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A  spreadsheet of these materials by format is available for download  and searching (file will automatically download). \n\n VHS tapes Film reels Audiocassette tapes Computer disks Floppy disks Slides Photographic negatives Artifacts Photographs and albums in this collection are in their original order. Folders were replaced and filed in new boxes in the order in which they were received Series III: Oversize Materials","Marshall William Fishwick was born July 5, 1923, in Roanoke, Virginia.  After receiving his BA from the University of Virginia in 1943, Fishwick served with the American Fleet during World War II. He then went on to receive his MA from the University of Wisconsin in 1946, followed by his PhD from Yale University in 1949. ","In 1949, Fishwick began teaching at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, where he remained until 1962. He served as director of the Wemyss Foundation from 1962 to 1964, chaired Lincoln University's Art and American Studies departments from 1964 to 1970, and taught at Temple University from 1970 to 1976. From 1976 until his retirement in 2003, Fishwick taught at Virginia Tech, where he founded the American Studies and Popular Culture programs. ","Fishwick co-founded the Popular Culture Association with Ray B. Browne and Russel B. Nye in 1970 and began the journal International Popular Culture. He wrote and contributed to more than 40 books, and received eight Fulbright Awards and multiple grants, which allowed him to teach abroad throughout Europe and Asia. He was a member of the Guild of Scholars of the Episcopal Church and historiographer of the Diocese of Southwest Virginia. One of Fishwick's highest accomplishments as a multidisciplinary scholar was starting the academic movement in popular culture studies. ","Fishwick married his third wife and Virginia Tech colleague Ann La Berge in 1995. He had four children with his first wife and two stepdaughters. ","Marshall Fishwick died in Blacksburg, Virginia, on May 22, 2006. ","Source:","Smith, Leanne E. \"Marshall W. Fishwick (1923–2006).\" In  Encyclopedia Virginia . Accessed December 2, 2019.  https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Fishwick_Marshall_W_1923-2006","The guide to the Marshall W. Fishwick Collection by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Marshall W. Fishwick Collection began in 2016 and was completed in June 2018. Additional material (boxes 72-75) was processed in March 2022.","This collection contains course and teaching related materials, photographs, manuscripts, audiovisual and electronic material, scrapbooks, and the professional and personal correspondence of Marshall William Fishwick, professor of Humanities and Communication Studies at Virginia Tech, 1976-2003. ","Note: Audiovisual and electronic materials from this collection, including VHS and cassette tapes, film, floppy disks, slides, and negatives are inventoried separately. A  spreadsheet of these materials by format is available  (file will automatically download). ","This series contains the audio and video materials in the collection, primarily resources used by Fishwick as teaching tools or in his research. This includes VHS tapes, audio cassette tapes, films, floppy disks, and an extensive set of slides. A  spreadsheet of these materials by format is available for download  and searching (file will automatically download).","The following books were removed and cataloged for the Special Collections Rare Book Collection:","Brake, Robert J.  Communication in Popular Culture . Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green Popular Press, 1975. Copy 2.  Brown, Katharine L.  Hills of the Lord: Background of the Episcopal Church in Southwestern Virginia, 1738-1938 . Roanoke: Diocese of Southwestern Virginia, 1979.  Browne, Ray B.  Against Academia . Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green Popular Press, 1989. Copy 2.  Browne, Ray B., and Christopher D. Geist.  Popular Abstracts . Copy 2.  Browne, Ray B., and Michael T. Marsden.  Pioneers in Popular Culture Studies . Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green Popular Press, 1999. Copy 2.  Cawelti, John G.  The Six-Gun Mystique . Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green Popular Press. Copy 2.  Eliot, T. S.  Collected Poems, 1901-1935 . New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936.  Fishwick, Marshall W.  Around the World in Forty Years . Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1984.  Fishwick, Marshall W.  Common Culture and the Great Tradition: The Case for Renewal . Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.  Fishwick, Marshall W.  The Face of Jang: A Collection of Poems . New York, Hobson Book Press, 1945.  Fishwick, Marshall W.  Gentlemen of Virginia . New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961.  Fishwick, Marshall W. \"If I were to Live All Over Again—\" Fishwick, Marshall W.  Isle of Shoals . New York, N.Y., Hobson Book Press, 1946.  Fishwick, Marshall W.  Lee After the War . New York, Dodd, Mead [1963]. Fishwick, Marshall W.  Virginia: A New Look at the Old Dominion . New York, Harper [1959]. Fishwick, Marshall W.  The Virginia Tradition . Washington, Public Affairs Press [1956]. Fishwick, Marshall W., ed.  The World of Ronald McDonald . LeBerge, Ann and Marshall Fishwick.  From a Minimalist Kitchen: Simple Cooking for Post-Moderns . Lippy, Charles H.  Being Religious, American Style . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.  Thompson, Jonathan R.  Education and Literature in Virginia: An Address Delivered before the Literary Societies of Washington College, Lexington, Virginia, 18 June 1850 . Richmond: H. K. Ellyson's Power Press, 1850. Tompkins, Edmond Pendelton.  Rockbridge County, Virginia: An Informal History . Ed. by Marshall W. Fishwick. Richmond, Whittet \u0026 Shepperson, 1952. Van Auken, Sheldon. \"The Southern Historical Novel in the Early Twentieth Century\" in  The Journal of Southern History , Vol. XIV, No. 2, May 1948. Wolfe, Tom.  The Bonfire of the Vanities . New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989, c1987.","The following journals and serials were removed and cataloged for the Special Collections Rare Book Collection:","The Journal of Popular Culture . The Journal of American Culture , vol. 27, no. 2; vol. 29, no. 1; vol. 29, no 2; vol. 29, no. 3.  The Journal of Popular Film , vol. 2, no. 1.  Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference programs, 1991-1993, 1997-1998. The Southern Quarterly , Vol. XXI, No. 2.  Studies in Popular Culture , vol. 22, no. 3.","Publication of personal materials from the collection requires permission from the donor until 2033. The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives ( specref@vt.edu  or 540-231-6308) for assistance in determining the use of these materials.","This collection contains course and teaching related materials, photographs, manuscripts, audiovisual and electronic material, scrapbooks, and the professional and personal correspondence of Marshall William Fishwick, professor of Humanities and Communication Studies at Virginia Tech, 1976-2003.","Please note:  This collection is located in off-site storage and requires 2-3 days notice for retrieval. 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Communication in Popular Culture . Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green Popular Press, 1975. Copy 2.  Brown, Katharine L.  Hills of the Lord: Background of the Episcopal Church in Southwestern Virginia, 1738-1938 . Roanoke: Diocese of Southwestern Virginia, 1979.  Browne, Ray B.  Against Academia . Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green Popular Press, 1989. Copy 2.  Browne, Ray B., and Christopher D. Geist.  Popular Abstracts . Copy 2.  Browne, Ray B., and Michael T. Marsden.  Pioneers in Popular Culture Studies . Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green Popular Press, 1999. Copy 2.  Cawelti, John G.  The Six-Gun Mystique . Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green Popular Press. Copy 2.  Eliot, T. S.  Collected Poems, 1901-1935 . New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936.  Fishwick, Marshall W.  Around the World in Forty Years . Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1984.  Fishwick, Marshall W.  Common Culture and the Great Tradition: The Case for Renewal . 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Education and Literature in Virginia: An Address Delivered before the Literary Societies of Washington College, Lexington, Virginia, 18 June 1850 . Richmond: H. K. Ellyson's Power Press, 1850. Tompkins, Edmond Pendelton.  Rockbridge County, Virginia: An Informal History . Ed. by Marshall W. Fishwick. Richmond, Whittet \u0026 Shepperson, 1952. Van Auken, Sheldon. \"The Southern Historical Novel in the Early Twentieth Century\" in  The Journal of Southern History , Vol. XIV, No. 2, May 1948. Wolfe, Tom.  The Bonfire of the Vanities . New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989, c1987.","The following journals and serials were removed and cataloged for the Special Collections Rare Book Collection:","The Journal of Popular Culture . The Journal of American Culture , vol. 27, no. 2; vol. 29, no. 1; vol. 29, no 2; vol. 29, no. 3.  The Journal of Popular Film , vol. 2, no. 1.  Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference programs, 1991-1993, 1997-1998. 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Restoration of the building was begun in 1962 when the APVA's Montgomery County Branch raised the funds for renovation and contracted with architects and contractors. Since its foundation, and in more recent years, the organization has had some changes, including the dissolution of branches and the combination of the Montgomery County Branch with the Smithfield Preston Foundation. In 2009, the name was changed to Preservation Virgina. ","Smithfield Plantation is the historic home of the Preston family, one of the founding families of Blacksburg and Montgomery County, Virginia. It was built by William Preston (1729-1783), who emigrated from northern Ireland with his family in 1737. He married Susanna Smith in 1761 and settled at Greenfield in Botetourt County in 1769. Preston established himself as a leader in the Virginia frontier by serving in the militia in the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars, in the House of Burgesses representing Augusta County from 1766 to 1768 and Botetourt County in 1769, and as County Lieutenant of Fincastle and Montgomery. He was appointed surveyor of Fincastle County in 1772 and moved his family to that area. He built Smithfield, named in honor of his wife, in 1773. Smithfield was the birthplace and home of three Virginia governors, including James Patton Preston (son of William), and John Buchanan Floyd and John Floyd, Jr. (grandsons of William).","George Green Shackelford, a professor of history from 1954 to 1986 (now Emeritus) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, or Virginia Tech, which is adjacent to the Smithfield property, spearheaded the restoration by forming the Montgomery County branch and adopting the project of preserving and restoring the Smithfield residence.","The APVA changed their name to Preservation Virginia in 2009. However, since the mateirals in this collection were created under the previous name, we have retained that for the collection title. Both names have been added to the corporate names associated with this collection.","The guide to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Montgomery County Branch Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","Processing was completed in September 1996, after initial processing in the 1980s. Additional description was completed in October 2009.","Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives houses a number of other collections containing information on the Preston family and Smithfield Plantation:","John Preston Deed, Ms2005-014","John Preston Papers, Ms1994-034","Preston Family (Alice Preston Moore Collection) Papers, Ms1962-004","Preston Family (Charles Peale Didier Collection) Papers, Ms1985-020","Robert Taylor Preston Papers, Ms1992-003","William Preston Land Grant, Ms1994-027","George Green Shackelford Papers, Ms1983-008","The records largely document the recent history of Smithfield Plantation, ancestral home of the Preston family, focusing particularly on its restoration beginning in 1962. While much of the renovation occurred in the 1960s, many of the records detail other renovation projects done in the 1970s and 1980s. 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Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_99892500d53aacc16f6cb32c28f38312\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe records largely document the recent history of Smithfield Plantation, ancestral home of the Preston family, focusing particularly on its restoration beginning in 1962. While much of the renovation occurred in the 1960s, many of the records detail other renovation projects done in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection also includes historical and other related documents dating from before the original Preston family's residence at Smithfield.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The records largely document the recent history of Smithfield Plantation, ancestral home of the Preston family, focusing particularly on its restoration beginning in 1962. 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Both names have been added to the corporate names associated with this collection.","The guide to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Montgomery County Branch Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","Processing was completed in September 1996, after initial processing in the 1980s. Additional description was completed in October 2009.","Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives houses a number of other collections containing information on the Preston family and Smithfield Plantation:","John Preston Deed, Ms2005-014","John Preston Papers, Ms1994-034","Preston Family (Alice Preston Moore Collection) Papers, Ms1962-004","Preston Family (Charles Peale Didier Collection) Papers, Ms1985-020","Robert Taylor Preston Papers, Ms1992-003","William Preston Land Grant, Ms1994-027","George Green Shackelford Papers, Ms1983-008","The records largely document the recent history of Smithfield Plantation, ancestral home of the Preston family, focusing particularly on its restoration beginning in 1962. While much of the renovation occurred in the 1960s, many of the records detail other renovation projects done in the 1970s and 1980s. ","The collection is organized into seven series: Series I: Correspondence(largely from and to George Shackelford); Series II: Publications, including APVA and Montgomery County branch newsletters and APVA Discovery magazines; Series III: Smithfield Plantation Renovation, including appraisals, reports, and receipts; Series IV: Renovations of other Smithfield Plantation Buildings, including information about the renovations of other structures on the Smithfield property, (the cook's cabin, the miller's log house, and the smokehouse); Series V: AVPA General Files, including meeting minutes, financial reports, and building committee reports; Series VI: Historical Documents from dating from the original Preston family's residence at Smithfield (materials include manuscript account books (1754-1763) of William Preston while residing at Greenfield, manuscript pages detailing work done by a wheelright (1845-1850); and genealogical information about the Preston family); and Series VII: Miscellaneous Documents, which includes materials relating to historic Montgomery County and the Smithfield Plantation. The collection also contains Series VIII: Oversize Documents, containing blueprints and architectural drawings.","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. ","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","The records largely document the recent history of Smithfield Plantation, ancestral home of the Preston family, focusing particularly on its restoration beginning in 1962. While much of the renovation occurred in the 1960s, many of the records detail other renovation projects done in the 1970s and 1980s. 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Restoration of the building was begun in 1962 when the APVA's Montgomery County Branch raised the funds for renovation and contracted with architects and contractors. Since its foundation, and in more recent years, the organization has had some changes, including the dissolution of branches and the combination of the Montgomery County Branch with the Smithfield Preston Foundation. In 2009, the name was changed to Preservation Virgina. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSmithfield Plantation is the historic home of the Preston family, one of the founding families of Blacksburg and Montgomery County, Virginia. It was built by William Preston (1729-1783), who emigrated from northern Ireland with his family in 1737. He married Susanna Smith in 1761 and settled at Greenfield in Botetourt County in 1769. Preston established himself as a leader in the Virginia frontier by serving in the militia in the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars, in the House of Burgesses representing Augusta County from 1766 to 1768 and Botetourt County in 1769, and as County Lieutenant of Fincastle and Montgomery. He was appointed surveyor of Fincastle County in 1772 and moved his family to that area. He built Smithfield, named in honor of his wife, in 1773. 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Since its foundation, and in more recent years, the organization has had some changes, including the dissolution of branches and the combination of the Montgomery County Branch with the Smithfield Preston Foundation. In 2009, the name was changed to Preservation Virgina. ","Smithfield Plantation is the historic home of the Preston family, one of the founding families of Blacksburg and Montgomery County, Virginia. It was built by William Preston (1729-1783), who emigrated from northern Ireland with his family in 1737. He married Susanna Smith in 1761 and settled at Greenfield in Botetourt County in 1769. Preston established himself as a leader in the Virginia frontier by serving in the militia in the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars, in the House of Burgesses representing Augusta County from 1766 to 1768 and Botetourt County in 1769, and as County Lieutenant of Fincastle and Montgomery. He was appointed surveyor of Fincastle County in 1772 and moved his family to that area. He built Smithfield, named in honor of his wife, in 1773. Smithfield was the birthplace and home of three Virginia governors, including James Patton Preston (son of William), and John Buchanan Floyd and John Floyd, Jr. (grandsons of William).","George Green Shackelford, a professor of history from 1954 to 1986 (now Emeritus) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, or Virginia Tech, which is adjacent to the Smithfield property, spearheaded the restoration by forming the Montgomery County branch and adopting the project of preserving and restoring the Smithfield residence.","The APVA changed their name to Preservation Virginia in 2009. However, since the mateirals in this collection were created under the previous name, we have retained that for the collection title. Both names have been added to the corporate names associated with this collection."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Montgomery County Branch Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Montgomery County Branch Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ )."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Montgomery County Branch Papers, Ms1962-001, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Montgomery County Branch Papers, Ms1962-001, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eProcessing was completed in September 1996, after initial processing in the 1980s. 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Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. ","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_99892500d53aacc16f6cb32c28f38312\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe records largely document the recent history of Smithfield Plantation, ancestral home of the Preston family, focusing particularly on its restoration beginning in 1962. While much of the renovation occurred in the 1960s, many of the records detail other renovation projects done in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection also includes historical and other related documents dating from before the original Preston family's residence at Smithfield.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The records largely document the recent history of Smithfield Plantation, ancestral home of the Preston family, focusing particularly on its restoration beginning in 1962. 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The property and home were owned by the family until they were sold in 1968.","The guide to the Dickson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Dickson Family Papers was completed prior to 2001.","The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory. The papers of John Dickson (1737-1809, brother of Joseph Dickson), Robert Dickson, Robert Renick Dickson and Henry Frazier Dickson, and Geraldine Dickson Burrow (1879-1943, daughter of Henry Frazier Dickson), are grouped by type of material (for example, financial accounts, correspondence, and land deeds). Within Robert Dickson's correspondence are a few references to the American Civil War, including a letter from a Confederate tax collector demanding payment of his 1863 Confederate taxes. Other interesting documents include the transcript (1916) of the trial of Sallie Dickson (wife of Robert Renick Dickson) who was sued by Henry Frazier Dickson, for payment of rent due to him. The papers also include genealogy charts of the family.","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson was received in his parish and \"has behaved himself in a Verry prudent and exemplary manner,\" signed by M. Johnson.","Certificate stating that Joseph Tooth knows Joseph Dickson \"...to be of good respectable character...and believe him to be of untainted moral character...\"","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson lived in Greenbrier County, Virginia, for four years and \"Behaved himself as an honast man aught to Do.\"","Oath to the General Assembly [of Virginia] taken by Joseph Dickson, signed by Geo. Skillem","Marriage certificate of Joseph Dickson and Mary Yung, married March 5, 1772, signed by McHoy(?) in Lebanontown.","Certificate signed by John Dickinson of Augusta County, Virginia, as to Joseph Dickson's good character when Dickson lived on Dickinson's land.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson resided in the Spreading(?) congregation from 1779 to 1780, and \"behaved himself sober and in an inoffensive manner,\" signed by Edward Crawford.","Statement of falsely accusing John Wevans \"with taking goods out of the store of Francis Mara\" made by Mary Wave.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson (son of Joseph Sr.) has lived in East Hanover, Pennsylvania, and learned the hatter trade, signed by Daniel Bradley.","Certificate of military service, signed by Capt. James Smith (n.d.)","From unknown asking Joseph Dickson to give John Humphrys his bond.","Thos. Dunwody to W. Jos. Archer about a survey of Joseph Dickson's.","Th. Edgar to Jos. Dixon about the sale of a cow; mentions W. Kyle, W. Hagreth, and W. Black.","William Wallace to James Black.","Lazarus Ainsworth to Joseph Dickson about payment of a sickel left in Dickson's care.","Th. Edgar of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson acknowledging receiving a horse.","James Welch of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson about dry goods sold","Joseph Snell to Robert McClentck(?) about an ax he wants to give to Joseph Dickson.","Jacob Baumgardsen to Joseph Dickson about receiving eight pounds cash.","J. Patton to Joseph Dickson for flour sold; Jas. Richards to Joseph Dickson, asking him to send a hat (?) he left for Dickson with Samuel Ruiker or Jas. Kincaid.","Robt. Steele(?) to Joseph Dickson about a possible breach of contract with Miss Cathe McClung.","Charles Mislock(?) to Capt. Joseph Dickson about shodding a horse and drawing blood on a sick man (n.d.).","Robert Humphreys to unknown about a bed he wishes to buy from Mr. [Joseph] Dickson (n.d.).","John Henry asking Joseph Dickson to let Mr. Jno. Hide have the cow Henry left at Dickson's house (n.d.).","Sale of an enslaved man named Gib from John Dean to Joseph Dickson for £65.","Note of payment due for hiring an enslaved person named Patten from John Carpenter to Joseph Dickson.","Agreement between Jno. H. Flood(?) and Joseph Dickson as to the transfer of an enslaved woman named Nan and two children for $5.","Note of payment of £110 for the sale of an enslaved person named Elijah due to Joseph Dickson from John Ewdend of Rockbridge County, Virginia.","Note of payment of £130 from the sale of an enslaved person named Joel from Joel Walker of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of an enslaved person named Jude from Catherine McClung to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of Jeff, an enslaved person, to Joseph Dickson for £51 from Catherine McClung.","Sale of Jane, an enslaved person for $300, by James Kincaide to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of debt of Joseph Dickson from John Murray of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to John Dickenson of Augusta County, Virginia.","Contract of James Connelly to pay John Dickenson twenty-two pounds.","Contract of John and Joseph Dickson to pay John Dickenson 200 pounds owed.","Promise of Joseph Dickson of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Leonard Beall of Augusta County, Virginia, fifteen pounds owed.","Contract of Robert Armstrong and John Scott to pay John Bollar eighteen pounds \"Good and Lawfull money of Virginia.\"","Promise of Joseph Dickson of of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Baley 125 pounds owed.","Contract for Jacob Rife to pay Jos. Dickson 100 pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay Henry Gaye one pound.","Contract of James Riddle of Augusta County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, four pounds.","Receipt for a bond from Jos. Dickson to John Nivins.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay James Black fifty pounds owed.","Promise of unknown to pay James Humphries eight pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay George Stuart six pounds owed.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son John to apprentice as a tailor to Hugh Paul for five years.","Contract for Joseph Dickson, Jacob Vanosdol, Levin Gibson, and Samuel Kincaid to appraise the estate of James Humphries deceased and make a report to the court.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay John Ederds(?) twenty-five pounds owed.","Contract of John Atkinson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson 1000 pounds owed.","Acknowledgement of John Dickson's receipt of \"an old pocket book containing two Bonds\" from John Staufler(?) and Jno. Deem.