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R.A. Brock Collection

Collection of Virginiana assembled by Robert Alonzo Brock (1839-1914)

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Literature 

  • Lyon Tyler Gardiner, Men of mark in Virginia: Ideals of American life” a Collection of Biographies of the Leading Men in the State (Washington, D.C. 1906), vol. 1, pp. 178-179.   
  • Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (New York, 1915), vol. 1. pp. 3-4.   
  • Huntington Library Bulletin, vol. 1 (1931), pp. 66-77 
  • Louis B. Wright, “For the Study of the American Cultural Heritage,” William & Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser. Vol. 1 (1944): 207-209  
  • Beverly Fleet, Virginia Colonial Abstracts (Richmond, Va., 1957), vol. 3, pp. 558-559.  
  • Donald C. Dickinson, Henry E. Huntington’s Library of Libraries (San Marino, Calif: Huntington Library, 1995): 169-170.  
  • Dictionary of Virginia Biography, ed by John T.  Kneebone (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1998), vol. 2. Pp. 246-247.   
  • Melvin I Urofsvky, The Virginia Historical Society, The First 175 Years, 1831-2006 (Richmond, Va.: 2006), pp.52-80.  
  • Materials related to the Virginia Historical Society, including historic By-Laws & Proceedings

Select Publications by R.A. Brock  

  • The Descendants of Robert Lewis, from Wales. Distinguished as "The Lewis Family of Eastern Virginia" (Clinton, Mo.: Eve Print, 1881).    
  • The official letters of Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant- Governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1710-1722, now first printed from the manuscript in the collections of the Virginia Historical Society / With an introd. and notes by R. A. Brock (Richmond, Va., Published by the Society, 1882-1885).  
  • The official records of Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant- governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1751-1758 / now first printed from the manuscript in the Collections of the Virginia historical society, with an introduction note by R.A. Brock (Richmond, Va.: Society, 1883-1884).  
  • Documents, chiefly unpublished, relating to the Huguenot emigration to Virginia and to the settlement at Manakin- Town: with an appendix of genealogies, presenting data of the Fontaine, Maury, Dupuy, Trabue, Marye, Chastain, Cocke, and other families / ed. and comp. for the Virginia Historical Society by R.A. Brock. (Richmond, Va., Pub. by the Society, 1886).   
  • Early iron manufacture in Virginia 1619-1776 (Washington, D.C., 1886).  
  • Pocahontas :alias Matoaka, and her descendants through  her marriage at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614, with  John Rolfe, gentleman ; including the names of Alfriend, Archer, Bentley, Bernard, Bland, Boling, Branch, Cabell, Catlett, Cary, Dandridge, Dixon, Douglas, Duval, Eldridge, Ellett, Ferguson, Field, Fleming, Gay, Gordon, Griffin,  Grayson, Harrison, Hubard, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade,  McRae, Murray, Page, Poythress, Randolph, Robertson,  Skipwith, Stanard, Tazewel, Walke, West, Whittle, and others with biographical sketches by Wyndham Robertson, and illustrative historical notes by R.A. Brock (Richmond :J.W. Randolph & English, 1887).   
  • Descendants Of John Woodson, Of Dorsetshire, England, Who Settled in Virginia In 1624 (Charlottesville, Va.: Prout, the printer, 1888).  
  • Abstract of the proceedings of the Virginia Company of London, 1619-1624 /prepared from the records in the Library of Congress by Conway Robinson and edited with an introd. and notes by R.A. Brock (Richmond. Va.: Virginia Historical Society, 1888-1889)  
  • Slaughter, Philip, 1808-1890, History of St. George's parish, in the county of Spotsylvania, and diocese of Virginia / Ed. by R.A. Brock, with a biography of the author, and a continuation, embracing the history of St.  George's and Trinity churches to the present time (Richmond, Va. W. Randolph & English, 1890).   
  • Willis, Edward, 1840-1864, Memorials of Gen. Edward Willis, C. S. army, commandant of the 12th Georgia infantry who fell at the head of his regiment in the battle of Mechanicsville, May 31, 1864 (Richmond: W. E. Jones, 1890).   
  • Grigsby, Hugh Blair, 1806-1881, The history of the Virginia federal convention of 1788: with some account of eminent Virginians of that era who were members of the body by Hugh Blair Grigsby, LL.D.  With a biographical sketch of the author and illustrative notes; ed. by R.A. Brock (Richmond, Va.: Virginia historical society, 1890-91).  
  • The colonial Virginian: An address delivered before the Geographical and Historical Society of Richmond College, October 13, 1891 (Richmond, Va. W. E. Jones, 1891).  
  • Gen. Robert Edward Lee: soldier, citizen and Christian patriot / edited by R.A. Brock (Richmond, Va; Royal Publishing Co., 1897).   
  • Annals of Henrico parish by Rt. Rev. L.W. Burton ...  History of St. John's P.E. church ... A complete roster of the vestries, from 1741 to 1904. List of communicants, marriages, baptisms, deaths and burials, together with the inscriptions upon the tombstones. Records of the parish of Henrico in their entirety, with their quaint and antique language and entries, from the original vestry book, from 1730 to 1773, with notes, by Dr. R.A. Brock. The famous   liberty speech of Patrick Henry, delivered in the old church. Oration of Rt. Rev. A.M. Randolph, and the address of Hon. Wm. Wirt Henry, delivered in the church on its 150th anniversary, in 1891. Ed. and comp. by J. Staunton Moore (Richmond, Va.: Williams printing company], 1904.