A Collection in
the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Manuscript Number MS 41.2
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation
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Preferred Citation
Deneufville Family Papers, Manuscript MS 41.2, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation
Acquisition Information
Gift, 1941.
Alternative Form
Also available on microfilm
M-1120 and in transcription
TR/65.
The brothers Jean Augustine (1763-1838) and Peter Robert
Deneufville (d. 1809), came to Hanover County and
Williamsburg, Va., from France about 1780 and became
merchants.
Papers, primarily 1785-1815, of brothers Jean Augustine
(1763-1838) and Peter Robert Deneufville (d. 1809). Included
are letters from merchants, customers, and friends; bonds;
receipts; a copy of Peter Robert Deneufville's will in which
he stipulates that his slave Betty and her children be freed
and given some articles of clothing and bedding and fifty
pounds Virginia currency; a letter between two of Augustine's
granddaughters; a land grant from the governor of Georgia,
Edward Telfair, to Daniel McLane; and indentures between
various Deneufville relatives. Names prominent in the papers
include Robert Anderson, Andrew Buchanan, James Lee, John
Saunders, John Taliaferro, Edward Teagle, and Dr. Wiscart.
LeCointe Freres to Augt. Deneufville,
12 June 1787.
Folder 1
Letter to Andrew Buchanan,
17 April 1792.
Folder 1
Herbert Claiberne to Doctor Wiscart,
28 November 1792.
Folder 1
C. L. Levent to Peter Robert Deneufville,
27 March 1798.
Folder 1
Louis Pagaud to Peter Robert Deneufville,
1 August 1798.
Folder 2
John Saunders to Peter Robert Deneufville,
24 October 1805.
Folder 2
Indenture, Henry Gibbs and Reuben Howes to
Peter Robert Deneufville,
14 April 1806.
Folder 2
Receipt, J. Semple to Peter Robert
Deneufville,
26 June 1807.
Folder 2
Richard Maupin receipt to Peter Robert
Deneufville,
26 February 1808.
Folder 2
Last Will and Testament of Peter Robert
Deneufville, which directs his executors to free his
slave Betty and her children and to provide them with
certain goods, and fifty pounds Virginia currency,
9 October 1809.
Folder 2
Exceptions of J.A.D. to Statement P.,
[8 August 1812]
Folder 2
Deed. Robert Anderson, Helen Maxwell, to
Edward Teagle. For part of Block 17 Lot 57 [John Crump
House],
23 May 1815.
Folder 2
Indenture, William H. A. Teagle and James
Lee,
28 September 1836.
Folder 2
[Louisa Deneufville] to [Mary] Marion
[Deneufville],
14 August 185[0]
Folder 3
Letter with seal attached & plat. Grant
to Daniel W. Lane for 1000 acres, from Georgia's
Secretary's office,
1 September 1790.
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