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son George to apprentice as a gunsmith to Nathaniel Kelly.","Contract to release Joseph Dickson of a debt of 350 pounds to Richard Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, due to the loss of the previous contract.","Deed of release from Nancy Dickson, widow of Joseph, to relinquish all rights to the provisions made in her husband's will, turn over his estate to her son Robert, and live off an allowance allocated by her son.","Transfer of a tract of land from John McClinachan to John Davis for twenty-seven pounds.","Sale of a tract of land from John Davis to Joseph Dixon for thirty-seven pounds.","Copy of a grant from 1774 to James Ewing for a tract of land in Botetourt County, Virginia, from John Earl of Dunmore.","Agreement from Joseph Dickson allowing William Crow to live on a certain tract of land owned by Dickson.","Transfer of a tract of land from John Douckwaler of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Jacob Rife.","Exchange of a horse owned by Thos. Dunwody to Joseph Dickson for a tract of land.","Transfer of land from Henry Childers to Joseph Dickson.","Statement of debt of 140 pounds from Joseph Dickson to William Crawford for the transfer of land of Honards Creek.","Promise to deliver thirty acres of land on Honards Creek to Elweis Atwater from Joseph Dickson(?).","Deed of land sold from William Dinwiddie (Dunwoodey?) and his wife Elizabeth to Joseph Dixon.","Transfer of ownership of a tract of land from John Nevins to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Clangman and William Dunwoody.","Contract for payment due from the sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to James Black and William McClung.","Deed of land sold by James Black and his wife Rachel to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of land from George Stuart to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of 125 acres to William McClung from Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of land owned by Donal Alison of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson for 100 pounds.","Sale of land from Joseph Dickson to Lewis Shalman.","Receipt for sum of $50 to Daniel Allison from Joseph Dickson in payment for land sold.","Deed of land sold to Joseph Dickson Jr. from his father.","Deed of bargain and sale from William Morris and Allen Taylor to William Rennick for 800 acres in unknown area.","Contract binding Frederick Hoober to paying Joseph Dickson 220 pounds owed for a one-fourth acre lot in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier County, Virginia.","Deed for a lot of land in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson from Richard Tyne and his wife Sarah, signed by John Stuart.","Receipt for a \"patton of land\" of seventy acres from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Winslow(?).","Contract to rent land to James Mayer from Joseph Dickson.","Memorandum concerning obtaining a copy of Ewings deed from the Greenbrier office, and distributing it to Edward Rumsey, Allen Taylor, William Morris, and James Byrnside (n.d.).","Receipt from the sale of a white mare from Joseph Dickson to John Young for seven pounds.","Contract for the sale of a \"hourse\" from Honery Childers(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt of the sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to William Jeres(?) in exchange for work done by Jeres.","Contract for transfer of two mares and a horse William Crawford received from Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for transfer of a bay horse from Henry Banks to John Nivins.","Receipt for a bay mare sold by Joseph Dickson to Samuel Miller.","Receipt for the payment of forty shillings for work done by Richard Masters for Joseph Dickson.","Contract for William Wallace of Wythe County, Virginia, to pay £290 to James Black for the sale of two mares, with the promise that if Wallace was not able to pay the stated amount he would give two enslaved people.","Request for M. Edgar to the unknown recipient of the note to give Mr. Kyle a cow, and Edgar would settle the sale with Mr. Hagreth.","Receipt for three pounds in payment for the services of a stud horse owned by Joseph Anderson to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a bay mare from Rueben Wade of Goochland County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a black horse to David Alle(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a horse from Charles Simmons of Bedford County to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a bay mare from Thomas Reid to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to James Rollens.","Receipt for the sale of a cow from James Blagg to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Wm. McClunson(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Contract between James Anderson and Dorel Jere(?) for the transfer of cattle, witnessed by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a heifer from Samuel Dedman of Kentucky to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for a cow from Joseph Dickson sold to John Hyde.","Receipt for six head of cattle purchased from Joseph Dickson by Michael Baskal(?).","Contract to exchange a mare owned by James Hammand for a black horse owned by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a draft (horse?) from unknown to Jacob Rife (n.d.).","Financial accounts, 1771-79; 22 items. Receipts for money received.","Financial accounts, 1780-89; 27 items. Household goods purchased, receipt for 1779 taxes paid by Dickson.","Financial accounts, 1790-99; 34 items.","Financial accounts, 1800-05; 35 items; includes bill for tuition of Dickson's children to \"English school.\"","Financial accounts, 1806-09; 19 items.","Financial accounts, 1810; 10 items.","Financial accounts, 1815, n.d.; 16 items.","Currency conversion tables (pounds to dollars), 1791(?).","Account book/diary, 1806-63 (includes entries by Robert Dickson).","Papers (1775-1810, n.d.); 20 items (including medical cure recipes for the flux, rheumatism, \"stomic ake,\" snake bite, colic, and others, and accounts, receipts, and a warrant from James Alexander to the sheriff of Monroe County, Virginia, concerning John Dickson).","15 items.","33 items.","36 items (includes a letter from the tax collector of the 62nd Virginia district demanding payment of Dickson's 1863 Confederate taxes; and the draft of a letter, dated September 18, 1865, from Robert Dickson to President Andrew Johnson, vowing his allegiance to the government of the U.S.A. and asking for a \"release from the penalties and forfictures to which I am exposed.\")","24 items (includes a letter from people asking to rent a room with the Dicksons at the White Sulphur Springs.)","13 items (includes a letter from J.H.H. Grandy with information about the impact of Reconstruction on the area.)","18 items, with 25 envelopes, n.d..","27 items (includes a contract signed by Nancy Dickson relinquishing all claim to her husband's will to her son Robert.)","21 items (includes renewals of a contract with Lucian F. Cox, employed by Robert Dickson.)","22 items (includes insurance and income tax forms.)","7 items, n.d..","35 items (contains several receipts from Nancy Dickson for her yearly allowance from her son Robert.)","45 items (includes accounts from 1833 relating to the labor and supplies incurred during the building of \"Locust Hill,\" the Dickson family home.)","63 items.","50 items.","29 items.","32 items.","42 items.","46 items.","57 items.","38 items (includes a receipt for Dickson's 1857 taxes.)","56 items.","21 items (includes a January 1865 bill for $15 in exchange for 500 pounds of hay given by Dickson to the Confederate States of America, and a March 1865 request for four bay mules for use by the CSA.)","52 items, n.d..","44 items.","11 items.","Sallie Dickson (Robert Rennick's wife)--trial transcript, Sallie Dickson vs. H.F. Dickson, ca. 1916.","21 items.","15 items.","26 items.","27 items (includes correspondence from/to Laura Dickson, his wife.)","15 items (includes indenture contracts [1837, 1839, 1846] for land in Monroe County, Virginia.)","18 items.","44 items.","29 items.","36 items.","Miscellaneous printed material; 7 items.","18 items.","22 items.","American history book (no title available), history to 1829.","An Accompanient to Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States...(1836), owned by Rebecca Dickson (daughter of Robert).","13 items (includes Confederate bonds.)","2 items.","8 items (includes two pages pulled from the family Bible.)","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. 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Skillem\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarriage certificate of Joseph Dickson and Mary Yung, married March 5, 1772, signed by McHoy(?) in Lebanontown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate signed by John Dickinson of Augusta County, Virginia, as to Joseph Dickson's good character when Dickson lived on Dickinson's land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate that Joseph Dickson resided in the Spreading(?) congregation from 1779 to 1780, and \"behaved himself sober and in an inoffensive manner,\" signed by Edward Crawford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of falsely accusing John Wevans \"with taking goods out of the store of Francis Mara\" made by Mary Wave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate that Joseph Dickson (son of Joseph Sr.) has lived in East Hanover, Pennsylvania, and learned the hatter trade, signed by Daniel Bradley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of military service, signed by Capt. James Smith (n.d.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom unknown asking Joseph Dickson to give John Humphrys his bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThos. Dunwody to W. Jos. Archer about a survey of Joseph Dickson's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTh. Edgar to Jos. Dixon about the sale of a cow; mentions W. Kyle, W. Hagreth, and W. Black.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Wallace to James Black.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLazarus Ainsworth to Joseph Dickson about payment of a sickel left in Dickson's care.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTh. Edgar of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson acknowledging receiving a horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Welch of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson about dry goods sold\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Snell to Robert McClentck(?) about an ax he wants to give to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJacob Baumgardsen to Joseph Dickson about receiving eight pounds cash.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Patton to Joseph Dickson for flour sold; Jas. Richards to Joseph Dickson, asking him to send a hat (?) he left for Dickson with Samuel Ruiker or Jas. Kincaid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobt. Steele(?) to Joseph Dickson about a possible breach of contract with Miss Cathe McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Mislock(?) to Capt. Joseph Dickson about shodding a horse and drawing blood on a sick man (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Humphreys to unknown about a bed he wishes to buy from Mr. [Joseph] Dickson (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Henry asking Joseph Dickson to let Mr. Jno. Hide have the cow Henry left at Dickson's house (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of an enslaved man named Gib from John Dean to Joseph Dickson for £65.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote of payment due for hiring an enslaved person named Patten from John Carpenter to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement between Jno. H. Flood(?) and Joseph Dickson as to the transfer of an enslaved woman named Nan and two children for $5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote of payment of £110 for the sale of an enslaved person named Elijah due to Joseph Dickson from John Ewdend of Rockbridge County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote of payment of £130 from the sale of an enslaved person named Joel from Joel Walker of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of an enslaved person named Jude from Catherine McClung to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Jeff, an enslaved person, to Joseph Dickson for £51 from Catherine McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Jane, an enslaved person for $300, by James Kincaide to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of debt of Joseph Dickson from John Murray of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to John Dickenson of Augusta County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of James Connelly to pay John Dickenson twenty-two pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of John and Joseph Dickson to pay John Dickenson 200 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise of Joseph Dickson of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Leonard Beall of Augusta County, Virginia, fifteen pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of Robert Armstrong and John Scott to pay John Bollar eighteen pounds \"Good and Lawfull money of Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise of Joseph Dickson of of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Baley 125 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for Jacob Rife to pay Jos. Dickson 100 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for unknown to pay Henry Gaye one pound.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of James Riddle of Augusta County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, four pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a bond from Jos. Dickson to John Nivins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of Joseph Dickson to pay James Black fifty pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise of unknown to pay James Humphries eight pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for unknown to pay George Stuart six pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son John to apprentice as a tailor to Hugh Paul for five years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for Joseph Dickson, Jacob Vanosdol, Levin Gibson, and Samuel Kincaid to appraise the estate of James Humphries deceased and make a report to the court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of Joseph Dickson to pay John Ederds(?) twenty-five pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of John Atkinson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson 1000 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgement of John Dickson's receipt of \"an old pocket book containing two Bonds\" from John Staufler(?) and Jno. Deem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son George to apprentice as a gunsmith to Nathaniel Kelly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract to release Joseph Dickson of a debt of 350 pounds to Richard Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, due to the loss of the previous contract.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of release from Nancy Dickson, widow of Joseph, to relinquish all rights to the provisions made in her husband's will, turn over his estate to her son Robert, and live off an allowance allocated by her son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of a tract of land from John McClinachan to John Davis for twenty-seven pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a tract of land from John Davis to Joseph Dixon for thirty-seven pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of a grant from 1774 to James Ewing for a tract of land in Botetourt County, Virginia, from John Earl of Dunmore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement from Joseph Dickson allowing William Crow to live on a certain tract of land owned by Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of a tract of land from John Douckwaler of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Jacob Rife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExchange of a horse owned by Thos. Dunwody to Joseph Dickson for a tract of land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of land from Henry Childers to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of debt of 140 pounds from Joseph Dickson to William Crawford for the transfer of land of Honards Creek.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise to deliver thirty acres of land on Honards Creek to Elweis Atwater from Joseph Dickson(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land sold from William Dinwiddie (Dunwoodey?) and his wife Elizabeth to Joseph Dixon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of ownership of a tract of land from John Nevins to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Clangman and William Dunwoody.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for payment due from the sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to James Black and William McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land sold by James Black and his wife Rachel to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of land from George Stuart to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of 125 acres to William McClung from Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of land owned by Donal Alison of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson for 100 pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of land from Joseph Dickson to Lewis Shalman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for sum of $50 to Daniel Allison from Joseph Dickson in payment for land sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land sold to Joseph Dickson Jr. from his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of bargain and sale from William Morris and Allen Taylor to William Rennick for 800 acres in unknown area.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract binding Frederick Hoober to paying Joseph Dickson 220 pounds owed for a one-fourth acre lot in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a lot of land in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson from Richard Tyne and his wife Sarah, signed by John Stuart.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a \"patton of land\" of seventy acres from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Winslow(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract to rent land to James Mayer from Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum concerning obtaining a copy of Ewings deed from the Greenbrier office, and distributing it to Edward Rumsey, Allen Taylor, William Morris, and James Byrnside (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt from the sale of a white mare from Joseph Dickson to John Young for seven pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for the sale of a \"hourse\" from Honery Childers(?) to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of the sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to William Jeres(?) in exchange for work done by Jeres.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for transfer of two mares and a horse William Crawford received from Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for transfer of a bay horse from Henry Banks to John Nivins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a bay mare sold by Joseph Dickson to Samuel Miller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the payment of forty shillings for work done by Richard Masters for Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for William Wallace of Wythe County, Virginia, to pay £290 to James Black for the sale of two mares, with the promise that if Wallace was not able to pay the stated amount he would give two enslaved people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for M. Edgar to the unknown recipient of the note to give Mr. Kyle a cow, and Edgar would settle the sale with Mr. Hagreth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for three pounds in payment for the services of a stud horse owned by Joseph Anderson to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the sale of a bay mare from Rueben Wade of Goochland County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the sale of a black horse to David Alle(?) to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a horse from Charles Simmons of Bedford County to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a bay mare from Thomas Reid to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to James Rollens.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the sale of a cow from James Blagg to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a mare from Wm. McClunson(?) to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract between James Anderson and Dorel Jere(?) for the transfer of cattle, witnessed by Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a heifer from Samuel Dedman of Kentucky to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a cow from Joseph Dickson sold to John Hyde.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for six head of cattle purchased from Joseph Dickson by Michael Baskal(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract to exchange a mare owned by James Hammand for a black horse owned by Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a draft (horse?) from unknown to Jacob Rife (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1771-79; 22 items. Receipts for money received.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1780-89; 27 items. Household goods purchased, receipt for 1779 taxes paid by Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1790-99; 34 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1800-05; 35 items; includes bill for tuition of Dickson's children to \"English school.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1806-09; 19 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1810; 10 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1815, n.d.; 16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrency conversion tables (pounds to dollars), 1791(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book/diary, 1806-63 (includes entries by Robert Dickson).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers (1775-1810, n.d.); 20 items (including medical cure recipes for the flux, rheumatism, \"stomic ake,\" snake bite, colic, and others, and accounts, receipts, and a warrant from James Alexander to the sheriff of Monroe County, Virginia, concerning John Dickson).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items (includes a letter from the tax collector of the 62nd Virginia district demanding payment of Dickson's 1863 Confederate taxes; and the draft of a letter, dated September 18, 1865, from Robert Dickson to President Andrew Johnson, vowing his allegiance to the government of the U.S.A. and asking for a \"release from the penalties and forfictures to which I am exposed.\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items (includes a letter from people asking to rent a room with the Dicksons at the White Sulphur Springs.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items (includes a letter from J.H.H. Grandy with information about the impact of Reconstruction on the area.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items, with 25 envelopes, n.d..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items (includes a contract signed by Nancy Dickson relinquishing all claim to her husband's will to her son Robert.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items (includes renewals of a contract with Lucian F. Cox, employed by Robert Dickson.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items (includes insurance and income tax forms.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items, n.d..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items (contains several receipts from Nancy Dickson for her yearly allowance from her son Robert.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e45 items (includes accounts from 1833 relating to the labor and supplies incurred during the building of \"Locust Hill,\" the Dickson family home.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e63 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e42 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items (includes a receipt for Dickson's 1857 taxes.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e56 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items (includes a January 1865 bill for $15 in exchange for 500 pounds of hay given by Dickson to the Confederate States of America, and a March 1865 request for four bay mules for use by the CSA.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e52 items, n.d..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSallie Dickson (Robert Rennick's wife)--trial transcript, Sallie Dickson vs. H.F. Dickson, ca. 1916.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items (includes correspondence from/to Laura Dickson, his wife.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items (includes indenture contracts [1837, 1839, 1846] for land in Monroe County, Virginia.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous printed material; 7 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmerican history book (no title available), history to 1829.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn Accompanient to Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States...(1836), owned by Rebecca Dickson (daughter of Robert).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items (includes Confederate bonds.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items (includes two pages pulled from the family Bible.)\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents 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Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory. The papers of John Dickson (1737-1809, brother of Joseph Dickson), Robert Dickson, Robert Renick Dickson and Henry Frazier Dickson, and Geraldine Dickson Burrow (1879-1943, daughter of Henry Frazier Dickson), are grouped by type of material (for example, financial accounts, correspondence, and land deeds). Within Robert Dickson's correspondence are a few references to the American Civil War, including a letter from a Confederate tax collector demanding payment of his 1863 Confederate taxes. Other interesting documents include the transcript (1916) of the trial of Sallie Dickson (wife of Robert Renick Dickson) who was sued by Henry Frazier Dickson, for payment of rent due to him. The papers also include genealogy charts of the family.","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson was received in his parish and \"has behaved himself in a Verry prudent and exemplary manner,\" signed by M. Johnson.","Certificate stating that Joseph Tooth knows Joseph Dickson \"...to be of good respectable character...and believe him to be of untainted moral character...\"","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson lived in Greenbrier County, Virginia, for four years and \"Behaved himself as an honast man aught to Do.\"","Oath to the General Assembly [of Virginia] taken by Joseph Dickson, signed by Geo. Skillem","Marriage certificate of Joseph Dickson and Mary Yung, married March 5, 1772, signed by McHoy(?) in Lebanontown.","Certificate signed by John Dickinson of Augusta County, Virginia, as to Joseph Dickson's good character when Dickson lived on Dickinson's land.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson resided in the Spreading(?) congregation from 1779 to 1780, and \"behaved himself sober and in an inoffensive manner,\" signed by Edward Crawford.","Statement of falsely accusing John Wevans \"with taking goods out of the store of Francis Mara\" made by Mary Wave.