Digital Library
 - Manuscripts
- The online manuscripts include transcripts and images of selected historical
documents from seven of the Foundation’s collections: the Blathwayt
Papers; the Governor’s Palace Land Papers; the Humphrey Harwood Account
Book; the Francis Nicholson Papers; the Prentis Papers; the Peyton Randolph
Papers; and the Spotswood Papers.
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- Research Report Series
- The Research Report series consists of historical, archaeological, and architectural
reports documenting the study of the eighteenth-century town since the
establishment of the Foundation. The reports can be searched using a standard
list format or through a map interface allowing users to click directly
on specific properties.
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- Virginia Gazettes
- The Virginia Gazette newspapers, first published in 1736, served as a critical
source of news for the colonists. Publication, sometimes amongst two competing
publishers, continued on a weekly basis
in Williamsburg until 1780 when operations were moved to the new capital in
Richmond. The online collection includes images of almost all the known
extant issues, which can be searched using the index or browsed by date.
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- York County Probate Inventories
- The online archive of probate inventories includes transcripts of a large
selection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century inventories. The collection
includes probates from across York County, which in the colonial period
encompassed the northern half of the city of Williamsburg as well as Yorktown
and the surrounding areas.
If you run into any problems, or wish to comment or suggest changes, please contact Colonial Williamsburg’s Digital History Center at diglib@cwf.org.
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