Libraries in Colonial Virginia; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 6, No. 1, 1897

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Libraries in Colonial Virginia

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 1.
   (Jul., 1897), pp. 40-41.

                     LIBRARIES IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA(2). - Continued.

   LXXXI. - The personal estate of the late JOHN MERCER, Esq., . . . a great collection of
well-chosen books.  (Virginia Gazette, May 23, 1771).
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   (2) Mr. R. A. Brock in his excellent address before Richmond College entitled the "Colonial
Virginian", says tht he has catalogues of the libraries of William Bryd and John Mercer, of
Marlborough - the last of which had fifteen hundred volumes, of which about one third were
law books.  He adds "The libraries of Sir John Randolph, George Mason, William Beverley, John
Herbert, William Stith, Gabriel Jones, Ralph Wormley, and many others were also excellent".
"I have met", he days, "with many memorials from Virginia libraries of the seventeenth
century in Richmond, waifs that have been transmitted in successive ownership".  The editor
has in his library "waifs" from the libraries of Judge John Tyler, Reuben Skelton, George
Wythe, Benjamin Waller, St. George Tucker, etc. - some of them bearing book-plates and
coat-armor.

Page 41.

   LXXXII. - To be sold at Yorktown the personal estate of the late DR. BENJAMIN CATTON.  There
is good collection of books and a complete set of surgeon's instruments.  (Virginia Gazette,
October 20, 1768).

   LXXXIII. - To be sold . . . at Blandford, on Appomattox River, a choice assortment of
medicines and chirurgic instruments, with a valuable collection of books on physic, surgery,
and various other subjects, together with sundry valuable horses, liquors, etc. . . Estate
of DR. EBENEZER CAMPBELL, deceased.  A catalogue of the books, medicines, etc., may be seen
at his shop in Blandford.  (Virginia Gazette, August 14, 1752).

   LXXXIV. - The personal estate of DR. WILLIAM DAWSON, dec'd (president of William and Mary),
consisting of a choice collection of books, plate, household furniture, a coach and horses,
etc., October 6, 1752.

   LXXXV. - The inventory of COL. DANIEL McCARTY, deceased, of Westmoreland county (1724),
mentions about two hundred sets of books, remarkably well selected, many of them folios, as
State Tryals, abridged, costing L1. 17s 6d.; Statutes at Large, L3.; Cook's Reports, L1 5s.,
etc.