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson (son of Joseph Sr.) has lived in East Hanover, Pennsylvania, and learned the hatter trade, signed by Daniel Bradley.","Certificate of military service, signed by Capt. James Smith (n.d.)","From unknown asking Joseph Dickson to give John Humphrys his bond.","Thos. Dunwody to W. Jos. Archer about a survey of Joseph Dickson's.","Th. Edgar to Jos. Dixon about the sale of a cow; mentions W. Kyle, W. Hagreth, and W. Black.","William Wallace to James Black.","Lazarus Ainsworth to Joseph Dickson about payment of a sickel left in Dickson's care.","Th. Edgar of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson acknowledging receiving a horse.","James Welch of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson about dry goods sold","Joseph Snell to Robert McClentck(?) about an ax he wants to give to Joseph Dickson.","Jacob Baumgardsen to Joseph Dickson about receiving eight pounds cash.","J. Patton to Joseph Dickson for flour sold; Jas. Richards to Joseph Dickson, asking him to send a hat (?) he left for Dickson with Samuel Ruiker or Jas. Kincaid.","Robt. Steele(?) to Joseph Dickson about a possible breach of contract with Miss Cathe McClung.","Charles Mislock(?) to Capt. Joseph Dickson about shodding a horse and drawing blood on a sick man (n.d.).","Robert Humphreys to unknown about a bed he wishes to buy from Mr. [Joseph] Dickson (n.d.).","John Henry asking Joseph Dickson to let Mr. Jno. Hide have the cow Henry left at Dickson's house (n.d.).","Sale of an enslaved man named Gib from John Dean to Joseph Dickson for £65.","Note of payment due for hiring an enslaved person named Patten from John Carpenter to Joseph Dickson.","Agreement between Jno. H. Flood(?) and Joseph Dickson as to the transfer of an enslaved woman named Nan and two children for $5.","Note of payment of £110 for the sale of an enslaved person named Elijah due to Joseph Dickson from John Ewdend of Rockbridge County, Virginia.","Note of payment of £130 from the sale of an enslaved person named Joel from Joel Walker of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of an enslaved person named Jude from Catherine McClung to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of Jeff, an enslaved person, to Joseph Dickson for £51 from Catherine McClung.","Sale of Jane, an enslaved person for $300, by James Kincaide to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of debt of Joseph Dickson from John Murray of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to John Dickenson of Augusta County, Virginia.","Contract of James Connelly to pay John Dickenson twenty-two pounds.","Contract of John and Joseph Dickson to pay John Dickenson 200 pounds owed.","Promise of Joseph Dickson of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Leonard Beall of Augusta County, Virginia, fifteen pounds owed.","Contract of Robert Armstrong and John Scott to pay John Bollar eighteen pounds \"Good and Lawfull money of Virginia.\"","Promise of Joseph Dickson of of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Baley 125 pounds owed.","Contract for Jacob Rife to pay Jos. Dickson 100 pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay Henry Gaye one pound.","Contract of James Riddle of Augusta County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, four pounds.","Receipt for a bond from Jos. Dickson to John Nivins.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay James Black fifty pounds owed.","Promise of unknown to pay James Humphries eight pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay George Stuart six pounds owed.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son John to apprentice as a tailor to Hugh Paul for five years.","Contract for Joseph Dickson, Jacob Vanosdol, Levin Gibson, and Samuel Kincaid to appraise the estate of James Humphries deceased and make a report to the court.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay John Ederds(?) twenty-five pounds owed.","Contract of John Atkinson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson 1000 pounds owed.","Acknowledgement of John Dickson's receipt of \"an old pocket book containing two Bonds\" from John Staufler(?) and Jno. Deem.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son George to apprentice as a gunsmith to Nathaniel Kelly.","Contract to release Joseph Dickson of a debt of 350 pounds to Richard Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, due to the loss of the previous contract.","Deed of release from Nancy Dickson, widow of Joseph, to relinquish all rights to the provisions made in her husband's will, turn over his estate to her son Robert, and live off an allowance allocated by her son.","Transfer of a tract of land from John McClinachan to John Davis for twenty-seven pounds.","Sale of a tract of land from John Davis to Joseph Dixon for thirty-seven pounds.","Copy of a grant from 1774 to James Ewing for a tract of land in Botetourt County, Virginia, from John Earl of Dunmore.","Agreement from Joseph Dickson allowing William Crow to live on a certain tract of land owned by Dickson.","Transfer of a tract of land from John Douckwaler of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Jacob Rife.","Exchange of a horse owned by Thos. Dunwody to Joseph Dickson for a tract of land.","Transfer of land from Henry Childers to Joseph Dickson.","Statement of debt of 140 pounds from Joseph Dickson to William Crawford for the transfer of land of Honards Creek.","Promise to deliver thirty acres of land on Honards Creek to Elweis Atwater from Joseph Dickson(?).","Deed of land sold from William Dinwiddie (Dunwoodey?) and his wife Elizabeth to Joseph Dixon.","Transfer of ownership of a tract of land from John Nevins to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Clangman and William Dunwoody.","Contract for payment due from the sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to James Black and William McClung.","Deed of land sold by James Black and his wife Rachel to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of land from George Stuart to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of 125 acres to William McClung from Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of land owned by Donal Alison of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson for 100 pounds.","Sale of land from Joseph Dickson to Lewis Shalman.","Receipt for sum of $50 to Daniel Allison from Joseph Dickson in payment for land sold.","Deed of land sold to Joseph Dickson Jr. from his father.","Deed of bargain and sale from William Morris and Allen Taylor to William Rennick for 800 acres in unknown area.","Contract binding Frederick Hoober to paying Joseph Dickson 220 pounds owed for a one-fourth acre lot in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier County, Virginia.","Deed for a lot of land in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson from Richard Tyne and his wife Sarah, signed by John Stuart.","Receipt for a \"patton of land\" of seventy acres from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Winslow(?).","Contract to rent land to James Mayer from Joseph Dickson.","Memorandum concerning obtaining a copy of Ewings deed from the Greenbrier office, and distributing it to Edward Rumsey, Allen Taylor, William Morris, and James Byrnside (n.d.).","Receipt from the sale of a white mare from Joseph Dickson to John Young for seven pounds.","Contract for the sale of a \"hourse\" from Honery Childers(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt of the sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to William Jeres(?) in exchange for work done by Jeres.","Contract for transfer of two mares and a horse William Crawford received from Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for transfer of a bay horse from Henry Banks to John Nivins.","Receipt for a bay mare sold by Joseph Dickson to Samuel Miller.","Receipt for the payment of forty shillings for work done by Richard Masters for Joseph Dickson.","Contract for William Wallace of Wythe County, Virginia, to pay £290 to James Black for the sale of two mares, with the promise that if Wallace was not able to pay the stated amount he would give two enslaved people.","Request for M. Edgar to the unknown recipient of the note to give Mr. Kyle a cow, and Edgar would settle the sale with Mr. Hagreth.","Receipt for three pounds in payment for the services of a stud horse owned by Joseph Anderson to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a bay mare from Rueben Wade of Goochland County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a black horse to David Alle(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a horse from Charles Simmons of Bedford County to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a bay mare from Thomas Reid to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to James Rollens.","Receipt for the sale of a cow from James Blagg to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Wm. McClunson(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Contract between James Anderson and Dorel Jere(?) for the transfer of cattle, witnessed by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a heifer from Samuel Dedman of Kentucky to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for a cow from Joseph Dickson sold to John Hyde.","Receipt for six head of cattle purchased from Joseph Dickson by Michael Baskal(?).","Contract to exchange a mare owned by James Hammand for a black horse owned by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a draft (horse?) from unknown to Jacob Rife (n.d.).","Financial accounts, 1771-79; 22 items. Receipts for money received.","Financial accounts, 1780-89; 27 items. Household goods purchased, receipt for 1779 taxes paid by Dickson.","Financial accounts, 1790-99; 34 items.","Financial accounts, 1800-05; 35 items; includes bill for tuition of Dickson's children to \"English school.\"","Financial accounts, 1806-09; 19 items.","Financial accounts, 1810; 10 items.","Financial accounts, 1815, n.d.; 16 items.","Currency conversion tables (pounds to dollars), 1791(?).","Account book/diary, 1806-63 (includes entries by Robert Dickson).","Papers (1775-1810, n.d.); 20 items (including medical cure recipes for the flux, rheumatism, \"stomic ake,\" snake bite, colic, and others, and accounts, receipts, and a warrant from James Alexander to the sheriff of Monroe County, Virginia, concerning John Dickson).","15 items.","33 items.","36 items (includes a letter from the tax collector of the 62nd Virginia district demanding payment of Dickson's 1863 Confederate taxes; and the draft of a letter, dated September 18, 1865, from Robert Dickson to President Andrew Johnson, vowing his allegiance to the government of the U.S.A. and asking for a \"release from the penalties and forfictures to which I am exposed.\")","24 items (includes a letter from people asking to rent a room with the Dicksons at the White Sulphur Springs.)","13 items (includes a letter from J.H.H. Grandy with information about the impact of Reconstruction on the area.)","18 items, with 25 envelopes, n.d..","27 items (includes a contract signed by Nancy Dickson relinquishing all claim to her husband's will to her son Robert.)","21 items (includes renewals of a contract with Lucian F. Cox, employed by Robert Dickson.)","22 items (includes insurance and income tax forms.)","7 items, n.d..","35 items (contains several receipts from Nancy Dickson for her yearly allowance from her son Robert.)","45 items (includes accounts from 1833 relating to the labor and supplies incurred during the building of \"Locust Hill,\" the Dickson family home.)","63 items.","50 items.","29 items.","32 items.","42 items.","46 items.","57 items.","38 items (includes a receipt for Dickson's 1857 taxes.)","56 items.","21 items (includes a January 1865 bill for $15 in exchange for 500 pounds of hay given by Dickson to the Confederate States of America, and a March 1865 request for four bay mules for use by the CSA.)","52 items, n.d..","44 items.","11 items.","Sallie Dickson (Robert Rennick's wife)--trial transcript, Sallie Dickson vs. H.F. Dickson, ca. 1916.","21 items.","15 items.","26 items.","27 items (includes correspondence from/to Laura Dickson, his wife.)","15 items (includes indenture contracts [1837, 1839, 1846] for land in Monroe County, Virginia.)","18 items.","44 items.","29 items.","36 items.","Miscellaneous printed material; 7 items.","18 items.","22 items.","American history book (no title available), history to 1829.","An Accompanient to Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States...(1836), owned by Rebecca Dickson (daughter of Robert).","13 items (includes Confederate bonds.)","2 items.","8 items (includes two pages pulled from the family Bible.)"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuareproduction\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuareproduction\u003c/a\u003e. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuapublication\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuapublication\u003c/a\u003e. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_38302d5600958a1e835db472b2c30d32\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area."],"names_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Dickson family (Greenbrier County, W. Va.)","Gib (enslaved person)","Patten (enslaved person)","Nan (enslaved person)","Elijah (enslaved person)","Joel (enslaved person)","Jude (enslaved person)","Jeff (enslaved person)","Jane (enslaved person)"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech"],"famname_ssim":["Dickson family (Greenbrier County, W. Va.)"],"names_coll_ssim":["Gib (enslaved person)","Patten (enslaved person)","Nan (enslaved person)","Elijah (enslaved person)","Joel (enslaved person)","Jude (enslaved person)","Jeff (enslaved person)","Jane (enslaved person)"],"persname_ssim":["Gib (enslaved person)","Patten (enslaved person)","Nan (enslaved person)","Elijah (enslaved person)","Joel (enslaved person)","Jude (enslaved person)","Jeff (enslaved person)","Jane (enslaved person)"],"language_ssim":["The materials in the collection are in English."],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":173,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T02:22:51.011Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1599_c01_c05"}},{"id":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1599","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Dickson Family Papers","creator":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1599#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Dickson family (Greenbrier County, W. 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Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1599#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1599","ead_ssi":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1599","_root_":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1599","_nest_parent_":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1599","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_1599.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Dickson Family Papers","title_ssm":["Dickson Family Papers"],"title_tesim":["Dickson Family Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1769-1924"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1769-1924"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Ms.1988.094","/repositories/2/resources/1599"],"text":["Ms.1988.094","/repositories/2/resources/1599","Dickson Family Papers","Greenbrier County (W. Va.)","Local/Regional History and Appalachian South","The collection is open for research.","The papers are arranged by family member and then by type of material.","The Dicksons were pioneer settlers of Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Joseph Dickson (1749-1822) settled in what is now Greenbrier County, West Virginia, from Ireland by way of Pennsylvania in the 1770s. He received land grants originally from the King's land office in 1769, and later from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1785, 1789, and 1795 for property on Howard's Creek. His son, Robert Dickson (1795-1869?), inherited the land and built Locust Hill in 1833, now called Mountain Home. Robert Renick Dickson (1827-1888) and Henry Frazier Dickson (1841-1909), Robert Dickson's sons, inherited the land and in turn left it to their heirs. The Dicksons turned Mountain Home near White Sulphur Springs into a resort in the 1800s and early 1900s. The property and home were owned by the family until they were sold in 1968.","The guide to the Dickson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Dickson Family Papers was completed prior to 2001.","The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory. The papers of John Dickson (1737-1809, brother of Joseph Dickson), Robert Dickson, Robert Renick Dickson and Henry Frazier Dickson, and Geraldine Dickson Burrow (1879-1943, daughter of Henry Frazier Dickson), are grouped by type of material (for example, financial accounts, correspondence, and land deeds). Within Robert Dickson's correspondence are a few references to the American Civil War, including a letter from a Confederate tax collector demanding payment of his 1863 Confederate taxes. Other interesting documents include the transcript (1916) of the trial of Sallie Dickson (wife of Robert Renick Dickson) who was sued by Henry Frazier Dickson, for payment of rent due to him. The papers also include genealogy charts of the family.","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson was received in his parish and \"has behaved himself in a Verry prudent and exemplary manner,\" signed by M. Johnson.","Certificate stating that Joseph Tooth knows Joseph Dickson \"...to be of good respectable character...and believe him to be of untainted moral character...\"","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson lived in Greenbrier County, Virginia, for four years and \"Behaved himself as an honast man aught to Do.\"","Oath to the General Assembly [of Virginia] taken by Joseph Dickson, signed by Geo. Skillem","Marriage certificate of Joseph Dickson and Mary Yung, married March 5, 1772, signed by McHoy(?) in Lebanontown.","Certificate signed by John Dickinson of Augusta County, Virginia, as to Joseph Dickson's good character when Dickson lived on Dickinson's land.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson resided in the Spreading(?) congregation from 1779 to 1780, and \"behaved himself sober and in an inoffensive manner,\" signed by Edward Crawford.","Statement of falsely accusing John Wevans \"with taking goods out of the store of Francis Mara\" made by Mary Wave.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson (son of Joseph Sr.) has lived in East Hanover, Pennsylvania, and learned the hatter trade, signed by Daniel Bradley.","Certificate of military service, signed by Capt. James Smith (n.d.)","From unknown asking Joseph Dickson to give John Humphrys his bond.","Thos. Dunwody to W. Jos. Archer about a survey of Joseph Dickson's.","Th. Edgar to Jos. Dixon about the sale of a cow; mentions W. Kyle, W. Hagreth, and W. Black.","William Wallace to James Black.","Lazarus Ainsworth to Joseph Dickson about payment of a sickel left in Dickson's care.","Th. Edgar of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson acknowledging receiving a horse.","James Welch of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson about dry goods sold","Joseph Snell to Robert McClentck(?) about an ax he wants to give to Joseph Dickson.","Jacob Baumgardsen to Joseph Dickson about receiving eight pounds cash.","J. Patton to Joseph Dickson for flour sold; Jas. Richards to Joseph Dickson, asking him to send a hat (?) he left for Dickson with Samuel Ruiker or Jas. Kincaid.","Robt. Steele(?) to Joseph Dickson about a possible breach of contract with Miss Cathe McClung.","Charles Mislock(?) to Capt. Joseph Dickson about shodding a horse and drawing blood on a sick man (n.d.).","Robert Humphreys to unknown about a bed he wishes to buy from Mr. [Joseph] Dickson (n.d.).","John Henry asking Joseph Dickson to let Mr. Jno. Hide have the cow Henry left at Dickson's house (n.d.).","Sale of an enslaved man named Gib from John Dean to Joseph Dickson for £65.","Note of payment due for hiring an enslaved person named Patten from John Carpenter to Joseph Dickson.","Agreement between Jno. H. Flood(?) and Joseph Dickson as to the transfer of an enslaved woman named Nan and two children for $5.","Note of payment of £110 for the sale of an enslaved person named Elijah due to Joseph Dickson from John Ewdend of Rockbridge County, Virginia.","Note of payment of £130 from the sale of an enslaved person named Joel from Joel Walker of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of an enslaved person named Jude from Catherine McClung to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of Jeff, an enslaved person, to Joseph Dickson for £51 from Catherine McClung.","Sale of Jane, an enslaved person for $300, by James Kincaide to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of debt of Joseph Dickson from John Murray of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to John Dickenson of Augusta County, Virginia.","Contract of James Connelly to pay John Dickenson twenty-two pounds.","Contract of John and Joseph Dickson to pay John Dickenson 200 pounds owed.","Promise of Joseph Dickson of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Leonard Beall of Augusta County, Virginia, fifteen pounds owed.","Contract of Robert Armstrong and John Scott to pay John Bollar eighteen pounds \"Good and Lawfull money of Virginia.\"","Promise of Joseph Dickson of of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Baley 125 pounds owed.","Contract for Jacob Rife to pay Jos. Dickson 100 pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay Henry Gaye one pound.","Contract of James Riddle of Augusta County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, four pounds.","Receipt for a bond from Jos. Dickson to John Nivins.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay James Black fifty pounds owed.","Promise of unknown to pay James Humphries eight pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay George Stuart six pounds owed.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son John to apprentice as a tailor to Hugh Paul for five years.","Contract for Joseph Dickson, Jacob Vanosdol, Levin Gibson, and Samuel Kincaid to appraise the estate of James Humphries deceased and make a report to the court.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay John Ederds(?) twenty-five pounds owed.","Contract of John Atkinson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson 1000 pounds owed.","Acknowledgement of John Dickson's receipt of \"an old pocket book containing two Bonds\" from John Staufler(?) and Jno. Deem.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son George to apprentice as a gunsmith to Nathaniel Kelly.","Contract to release Joseph Dickson of a debt of 350 pounds to Richard Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, due to the loss of the previous contract.","Deed of release from Nancy Dickson, widow of Joseph, to relinquish all rights to the provisions made in her husband's will, turn over his estate to her son Robert, and live off an allowance allocated by her son.","Transfer of a tract of land from John McClinachan to John Davis for twenty-seven pounds.","Sale of a tract of land from John Davis to Joseph Dixon for thirty-seven pounds.","Copy of a grant from 1774 to James Ewing for a tract of land in Botetourt County, Virginia, from John Earl of Dunmore.","Agreement from Joseph Dickson allowing William Crow to live on a certain tract of land owned by Dickson.","Transfer of a tract of land from John Douckwaler of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Jacob Rife.","Exchange of a horse owned by Thos. Dunwody to Joseph Dickson for a tract of land.","Transfer of land from Henry Childers to Joseph Dickson.","Statement of debt of 140 pounds from Joseph Dickson to William Crawford for the transfer of land of Honards Creek.","Promise to deliver thirty acres of land on Honards Creek to Elweis Atwater from Joseph Dickson(?).","Deed of land sold from William Dinwiddie (Dunwoodey?) and his wife Elizabeth to Joseph Dixon.","Transfer of ownership of a tract of land from John Nevins to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Clangman and William Dunwoody.","Contract for payment due from the sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to James Black and William McClung.","Deed of land sold by James Black and his wife Rachel to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of land from George Stuart to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of 125 acres to William McClung from Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of land owned by Donal Alison of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson for 100 pounds.","Sale of land from Joseph Dickson to Lewis Shalman.","Receipt for sum of $50 to Daniel Allison from Joseph Dickson in payment for land sold.","Deed of land sold to Joseph Dickson Jr. from his father.","Deed of bargain and sale from William Morris and Allen Taylor to William Rennick for 800 acres in unknown area.","Contract binding Frederick Hoober to paying Joseph Dickson 220 pounds owed for a one-fourth acre lot in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier County, Virginia.","Deed for a lot of land in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson from Richard Tyne and his wife Sarah, signed by John Stuart.","Receipt for a \"patton of land\" of seventy acres from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Winslow(?).","Contract to rent land to James Mayer from Joseph Dickson.","Memorandum concerning obtaining a copy of Ewings deed from the Greenbrier office, and distributing it to Edward Rumsey, Allen Taylor, William Morris, and James Byrnside (n.d.).","Receipt from the sale of a white mare from Joseph Dickson to John Young for seven pounds.","Contract for the sale of a \"hourse\" from Honery Childers(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt of the sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to William Jeres(?) in exchange for work done by Jeres.","Contract for transfer of two mares and a horse William Crawford received from Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for transfer of a bay horse from Henry Banks to John Nivins.","Receipt for a bay mare sold by Joseph Dickson to Samuel Miller.","Receipt for the payment of forty shillings for work done by Richard Masters for Joseph Dickson.","Contract for William Wallace of Wythe County, Virginia, to pay £290 to James Black for the sale of two mares, with the promise that if Wallace was not able to pay the stated amount he would give two enslaved people.","Request for M. Edgar to the unknown recipient of the note to give Mr. Kyle a cow, and Edgar would settle the sale with Mr. Hagreth.","Receipt for three pounds in payment for the services of a stud horse owned by Joseph Anderson to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a bay mare from Rueben Wade of Goochland County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a black horse to David Alle(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a horse from Charles Simmons of Bedford County to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a bay mare from Thomas Reid to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to James Rollens.","Receipt for the sale of a cow from James Blagg to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Wm. McClunson(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Contract between James Anderson and Dorel Jere(?) for the transfer of cattle, witnessed by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a heifer from Samuel Dedman of Kentucky to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for a cow from Joseph Dickson sold to John Hyde.","Receipt for six head of cattle purchased from Joseph Dickson by Michael Baskal(?).","Contract to exchange a mare owned by James Hammand for a black horse owned by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a draft (horse?) from unknown to Jacob Rife (n.d.).","Financial accounts, 1771-79; 22 items. Receipts for money received.","Financial accounts, 1780-89; 27 items. Household goods purchased, receipt for 1779 taxes paid by Dickson.","Financial accounts, 1790-99; 34 items.","Financial accounts, 1800-05; 35 items; includes bill for tuition of Dickson's children to \"English school.\"","Financial accounts, 1806-09; 19 items.","Financial accounts, 1810; 10 items.","Financial accounts, 1815, n.d.; 16 items.","Currency conversion tables (pounds to dollars), 1791(?).","Account book/diary, 1806-63 (includes entries by Robert Dickson).","Papers (1775-1810, n.d.); 20 items (including medical cure recipes for the flux, rheumatism, \"stomic ake,\" snake bite, colic, and others, and accounts, receipts, and a warrant from James Alexander to the sheriff of Monroe County, Virginia, concerning John Dickson).","15 items.","33 items.","36 items (includes a letter from the tax collector of the 62nd Virginia district demanding payment of Dickson's 1863 Confederate taxes; and the draft of a letter, dated September 18, 1865, from Robert Dickson to President Andrew Johnson, vowing his allegiance to the government of the U.S.A. and asking for a \"release from the penalties and forfictures to which I am exposed.