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Preferred Citation

Jameson Family Papers, Manuscript MS 70.1, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Acquisition Information

Gift, 1970.

Alternative Form

Also available on microfilm M-1317.1.

Biographical/Historical Information

Thomas Jameson (1745-1771) married Mary Robinson, daughter of Thomas Robinson, grammar school master at the College of William and Mary from 1742 to ante 1763. Thomas and Mary had a daughter, Dorothea ("Dolly") Graham Jameson (1768-1848), who married Samuel Ayres, a Kentucky silversmith, in 1792.

Scope and Content Information

Arithmetic exercise book containing examples of worked problems and a section for the student to practice. Inscribed on both recto and verso "Thomas Jameson His Book 1756," and near the spine "D. Grayham Jameson her Cyphering book October the 5th [l]780[?]." Written inside the covers of the volume are the names Dolly Graham Jameson, Graham Jameson, and "Thomas Jameson 1760, Williamsburg, etc---."

The two pieces include a letter, May 13, 1795, D[avi]d Jameson, Jr., Caroline [County, Va.], to Samuel [Ayres], n.p., concerning money due from Speaker Robinson's estate and from John Tyler. The second piece is a nineteenth-century religious poem.

Arrangement

Chronologically arranged.

Index Terms

Family Names:

• Jameson family.

Persons:

• Ayres, Dorothea Graham Jameson, 1768-1848.
• Ayres, Samuel.
• Jameson, David, Jr.
• Jameson, Thomas, 1745- 1771.
• Robinson, John, 1704-1766.
• Tyler, John, 1742-1823.

Subjects:

• Arithmetic--Early works to 1900.

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