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Preferred Citation:

Staunton Fire Company Minute Book, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

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Scope and Contents

Minute book of the Staunton Fire Company, Staunton, Va., 1790, including a list, 1795-1797, of persons offering to purchase the lands of Robert Beverley. The book was also used as a legal form book by Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart between 1828-1832.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Beverley, Robert
• Financial records
• Fire extinction--History--18th century
• Lawyers--Virginia--History
• Minutes
• Real property--Virginia--Augusta County
• Staunton (Va.)--History--18th century
• Staunton (Va.)--History--19th century