\")","24 items (includes a letter from people asking to rent a room with the Dicksons at the White Sulphur Springs.)","13 items (includes a letter from J.H.H. Grandy with information about the impact of Reconstruction on the area.)","18 items, with 25 envelopes, n.d..","27 items (includes a contract signed by Nancy Dickson relinquishing all claim to her husband's will to her son Robert.)","21 items (includes renewals of a contract with Lucian F. Cox, employed by Robert Dickson.)","22 items (includes insurance and income tax forms.)","7 items, n.d..","35 items (contains several receipts from Nancy Dickson for her yearly allowance from her son Robert.)","45 items (includes accounts from 1833 relating to the labor and supplies incurred during the building of \"Locust Hill,\" the Dickson family home.)","63 items.","50 items.","29 items.","32 items.","42 items.","46 items.","57 items.","38 items (includes a receipt for Dickson's 1857 taxes.)","56 items.","21 items (includes a January 1865 bill for $15 in exchange for 500 pounds of hay given by Dickson to the Confederate States of America, and a March 1865 request for four bay mules for use by the CSA.)","52 items, n.d..","44 items.","11 items.","Sallie Dickson (Robert Rennick's wife)--trial transcript, Sallie Dickson vs. H.F. Dickson, ca. 1916.","21 items.","15 items.","26 items.","27 items (includes correspondence from/to Laura Dickson, his wife.)","15 items (includes indenture contracts [1837, 1839, 1846] for land in Monroe County, Virginia.)","18 items.","44 items.","29 items.","36 items.","Miscellaneous printed material; 7 items.","18 items.","22 items.","American history book (no title available), history to 1829.","An Accompanient to Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States...(1836), owned by Rebecca Dickson (daughter of Robert).","13 items (includes Confederate bonds.)","2 items.","8 items (includes two pages pulled from the family Bible.)","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area.","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Dickson family (Greenbrier County, W. Va.)","Gib (enslaved person)","Patten (enslaved person)","Nan (enslaved person)","Elijah (enslaved person)","Joel (enslaved person)","Jude (enslaved person)","Jeff (enslaved person)","Jane (enslaved person)","The materials in the collection are in English."],"unitid_tesim":["Ms.1988.094","/repositories/2/resources/1599"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Dickson Family Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Dickson Family Papers"],"collection_ssim":["Dickson Family Papers"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University"],"geogname_ssm":["Greenbrier County (W. Va.)"],"geogname_ssim":["Greenbrier County (W. Va.)"],"creator_ssm":["Dickson family (Greenbrier County, W. 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Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"acqinfo_ssim":["The collection was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in 1988."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Local/Regional History and Appalachian South"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Local/Regional History and Appalachian South"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["2.8 Cubic Feet 2 boxes"],"extent_tesim":["2.8 Cubic Feet 2 boxes"],"date_range_isim":[1769,1770,1771,1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is open for research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The collection is open for research."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers are arranged by family member and then by type of material.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers are arranged by family member and then by type of material."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Dicksons were pioneer settlers of Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Joseph Dickson (1749-1822) settled in what is now Greenbrier County, West Virginia, from Ireland by way of Pennsylvania in the 1770s. He received land grants originally from the King's land office in 1769, and later from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1785, 1789, and 1795 for property on Howard's Creek. His son, Robert Dickson (1795-1869?), inherited the land and built Locust Hill in 1833, now called Mountain Home. Robert Renick Dickson (1827-1888) and Henry Frazier Dickson (1841-1909), Robert Dickson's sons, inherited the land and in turn left it to their heirs. The Dicksons turned Mountain Home near White Sulphur Springs into a resort in the 1800s and early 1900s. The property and home were owned by the family until they were sold in 1968.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Family History Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Dicksons were pioneer settlers of Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Joseph Dickson (1749-1822) settled in what is now Greenbrier County, West Virginia, from Ireland by way of Pennsylvania in the 1770s. He received land grants originally from the King's land office in 1769, and later from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1785, 1789, and 1795 for property on Howard's Creek. His son, Robert Dickson (1795-1869?), inherited the land and built Locust Hill in 1833, now called Mountain Home. Robert Renick Dickson (1827-1888) and Henry Frazier Dickson (1841-1909), Robert Dickson's sons, inherited the land and in turn left it to their heirs. The Dicksons turned Mountain Home near White Sulphur Springs into a resort in the 1800s and early 1900s. The property and home were owned by the family until they were sold in 1968."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Dickson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Dickson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ )."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Dickson Family Papers, 1769-1924, Ms1988-094, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Dickson Family Papers, 1769-1924, Ms1988-094, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe processing, arrangement, and description of the Dickson Family Papers was completed prior to 2001.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The processing, arrangement, and description of the Dickson Family Papers was completed prior to 2001."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory. The papers of John Dickson (1737-1809, brother of Joseph Dickson), Robert Dickson, Robert Renick Dickson and Henry Frazier Dickson, and Geraldine Dickson Burrow (1879-1943, daughter of Henry Frazier Dickson), are grouped by type of material (for example, financial accounts, correspondence, and land deeds). Within Robert Dickson's correspondence are a few references to the American Civil War, including a letter from a Confederate tax collector demanding payment of his 1863 Confederate taxes. Other interesting documents include the transcript (1916) of the trial of Sallie Dickson (wife of Robert Renick Dickson) who was sued by Henry Frazier Dickson, for payment of rent due to him. The papers also include genealogy charts of the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate asserting that Joseph Dickson was received in his parish and \"has behaved himself in a Verry prudent and exemplary manner,\" signed by M. Johnson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate stating that Joseph Tooth knows Joseph Dickson \"...to be of good respectable character...and believe him to be of untainted moral character...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate asserting that Joseph Dickson lived in Greenbrier County, Virginia, for four years and \"Behaved himself as an honast man aught to Do.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOath to the General Assembly [of Virginia] taken by Joseph Dickson, signed by Geo. Skillem\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarriage certificate of Joseph Dickson and Mary Yung, married March 5, 1772, signed by McHoy(?) in Lebanontown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate signed by John Dickinson of Augusta County, Virginia, as to Joseph Dickson's good character when Dickson lived on Dickinson's land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate that Joseph Dickson resided in the Spreading(?) congregation from 1779 to 1780, and \"behaved himself sober and in an inoffensive manner,\" signed by Edward Crawford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of falsely accusing John Wevans \"with taking goods out of the store of Francis Mara\" made by Mary Wave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate that Joseph Dickson (son of Joseph Sr.) has lived in East Hanover, Pennsylvania, and learned the hatter trade, signed by Daniel Bradley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of military service, signed by Capt. James Smith (n.d.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom unknown asking Joseph Dickson to give John Humphrys his bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThos. Dunwody to W. Jos. Archer about a survey of Joseph Dickson's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTh. Edgar to Jos. Dixon about the sale of a cow; mentions W. Kyle, W. Hagreth, and W. Black.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Wallace to James Black.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLazarus Ainsworth to Joseph Dickson about payment of a sickel left in Dickson's care.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTh. Edgar of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson acknowledging receiving a horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Welch of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson about dry goods sold\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Snell to Robert McClentck(?) about an ax he wants to give to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJacob Baumgardsen to Joseph Dickson about receiving eight pounds cash.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Patton to Joseph Dickson for flour sold; Jas. Richards to Joseph Dickson, asking him to send a hat (?) he left for Dickson with Samuel Ruiker or Jas. Kincaid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobt. Steele(?) to Joseph Dickson about a possible breach of contract with Miss Cathe McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Mislock(?) to Capt. Joseph Dickson about shodding a horse and drawing blood on a sick man (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Humphreys to unknown about a bed he wishes to buy from Mr. [Joseph] Dickson (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Henry asking Joseph Dickson to let Mr. Jno. Hide have the cow Henry left at Dickson's house (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of an enslaved man named Gib from John Dean to Joseph Dickson for £65.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote of payment due for hiring an enslaved person named Patten from John Carpenter to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement between Jno. H. Flood(?) and Joseph Dickson as to the transfer of an enslaved woman named Nan and two children for $5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote of payment of £110 for the sale of an enslaved person named Elijah due to Joseph Dickson from John Ewdend of Rockbridge County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote of payment of £130 from the sale of an enslaved person named Joel from Joel Walker of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of an enslaved person named Jude from Catherine McClung to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Jeff, an enslaved person, to Joseph Dickson for £51 from Catherine McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Jane, an enslaved person for $300, by James Kincaide to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of debt of Joseph Dickson from John Murray of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to John Dickenson of Augusta County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of James Connelly to pay John Dickenson twenty-two pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of John and Joseph Dickson to pay John Dickenson 200 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise of Joseph Dickson of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Leonard Beall of Augusta County, Virginia, fifteen pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of Robert Armstrong and John Scott to pay John Bollar eighteen pounds \"Good and Lawfull money of Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise of Joseph Dickson of of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Baley 125 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for Jacob Rife to pay Jos. Dickson 100 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for unknown to pay Henry Gaye one pound.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of James Riddle of Augusta County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, four pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a bond from Jos. Dickson to John Nivins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of Joseph Dickson to pay James Black fifty pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise of unknown to pay James Humphries eight pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for unknown to pay George Stuart six pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son John to apprentice as a tailor to Hugh Paul for five years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for Joseph Dickson, Jacob Vanosdol, Levin Gibson, and Samuel Kincaid to appraise the estate of James Humphries deceased and make a report to the court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of Joseph Dickson to pay John Ederds(?) twenty-five pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of John Atkinson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson 1000 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgement of John Dickson's receipt of \"an old pocket book containing two Bonds\" from John Staufler(?) and Jno. Deem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son George to apprentice as a gunsmith to Nathaniel Kelly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract to release Joseph Dickson of a debt of 350 pounds to Richard Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, due to the loss of the previous contract.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of release from Nancy Dickson, widow of Joseph, to relinquish all rights to the provisions made in her husband's will, turn over his estate to her son Robert, and live off an allowance allocated by her son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of a tract of land from John McClinachan to John Davis for twenty-seven pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a tract of land from John Davis to Joseph Dixon for thirty-seven pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of a grant from 1774 to James Ewing for a tract of land in Botetourt County, Virginia, from John Earl of Dunmore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement from Joseph Dickson allowing William Crow to live on a certain tract of land owned by Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of a tract of land from John Douckwaler of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Jacob Rife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExchange of a horse owned by Thos. Dunwody to Joseph Dickson for a tract of land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of land from Henry Childers to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of debt of 140 pounds from Joseph Dickson to William Crawford for the transfer of land of Honards Creek.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise to deliver thirty acres of land on Honards Creek to Elweis Atwater from Joseph Dickson(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land sold from William Dinwiddie (Dunwoodey?) and his wife Elizabeth to Joseph Dixon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of ownership of a tract of land from John Nevins to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Clangman and William Dunwoody.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for payment due from the sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to James Black and William McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land sold by James Black and his wife Rachel to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of land from George Stuart to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of 125 acres to William McClung from Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of land owned by Donal Alison of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson for 100 pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of land from Joseph Dickson to Lewis Shalman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for sum of $50 to Daniel Allison from Joseph Dickson in payment for land sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land sold to Joseph Dickson Jr. from his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of bargain and sale from William Morris and Allen Taylor to William Rennick for 800 acres in unknown area.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract binding Frederick Hoober to paying Joseph Dickson 220 pounds owed for a one-fourth acre lot in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a lot of land in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson from Richard Tyne and his wife Sarah, signed by John Stuart.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a \"patton of land\" of seventy acres from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Winslow(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract to rent land to James Mayer from Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum concerning obtaining a copy of Ewings deed from the Greenbrier office, and distributing it to Edward Rumsey, Allen Taylor, William Morris, and James Byrnside (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt from the sale of a white mare from Joseph Dickson to John Young for seven pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for the sale of a \"hourse\" from Honery Childers(?) to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of the sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to William Jeres(?) in exchange for work done by Jeres.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for transfer of two mares and a horse William Crawford received from Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for transfer of a bay horse from Henry Banks to John Nivins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a bay mare sold by Joseph Dickson to Samuel Miller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the payment of forty shillings for work done by Richard Masters for Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for William Wallace of Wythe County, Virginia, to pay £290 to James Black for the sale of two mares, with the promise that if Wallace was not able to pay the stated amount he would give two enslaved people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for M. Edgar to the unknown recipient of the note to give Mr. Kyle a cow, and Edgar would settle the sale with Mr. Hagreth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for three pounds in payment for the services of a stud horse owned by Joseph Anderson to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the sale of a bay mare from Rueben Wade of Goochland County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the sale of a black horse to David Alle(?) to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a horse from Charles Simmons of Bedford County to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a bay mare from Thomas Reid to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to James Rollens.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the sale of a cow from James Blagg to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a mare from Wm. McClunson(?) to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract between James Anderson and Dorel Jere(?) for the transfer of cattle, witnessed by Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a heifer from Samuel Dedman of Kentucky to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a cow from Joseph Dickson sold to John Hyde.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for six head of cattle purchased from Joseph Dickson by Michael Baskal(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract to exchange a mare owned by James Hammand for a black horse owned by Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a draft (horse?) from unknown to Jacob Rife (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1771-79; 22 items. Receipts for money received.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1780-89; 27 items. 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Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory. The papers of John Dickson (1737-1809, brother of Joseph Dickson), Robert Dickson, Robert Renick Dickson and Henry Frazier Dickson, and Geraldine Dickson Burrow (1879-1943, daughter of Henry Frazier Dickson), are grouped by type of material (for example, financial accounts, correspondence, and land deeds). Within Robert Dickson's correspondence are a few references to the American Civil War, including a letter from a Confederate tax collector demanding payment of his 1863 Confederate taxes. Other interesting documents include the transcript (1916) of the trial of Sallie Dickson (wife of Robert Renick Dickson) who was sued by Henry Frazier Dickson, for payment of rent due to him. The papers also include genealogy charts of the family.","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson was received in his parish and \"has behaved himself in a Verry prudent and exemplary manner,\" signed by M. Johnson.","Certificate stating that Joseph Tooth knows Joseph Dickson \"...to be of good respectable character...and believe him to be of untainted moral character...\"","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson lived in Greenbrier County, Virginia, for four years and \"Behaved himself as an honast man aught to Do.\"","Oath to the General Assembly [of Virginia] taken by Joseph Dickson, signed by Geo. Skillem","Marriage certificate of Joseph Dickson and Mary Yung, married March 5, 1772, signed by McHoy(?) in Lebanontown.","Certificate signed by John Dickinson of Augusta County, Virginia, as to Joseph Dickson's good character when Dickson lived on Dickinson's land.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson resided in the Spreading(?) congregation from 1779 to 1780, and \"behaved himself sober and in an inoffensive manner,\" signed by Edward Crawford.","Statement of falsely accusing John Wevans \"with taking goods out of the store of Francis Mara\" made by Mary Wave.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson (son of Joseph Sr.) has lived in East Hanover, Pennsylvania, and learned the hatter trade, signed by Daniel Bradley.","Certificate of military service, signed by Capt. James Smith (n.d.)","From unknown asking Joseph Dickson to give John Humphrys his bond.","Thos. Dunwody to W. Jos. Archer about a survey of Joseph Dickson's.","Th. Edgar to Jos. Dixon about the sale of a cow; mentions W. Kyle, W. Hagreth, and W. Black.","William Wallace to James Black.","Lazarus Ainsworth to Joseph Dickson about payment of a sickel left in Dickson's care.","Th. Edgar of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson acknowledging receiving a horse.","James Welch of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson about dry goods sold","Joseph Snell to Robert McClentck(?) about an ax he wants to give to Joseph Dickson.","Jacob Baumgardsen to Joseph Dickson about receiving eight pounds cash.","J. Patton to Joseph Dickson for flour sold; Jas. Richards to Joseph Dickson, asking him to send a hat (?) he left for Dickson with Samuel Ruiker or Jas. Kincaid.","Robt. Steele(?) to Joseph Dickson about a possible breach of contract with Miss Cathe McClung.","Charles Mislock(?) to Capt. Joseph Dickson about shodding a horse and drawing blood on a sick man (n.d.).","Robert Humphreys to unknown about a bed he wishes to buy from Mr. [Joseph] Dickson (n.d.).","John Henry asking Joseph Dickson to let Mr. Jno. Hide have the cow Henry left at Dickson's house (n.d.).","Sale of an enslaved man named Gib from John Dean to Joseph Dickson for £65.","Note of payment due for hiring an enslaved person named Patten from John Carpenter to Joseph Dickson.","Agreement between Jno. H. Flood(?) and Joseph Dickson as to the transfer of an enslaved woman named Nan and two children for $5.","Note of payment of £110 for the sale of an enslaved person named Elijah due to Joseph Dickson from John Ewdend of Rockbridge County, Virginia.","Note of payment of £130 from the sale of an enslaved person named Joel from Joel Walker of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of an enslaved person named Jude from Catherine McClung to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of Jeff, an enslaved person, to Joseph Dickson for £51 from Catherine McClung.","Sale of Jane, an enslaved person for $300, by James Kincaide to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of debt of Joseph Dickson from John Murray of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to John Dickenson of Augusta County, Virginia.","Contract of James Connelly to pay John Dickenson twenty-two pounds.","Contract of John and Joseph Dickson to pay John Dickenson 200 pounds owed.","Promise of Joseph Dickson of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Leonard Beall of Augusta County, Virginia, fifteen pounds owed.","Contract of Robert Armstrong and John Scott to pay John Bollar eighteen pounds \"Good and Lawfull money of Virginia.\"","Promise of Joseph Dickson of of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Baley 125 pounds owed.","Contract for Jacob Rife to pay Jos. Dickson 100 pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay Henry Gaye one pound.","Contract of James Riddle of Augusta County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, four pounds.","Receipt for a bond from Jos. Dickson to John Nivins.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay James Black fifty pounds owed.","Promise of unknown to pay James Humphries eight pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay George Stuart six pounds owed.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son John to apprentice as a tailor to Hugh Paul for five years.","Contract for Joseph Dickson, Jacob Vanosdol, Levin Gibson, and Samuel Kincaid to appraise the estate of James Humphries deceased and make a report to the court.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay John Ederds(?) twenty-five pounds owed.","Contract of John Atkinson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson 1000 pounds owed.","Acknowledgement of John Dickson's receipt of \"an old pocket book containing two Bonds\" from John Staufler(?) and Jno. Deem.