooch, Benjamin Harrison, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, Thomas Nelson, and Robert Carter Nicholas.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Byrd, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1674-1744</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fauquier, Francis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1704?-1768</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Sir</namePart>
      <namePart>Gooch, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1681-1751</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harrison, Benjamin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">approximately 1726-1791</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Leigh, Benjamin Watkins</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1781-1849</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nelson, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1738-1789</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nicholas, Robert Carter</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1728-1780</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bassett family</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Hyndman, Lancaster &amp; Company (London, England)</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Advertising</topic>
    <topic>Tobacco</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Genealogy</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Merchants</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>18th century</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Merchants</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <geographic>New Kent County</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Merchants</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <geographic>Williamsburg</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>London (England)</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
    <temporal>18th century</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New Kent County (Va.)</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Williamsburg (Va.)</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Legislators</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Merchants</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Plantation owners</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Representatives, U.S. Congress</occupation>
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  <identifier type="lccn">mm 78012005</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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