Jameson Papers(1756–1872)

• MS 1970.1
• Microfilm: M-1317.1
• 1 vol. ([104] pp.) and 2 pieces

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 [1780?].” Written inside the covers of the volume are the names Dolly Graham Jameson, Graham Jameson, and “Thomas Jameson 1760, Williamsburg, etc—.”

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.

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 19th-century religious poem.

The William and Mary Quarterly, 1st Ser., VIII (1899), p. 254, quotes from David Jameson’s letter.

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