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son George to apprentice as a gunsmith to Nathaniel Kelly.","Contract to release Joseph Dickson of a debt of 350 pounds to Richard Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, due to the loss of the previous contract.","Deed of release from Nancy Dickson, widow of Joseph, to relinquish all rights to the provisions made in her husband's will, turn over his estate to her son Robert, and live off an allowance allocated by her son.","Transfer of a tract of land from John McClinachan to John Davis for twenty-seven pounds.","Sale of a tract of land from John Davis to Joseph Dixon for thirty-seven pounds.","Copy of a grant from 1774 to James Ewing for a tract of land in Botetourt County, Virginia, from John Earl of Dunmore.","Agreement from Joseph Dickson allowing William Crow to live on a certain tract of land owned by Dickson.","Transfer of a tract of land from John Douckwaler of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Jacob Rife.","Exchange of a horse owned by Thos. Dunwody to Joseph Dickson for a tract of land.","Transfer of land from Henry Childers to Joseph Dickson.","Statement of debt of 140 pounds from Joseph Dickson to William Crawford for the transfer of land of Honards Creek.","Promise to deliver thirty acres of land on Honards Creek to Elweis Atwater from Joseph Dickson(?).","Deed of land sold from William Dinwiddie (Dunwoodey?) and his wife Elizabeth to Joseph Dixon.","Transfer of ownership of a tract of land from John Nevins to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Clangman and William Dunwoody.","Contract for payment due from the sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to James Black and William McClung.","Deed of land sold by James Black and his wife Rachel to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of land from George Stuart to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of 125 acres to William McClung from Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of land owned by Donal Alison of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson for 100 pounds.","Sale of land from Joseph Dickson to Lewis Shalman.","Receipt for sum of $50 to Daniel Allison from Joseph Dickson in payment for land sold.","Deed of land sold to Joseph Dickson Jr. from his father.","Deed of bargain and sale from William Morris and Allen Taylor to William Rennick for 800 acres in unknown area.","Contract binding Frederick Hoober to paying Joseph Dickson 220 pounds owed for a one-fourth acre lot in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier County, Virginia.","Deed for a lot of land in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson from Richard Tyne and his wife Sarah, signed by John Stuart.","Receipt for a \"patton of land\" of seventy acres from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Winslow(?).","Contract to rent land to James Mayer from Joseph Dickson.","Memorandum concerning obtaining a copy of Ewings deed from the Greenbrier office, and distributing it to Edward Rumsey, Allen Taylor, William Morris, and James Byrnside (n.d.).","Receipt from the sale of a white mare from Joseph Dickson to John Young for seven pounds.","Contract for the sale of a \"hourse\" from Honery Childers(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt of the sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to William Jeres(?) in exchange for work done by Jeres.","Contract for transfer of two mares and a horse William Crawford received from Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for transfer of a bay horse from Henry Banks to John Nivins.","Receipt for a bay mare sold by Joseph Dickson to Samuel Miller.","Receipt for the payment of forty shillings for work done by Richard Masters for Joseph Dickson.","Contract for William Wallace of Wythe County, Virginia, to pay £290 to James Black for the sale of two mares, with the promise that if Wallace was not able to pay the stated amount he would give two enslaved people.","Request for M. Edgar to the unknown recipient of the note to give Mr. Kyle a cow, and Edgar would settle the sale with Mr. Hagreth.","Receipt for three pounds in payment for the services of a stud horse owned by Joseph Anderson to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a bay mare from Rueben Wade of Goochland County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a black horse to David Alle(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a horse from Charles Simmons of Bedford County to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a bay mare from Thomas Reid to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to James Rollens.","Receipt for the sale of a cow from James Blagg to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Wm. McClunson(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Contract between James Anderson and Dorel Jere(?) for the transfer of cattle, witnessed by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a heifer from Samuel Dedman of Kentucky to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for a cow from Joseph Dickson sold to John Hyde.","Receipt for six head of cattle purchased from Joseph Dickson by Michael Baskal(?).","Contract to exchange a mare owned by James Hammand for a black horse owned by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a draft (horse?) from unknown to Jacob Rife (n.d.).","Financial accounts, 1771-79; 22 items. Receipts for money received.","Financial accounts, 1780-89; 27 items. Household goods purchased, receipt for 1779 taxes paid by Dickson.","Financial accounts, 1790-99; 34 items.","Financial accounts, 1800-05; 35 items; includes bill for tuition of Dickson's children to \"English school.\"","Financial accounts, 1806-09; 19 items.","Financial accounts, 1810; 10 items.","Financial accounts, 1815, n.d.; 16 items.","Currency conversion tables (pounds to dollars), 1791(?).","Account book/diary, 1806-63 (includes entries by Robert Dickson).","Papers (1775-1810, n.d.); 20 items (including medical cure recipes for the flux, rheumatism, \"stomic ake,\" snake bite, colic, and others, and accounts, receipts, and a warrant from James Alexander to the sheriff of Monroe County, Virginia, concerning John Dickson).","15 items.","33 items.","36 items (includes a letter from the tax collector of the 62nd Virginia district demanding payment of Dickson's 1863 Confederate taxes; and the draft of a letter, dated September 18, 1865, from Robert Dickson to President Andrew Johnson, vowing his allegiance to the government of the U.S.A. and asking for a \"release from the penalties and forfictures to which I am exposed.\")","24 items (includes a letter from people asking to rent a room with the Dicksons at the White Sulphur Springs.)","13 items (includes a letter from J.H.H. Grandy with information about the impact of Reconstruction on the area.)","18 items, with 25 envelopes, n.d..","27 items (includes a contract signed by Nancy Dickson relinquishing all claim to her husband's will to her son Robert.)","21 items (includes renewals of a contract with Lucian F. Cox, employed by Robert Dickson.)","22 items (includes insurance and income tax forms.)","7 items, n.d..","35 items (contains several receipts from Nancy Dickson for her yearly allowance from her son Robert.)","45 items (includes accounts from 1833 relating to the labor and supplies incurred during the building of \"Locust Hill,\" the Dickson family home.)","63 items.","50 items.","29 items.","32 items.","42 items.","46 items.","57 items.","38 items (includes a receipt for Dickson's 1857 taxes.)","56 items.","21 items (includes a January 1865 bill for $15 in exchange for 500 pounds of hay given by Dickson to the Confederate States of America, and a March 1865 request for four bay mules for use by the CSA.)","52 items, n.d..","44 items.","11 items.","Sallie Dickson (Robert Rennick's wife)--trial transcript, Sallie Dickson vs. H.F. Dickson, ca. 1916.","21 items.","15 items.","26 items.","27 items (includes correspondence from/to Laura Dickson, his wife.)","15 items (includes indenture contracts [1837, 1839, 1846] for land in Monroe County, Virginia.)","18 items.","44 items.","29 items.","36 items.","Miscellaneous printed material; 7 items.","18 items.","22 items.","American history book (no title available), history to 1829.","An Accompanient to Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States...(1836), owned by Rebecca Dickson (daughter of Robert).","13 items (includes Confederate bonds.)","2 items.","8 items (includes two pages pulled from the family Bible.)"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuareproduction\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuareproduction\u003c/a\u003e. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuapublication\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuapublication\u003c/a\u003e. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_38302d5600958a1e835db472b2c30d32\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area."],"names_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Dickson family (Greenbrier County, W. Va.)","Gib (enslaved person)","Patten (enslaved person)","Nan (enslaved person)","Elijah (enslaved person)","Joel (enslaved person)","Jude (enslaved person)","Jeff (enslaved person)","Jane (enslaved person)"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech"],"famname_ssim":["Dickson family (Greenbrier County, W. 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Va.)","Local/Regional History and Appalachian South","The collection is open for research.","The papers are arranged by family member and then by type of material.","The Dicksons were pioneer settlers of Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Joseph Dickson (1749-1822) settled in what is now Greenbrier County, West Virginia, from Ireland by way of Pennsylvania in the 1770s. He received land grants originally from the King's land office in 1769, and later from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1785, 1789, and 1795 for property on Howard's Creek. His son, Robert Dickson (1795-1869?), inherited the land and built Locust Hill in 1833, now called Mountain Home. Robert Renick Dickson (1827-1888) and Henry Frazier Dickson (1841-1909), Robert Dickson's sons, inherited the land and in turn left it to their heirs. The Dicksons turned Mountain Home near White Sulphur Springs into a resort in the 1800s and early 1900s. The property and home were owned by the family until they were sold in 1968.","The guide to the Dickson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Dickson Family Papers was completed prior to 2001.","The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory. The papers of John Dickson (1737-1809, brother of Joseph Dickson), Robert Dickson, Robert Renick Dickson and Henry Frazier Dickson, and Geraldine Dickson Burrow (1879-1943, daughter of Henry Frazier Dickson), are grouped by type of material (for example, financial accounts, correspondence, and land deeds). Within Robert Dickson's correspondence are a few references to the American Civil War, including a letter from a Confederate tax collector demanding payment of his 1863 Confederate taxes. Other interesting documents include the transcript (1916) of the trial of Sallie Dickson (wife of Robert Renick Dickson) who was sued by Henry Frazier Dickson, for payment of rent due to him. The papers also include genealogy charts of the family.","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson was received in his parish and \"has behaved himself in a Verry prudent and exemplary manner,\" signed by M. Johnson.","Certificate stating that Joseph Tooth knows Joseph Dickson \"...to be of good respectable character...and believe him to be of untainted moral character...\"","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson lived in Greenbrier County, Virginia, for four years and \"Behaved himself as an honast man aught to Do.\"","Oath to the General Assembly [of Virginia] taken by Joseph Dickson, signed by Geo. Skillem","Marriage certificate of Joseph Dickson and Mary Yung, married March 5, 1772, signed by McHoy(?) in Lebanontown.","Certificate signed by John Dickinson of Augusta County, Virginia, as to Joseph Dickson's good character when Dickson lived on Dickinson's land.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson resided in the Spreading(?) congregation from 1779 to 1780, and \"behaved himself sober and in an inoffensive manner,\" signed by Edward Crawford.","Statement of falsely accusing John Wevans \"with taking goods out of the store of Francis Mara\" made by Mary Wave.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson (son of Joseph Sr.) has lived in East Hanover, Pennsylvania, and learned the hatter trade, signed by Daniel Bradley.","Certificate of military service, signed by Capt. James Smith (n.d.)","From unknown asking Joseph Dickson to give John Humphrys his bond.","Thos. Dunwody to W. Jos. Archer about a survey of Joseph Dickson's.","Th. Edgar to Jos. Dixon about the sale of a cow; mentions W. Kyle, W. Hagreth, and W. Black.","William Wallace to James Black.","Lazarus Ainsworth to Joseph Dickson about payment of a sickel left in Dickson's care.","Th. Edgar of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson acknowledging receiving a horse.","James Welch of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson about dry goods sold","Joseph Snell to Robert McClentck(?) about an ax he wants to give to Joseph Dickson.","Jacob Baumgardsen to Joseph Dickson about receiving eight pounds cash.","J. Patton to Joseph Dickson for flour sold; Jas. Richards to Joseph Dickson, asking him to send a hat (?) he left for Dickson with Samuel Ruiker or Jas. Kincaid.","Robt. Steele(?) to Joseph Dickson about a possible breach of contract with Miss Cathe McClung.","Charles Mislock(?) to Capt. Joseph Dickson about shodding a horse and drawing blood on a sick man (n.d.).","Robert Humphreys to unknown about a bed he wishes to buy from Mr. [Joseph] Dickson (n.d.).","John Henry asking Joseph Dickson to let Mr. Jno. Hide have the cow Henry left at Dickson's house (n.d.).","Sale of an enslaved man named Gib from John Dean to Joseph Dickson for £65.","Note of payment due for hiring an enslaved person named Patten from John Carpenter to Joseph Dickson.","Agreement between Jno. H. Flood(?) and Joseph Dickson as to the transfer of an enslaved woman named Nan and two children for $5.","Note of payment of £110 for the sale of an enslaved person named Elijah due to Joseph Dickson from John Ewdend of Rockbridge County, Virginia.","Note of payment of £130 from the sale of an enslaved person named Joel from Joel Walker of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of an enslaved person named Jude from Catherine McClung to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of Jeff, an enslaved person, to Joseph Dickson for £51 from Catherine McClung.","Sale of Jane, an enslaved person for $300, by James Kincaide to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of debt of Joseph Dickson from John Murray of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to John Dickenson of Augusta County, Virginia.","Contract of James Connelly to pay John Dickenson twenty-two pounds.","Contract of John and Joseph Dickson to pay John Dickenson 200 pounds owed.","Promise of Joseph Dickson of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Leonard Beall of Augusta County, Virginia, fifteen pounds owed.","Contract of Robert Armstrong and John Scott to pay John Bollar eighteen pounds \"Good and Lawfull money of Virginia.\"","Promise of Joseph Dickson of of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Baley 125 pounds owed.","Contract for Jacob Rife to pay Jos. Dickson 100 pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay Henry Gaye one pound.","Contract of James Riddle of Augusta County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, four pounds.","Receipt for a bond from Jos. Dickson to John Nivins.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay James Black fifty pounds owed.","Promise of unknown to pay James Humphries eight pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay George Stuart six pounds owed.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son John to apprentice as a tailor to Hugh Paul for five years.","Contract for Joseph Dickson, Jacob Vanosdol, Levin Gibson, and Samuel Kincaid to appraise the estate of James Humphries deceased and make a report to the court.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay John Ederds(?) twenty-five pounds owed.","Contract of John Atkinson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson 1000 pounds owed.","Acknowledgement of John Dickson's receipt of \"an old pocket book containing two Bonds\" from John Staufler(?) and Jno. Deem.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son George to apprentice as a gunsmith to Nathaniel Kelly.","Contract to release Joseph Dickson of a debt of 350 pounds to Richard Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, due to the loss of the previous contract.","Deed of release from Nancy Dickson, widow of Joseph, to relinquish all rights to the provisions made in her husband's will, turn over his estate to her son Robert, and live off an allowance allocated by her son.","Transfer of a tract of land from John McClinachan to John Davis for twenty-seven pounds.","Sale of a tract of land from John Davis to Joseph Dixon for thirty-seven pounds.","Copy of a grant from 1774 to James Ewing for a tract of land in Botetourt County, Virginia, from John Earl of Dunmore.","Agreement from Joseph Dickson allowing William Crow to live on a certain tract of land owned by Dickson.","Transfer of a tract of land from John Douckwaler of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Jacob Rife.","Exchange of a horse owned by Thos. Dunwody to Joseph Dickson for a tract of land.","Transfer of land from Henry Childers to Joseph Dickson.","Statement of debt of 140 pounds from Joseph Dickson to William Crawford for the transfer of land of Honards Creek.","Promise to deliver thirty acres of land on Honards Creek to Elweis Atwater from Joseph Dickson(?).","Deed of land sold from William Dinwiddie (Dunwoodey?) and his wife Elizabeth to Joseph Dixon.","Transfer of ownership of a tract of land from John Nevins to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Clangman and William Dunwoody.","Contract for payment due from the sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to James Black and William McClung.","Deed of land sold by James Black and his wife Rachel to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of land from George Stuart to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of 125 acres to William McClung from Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of land owned by Donal Alison of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson for 100 pounds.","Sale of land from Joseph Dickson to Lewis Shalman.","Receipt for sum of $50 to Daniel Allison from Joseph Dickson in payment for land sold.","Deed of land sold to Joseph Dickson Jr. from his father.","Deed of bargain and sale from William Morris and Allen Taylor to William Rennick for 800 acres in unknown area.","Contract binding Frederick Hoober to paying Joseph Dickson 220 pounds owed for a one-fourth acre lot in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier County, Virginia.","Deed for a lot of land in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson from Richard Tyne and his wife Sarah, signed by John Stuart.","Receipt for a \"patton of land\" of seventy acres from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Winslow(?).","Contract to rent land to James Mayer from Joseph Dickson.","Memorandum concerning obtaining a copy of Ewings deed from the Greenbrier office, and distributing it to Edward Rumsey, Allen Taylor, William Morris, and James Byrnside (n.d.).","Receipt from the sale of a white mare from Joseph Dickson to John Young for seven pounds.","Contract for the sale of a \"hourse\" from Honery Childers(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt of the sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to William Jeres(?) in exchange for work done by Jeres.","Contract for transfer of two mares and a horse William Crawford received from Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for transfer of a bay horse from Henry Banks to John Nivins.","Receipt for a bay mare sold by Joseph Dickson to Samuel Miller.","Receipt for the payment of forty shillings for work done by Richard Masters for Joseph Dickson.","Contract for William Wallace of Wythe County, Virginia, to pay £290 to James Black for the sale of two mares, with the promise that if Wallace was not able to pay the stated amount he would give two enslaved people.","Request for M. Edgar to the unknown recipient of the note to give Mr. Kyle a cow, and Edgar would settle the sale with Mr. Hagreth.","Receipt for three pounds in payment for the services of a stud horse owned by Joseph Anderson to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a bay mare from Rueben Wade of Goochland County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a black horse to David Alle(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a horse from Charles Simmons of Bedford County to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a bay mare from Thomas Reid to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to James Rollens.","Receipt for the sale of a cow from James Blagg to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Wm. McClunson(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Contract between James Anderson and Dorel Jere(?) for the transfer of cattle, witnessed by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a heifer from Samuel Dedman of Kentucky to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for a cow from Joseph Dickson sold to John Hyde.","Receipt for six head of cattle purchased from Joseph Dickson by Michael Baskal(?).","Contract to exchange a mare owned by James Hammand for a black horse owned by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a draft (horse?) from unknown to Jacob Rife (n.d.).","Financial accounts, 1771-79; 22 items. Receipts for money received.","Financial accounts, 1780-89; 27 items. Household goods purchased, receipt for 1779 taxes paid by Dickson.","Financial accounts, 1790-99; 34 items.","Financial accounts, 1800-05; 35 items; includes bill for tuition of Dickson's children to \"English school.\"","Financial accounts, 1806-09; 19 items.","Financial accounts, 1810; 10 items.","Financial accounts, 1815, n.d.; 16 items.","Currency conversion tables (pounds to dollars), 1791(?).","Account book/diary, 1806-63 (includes entries by Robert Dickson).","Papers (1775-1810, n.d.); 20 items (including medical cure recipes for the flux, rheumatism, \"stomic ake,\" snake bite, colic, and others, and accounts, receipts, and a warrant from James Alexander to the sheriff of Monroe County, Virginia, concerning John Dickson).","15 items.","33 items.","36 items (includes a letter from the tax collector of the 62nd Virginia district demanding payment of Dickson's 1863 Confederate taxes; and the draft of a letter, dated September 18, 1865, from Robert Dickson to President Andrew Johnson, vowing his allegiance to the government of the U.S.A. and asking for a \"release from the penalties and forfictures to which I am exposed.\")","24 items (includes a letter from people asking to rent a room with the Dicksons at the White Sulphur Springs.)","13 items (includes a letter from J.H.H. Grandy with information about the impact of Reconstruction on the area.)","18 items, with 25 envelopes, n.d..","27 items (includes a contract signed by Nancy Dickson relinquishing all claim to her husband's will to her son Robert.)","21 items (includes renewals of a contract with Lucian F. Cox, employed by Robert Dickson.)","22 items (includes insurance and income tax forms.)","7 items, n.d..","35 items (contains several receipts from Nancy Dickson for her yearly allowance from her son Robert.)","45 items (includes accounts from 1833 relating to the labor and supplies incurred during the building of \"Locust Hill,\" the Dickson family home.)","63 items.","50 items.","29 items.","32 items.","42 items.","46 items.","57 items.","38 items (includes a receipt for Dickson's 1857 taxes.)","56 items.","21 items (includes a January 1865 bill for $15 in exchange for 500 pounds of hay given by Dickson to the Confederate States of America, and a March 1865 request for four bay mules for use by the CSA.)","52 items, n.d..","44 items.","11 items.","Sallie Dickson (Robert Rennick's wife)--trial transcript, Sallie Dickson vs. H.F. Dickson, ca. 1916.","21 items.","15 items.","26 items.","27 items (includes correspondence from/to Laura Dickson, his wife.)","15 items (includes indenture contracts [1837, 1839, 1846] for land in Monroe County, Virginia.)","18 items.","44 items.","29 items.","36 items.","Miscellaneous printed material; 7 items.","18 items.","22 items.","American history book (no title available), history to 1829.","An Accompanient to Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States...(1836), owned by Rebecca Dickson (daughter of Robert).","13 items (includes Confederate bonds.)","2 items.","8 items (includes two pages pulled from the family Bible.)","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area.","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Dickson family (Greenbrier County, W. Va.)","Gib (enslaved person)","Patten (enslaved person)","Nan (enslaved person)","Elijah (enslaved person)","Joel (enslaved person)","Jude (enslaved person)","Jeff (enslaved person)","Jane (enslaved person)","The materials in the collection are in English."],"unitid_tesim":["Ms.1988.094","/repositories/2/resources/1599"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Dickson Family Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Dickson Family Papers"],"collection_ssim":["Dickson Family Papers"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University"],"geogname_ssm":["Greenbrier County (W. Va.)"],"geogname_ssim":["Greenbrier County (W. Va.)"],"creator_ssm":["Dickson family (Greenbrier County, W. 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Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"acqinfo_ssim":["The collection was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in 1988."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Local/Regional History and Appalachian South"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Local/Regional History and Appalachian South"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["2.8 Cubic Feet 2 boxes"],"extent_tesim":["2.8 Cubic Feet 2 boxes"],"date_range_isim":[1769,1770,1771,1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is open for research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The collection is open for research."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers are arranged by family member and then by type of material.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers are arranged by family member and then by type of material."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Dicksons were pioneer settlers of Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Joseph Dickson (1749-1822) settled in what is now Greenbrier County, West Virginia, from Ireland by way of Pennsylvania in the 1770s. He received land grants originally from the King's land office in 1769, and later from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1785, 1789, and 1795 for property on Howard's Creek. His son, Robert Dickson (1795-1869?), inherited the land and built Locust Hill in 1833, now called Mountain Home. Robert Renick Dickson (1827-1888) and Henry Frazier Dickson (1841-1909), Robert Dickson's sons, inherited the land and in turn left it to their heirs. The Dicksons turned Mountain Home near White Sulphur Springs into a resort in the 1800s and early 1900s. The property and home were owned by the family until they were sold in 1968.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Family History Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Dicksons were pioneer settlers of Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Joseph Dickson (1749-1822) settled in what is now Greenbrier County, West Virginia, from Ireland by way of Pennsylvania in the 1770s. He received land grants originally from the King's land office in 1769, and later from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1785, 1789, and 1795 for property on Howard's Creek. His son, Robert Dickson (1795-1869?), inherited the land and built Locust Hill in 1833, now called Mountain Home. Robert Renick Dickson (1827-1888) and Henry Frazier Dickson (1841-1909), Robert Dickson's sons, inherited the land and in turn left it to their heirs. The Dicksons turned Mountain Home near White Sulphur Springs into a resort in the 1800s and early 1900s. The property and home were owned by the family until they were sold in 1968."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Dickson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Dickson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ )."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Dickson Family Papers, 1769-1924, Ms1988-094, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Dickson Family Papers, 1769-1924, Ms1988-094, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe processing, arrangement, and description of the Dickson Family Papers was completed prior to 2001.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The processing, arrangement, and description of the Dickson Family Papers was completed prior to 2001."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory. The papers of John Dickson (1737-1809, brother of Joseph Dickson), Robert Dickson, Robert Renick Dickson and Henry Frazier Dickson, and Geraldine Dickson Burrow (1879-1943, daughter of Henry Frazier Dickson), are grouped by type of material (for example, financial accounts, correspondence, and land deeds). Within Robert Dickson's correspondence are a few references to the American Civil War, including a letter from a Confederate tax collector demanding payment of his 1863 Confederate taxes. 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James Smith (n.d.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom unknown asking Joseph Dickson to give John Humphrys his bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThos. Dunwody to W. Jos. Archer about a survey of Joseph Dickson's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTh. Edgar to Jos. Dixon about the sale of a cow; mentions W. Kyle, W. Hagreth, and W. Black.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Wallace to James Black.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLazarus Ainsworth to Joseph Dickson about payment of a sickel left in Dickson's care.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTh. Edgar of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson acknowledging receiving a horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Welch of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson about dry goods sold\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Snell to Robert McClentck(?) about an ax he wants to give to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJacob Baumgardsen to Joseph Dickson about receiving eight pounds cash.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Patton to Joseph Dickson for flour sold; Jas. Richards to Joseph Dickson, asking him to send a hat (?) he left for Dickson with Samuel Ruiker or Jas. Kincaid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobt. Steele(?) to Joseph Dickson about a possible breach of contract with Miss Cathe McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Mislock(?) to Capt. Joseph Dickson about shodding a horse and drawing blood on a sick man (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Humphreys to unknown about a bed he wishes to buy from Mr. [Joseph] Dickson (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Henry asking Joseph Dickson to let Mr. Jno. Hide have the cow Henry left at Dickson's house (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of an enslaved man named Gib from John Dean to Joseph Dickson for £65.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote of payment due for hiring an enslaved person named Patten from John Carpenter to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement between Jno. H. Flood(?) and Joseph Dickson as to the transfer of an enslaved woman named Nan and two children for $5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote of payment of £110 for the sale of an enslaved person named Elijah due to Joseph Dickson from John Ewdend of Rockbridge County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote of payment of £130 from the sale of an enslaved person named Joel from Joel Walker of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of an enslaved person named Jude from Catherine McClung to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Jeff, an enslaved person, to Joseph Dickson for £51 from Catherine McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Jane, an enslaved person for $300, by James Kincaide to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of debt of Joseph Dickson from John Murray of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to John Dickenson of Augusta County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of James Connelly to pay John Dickenson twenty-two pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of John and Joseph Dickson to pay John Dickenson 200 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise of Joseph Dickson of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Leonard Beall of Augusta County, Virginia, fifteen pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of Robert Armstrong and John Scott to pay John Bollar eighteen pounds \"Good and Lawfull money of Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise of Joseph Dickson of of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Baley 125 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for Jacob Rife to pay Jos. Dickson 100 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for unknown to pay Henry Gaye one pound.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of James Riddle of Augusta County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, four pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a bond from Jos. Dickson to John Nivins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of Joseph Dickson to pay James Black fifty pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise of unknown to pay James Humphries eight pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for unknown to pay George Stuart six pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son John to apprentice as a tailor to Hugh Paul for five years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for Joseph Dickson, Jacob Vanosdol, Levin Gibson, and Samuel Kincaid to appraise the estate of James Humphries deceased and make a report to the court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of Joseph Dickson to pay John Ederds(?) twenty-five pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of John Atkinson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson 1000 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgement of John Dickson's receipt of \"an old pocket book containing two Bonds\" from John Staufler(?) and Jno. Deem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son George to apprentice as a gunsmith to Nathaniel Kelly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract to release Joseph Dickson of a debt of 350 pounds to Richard Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, due to the loss of the previous contract.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of release from Nancy Dickson, widow of Joseph, to relinquish all rights to the provisions made in her husband's will, turn over his estate to her son Robert, and live off an allowance allocated by her son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of a tract of land from John McClinachan to John Davis for twenty-seven pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a tract of land from John Davis to Joseph Dixon for thirty-seven pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of a grant from 1774 to James Ewing for a tract of land in Botetourt County, Virginia, from John Earl of Dunmore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement from Joseph Dickson allowing William Crow to live on a certain tract of land owned by Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of a tract of land from John Douckwaler of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Jacob Rife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExchange of a horse owned by Thos. Dunwody to Joseph Dickson for a tract of land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of land from Henry Childers to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of debt of 140 pounds from Joseph Dickson to William Crawford for the transfer of land of Honards Creek.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise to deliver thirty acres of land on Honards Creek to Elweis Atwater from Joseph Dickson(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land sold from William Dinwiddie (Dunwoodey?) and his wife Elizabeth to Joseph Dixon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of ownership of a tract of land from John Nevins to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Clangman and William Dunwoody.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for payment due from the sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to James Black and William McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land sold by James Black and his wife Rachel to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of land from George Stuart to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of 125 acres to William McClung from Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of land owned by Donal Alison of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson for 100 pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of land from Joseph Dickson to Lewis Shalman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for sum of $50 to Daniel Allison from Joseph Dickson in payment for land sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land sold to Joseph Dickson Jr. from his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of bargain and sale from William Morris and Allen Taylor to William Rennick for 800 acres in unknown area.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract binding Frederick Hoober to paying Joseph Dickson 220 pounds owed for a one-fourth acre lot in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a lot of land in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson from Richard Tyne and his wife Sarah, signed by John Stuart.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a \"patton of land\" of seventy acres from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Winslow(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract to rent land to James Mayer from Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum concerning obtaining a copy of Ewings deed from the Greenbrier office, and distributing it to Edward Rumsey, Allen Taylor, William Morris, and James Byrnside (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt from the sale of a white mare from Joseph Dickson to John Young for seven pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for the sale of a \"hourse\" from Honery Childers(?) to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of the sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to William Jeres(?) in exchange for work done by Jeres.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for transfer of two mares and a horse William Crawford received from Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for transfer of a bay horse from Henry Banks to John Nivins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a bay mare sold by Joseph Dickson to Samuel Miller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the payment of forty shillings for work done by Richard Masters for Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for William Wallace of Wythe County, Virginia, to pay £290 to James Black for the sale of two mares, with the promise that if Wallace was not able to pay the stated amount he would give two enslaved people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for M. Edgar to the unknown recipient of the note to give Mr. Kyle a cow, and Edgar would settle the sale with Mr. Hagreth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for three pounds in payment for the services of a stud horse owned by Joseph Anderson to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the sale of a bay mare from Rueben Wade of Goochland County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the sale of a black horse to David Alle(?) to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a horse from Charles Simmons of Bedford County to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a bay mare from Thomas Reid to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to James Rollens.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the sale of a cow from James Blagg to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a mare from Wm. McClunson(?) to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract between James Anderson and Dorel Jere(?) for the transfer of cattle, witnessed by Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a heifer from Samuel Dedman of Kentucky to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a cow from Joseph Dickson sold to John Hyde.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for six head of cattle purchased from Joseph Dickson by Michael Baskal(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract to exchange a mare owned by James Hammand for a black horse owned by Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a draft (horse?) from unknown to Jacob Rife (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1771-79; 22 items. Receipts for money received.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1780-89; 27 items. Household goods purchased, receipt for 1779 taxes paid by Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1790-99; 34 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1800-05; 35 items; includes bill for tuition of Dickson's children to \"English school.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1806-09; 19 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1810; 10 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1815, n.d.; 16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrency conversion tables (pounds to dollars), 1791(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book/diary, 1806-63 (includes entries by Robert Dickson).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers (1775-1810, n.d.); 20 items (including medical cure recipes for the flux, rheumatism, \"stomic ake,\" snake bite, colic, and others, and accounts, receipts, and a warrant from James Alexander to the sheriff of Monroe County, Virginia, concerning John Dickson).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items (includes a letter from the tax collector of the 62nd Virginia district demanding payment of Dickson's 1863 Confederate taxes; and the draft of a letter, dated September 18, 1865, from Robert Dickson to President Andrew Johnson, vowing his allegiance to the government of the U.S.A. and asking for a \"release from the penalties and forfictures to which I am exposed.\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items (includes a letter from people asking to rent a room with the Dicksons at the White Sulphur Springs.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items (includes a letter from J.H.H. Grandy with information about the impact of Reconstruction on the area.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items, with 25 envelopes, n.d..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items (includes a contract signed by Nancy Dickson relinquishing all claim to her husband's will to her son Robert.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items (includes renewals of a contract with Lucian F. Cox, employed by Robert Dickson.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items (includes insurance and income tax forms.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items, n.d..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items (contains several receipts from Nancy Dickson for her yearly allowance from her son Robert.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e45 items (includes accounts from 1833 relating to the labor and supplies incurred during the building of \"Locust Hill,\" the Dickson family home.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e63 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e42 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e46 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e57 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items (includes a receipt for Dickson's 1857 taxes.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e56 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items (includes a January 1865 bill for $15 in exchange for 500 pounds of hay given by Dickson to the Confederate States of America, and a March 1865 request for four bay mules for use by the CSA.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e52 items, n.d..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e11 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSallie Dickson (Robert Rennick's wife)--trial transcript, Sallie Dickson vs. H.F. Dickson, ca. 1916.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 items (includes correspondence from/to Laura Dickson, his wife.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items (includes indenture contracts [1837, 1839, 1846] for land in Monroe County, Virginia.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous printed material; 7 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmerican history book (no title available), history to 1829.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn Accompanient to Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States...(1836), owned by Rebecca Dickson (daughter of Robert).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items (includes Confederate bonds.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 items (includes two pages pulled from the family Bible.)\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents note","Scope and Contents 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Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory. The papers of John Dickson (1737-1809, brother of Joseph Dickson), Robert Dickson, Robert Renick Dickson and Henry Frazier Dickson, and Geraldine Dickson Burrow (1879-1943, daughter of Henry Frazier Dickson), are grouped by type of material (for example, financial accounts, correspondence, and land deeds). Within Robert Dickson's correspondence are a few references to the American Civil War, including a letter from a Confederate tax collector demanding payment of his 1863 Confederate taxes. Other interesting documents include the transcript (1916) of the trial of Sallie Dickson (wife of Robert Renick Dickson) who was sued by Henry Frazier Dickson, for payment of rent due to him. The papers also include genealogy charts of the family.","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson was received in his parish and \"has behaved himself in a Verry prudent and exemplary manner,\" signed by M. Johnson.","Certificate stating that Joseph Tooth knows Joseph Dickson \"...to be of good respectable character...and believe him to be of untainted moral character...\"","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson lived in Greenbrier County, Virginia, for four years and \"Behaved himself as an honast man aught to Do.\"","Oath to the General Assembly [of Virginia] taken by Joseph Dickson, signed by Geo. Skillem","Marriage certificate of Joseph Dickson and Mary Yung, married March 5, 1772, signed by McHoy(?) in Lebanontown.","Certificate signed by John Dickinson of Augusta County, Virginia, as to Joseph Dickson's good character when Dickson lived on Dickinson's land.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson resided in the Spreading(?) congregation from 1779 to 1780, and \"behaved himself sober and in an inoffensive manner,\" signed by Edward Crawford.","Statement of falsely accusing John Wevans \"with taking goods out of the store of Francis Mara\" made by Mary Wave.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson (son of Joseph Sr.) has lived in East Hanover, Pennsylvania, and learned the hatter trade, signed by Daniel Bradley.","Certificate of military service, signed by Capt. James Smith (n.d.)","From unknown asking Joseph Dickson to give John Humphrys his bond.","Thos. Dunwody to W. Jos. Archer about a survey of Joseph Dickson's.","Th. Edgar to Jos. Dixon about the sale of a cow; mentions W. Kyle, W. Hagreth, and W. Black.","William Wallace to James Black.","Lazarus Ainsworth to Joseph Dickson about payment of a sickel left in Dickson's care.","Th. Edgar of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson acknowledging receiving a horse.","James Welch of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson about dry goods sold","Joseph Snell to Robert McClentck(?) about an ax he wants to give to Joseph Dickson.","Jacob Baumgardsen to Joseph Dickson about receiving eight pounds cash.","J. Patton to Joseph Dickson for flour sold; Jas. Richards to Joseph Dickson, asking him to send a hat (?) he left for Dickson with Samuel Ruiker or Jas. Kincaid.","Robt. Steele(?) to Joseph Dickson about a possible breach of contract with Miss Cathe McClung.","Charles Mislock(?) to Capt. Joseph Dickson about shodding a horse and drawing blood on a sick man (n.d.).","Robert Humphreys to unknown about a bed he wishes to buy from Mr. [Joseph] Dickson (n.d.).","John Henry asking Joseph Dickson to let Mr. Jno. Hide have the cow Henry left at Dickson's house (n.d.).","Sale of an enslaved man named Gib from John Dean to Joseph Dickson for £65.","Note of payment due for hiring an enslaved person named Patten from John Carpenter to Joseph Dickson.","Agreement between Jno. H. Flood(?) and Joseph Dickson as to the transfer of an enslaved woman named Nan and two children for $5.","Note of payment of £110 for the sale of an enslaved person named Elijah due to Joseph Dickson from John Ewdend of Rockbridge County, Virginia.","Note of payment of £130 from the sale of an enslaved person named Joel from Joel Walker of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of an enslaved person named Jude from Catherine McClung to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of Jeff, an enslaved person, to Joseph Dickson for £51 from Catherine McClung.","Sale of Jane, an enslaved person for $300, by James Kincaide to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of debt of Joseph Dickson from John Murray of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to John Dickenson of Augusta County, Virginia.","Contract of James Connelly to pay John Dickenson twenty-two pounds.","Contract of John and Joseph Dickson to pay John Dickenson 200 pounds owed.","Promise of Joseph Dickson of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Leonard Beall of Augusta County, Virginia, fifteen pounds owed.","Contract of Robert Armstrong and John Scott to pay John Bollar eighteen pounds \"Good and Lawfull money of Virginia.\"","Promise of Joseph Dickson of of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Baley 125 pounds owed.","Contract for Jacob Rife to pay Jos. Dickson 100 pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay Henry Gaye one pound.","Contract of James Riddle of Augusta County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, four pounds.","Receipt for a bond from Jos. Dickson to John Nivins.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay James Black fifty pounds owed.","Promise of unknown to pay James Humphries eight pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay George Stuart six pounds owed.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son John to apprentice as a tailor to Hugh Paul for five years.","Contract for Joseph Dickson, Jacob Vanosdol, Levin Gibson, and Samuel Kincaid to appraise the estate of James Humphries deceased and make a report to the court.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay John Ederds(?) twenty-five pounds owed.","Contract of John Atkinson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson 1000 pounds owed.","Acknowledgement of John Dickson's receipt of \"an old pocket book containing two Bonds\" from John Staufler(?) and Jno. Deem.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son George to apprentice as a gunsmith to Nathaniel Kelly.","Contract to release Joseph Dickson of a debt of 350 pounds to Richard Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, due to the loss of the previous contract.","Deed of release from Nancy Dickson, widow of Joseph, to relinquish all rights to the provisions made in her husband's will, turn over his estate to her son Robert, and live off an allowance allocated by her son.","Transfer of a tract of land from John McClinachan to John Davis for twenty-seven pounds.","Sale of a tract of land from John Davis to Joseph Dixon for thirty-seven pounds.","Copy of a grant from 1774 to James Ewing for a tract of land in Botetourt County, Virginia, from John Earl of Dunmore.","Agreement from Joseph Dickson allowing William Crow to live on a certain tract of land owned by Dickson.","Transfer of a tract of land from John Douckwaler of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Jacob Rife.","Exchange of a horse owned by Thos. Dunwody to Joseph Dickson for a tract of land.","Transfer of land from Henry Childers to Joseph Dickson.","Statement of debt of 140 pounds from Joseph Dickson to William Crawford for the transfer of land of Honards Creek.","Promise to deliver thirty acres of land on Honards Creek to Elweis Atwater from Joseph Dickson(?).","Deed of land sold from William Dinwiddie (Dunwoodey?) and his wife Elizabeth to Joseph Dixon.","Transfer of ownership of a tract of land from John Nevins to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Clangman and William Dunwoody.","Contract for payment due from the sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to James Black and William McClung.","Deed of land sold by James Black and his wife Rachel to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of land from George Stuart to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of 125 acres to William McClung from Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of land owned by Donal Alison of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson for 100 pounds.","Sale of land from Joseph Dickson to Lewis Shalman.","Receipt for sum of $50 to Daniel Allison from Joseph Dickson in payment for land sold.","Deed of land sold to Joseph Dickson Jr. from his father.","Deed of bargain and sale from William Morris and Allen Taylor to William Rennick for 800 acres in unknown area.","Contract binding Frederick Hoober to paying Joseph Dickson 220 pounds owed for a one-fourth acre lot in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier County, Virginia.","Deed for a lot of land in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson from Richard Tyne and his wife Sarah, signed by John Stuart.","Receipt for a \"patton of land\" of seventy acres from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Winslow(?).","Contract to rent land to James Mayer from Joseph Dickson.","Memorandum concerning obtaining a copy of Ewings deed from the Greenbrier office, and distributing it to Edward Rumsey, Allen Taylor, William Morris, and James Byrnside (n.d.).","Receipt from the sale of a white mare from Joseph Dickson to John Young for seven pounds.","Contract for the sale of a \"hourse\" from Honery Childers(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt of the sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to William Jeres(?) in exchange for work done by Jeres.","Contract for transfer of two mares and a horse William Crawford received from Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for transfer of a bay horse from Henry Banks to John Nivins.","Receipt for a bay mare sold by Joseph Dickson to Samuel Miller.","Receipt for the payment of forty shillings for work done by Richard Masters for Joseph Dickson.","Contract for William Wallace of Wythe County, Virginia, to pay £290 to James Black for the sale of two mares, with the promise that if Wallace was not able to pay the stated amount he would give two enslaved people.","Request for M. Edgar to the unknown recipient of the note to give Mr. Kyle a cow, and Edgar would settle the sale with Mr. Hagreth.","Receipt for three pounds in payment for the services of a stud horse owned by Joseph Anderson to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a bay mare from Rueben Wade of Goochland County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a black horse to David Alle(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a horse from Charles Simmons of Bedford County to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a bay mare from Thomas Reid to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to James Rollens.","Receipt for the sale of a cow from James Blagg to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Wm. McClunson(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Contract between James Anderson and Dorel Jere(?) for the transfer of cattle, witnessed by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a heifer from Samuel Dedman of Kentucky to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for a cow from Joseph Dickson sold to John Hyde.","Receipt for six head of cattle purchased from Joseph Dickson by Michael Baskal(?).","Contract to exchange a mare owned by James Hammand for a black horse owned by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a draft (horse?) from unknown to Jacob Rife (n.d.).","Financial accounts, 1771-79; 22 items. Receipts for money received.","Financial accounts, 1780-89; 27 items. Household goods purchased, receipt for 1779 taxes paid by Dickson.","Financial accounts, 1790-99; 34 items.","Financial accounts, 1800-05; 35 items; includes bill for tuition of Dickson's children to \"English school.\"","Financial accounts, 1806-09; 19 items.","Financial accounts, 1810; 10 items.","Financial accounts, 1815, n.d.; 16 items.","Currency conversion tables (pounds to dollars), 1791(?).","Account book/diary, 1806-63 (includes entries by Robert Dickson).","Papers (1775-1810, n.d.); 20 items (including medical cure recipes for the flux, rheumatism, \"stomic ake,\" snake bite, colic, and others, and accounts, receipts, and a warrant from James Alexander to the sheriff of Monroe County, Virginia, concerning John Dickson).","15 items.","33 items.","36 items (includes a letter from the tax collector of the 62nd Virginia district demanding payment of Dickson's 1863 Confederate taxes; and the draft of a letter, dated September 18, 1865, from Robert Dickson to President Andrew Johnson, vowing his allegiance to the government of the U.S.A. and asking for a \"release from the penalties and forfictures to which I am exposed.\")","24 items (includes a letter from people asking to rent a room with the Dicksons at the White Sulphur Springs.)","13 items (includes a letter from J.H.H. Grandy with information about the impact of Reconstruction on the area.)","18 items, with 25 envelopes, n.d..","27 items (includes a contract signed by Nancy Dickson relinquishing all claim to her husband's will to her son Robert.)","21 items (includes renewals of a contract with Lucian F. Cox, employed by Robert Dickson.)","22 items (includes insurance and income tax forms.)","7 items, n.d..","35 items (contains several receipts from Nancy Dickson for her yearly allowance from her son Robert.)","45 items (includes accounts from 1833 relating to the labor and supplies incurred during the building of \"Locust Hill,\" the Dickson family home.)","63 items.","50 items.","29 items.","32 items.","42 items.","46 items.","57 items.","38 items (includes a receipt for Dickson's 1857 taxes.)","56 items.","21 items (includes a January 1865 bill for $15 in exchange for 500 pounds of hay given by Dickson to the Confederate States of America, and a March 1865 request for four bay mules for use by the CSA.)","52 items, n.d..","44 items.","11 items.","Sallie Dickson (Robert Rennick's wife)--trial transcript, Sallie Dickson vs. H.F. Dickson, ca. 1916.","21 items.","15 items.","26 items.","27 items (includes correspondence from/to Laura Dickson, his wife.)","15 items (includes indenture contracts [1837, 1839, 1846] for land in Monroe County, Virginia.)","18 items.","44 items.","29 items.","36 items.","Miscellaneous printed material; 7 items.","18 items.","22 items.","American history book (no title available), history to 1829.","An Accompanient to Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States...(1836), owned by Rebecca Dickson (daughter of Robert).","13 items (includes Confederate bonds.)","2 items.","8 items (includes two pages pulled from the family Bible.)"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuareproduction\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuareproduction\u003c/a\u003e. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuapublication\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuapublication\u003c/a\u003e. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_38302d5600958a1e835db472b2c30d32\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. 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Va.)","Local/Regional History and Appalachian South","The collection is open for research.","The papers are arranged by family member and then by type of material.","The Dicksons were pioneer settlers of Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Joseph Dickson (1749-1822) settled in what is now Greenbrier County, West Virginia, from Ireland by way of Pennsylvania in the 1770s. He received land grants originally from the King's land office in 1769, and later from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1785, 1789, and 1795 for property on Howard's Creek. His son, Robert Dickson (1795-1869?), inherited the land and built Locust Hill in 1833, now called Mountain Home. Robert Renick Dickson (1827-1888) and Henry Frazier Dickson (1841-1909), Robert Dickson's sons, inherited the land and in turn left it to their heirs. The Dicksons turned Mountain Home near White Sulphur Springs into a resort in the 1800s and early 1900s. The property and home were owned by the family until they were sold in 1968.","The guide to the Dickson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Dickson Family Papers was completed prior to 2001.","The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory. The papers of John Dickson (1737-1809, brother of Joseph Dickson), Robert Dickson, Robert Renick Dickson and Henry Frazier Dickson, and Geraldine Dickson Burrow (1879-1943, daughter of Henry Frazier Dickson), are grouped by type of material (for example, financial accounts, correspondence, and land deeds). Within Robert Dickson's correspondence are a few references to the American Civil War, including a letter from a Confederate tax collector demanding payment of his 1863 Confederate taxes. Other interesting documents include the transcript (1916) of the trial of Sallie Dickson (wife of Robert Renick Dickson) who was sued by Henry Frazier Dickson, for payment of rent due to him. The papers also include genealogy charts of the family.","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson was received in his parish and \"has behaved himself in a Verry prudent and exemplary manner,\" signed by M. Johnson.","Certificate stating that Joseph Tooth knows Joseph Dickson \"...to be of good respectable character...and believe him to be of untainted moral character...\"","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson lived in Greenbrier County, Virginia, for four years and \"Behaved himself as an honast man aught to Do.\"","Oath to the General Assembly [of Virginia] taken by Joseph Dickson, signed by Geo. Skillem","Marriage certificate of Joseph Dickson and Mary Yung, married March 5, 1772, signed by McHoy(?) in Lebanontown.","Certificate signed by John Dickinson of Augusta County, Virginia, as to Joseph Dickson's good character when Dickson lived on Dickinson's land.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson resided in the Spreading(?) congregation from 1779 to 1780, and \"behaved himself sober and in an inoffensive manner,\" signed by Edward Crawford.","Statement of falsely accusing John Wevans \"with taking goods out of the store of Francis Mara\" made by Mary Wave.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson (son of Joseph Sr.) has lived in East Hanover, Pennsylvania, and learned the hatter trade, signed by Daniel Bradley.","Certificate of military service, signed by Capt. James Smith (n.d.)","From unknown asking Joseph Dickson to give John Humphrys his bond.","Thos. Dunwody to W. Jos. Archer about a survey of Joseph Dickson's.","Th. Edgar to Jos. Dixon about the sale of a cow; mentions W. Kyle, W. Hagreth, and W. Black.","William Wallace to James Black.","Lazarus Ainsworth to Joseph Dickson about payment of a sickel left in Dickson's care.","Th. Edgar of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson acknowledging receiving a horse.","James Welch of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson about dry goods sold","Joseph Snell to Robert McClentck(?) about an ax he wants to give to Joseph Dickson.","Jacob Baumgardsen to Joseph Dickson about receiving eight pounds cash.","J. Patton to Joseph Dickson for flour sold; Jas. Richards to Joseph Dickson, asking him to send a hat (?) he left for Dickson with Samuel Ruiker or Jas. Kincaid.","Robt. Steele(?) to Joseph Dickson about a possible breach of contract with Miss Cathe McClung.","Charles Mislock(?) to Capt. Joseph Dickson about shodding a horse and drawing blood on a sick man (n.d.).","Robert Humphreys to unknown about a bed he wishes to buy from Mr. [Joseph] Dickson (n.d.).","John Henry asking Joseph Dickson to let Mr. Jno. Hide have the cow Henry left at Dickson's house (n.d.).","Sale of an enslaved man named Gib from John Dean to Joseph Dickson for £65.","Note of payment due for hiring an enslaved person named Patten from John Carpenter to Joseph Dickson.","Agreement between Jno. H. Flood(?) and Joseph Dickson as to the transfer of an enslaved woman named Nan and two children for $5.","Note of payment of £110 for the sale of an enslaved person named Elijah due to Joseph Dickson from John Ewdend of Rockbridge County, Virginia.","Note of payment of £130 from the sale of an enslaved person named Joel from Joel Walker of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of an enslaved person named Jude from Catherine McClung to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of Jeff, an enslaved person, to Joseph Dickson for £51 from Catherine McClung.","Sale of Jane, an enslaved person for $300, by James Kincaide to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of debt of Joseph Dickson from John Murray of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to John Dickenson of Augusta County, Virginia.","Contract of James Connelly to pay John Dickenson twenty-two pounds.","Contract of John and Joseph Dickson to pay John Dickenson 200 pounds owed.","Promise of Joseph Dickson of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Leonard Beall of Augusta County, Virginia, fifteen pounds owed.","Contract of Robert Armstrong and John Scott to pay John Bollar eighteen pounds \"Good and Lawfull money of Virginia.\"","Promise of Joseph Dickson of of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Baley 125 pounds owed.","Contract for Jacob Rife to pay Jos. Dickson 100 pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay Henry Gaye one pound.","Contract of James Riddle of Augusta County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, four pounds.","Receipt for a bond from Jos. Dickson to John Nivins.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay James Black fifty pounds owed.","Promise of unknown to pay James Humphries eight pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay George Stuart six pounds owed.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son John to apprentice as a tailor to Hugh Paul for five years.","Contract for Joseph Dickson, Jacob Vanosdol, Levin Gibson, and Samuel Kincaid to appraise the estate of James Humphries deceased and make a report to the court.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay John Ederds(?) twenty-five pounds owed.","Contract of John Atkinson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson 1000 pounds owed.","Acknowledgement of John Dickson's receipt of \"an old pocket book containing two Bonds\" from John Staufler(?) and Jno. Deem.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son George to apprentice as a gunsmith to Nathaniel Kelly.","Contract to release Joseph Dickson of a debt of 350 pounds to Richard Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, due to the loss of the previous contract.","Deed of release from Nancy Dickson, widow of Joseph, to relinquish all rights to the provisions made in her husband's will, turn over his estate to her son Robert, and live off an allowance allocated by her son.","Transfer of a tract of land from John McClinachan to John Davis for twenty-seven pounds.","Sale of a tract of land from John Davis to Joseph Dixon for thirty-seven pounds.","Copy of a grant from 1774 to James Ewing for a tract of land in Botetourt County, Virginia, from John Earl of Dunmore.","Agreement from Joseph Dickson allowing William Crow to live on a certain tract of land owned by Dickson.","Transfer of a tract of land from John Douckwaler of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Jacob Rife.","Exchange of a horse owned by Thos. Dunwody to Joseph Dickson for a tract of land.","Transfer of land from Henry Childers to Joseph Dickson.","Statement of debt of 140 pounds from Joseph Dickson to William Crawford for the transfer of land of Honards Creek.","Promise to deliver thirty acres of land on Honards Creek to Elweis Atwater from Joseph Dickson(?).","Deed of land sold from William Dinwiddie (Dunwoodey?) and his wife Elizabeth to Joseph Dixon.","Transfer of ownership of a tract of land from John Nevins to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Clangman and William Dunwoody.","Contract for payment due from the sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to James Black and William McClung.","Deed of land sold by James Black and his wife Rachel to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of land from George Stuart to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of 125 acres to William McClung from Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of land owned by Donal Alison of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson for 100 pounds.","Sale of land from Joseph Dickson to Lewis Shalman.","Receipt for sum of $50 to Daniel Allison from Joseph Dickson in payment for land sold.","Deed of land sold to Joseph Dickson Jr. from his father.","Deed of bargain and sale from William Morris and Allen Taylor to William Rennick for 800 acres in unknown area.","Contract binding Frederick Hoober to paying Joseph Dickson 220 pounds owed for a one-fourth acre lot in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier County, Virginia.","Deed for a lot of land in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson from Richard Tyne and his wife Sarah, signed by John Stuart.","Receipt for a \"patton of land\" of seventy acres from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Winslow(?).","Contract to rent land to James Mayer from Joseph Dickson.","Memorandum concerning obtaining a copy of Ewings deed from the Greenbrier office, and distributing it to Edward Rumsey, Allen Taylor, William Morris, and James Byrnside (n.d.).","Receipt from the sale of a white mare from Joseph Dickson to John Young for seven pounds.","Contract for the sale of a \"hourse\" from Honery Childers(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt of the sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to William Jeres(?) in exchange for work done by Jeres.","Contract for transfer of two mares and a horse William Crawford received from Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for transfer of a bay horse from Henry Banks to John Nivins.","Receipt for a bay mare sold by Joseph Dickson to Samuel Miller.","Receipt for the payment of forty shillings for work done by Richard Masters for Joseph Dickson.","Contract for William Wallace of Wythe County, Virginia, to pay £290 to James Black for the sale of two mares, with the promise that if Wallace was not able to pay the stated amount he would give two enslaved people.","Request for M. Edgar to the unknown recipient of the note to give Mr. Kyle a cow, and Edgar would settle the sale with Mr. Hagreth.","Receipt for three pounds in payment for the services of a stud horse owned by Joseph Anderson to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a bay mare from Rueben Wade of Goochland County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a black horse to David Alle(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a horse from Charles Simmons of Bedford County to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a bay mare from Thomas Reid to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to James Rollens.","Receipt for the sale of a cow from James Blagg to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Wm. McClunson(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Contract between James Anderson and Dorel Jere(?) for the transfer of cattle, witnessed by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a heifer from Samuel Dedman of Kentucky to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for a cow from Joseph Dickson sold to John Hyde.","Receipt for six head of cattle purchased from Joseph Dickson by Michael Baskal(?).","Contract to exchange a mare owned by James Hammand for a black horse owned by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a draft (horse?) from unknown to Jacob Rife (n.d.).","Financial accounts, 1771-79; 22 items. Receipts for money received.","Financial accounts, 1780-89; 27 items. Household goods purchased, receipt for 1779 taxes paid by Dickson.","Financial accounts, 1790-99; 34 items.","Financial accounts, 1800-05; 35 items; includes bill for tuition of Dickson's children to \"English school.\"","Financial accounts, 1806-09; 19 items.","Financial accounts, 1810; 10 items.","Financial accounts, 1815, n.d.; 16 items.","Currency conversion tables (pounds to dollars), 1791(?).","Account book/diary, 1806-63 (includes entries by Robert Dickson).","Papers (1775-1810, n.d.); 20 items (including medical cure recipes for the flux, rheumatism, \"stomic ake,\" snake bite, colic, and others, and accounts, receipts, and a warrant from James Alexander to the sheriff of Monroe County, Virginia, concerning John Dickson).","15 items.","33 items.","36 items (includes a letter from the tax collector of the 62nd Virginia district demanding payment of Dickson's 1863 Confederate taxes; and the draft of a letter, dated September 18, 1865, from Robert Dickson to President Andrew Johnson, vowing his allegiance to the government of the U.S.A. and asking for a \"release from the penalties and forfictures to which I am exposed.\")","24 items (includes a letter from people asking to rent a room with the Dicksons at the White Sulphur Springs.)","13 items (includes a letter from J.H.H. Grandy with information about the impact of Reconstruction on the area.)","18 items, with 25 envelopes, n.d..","27 items (includes a contract signed by Nancy Dickson relinquishing all claim to her husband's will to her son Robert.)","21 items (includes renewals of a contract with Lucian F. Cox, employed by Robert Dickson.)","22 items (includes insurance and income tax forms.)","7 items, n.d..","35 items (contains several receipts from Nancy Dickson for her yearly allowance from her son Robert.)","45 items (includes accounts from 1833 relating to the labor and supplies incurred during the building of \"Locust Hill,\" the Dickson family home.)","63 items.","50 items.","29 items.","32 items.","42 items.","46 items.","57 items.","38 items (includes a receipt for Dickson's 1857 taxes.)","56 items.","21 items (includes a January 1865 bill for $15 in exchange for 500 pounds of hay given by Dickson to the Confederate States of America, and a March 1865 request for four bay mules for use by the CSA.)","52 items, n.d..","44 items.","11 items.","Sallie Dickson (Robert Rennick's wife)--trial transcript, Sallie Dickson vs. H.F. Dickson, ca. 1916.","21 items.","15 items.","26 items.","27 items (includes correspondence from/to Laura Dickson, his wife.)","15 items (includes indenture contracts [1837, 1839, 1846] for land in Monroe County, Virginia.)","18 items.","44 items.","29 items.","36 items.","Miscellaneous printed material; 7 items.","18 items.","22 items.","American history book (no title available), history to 1829.","An Accompanient to Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States...(1836), owned by Rebecca Dickson (daughter of Robert).","13 items (includes Confederate bonds.)","2 items.","8 items (includes two pages pulled from the family Bible.)","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area.","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Dickson family (Greenbrier County, W. Va.)","Gib (enslaved person)","Patten (enslaved person)","Nan (enslaved person)","Elijah (enslaved person)","Joel (enslaved person)","Jude (enslaved person)","Jeff (enslaved person)","Jane (enslaved person)","The materials in the collection are in English."],"unitid_tesim":["Ms.1988.094","/repositories/2/resources/1599"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Dickson Family Papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Dickson Family Papers"],"collection_ssim":["Dickson Family Papers"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University"],"geogname_ssm":["Greenbrier County (W. Va.)"],"geogname_ssim":["Greenbrier County (W. Va.)"],"creator_ssm":["Dickson family (Greenbrier County, W. 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Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"acqinfo_ssim":["The collection was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in 1988."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Local/Regional History and Appalachian South"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Local/Regional History and Appalachian South"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["2.8 Cubic Feet 2 boxes"],"extent_tesim":["2.8 Cubic Feet 2 boxes"],"date_range_isim":[1769,1770,1771,1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is open for research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The collection is open for research."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers are arranged by family member and then by type of material.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers are arranged by family member and then by type of material."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Dicksons were pioneer settlers of Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Joseph Dickson (1749-1822) settled in what is now Greenbrier County, West Virginia, from Ireland by way of Pennsylvania in the 1770s. He received land grants originally from the King's land office in 1769, and later from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1785, 1789, and 1795 for property on Howard's Creek. His son, Robert Dickson (1795-1869?), inherited the land and built Locust Hill in 1833, now called Mountain Home. Robert Renick Dickson (1827-1888) and Henry Frazier Dickson (1841-1909), Robert Dickson's sons, inherited the land and in turn left it to their heirs. The Dicksons turned Mountain Home near White Sulphur Springs into a resort in the 1800s and early 1900s. The property and home were owned by the family until they were sold in 1968.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Family History Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Dicksons were pioneer settlers of Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Joseph Dickson (1749-1822) settled in what is now Greenbrier County, West Virginia, from Ireland by way of Pennsylvania in the 1770s. He received land grants originally from the King's land office in 1769, and later from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1785, 1789, and 1795 for property on Howard's Creek. His son, Robert Dickson (1795-1869?), inherited the land and built Locust Hill in 1833, now called Mountain Home. Robert Renick Dickson (1827-1888) and Henry Frazier Dickson (1841-1909), Robert Dickson's sons, inherited the land and in turn left it to their heirs. The Dicksons turned Mountain Home near White Sulphur Springs into a resort in the 1800s and early 1900s. The property and home were owned by the family until they were sold in 1968."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Dickson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e"],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Dickson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ )."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Dickson Family Papers, 1769-1924, Ms1988-094, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Dickson Family Papers, 1769-1924, Ms1988-094, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe processing, arrangement, and description of the Dickson Family Papers was completed prior to 2001.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The processing, arrangement, and description of the Dickson Family Papers was completed prior to 2001."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory. The papers of John Dickson (1737-1809, brother of Joseph Dickson), Robert Dickson, Robert Renick Dickson and Henry Frazier Dickson, and Geraldine Dickson Burrow (1879-1943, daughter of Henry Frazier Dickson), are grouped by type of material (for example, financial accounts, correspondence, and land deeds). Within Robert Dickson's correspondence are a few references to the American Civil War, including a letter from a Confederate tax collector demanding payment of his 1863 Confederate taxes. Other interesting documents include the transcript (1916) of the trial of Sallie Dickson (wife of Robert Renick Dickson) who was sued by Henry Frazier Dickson, for payment of rent due to him. The papers also include genealogy charts of the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate asserting that Joseph Dickson was received in his parish and \"has behaved himself in a Verry prudent and exemplary manner,\" signed by M. Johnson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate stating that Joseph Tooth knows Joseph Dickson \"...to be of good respectable character...and believe him to be of untainted moral character...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate asserting that Joseph Dickson lived in Greenbrier County, Virginia, for four years and \"Behaved himself as an honast man aught to Do.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOath to the General Assembly [of Virginia] taken by Joseph Dickson, signed by Geo. Skillem\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarriage certificate of Joseph Dickson and Mary Yung, married March 5, 1772, signed by McHoy(?) in Lebanontown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate signed by John Dickinson of Augusta County, Virginia, as to Joseph Dickson's good character when Dickson lived on Dickinson's land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate that Joseph Dickson resided in the Spreading(?) congregation from 1779 to 1780, and \"behaved himself sober and in an inoffensive manner,\" signed by Edward Crawford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of falsely accusing John Wevans \"with taking goods out of the store of Francis Mara\" made by Mary Wave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate that Joseph Dickson (son of Joseph Sr.) has lived in East Hanover, Pennsylvania, and learned the hatter trade, signed by Daniel Bradley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of military service, signed by Capt. James Smith (n.d.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom unknown asking Joseph Dickson to give John Humphrys his bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThos. Dunwody to W. Jos. Archer about a survey of Joseph Dickson's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTh. Edgar to Jos. Dixon about the sale of a cow; mentions W. Kyle, W. Hagreth, and W. Black.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Wallace to James Black.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLazarus Ainsworth to Joseph Dickson about payment of a sickel left in Dickson's care.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTh. Edgar of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson acknowledging receiving a horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Welch of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson about dry goods sold\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Snell to Robert McClentck(?) about an ax he wants to give to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJacob Baumgardsen to Joseph Dickson about receiving eight pounds cash.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Patton to Joseph Dickson for flour sold; Jas. Richards to Joseph Dickson, asking him to send a hat (?) he left for Dickson with Samuel Ruiker or Jas. Kincaid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobt. Steele(?) to Joseph Dickson about a possible breach of contract with Miss Cathe McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Mislock(?) to Capt. Joseph Dickson about shodding a horse and drawing blood on a sick man (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Humphreys to unknown about a bed he wishes to buy from Mr. [Joseph] Dickson (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Henry asking Joseph Dickson to let Mr. Jno. Hide have the cow Henry left at Dickson's house (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of an enslaved man named Gib from John Dean to Joseph Dickson for £65.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote of payment due for hiring an enslaved person named Patten from John Carpenter to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement between Jno. H. Flood(?) and Joseph Dickson as to the transfer of an enslaved woman named Nan and two children for $5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote of payment of £110 for the sale of an enslaved person named Elijah due to Joseph Dickson from John Ewdend of Rockbridge County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote of payment of £130 from the sale of an enslaved person named Joel from Joel Walker of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of an enslaved person named Jude from Catherine McClung to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Jeff, an enslaved person, to Joseph Dickson for £51 from Catherine McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Jane, an enslaved person for $300, by James Kincaide to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of debt of Joseph Dickson from John Murray of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to John Dickenson of Augusta County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of James Connelly to pay John Dickenson twenty-two pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of John and Joseph Dickson to pay John Dickenson 200 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise of Joseph Dickson of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Leonard Beall of Augusta County, Virginia, fifteen pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of Robert Armstrong and John Scott to pay John Bollar eighteen pounds \"Good and Lawfull money of Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise of Joseph Dickson of of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Baley 125 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for Jacob Rife to pay Jos. Dickson 100 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for unknown to pay Henry Gaye one pound.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of James Riddle of Augusta County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, four pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a bond from Jos. Dickson to John Nivins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of Joseph Dickson to pay James Black fifty pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise of unknown to pay James Humphries eight pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for unknown to pay George Stuart six pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son John to apprentice as a tailor to Hugh Paul for five years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for Joseph Dickson, Jacob Vanosdol, Levin Gibson, and Samuel Kincaid to appraise the estate of James Humphries deceased and make a report to the court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of Joseph Dickson to pay John Ederds(?) twenty-five pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of John Atkinson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson 1000 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgement of John Dickson's receipt of \"an old pocket book containing two Bonds\" from John Staufler(?) and Jno. Deem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son George to apprentice as a gunsmith to Nathaniel Kelly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract to release Joseph Dickson of a debt of 350 pounds to Richard Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, due to the loss of the previous contract.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of release from Nancy Dickson, widow of Joseph, to relinquish all rights to the provisions made in her husband's will, turn over his estate to her son Robert, and live off an allowance allocated by her son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of a tract of land from John McClinachan to John Davis for twenty-seven pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a tract of land from John Davis to Joseph Dixon for thirty-seven pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of a grant from 1774 to James Ewing for a tract of land in Botetourt County, Virginia, from John Earl of Dunmore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement from Joseph Dickson allowing William Crow to live on a certain tract of land owned by Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of a tract of land from John Douckwaler of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Jacob Rife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExchange of a horse owned by Thos. Dunwody to Joseph Dickson for a tract of land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of land from Henry Childers to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of debt of 140 pounds from Joseph Dickson to William Crawford for the transfer of land of Honards Creek.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise to deliver thirty acres of land on Honards Creek to Elweis Atwater from Joseph Dickson(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land sold from William Dinwiddie (Dunwoodey?) and his wife Elizabeth to Joseph Dixon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of ownership of a tract of land from John Nevins to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Clangman and William Dunwoody.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for payment due from the sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to James Black and William McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land sold by James Black and his wife Rachel to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of land from George Stuart to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of 125 acres to William McClung from Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of land owned by Donal Alison of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson for 100 pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of land from Joseph Dickson to Lewis Shalman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for sum of $50 to Daniel Allison from Joseph Dickson in payment for land sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land sold to Joseph Dickson Jr. from his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of bargain and sale from William Morris and Allen Taylor to William Rennick for 800 acres in unknown area.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract binding Frederick Hoober to paying Joseph Dickson 220 pounds owed for a one-fourth acre lot in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a lot of land in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson from Richard Tyne and his wife Sarah, signed by John Stuart.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a \"patton of land\" of seventy acres from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Winslow(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract to rent land to James Mayer from Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum concerning obtaining a copy of Ewings deed from the Greenbrier office, and distributing it to Edward Rumsey, Allen Taylor, William Morris, and James Byrnside (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt from the sale of a white mare from Joseph Dickson to John Young for seven pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for the sale of a \"hourse\" from Honery Childers(?) to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of the sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to William Jeres(?) in exchange for work done by Jeres.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for transfer of two mares and a horse William Crawford received from Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for transfer of a bay horse from Henry Banks to John Nivins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a bay mare sold by Joseph Dickson to Samuel Miller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the payment of forty shillings for work done by Richard Masters for Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for William Wallace of Wythe County, Virginia, to pay £290 to James Black for the sale of two mares, with the promise that if Wallace was not able to pay the stated amount he would give two enslaved people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for M. Edgar to the unknown recipient of the note to give Mr. Kyle a cow, and Edgar would settle the sale with Mr. Hagreth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for three pounds in payment for the services of a stud horse owned by Joseph Anderson to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the sale of a bay mare from Rueben Wade of Goochland County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the sale of a black horse to David Alle(?) to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a horse from Charles Simmons of Bedford County to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a bay mare from Thomas Reid to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to James Rollens.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the sale of a cow from James Blagg to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a mare from Wm. McClunson(?) to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract between James Anderson and Dorel Jere(?) for the transfer of cattle, witnessed by Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a heifer from Samuel Dedman of Kentucky to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a cow from Joseph Dickson sold to John Hyde.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for six head of cattle purchased from Joseph Dickson by Michael Baskal(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract to exchange a mare owned by James Hammand for a black horse owned by Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a draft (horse?) from unknown to Jacob Rife (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1771-79; 22 items. Receipts for money received.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1780-89; 27 items. Household goods purchased, receipt for 1779 taxes paid by Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1790-99; 34 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1800-05; 35 items; includes bill for tuition of Dickson's children to \"English school.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1806-09; 19 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1810; 10 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1815, n.d.; 16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrency conversion tables (pounds to dollars), 1791(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book/diary, 1806-63 (includes entries by Robert Dickson).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers (1775-1810, n.d.); 20 items (including medical cure recipes for the flux, rheumatism, \"stomic ake,\" snake bite, colic, and others, and accounts, receipts, and a warrant from James Alexander to the sheriff of Monroe County, Virginia, concerning John Dickson).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items (includes a letter from the tax collector of the 62nd Virginia district demanding payment of Dickson's 1863 Confederate taxes; and the draft of a letter, dated September 18, 1865, from Robert Dickson to President Andrew Johnson, vowing his allegiance to the government of the U.S.A. and asking for a \"release from the penalties and forfictures to which I am exposed.\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items (includes a letter from people asking to rent a room with the Dicksons at the White Sulphur Springs.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items (includes a letter from J.H.H. 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Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory. The papers of John Dickson (1737-1809, brother of Joseph Dickson), Robert Dickson, Robert Renick Dickson and Henry Frazier Dickson, and Geraldine Dickson Burrow (1879-1943, daughter of Henry Frazier Dickson), are grouped by type of material (for example, financial accounts, correspondence, and land deeds). Within Robert Dickson's correspondence are a few references to the American Civil War, including a letter from a Confederate tax collector demanding payment of his 1863 Confederate taxes. Other interesting documents include the transcript (1916) of the trial of Sallie Dickson (wife of Robert Renick Dickson) who was sued by Henry Frazier Dickson, for payment of rent due to him. The papers also include genealogy charts of the family.","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson was received in his parish and \"has behaved himself in a Verry prudent and exemplary manner,\" signed by M. Johnson.","Certificate stating that Joseph Tooth knows Joseph Dickson \"...to be of good respectable character...and believe him to be of untainted moral character...\"","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson lived in Greenbrier County, Virginia, for four years and \"Behaved himself as an honast man aught to Do.\"","Oath to the General Assembly [of Virginia] taken by Joseph Dickson, signed by Geo. Skillem","Marriage certificate of Joseph Dickson and Mary Yung, married March 5, 1772, signed by McHoy(?) in Lebanontown.","Certificate signed by John Dickinson of Augusta County, Virginia, as to Joseph Dickson's good character when Dickson lived on Dickinson's land.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson resided in the Spreading(?) congregation from 1779 to 1780, and \"behaved himself sober and in an inoffensive manner,\" signed by Edward Crawford.","Statement of falsely accusing John Wevans \"with taking goods out of the store of Francis Mara\" made by Mary Wave.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson (son of Joseph Sr.) has lived in East Hanover, Pennsylvania, and learned the hatter trade, signed by Daniel Bradley.","Certificate of military service, signed by Capt. James Smith (n.d.)","From unknown asking Joseph Dickson to give John Humphrys his bond.","Thos. Dunwody to W. Jos. Archer about a survey of Joseph Dickson's.","Th. Edgar to Jos. Dixon about the sale of a cow; mentions W. Kyle, W. Hagreth, and W. Black.","William Wallace to James Black.","Lazarus Ainsworth to Joseph Dickson about payment of a sickel left in Dickson's care.","Th. Edgar of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson acknowledging receiving a horse.","James Welch of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson about dry goods sold","Joseph Snell to Robert McClentck(?) about an ax he wants to give to Joseph Dickson.","Jacob Baumgardsen to Joseph Dickson about receiving eight pounds cash.","J. Patton to Joseph Dickson for flour sold; Jas. Richards to Joseph Dickson, asking him to send a hat (?) he left for Dickson with Samuel Ruiker or Jas. Kincaid.","Robt. Steele(?) to Joseph Dickson about a possible breach of contract with Miss Cathe McClung.","Charles Mislock(?) to Capt. Joseph Dickson about shodding a horse and drawing blood on a sick man (n.d.).","Robert Humphreys to unknown about a bed he wishes to buy from Mr. [Joseph] Dickson (n.d.).","John Henry asking Joseph Dickson to let Mr. Jno. Hide have the cow Henry left at Dickson's house (n.d.).","Sale of an enslaved man named Gib from John Dean to Joseph Dickson for £65.","Note of payment due for hiring an enslaved person named Patten from John Carpenter to Joseph Dickson.","Agreement between Jno. H. Flood(?) and Joseph Dickson as to the transfer of an enslaved woman named Nan and two children for $5.","Note of payment of £110 for the sale of an enslaved person named Elijah due to Joseph Dickson from John Ewdend of Rockbridge County, Virginia.","Note of payment of £130 from the sale of an enslaved person named Joel from Joel Walker of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of an enslaved person named Jude from Catherine McClung to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of Jeff, an enslaved person, to Joseph Dickson for £51 from Catherine McClung.","Sale of Jane, an enslaved person for $300, by James Kincaide to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of debt of Joseph Dickson from John Murray of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to John Dickenson of Augusta County, Virginia.","Contract of James Connelly to pay John Dickenson twenty-two pounds.","Contract of John and Joseph Dickson to pay John Dickenson 200 pounds owed.","Promise of Joseph Dickson of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Leonard Beall of Augusta County, Virginia, fifteen pounds owed.","Contract of Robert Armstrong and John Scott to pay John Bollar eighteen pounds \"Good and Lawfull money of Virginia.\"","Promise of Joseph Dickson of of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Baley 125 pounds owed.","Contract for Jacob Rife to pay Jos. Dickson 100 pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay Henry Gaye one pound.","Contract of James Riddle of Augusta County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, four pounds.","Receipt for a bond from Jos. Dickson to John Nivins.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay James Black fifty pounds owed.","Promise of unknown to pay James Humphries eight pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay George Stuart six pounds owed.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son John to apprentice as a tailor to Hugh Paul for five years.","Contract for Joseph Dickson, Jacob Vanosdol, Levin Gibson, and Samuel Kincaid to appraise the estate of James Humphries deceased and make a report to the court.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay John Ederds(?) twenty-five pounds owed.","Contract of John Atkinson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson 1000 pounds owed.","Acknowledgement of John Dickson's receipt of \"an old pocket book containing two Bonds\" from John Staufler(?) and Jno. Deem.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son George to apprentice as a gunsmith to Nathaniel Kelly.","Contract to release Joseph Dickson of a debt of 350 pounds to Richard Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, due to the loss of the previous contract.","Deed of release from Nancy Dickson, widow of Joseph, to relinquish all rights to the provisions made in her husband's will, turn over his estate to her son Robert, and live off an allowance allocated by her son.","Transfer of a tract of land from John McClinachan to John Davis for twenty-seven pounds.","Sale of a tract of land from John Davis to Joseph Dixon for thirty-seven pounds.","Copy of a grant from 1774 to James Ewing for a tract of land in Botetourt County, Virginia, from John Earl of Dunmore.","Agreement from Joseph Dickson allowing William Crow to live on a certain tract of land owned by Dickson.","Transfer of a tract of land from John Douckwaler of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Jacob Rife.","Exchange of a horse owned by Thos. Dunwody to Joseph Dickson for a tract of land.","Transfer of land from Henry Childers to Joseph Dickson.","Statement of debt of 140 pounds from Joseph Dickson to William Crawford for the transfer of land of Honards Creek.","Promise to deliver thirty acres of land on Honards Creek to Elweis Atwater from Joseph Dickson(?).","Deed of land sold from William Dinwiddie (Dunwoodey?) and his wife Elizabeth to Joseph Dixon.","Transfer of ownership of a tract of land from John Nevins to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Clangman and William Dunwoody.","Contract for payment due from the sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to James Black and William McClung.","Deed of land sold by James Black and his wife Rachel to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of land from George Stuart to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of 125 acres to William McClung from Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of land owned by Donal Alison of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson for 100 pounds.","Sale of land from Joseph Dickson to Lewis Shalman.","Receipt for sum of $50 to Daniel Allison from Joseph Dickson in payment for land sold.","Deed of land sold to Joseph Dickson Jr. from his father.","Deed of bargain and sale from William Morris and Allen Taylor to William Rennick for 800 acres in unknown area.","Contract binding Frederick Hoober to paying Joseph Dickson 220 pounds owed for a one-fourth acre lot in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier County, Virginia.","Deed for a lot of land in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson from Richard Tyne and his wife Sarah, signed by John Stuart.","Receipt for a \"patton of land\" of seventy acres from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Winslow(?).","Contract to rent land to James Mayer from Joseph Dickson.","Memorandum concerning obtaining a copy of Ewings deed from the Greenbrier office, and distributing it to Edward Rumsey, Allen Taylor, William Morris, and James Byrnside (n.d.).","Receipt from the sale of a white mare from Joseph Dickson to John Young for seven pounds.","Contract for the sale of a \"hourse\" from Honery Childers(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt of the sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to William Jeres(?) in exchange for work done by Jeres.","Contract for transfer of two mares and a horse William Crawford received from Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for transfer of a bay horse from Henry Banks to John Nivins.","Receipt for a bay mare sold by Joseph Dickson to Samuel Miller.","Receipt for the payment of forty shillings for work done by Richard Masters for Joseph Dickson.","Contract for William Wallace of Wythe County, Virginia, to pay £290 to James Black for the sale of two mares, with the promise that if Wallace was not able to pay the stated amount he would give two enslaved people.","Request for M. Edgar to the unknown recipient of the note to give Mr. Kyle a cow, and Edgar would settle the sale with Mr. Hagreth.","Receipt for three pounds in payment for the services of a stud horse owned by Joseph Anderson to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a bay mare from Rueben Wade of Goochland County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a black horse to David Alle(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a horse from Charles Simmons of Bedford County to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a bay mare from Thomas Reid to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to James Rollens.","Receipt for the sale of a cow from James Blagg to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Wm. McClunson(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Contract between James Anderson and Dorel Jere(?) for the transfer of cattle, witnessed by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a heifer from Samuel Dedman of Kentucky to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for a cow from Joseph Dickson sold to John Hyde.","Receipt for six head of cattle purchased from Joseph Dickson by Michael Baskal(?).","Contract to exchange a mare owned by James Hammand for a black horse owned by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a draft (horse?) from unknown to Jacob Rife (n.d.).","Financial accounts, 1771-79; 22 items. Receipts for money received.","Financial accounts, 1780-89; 27 items. Household goods purchased, receipt for 1779 taxes paid by Dickson.","Financial accounts, 1790-99; 34 items.","Financial accounts, 1800-05; 35 items; includes bill for tuition of Dickson's children to \"English school.\"","Financial accounts, 1806-09; 19 items.","Financial accounts, 1810; 10 items.","Financial accounts, 1815, n.d.; 16 items.","Currency conversion tables (pounds to dollars), 1791(?).","Account book/diary, 1806-63 (includes entries by Robert Dickson).","Papers (1775-1810, n.d.); 20 items (including medical cure recipes for the flux, rheumatism, \"stomic ake,\" snake bite, colic, and others, and accounts, receipts, and a warrant from James Alexander to the sheriff of Monroe County, Virginia, concerning John Dickson).","15 items.","33 items.","36 items (includes a letter from the tax collector of the 62nd Virginia district demanding payment of Dickson's 1863 Confederate taxes; and the draft of a letter, dated September 18, 1865, from Robert Dickson to President Andrew Johnson, vowing his allegiance to the government of the U.S.A. and asking for a \"release from the penalties and forfictures to which I am exposed.\")","24 items (includes a letter from people asking to rent a room with the Dicksons at the White Sulphur Springs.)","13 items (includes a letter from J.H.H. Grandy with information about the impact of Reconstruction on the area.)","18 items, with 25 envelopes, n.d..","27 items (includes a contract signed by Nancy Dickson relinquishing all claim to her husband's will to her son Robert.)","21 items (includes renewals of a contract with Lucian F. Cox, employed by Robert Dickson.)","22 items (includes insurance and income tax forms.)","7 items, n.d..","35 items (contains several receipts from Nancy Dickson for her yearly allowance from her son Robert.)","45 items (includes accounts from 1833 relating to the labor and supplies incurred during the building of \"Locust Hill,\" the Dickson family home.)","63 items.","50 items.","29 items.","32 items.","42 items.","46 items.","57 items.","38 items (includes a receipt for Dickson's 1857 taxes.)","56 items.","21 items (includes a January 1865 bill for $15 in exchange for 500 pounds of hay given by Dickson to the Confederate States of America, and a March 1865 request for four bay mules for use by the CSA.)","52 items, n.d..","44 items.","11 items.","Sallie Dickson (Robert Rennick's wife)--trial transcript, Sallie Dickson vs. H.F. Dickson, ca. 1916.","21 items.","15 items.","26 items.","27 items (includes correspondence from/to Laura Dickson, his wife.)","15 items (includes indenture contracts [1837, 1839, 1846] for land in Monroe County, Virginia.)","18 items.","44 items.","29 items.","36 items.","Miscellaneous printed material; 7 items.","18 items.","22 items.","American history book (no title available), history to 1829.","An Accompanient to Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States...(1836), owned by Rebecca Dickson (daughter of Robert).","13 items (includes Confederate bonds.)","2 items.","8 items (includes two pages pulled from the family Bible.)"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuareproduction\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuareproduction\u003c/a\u003e. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuapublication\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuapublication\u003c/a\u003e. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction . Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form:  http://bit.ly/scuapublication . Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_38302d5600958a1e835db472b2c30d32\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area."],"names_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Dickson family (Greenbrier County, W. Va.)","Gib (enslaved person)","Patten (enslaved person)","Nan (enslaved person)","Elijah (enslaved person)","Joel (enslaved person)","Jude (enslaved person)","Jeff (enslaved person)","Jane (enslaved person)"],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech"],"famname_ssim":["Dickson family (Greenbrier County, W. 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